I don’t know. Wonder Woman was a better-than- better-than-average superhero movie. But there was a big disconnect between the dramatic scenes and the action. The showdown at the end felt dutiful and weightless.

Release the Blomkamp cut!

I’m just hoping the success of Bumblebee doesn’t inspire Michael to get personally involved again and fuck up what finally became a good Transformers property. I’d been waiting since goddamn 1986 for that!

He’s a low budget Michael Bay.

See also: Snyder, Zack; Abrams, JJ.

“That hack’s been getting away with his low effort bullshit forever now cause his movies have always sold tickets. Hopefully next time Capcom picks someone who gives a shit, at least.”

It is depressing how much of this video is devoted to disclaimers when the core argument is so cautious and equivocal. He seems to be saying, in short, that there is nothing new about the adult appeal of superhero stories written for children, but the genre becomes self-defeating when the most visible versions of…

I also think it is wrong to call the Deadpool and Harley movies “dark” and “gritty”. All three of them are clearly highly comedic in tone. Yes, they feature violence and gore, but in such an over-the-top way as to render said violence and gore ridiculous rather than disturbing.

Oh my god, making jokes about George R.R. Martin makes me pine for the before time. I’m not sure I even know how anymore.

I really don’t understand this argument. How are superhero action movies any different from the Arnold and Stallone steroid-fueled action movies of the 80s? They’re also about one strongman who will save us all. They just wear slightly less silly costumes.

They keep calling him because he works incredibly cheap and it’s easy to turn a profit on something you spend nothing on.

Yeah, this looks fucking awesome. I can’t bring myself to care whether Anderson has “ruined” another absurd Capcom plot, and the trailer makes this movie look like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad got blackout drunk, fucked Stargate, then left the baby on Milla Jovovich’s porch. We probably don’t deserve this movie. 

Now why would anyone try to introduce continuity into a Resident Evil game or film franchise?

It seems odd to be rebooting the franchise as a film series and a Netflix TV show at the same time, not to mention the animated film that is due out soon. They could coordinate these so they’re in the same continuity, but it sounds like they’re not going to bother doing that.

Resident Evil was my favorite ridiculous action franchise. I loved the mixture of lucid action sequences, cool set construction, shameless retconning, and unlikely tactical garments. The fourth and fifth movies could almost be experimental films if they weren’t based on games (and about shooting zombies).

It’s the same trying to watch the Underworld series

I’m excited for this. It does look like Anderson will play loose with the series lore, in the same way he did for the Resident Evil movies, but who gives a shit? The decision to make Monster Hunter into a portal fantasy is a little cheesy, but it’s not a deal breaker. Who the fuck is watching this movie - or playing…

Yes, this goes beyond “some flashes of this season’s Henry James inspiration.” These are all story titles, and there aren’t any particularly deep cuts in the bunch either.

I’m so used to the original character model that any change was going to feel wrong, at least at first. I don’t hate the new design, which does seem more compatible with the voice actor’s boyish intonation, but I wish they had gone with an aged-up version of it. One of the things I liked about the game was playing as…

Is Grant Morrison still considered to be one of the best writers for X-Men? I know he imagines himself to be a wizard, and is in some kind of magic feud with Alan Moore.