Kinda sorta. The idea of the purge is very much that, but it’s obviously meant to be political satire dressed up in horror showing how effed up the concept would be in practice. Only thing is, the way it does this is by showing WASP style families get caught in the crossfire and how horrible it is when their…

Spongebob did it first!

He’s loathe to criticize a video game for not being a political treatise, but the game acts as though it had something to say meaningfully, politically.

The DOOM reboot came out and nobody is going to criticize it for not being political. Homefront: Revolution dresses itself up like it was making a serious political…

Isn’t it too late anyway, though? Snyder’s ready made two movies, and they’re the foundation of everything that follows. Isn’t the DCCU therefore intrinsically, unsalvageably broken right out of the box?

Each episode is entirely self-contained. Like Final Fantasy, the series is joined together by thematic references.

No thanks. The whole point of Zemo was that he wasn’t a super-villain. He was just a pissed off, grieving dude who hated the Avengers and the only way that he could get revenge was to get them to attack each other.

I thought he was fine without the hood, honestly. It wouldn’t have served any purpose in the film other than fanwank and it’s not like there isn’t an opportunity for him to come back. Then he’ll have a need to hide his face. Heck, he’s arguably the second most successful villain in the MCU, he better get another…

Riiiiiight, because developers having to weigh in on smearing campaigns around the reviewers of their games is usually a sign of things dying down. Literally no one knew about this before this article! Silly Kotaku, always whipping up “controversies” out of thin air.

I still kind of wish they would have made that Magneto: Nazi Hunter movie. That tease in First Class just wasn’t enough.

Honestly, I don’t think the xmen would be any better off being part of the MCU, I like the comics, but they never really made much ense to me as part of the larger marvel universe (who cares if a guy in the circus has blue skin and can teleport when there’s a giant green guy fighting a norse god and alien meatbots…

Fifth-highest opening ever, nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars worldwide in just over a week, overwhelmingly positive reviews across the board. I’m sure Disney is thinking of shuttering the whole thing right now. (After they shut down Lucasfilm, of course, since Force Awakens failed to top Avatar’s total box…

BvS might’ve tanked hard - and good thing - but Civil War is doing quite well. Fifth biggest opening of all time, and it’s on track to break a billion dollars worldwide without a sweat. You might think the quality has declined, but millions upon millions of fans the world over apparently disagree with you.

For a second I thought you were being serious, then I read “bring back America to make it great again” and I was so relieved

Not to mention the X-Men universe is so damn big that having it alongside the rest of the Marvel Universe it really muddles things. Even in the comics I felt the X-Men really shined when they were essentially off in their own world. It was a lot harder to sell me on the “humans oppressing mutants” when you had the…

No, an origin story typically includes everything that leads to a character deciding to become a superhero. So Superman’s would include being raised by the Kent’s. All the things that happen to shape a character after they’ve started their super heroing career are just character development.

Yeaaaaah, but... you’re kind of that guy saying, “Apple didn’t invent the mp3 player,” “Amazon didn’t invent the ebook.” Technically correct? Sure. For all practical purposes? Not so much. They invented the market for it, and refined the technology beyond the novelty phase.

Fantastical silliness? What in the world are you talking about? Comic books have regularly tackled heavy hitting issues, and while most of the time historically they take a less serious aspect, this hasn’t been the case for 30 years! We’re not talking about a Dora the Explorer or Blues Clues movie, we’re talking about…

Except most of the reviews I’ve read are essentially saying, “This movie is no fun . We wish we could turn our brains off, but they keep trying to cram in themes and heavy, portentous stuff that makes no sense.”

This movie is doing everything it can to portray itself as smart and thoughtful. The filmmakers are not telling you to turn your brain off.

The game looks beautiful, and the concept sounds interesting, but every time I read a story about Orth, it ends up leaving a sour taste in my mouth. It always bothers me when I hear him talking about what happened to him as though it didn't stem from him being a jerk to his company's customers on twitter. I guess it's…