Anyone who thought this was coming out on the originally scheduled release date has never played, purchased or heard of video games.

Nicely put. I think everyone's beef - mine certainly - was on his work and not him personally. This is the sort of pain no one should have to go through. Also, I'm guilty of liking Watchmen.

I never really thought of the Cocteau Twins as being "goth." I…still don't see it. Sorry.

Yes, I thought this article was a bit excessive in its praise of the technique. It's a tasty burger when done right but not all THAT special, and even the good ones come off as excessively greasy to me. Also, I'm beginning to think that denizens of the Chicago/Indiana-adjacent area have come to rival New Yorkers for…

Kids are definitely losing out a bit in this overly-curated age. Airplane! was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and one my favorite things about it was the boobs. You would never see that now, if you did no 5-year old would be allowed to see it (as I was at that age.) I am selective about what I show my kids,…

Sure, but that's true of a lot of comic book stuff. Maybe more true of Doc Ock than some others - I remember one 80's comic where Spider-Man knocked out Ock with one punch and mused on how fragile such a pain-in-the ass could be - but I guess my suspension of disbelief keeps it from bugging me too much.

For my part, while I enjoy the Nu-Trek movies for what they are I've no interest in going deeper into that timeline. I'd much rather the studios show renewed commitment to exploring and preserving the original universe. That may mean I'm bound to be even more disappointed than you.

I hadn't thought about this movie in some time, but seeing this news today was reminded how much I loved it as a kid. It's a difficult movie for sure, and very off-putting in many ways: not just its relative violence and darkness, but Brian Froud's designs, which while fascinating, are organic in a distrubing and…

If it didn't work for you it didn't work for you, but the Mary Jane thing in 2 wasn't really a subplot about her, it was sort of the point of the whole movie: Parker being torn between his possibly over-developed sense of responsibility and his longing for MJ, and the usual angst about how trying to have both of those…

It just looks like very average, late-period Star Trek. I'm withholding judgment for now. It's obviously concerning that the production seems to have been an incompetent mess. Anything with Michelle Yeoh will be given a fair shot, in my book. TNG and DS9 both took a couple of seasons to become non-shitty, but the…

Despite some uneven episodes during their pairing, Tennant and Piper are my favorite Doctor/companion pairing. Makes me happy to know there's more adventures out there for them. I like plenty of the previous Doctors but never really connected much to any of the Classic Who companions; it's one of the virtues of the…

Raimi's Spider-Man films are a key part of how we ended up in this Golden Age of superhero movies, but they're not unsurpassable. They just haven't really been surpassed yet. The first two Raimi movies belong on any short list of the best comic book movies, although 2 is clearly superior to 1. Yes, the Maguire…

I was surprised at how emotional - in a good way - the movie really was. Our little group even had to have a "ok, who cried?" discussion at the end. Baby Groot really affected my wife and I, as he was EXACTLY like our 1.5 year old daughter: the way he understands just enough to get it all wrong, the little…

That more of these keep getting made boggles my mind and does almost as much to destroy my faith in humanity as any number of popular elections. Yes, I'm a dyed-in the wool Transformers fan since I was a kid, and I've invested an unwise amount of money in the contemporary Masterpiece collecting scene, but I'm not…

It's apparently quite complicated but this is sort of my understanding too. In fact, Hasbro started using some of the names of GoBot characters on some of the Transformers toys, and even referred to some of the smaller toys as GoBots. The IDF comics will often put GoBots characters in the background as a bit of an…

Agreed. For as much as WW - so far - looks to be a substantial improvement on what has come before in the DCU, Justice League looks embarassingly regressive. Frankly, the effects work doesn't even look that good. The generic, stormy backgrounds during all the fighting looked like some serious 101-level compositing.…

By Grabthar's Hammer, if there's one thing Star Wars does not need more of it is planet/star/galaxy/plot destroying super weapons. Of all the pastiches in TFS that one bugged me the most. And while I normally appreciate a good lampshade as much as the next nerd, I thought Han's comment about it being just a bigger…

Yeah, the re-boot quality of TFA bugs me a bit but I still enjoyed it. And while it was disappointing to not get the reunion you speak of, I actually respect it from a certain point of view. It would have been really easy to give us that, but I'm not sure it would have been good for us. And the new films have to…

I agree, and I'm not anti-Disney by any means (as my two kids and my wallet can attest). But they do have a reputation for a certain…intense focus on the bottom line. It seems to me that the kind of re-write they're talking about poses a real risk to the film's current May 2019 release date. But I think Disney's…

It is a bit surprising that Disney was willing to risk quite a bit of money and production delays to re-write the script, but they do seem to be trying to do right with Star Wars, within the narrow field of vision that they have as a profit-oriented Death Star of family entertainment.