Recent content by Merrick_HLC

I'm just going to say check out The Cinema Snob's review on Blip as a sort of counterpoint. It has spoilers if you keep watching it long enough, but IMO they did a great job pointing out why this movie works & is worth watching. I'm not going to deny Raimi's movies are better 'cinema'...

I just had to bring this up somewhere, and just to be safe I'm spoiler tagging the rest of the post.

Co-creators I assume you mean. Stan Lee is in all the movies so I doubt he feels 'fucked over' and the only character in Avengers he didn't have a hand in creating is Captain America. Really, and I say this as an at least wannabe writer who is sympathetic to creator's by nature.... I think...

First in answer to your Q, I'm pretty sure Black Widow explicitly called him Hawkeye during the last battle scene. As the Germany scene, I actually just thought the guy had a (less thick) German accent, not a stereotypical Jewish one. I will agree that scene's probably the weakest in the...

Saw the midnight showing last night. As Bob says not sure if it's "The best" Superhero movie, but what I can say is it's definitely my FAVORITE Superhero movie now, heck it may just be just my favorite movie. Full stop. It was great action, a great story that gave some great scenes to...

Simple version that could have been fixed up in a few days. Keep stuff the same (minus the black tendrils obvious 'indoctrination' stuff) until Anderson & Shepard are bleeding on the citadel. Then a wave goes off, destroying the reapers (and just the reapers), Shepard dies seeing the...

Very true. And also that some folks will always think "The complainer is always wrong" What I mean is this. How many times have we heard "Why don't you take that energy and do something positive?" Which, ironically, is what the Retake thing TRIED to do. "You're upset? Instead of just...

Would Red Dead Redemption still count as "recent"? The thing is, I don't like the GTA series. No bashing of those who do but I've tried a few games and it just never really was my cup of tea. So when the publicity of RDR was very "GTA: Old West" it seemed like it wouldn't be my cup of tea...

Mass Effect did that to me sometimes. Most notably the "Rewrite or destroy" option. Fallout: New Vegas. Both trying to decide "Do I go solo or work with NCR" and when Caesar invited me, because I knew I wasn't gonna side with him & thus was thinking I was being lured into a big trap.

I'll put it this way. Would there have been some people unhappy with ME3's ending(s) no matter what they did? Yes there would be. BUT I can assure you if the series had ended with say, Shepard & Anders dying on the Citadel as the device destroys the Reapers and there's a montage ala...

1- I'd say that's logical since most gaming jouralism is sites that are supported damn near entirely by gaming ad revenue. 2-The problem is they didn't have an endpoint in mind when they started the series, from their own comments they came up with it kind of on the fly, off the hip. 3-...

Eh already traded in mine, and really no amount of 'explaining' will change that it was poor storytelling. But good points on them for at least addressing it and making it free.

I know I'm late here. But here's the thing. If you can't reach out to another human being and console them on the loss of their husband/wife because you don't like that they married that person, for WHATEVER reason you don't like it. You are bad excuse for a human being. I played the...

Assuming it comes with instructions and the ability to operate it. I'll take a TARDIS please. I'd love to be able to go forward a few years & see how things turn out. Visit alien worlds and see what all is out there.

Exactly. A lot of "art" responds directly or indirectly to fan complaints. Batman movies get HORRIBLE fan response for being over the top & campy as hell? Newer Batman movies swing HARD in the other direction making things far more 'realistic' & serious tone. X-men movies get fan hate...