Yep. It’s a profound lack of creativity and risk-taking on the studio’s behalf. And why not? They know they don’t have to satisfy fans of a video game franchise to still make a profit off of the new IP.

The Monster Hunter movie is a perfect object example of why video game movies tend to suck. How long do you think it was between them getting the license and them deciding that the humans would be more relatable if instead of locals to a fantasy world they were displaced oo-rah marines from Earth?

Imagine if Lord of…

The problem isn’t that games don’t translate well, it’s that filmmakers don’t even try - they just do their own thing, often discarding the entire premise of the source material (eg. a Doom film without demons!)

Truly the only successful adaptation:

“What is plastics?”

Dr. Oz should be punched in the face on live television every day.

Legends Of Tomorrow is one of the best shows on television. It also once featured a season-long storyline with a character getting his nipple bitten off by a unicorn, then later having his nipple restored but possessed by a demon from the time it spent in hell, and then using the possessed nipple to hypnotize people…

I like that Katie Couric. She's perky. They should hire her and then quietly replace her with Deborah Norville.

Same here. I didn’t know what to expect, I thought it was a comedy.

You’re saying that Steve needs to come back with a mullet, aren’t you?

This. A zillion times this.

“like why the U.S. government happily handed the shield over to a white guy rather than the Black man who deserved it”

It’s funny the first thing she mentions in the interview is her backpack. Makes me think about her Hobby song on SNL. She’s very protective of her backpack.

She's a national treasure and criminally underused on SNL

I just want to tell the MST3K company, and anybody else who didn’t see Barb Wire, this:

The big stack of unsold prints for Barb Wire, to the point where they’re just offering them for free to anyone who walks by, is easily the funniest part of the story to me.

I suspect it’s less that movie studios are uniquely staffed with idiots and more that a movie studio’s projects are more visible and it’s easier to see how the idiots screwed them up.

People singing every line of dialogue is far from the most unrealistic thing in this movie.

Look, I just prefer more grounded, realistic dramas where a being from a moon of Saturn seeks to acquire six magic stones so he can snap his fingers and murder half the universe. 

This is such a wonderful movie to look at (God the orange-and-teal brigade need to watch it and understand how to properly use colour in film), but the story is way too kitchen sink drama for my personal tastes. Overall I think its vague sequel The Young Girls of Rochefort was the superior film.