Before anything else, I think Biles’s decision in that situation should be applauded as damn it takes a lot of guts to accept that. Can’t even imagine the pressure one feels under that situation.

For me, and this is a personal opinion, Thor 2 is just bland and boring. While it makes it a bad movie, the actual messaging in Guardians 2 is kind of horrid, with almost all character arcs sacrificed at the altar of the great Man-Baby.

Awkward Zombie hits at so many of my gaming memories that it hurts.

While I think there is a certain point to that, I think a part of it is that the books committed to the bait-and-switch the further they went with the first book only really hinting at it. Now the reason that becomes a bit of a challenge is that the first book was published in 1965, the second 1969, the third in 1976…

The comment you are responding to proclaimed that the Bene Gesserit were actually a pretty enlightened representation of women for the time they were books were written in. It’s kind of weird how you are ignoring that while going in to that long text about things being problemtic when my whole point against someone…

To be honest, no, that’s not enlightened. It basically casts super-competent women as manipulative schemers who seek to control everything through being puppet masters behind men. While actually the true leader still needs to be a man.

I’m a little bit confused by this as Lawrence of Arabia doesn’t treat TE Lawrence as a white savior. Instead it takes a very complicated approach considering the time. So in your argument wouldn’t it actually be comparable to Dune?

Oh, I completely agree that the later books play around with it a lot more, which is why I pointed out that I’m speaking about the movie presenting here based ont that first book.

Which results in Paul getting deep blue eyes. So how was my comment on it having a blue-eyed white savior incorrect? I didn’t say anything about the Fremen, and trust me, there’s so much to say about them.

As I find myself thinking more on the upcoming movie, the more torn I find myself on it. I’ve read the books, well the original ones, and thought they were fine even though was never the biggest superfan of them. However, I don’t think it is a controversial take that they are in many ways a product of their time and…

I legit gasped when I clicked on the link and read what Kilborn had said. Then I started laughing hysterically when his explanation for the quote “There are a lot of bitches on the staff, and, hey, they’re emotional people. You can print that! You know how women are — they overreact.” was that it was a jest not…

I think it is a really interesting piece in that it hits on that very awkward part about talking about fitness or exercise. There are a lot of toxic elements there pushing unhealthy image-based processes, and even though I loved my time at Equinox , it is still staggering to me how appearance based of the elements…

I just recently read the Billion Dollar Loser, but now I’m kind of wishing that I had waited to read this one instead.

Not really because Space Jam 2 numbers are actually pretty low for a 150 million dollar movie.

On the A point, I’d argue those counter-examples are not that good. Captain Marvel was introducing a new major character into the larger movie canon and Ant-Man is a sequel. So while you are technically correct, which I admit is the best kind of correct, neither of those is comparable to what they did with Black…

After watching last week an awesome box office breakdown by Dan Murrell, I’m not as surprised by this drop as I would have been before it. Not because he was saying this would happen, but rather that he drew attention to some signals that could portent things going badly. I’m not going to claim I know what might be…

I’m a bit torn on this as while it is always risky to have the original visionary move away from the project, I also felt Loki desperately needed a better sense of focus and build-up regarding its bigger plot beats.

Excellent point. It is one of those things looking back because even thought back then it didn’t really register, in retrospect it feels really odd and does highlight that lack of identity for the era you mention.

More as a general comment on teh games of that era, what is actually pretty striking in retrospect is how often the main characters were utterly unlikable. It was the era of antihero, but it somehow felt even more present in games as they just assumed that the players would most identify and cheer for dicks.

This episode left me really torn and the review kind of clarified to me why. I thought the episode was really strong and was amazed how well Kang functioned here, the actor just doing masterful work in making this very late minute addition central character feel like such a large presence. Even the Loki/Sylvie…