Recent content by bastardofmelbourne

I think it was old-fashioned caution. For all of the great films the MCU has produced, the guys holding the purse-strings were pretty dedicated to the old maxim of "female protagonists don't sell tickets in action films." They just weren't completely sure that Captain Marvel would succeed...

Haven't made a post on the forums since R&P got shut down (RIP R&P), but I snagged premiere tickets to see Avengers: Endgame just tonight, and hoo boy The no-spoilers take on it is this: it is a breathtaking swan song for the original Avengers cast, a best-hits mixtape of every Marvel film to...

Avatar. In fact, I specifically chose a picture of a dapper gentleman wearing three hats so as to deceive innocent Escapists into believing that was how I dress in real life. (In real life, I am wearing tracksuit pants. THEY'RE COMFORTABLE AND I'M TRYING TO RELAX.) I do pay attention to...

It doesn't bother me much, because it looks fairly awful.

I get into this with my D&D game. I have a steampunk setting going, and the obvious conflict there is old magic versus new technology, but...fundamentally, steampunk is magic. If the technology in my setting worked in accordance with the laws of physics, it would be boring. You can't have...

I kept typing "esc" into my browser to bring up the bookmark. I did it probably every couple of hours, usually by reflex. I like writing about stuff and hearing other people's opinions on stuff and occasionally arguing with them about stuff. I found myself missing the ability to do that more...

Yeah, these forums are going to wither on the vine if they don't get ported over to the new site. That's just how it is. The new site does look good, though.

Well, that's, uh... Hmm.

I like the Snyder level. Man of Steel is actually my favourite of all the Superman films after the first. I know, I know. In relation to the rest of the Justice League, I feel like he should always be the strongest physically, but not the smartest or the fastest or the most versatile. (Flash...

I'll be another Homecoming vote. Tom Holland is one of those casting miracles that franchise films stumble across every now and then. Don't get me wrong; I loved the Raimi films. I actually thought they were great films with especially great casting. But Tom Holland is just...he has Peter...

You ought to be arrested for making that joke, because I just nearly fucking died laughing.

I think Cavill's a great choice. He's a good actor who was underused in the DCEU films, where his job was mostly to stand around looking both perpetually gloomy and incredibly ripped. It's never as much of a big deal when they're the same skin color. Jewish actors play non-Jews, Americans...

Nah. It doesn't make any sense for the White Walkers to build the wall when all the wall really does is keep out White Walkers (and the wildlings, by accident.) I mean, it can't be that the White Walkers built the wall to defend themselves from humans, because humans can cross the wall whenever...

It probably has some connection to the trait displayed by undead in old folk stories, where they couldn't cross bodies of running water. From a practical perspective, many of the wights are decayed nearly down to a skeleton and they would probably be dismembered by a strong tide. I don't...

I first rage-quit Bloodborne at the Blood-Starved Beast. Not because I couldn't kill him, although it took me about a week's worth of attempts to do that, but because after he died, I found out he was guarding... !!! ...a dead end and a chalice that I didn't know what it did. I assumed...