I feel like Iron Man 3 was the last time MCU tried anything ballsy and after that reaction to it, they pretty much just defaulted to giving the masses exactly what they wanted.

In a way, Winter Solider, GotG, Civil War, Infinity War, and Black Panther are all far less subversive films than Iron Man 3 was.

Love Iron Man 3. Arguably the first instance of proper directorial flair coming through the MCU and I thought the Mandarin stuff was quite clever. I can see why it’s divisive, but personally it’s one of my favourite entries.

This movie got a lot a crap from the Mandarin twist, but people forget Mandarin always kinda sucked as a character.  He had about one good story (Extremis).

My son was six when this came out and had seen some of the other movies at home, but got a little freaked out by some of the scarier scenes, so I didn’t take him to this one either. I saw it, drove home, told him and my wife to get dressed, and drove right back to the theater with them. I watched him instead of the…

I know what I am about to say is a little controversial, but I’ve always thought Toriyama’s style was overrated and in the case of Dragon Ball and older Dragon Quest games was the reason I was put off of them. I loved DQXI but if it wasn’t for the excellent execution of the 3D artists converting his style to current…

McCarthy was like a father to Aaron.

Grats on getting published in the NYT! I’m happily using one of my five articles on you ;)

This reporting could impose a massive shift in industry culture. This is huge. Thank you for covering this.

Schreier, I will always appreciate your deep-dives into the less glamorous sides of this hobby and the industry that supports it. While most of Kotaku’s articles are (and probably should be) focused on the games themselves, it’s incredibly important that we never lose sight of the human cost incurred in the production…

Judging by the GIF, this is a movie version of Dragon Quest V (at least Part I of it). The blue turban and the tiger character suggest as much.

It’s stuff like this that prevents me from entering a competitive environment in any game.

I have, for many years, maintained the truism that fighting with honor creates only a moral obligation to lose. If you cannot sort a route around your opponent’s tactics, that’s on you.  So long as the play was within established…

The sunken cost fallacy can be difficult to shake, even when you know it’s warping your experience.

Our struggle is a lonely one but it is a battle worth fighting.  Because people who hate the last Jedi are fucking stupid.

Jesus there is ‘plot hole’ again, I swear it’s the new “Han Shot First.” It’s like the default thing to say when you have nothing else to fall back on or you don’t understand what plot holes actually are. 

Actually, Call Me Carlos the Dwarf, those are why I like The Last Jedi - it flips off Lucas’s increasingly toxic and reductionist Natural Nobility with two controversial ideas: That The Force is with everybody, and a Jedi Master can be a Nobody From Nowheresville just as easily as part of a Jedi/Sith Nobility; and…

well that’s just the thing, a lot of people wonder if BvS was a flop even with that high a number

Civil War II was the second worst thing Marvel ever did to Carol Danvers. The absolutely worst thing they ever did to her was have the Avengers let a clearly brainwashed Carol walk off with her child/rapist/kidnapper in Avengers #200.

Well, just came out of the 11:30 3D screening at Disney Springs.

I cannot imagine anyone who hears about a new MCU movie and thinks, “Well, I’d better check those Rotten Tomato scores before I buy a ticket.”

Jason. This review is phenomenal. One of the best things Kotaku has ever done. *slow clap*