"seeing that Buffy is just a riff on the many, many vampire properties that have cropped up since Bram Stoker invented Dracula and Firefly is pretty much a carbon copy of Roddenberry's Andromeda."

Actually, they have been pretty bad from almost the beginning. They forced Favreu to forgo the villains' character development in favor of a stupid Shield detour, which caused him to leave the franchise. Then there was the ridiculous amount of Shield shit shoved into Thor (plus, the most pointless cameo ever,) which I…

Except it was other creatives that saved the first trilogy. Directors like Ivan Kershner, writers like Lawrence Kasdan, the actors, and, likely most of all, Marcia Lucas, the editor. George was pretty much a more hands on producer for a large chunk of the original trilogy, so it's no surprise that the prequels sucked…

What is the overlap between gamers and the 50 Shades of Greg fans who raged over the lead actors and demanded that they be changed?

Uh, a quick look at the highest grossing films of 2014 on Box Office Mojo proves that assertion to be categorically false. PG-13 FAR our strips every other rating.

So, you’re claiming Captain Marvel will be exactly this, then?

Less enemies means easier combat, which means significantly less micromanagement, which means significantly less pausing and shorter pauses. The extra time adds up when you can't just let auto attack do its thing for most of the battles. Plus, the higher chance of death means replaying more battles.

I thought ace characters and a boring plot described GOTG pretty well. Though that's not a big sin in my book, since GOTG (and The Avengers, besides some bits) don't let the plot get in the way of the characters.

Well, I guess Xavier didn't think Erik would go full Magneto and shoot his lover that they were trying to save. Because the plan was going well before that.

Except there never was any medium to high budget (in today's standards) of what you would consider "intelligent filmmaking."

You appear to think that the AV Club owes you something. You are a whiner.

It might be the model for Game of Thrones, but most shows, especially network shows, try to keep their likeable protagonists on as long as possible.

The Coulson death was necessary on at least a narrative level. It was the catalyst for the Avengers to work together, and it raised the stakes directly leading to the final battle. The only problem was that The Avengers was the first film to start fleshing Coulson out, which was the worst film to start this, being as…

The difference is that abuse is the default in Scientology.

So, how did he think Downey Jr was going to answer, even if he wasn't "free" of drugs and alcohol? "Nah, I'm actually planning on going on an epic coke bender after this," is obviously not going to happen. These questions were a naken attempt to to drum up controversy and attention, which obviously worked because here…

Yeah, that’s what was missing from Battlefield, more squashing and stretching! I don’t know why you bring up Disney, when many games are not trying to be in that animation style.

And as we all know, developers have unlimited amounts of those.

Actually, the Thor dress is probably the most clever one. The buttons reference the six disk things on Thor's armor, and the red bit resembles a much shorter version of his cape.

Real IMAX. Unfortunately, that's about one movie per year

But McKay kind of sucks as a director. He's good as a writer, and he can point the camera at funny people, let them improvise, and choose the best bits but anything that requires more (like the anchor fight in Anchorman 2) just sucks.