This could end up being one of Marvel's "lesser" successes if they can't fix the marketing. I'm assuming there's a great movie here-- the MCU deserves a little faith but everything they've shown so far has been generic. The dialogue is straight out of a DC movie. Even the name sounds generic to me. As someone who's never read the comics, I have no sense of who she is, other than being vanilla powerful. It's a shame she couldn't make a good impression in Avengers first and be explained after that.
This movie is probably going to be good but the trailer is kinda generic, earnest "Wonder Woman meets Captain America." Almost DC-looking. Luckily trailers don't mean much. Looks like XXX-era Sam L will have a juicier role though, probably losing an eye by the end.
Funny, I never found the stupid VO particularly entertaining. It's actually kinda middling next to truly meme-worthy stuff like "All Your Base." Every Japan-made game I grew up with had poor translations, that was just part of the context of gaming at the time. Not even celebrated titles like MGS come across as "good" without a pinch of salt.
SotN is more than a cheesy nostalgia trip for me, and I'd rather see what the PSP version was like than repurchase a game that's already in my collection.
I finally got to see Solo. It was really, really fun-- like the original before all the canonical baggage. Every performance was good, and the romance worked. The action lacked a little bit, which I'd place on Ron Howard, but I don't even know how much involvement he had with those or if he had time to do them right.
Nothing wrong with a straight port as long as it's 1080p or better. Shadow of the Colossus got the full treatment and lots of fans hated the visual changes, so if you can't please everybody, you may as well do it cheaply.
Something I'm confused by: Who owns Shenmue, that the old ones can be released by Sega and the new one gets released elsewhere?
Glad to read something positive about this film. I liked the book but didn't love it, and the visuals in the trailer just looked like cynical CGI vomit to me. Spielberg has had a spotted history making CGI-heavy films, so if he can successfully sell the human elements, I want to see it.
I'd say the easiest way to do an MGS movie wrong would be to make it "more Kojima." He has a style of his own, but that style is meant for games: the cinematic aspects are borrowed (Snake, Terminator, etc).
A faithful MGS movie is like Street Fighter The Movie: The Arcade Game.
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