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    I finally got around to watching FB7. It's been 25 years since I watched Macross 7. I didn't enjoy the series, but I was such a completionist back then that I made sure I got through the all of it, or at least almost all of the M7 stuff. There were some things I genuinely enjoyed, but overall, that show was not for me. I do like most of the Fire Bomber tunes, though. Watching FB7 was a weird mix of getting a nostalgia rush, bopping to the music, but also being bored and anxiously awaiting the end. I don't recall ever having a feeling like that for anything I watched the first time. Even though I didn't enjoy the series, it had its moments, and seeing those moments commemorated was enough to make me think, "Oh yeah, I remember that, it was pretty cool." Music speaks for itself. But, unfortunately, FB7 also reminded me of all the things I didn't care for. I thought there must've been some meta joke about how in the first 15 minutes of FB7 they keep repeating people asking Basara what the heck he was doing, since that pretty much was my recollection of the first 20-25% of the series.
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    Imagine going to a work holiday party, seeing someone's design portfolio, and featured is a Destroid Monster!
  4. Jeff J
    I did a Google search for "Macross cufflinks" and I got this: https://www.macys.com/shop/product/macross-ft-61-inquisitor-fans-toys?ID=19857891
  5. Jeff J
    That is one slick football uni.
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    I'm just curious about which character Cavill would end up playing.
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    Saw it over the weekend. I think I still enjoyed the second one the most, which might be an unpopular opinion. This one had some boring stretches, and I suppose I don't find Deadpool's origin that interesting. The Easter eggs in the second one just hit better for me, too. What I liked? This movie and No Way Home might've leaned on some cheap nostalgic tricks, but man, they were effective. I was still a teenager when Blade came out, barely a legal adult when X-Men released, and now I'm firmly middle-aged. It's nice to go have that feeling of reliving 20-something years worth of experiences. I did appreciate the callbacks to the old 20th Century Fox Marvel films. I can't say I particularly loved the 20th Century Fox era for Marvel, but the coldest thing Marvel Comics did was bury the Fantastic Four and X-Men comics because Marvel/Disney didn't have the movie rights. Oh yeah, add kicking the X-Men out of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite even though the X-characters are essentially what made the Marvel vs. series possible... I may have enjoyed the heck out of MCU movies from 2008-2019, but Marvel Studios did enough bad faith moves that I was secretly hoping they'd get embarrassed at some point. So perhaps the icing on the cake for me in this movie was making fun of the rut that Marvel Studios is in now. One of the benefits of the MCU used to be that unlike the comics, you could pick up and watch whatever you wanted without feeling lost. There also were only three movies a year, so it was easy to keep up. Post-Endgame, they threw out the streamlined storytelling and gave us so much bloat that wasn't as compelling that I lost interest. But, I was super hyped for this movie, and throughout the most part, it met my expectations.
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    To quote Honest Trailers, Garfield was an attractive, intelligent, likeable, athletic, well-dressed, teenaged LOSER. I think the ASM movies were missing some key elements of the most successful Spidey formula. I think rebooting five years after Tobey was not what the GA wanted, and audiences prefer their Peter to be more of a dweeb than Garfield's portrayal. ASM movies were also far less light-hearted, which likely was part of the charm of Tobey's movies. So they actually made decent money; ASM ranked 6th its year (behind Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Hunger Games, 007, and Twilight) for domestic box office and ASM2 ranked 10th in 2014. They just weren't mega hits. But to Garfield's credit, a lot of fans feel his version was a lot better at incorporating Spidey's wit and trashtalking villains.
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    Sony seems convinced that anyone connected to Spider-man can be thrust into a movie lead. Maybe he was in the hat along with Hammerhead and Tombstone but happened to to get picked due to luck of the draw. There's also that issue about maintaining/retaining the Spidey license, so maybe this is a means to the end of hanging onto Spider-man indefinitely. I'm generally of the opinion that the rogues galleries aren't that interesting outside of the context of their respective heroes. Still haven't watched Joker or either Venom movie. But that's not necessarily the problem with Sony's movies. It's just they're just not great movies.
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    Not to be confused with Superman: Doomsday. On the one hand, I'm really curious to see RDJ's Dr. Doom. On the other hand, I'm kind of thinking WTH? I don't think making Dr. Doom a variant of Tony Stark is the right way to go, nor do I generally think casting the same actor as two different characters in the same continuity is a great idea, either. I suppose this means I can't accuse Marvel Studios anymore of being racist for casting Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan in two separate roles each and hoping we wouldn't notice...
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    I swear that was a feature in one of the versions of the game. Was it the Saturn version?
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    Cool catch with that Magneto still. I thought it was pretty neat to see Spider-man TAS MJ, but then I realized it either means that either this takes place before the end of Spider-man TAS, or the X-Men '97 timeline skips ahead to when she's already found. Not a big deal, I guess, but sometimes it feels like it's asking a lot for these franchise to tell stories linearly.
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    Pretty spot-on assessment, I think. The show has great moments and entertaining action scenes (albeit some of the fights are kinda silly, like how Magneto just needed a bandaid to recover from getting stabbed by Logan, or how Cyclops/Storm etc. get battered around with nary a bruise). It's also has some issues as a sequel, IMO, e.g. the Rogue/Magneto/Gambit triangle retcon.
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    Does X-Men 97 count as a kid's show? I think it's TV-14 whereas the original is Y7.
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    Please find a way to bring back Christopher Daniel Barnes. One of the few disappointing elements of the show is the voice mismatch between this and the original show.
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    LOL the Liefield and feet references in the thumbnail.
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