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Which is weird, because wasn't he quite good in his first year? What happened?

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I actually don't think that highly of myself people just say some really ridiculous stuff around here sometimes and I think people get the wrong idea or defensive because they don't want to accept the thing they said actually was that ridiculous-- easier to keep their thoughts on a pedestal and rag on the guy who dared question them.

For every time I come off as condescending I can probably find 10 times where I don't.

I mean even in this topic I think I've been pretty respectful to everyone but XIII and TomNook7. You'll note other people who I disagreed with I just said "I don't think so here's why" and that was the end of it. Even you I'm not trying to be like, mean to, just trying to address your point.

I think a lot of why people think I'm "high and mighty" here is rep, and a lot is poking the wrong people or topics that give me that rep.

You're free to think otherwise but I'm generally well tolerated on the board and there are just some circles that are really nasty about me-- and really that just comes down to the people who have a problem with me being loud and no one caring enough or knowing enough to correct them.

Maybe unpopular opinion but people are unnaturally obsessed with this guy.

This is my favorite bit

I looked back at this thread and apparently I brought up the one particularly naive statement from The Critical Drinker twice? I just keep playing him saying "Sony would prefer a good Madame Web movie" in my head and it makes less and less sense after remembering everything I have heard about the industry...and Drinker has flat-out admitted many times in the past that just because a movie makes bank doesn't mean it's good! I guess he's not taking into account the way studios focus group everything but man. Then again my idea of "bad" movies that make bank is still Michael Bay Transformers whereas his is Avatar, Disney Star Wars, and Captain Marvel so I guess I'm behind the times.

Thanks everybody! I got to the Thesius/Minotaur fight for my first time today...shew. Run of I think 35-37, I forget.

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I can't even imagine how much space in your brain is occupied by this kind of stuff on a day to day basis

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I go with Will Smith. A guy in his 50s slugging someone at the Academy Awards of all places is worse than everything Emile has done put together.

This, except I suggest joining it because if you've played a bunch of Souls games then DS2 won't be difficult.

Jacoby coming back to NE. That means theyre drafting a QB imo because Jacoby is such a pro but not really someone youd expect to get you wins. But his good qualities will hopefully rub off on the rookie

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Abrams's movies in particular feel like they take after Indiana Jones at least somewhat given their focus on MacGuffins. Again, given Abrams previously directed Super 8 and Raiders of the Lost Ark's screenwriter had a writing credit on The Force Awakens, I can't help but think there's no coincidence - and I know at least one review of TFA at the time did cite Kasdan's previous work on Indy as influencing the movie. Not to mention producer Kathleen Kennedy's involvement on every prior movie in that franchise to boot. Though maybe I'm just seeing Indiana Jones everywhere because he's my favorite fictional character and I think about him a lot?

There's also the whole deal about people who feel like the sequel trilogy might as well be MCU movies. I have never agreed with that given how none of the things both have in common were invented by the MCU...but given how much influence the MCU itself takes from '80s sci-fi and action movies like Lethal Weapon and RoboCop, I can't help but wonder if the sequel trilogy had similar influences to at least some extent.

you need to find more productive ways of getting attention. maybe learn an instrument or take up poetry

I also personally don't get the whole idea that the Star Wars sequel trilogy is misandrist, and the only reason it makes sense is if people were already biased against Rey being the focus instead of the original trilogy heroes. Otherwise by that logic 99.99999% of all movies ever made are very misogynistic.

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That reminds me of when one of the anti-anti-progressive YouTubers I follow posted a clip of their response to a MauLer podcast called "The Assassination of Chris Stuckmann by the Coward Chris Stuckmann" (which was a reaction to Stuckmann's video on Madame Web which he did not consider to be a proper review but more a commentary on how the movie allegedly represents the worst of the studio system) where I saw The Critical Drinker say "Sony probably wants a good Madame Web movie". While this may be true in the broadest sense possible, how naive would you have to be to realize after all the horror stories that have come out about the entertainment industry that executives typically care more about selling crap than about making quality art? Especially considering this particular studio's track record with Spider-Man...oh wait, I guess Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 are too far in the past for people to remember.

Since both movies in question are reasonably relevant to Madame Web, I'll say I broadly had similar problems with both Venom and Captain Marvel regarding how those movies seemed to substitute potential substance either movie could have had for what moviegoing audiences would find bankable regarding the Venom character and the MCU respectively. That's also why I thought the idea Disney had to inflate the latter movie's box office was laughable right from the get go, and even discounting its sequel genuinely bombing hard (apparently it's doing well on streaming though?) I've realized even more holes in that theory as time passes (e.g. the fact Dark Phoenix bombed so hard that Disney reported a financial underperformance for that fiscal quarter in spite of Endgame, so evidently they weren't concerned about covering losses there. Not to mention Disney was in the process of finalizing a $60 billion+ acquisition of another entire movie studio when Captain Marvel came out - inflating one movie's box office wouldn't be so much uncharacteristically evil for Disney so much as it would be uncharacteristically petty).

Speaking of which, The Marvels bombing because Disney couldn't promote it properly (due to the actor's strike) is another example of how stupid moviegoing audiences are since I can fully believe the kinds of people who would normally watch Marvel movies weren't even aware it had come out and only see them because of their event status. And on a similar note, movies like Gods of Egypt (incidentally same writers as Madame Web) and the live-action Ghost in the Shell getting overshadowed by whitewashing controversies limiting the amount of coverage the press was willing to give movies like those also makes it clear how important it is to get the word out. I also probably brought up earlier how I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there was market research showing that female moviegoers had a higher preference for seeing female leads than male moviegoers for their gender. Doesn't help I know at least one instance where a creative was allegedly told to confrontationally accuse people of sexism for not seeing their movie (Elizabeth Banks regarding her failed Charlie's Angels revival), so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the same was true for cases like Paul Feig and Ghostbusters, Tim Miller and Terminator: Dark Fate (doesn't help he disowned it afterwards), James Mangold and the new Indiana Jones movie, etc.

On a more positive note, the highest-grossing comic book movie last year domestically had a woman and a black guy in the lead. And the highest-grossing comic book movie the year before domestically had a black woman in the lead. Go woke, go broke!

technically the answer to this is going to be something much, much more modern. Blade Buster for example released in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypy4GWrC0wY

not exactly the answer you may be looking for but if you want to see the absolute limits of the hardware there certainly are a couple games and developers that have done unique things with NES hardware. found another video with a bunch of examples here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KLhFNmmgUo

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I just remember seeing a small clip from the EFAP (Every Frame A Pause, MauLer's podcast where he and some like-minded other content creators riff on YT videos) where the Critical Drinker said something like "I think Sony would prefer a good Madame Web movie". While that is broadly speaking probably more true than not, it also seems like a ridiculously naive position to make considering a lot of horror stories about executive meddling, especially considering Sony has a history of it regarding the studio's Spider-Man movies. Doesn't help the final battle of the movie apparently involves a neon Pepsi sign, plus Johnson admitting she signed on to a different script than what was used. Not to mention the director seems to have all her prior credits in TV.

Also I'm increasingly beginning to think YT is an outlier at best and a hotbed for bigotry at worst (most of the reason this doesn't come to mind is because most of the YouTubers I follow the closest do not have far-right views). It feels like, for instance, there was a lot more skepticism towards the Barbie movie there than virtually anywhere else where the movie was heavily hyped, and I feel like I hear more bile spewed at both Captain Marvel movies there than on the rest of the Internet combined.

Speaking of which, since we derailed the conversation to the MCU earlier anyway, am I the only one who feels like there was overall too much skepticism surrounding The Marvels director Nia DaCosta pre-release, at least considering people acting like she was "inexperienced" and was hired for "diversity" reasons despite having as many prior directorial credits as Ryan Coogler did when Black Panther came out and it being just as charitable to assume Monica Rambeau's actress Teyonah Parris recommended her after they did Candyman together...then again I guess that would require people to keep track of what actors play who and who directed what. Also I guess I don't keep such a close eye on the race and gender of the people making and acting in movies, maybe because I'm not white myself? I feel like a bit of a weirdo since I watch mostly older movies and yet I tend to notice the relative lack of roles for women and POC in them more than the comparative abundance of them in newer movies.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if there was market research indicating that women prefer to see movies with female leads and people of color movies with non-white leads (especially their own ethnicity) while men don't have as strong a preference to see movies with male leads and ditto white people for movies with white leads. Considering how stupid Hollywood executives are, it would explain a lot of crap that has come out within the past decade or so.

He made a video about Madame Web decrying the perils of studio interference, citing Sony engaging in such for both Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man series and the mixed-at-best reception to the Sony Spider-Man Universe (the supposedly official term for the collective Spider-Man-adjacent movies), and I guess because he said he wasn't "reviewing" the movie, people were confused? And decided to call him out on not having the "courage" to rip into the movie even though he specifically said he was tired of that kind of content - and who could blame him?

It actually got a surprising amount of coverage from other YouTubers...although given it seems most of the board isn't attentive towards YT I should have probably clarified that yes.

Did you guys hear about Chris Stuckmann's "not review" of Madame Web?

Wasn't really trying to compare the two which is why I brought up Demon's and OG Dark Souls.

It was more just love for Sekiro, because it doesn't get enough.

I assumed Aaron Judge talking about his toe

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Was tempted to put pokemon cookies but

Wait, I just realized that Morbius has a similar premise to The Fly and Madame Web to The Dead Zone. What David Cronenberg movie is going to be dumbed down next to fit into Sony's Spider-Man Universe? Videodrome? Scanners?