I think Alien 3 is an OK movie. I've never cared one whit about killing off Newt and Hicks, and even though I think it doesn't stick the landing—and the effects have not aged well—it's solid and ambitious enough that I think it wraps up Ridley's story about as well as could be hoped. The insistence that she carry on…

Hannibal the book is pretty terrible, memorable only for how mind-bogglingly bizarre and grotesque it is. I haven't seen the film, but if it's at all faithful to the novel it is by definition a terrible follow-up to The Silence of the Lambs and no director could really save it.

I think it's one of Bloom's best performances, myself, so maybe we're just on different wavelengths, but it does add in scenes that more clearly define his character's arc. It also adds in an entire character who was cut from the theatrical version, which radically changes Eva Greene's character's arc.

As I said elsewhere, he seems remarkably similar to real-world creep Steve Bannon.

Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut) is great!

If by "completely awesome" you mean "dreadful and dumb," then yes.

I felt bad for Nikki. Ray is indeed a loser, and she's not super bright, but dammit she has work ethic and drive.

It would amuse me to no end if Varga turns out to just be a murderous Steve Bannon whose crimes exist solely to perpetuate an otherwise perfectly legal, if bizarre and unsavory, lifestyle.

Wait, why does this have the same exact headline as an Amp article about the same topic?

Eh, screw Blomkamp's project. I never liked the concept.

Arkham Origins is the best written of the four main Arkham games. The gameplay is janky in places, but I think it's worth a playthrough.

Finished the seventh palace in Persona 5 and am now firmly on track to finally completing the game. GOTY so far.

To each his own.

Dishonored 2 was great, so that's high praise.

I'd add C) Is a first-person shooter. I personally think Dishonored 2 is better than Doom, which I have yet to beat (turns out you can get bored of shooting demons in the face), but it's the most popular genre in the US and that's hard to beat.

It does seem like there's no dialogue about it despite it racking up some decent reviews. I feel like Dishonored 2 had a similar fate, and wasn't it the first game released by Bethesda after they decided they weren't going to provide review copies anymore?

My problem with Skylar was that BB couldn't decide if she was meant to be complicit or antagonistic. She wobbled between both, but given that Walter was increasingly shown to be a raging asshole whose pride destroyed the lives of everyone around him, she really needed to be one or the other—a principled opponent…

Yeah, Del Toro's version of Hellboy is significantly different from Mignola's. Much quirkier and emotional. One of the core "jokes" of the Hellboy comics is that he's a boring, workaday guy who just happens to have weird shit happen to him all the time. The Goon crossover really got to the heart of that dynamic.

It does seem like a kind of one-way admiration, doesn't it? Mignola has done artwork for some of Del Toro's movies—notably Pan's Labyrinth—and Del Toro even has former BPRD artist Guy Davis as a concept artist, but Mignola's praise for Del Toro's style has always been rather muted.

Unfortunately for all of us, the current administration really doesn't give two shits what the American people think, so this is all just a way for us to be angry en masse.