By 1998, I had amassed a pretty respectable VHS collection. I used to blow all my minimum wage dough at Suncoast, on the classics and niche audience items not found in department stores.
I was a victim of the glowing Lay’s cappuccino potato chips review. That partially eaten bag of blandly sweet starch discs sat in the pantry for 2 years before I finally threw them out. Mostly solid junk food recommendations otherwise. No hard feelings, Mike.
Decades later, I can still see it, that other commercial, even when I close my eyes.
Holy underbite, true believers!
If it were DC, this would absolutely play during an action sequence or end credits.
Had they had Spider-Man get the symbiote, say during the Infinity War...
I agree with everything you just wrote here. You can make a compelling story with the concept you detailed, but making it Venom unavoidably invites comparison to Venom’s legacy.
Just speaking for myself here, but what makes Venom interesting to me isn’t that he’s a morally ambiguous dude in a scary looking symbiotic suit. It’s the personal nature of their shared vendetta against Spider-Man and Peter Parker, how their shared knowledge of his personal life and and weaknesses make him a…
That’s exactly what I’m saying. The symbiote looks like a horrible version of the Spidey-suit because it was the Spidey-suit for a time. Spider-Man’s eventual rejection of the symbiote is what drives its rage, just as Eddie Brock’s rivalry with Peter Parker and humiliation as a photographer drove his. Their…
No, DC did Suicide Squad very early on, introducing a bunch of villains and antihero characters without properly establishing their relationships to the off-camera heroes. Not having that setup undercuts the novelty of the concept that they’re the ones we’re focusing on this time. This would still be a problem even…
Why does every movie have to fold into the expanded universe?
More skepticism than hate for me. I don’t understand the point of a Venom movie at this point in the Spideyverse/MCU. More so than most hero/villain relationships, Venom is a character whose motivations and very appearance are directly tied to Spider-Man, whose still very early on in his own career in the MCU. If…
I feel like the show couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be serialized or episodic, and settled on splitting the difference.
The disappointing finale to the otherwise pretty great second season, coupled with the behind-the-scenes creative differences (and the part they played in that finale) being reported at the same time really sapped my enthusiasm for the series going forward. I watched the season 3 opener eventually, and it was pretty…
This is just a list of tropes in pop culture that rarely happen to anyone in real life. It’s not very surprising that someone has never been stuffed into a locker before, because almost no one has.
Are the super smart talking dinosaurs the ones doing the further research?If so, and it means waiting one more movie to properly set up velociraptors wearing lab coats and swirling flasks, I’ll be there for it.
I was what-iffing something along these lines in my head recently, but I would want JW3 to go the full Gremlins 2 route. I want to see spider dinosaurs, electric dinosaurs, Tony Randall dinosaurs, sexy dinosaurs...
Kevin McCarthy, huh? Well, meet the new boss, same as the old boss I guess.
I’m similarly baffled with the recent apparent Batman Returns reclamation project. I’ve seen several articles over the past few years variously claiming it to be the best Batman movie, the best Burton movie, or even the best superhero movie. I’ve never hated Returns, but these superlatives have me questioning the…