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  1. Jeff J
    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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    Seeing Gladiator serving Deathbird got me interested right away since last we saw Deathbird, her coup to take the throne from Lilandra failed. EDIT: This takes me back to the height of Game of Thrones, but first thing I see when I go to YouTube was a video with a spoiler for today's episode in the title. 🤦‍♂️
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    For what it's worth, back in 1998, I could walk around malls in the Philippines and buy a bunch of Macross model kits. That same year, I went to book stores in Korea and bought a bunch of Macross art books. I've been to both countries quite a few times in the past 5 years and I pretty don't see anything Macross, but Gundam stuff can be found everywhere.
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    I wonder if they photographed Jackman wearing the mask or if they just Photoshopped a mask on top of his face.
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    Maybe the real issue is just that I'm 30 years older, but I feel like when the Fox Kids X-Men first aired, it was unapologetically for kids, like Baby's First X-Men stories. The release of X-Men 97 came with so much fanfare that comes with anything Marvel Studios releases that I kind of expected the show to be written with a bit more depth than what the actual product is. Guess I just came in with unrealistic expectations. BTW, I tend to prefer the Marvel and DC cartoons that are primarily targeted for kids. Maybe it's just a coincidence?
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    Wonder if they'll bother making him look like the the Watchers in GotG2.
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    Agreed. Watching episode 3 was like watching a 30-minute, condensed episode on YouTube that highlights on certain parts of a TV series. I also am not really a big fan of the idea of resurrecting an old TV show, but one good thing is that we don't have to see another take on the Dark Phoenix Saga. For that reason alone I'm okay with (sort of) picking up where the original show left off. I just don't have faith that anyone can tell a new X-Men story for other media that didn't touch on Dark Phoenix, just like DC keeps going back to Doomsday and the Death of Superman.
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    I can't say I blame BW. I'm one of those people who feels like paying HG to cooperate is like paying that hacker to deactivate the ransomware on my computer...
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    I watched only some of S5, and the ones I watched had decent storytelling relative to the rest of the season*. It's just the look of the show went downhill when they changed animation studios. Reading some audience reviews of S5, apparently they have a lot of bottle episodes, too. *Meant to say rest of the series, not season.
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    Super duper nitpick here, but I'm still disappointed they titled the show '97 instead of '92 or something else. I guess it makes sense that they would name it after the year where it picked off. But typically, if one year had to be assigned to the show, it's the show's debut year, which is what DC Comics did with its Batman '66 comics or the TMNT 1987 moniker. I know I'm overthinking it, but when I think of Fox Kids's X-Men, the last year of its original run I want to think of is '97, when the production quality was at its worst and the show's relevance was at its nadir. I suppose '66 and '97 might've been picked for sounding better...
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    Hope the salad's better than their blue and green milk.
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    I'm a sucker for home, Nintendo console (funny that we should specify this, hahaha...) Zelda games, but I'm not really looking forward to this movie. I liked the 15-minute cartoon from 1990 or so, but I was also a kid back then. Assuming they actually go through with this, my big wish would be that the story was more or less ALttP or OoT. Those I feel are the foundation for Zelda lore, and if I have any nitpicks on the BotW era, it's that we've gotten a bit away from some core Zelda concepts such as the Triforce.
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    I think if you look back at the last 50 years or so, they have periods of hits and misses. If they keep pumping out content while also hiring creative minds, they'll get more successful hits. The problem last year seems to be one of creative bankruptcy, pumping out algorithm-driven stories that leaned hard on known IPs, and pandering to select audiences. They'll adapt.
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    I think it's about how Cyke is in his civvies, optic blasting the sky, when his name appears in text on the screen.
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