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  1. No, but lots of other aspects of his cut did. The Wonder Woman scene was tonally off, no question, but not sure how we harp on that when Ant-Man's daughter is walking around just find as millions of microscopic sentient creatures die around her or that John Cena joyously murders faceless thugs in cars while basically high fiving his 8-year old nephew (who is also excited and enjoying himself) in Fast X.
  2. I don't watch trailers, but given this is its own thing unconnected to any other Transformers material, and is getting a theatrical release, I hope this movie does for Transformers what Spider-Verse did for Spider-Man and what Mutant Mayhem did for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, if we're lucky. It's directed by Josh Cooley, who directed Toy Story 4 (he also co-wrote Inside Out), so I'm pretty hopeful.
  3. If they stick to eight episodes per season like they have with the first three seasons so far, I'm not sure how exactly they are going to adapt three books in just two seasons when it took them three seasons just to adapt four books when two of those books were just a bunch of short stories (and they skipped four short stories from those two books). Either way, probably good to set an end date now.
  4. Well, not yet. Fallout TV show holding "iconic" stuff back for Season 2, including deathclaws WWW.EUROGAMER.NET Amazon's Fallout TV show has - a few minor controversies aside - been a hit with fans since arriving last week; but whi…
  5. I think "it can only be 10 movies" is dumb too, but Tarantino counts the Kill Bill films as one film, and he does count Death Proof as a film (the unrated, extended cut of Death Proof is definitely its own movie), which means he's currently at 9 films written/directed by that measure. His reasoning is he wants a perfect filmography and not one which starts to get rote or bad as a director gets too old or makes too many films. The two written works Tarantino counts as being written by him (that he did not direct), True Romance (Tony Scott) and From Dusk till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez), do not count as part of the 10 films. Tarantino pretty much hates Natural Born Killers since Oliver Stone changed his screenplay so much, so that's never counted for anything. Obviously the episode he directed for ER and his two-parter for CSI don't count either. His guest directed scene for Sin City doesn't count either nor does his written/directed short that is part of the Four Rooms four short film anthology. His experimental unofficial first film, My Best Friend's Birthday, has been long lost to time and went unfinished so that also doesn't count. That covers everything. I believe Tarantino is far more open to working in TV today than he used to be, but I believe he did those episodes of ER and CSI because he said he was a fan of the shows when each was airing. It seemed at one point he might make a DiCaprio as Rick Dalton TV series, but I don't think that will materialize now, but he seemed open to it if DiCaprio would ever do it. He did also release The Hateful Eight: Extended Edition on Netflix, which was a four-episode miniseries version of the theatrical release which feels like him dipping his toes into TV waters (if people recall Tarantino did release a "roadshow" version of The Hateful Eight in theaters as well which was 187 minutes, but the extended version is 210 minutes, even longer) . Just as a side note, it will be leaving Netflix on April 24th (both versions of the film).
  6. I understand the thinking with this but you can pretty much jump into Divinity without prior knowledge. I started with Divinity: Original Sin 1 and Larian had already made four prior Divinity games yet I didn't feel lost at all playing that one or Divinity: Original Sin 2. That being said, if what Grubb says is true I doubt they meant Divinity: Original Sin 3 then.
  7. Finally caught the first episode (of what looks like will be seven total episodes). This was a really strong start to a show I had very little idea what it was about going in but I come away wanting to watch more. Some of the broad comedy feels tonally misplaced but overall I really enjoyed an area of the Vietnam War that isn't often covered. Hard to believe it'll be 50 years next April since the Fall of Saigon. Chan-wook Park, who not only directs the first three episodes but co-writes all seven, brings all of his incredible skills to bear on the episode, so it is really well made and directed. Everyone should really check this out alongside other recent TV winners like The Gentlemen, Fallout, Tokyo Vice (season 2), Shogun, 3 Body Problem and Invincible (season 2) just to name some really recent stuff. The A.V. Club really enjoyed the first episode as well. The Sympathizer premiere: A unique spy thriller with a lot to say WWW.AVCLUB.COM Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's HBO miniseries weaves a tangled web of lies, timeline jumps, and historical fury.
  8. Well that was an amazing and exhausting episode of television. It really doesn't get better than this for TV.
  9. While I definitely don't want these movies to get bogged down in world building, it would be nice for general audiences to get more exposure to these things and terms, whereas the first few movies kept the weird to the edges of the narrative.
  10. Yeah, the show did pretty well for Peacock even thought it felt like it came and went. Season 2 has been announced. We tried to drum up some talk in the thread for it if you want to see what some of us thought of it. Basically, it comes off like Zomebieland for Twisted Metal, not that far off from Fallout's tone but more juvenile. But I thought it was a good adaptation worth not forgetting about. Twisted Metal Renewed for Season 2 WWW.PEACOCKTV.COM Peacock’s high-octane action comedy is gearing up for Season 2! Stream Season 1 on Peacock.
  11. There's an incredible amount of scheming and world building in the first 3/4's of Dune Messiah that I don't think should be ignored, but yes it's not an action adventure yarn but something quite different. I think there are a lot of interesting angles one could take with the adaptation, so long as the core story (and reveals) remain.
  12. This was a great adaptation of the game, the series stayed strong through until the end of the season. If we're making comparisons though, if we count Arcane does that mean animation counts in terms of ranking/comparing purposes? Because if so I'd put Castlevania and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners up there (among others). But, if we're limiting ourselves to just TV (and not film adaptations) and just to live-action, ignoring anime and animation in general, The Last of Us is probably the only competition but that and Fallout are doing different things which makes them hard to compare. This is easily better than Halo and Resident Evil. I'm not sure Gangs of London counts though that is based on the The Getaway/Black Monday/Gangs of London trilogy of games by Sony London Studio back in the day, but it is a great show. That just leaves Twisted Metal which, like Fallout, is a post-apocalyptic wasteland black comedy (with a very different tone even with the similarities) and I actually felt that Twisted Metal did a pretty good job adapting its games as well. Fallout is the better show, but Twisted Metal did good and is better than Halo and Resident Evil as well.
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