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    The Big Picture: Secret Crisis

    I don't think it will just be the Ultimates universe, as there were a lot of good ideas in alternate realities that merit more full-time attention. Gwen Stacy: Spider-Woman for example. Yeah, that'd mean packing in way more Spider-people than normal, but there's a huge and popular Spider-Man arc...
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    Escape to the Movies: Taken 3 - The One Where Liam Neeson Beats People Up

    I really don't get the whole "dad's always right" angle. He's former-CIA and he's a concerned father. Of course he's going to have reservations about his daughter going anywhere without an escort. The fact that he's proven right is just grounds for making the movie in the first place. Would you...
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    The Big Picture: Mr. Mario Goes To Hollywood

    Yes, it is just you wanting a real-live feature film Mario Bros. Bob, because the rest of us here in the real world have accepted that such a thing is impossible and more than a little stupid. Do you really think they're going to make some kind of sprawling Lord of the Rings epic out of a...
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    New Avengers 2 Trailer To Debut During College Football Playoff

    He almost fumbled over "Ultron." I love watching non-geeks get pulled into saying the ridiculous stuff we geeks talk about because it's trendy now.
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    The Big Picture: The Terrible Twenty Films of 2014 Part 1

    Eva Greene would have made the best Wonder Woman. Ever.
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    Escape to the Movies: American Sniper - An Empty War Film

    I don't think there's anything wrong with not liking a war film, even one about a real-live person. You're not critiquing the war, you're critiquing a film, and if the filmmakers or anyone else wants to label you as somehow un-American or un-patriotic, then they're using real events as a safety...
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    Escape to the Movies: Exodus: Gods and Kings - The 11th Plague

    Ridley, you've done some good films. Biblical films have never really been among those. Stop. Making. Them. Edit: And stop forcing Biblical symbolism into your other films.
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    Marvel Casting Actresses For Jessica Jones Netflix Series

    It was pretty dark what Purple Man did. That's Rape of Ms. Marvel levels of wrong.
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    Escape to the Movies: Dumb & Dumber To: Just Dumber

    Really? Was Rosewater not playing in Boston?
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    Sunset Overdrive

    I don't usually enjoy these strips, but this one did get a chuckle out of me. Kudos.
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    Why Mr. X is Resident Evil at Its Finest (And Why Nemesis Kind of Sucks)

    I consider Mr. X more akin to Michael Myers and The Shape from Halloween than the Terminator. Terminator had guns, ran when he had to, and had a monotonous voice. The Shape--and Mr. X--is robotic, silent, and quietly cunning.
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    Game Theory: Who is Mega Man's True Villain?

    There's a peculiar, common trait amongst Japanese-made video game series. Eventually they begin to descent into bleak themes of existentialism, fatalism, nihilism, solipsism and (here comes that term) ludonarrative dissonance. In Megaman it kicked off with Megaman X, where X spends every free...
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    Bayonetta 2 Review - A Witch In Time

    Fair enough, I'll give you that much.
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    Bayonetta 2 Review - A Witch In Time

    "Git gud" is a poor argument. There is no challenge to Bayonetta, it's all button mashing and QTE's. You don't need skill, just patience. The rest is flashing lights and nonsense to make an otherwise boring combat experience less obvious. And you fell for it, because you call this a "spectacle...
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    Bayonetta 2 Review - A Witch In Time

    Bayonetta doesn't work for me for two big reasons: 1. The game takes the SquareEnix Fashion Approach and dials it up to 11. Jim himself mentions the headless angel that talks out of a baby's face on his sword, but he doesn't bat an eye at how ridiculous that is, how the game is nothing but...