i just can’t get enough of this shit
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ebert finally admits video games are art after playing shadow of the colossus.
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I had the invasive, entirely accurate thought the other night that in order to prove that video games were as legit an art form as film, hollywood conspired to make movies as stupid as the worst videogame cutscenes.
How can anyone be embarrassed by jrpg cutscenes when compared to 4 hours of snyder cut.
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excuse me marvel how can a normal man throw captain americas shield so well i will never forgive this grevious oversight of canon
i have been having a lot of anxiety about the inconsistent representation of bucky barnes’ power level
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Just because someone says they’re a normal dude doesn’t mean the actual plot won’t be about how Main Villain is his mentor who put modified super soldier whey protein in his smoothies and aaaah they’re everywhere actually if everyone is super no one will be true world equality
It’s kind of weird to see Kurt Russell’s face on a supposed-to-be-competent action hero, but I like the potential
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oh shit that guy is kurt russell and goldie hawn’s kid! hollywood, what a town
he weirdly looks looked to me like the even dumber, jock-ier Wilson sibling, like the guy who is to Luke Wilson what Luke Wilson is to Owen Wilson
I thought he was related to Dawson
i reread some of the captain america winter soldier comics arc recently and can confirm it’s always been like this (although apparently the reason he can bounce the shield around is that his robot arm “does the math”)
other things i’d forgotten from this story
- the red skull causes the wave of house dispossessions and political protests following the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis although it’s uncertain whether he also caused the crisis itself
- his menacing plan is centered around floating a third party political candidate for the white house, so there are many posters around saying VOTE THIRD WAY in menacing, soviet-style fonts
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“SUBPRIME” would be a good name for a real estate economy-themed supervillain
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Oh that guy! I saw that guy in the pretty fun Nazi zombie movie OVERLORD and his face bothered me through the whole damn thing until near the end when it hit me like a bolt of lightning, this guy is a fucking Russell! And then the credits rolled and lo, he was
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I’m so not into the marvel movies but throwing in the Time Variance Authority has me wondering if Marvel’s Doctor Who analog Professor Gamble is going to get a nod. There’s a great issue of Power Man and Ironfist where they happen across his bootleg Tardis and fight bootleg Daleks.
And yes I know that the Doctor proper has ties to Marvel’s main continuity by way of Death’s Head who originated in the Transformers book and also teamed up with the Fantastic Four.
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i really hate that we are going to be stuck in this world of increasingly shitty watchmen ripoffs getting adapted in worse and worse ways for like a decade at least
The Tuskegee Super-Soldierman telling Falcon + The Winter Boulder + America to fuck off eternally was a weird spike of well-played, earnest emotional reality in this half-baked negative-chemistry bickerfest.
Can’t believe he lives in the house where Johnny Strong shot Method Man, though! Crazy!
Tilting the conversation into The Shield and What This Symbol Means to People is probably going to be a pretty handy tool for not directly addressing any of the Power/Social Systems Are Predatory + Fucked themes they’ve insisted on riding across Tom Clancy Goes to Marveland. Really wondering if the writers thought through the implications of their “marginalized people had it OK for five years when 50% of the world’s population had been reduced to ash! I guess Thanos sort of had a point! what if The Great Replacement was real but expressed by superpowered post-apocalyptic-alien-gem-magic-takebacks minorities?”
(I’m sorry I lied I’m sure they did not)
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I should just stop watching
things
any things
probably
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dang it’s gonna be awkward in a couple weeks when this dude is trying to straight vaporize Secret Aggrieved Black Captain America before New Captain America can juice him for Super Soldier Midichlorians No Hard Feelings Sir Thank You For Your Service But Sacrifices Must Be Made To Get Me Sufficiently Jacked to Fight Superpowered Refugees with America’s Most Symbolically Potent Frisbee Oh No Could It Be We’re Not So Different, They and I? Fucked Up The Shock of Parallelism But Let’s Do This Before
like I keep saying, this is the natural feeling of watching marvel things. The only way out is to try watching something good.
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I WILL NEVER TRY TO WATCH SOMETHING GOOD
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Why is there an hour long looping fancam about the Nazi?