So you saw the Jedi as being more like Caine from Kung Fu?

Ren works for me because he’s the first of these cinematic “Dark Lord” figures that didn’t try to out-Vader Vader. The recent sci-fi/fantasy boom has brought all these characters out of the woodwork in menacing black armor, who speak in intimidating tones about “Plans, plans, darkness, Yesssssss”, and since Ren is…

Yeah, I haven’t seen it since March 2019.

Yeah, that didn’t happen.

So... pretty much exactly how Bryan Singer handled her when Halle Berry was cast.

Sinatra in the board room where they kill Takagi, and escaping not by crawling under the tables, but by pulling out a microphone, summoning a big band from an adjoining room, and entrancing the criminals with a rendition of “One for My Baby, and One More for the Road” until he’s right next to the elevator shaft, at…

I can picture Rickman reading Sinatra’s sweatshirt taunt: “Now I have a machine gun. Ring... a ding.... ding.”

If overthinkingit.com is to be believed, the script was first shopped around as a sequel to Commando, but Schwarzenegger turned it down. (The article’s author goes on to imagine the eight other permutations of the Willis/Sinatra/Schwarzenegger x Die Hard/Nothing Lasts Forever/Commando 2 matrix, for funsies.)

Did he shoot a kid?

Every quote from the novel included on this page sounds like absolute garbage.

“So even though it didn’t take several movies to introduce them, so they were actually hyped across multiple movies”

Galactus’ first appearance in the comics required no build-up. The first Apocalypse arc in the comics took only 3 or 4 issues.

You don’t need 3 movies to build up to Apocalypse. You need one competent director.

That sounds like an improvement. I thought that they forgot to give any character beats for Storm, Angel and Psylocke, and that robbed the final confrontation of any real weight. Also, we needed a lot more character work on Apocalypse. They should have leaned heavily into him being a man-out-of-time, fleshed out his…

First up, we don’t know what the details of Marvel’s contract with Fox is. It could be that no matter who Fox sells to, they have to offer the rights to Marvel first before handing them over to the buyer.

Second, don’t dis Universal’s theme parks. Although their Marvel area is dated, you make it sound like they’re…

Mutants shouldn’t even be in the same universe in the comics. The best X-men arcs ignore the avengers and vice-versa. In fact, the best x-men arcs typically imply that the avengers either participate in the oppression of homo superior or are powerless to stop it: Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse, the Dark…

Even the supposedly good part (Disney getting the rights to fox’ marvel properties) doesn’t strike me as that great. Age of Apocalypse aside, Fox has largely done well with the X-Men property (both in the cinema and on TV) and I’d just as soon keep mutants in their own universe away from MCU. You could argue that FF…

I think they try to dismiss it as the “filling in the gaps with other DNA” thing.

Wouldn’t JP2 be a better comparison since that is the whole plan? Rescue Mission + bring dinos back home + jeff gooooooooooooooldblum.

the beauty of the Star Wars universe with Legends is that it did everything. There was even a zombie story! You had horror stories... love stories, comedy... I think Star Wars would be a perfect fit. Just not a main trilogy.