It also has a fantastic (and underrated) “theme”, that works equally well for triumphant moments of triumphant triumph... and more sombre scenes like the one you describe above.

My opinion of Thor has sunk a little bit in recent years (watching it back to back with The Avengers as part of an ongoing Endgame-preparation marathon didn’t help), but I still love the moment when Thor fails to lift Mjolnir. Even after his banishment he remains this swaggering mountain of bravado who assumes…

I still think the first Thor was underrated. It was funny, but also a little operatic with that Ken Branagh vibe, it brought the stakes down to one small town in New Mexico... good stuff all around.

Man, I tried to watch Gundam Wing on Hulu recently, and it really hasn’t aged great. It’s perhaps the most vocally anti-war of all the Gundam shows, but it’s really bad at getting that point across. (Spoilers ahead) By the end of the series almost all the characters are calling themselves pacifists while they blow…

Iron Man 2 is, of course, very bad, but I still think the Iron Man briefcase is one of the cooler moments in the franchise. Later movies got way over the top with Iron Man’s armour, with them automatically latching onto him or shooting out of a satellite, but the briefcase suit is a far more interesting emergency suit…

Satan sure likes gum.

Yeah it’s like a 2.5 out of 5. Not great by any means, but not embarrassingly bad. There are some cool scenes sprinkled throughout the movie, and some decent performances as well. And I honestly think the third act would have been better if they’d just cut Abomination’s lines. That character did not need to speak.

And of course, they ruined the surprise in the TV ads because why let it actually have the effect it was intended to have?

The Imperial Hot Era continues on in our hearts. 

Also Robin Williams always said that if Nintendo ever made a live action Pokemon movie, he would fight like crazy to get the part of Professor Oak.

I second Seconds.

I feel like this article loses it’s thread 3/4 of the way through. It starts out as a pretty good examination of how the cold-war helped inform Marvel Comics, then touches on how the characters moved on from the Cold-War, then turns into a weird digression on how comic-book time is weird in the real world.
Which is…

I was hoping it would release for the Switch. Persona 5 on the go would be amazing.

In this demonstration, it swapped around. Most of the gameplay was first person, but for certain combat moments or navigation things like climbing it would pull the camera out. Made me think of Escape from Butcher Bay in some ways.

Feeling iffy about the clan thing. The internal politics and reputations of various clans were a big deal in VTM and I hope they are handled appropriately. A lot of RPGs want to let you dabble in any number of abilities, but I kind of liked that each clan had a distinct identity, personality, and unique abilities unto…

Is it 3rd person like the original game, or 1st person like the trailer implies? I’m hoping for the former.

That’s cool, you have your opinion, but it’s deliberately calling out the thing that has put them to where they are, the thing that they are choosing on their own as a career path.

And you never complain about your job?  Get the fuck out of here.

I dislike the use of the quote “they’re all the goddamn same”. Yeah, they are more or less. Conventions are a business. You’re doing your cosplay as a business. If the conventions are were you have to go to flex your business and make money, boo hoo that they’re all the same - you’re doing this as a business.

Card-carrying Commie — it was an era when alliteration ruled.