I’m trying to think of gigantic, muscular leads who have done romance on the screen believably and have come up with maybe Stallone in the Rocky films.

I’m actually pretty surprised that it was that small of a dropoff in a month where there was a price increase.  There’s bound to be something of a dropoff in subscribers every time they do that.

In this day and age, it’s pretty surprising that there are any film snob actors left, but it’s less surprising that when one shows up, they turn out to be of that generation.  The film/tv barrier has gradually eroded over the last 30 years until it more or less no longer exists.  In fact, I imagine a lot of performers…

Yeah, I’m still on the fence with her because she still seems less like a full-fledged character and more like just a ‘schtick.’  At least, I’ve never read anything where she comes across as a fully formed human being.

I would say there is a lot of tonal whiplash in Ragnarok that isn’t really addressed in the movie itself, though it does have legs in how it carries over into the subsequent Avengers movies. And even then, it seems like other than the scene with Rocket on the spaceship, Thor’s mental breakdown seems to have less to do…

I think what COVID caused me to do was reassess how much I was spending on going out to the movies and evaluate whether the enjoyment I was getting from doing that was really that much greater than the experience I was getting consuming everything at home.  I’ve actually only seen 2 movies in the theater since March…

Oh, oops.  I never played 13.  Yeah, VIII was fun.

I actually enjoyed most of Final Fantasy VIII, if for the story more than anything else.  The junction system sucked because it forced you to commit your best spells to never getting cast, but it was not an almost complete disappointment in the way Chrono Cross was.

I tend to have to agree with you on just about every point.  Chrono Cross was one of the more disappointing gaming experiences I’ve ever had.

Complaints about NFTs strike me as being very much in the same vein as the old complaints about gold farmers and sellers in mmo’s - loud and everywhere by a relatively small minority who were convinced everyone agrees with them, but largely ignored by the vast majority, as evidenced by the fact that there was a…

“So, my boss at Disney, we’ve invested $38 million in pre-production costs for the next Marvel movie, scouted out and booked 32 shooting locations in Georgia, built 13 sets on the lots there, and have the shoot scheduled for May 12th through June 27th. What I propose is fuck all that because we object to the bill that…

I really don’t understand the impulse to watch a mini-series where the evil thing just basically succeeds in massacring a bunch of victims.

I don’t think anyone should ever have to apologize for working their ass off to pay off their debts.

It stands up from the aspect that Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito all had impeccable comic timing.  It’s very much a product of its era on the other hand.

I generally agree with this. The blip years are generally unexplored except for what is referenced about them during The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. If Captain Marvel was active on Earth during those years, (which I consider to be sort of a narrative lift considering that at the beginning of Endgame she’s been away…

I don’t really know how clear it is that she ever worked on Earth during the blip years.  During the call she’s in with Black Widow, she’s off-world and indicates that she’s going to be so busy doing off-world things in the future that she won’t even really be able to participate that often in the calls.  I thought it…

I think Kamala Khan was probably Marvel’s best effort at integrating a character created after 1965 in about 40 years.  There have been a scant few others who have ‘stuck,’ but for the most part, them trying to push new characters has either been them trying to overemphasize the importance of the new character, (Ghost…

That’s all true.  There’s certainly a lot of story there could be, but in general, I’m not fond of stories where the audience has to speculate and fill in major gaps for the storytellers and invent details that we haven’t seen.

In the context of the MCU, I’m not sure how anyone on Earth is a Captain Marvel fan.  I mean, from what we’ve seen, she did one thing in the 90's that wasn’t highly publicized before she left the planet and then showed up about 25 years later in the middle of a large group fight against Thanos and his crew - the same…

The First Order was more rhetorically fascist.  The Empire was far more effectively fascist.  Though even the Empire wasn’t particularly effectively fascist.  Most effectively fascist nations don’t dump their entire military budget into building one gigantic Superweapon that can only be in one tiny corner of the…