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That's great news, I'll take what I can get.

Yeah I agree, Capcom's reasoning being they were testing the waters to see if there was demand there, and then since the first remaster didn't meet Capcom's allegedly modest goals, there was no need to continue with 2 and 3. Should have done the whole trilogy at once.

I wasn't aware of this except only vaguely - just voted!

I wanted to bump this thread along with the Madame Web thread just to point out how amusing it is that they hired the terrible screenwriting duo of Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to write Madame Web (as I mentioned in that thread) and then Sony got another terrible screenwriting duo, Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, to write this film. They wrote Punisher: War Zone, Transformers: The Last Knight and Men in Black: International. @Ghost_MH Our only hope here is legitimate director J.C. Chandor. But this is continued proof that bad screenwriters who do what studios and producers tell them to do will fail upward. Also two shorter trailers have dropped since this thread was last updated, I don't watch trailers anymore but for those who do, here they are. Edit: Trailers were fan-made, so ignore me on that part.

So the movie is out and it is, unfortunately, primarily written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (co-story credits and co-screenplay credits). Letting the guys who wrote Dracula Untold, The Last Witch Hunter, Gods of Egypt and Morbius to write this movie doomed this from the start. Hiring journeyman director S.J. Clarkson didn't help. Hiring a female director was a good move but someone who has never directed a feature film before (just episodes of various TV shows)? Usually doesn't turn out well. And to the surprise of no one, the film is apparently terrible, it's already getting eviscerated by critics. Being worse than the two decent Venom movies is no surprise, but could this be worse than Morbius? Madame Web WWW.ROTTENTOMATOES.COM In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing's most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future... and realizes she can use that insight to change it. Forced to...

Having just finished the show as well, I feel about the same way. Good, not great, not as good as Blue Eye Samurai, but not trying to do nearly as much either. It's a simple, straightforward, solidly told story with fun one-off characters, but not a lot of substance or depth here. Animation was solid for Sublimation Studio and stylized enough that it looked better than it probably was. I didn't see a lot of Takashi Miike's influence here other than the Japanese throat singing and the vibe of the setting, etc. and the show didn't really resemble the games too much but respected the games' world building at least. I'd watch a season 2 but between the Onimusha: Warlords remaster from January 2019 not meeting even Capcom's modest sales expectations (they cancelled remasters of the next two games as a result) and this pretty much being a self-contained story, I don't imagine we'll get a season 2 but I hope so. In the same way it doesn't seem like we'll get more Tekken: Bloodlines or Skull Island (or a season 4 of DOTA: Dragon's Blood). Which sucks. More Arcane and Blue Eye Samurai are coming at least.

I was surprised, got it on my second guess.

Well they definitely wrapped up some plotlines in this episode, which was good even though I felt like the episode still meandered some. But with most of the subplots closed off now (the situation with Peter and Hank was rough), hopefully the 75 minute finale can bring it home. One downside from the meandering is I've felt like it's been ages since we focused on the actual Tsalal case, it's been a lot of circuitous detective work. While this season feels less weighty and more naturalistic than previous seasons I'm still enjoying it. Perhaps we'll actually go to Carcosa, the Night Country.

I would have been totally good with that too even though a lot of the Maria Sofia stuff in that season was rough. But the show deserves a real ending, whatever that means for Curb (which maybe means Larry falls into a pool and dies). Also doppelganger Mocha Joe was pretty good. Also tagging everyone else who should be watching based on this thread: @Massdriver @SuperSpreader @skillzdadirecta @Brian @Amazatron @Mercury33 @thewhyteboar @Moa

It'd be pretty funny if he trolls his own ending with this as this has been meta about that in the past. This second episode was less funny and looser like some of the weaker episodes from later seasons but I expect a few of those every season.

The weekend recap: -Tombstone (1993; written by Kevin Jarre; dir. George P. Cosmatos): 8/10 -The Replacement Killers (1998; dir. Antoine Fuqua): 6.5/10 -The Corruptor (1999; dir. James Foley): 5.5/10 -Role Models: Unrated Cut (2008; dir. David Wain): 9/10 -Wanderlust (2012; dir. David Wain): 7/10 -Payback: Director's Cut (1999; dir. Brian Helgeland): 6/10 -A Hidden Life (2019; dir. Terrence Malick): 10/10 -Saltburn (2023; dir. Emerald Fennell): 7/10

It can be pronounced either "gif" or "jif" but I believe more people have accepted and say "jif" as the way to pronounce it. It also sounds better, so I now go with that. CitizenVectron explained the rest.

The only reason I'm interested in this.

Yep, heard the same as well. Not great news but who knows. Disney is re-tooling a Moana TV show into Moana 2, out in November WWW.AVCLUB.COM Originally announced back in 2020, the Moana show has been re-developed as a film—not to be confused with the live-action remake set for 2025

Well, the first game has been out since 2015 and is still going strong 9 years later in 2024 so it could have very long legs.

I mean, obviously not literally a dump truck full of money but a lot of money I'm sure.

Definitely possible but given he announced his retirement knowing they'd presumably make more Sonic movies makes me think it's perhaps both maybe.

I'm not watching that clickbait link and the inclusion standards image capture doesn't tell me enough. What are you trying to tell us here?

This being written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, the guy who did Pig (the recent Nicolas Cage movie) has me intrigued since that movie was fantastic.

I didn't make it past page 27. Once they start getting into how Disney harassed Carano by saying they asked her to grow and learn on topics such as anti-semitism and LGBTQ+ and the filing puts "grow" and "learn" in quotations as if growing and learning are the harassment, I was done. The entire section earlier on tweets from people who aren't even defendants to this case was a lot of whining and irrelevant. This was a really bad filing and the lawyer(s) involved should feel bad for themselves. Or laugh all the way to the bank if they're getting paid nice money to open a legal filing with a Star Wars-eque intro. Just horrible.

There's not really a story. In the first game, it's the far future where it's basically Starship Troopers and you fight off three other groups/factions and that's all they really tell you and then you just land on planets, do missions, and kill stuff. You play missions, along with the rest of the online community, which collectively contributes to beat each group/faction. Eventually, when the community wins and the war with each race ends, you do get ending text, a short cinematic, and the credits, and then the online war just resets and starts up again. Helldivers has gone through this cycle numerous times, I've seen the war reset three times already myself since I started playing a few months ago with my brothers. So "the story" isn't much which is probably why the Youtube video is only 1.5 minutes.

FF7: Remake was great, I agree! I have mentioned it in this thread before that I have potential concerns story-wise but other than that I'm expecting a pretty great game.

I mean, this is a metafictional sequel, not a remake, so presumably the way this game's story plays out will be different enough that saying anything like: "it'll end at this point from the original game" seems pretty useless. I mean, just based on the one trailer I saw ages ago, you have all sorts of characters alive and together doing things that they were never alive or together for in the original game. I mean, the ending of the first part blew the whole "remake" idea out of the water.

Now that you've seen the show you should go back and rewatch the movie! Either way I'll definitely keep this on my radar.