Say what you will about the formulaic nature of the MCU, but any one of those movies is preferable to Stealth.

It kind of blows my mind that Cruise has never had a 100+ million opening.

I am pretty sure Marvel has been fairly anti-Miliary this whole time. I mean they were even portrayed as antagonists in Captain Marvel and Iron Man 2.

I expect to see a lot of stories about how Real Movies Are Back and then Love & Thunder earns all of Maverick’s box office in like four days.

I just don’t see how you classify that as dead? For example CDPR’s Cyberpunk which I am playing through for the first time now, certainly does have “Wow! Cool Future!”. But it also has a lot of exploration into every other part of what Cyberpunk is. This is especially so the more you deviate from the main plot.

The Green Knight cost less than the budget earmarked for any single episode of Stranger Things, and i think that says a lot.

Integrity is *fine* and I’m all for it. But creators should create first and worry about integrity or legacy or whatever second.

I understand the uncomfortableness with what feels like gatekeeping, and I’m sorry you had such a powerful reaction. It was not my intent.

This isn’t “we can do things differently”, or “there’s room for new interpretations amongst the old”, that is saying “we should stop doing X because I think Y is better”. I think that kind of thing is gatekeeping, and it calls for something I strongly disagree with in artistic expression - to stop a particular kind of…

I viscerally, knee-jerk hate this. While also largely agreeing with it. Part of the problem is that I don’t like the likely-unintentional gatekeeper aspect.

Agreed, there’s an unintentional corollary in Isaiah’s argument that if the modern works are ‘doing it wrong’ then people who like those modern works - for whatever reason - are ‘enjoying it wrong’. It’s hard not to read this notion of a ‘wrong’ form and a ‘right’ form to the genre as gatekeeping.

Oh no. I was going to skip this one (I still haven’t finished Elden Ring) but I do love a grappling hook. Sigh. Bye money.

I love that this comment section seems to be evenly divided between “polygraphs are bullshit” and “green screen is bullshit.” And for once in my life I agree with pretty much everyone. At the risk of being a bit on the nose: no lies detected. 

I know that it started on UPN, but I still have to go with America’s Next Top Model. I know that this thread is supposed to be about Arrowverse and Supernatural fans talking past each other while they relive their favorite shit, but let’s not forget the greatest and most egregious reality spectacle of the 00s and 10s.

Yeah, her defense was a little odd. I don’t think anyone is taking away from the costume and set design or stunt work in Marvel movies...

Please, film nerds, just let me and my fellow Marvel dorks enjoy our three-hour spurts of repetitive explosions in PEACE!

I love Sam Raimi, and I kinda liked the first Doctor Strange, but this movie really sucked. I keep hearing it praised as an auteur movie for Marvel, but most of the signature Raimi material took the form of diluted self-quotation.

I can’t help but think that some clever accounting at the corporate level has screwed the developer out of their royalties. For instance, the promotion budget could be insane, in service of franchise ambitions, in a way that makes a successful game appear to break even.

Also, and I know I’m pretty alone here, but I didn’t hate Thief 2014. It wasn’t stellar, all the previous games were better, and you know, Dishonored exists. But I stuck with it until the end and wouldn’t mind an improved take coming back again.

Whatever your opinions are of Frank Miller, he is one of the last “rock stars” in comics. Like Alan Moore, he is one of the last living innovators of the genre, and all the revsionism and cultural shifts won’t take that away. Anything with his name on it will sell out immediately, so if you’re still a secret Miller…