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Ironically, the Mummy made $400+Million in 1999; it was a huge money maker in the same year as the Matrix and the Phantom Menace. It was the #2 seller that year in DVDs behind the Matrix, IIRC, which we had running non-stop at LAN parties. My Matrix story, one of my favorite stories; one of...

Thaaaat's a different thing, though. Would you go see *any* movie with Sly, or Molina, or Arnold, etc: That's what the studios mean by "bankable". Stars don't guarantee box office like they used to. In that past, you had "Star vehicles": You could put Arnold or Sly, or even Keanu in...

Did it, though? Movies aren't star-driven anymore. No actor is considered "bankable" at this point. People don't go to the movies to see actors, and no matter who you cast, movies will still flop. Even the Rock, the closest thing to "bankable" has had flops. No one isn't going to cast Keanu...

A big part of what I hear people saying is: "It wasn't the Matrix. Didn't live up to the Matrix. Fights weren't as good as the Matrix." I wonder what this movie could have done to live up to the hype after the failure of 2&3 to do so? Lots of people still had outsized expectations, comparing...

I think I have watched like 10+ hours of this guy playing? He's really good, knows the game extensively from at least one previous play and has a great manner. Seemingly has a number of games he is playing at the moment. Thanks for highlighting him on both fronts.

With this review, I finally understand why people hate this movie so much. If Trinity is overtly the new One, rather than the two of them together and their connection, since Neo made his choice in the previous Matrix and resurrected Trinity at the end of Reloaded, I would agree that robs the...

I, too was 12, and was nonplussed with the Ewoks. The other half of the movie though, is fucking fantastic. Luke/Vader/Palpatine is timeless mythic storytelling. Ewoks is were Lucas starts to lose himself in the business side of industry, and "making something for kids" becomes intermingled...

Just got back from seeing this in the Theater: Wow. That was amazing and poignant with a few nitpicks but nothing the god of movie narratives wouldn't let you into heaven for. Heartbreakingly bittersweet and somehow is the best of possible Spiderman endings. So many Easter eggs. SO MANY GREAT...

They didn't say what kind of changes they were going to make, just "show what a free mind could do", they know enough to avoid causing more scarcity again, etc. Remember, this is pretty close to a shot for shot or a scene for scene remake, so this is the analogue to Neo's call to the Architect...

Watching a bunch of negative reviews on Youtube (Campea, Dan Murrell, Grace Randolph, various others) to see how they come to their conclusions. I just disagree. It's not great by any stretch but really it's Matrix: The Ride. Its a very Meta Soft Reboot. I didn't think it was confusing at all...

Do I have to keep using in Spoiler tags? Since I am out of step on this AND Witcher. I need to read/watch more reviews trashing this; I don't get the hate. I mean, the Matrix is one of my favorite films of all time. Two and Three were huge letdowns at the time but I have softened a little...

This guy does an excellent review of S2E1 and provides solid reasoning for why they made some of the changes they do

It does, sorry if my summary doesn't portray that. After sleeping on, I wouldn't give it as a high a number but I apparently enjoyed it more than most people. It's an enjoyable watch for me, very much Rush Hour 3/Beverly Hills Cop 3; it's a lesser son of greater sires. It couldn't be anything...

Trust the Floor Plan (tm).

Just got done watching it. It was better than I thought it was going to be: I was expecting a 5 out of 10 movie. Surprise villain for me, and some neat takes. Better than TFA since they played that part right up front and wore it on their sleeve. The backstory was better than I expected and...

I don't think so; Geralt is more aloof and hard but also willing to go out on a limb to save people, per my recollection. He can be by turns hard and soft with folks depending on his estimation of their deservedness. IIRC in both the show and the books, there are plenty of times Geralt will...

Here's the rub, I think. People were expecting the books to be adapted. I mean, you can watch the behind the scenes where Lauren Hisserech whatever says this season is based on "Blood of Elves". This season, though, is only VERY VERY roughly based on "Blood of Elves": Some of the same things...

Someone on Reddit made and actual list of the all the changes from the book: EDIT:Wow, that's not a link but the full page:

I get the earlier comment about the Polish guy commenting about crying "tears about blood". It probably seems awesome if you had never read the books and would be bewildered if you started reading them after seeing the show. Season 1 was recognizable at least to the books. Seasons 2 you will...

I am kind of shocked to here so many people so unabashedly enjoyed it. Just got done watching it and maybe I need time to digest it, I guess but maybe all I am just shocked by how much they changed from the book. Forget the obvious things, like Djstrikas casting (he's a underwear model?), it...

I think Garfield was the most "Stan Lee"/comic accurate of all the Spider Men(?); put another way, of all the actors who have played Spider Man, his was most like the comic. He also had the worst villains, a diffident Peter, and the least appealing overall setting of all three attempts at the...

OMG I'm ded. Wait.

It's the next "Second Life"!!! Remember how much money everyone made from that?@! Seriously, fuck these ponzi scheme scammers. I get they're in business to make money and I defend that but its an exchange of value not an attempt to extract as much money from "customers" as possible, Horse...

Its not XBL Gold but even if you only pick up the occasional free game its worth it. I have a ton of great games I would have probably bought that I eventually snagged for free from it. It always pays for itself. I don't even remember why I started getting it. Multiplayer or something back in...

NOTE: I haven't seen the movie yet, only read a synopsis. So I was reading somewhere and this came up, I read what is a major spoiler for this movie and you have got to be fucking kidding me. Fuck Marvel and this movie in their stupid asses. I was a little pissed when they made the Kree out...

We're going far afield here but I would have like Fury Road more if it had been a little more of a Mad Max movie and little less of a Furiosa movie. He felt sidelined in his own movie to me somewhat. It wasn't the end of the world and it was still pretty good but Miller was spinning the dial...

No way. Black Software Lives Matter! Seriously, they aren't going to make a POC the villain. They didn't cast Lawrence Fishburne because its a action role and he is, ehum, in less than action shape these days, IIRC.

The Force Awakens was a complete Soft Reboot, almost to the exact beat. 21Jump Street/It/Godzilla/Dredd are more or less "remakes", new movies with the same source material; most are outside of the window I specified, though. Mandalorian is completely new. Everything about this so far screens...

I loved The Matrix as well. Let's ask a different question: Has any soft-reboot in the last 6 years not sucked? There is a whole post of examples upthread where they grudge-fucked member-berries and Cleveland-Steamered them before stealing cab fare on the way out. Will they do the same thing...

Just accept that everything new is going to suck as a baseline because the people that make things have gone Weimar crazy post 2016 and their idea factory is broken. Like in Warhammer 40k, they can't make new things and can only copy/corrupt older better ideas. "Subverting Expectations" is...

I can't recall any other game limiting access to content with consumable orbs/tokens like this. It has to be one of the most bone-headed decisions in NW design. "I know: Let's put a grind in your grind so you can grind."

Looking back, the Scrapping of Titan into Overwatch really feels like the true beginning of the end for Blizzard. Let's see if Riot can roll forward as a Gaming entity into what Blizzard failed to achieve.

This is the classic Dev flapping cycle: "people are running out of things to do!" "I know, let's make everything take longer!" Not considering that everyone who is looking for things to do has already done the stuff you are now adding extreme grind to, and people just getting there know this...