A LOT of people in the last couple of years have criticised TFA very strongly for it just being a retread of ANH. I really enjoyed TFA and I still think that was a legitimate complaint. Doing the same thing forever was not going to keep working.
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In Empire Strikes back, Luke trains on Dagobah for... Days? Weeks? Whilst everyone aboard the Falcon sits in a monster stomach on an asteroid for an indeterminate amount of time, then flies to Cloud City. It’s pretty much the same Thing. Last Jedi maybe drew more attention to it by giving a time scale, but it’s still…
I had a feeling fans were gonna dislike it, because the entire theme of the movie is “Star Wars is for kids, the kids of today deserve their own Star Wars, we aren’t just going to shamelessly appeal to nostalgia anymore”
Nintendo has struggled with third parties since the N64. And whilst that and the Gamecube underperformed massively in comparison to their competitors (well, Sony anyway. They did better than Sega and GC was about neck and neck with the original Xbox), they still made Nintendo money.
The Wii still sold a phenomenal number of units. And it was cheap enough that they turned a profit on every one. No, the attach rate wasn’t great, that’s undeniable, but you’re slightly off the mark thinking it didn’t sell anything. Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus shifted over 20 million copies each, which puts them around…
The reason Nintendo can do weird things like the Wii U is because they have enough money in the bank to experiment. The value of their business isn’t in the hardware, as such. It’s in their IP. They can make more money sticking Mario and Pikachu on every piece of merchandise you could possibly think of than they do…
OK pal. So now you’re done proving what a true fan you are by using the Japanese names, you get that I’m saying she literally looks like a character model from a videogame, yeah? Not just that she resembles the character, that she literally looks like they just took someone from a videogame and put her in a movie?
All due respect, that’s a sample size of one. I had tons of friends who were into comics as a kid, some of whom even still managed to be considered cool at school. And the X-Men cartoon was on TV, everyone watched that everyone thought Wolverine was cool.
She looks like Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite. Like they just decided to use the character model wholesale, straight from the game.
Let me let you into a secret. Comics were *always* mainstream. There’s always been movies and TV shows. And merch? Oh boy, has there ever been merch.
I genuinely don’t have an issue with Nintendo sequestering this stuff away on mobile. Considering all the loot box drama going on around games like Battlefront and Destiny 2, if Nintendo wants to make a Fire Emblem game where heroes are random drops, or an Animal Crossing game with activity timers, then please keep…
Three months.
This is my preferred theory, too. It makes sense that Palpatine might have had a kid. He was never a Jedi, there was no reason he’d remain celibate. His hypothetical child would could have had a million potential reasons to go on the run before or after Palpatine died, depending on whether they agreed with their…
Palpatine would make sense. There’s no reason to assume he never had kids (assuming she’s his granddaughter), there’s plenty of reason why her parents would want to hide her to keep her safe, it gives her a strong reason to be tempted by the dark side once she discovers her heritage (Just like Luke. OH LOOK, IT…
Then Thanos is going to enter the movie by beating up Thor and Hulk. Just so the audience knows how scared they should be of this guy.
I haven’t seen Ragnarok yet, but is Hulk still with them at the end? Because Banner crashing into the Sanctum really looks very much like how Silver Surfer entered the story in the Infinity Gauntlet comic. And he was there to warn everyone what was coming.
This isn’t the only review I’ve seen that says it at least has some promise for upcoming DC movies. I assume they mean that roiling stew of endless maybe projects that keep losing directors and release dates like it’s going out of fashion.
“But even when the film around them is sloppy or ineffective, the characters are likable—charming, even. That’s not something that can be said for many superhero movies.”