So Batman and Superman looked really, really good in those cinematics. As someone who didn't play the first game though—that voice over was gibberish, and the whole trailer, whoosh, that sucker is long.

I think you underrate the non-action parts of this, if only because Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung are so good and charismatic by themselves. The Killer in most conversations I've seen is considered Woo's best, but I go with Hard Boiled since I think Tony Leung is the best sulker ever to sulk. Hell, if The Departed had…

Bloodborne was definitely undersold, but the distinction seems that games that aren't positioned to be blockbusters for whatever reason, but they can be cautiously optimistic for. Liked as it is, GR and probably GR2 have a ceiling to it's possible/probable success because of the gameplay. Maybe it's because they are…

It looked like an actually fun Jupiter Ascending to me! I expect to see it the same way I saw that though, years later, on cable.

Well, other than studio execs, all of Hollywood is comprised of freelancers, more or less. It can be a real ask to say no at times, especially to something if they're paid remotely proportionately means there should be steady income for lucrative years to come.

Eh, considering the swath of liberal books publishers, even the big publishers like S&S, are constantly churning out, there's no extra mile for far-right books that isn't there for any book that seems like it will make money. Whether that's a good ethical call, or an good financial bet is another matter.

Actually, I think they hit the characterization from the comics just right. That said, I think we fans sometimes get adherence to details confused with the spirit of the thing.

It's pretty funny how the Netflix shows have continued the comic book rep of Matt Murdock being a great lawyer, when he is terrible.

I've said this elsewhere, but for short seasons, they're all bloated. Sometimes by having to tuck in universe build up, and sometimes just for hitting that 13 episode mark.

I like the second Ennis run myself (and the first one has it's charms), but I'd never try to sell reading him as more than anti-hero fantasy fulfillment. Situating him in superhero comics more directly hurts every character involved. I mean, he was a villain first for a reason.

I get the antipathy toward the pass that R. Crumb tends to get with that crowd—I feel the same and think Benjamin Marra of a newer set gets by too easy—but the publishing line in general is a different animal than the TCJ.

True, but they both have ham-handed half-thought out political commentary that's discarded for action scenes. I don't think Elysium is that different, for me, it was actually what I expected.

I mean, I bet it was successful, but I don't even know how you could know that, does Netflix even release that info?

I love Wong Kar Wai to pieces, but he's the opposite end. All his movies are around 90-something, but they all feel like two hours.

I dunno! Sometimes it is nothing more. Partly I don't think a narrative is necessarily integral to games—though they are my preferred type of game—but the feeling of agency is integral to narrative focused games. For example, I personally enjoy Telltale games more with the prompts of a "So and so character will…

Just asking, did you play it through yourself? I think what video games add (when done well) is a feeling of agency and decision making, and Firewatch did that for me fairly well. When I dwaddled about making a dialogue choice and the game goes on, it was fairly successful in recreating the feeling missed chances or…

I totally agree! Though weirdly, I saw a 4 hour Japanese movie this year (Love Exposure) that actually kind of worked. That and Yi Yi (around 3) are the only two long movies that I can think of that I didn't at least mildly resent the length at the end.

Ugh, I assume it's earnest, clumsy thinking/writing rather than trolling, but that kind of statement is a reflexive I'm guessing. I mean, I get it, I want to imagine the people working on a movie like this are thoughtful but then the Nina Simone biopic happens the way it happened. It's hard to impart that promoting…

I reverse that myself, since "Most overrated" is a counter for the pretty good/inoffensive but not great for me, where as Biggest Disappointment sounds like poor management of expectation most of the time. Then again, I think people would've been less disappointed with Elysium, say, if they didn't overrate District 9.

That's not the point of the criticism though. They have to perform a maybe awkward romance, not awkwardly perform. The prism of a 1950s musical is one of upmost professionalism through artiface—we don't talk about all the old musicals with so-so song and dance.