Recent content by romxxii

Ant Man was a founding member of the Avengers. He should have gotten a movie a long time ago.

Personally, what really astounded me with Batista's performance is how much he's grown as an actor. After three films, he's now at least competent. Compare to his wooden turn in Man in the Iron Fists. Or his snarky, but one-note bounty hunter in Riddick. While I agree that the villains are a...

Plenty of tossers get paid to just play games with each other. Why, just this month, for two whole weekends running, we've had a whole bunch of tossers getting paid to play games with each other. Just because you're not getting payed to play video games, don't start hatin'.

They need to play a fighting game. Like Ultra Street Fighter IV. Mainly because Yahtzee is totally shit with fighting games.

Knowing an old cheat code -- incorrectly, I might add -- does not give you gamer cred, let alone give you "true gamer" status. In fact, as so many people have pointed out, the Konami code is so ingrained into gamer culture at this point, you'd have to live under a rock to not know about it. So...

So your plan here is just to seed doubt, instead of definitively proving me wrong? What are you, a Creationist? Ok, how about this? http://warmovies.about.com/od/FilmCriticism/fl/Removing-the-Mystery-of-Box-Office-and-Film-Budgets.htm The author specifically cites a rough 40-50% allocation...

Fair enough; I ended up arguing the same position for Iron Man re: his pre-Downey popularity (or lack thereof).

Er, nope. A movie that just exceeds its stated budget hasn't broken even yet, as there's the marketing to consider, along with the theater owners' take. That's roughly estimated as being the same as the production budget, hence twice the budget to just break even. That's why Pacific Rim wasn't...

Iron Man 2 still made money its lukewarm reception from critics. Compare to The Incredible Hulk, whose global box office returns [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incrediblehulk.htm] failed to exceed twice its budget. In industry terms, it lost money, and is definitely a box office...

Wait, since when was Ultron ever an obscure villain? He's right up there with Loki and Kang on the Avengers' usual To-Do list. Also, it's funny when people talk about the "Marvel backlash". You do realize we're nine movies in, right? Marvel's already had its sophomore slump -- in the form of...

Watchu talkin' 'bout? Aside from Rocksteady's Batman games, WB has nothing DC-related recently. It's the same strategy DC uses in film: when one thing works, keep doing that one thing and onlythat one thing until people lose interest. Hence, their need to shove grimdark up Superman's ass. It's...

My initial take on Green Lantern was, it was a passable, if heavily flawed action comedy that would be a travesty only to those heavily invested in the Green Lantern franchise. Even today, where I mentally file the film under "things that do not deserve a second viewing," I do not have enough...

I don't always agree with his reviews -- he's rather forgiving of films that he feels enters the "stupid fun" category, like The Immortals or I am Number Four. I hate those films with a passion. In fact, I've been watching Bob long enough to know how he'll review a film, and I don't really...

Except during Civil War, when he wasn't. At least, not according to the writers, who claim that the Pro-Registration side was in the right. Yeah, doesn't help that they still ended up making the Pro-Reg side look bad.

Doesn't change the fact that the movie is that damned good.