I agree with all of this. Asking whether Max Payne is deserving of a remake is one thing, but classics from that era are definitely deserving of remakes in general.

I don’t have either one, but I second this. I have switched back and forth between XBox and Playstation over the years and never bothered to own both at the same time because they just seem redundant. Playstation historically has the better exclusives but there aren’t that many in the pipeline just yet that won’t also…

My first playthrough I did just about everything available.

Yes! I was 7 or 8 when this came out, and I just remember Penguin being gross and sad. I always felt like Batman was overmatched for the sad ugly guy in the dirty onesie. I feel like watching his gigantic but waddle around in dirty longjohns was more disturbing than watching him bite someone’s nose off.

I definitely had that same exact Batman. And the removable parts were so annoying, he was pretty much always Michael Keaton. When all my other toys were super buff, there was always regular guy Michael Keaton and his trim waist. He was perfect for being typecast as “bank teller at gunpoint,” “mayor in trouble” or…

None of the stuff about BK is clear from the show, though. To me, he’s just another Wookiee, and he’s bad at doing just about anything. His fight with Boba was pretty lame (if you’re going to assassinate someone, you wouldn’t wrestle them first) and his fight in the last episode was bad too. He didn’t actually DO…

I felt like Us was a little too high-concept for its own good. Like, it looked cool. It was fun to watch. The idea was kind of interesting. But the internal logic of the movie just wasn’t strong enough for it to make sense. 

I had some ideas of what BoBF was going to be - but they showed from the first episode that they didn’t have the guts to deliver on that idea. So I was happy to see the Mando diversion halfway through. 

Yeah, personally I found season 2 much more exciting that season 1. Season 1 had its moments for sure, and it introduced a bunch of new characters in a part of the timeline we hadn’t seen before - so for all of that it was cool. But just as how BoBF had episodes where Boba didn’t even appear, season 1 of Mando also…

The problem with The Hobbit, aside from just being bad, was that the trailer used that amazing Misty Mountain song which set up a way more somber and grounded movie than the goofy CGI fest than it delivered.

I am willing to at least give it a try, but I don’t really like the look of Amazon’s productions so far and this has the same overly glossy artificial feel. I am in the same boat with you - I loved the books and the LOTR movies, but I have low expectations of anyone recapturing that feeling. 

MJ is a once in a century great. But he also loses points for, yknow, being Michael Jackson. 

It could have actually been a pretty cool scene if Mando and Boba showed that they were tactically better fighters and jetted around taking guys out. But yeah, instead they just land in the most central location and get blasted to bits. Good thing they have that indestructable armor and nobody ever hits them in the…

Agreed. We see Din Djarin’s listless bounty hunting for about five minutes before he decides he needs to see Grogu again. And those were about the only good minutes of BoBF.

Just about every scene of this episode (and most of the scenes of this series) had me asking “Well why would they do that?” That fight was maybe the most frustrating.

Your first paragraph is spot on. People love to talk about how Star Wars is a galaxy full of characters and we just keep seeing the same ones pop up over and over again. Isn’t that how stories work? It’s like if people decided, hey, James Bond is always about the same dude. What if we had more stories about helicopter…

The similarities have been noted. I think it’s a mix of Switch limitations and “Hey this was really popular before, we should do that, right?”

I was mildly excited for Control - like not excited enough to play it right away when it came out, but still looking forward to it. I bailed on it pretty quickly though. I feel like Remedy has always created really cool looking action games that just aren’t actually fun. I didn’t enjoy the action of control at all or…

Man, I totally forgot about my Gameboy Color until just now. I got a neon green one and was out of my mind. Sadly, I decided I was “grown up” at some point and got rid of it and Zelda, Pokemon and some MegaMan game. 

I’m going to add on to your list by pointing out this was basically the first time in ever that someone bothered to explain why the Jedi are the only ones to use lightsabers: Every other untrained yahoo will inevitably slice themselves in half with one. The idea of it feeling heavier was awesome, even if I don’t…