While I broadly agree with you (XCOM would be a good fit for TV, not least because UFO was already a good fit for TV), but I don’t think the problem is the medium being used that results in bad to middling game movies but the material being chosen.

Congrats on the most condescendingly stupid thing I’ve read in 2018, I guess.

Isn’t this quite a common trope, really? Some kid managing to build something that should be way, way beyond not just their expertise, but their resources as well?

This movie has Giant Robots fighting Giant Robots and Giant Robots fighting Giant Monsters. It even has a Mega Giant Monster created from 3 different smaller Giant Monsters, but no Mega Giant Robot Created from 5 different smaller Giant Robots.

I’m torn. On the one hand, we lose Mako. On the other, we had better action scenes, which are kind of important for an action focused franchise.

The latter sounds like an appropriate Loki move, but then really diminishes Thanos...

Is nobody going to mention Shuri is showing a hologram of what looks to be the meteorite as if it’s hiding the soul stone? Smiling like she knows its secret?

I think you’re totally wrong. They teased Thanos perfectly to get the kind of response they wanted.

Dear 15 year old self: They’ve done what you said was impossible.
Oh my god Peter and Tony.
Peter and Strange.
Thanos and Everybody.
Hold God.

They made Spidey into the perfect audience avatar, complete with the absolutely spot-on quips that he’s know and loved for.

“I never thought Thanos would wipe out my half of the universe.” Said the woman who voted for the Thanos Wipes Out Half of the Universe Party.

I’m Peter by the way.

As annoying as this can be, I try not to let it get to me. I’m just happy to see people enjoying a movie when stuff like that happens.

It happens to me about 5 to 6 times a year. Some are stronger than others. Some I can recognize in the moment that its happening, and some are so strong that it freaks me out a bit.

Deja vu is what happens when you die in real life and then respawn at a save point.

What will really blow your mind is that all that fuzzy logic is designed to interpret what is essentially a reality that is already in the past. All the incoming visual info is fractions of a second old, take fractions of a second to travel pathways to the brain and then fractions of a second to process. So your brain…

My favorite theory is that it involves a kind of memory short circuit - somehow what you’re experiencing makes its way into your long-term memory storage before you’ve even consciously perceived it as having happened. And so when you do become aware of it, the instant-ago memory comes up but because you can’t really…

You are not digressing. Millar was right but for the wrong reason. DC movies fail and Marvel movies succeed because of character. The people making the DC movies (Wonder Woman excluded) have not really understood the characters. The people making the Marvel movies do understand the characters. When it comes to the…

They don’t even have to look far for the solution:

DC: Quit making your characters assholes and they’ll be more cinematic.