TTRPGWhiz

And not even IRL history but MCU history. One of the throughlines has always been “you cannot trust the government”. They are the bad guys in like half these movies.

He wasn’t a criminal because his biggest customer was the United States government. The Maximoffs certainly felt differently, and rightfully so.

EDIT: never mind lol

Doing that thing where you “parodically” misquote someone specifically to make what they wrote just that much seedier is some chef’s kiss tomfoolery.

Yeah folks should go over there and read just the first and last post. 😂

Nobody should be giving any trailer any rating! lol. They are commercials. When the hell did we start "reviewing" trailers? And who is talking about reviewing trailers anyway? And review bombing isn't the explicit province of YouTubers. Even if that was a 'normal' practice: trailers aren't the same thing as the thing they're an advertisement for. Is it fair to say "yeah I saw the trailer and it didn't make me want to watch the thing"? Sure. Is it then also fair to say "yeah I saw the trailer and didn't like it, therefore the thing it's a commercial for is bad"? No, that's not fair. Have you never in your life seen a movie that had a misleading or badly produced trailer? This is a line of reasoning that I'm unable to really interact with, so I'll go ahead and stop before The Mods decide for me.

If someone wants to post a review of 3 hours of content based on the 10-15 minutes they've seen in trailers, that's certainly their prerogative. I'm not sure how much credibility that lends their review, but a lot of folks don't seem to care about credibility when it comes to reviews. They're much more focused on finding and sticking with the 'critics' who reinforce their preconceived notions. So just to be clear: it might not be toxic, but it sure is worthless.

No. People posting negative reviews *before even seeing the product* are toxic.

Oh please yourself. Posts like PF's are how we go down the rabbit hole. "Here's Critical Drinker doing his Critical Drinker thing, I bet most people agree with him". Another show that got review bombed before it was even released because there's a contingent of 'fandom' that just can't help itself. To avoid the binary assumption: pointing out that a show was review bombed isn't a statement about the show's merits; it's a statement about toxic 'fans'.

How much would you like to bet?

That is a wild character name.

Every Other Distributor: we won't touch it, it's too gross and umarketable The Dudes Who Distributed Terrifier 3: lol, bet

It never made any sense for Batman to be in the JLA, and not just for 'power scaling' reasons. About the only good excuse for him being there is to study the metas up close and learn their weaknesses.

Not that it could possibly matter less, but: 129 minutes including credits & stingers.

Co-starring Jessica Walter (aka, Lucille Bluth of Arrested Development) as Morgan LeFey!

The Karloff one is for sure iconic, but the liberties it took with The Creature significantly alters that story. It’s sort of its own thing. I really liked the take on Penny Dreadful, but I have a huge soft spot for that show. Branagh’s was pretty darn faithful but I totally agree; he wasn’t ready for it.

Feels like it was only a matter of time before Mia Goth ended up in a Del Toro joint. This looks like it might have good chance to be the “seminal” Frankenstein movie. The competition isn’t particularly fierce.

I feel like the success of The Last of Us (number 5 on Nielsen last month) indicates that violence does not dissuade viewers. I'm also not sure that I buy the baked-in assumption that folks are sitting down as families to watch Loki (or She-Hulk, or F&WS, or really anything MCU). I can't recall any viewership ratings ever that took the presence of on-screen violence into account. How would one even attempt to do that short of individual surveys?

Cripes. Egg on my face for not confirming a run time with multiple sources lol. That’s where the bar is for clickbait, run times? Folks need to find something else more interesting to lie about.

This very much happens in the second Black Panther (well not 'a bunch', but a couple)

Maybe I made a bad assumption about who 'the chef' was in your analogy? Is it not Marvel / Disney?

For sure. But this is more like posting a(nother) negative review on the community board of a 300 person town. The chef ain't ever gonna read it, just potential diners. Also within your rights, but not at all the same thing. Personally, I have no idea if I'll get around to seeing this or not; it's definitely not a priority, and I've kind of checked out on MCU movies the way a lot of MCU fans checked out on comics 10-25 years ago. But I don't find anything so off-putting about this trailer specifically that would lead me to an immediate and unqualified 'no'. Thunderbolts looks cool I guess, I'm sure there will be a rainy day after it hits streaming when I'll check it out. I really like The Sentry mini-series, it'll be neat to see some of that come to life.

1. Generally, trailers produce more questions than answers. Then you go see the movie and learn. 2. Sponsors and investors tend to make claims on what you do with their money because it’s their money. One might assume RiRi isn’t interested in that.

McFarlane Toys have done the usual 'light spoiler' thing with their announcement today. And the runtime was released: 122 minutes feels kinda short, but maybe that's a welcome relief.

Y'all are replying to an 18 month old thread that OP didn't post in again...