Pretty much. The explanation of where he came from and how he got his powers seemed convoluted for such a simple heel.

I didn't even think to compare it to an FPS when I watched it. I compared it to a found footage horror movie, which gave it a very, very low bar to clear.

I went to such an event at the behest of my schlock-loving friend. Not only did I get the ticket, which is a sheet of plastic with four times the dimensions of a normal ticket, I got a comic book explaining the villain's backstory (but not really his motivation).

I've seen Hardcore Henry and while the story is nothing to write home about, Sharlto Copley was a lot of fun and the action scenes were creative. If you aren't bothered by the whip-panning of Henry turning his head to look in another direction, maybe check it out on video sometime.

I just saw Hardcore Henry the other day and I thought it was pretty good by schlock standards.

With regards to Tolkein specifically, this essay is an absurd oversimplification that misses the point completely, making me wonder how much of Lord of the Rings Moorcock actually read. But when it comes to general trends in fantasy, it's hard to disagree with his assessments. That all happened not because people were…

Are there any fans of the game Sunless Sea spun off from, Fallen London, on here? I played it for a while until the act of grinding for items got to be too much for me, but the writing and worldbuilding, shared with Sunless Sea, makes it far and away the best experience I've ever had with a free-to-play game.

Undertale is hardly unsung, but I would recommend ignoring the fans, keeping an open mind, and giving it a shot.

I wasn't sure whether to be disappointed with this list for not including Undertale or to shrug it off and keep my expectations in check. I'm coming off the giddy high I got from playing this game, which stuck around for weeks, and now I've come to the sobering realization that I've gotten involved in another…

After all those Equestria Girls things, I think I'm going to let the reviews dictate when I see the real movie.

Cabin in the Woods really only held up for one screening, but for me Scream didn't even do that much.

I hated, hated, hated Lillard's performance in that movie. He's supposed to be scary, but it honestly sounded like he had brain damage.

As much as I disagree with everything Sad Puppies stands for, it's clear to me that everyone ignored GRRM's request that the works be judged on their merits. There's no way in hell that "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" would have earned Best Novella on a level playing field.

Remember when Rabin said at the start of My Year of Flops that he wasn't going to be a proponent of mean-spirited "everything-sucksism"? How soon did he break that promise, and how often?

I wrote off the article because I think The Matrix is overrated poseur bullshit that people should stop liking once they're no longer teenagers. Jupiter Ascending is not that much worse than it.

Southland Tales is the worst movie I've seen several times now.

I would much, much rather have a new Raconteurs album than a Dead Weather one.

I didn't realize people cared about whatever Salon and Gawker had to say. I was thinking about people like Film Crit Hulk and sites like this one, though he doesn't give short reviews for every movie like most critics and the AV Club isn't at its best when it's doing that, either.

That's fine. I feel I respect the idea of it more than anyone else I know, though critics aren't all the same and some are actually as awful as the one in the movie.

I don't know what point the movie is trying to make, though. I don't know how it feels about Riggan since it never leaves his perspective, so whether or not his view is meant to be taken as the objective truth or if it's meant to be sad and malformed (which it is) remains unclear to me. A lot of people will say it's…