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Chapter 10:
SpoilerThe fight with Gi Nattak is total bullshit. First time I've had to drop down to Easy mode, because the "curses" are just so cheap.
Back in the day an X-potion would've taken care of it!
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So The Marvels pretty much sucked. Just all over the place, and not in a good way. A shocking amount of time spent on pointless bullshit, and zero spent on having the story make any actual sense, giving the antagonist a personality, or giving us any reason to care about it. Can't stand on its own merits at all, and didn't seem like it was even trying to.
Iman Vellani doing her best Nick Fury impression was a good bit though.
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On 08/12/2023 at 17:45, Hobo said:
The family dancing during the performance of Fairytale of New York was really touching.
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On 22/11/2023 at 04:54, Ruki said:
Finished the show today. Loved it! Great music, great animation, and a very fun unexpected turn early on.
I've only watched the first couple of episodes, but I was pretty let down, tbh.
SpoilerI gather that the creator wanted to do something different, but I was hyped for a more faithful adaptation of the comic. It's an interesting idea for sure, and I would have watched if I knew what it was going in (though the title is a giveaway in retrospect) but this just felt like a bait-and-switch and left me with very little interest in continuing it.
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I watched the first episode and found it very boring, so I can see that. It's got a real sense of trying to be prestige TV and failing because it's work-for-hire; Disney bringing someone in to just go through the motions and "do the Secret Invasion show", not because anyone involved has any kind of connection with the material or interest in telling the story. The actual events felt like a collection of clichés, and Fury's dialogue in particular sounds like somebody's trying to write for Jackson in Pulp Fiction. I dunno about the worst MCU show (because that's a high bar) but it certainly didn't give me any desire to watch the rest of it.
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I was at North and the queues for food at least were ridiculous. People queuing for over an hour, and the way all the stalls were clumped together caused a huge gridlock in the middle of the festival. Definitely needed more vendors and better organisation. Getting the shuttle bus afterwards was a nightmare too, we were in the queue for two hours.
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Yeah, Quantummania kind of sucked. There was a gem of an interesting idea with the Quantum Realm, but they didn't do anything with it, so it's just like a discount Guardians of the Galaxy. Kang started off interesting, with a very strong performance, but Majors turned out to be a scumbag and Kang turned into a generic villain by the end anyway - and if the hammy variants we saw in the post-credits were any indication where it was going, good riddance.
I also thought Rudd wasn't great in this one tbh, though not sure how much of that was the crappy dialogue he had to say.
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On 19/04/2023 at 22:40, Brandon Cutler Fan Account said:
I've also got tickets to go see Operation Mincemeat in June which I'm super excited about because I love the musician behind it.
You're in for a treat. I went to see it two years ago -- had been waiting for a chance ever since I heard Felix do one of the songs from it, and it didn't disappoint. Seeing it again this weekend, really cool that it's on the West End now.
Was mildly disappointed the recent movie wasn't an adaptation of the musical.
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Multiverse, schmultiverse. Just Don Cheadle it:
"Look, it's me, I'm here. Deal with it. Let's move on."
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19 hours ago, tristy said:
I think the game's ending is a cop out, personally. It leaves doubt about the cure, so players can justify Joel's actions by pointing at the fact that it might not have worked.
I've heard this rumor too, and I'm good with it. It gets right to the central question, and puts the cure reasoning to the side. It's a sure thing, they can make it (but let's not talk about distribution...), but the real question was always "would you sacrifice someone you care about to save everyone else?".
As long as they have Joel lie to Ellie after all of it and tell her they couldn't do it, we're good IMO. That's a key piece of Part 2. The doctors never got Ellie's consent, sure, but neither did Joel, and Part 2 shows she wanted to sacrifice herself because she's of the opinion that it would have made her life matter. And Joel took that away, because he doesn't want to lose someone else.
Goddamnit Part 2 is so fucking good.
SpoilerThere's no real way to be 100% that the cure would work, though. If there was a way to test and confirm it first, they wouldn't need to sacrifice Ellie at all.
FWIW, I never got the sense playing the game that the ambiguity was meant to excuse Joel or even be a factor in his decision: he would have done the exact same thing regardless.
^ (game and likely last episode spoilers)
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That whole excursion to America should have been cut out. It's already difficult to root for Shuri because of the Letitia Wright of it all, but the whole time I'm sitting there wondering what the fuck they're doing. Kidnapping Riri because she knows how to detect vibranium, not only stamping all over the lesson learned from the last Black Panther but also leading the Atlanteans right to her is bad enough, and then they just start casually attacking people and firing fucking rockets at them to get away with it? Then you've got Everett Ross committing treason and funneling information to Wakanda and covering up their involvement and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the villain for holding him accountable? I get that it's the US government and all, but like, Wakanda was about to try and take over the world a few years ago so they don't exactly have the high ground to just do whatever they want either. Overall just one of the worst cases of protagonist-centred morality I've seen from a superhero movie in ages.
Also, I am extremely done with every hero needing to have their own JARVIS.
Namor was cool, but his backstory is very, very silly. Not the whole concept of Talokan, but having to crowbar all his character traits in there. "The herb let us breathe underwater, but because I was still in the womb it, uh, gave me wings on my ankles. And pointed ears! And one person hundreds of years ago called me The Child With No Love so I call myself N'love! Yes, that will do." Having Talokan just being underwater Wakanda to the point of them having their own Significant Hand Gesture was also incredibly lazy, even more so when Shuri had her Dramatic Realisation that they're the same.
Man, how fucking great is Angela Bassett, though?
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Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
- "A Rainy Night in Soho", by The Pogues-
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Yeah, that was a lot of fun. It basically being a showcase for Pom Klementieff to show some range as Mantis is really great.
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21 minutes ago, Ruki said:
I think you just hate fun.
No, I just don't find lazy, hacky writing to be fun. But to each their own.
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Oof. So I didn't mind She-Hulk; I mean... it's dumb and bad, but it's just a sitcom, so not a big deal. Quite disappointing that
Spoilerthe MCU Daredevil got dragged into this, though. The Netflix series was leagues better than any of the TV shows Disney+ has put out, and the Spider-Man cameo got me hyped, but this is not it.
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That pretty much confirms Shuri is the new Black Panther, so that's very disappointing that they're replacing Chadwick Boseman with a proud anti-vax moron.
Also I am very distracted by the physics of Namor's wings because I'm pretty sure as soon as he took off he would just flip over and only be able to fly hanging upside down.
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13 minutes ago, Colly said:
Finally saw Thor 4 the 4th Thor.
You mean Thor 4: More Thor.
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3 hours ago, tristy said:
I do like it when these shows/movies have little world building bits, like how do the Avengers survive if they don't get paid for what they do. F&TWS brought this up too. I mean, none of them are POOR, but they aren't Tony Stark rich either. I wish we could get a definitive answer for stuff like this, lol. Although, with Ms. Marvel introducing Marvel branded merch during the AvengerCon episode, my head canon is that they license their image to companies, like Marvel, and make money that way. Toys, comics, shirts, book deals, TV appearances, etc.
The Avengers don't exist anymore, but when they did Stark paid them, and then presumably the UN. I thought that line was dumb, because it's the kind of shallow joke someone who is aware of the Marvel movies but doesn't really watch them would make - not someone who exists in the same reality as them.
Really, any time the MCU addresses the concept of "superheroes" as a societal thing, it's always really lazy and makes no sense.
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On 22/06/2022 at 13:19, tristy said:Spoiler
If I'd been on the planet over a century, I think I could stand to wait 24 hours more. Or, if I was that impatient, I wouldn't have let her walk out of my house in the first place. And even if, I'd probably try to capture or restrain her or something instead of just going full-tilt violence and potentially killing her.
Also, bravo to the kitchen staff (ignoring the fire alarm I guess) who saw a group of adults beating the shit out of a sixteen-year-old girl and just decided it wasn't their business.
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Was it just me or did all the federal agents and drones briefly wink out of existence for that escape at the end? Kamala is a joy, but the writing on this show is hilariously lazy. I'd love to know how Bruno's iPad could tell the power was coming from inside her.
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Hoo boy, Obi-Wan is not good.
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Eternals was an odd one. For the first half, it felt waaay too long and very, very boring. Doing an exposition dump - (including actually just writing it out on screen!) - was a mistake, because we spend the next hour or so with them, except we don't have any attachment to them and we're also not learning anything about them. They could have excised Kit Harington entirely because he added nothing, and the references to other MCU properties clashed horribly with the tone of the film. I didn't have a problem with the flashbacks as a concept, except that it wasn't showing us anything interesting or that we didn't already know.
I actually quite started to like it when:
Spoilerit's revealed that Icarus is aware that the Earth is going to be destroyed. I really liked him as that sort of Miracleman-esque superbeing who's totally detached from humanity with a completely different value system. The conflict between them was the kind of "gods among men" stuff that Marvel doesn't really do, and DC tries to do, except it worked here because they actually are (more or less) gods. The "letting everyone on Earth die so other suns can be born" only works as a conflict because the characters are so removed from humanity, so it was an interesting bit. Only gripes are that I wish they'd had the guts to have Icarus kill a couple of them, and that the Celestial breaking out of the earth seemed way smaller than it should have been.
Also, does it bug anyone else that everyone in the MCU seems to have seen all the MCU movies? Like, I get that the Avengers are obviously well-known, but how the hell does anyone know who Dr. Strange is?
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Hawkeye was probably the best of the Disney+ shows - the action was good, Hailee and Florence Pugh were excellent throughout, and it was nice to have low(ish) stakes, but boy did it not stick the landing.
SpoilerIt felt like they had no idea how to resolve anything and they just rushed through it:
- The whole bit with Kate's mom calling the police on Jack and then him just instantly getting released and being fine with it; and then during the Kingpin fight they're seriously just like "Great, now let's put this all behind us," as if winning that one fight suddenly resolves the whole criminal enterprise they've become embroiled in and now they've nothing to worry about. (And I love that D'Onofrio is back in the role, but I'm not thrilled that Kingpin now has superpowers.) And christ, the actual dialogue in that scene was bad, specifically: "Is this what heroes do? Arrest their mother on Christmas?" Yikes.
- Surely there had to be a better way to get Yelena to back off than just ripping off the worst scene from Batman vs. Superman, and it made even less sense here.
- Did Echo forget that even though Kingpin tipped him off, Clint still murdered her father? She hunts down the others, but just forgets all about the actual killer, and even helps him out at the end there. I get she's got her own show coming up so she needs to be on side, but god damn.
The series was mostly solid, but it had the same problems all the other D+ shows did, and that last episode definitely left a bad taste in my mouth. Feels like they're 0 for 4 on this.
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Just watched Black Widow. Florence Pugh stole the show, unsurprisingly, and actually managed to lend some emotional weight to otherwise hollow scenes - she's very good. But overall it was weightless.
I get that it's a Marvel movie and they're all trying to do the quippy thing - and it struck a nice balance for the first 40 minutes or so - but once David Harbour came in, the jokey dialogue started to make me uneasy, especially when it's about forced hysterectomies or all the people Natasha must have murdered, and
Spoilerthe whole "quirky family" concept felt really off too, because Rachel Weisz is, when they meet her, still actively working for these people, kidnapping and torturing girls and designing them so they can be forced to stop breathing, and it's all treated as a joke, or like it doesn't even matter compared to hurt feelings and family drama. She also turns on them way too easy and it's never really explored or explained why.
The retconning of Natasha's backstory and general vagueness of the villain bugged me:
SpoilerNatasha's backstory has never really been explicit, but you have to assume she's a few years older than Scarlett Johannsson, and was KGB as a child. It's implied in Avengers that at one point she was a mercenary, presumably after the collapse of the Soviet Union ("I have a very specific skillset. I didn't care who I used it for, or on." ), but here she isn't taken to the Red Room until after the Cold War ended, and goes straight from working for Russia(?) to SHIELD. It makes her a little less interesting, as does "Drakov's daughter" turning out to be just a bit of collateral damage she feels particularly guilty about, rather than, along with the hospital fire and whatever happened in Sao Paolo, something specifically bad that she did.
Which brings up another thing, who is Draykov working for? Is it Russia? Is he just out doing this on his own? How? To what end? Has he just been sitting up in his sky fortress mwahaha-ing to himself this whole time? The whole Widows thing struck me as them just copy and pasting the Winter Soldiers concept from Civil War so they'd have a plot without having to put too much thought into it.
On the whole it seemed like they weren't really interested in exploring Natasha's character or doing anything with her - just wanted to put her name on the poster and get a "Black Widow movie" out there. It started promising, and those first 30/40 minutes where they're basically doing The Americans and then the bit where it's just Natasha and Yelena are solid, but then it just became your bog-standard Marvel movie. Not disappointing, because you know what you're getting into, but still feels like a missed opportunity to do something interesting.
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Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)
in Coin Op Arcade
Posted · Edited by Daniel Bryan
Think back, you've heard it before.
In the original game, in Japanese, Red XIII initially speaks like an adult, but once he gets to Cosmo Canyon he changes to talking like only little kids do. Because of how the Japanese language works, there's not an equivalent in English, and it's not as easy to get across. It's kinda reflected in English in the original game, but it's easy to miss. This is their way of getting the same point across, though it is a bit weirder.