What would be his motivation to be fighting any kind of vaguely 'good' fight though? He was just Garrett's stooge. And the 'bad boy tries to do good to win the affections of his lady-love' is a tired, lame, and gross storyline.

If TV and movies have taught me nothing else, it's that handsome white men are the MOST REDEEMABLE creatures in all of the cosmos. They never meant any of it! They just didn't know how to deal with their FEELINGS. They only tried to murder you because they LOVE YOU SO MUCH. :barf:

Meh. He's a traitor & a cold-blooded murderer regardless so I don't really care about the SHIELD/HYDRA nuances.

I think you're perfectly on-point.

I finally got on board w/ SHIELD towards the end there, but if they do a redemption arc for Ward that will put me right off again. Characters who choose to be Nazi asshole murderers should not get redeeemed just 'cause they have sad cheekbones and whatever.

I have a sudden desire to re-watch Les Revenents, who's with me?

"Aw, robots, no."

Depends on the DM. Maybe someone lost their Monster Manual & decided to run a low-magic campaign.

An art book, yes. AND a soundtrack, if you please.

Yeah, but she wasn't any better at acting in that role ...

"turned into a plant"? "accidentally cannibalized?"

I think the overall idea of the movie is that he IS really Hercules, it's just that some of his deeds have been exaggerated. He was still married to a Megara, working for a King Eurystheus etc.

I mean ... you have seen Snowpiercer already, right?

The movie does not adhere to THE CLASSICS in any way, shape, or form. Which seemed to be Lindy's prime objection, nothing to do with feminism at all, really. The mythological stuff was all taken to be grifter-nonsense. (Which was not how the movie was advertised.)

Dead wife'n'kids is, in fact, featured.

True. I think this movie is saved (for me anyways) by just going full B-movie cheesefest. Also Rufus Sewell is attractive & The Rock is there.

Ian McShane don't give a fuck - he's been paid, spent the dough on ouzo, and drunk all of that ouzo.

Yes. He is king oldguy and he talks quite a lot.

Except of course that 9/10 times they use Hercules' Roman name, while keeping everyone else's Greek. As they did in this film. And Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. And the Disney movie. So I'm not sure who didn't do their research here.

Nothing about this movie resembled 'gritty realism'. Everything resembled cheesiness. EVERYTHING.