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  1. Wombat

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    Adjusted for inflation, it's in a dead heat for second worst with The Eternals, within a million of each other, depending on which inflation index you're using. If anything overtakes The Marvels, the franchise is over.
  2. Wombat

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    I always think of Pugh as the anti-Brie Larson. Personality-wise, she comes across as quite charming, in press and Black Widow / Hawkeye. Physically, she's near the bottom of Marvel gals, with her squat stature, pug nose, minimal breasts, and (lack of) muscle tone. (Not that Evangeline Lilly...
  3. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Mike is now actively providing vocals for Noiselund songs? This has gone too far.
  4. Wombat

    Project Hail Mary

    To be clear, if this seems interesting to you, just read / listen to the book. Much like The Martian or the original script of Interstellar, it'll be better than the movie. But to address Warrik's points (spoilered, but still going to keep it vague):
  5. Wombat

    Project Hail Mary

    It's a tough call - you both need to include the alien stuff as a powerful hook to the audience (and also to narratively separate it from The Martian), but you also need to not scare off the potential audience that will immediately assume this is an Aliens situation, by establishing off the bat...
  6. Wombat

    F1 (2025)

    Yeah, of course Ford vs Ferrari is great, Mangold knows what's he doing as well. Haven't made it there yet, but every review I've seen is that Kosinski's visuals for F1 are the car-based equivalent of Top Gun Maverick and benefit from the biggest, loudest screen possible - and as others have...
  7. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Honestly, legacy raid drops (especially mounts) aren't the problem for serious collectors, as you can always just throw more characters per account per week at the problem until the RNG takes mercy on you, especially with how many easy 70s Pandaria Remix or the pre-launch events would throw at...
  8. Wombat

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Not to mention its almot certainly getting more content still. My guess is a set of missions that tie into the next Netflix anime, hitting the unused chunks of the map before the sequel moves to Chicago, but whether thats free DLC or a for-money expansion is unclear.
  9. Wombat

    Ironheart

    Reading through the plot synopses, and Christ, this sounds like the most racist (but the 'racism' is 100% accurate) media in years. Which... makes me assume the Mephisto rumors are true, and the ending is Riri acknowledging all of the above and retconning the show out of existence, right...
  10. Wombat

    Lord of the Rings Online

    Warsteeds could never get their sync issues worked out, and yeah, other than getting from point A to point B on flat terrain, are abandoned afterward. Big battles aren't that bad, however - as instanced content, lag wasn't too extreme. Honestly, most of their problems were UI based - where is...
  11. Wombat

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Bear in mind that both the Lilo and Stitch (about $10M this weekend) and How to Train Your Dragon (about $37M this weekend) remakes are also in theaters, splitting the audience. The more important point is those two remakes opened to $146M and $85M their first weekends, respectively, matching...
  12. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    1) This is a spinoff of BP 2, which made a chunk of the Dora Milaje gay and might have included a tranny? This shouldn't surprise you. 2) Again, the original version was filmed yeaaars ago - possibly before any of the most recent Doctor Who had aired. So no, there's no guarantee they even had a...
  13. Wombat

    Spaceballs 2

    Somehow Darth Helmet returned? It would be nice to see Brooks and especially Moranis again, but my expectations are very limited.
  14. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    I agree, which is why Gunn included his true muse, Nathan Fillion, as this'll be their fourth comic movie together (if you include the filmed but cut Wonder Man bits from GotG 2). But the statement that this has to be money laundering, when the highly successful GotG1 had even more locations...
  15. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    Do people not remember Guardians of the Galaxy? Other than the start of the movie with the walkman and oldies establishing that Chris Pratt is from Earth, and relatively recently, Gunn then throws in an endless stream of new characters / factions / locations at the viewer, which general...
  16. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    To be clear, cartridges were extremely expensive by modern standards, and took forever to get made. That was literally the original point and timing of E3 - Toys R Us, Kmart, Kaybee, and whomever else existed back then would see the game at E3 in the summer, order 50k/75/30k each, and that would...
  17. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    As someone that was never a DC guy, I am interested in seeing it, but it's a dry intellectual interest in seeing what Gunn does with tone and setup for this version of the DC universe. It's definitely the movie I want to see most this (remainder of) summer, but that's just lack of interest in...
  18. Wombat

    2025-2026 College Football, Now the Minor Leagues of the NFL.

    I thought NIL deals were a bridge too far, as they allowed well-heeled donors to sign 'endorsement' deals to outbid their collegiate competition. Now this is just the schools directly cutting out the proxy. I can buy the argument that the average player doesn't have time to hold a part time...
  19. Wombat

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I think I've been to Best Buy twice in the last decade: Once ~5 years back when my headset broke and needed one immediately for meetings later that day. Once recently when my nephew's PC shorted out and I needed another power supply to swap in for testing (again, immediately). I too cannot...
  20. Wombat

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's actually packing incompetence. This would be called chimney stacking - there's virtually no overlapping bricks/boxes between layers. Removing any brick means its entire vertical column is now at risk of collapsing, due to no support from other columns, which is dangerous to whomever has...
  21. Wombat

    The Expanse: Osiris Reborn by Owlcat Games

    Certainly the surprise of E3.... 's corpse to me. Not sure what it is with sci-fi games where "Fuck it, I'll do it myself" (Starfield to Outer Worlds, Mass Effect to this) is the predominant theme, but I'm cool with it. Not sure about the 'alternate history?' angle of it - I thought the...
  22. Wombat

    Fallout

    That hoped for or confirmed? Because that casting would work pretty well.
  23. Wombat

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    We should remember that nearly everyone on this thread is a middle-aged man, which means by pop culture terms, we're all old dead fossils. Even a decade+ ago I would run into twenty-somethings that preferred the prequels over the OT due to their pacing. Hell, I will reiterate that even out of...
  24. Wombat

    Ballerina (2024)

    Its directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld, that utterly forgotten Total Recall reboot), so I would calibrate your enthusiasm regardless. (Though I have to admit, I didn't think his Die Hard 4 was terrible.)
  25. Wombat

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    What's amusing to me is Johnny was never mentioned - apparently even potentially bi- white men are still unacceptable. And yes, Womyn Power! has been the concern since the first trailer.
  26. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that projection, GotG 3 only did $118M its first weekend, and everyone knows who, say, Rocket Raccoon is by the third movie. How much of the general audience knows who Mister Terrific is? Hell, if we are talking DC specifically, The Batman only did $134M, and Superman...
  27. Wombat

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    FanFourStick made just $26M opening weekend and $56M total (in 2015 dollars). Add in uncertainty if 'the kids' will want the 60s setting, and I think this will be Marvel's clear second worst opening (after The Marvels' $46M / $84M), but it probably won't be the worst.
  28. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I would argue with that conclusion, just because there's more competition with the summer release schedule, both in terms of audience split and theatre counts. I'm thinking Thunderbolts ends up just under $185M.
  29. Wombat

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    Now that I think about it, this may be less due to Doomsday itself than Disney as a whole. To be clear, the movie was going to be a struggle for May - the Russos had publicly said trying to get it done on time might literally kill them. The FX are a problem, but not for the reason you'd...
  30. Wombat

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    Just like Infinity War, Doomsday will only be half a movie. But no, there's been no buildup for it, because they are of course desperately rewriting their Kang plans. Presumably there will be some minor linkage to Doom in Fantastic Four, but that movie already has enough to cover on its own...
  31. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I suppose if we are talking references to sci-fi set in Chicago, I, Robot would be one of the biggies. I believe the Divergent movies are also in future Chicago. Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code is running around Chicago, though I don't recall where the military base his body is at actually is...
  32. Wombat

    Andor

    As Spronk said, Dedra just serves as a secondary/confirmation source - Galen sends the pilot and message to Saw on his own, but that both Luthen and Saw independently align on the details (such as Galen being involved) make the intel plausible.
  33. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    While the upcoming-underground-bullet-train-to-Chicago ads were everywhere in 2077, I'm worried that 'the Fallout problem' is becoming universal: In games where our choices narratively leave the world in irreconcilable states, the only way to avoid having _some_ players having made the 'wrong'...
  34. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    That's a really long chart to say 'Unless your QB is still on his rookie deal (Panthers, 49ers (when this was made), Titans, Colts, Commies, Vikings, Bears, Broncos, New England) or you're fishing through the cutrate free agent QB castoffs (Jets, Steelers, Colts again), your highest paid player...
  35. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    James Earl Jones sold his 'voice rights' to Disney before he died, and presumably Epic got access to that library as part of their content licensing. I guess SAG/AFTRA is saying that if Epic is a Union production house, then all voice actors, not just _human_ voice actors, have to go through...
  36. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They needed a carrot (when many of them were already doing the raid for rep, etc. and would complete the quest automatically)? Or finally got to eat their carrots, as they could dump their hundreds (or more) of lower level crests into Gildeds and could upgrade existing gear further?
  37. Wombat

    Andor

    That is the general consensus, but discounting memberberries (Ahsoka! Boba Fett!) season 2 boils down to about two positives: Diana Lee Inosanto (Elsbeth) has real martial arts skills, and Bill Burr gives a good monologue. And just to join the chorus, the best (/only acceptable) episode of...
  38. Wombat

    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

    Cruise is 62. Considering the lukewarm reaction to the last one, and this one is even longer, slower, and more expensive, I think its out of his hands if he didn't want this to be the last one he starred in. Hell, Pegg has even aged out to tech support mentor. All I have to say is Ferguson had...
  39. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Why are you taking the Bengals' job away from them?
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    As the old adage goes, the opposite of love isn't hate - it 's complete disinterest. Many of us (probably more than the general audience, given our more-comics-than-average backgrounds) did 'love' the MCU, and would like to see it pull out of its tailspin, while we also acknowledge that at this...