Yeah, I’m surprised Jason didn’t question or mention this aspect at all.

Ehhh, I’d rather they make Original Sin 3. The story of Baldur’s Gate was definitively concluded, the team behind the franchise has long since dispersed, and anything pretending to be a sequel will be a spiritual sequel at best. It’s like writing Hamlet 2, which only makes sense as a joke.

heh, I think people are more hyped about the idea of a BG3 than the actual game. In this day in age, disappointment is a common commodity.

It really was! The casting was dead-on perfect. Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Sharlto Copley fucking channeling the essence of Murdoch, Bradley Cooper as Face (they couldn’t have cast that role better if they had a time machine), and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as B.A. That crazy-ass sequence where they’re all in a…

I wont lie. I’d watch the fuck outta Terminator vs Commando.

Genysis was about 35% interesting - the Time War, lets mess with 1984 bit was a pretty cool idea, but the wheels fell off the wagon once they timejumped to 199X. Then it went to shit.

On the contrary, the A-Team movie was fucking awesome. The extended cut on the Blu-Ray especially. I don’t know what else it could’ve been. The first 20 minutes could’ve been a long-lost episode of the show.

Schwarzenegger does indeed turn up in a cabin in the woods

I think the problem with the Alien franchise was that Ridley Scott moved it into the direction of High-Budget CGI fests instead of going into the direction of Shane Carruth or Alex Garland.

Good thing this one ignores all of the stuff that came after T2. I like that approach. Thought it worked well for the newer Halloween sequel.

Of all the reboots over the years, Terminator has been the one franchise that might actually benefit from it.  Just scrap the whole thing and start again.  

Other than how I’d personally change it to “one improbably good original and one perfect, slightly-new-direction sequel,” just as a matter of taste, but otherwise agreed entirely.

It’s a beautiful thing to have no emotional attachment to a franchise but still enjoy it. Despite weaning myself significantly from my investment in Star Wars, I’m still too wrapped up in it to be entirely chill about it. But this? If it sucks or if it’s awesome, either way I’m guaranteed one deeply satisfying fight…

I live for the day when I can use this in real life:

This is similar to my “space wizards with laser swords” feelings about Star Wars.

There is no worthwhile narrative reason for this movie series to continue to be spun out, especially with the miss to hit ratio. But as long as it continues to be the only people-firing-rocket launchers-at-skull-faced-robots game in town, I’ll keep checking ‘em out.

It has to be, right? Because there are just too many timelines/takes for them to reconcile otherwise.

“Ugh you can’t even TALK to women anymore!” - a right wing incel, probably

Yamete kudasai is literally “stop, please.”

Unfortunately because it’s Japan it doesn’t get any more assertive than displaying a message on your phone or emitting a sound saying, “Please stop.” I know it’s a very different culture, but if someone else can forgo cultural mores enough to put their hands on our bodies couldn’t we please forgo those same mores and…