Films and TV (Untagged spoilers)

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Only if the camera zooms to every mini-boss and he gets a little speech before being utterly destroyed by the hero character.

[Mazder]

Only if the camera zooms to every mini-boss and he gets a little speech before being utterly destroyed by the hero character.

If they have one make a narrow escape and comes back at the end of the show too I'd be down for that!

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I'll save my thoughts regarding the plot and character arcs and whatnot for another time, but just some observations from the last two episodes of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series:

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Flashback to Episode 2 era Anakin and Obi-Wan having a practice duel on Coruscant, demonstrating Anakin's skills but also his flaws.

Vader got some Force Unleashed/Starkiller action with bringing down a ship trying to fly away and tearing its bulkhead apart like wet tissue paper. But it's draining enough that when a second ship, the real ship filled with refugees and Kenobi lift off, he can't catch it before it gets away.

Third Sister was a youngling in the Jedi Temple when Anakin and the 501st attacked during Order 66, and she survived by giving in to the Dark Side and becoming an inquisitor all in the hopes that she would one day get close to Vader and at an opportune moment assassinate him as revenge for slaughtering all her friends, no matter how many atrocities she had to commit for the Empire's behalf to get there. Unfortunately for her, Vader was aware of this all along, and when she picks her moment--rather badly, might I add--Vader just kicks her ass effortlessly, toying with her so much its funny. After he's had his fun he finally stabs her in the gut, but doesn't finish her off. (I guess we're supposed to assume Vader thought she'd die of wounds sustained, or that he saw her as so pathetic it wasn't even worth wasting the time and effort to finish her off as a final mark of disrespect, but it feels contrived.)

Grand Inquisitor isn't dead from his gut stab, so the canon is preserved for Rebels.

Getting stabbed in the gut just isn't good enough to kill folks anymore. (Like, Dark Siders can survive horrific, even normally fatal injuries with the power of hate, the precedent is there, Maul and Vader are proof of that, Scion and more from the old EU as well, but when you use it too often in the same story its starts to become overly convenient and abusing plot armor.)

Obi-Wan gets his mojo back and duels Vader again, a proper fight this time, and while Vader has the upper hand at first, once Kenobi gets his second wind and damages Vader's life support cybernetics, Obi-Wan gets a decisive victory. They even do the thing from Rebels when Ahsoka broke Vader's mask so you can see Anakin's face and hear his voice through the damaged voice modulator. They exchange words, Kenobi apologizing for failing him, and Vader replies back "I am not your failure, Obi-Wan. You didn't kill Anakin Skywalker...I did." with a twisted grin that's half Sith Lord pride and malice and half the self-loathing of a broken Anakin knowing he's responsible for his own choices and no one else. Kenobi becomes convinced that he can't save him and that Anakin is truly gone, but can't bring himself to kill him, leaving him behind as Vader screams his name in rage.

Emperor Palpatine is tired of Vader's obsession with Obi-Wan as its weakening him, clouding his judgment, giving him tunnel vision, and threatening to bring up remnants of Anakin to the surface as his past consumes him, and orders him to knock it off. The galaxy won't subjugate itself, ya know.

Third Sister finds out about Luke and goes to kill him in an attempt to get some kind of revenge on Vader--not aware that Vader doesn't know about Luke-- but can't bring herself to do it when the moment comes. Kenobi convinces her to stat a new life, so now Disney can make a spinoff show or book series about her having space adventures as she tries to redeem herself, I guess.

Owen and Beru pull off a pretty good GET OFF OUR LAWN stand against a Force User to protect Luke, even if she wasn't at her best.

Leia gets back to Alderaan, but the Empire never sees fit to investigate further into the Organa family. (I guess Bail being an Imperial Senator gave him some privileges. At least until Palpatine dissolves the Senate entirely in Episode 4 and Tarkin blows up the planet wholesale, anyway. )

I guess we're meant to believe Leia named her son Ben because of her bonding with Obi-Wan on their little adventure together.

Obi-Wan says "Hello there!" when he introduces himself to young Luke. The Meme Gods must be appeased, after all.

At the very end, Obi finally sees and talks with Qui-Gon's Force Ghost as he heads out to build his house from Episode 4.

[magnuskn]

Yeah, the repeated "gut stabs with lightsabers being a minor inconvenience" happened waaayy too often this series.

All in all, emotionally I liked the series, but I had to turn off my brain quite a lot of times. So many plot holes. And the space ship CGI was very dodgy in many places. However, that final confrontation between Obi-Wan and Vader... dang. That was good shit. Also, I liked young Leia a lot more than I thought I would.

[Alienmorph]

Rumors about Thor: Love and Thunder, coming from people who have allegedly walked out of the premieres:

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The Guardians of the Galaxy are just an extended cameo, they only have like 5-10 minutes of screentime in total;

Zeus is a sort of a secret antagonist of the film. He's not full on villan but he is... very old myth accurate, aka very violent and selfish;

It is NOT a passing of the THORch movie... Jane Foster in the end dies fighting Gorr alongside Thor, and there's even a post credit scene of her meeting Heimdall in Valhalla;

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[Dragaros]

"Even though production on the next Kong film has been quiet, Village Roadshow Studios announced filming will start soon and set construction is already underway."

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"Top Gun: Maverick has joined the billion-dollar club at the global box office. It’s the first Tom Cruise film to achieve the milestone, and the 50th Hollywood movie overall, not adjusted for inflation. Director Joseph Kosinski’s film passed the barrier after finishing Sunday with an estimated domestic total of $521.7 million and $484.7 million overseas for a global cume just north of $1 billion. Top Gun: Maverick enjoyed a boost in its fifth weekend thanks to being rereleased in select Imax and premium large-format screens. The Paramount and Skydance release grossed $30.5 million domestically and $44.5 million overseas for a weekend total.

The sequel is only the second Hollywood title of the pandemic era to cross $1 billion behind Sony and Disney’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.89 billion). According to Paramount, more than 16 percent of Top Gun 2′s audience has seen the film more than once in theaters, while 4 percent have seen it four times or more. Cruise’s previous biggest film worldwide was Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which grossed $791 million in 2018, not adjusted for inflation. Top Gun: Maverick is also Paramount’s biggest live-action movie in 15 markets, including the U.K., Australia, France and Brazil, as well as the studio’s highest-grossing original release at the domestic box office behind Titanic. The first Top Gun, released in 1986, earned $357.8 million at the worldwide box office, unadjusted."


[[ 2022 Worldwide Box Office:

1. Top Gun: Maverick = $1,006,423,000
2. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness = $947,014,432
3. The Batman = $770,345,583
4. Jurassic World Dominion = $746,664,000
5. Water Gate Bridge = $626,571,280
6. Uncharted = $401,636,252
7. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore = $401,109,523
8. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 = $400,924,000
9. The Bad Guys = $238,609,000
10. Too Cool to Kill = $217,254,604 ]]

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"The search for a new actor for James Bond hasn’t begun yet because the next iteration will be a reinvention of the character. It will be “at least 2 years“ before the next 007 movie begins filming."

"Howard Stern Potentially Leaks MCU Doctor Doom Project."

"The sequel to ‘GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE’ will release on December 20, 2023 in theaters."

"Warner Bros has moved Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two from Oct. 20, 2023 to Nov. 17, 2023."

"The next Godzilla-Kong Monsterverse sequel from Legendary has been dated for March 15, 2024."

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Another summer, another shark movie gets released. Like clockwork.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUWFt35UTg

And there's the Asylum Mockbuster for JWD.

[Dragaros]

According to JWD's Dino Tracker site, both of the Sorna Raptor sub-species we see in TLW and JP3 are not extinct and are present on the mainland. And there may be some dinos still left on Site B after all.

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"Anna Sawai, Ren Watabe, Kiersey Clemons, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski have been cast to star in Legendary's upcoming untitled Monsterverse series for AppleTVPlus."

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"From Toho's official Godzilla website - it is announced that Godzilla WILL return in the 5th MonsterVerse film installment."

The Big G is confirmed to be in the next Monsterverse movie, so Kong is going to have to share the spotlight.

Now that Mechagodzilla is scrap, and Ghidorah seems truly gone for good, who can take the Big Bad mantle and be a big enough threat to force Godzilla and Kong to team up again? We still have an island coastline that got ravaged in KOTM by the Oxygen Destroyer...

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNU0mXS31oc&ab

well now we have at least an idea of what Namor is going to look like in he MCU.

not going to lie he looks so not like Namor that he doesn't even look like that same character.

[Dragaros]

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