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Did you even READ what came after the part you quoted? One example of Hollywood accounting is _Return of the Jedi_ which has made to date $475 million just at the box office and was budgeted at $32.5 million. Yet according to Lucasfilm in 2009 that film "has never gone into profit" _My...

Actually The problem is this ignored the practice of Hollywood accounting. While the gross may show that the movies are doing way better then the comics that doesn't mean the net ie PROFIT is. One example of Hollywood accounting is _Return of the Jedi_ which has made to date $475...

I agree and the ironic thing is it can have the exact opposite results. Just look at the piece USAToday had as their opposing view under the title "People know the consequences". The piece said that to a member of the Muslims faith defending the honor of the Prophet Muhammad is...

That doesn't explain the Mummy movies which were stand alone movies each with references to the previous movie to establish they were all part of the same timeline/universe. Hammer from 1958 to 1973 went on a sequel binge with their Dracula films finally breaking with the can we forget it was...

It has been around even longer then that. MGM's Thin Man six movie series ran from 1934 to 1947 and Universal made the four Mummy pictures from The Mummy's Hand (1940) to The Mummy's Curse (1944) with each a sequels to the previous. One of the most blatant sequels is Dracula's Daughter (1936)...

It IS censorship per John Henry Faulk. What happened to the Dixie Chicks was simply the modern version of _Red Channels_ and its Mccarthyist ilk.

The problem is some people still remember Patricia Pulling who was part or the whole D&D causes suicide and is part of Satanic cult insanity of the 1980s. Unlike Jack Thompson people took Pulling seriously with cops and public officials actually listening to her. Saying Brown v...

But what is the different between an video game and an interactive novel? As Yahtzee said some time ago "a game must have gameplay, otherwise it's just machinima that you have to press buttons to watch"; but how much gameplay?

It wasn't an "alt dimension" but the distant future after Vandal Savage used gravity control device that totally messed up the solar system. In the Justice League series Doomsday first showed up in "A Better World" where the Justice Lord Superman (which originally started out as a Crime...

I'm surprised that moviebob didn't mention Superman: Doomsday from 2007 which was a basically watered down animated version of both Death and Reign together or the Radio drama Superman: Doomsday & Beyond! (Superman Lives! in the US) that BBC5 did.

There were nods to the Silver Age throughout the Post Crisis Superman era: he pulled Streaky the can from under his cape during his second encounter with Mxyzpltk. Supergirl was from a world made to resemble that of the Silver Age Superboy. Later Superman would be split into Superman red and...

Actually, to anyone familiar with the imaginary tales of the Silver Age the claim "brains and technology have been worth jack shit" is total garbage. Superman vol 1 #149 (November, 1961) case in point: Luthor finally get devious and slowly builds a confidence with Superman to eventually kill...

No, if anything the Death story was even more lack-luster then the movie; there is NO connection with Lex Luthor (who was thought to be dead but was really in a cloned body pretending to be his own son....yes it was as wonky as it sounds) or any other of Superman's main foes. As Moviebob says...

Looking at the design of the uh *thing* that was inspired by Batman I was reminded of Yahtzee's description of Darksiders' War character: 'looks like someone sat down, started drawing him and then never freaking stopped.' It is like the worst of the 1990s comics where you had characters so...

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is even more broken then Ride to Hell: Retribution. Of course for totally broke games the king of the mountain is Action 52 more broke games on a cartridge then anyone wants to remember.