I was shocked by how much this felt like a Raimi movie. Even the makeup for Stranger’s reanimated corpse reminded me of a Deadite. People often criticize MCU movies for blunting directors’ influence on their films, but it was pretty clear that didn’t happen here, and I think it’s better for it.

That actually surprises me too.  The FDA actually sanctioned another company for including “Love” at the end of their ingredients list.  Maybe they get away with it because it’s before the colon?

On the one hand, yes.

When I first heard about this, I was dreading it, but the more I see of it, the more excited I get for it.  It looks legitimately bonkers.  Seems like they’re going for a weird mashup of The Three Amigos and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and I’m totally down with that.

Gadget has been conspicuous by her absence through all the marketing for this movie.  I’m guessing there’s a big twist involving her that they don’t want to spoil.

I know I shit on the SPUMCo movies, and they fucking deserve it, but if they manage to capture the bonkers nature of an El Santo movie with the budget and production quality of a Hollywood blockbuster, all is forgiven.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them, at least as DLC. They also announced a joint AEW/NJPW pay-per-view at Wednesday's show, so it sounds like the partnership between the two is very strong.

The “Fight Forever” chant usually comes out when a match is so good that you just don't want it to end.

* Elect Republicans

I feel like Gargoyles would be really cool, and would mesh well with some of the more... eccentric things that happen in KH.

It wouldn’t be the first time someone used the OGL to take the core of D&D and spin it off into a new game. That’s literally how Pathfinder was created.

You know the article you just read points out a movie that was very much not fantasy/sci-fi (Flee), right?

That’s definitely also a problem, but I would say that it’s a problem above and beyond all animated films being dismissed as mindless kids’ films. Both are equally valid complaints.

SM3 faceplanted largely because Sony insisted on weaving the black costume arc/Venom into what was already a pretty stuffed movie.  And because Raimi was never a big fan of Venom as a character and didn’t really understand how to bring the whole thing together.

I guess saying “Marvel” over and over in the ads did the trick.

There are also some great AP podcasts out there that are using completely different RPG systems. Here’s some I heartily recommend:

First Terminator: Genisys, then this... Apparently Matt Smith’s whole post-Doctor Who thing is playing the bad guy in awful franchise movies.

Venom wasn’t *good*, but it was fun.  This mess sounds like it’s neither.

I mean, I’m sure they want Venom back at some point.  That’s a character they could do a lot with.

Sony has been deliberately muddying the waters with this one, with taglines in the ads like “The next Marvel legend arrives”.  I think they’re taking deliberate advantage of the fact that, post-No Way Home, nobody’s really sure how deep the connection goes.