I will gladly take a Sci-Fi adaptation of classic literature, because at least that sets its goals higher than, I dunno, pretty much every other concept out there. Which is either a remake of an old TV show, a superhero show, or a zombie show.

Might be the moment of truth for YouTube Red.

Hadn’t even thought of the FF.  The FF needs to be part of the MCU, and since they’re universe-agnostic, they can be slotted in, Spider-Man style, at any point.

Hope, and high expectations, can be a terrible thing when it comes to movies.

Yeah, but the TV heroes and their escapades don’t circle back to the MCU at all, and likely never will. From the narrative perspective, they’re most likely an alternate Earth from the MCU.

Iron Fist isn’t part of the MCU. Black Widow and Hawkeye don’t have any superhuman abilities, just good training and skills.

Kevin Feige has confirmed to The Playlist the new deal between Fox and Disney will not allow for crossovers between the studios in the immediate future

I.e., “Sony’s Spider-Man went to the MCU and all they got was 3 lousy words.”

This, my friends, is craft. This scene should be taught in film school. I’ve seen this movie so damn many times and I still get worried they’re going to get him when I watch it.

Angels’ Egg, which made a certain “supplier” in Delaware a lot of money in the early 90s.

The only problem with cosmic horror is that it’s an abstract theme, and in film it’s hard to show those effectively without looking silly (or resorting to gory nonsense). In literature, there are numerous examples of it being done well (Declare, Laundry Files, and numerous short works like The Ballad of Black Tom and…

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Has this always been the case? Because I thought the same sort of failure and subsequent damage is what caused a DC-10 to lose all hydraulics and crash back in 1989.

IIRC, the same sort of catastrophic engine failure (fan blade disintegrated) took out all of the hydraulics on a DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City about 30 years ago. So agreed, this could have been much worse.

First thought I had too. Been waiting for something in this vein to come around.

My guess is that they were trying to close the loophole that was left by the ridiculous writing in the pilot (first 2) episode. So, while we may have thought that the RFID was in the jacket, the writers made it where it was actually in her wrist, and the jacket was just so she could have the name tag. Because in the…

And all of those times the characters weren’t holding the idiot ball? The script was holding it good and tight. There was so much dumb in those first 2 episodes we noped right out.

Thank goodness it wasn’t just us. I’m often accused of not being entertainable enough for most entertainment, but I hoped out of this after episode 2.

I wanted to like this show, I really did, and so did Miao Yin. But we couldn’t get past the writers’ reliance on cheap conveniences to move the plot forward, and bailed after the second episode with prejudice. To wit:

I worked at a video store when this came out. Deadly Prey was quickly added to a list of movies I had, which included Death Before Dishonor, Invasion USA, and pretty much any movie with Michael Dudikoff or Richard Lynch. If I didn’t like you, and you asked me for a good movie to watch that weekend, you got something…