Wow, this is insane!  I was there back in April with 2 friends and, while the crowds were sometimes bad at sunset, they were *not* like this and it was possible to get a good angle and some nice views of the sunset provided you walked past the nearest group or clump of people.

THANK YOU!  Glad to see someone here who knows him! Got to see him at a show 2 years ago and was blown away!

Same.  I’d rank the first film as the worst because they made the hero of the TV show, and the 90's reboot, the villain in the film.  I can’t overlook that and so, for me, it should be in last position.

Same.  I was unaware of third party apps and just used the web and mobile interfaces like others have.  I had no issues and ads never bothered me.

Oof.  WOW.  Take your damn star for that deep cut.  :D

Yeah, something like “The Boys” level of humor/gore would’ve had a Transformer forgetting to do that.

I think that’s the point with Optimus. When we know him from the comics, cartoons or the Michael Bay movies, he’s already fully formed with ther personality we’ve come to expect from him. Here, it’s an earlier version…

Absolutely loved it. In a different or alternate timeline, Bumblee would have been the first live action Transformers movie and then this would be the sequel. The Michael Bay movies are awful.

The CGI, like Bumblebee’s, was super clear and you can easily tell who is who without straining your eyes. Actual robot on…

No, actually, the show producers and Netflix deciding to completely jettison the source material for whatever season 2 was. That was chaos and change. 

Two problems with that, though:
1. Marvel has no interest in buying the Spider-Man film rights from Sony.
2. Sony will never sell the rights to anyone because Spidey is their cash cow.  It simply will not happen in our lifetimes.

Given that the show bares little resemblance to the plot of the books, they already have shown who the big bad is in Season 1.  We, as show viewers, just don’t know that yet whereas book readers are like “Wait, what?  Why show that now? What’s the point?”

I’m thinking the COVID pandemic, movie theaters cratering and going out of business due to lost income, and other financial factors, have altered the physical release/streaming release order of things. I think, pre-March 2020, the order of releases was exactly what you said. Now? It’s a new order.

I mean, I dunno, like the whole him killing Gawker and using Hulk Hogan to do it because Gawker outed him? Beyond that...hmm, yeah.  Nope, no idea.

1. I don’t think so.
2. I might want to.
3. *Casts Axii* I am going to play The Witcher 3 again.

They probably did.  All of the former Gawker sites seem forced to make them (io9 gets a lot of criticism for that and their writers admit it’s not something they want to do in the first place).

Referencing “The Boys” and maybe referencing Lex Luthor? Clever. Take your star.

Lucky that you were able to restart your attempt!  I got super close to the end of Deus Ex: Human Revolution playing a no-kill/non-lethal playthrough and I think an unconscious villain I’d knocked out got killed by exploding debris right before I started the end game and I couldn’t go back to earn that achievement.

Agreed! I’m appreciating the diversity of accents in the new shows. Prior to The Mandalorian season 2 (Episode 15 “The Believer”), all Imperial agents spoke with an English accent. Hearing a good old boy Southern drawl coming out of the mouth of an Imperial was a shock but a pleasant one.

There were mass layoffs back in January. G/O Media wanted the staffers to move to LA or lose their jobs. Half stayed in Chicago and got severance packages so, yeah, AV Club is not what it used to be.

Never heard of Black Sails or Counterpart?  The network puts on good shows.

SAME. I freaking love that movie because it’s the one that, to me, shut up the Henry Cavill haters that came out of the woodwork when MoS came out stating that he can’t or is a poor performer. The man can act and I’m pissed that Hammer is such a piece of shit that we’ll never get a proper sequel to that movie. Unless…