Man, what was it about the late 1980s? We got this. Leviathan and The Abyss (which was more highbrow since it was Cameron) but the unerwater alien thriller was like a thing for like one year at the end of the 80s.

Lake Placid is brilliant because it’s one of the first really self aware horror/monster movies in which all of the characters both appear genuinely afraid of and hilarious sarcastic towards their situation of fighting a giant crocodile.

My best friend and I always assumed that it was just another super rare giant monster and the surviving trio just had the absolutely worst (silliest) luck.

It worked because its writing was on point. Writing being on the bottom of the list of things Hollywood finds important in comparison to things like its MPAA rating, 3D-ness, having a shared universe, A-list star, toy line or Chinese market appeal. Writing comes dead last.

I’ve played and finished 12 a few times. They definitely were not as big/pronounced as that.

I unabashedly love that movie. It’s easily the best one next to the original.

Well, I mean when you put it like that . . . yeah.

Yeah. It’s best just to wait for sales. I’ve been playing since beta. So eventually I unlocked Spider-Man years ago via in game currency and eventually bought the Spider-Gwen costume for something like $6 at most after all the sales.

It’s a fantastic costume. Actually gave me a reason to play Spider-Man who I’ve had unlocked for years but never bothered to do anything with.

But no one actually buys costumes at full price*. Everyone waits for the 15% bonus currency sale and then a 50% of costume and hero sale they do several times a year.

This game has far surpassed both XML and MUA. I liked those games, sure. But going back to them after playing this is laughable.

1 in 3 out of the 20,000 Star Wars characters are actually related to Anakin Skywalker. Inexplicably.

Snakes on a Plane had no early reviews/advance screenings which is textbook Hollywood speak for “the studio knows it made a shit movie and has no hope and doesn’t need shit reviews coming out before the movie that would kill off the last tiny bit of potential for the movie to earn some money”.

For the record I was OK with season 2 even if it’s no where near as good as the first. The biggest issue was they replaced Makishima with a “Also-Kind-Of-Makishima-But-Not-As-Good” villain in Kamui (a name I’m also tired of in anime due to it meaning of godliness or whatever).

So that Nexus shit still exists, right? And time/space has no meaning in the Nexus, right? .... so Kirk can fist fight his way into Nu-Trek at some point and still be home in time to die for dinner in Generations. Bam. “Problem” solved.

So do the events of Generations still happen after Spock Prime gave all those neat spoilers to the nuTrek crew?

Holy. Shit.

It made me cringe. Hundreds of millions of dollars andthey make something that looks like it belongs in the TMNT2 trailers? Ouch.

My friends and I were just considering placing bets on whether or not X-Men Apocalypse could be possibly be even worse than Days of Future Past.... not sure we need to now.

To be fair JJ doesn’t have much to do with this. He’s a producer on it sure, but I read he was mostly there to insert the Cloverfield connection a bit more since there originally wasn’t any. The original film was a small independent thriller, directed by a guy who’s only done short films, that they shot over a month…