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Reviews seem to be that it is mostly okay, and feels exactly like what we expected - that a 3 episode Season 4 arc and its wrapup in the season finale was converted to a movie, and is more aimed at kids, than as an actual action movie for adults.

Not sure the Charger's best idea was bringing up the Patriots' cupcake 2025 schedule given how the Chargers / Patriots playoff game went, but... Not a lot of new material in but it is nice to be reminded of when The SImpsons were good - though the best joke was them referencing their yanked...

I sure the hell hope we have a bye or at least Thursday game before, because a Wednesday game with a team traveling half the continent is bullshit.

The book goes into all of this, but: Only 1 in 7000 people can survive the book coma; Grace happens to be one of them. Book Grace is the one doing all the testing of their scientific equipment, and thus is familiar with everything*. When the accident happens, the book Hail Mary is in an unstable...

Johnathan Nolan's really going with the Westworld playbook again, isn't he. Doesn't look like we're getting another season this year if they're still casting people.

Two caveats: 1) I only saw it once, so I may have forgotten dialogue. 2) Again, there's a lot of stuff that was edited out of the movie. Movie Grace writes down something like "Always muscles?" on his whiteboard when he wakes up, and the one shot where he's sleeveless shows beefy arm muscles...

Am I the only one that is both looking forward to one of the few directors left that gets to spend big money on non-franchise properties, and also not optimistic the results will be anything I like? Because Oppenheimer did nothing for me, Tenet was both too convoluted and not explained enough...

I would rate it as "It's fine". Trying to judge it objectively, I just don't see The Boys being something I ever think about (much less rewatch) again. At least half of the episodes from seasons 2+ feel like wheel spinning (at least this season is better than Season 4 on that front); but at the...

1) Yes. 2) That was arguably one of the best adjustments the movie script makes. When seeing Rocky's ship, Book Grace is only worried that if its an Aliens situation, the mission to save Earth will fail. Movie Grace is also concerned about his own well being, which matches the bits you mentioned...

I would point out that 'Focus on other time periods' does not equal 'Retconning the sequels out of existence'. You could have Star Wars focus on more post-Original territory (like Mando), midquel territory (like Solo, Obi-Wan, or Andor), pre-prequel territory (like KOTOR, the High Republic, or...

As a Milwaukeean, I can confirm that the high point of Milwaukee's cultural relevance... was used as somebody's garage (or whatever) in Transformers 3. Appropriate. I still remember one thing about Bridesmaids - that Hollywood thought a federal interstate between Chicago and Milwaukee was a two...

I would hesitate to compare any number from The Before Times (before covid, streaming, and strikes) with modern releases. In your specific case, it looks like Pirates 5 made just about as much in China as it did in the US. That is very much not the current trend for China - their movie industry...

The numbers I have seen suggest that barely 20% of players even do Normal raids, with higher difficulties an even smaller percentage, even after 20 years of players self-selecting to play the game via subscriptions. Spending a large percentage of your development time on something the vast...

Did you get that in the green pools up north? Other than Blood Seekers, none of the other Midnight fishing triggers (treasure chests, pools, etc) fire for me up there, even with a blue rod with perception enchant.

Apparently Jack 2 married Neuman last weekend, meaning one of the last thing he did as a bachelor was visit RLM. Man has his priorities in order.