The Franchise
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Ah, yes, the Comic Book Movie Industrial Complex.
Ive liked them well enough, especially the good ones.
Iannucci, Brown, with direction by Sam Mendes: Its anAvengers-grade creative team.
As with anything that is immensely popular and dominates the mainstream, its incrediblyeasyto rib Marvel and DC.
It has been done plenty over the past decade and a half.
I exhaled out of my nose a few times.
Maybe the jokes felt a little predictable, or familiar, or just too depressing.
But where it wants for a little more humor and originality, theres a lot of heart.
Its clearly made by people who reallylovethe below-the-line, pull-up-your-sleeves folk who are the real heartbeat of these movies.
Sorry, sorry.)
The scene theyre prepping for?
(Directing the scene, Eric instructs Adam to walk … like this: Swaggering but anxious.
Like a panther on the way to a job interview.)
Why is he coming to theTectoset?
Im a weird, difficult guy.
I look like this hipster chinos man who goes to Muji to buy a towel, but Im not.
Im strange and Im serious.
If thats what they want, hire Ron Howard.
Ive got polyps on my vocal nodes.
Brought on by TMT, he says.
Its at this perfectly timed moment that Pat turns up and immediately gets to schmoozing Eric.
But we know what producers are like surely hes softening him up for a blow?
And, well, yep!
As if the shoot day couldnt get any worse, Adam and Peter have been literallyblinded temporarily!
Guys, the studio wanted more lighting because the culture demands a saturated aesthetic, Eric says.
So, in a way, the culture blinded you.
So, he goes home every night reeking of burnt elephant shit, Daniel says.
And yet, when he was offered a comfortably boring corporate job by his brother, Curly was baffled.
What, and quit show business?
They might clean up shit, but hey, at least theyre at the circus.
(And the time he played the Chinaman in an imaginary Eddie Murphy film.)
Another delicious line read from Grant: You really want to play whose theater cock is bigger?
Because Im packing an absolute rager!
Without our tentpole, we dont have a tent.
And without a tent, we get eaten in our sleep by 9-year-old TikTok kids with superhero fatigue.
Which is not a real illness and a scam.
I might be being stupid, but Im sure well discover more as the series continues.
