It feels like Marvel is taking the lesson of Guardians and going to the next level - can it build an entire phase around heroes that casual fans are unfamiliar with.

If this really cost $200 million then that’s probably the reason it got canceled lol. Like I don’t think even the most expensive season of Game of Thrones cost that much.

Jupiter’s Legacy looked like they were trying cash in on the popularity of The Boys but they just don’t have the balls to go full Ennis.

Switch? This I gotta see.

Have the parents and/or babies make some new friends? People with babies make new parent/playdate friends all the time. Send them to preschool, new friends, bing-bang-boom.

This thing where characters (exclusively female characters, it seems) who were the subject of “lol, they’re gay” gags on the early internet (Betty, Buttercup, Velma) are now being made canonically gay in reboots seems a little bit...I dunno, maybe it’s good. I have the sneaking suspicion it’s one of those things that…

I’m glad they got that feedback. Super early in the game when you’re in the village for the first time and you get a ton of enemies after you and you basically just have to run around long enough to trigger a cut scene- I was SUPER worried about how the rest of the game was going to play out.

Feige generally seems like a genuine guy, so it’s not necessarily fair to suggest that he’s just saying this now because he wants people to see Shang-Chi...

Don’t you think this is far more bullshit-ridden than, say, a trailer?

So you’re saying marketers ... marketed their product? They highlighted the fact that people really enjoyed going to the movies and experiencing pop culture phenomenon together and that’s somehow bullshit?

Why is that unfortunate? I’m not going to be one of these people, I got to maybe 2 or 3 movies a year pre-pandemic, but it’s okay for people to start getting excited.

... and Oscar-winning Chloé Zhao bringing her signature style and incredible talent to making this a success as well...

The issue was never about some turds bashing women for showing their boobies, it was about whether the platform was appropriate for it or not.

I think they totally should have knocked off Enter the Dragon btw. Thing is, that film found room to introduce the characters and flesh out their personalities and motivations quite deftly, with the tournament as the nucleus of the plot.

Why the fuck do screenwriters keep taking games with basic, obviously-filmable premises (deadly martial arts tournament, demons on mars, zombies in a mansion) and then just doing their own fucking thing instead?

Haven’t watched the movie yet, but it appears that once again they are taking a dumb concept way too seriously.

Joe Taslim as Bi-Han / Sub-Zero and Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion are so good in the opening moments they had me fooled into thinking the movie might be much better than I hoped.

Why won’t people accept that the original MK was the peak of fighting game movies and a classic on the same level as Top Gun, The Godfather, and Weekend At Bernie’s?

Perhaps they should enable a revive when players are not at the highest available World-Tier. That would keep things challenging for players who actively want the combat to feel like a puzzle, and it would cut down frustration for folks who just aren’t in the mood to git gud.

This was the perfect game for that numb pandemic summer, when I didn’t have the attention-span to finish movies, read novels, or remember the point of sidequests after ten minutes.