Recent content by JimB

Iron Man was definitely B-list at best prior to Robert Downey Jr. I think people were aware of Captain America, but no one actually cared about him until the movie made him awesome. People obviously knew Hulk, but he doesn't count as part of the MCU success because his (most recent) eponymous...

For the Q&A: Vaguely related to Lindsay Ellis's video about YouTube selling the authenticity of content creators, what factors into your decisions about how your curate your online persona? For example, you've at least implied in some episodes of Really That Good that you want to affect the...

It really depends on the continuity, and I'm not sure they've explained how the rules work in the current era, post-Nu52, whose horrible fucking bullshit has already been explained. Prior to that, the Amazons were not born at all. Rather, they were the reincarnated souls of women who died at...

You forget that Man of Steel sold itself on a premise of hope. All the advertising was full of inspirational quotes and images: Jor-El telling Kal-El that Kal-El could save everyone; Kal-El's face turning up into a beam of sunlight; the "On my world, it means hope" line; all that. The...

Without wanting to get into spoilers, they're going to skip all the books. The movie series (assuming it gets to be a series) is not a direct adaptation of the Dark Tower series. It's a sequel.

Not so. I can go into more detail tomorrow if you ask, but for now it's late, so I'm just going to say the entire Dark Tower series is about writing fiction; it's an examination of how stories are told. That's why there are so many references to his own creations as well as to other works of...

Is she capable of helping others? Is she willing to help others? Are her teammates able to work with her effectively? If the answer to all three is yes, then yes.

Nah, it's a good flick. It's just not as exciting as Rogue One is, so it suffers for the comparison. Also people get tired of talking about what they like waaaaaaay before they get tired of bitching about what they hate, so praise will taper off a long time before the complaining will.

A friend of mine said, "It's impressive the trailer managed to find and hold the exact color palette of suicidal ideation." I can't top that analysis.

Is that skull a reference to MacArthur, Davis Aurini's pet fake skull? (PS, if you don't know who Davis Aurini is, you shouldn't look it up unless you really enjoy white nationalists bitching about Star Wars not being white enough.)

I don't object to the CGI. I don't think it worked, in that every time Tarkin's mouth moved I thought of the skin textures on King Harold from Shrek 2, but whatever, it's not a big deal. No, Mr. Bogos, where I disagree with you is the argument that the CGI is the weak point rather than the...

Well, that script is certainly one way to drive up traffic.

God damn it, Rad really has to quit being so adorable. I can't handle it!

Was Gunny in a vat of crystal cola? Is Erin drenched in cola now? Oh, man, she is looking at a forty-minute shower minimum to get all that syrup out of the places it'll have seeped by the time it's done. Gunny I assume is fine because he's probably hermetically sealed in his armor.

I'm a little behind on current gamer etiquette, but I'm supposed to respond to this by calling the author a liar and making death threats against him, right? That's what we do now?