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ParanoidObsessive posted...

In Whedon's case, I'm even less sympathetic because I've actually READ Astonishing X-Men, and feel like maybe he shouldn't be as involved with comic book properties as he thinks he should (a similar criticism I'd probably direct towards Kevin Smith, among others). I've also watched Buffy and Firefly, which means I'm much more apt to pick up on the various Whedon-isms that give away some of his weaknesses as a writer and director.

This so hard.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Warner Bros always seems like they're almost embarrassed to be making comic book movies, and that they're only doing it because their superiors farther up the chain are ordering them to because money. Which results in a lot of attempts to make comic book movies that aren't really comic book movies, or that sort of act ashamed of their own source material, which winds up being kind of alienating.

That same thing was a turnoff with Fox back when it first started to get into the comics game with X-Men, although they've been improving. I was pleasantly surprised by Days of Future Past and Apocalypse since, other than trying to get their money's worth out of J-Law, they were halfway decent films although Apoc tried to do way too much leading the thing to jump around non-stop and have character motivations flip left and right.

The Wave Master posted...

Wrestlemania was pretty damn good last night. 5 plus hours of wrestling goodness, if you're a fan, but one of my favorites, The Undertaker wrestled probably his last match last night.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/the-undertaker-leaves-the-ring-for-probably-the-last-1793946290

It was emotional and sad.

Like most PPVs, I skipped and just recapped highlights later on. (And, in general, WM has some worse habits than most PPVs in terms of just obnoxious false finishes.)

And, in general, the saddest part about the Undertaker's possible retirement is that his last match was *another* loss and attempt to set up Roman Reigns. If VKM was capable of planning ahead these days, I would almost wonder if the first loss was meant to just Reigns over since, to some extent, everything with Brock the first time seemed to build up Reigns.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The only thing I took away from the Undertaker match is that they're never going to turn Roman heel, and that the crowd is going to continue to hate him from now until doomsday.

Which in general is stupid because a lot of faces only got over thanks to their heel runs. They're trying to clone Cena, but they forget that Cena was a pretty hot heel for a while (and only got over *because* of his initial heel work) which helped him early on as a face.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The Hardys showing up wasn't entirely unexpected, but it was still cool nonetheless, and the swerve to introduce them was very well done.

The thing that kills me about the Hardyz is that the Broken gimmick is off the table right now thanks to that TNA lawsuit. So yeah, they're back but they're just the Hardyz again (and man is it hard to get used to Matt acting like Matt). Great way to introduce them, though.
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