It was likely a deliberate choice. For its faults, compared to most other two-part movies, Dead Reckoning managed to find a relatively satisfying place to end. I suspect that was achieved by largely backgrounding the Entity in part 1 with the intent of bringing it properly to the fore in part 2.

one of the weird problems of Stranger Things was that once-in-a-lifetime supernatural adventures keep happening over a condensed period of time

It really is incredible how much his point seems to lack self-awareness. Kingsman 2 is practically the textbook example of what he’s describing. It’s also the tipping point between me being a huge fan of his work and struggling to work up enthusiasm for anything he puts his name to.

I never bothered with a Pro, and I don’t remember any games being unplayable (even Cyberpunk ran okay on a base PS4, aside from the bugs).

1) It’s not every 3 years. The last few generations have lasted ~7 years each.
2) Because everyone being on the same hardware is the one major benefit of consoles over PCs, for both developers (games can be properly optimised because they don’t need to take account of infinite hardware variations) and players (you…

Three Musketeers: I love when a movie I never knew existed gets a sequel. Has anyone seen the original? Is it any good?

I don’t think I’ve seen any of Alvarez’s horror stuff, but The Girl in the Spider’s Web was awful, despite having a terrific cast. Partly that’s because the source material wasn’t good, but there wasn’t even a single moment in the adaptation that made me think Alvarez was a director worth keeping an eye on in the…

There’s nothing to get. The cornetto thing was just a gag in Shaun of the Dead that they called back to in Hot Fuzz, and then joked that they should make it a trilogy to the point that they felt obligated to do so (which is probably why The World’s End felt so perfunctory in comparison to the other two).

I thought splitting Mockingjay was a sensible choice. The final book suffers a lot from being told entirely from Katniss’ perspective, which leaves a lot of holes as the story expands to the wider revolution. The films opening up more of what was going on outside of Katniss’ direct experience was an easy improvement…

None of them know who Sif is as far as we know, but it would be easy enough to reveal that Carol had met her off-screen. She’s been travelling the universe since 1989 (and Ms. Marvel was in 2025, so The Marvels is set at least 36 years after Carol was taken to Hala). It would need no more than a throwaway “She’s been…

The real lesson here is that hindsight is 20/20. Coburn Sr. should have learned from Terry Nation and spoken up back when the show took off.

Rock of Ages?

Which would make sense, given it’s a flashforward.

While Mercer’s announcement about his role as Vincent Valentine in Final Fantasy IIV hadn’t yet occurred at the time of the panel

I’d have said it was an inert blob of material the first time.

I mean, that seems to be DC’s strategy for everything. I wouldn’t expect it to change.

I get what you mean, but I don’t think “self-contained” is quite right. Wouldn’t your definition include stuff like Immortal Hulk, for example, or Alan Moore’s reinvention of Swamp Thing? Basically any book that has a fresh new take and manages to avoid getting swept up in crossovers and events (I’d point to Brian…

Well that’s something at least...

I mean, yes, DC vs Vampires wasn’t long ago (and they just announced a sequel).

Bryan Hill on Ultimate Black Panther? Ugh. After Fallen Angels (comfortably the worst X-book of the Krakoa era) and The Wild Storm: Michael Cray (Ellis’ series bible was approximately 1000 times more interesting than anything Hill did with it), I’m not expecting good things.