At the same time, the Wii had excellent marketing. The name was easy enough for both preschoolers and absentee parents to remember. The price was solid. The commercials had the music that were major ear worms (First the Yoshida Brothers for the main Wii theme, then a Mayumi Kojima song for a Mario game).

The weird thing about it for me is that players were stuck as Star Lord when he’s always the least interesting guardian. Being able to swap between characters or having 2 player co-op would’ve brought the game to a new level.

Proof that Dino Crisis 3 isn’t the only thing to ruin the ‘guns vs dinosaurs’ concept.

I guess? I haven’t even bothered checking to see how it has done overseas because its a movie that defines the term ‘mediocre’. It seemed purposely designed not to have any impact outside of its post-credit scene and moving Ms. Marvel closer to the rest of the second generation Avengers.

The oddest part is that they really aren’t failures, they just aren’t as big of successes as they used to be.

Nope. Outright power tends to get ignored for plot.

To be fair, Batman is pretty much his own trope. He’s got the opposite of the Worf effect going for him in that writers seem to enjoy having him win/survive encounters way out of his established weight class simply because he is Batman.

Squirrel Girl’s ‘thing’ is taking down extremely powerful people offpanel in encounters that are canon, but not considered ‘major’.

The problem with these franchise collections is that you know a lot of them will get sequels and ruin the whole box set. I mean, Fast X specifically ended as a cliffhanger. The same with Mission Impossible, which has already done the ‘collection without space for the next film’ twice.

I’m doing the Plex route while minimizing the space my physical collection takes up. No more big special editions or collections for me unless they take up less space than individual releases. I’m already committed to steelbooks for some franchises (MCU, Star Wars, DCEU, Mission Impossible, Fast&Furious, Pixar) but I…

Picard had its moments. Unfortunately most of those moments didn’t actually involve Picard.

Lando’s daughter was taken by the First Order and turned into a Stormtrooper the same way Finn was. I think there was only 1-2 lines about it earlier in the film and then the ending sequence just made it seem like he was creeping on a younger woman.

They did do steelbook blu-ray rereleases of most of their classic films.

I kinda put her decreased screentime less on Disney itself and more on JJ making RoS seem like two separate films shoved together and put on fast forward. The film was a mess that had the biggest plot point revealed on Fortnite while other points, like Lando’s kidnapped daughter, came off more like Lando was hitting…

I was going for more of a reference to Alfred from The Dark Knight and Snyder fans than any specific adaptation Snyder actually did.

Some people just like to watch the world burn.

I liked John Wick 4 but it was also the one film in the franchise that I felt went on a bit too long. Like every one of the major action scenes had 1-2 too many extra waves of enemies. The most notable one being the Japan Continental where John had the Nunchaku and the nameless soldier types just kept coming. It…

I’d say D&D:HAT was really good but I wouldn’t put it on a best list. It got really silly at times and didn’t even have Xanathar.

Nah.

It has been a while, but I think that quote was more that he was comparing his version of Watchmen and it’s content/tone as the equivalent of Batman Begins’ Bruce Wayne getting raped in prison (presumably during the time of his training journey before he met Ra’s Al Ghul ).