@Donut0389: As someone that really isn't a big Venom fan (unless he's bonded with Flash) I wouldn't say Venom is a loser. Not being the strongest does not make someone a "loser". He's the only symbiote that comes even close to being interesting and beyond one-note. The rest of them, quite frankly, suck. Carnage has had a few moments and has a great design but the character is just kind of there and doesn't rank all that high in terms of Spidy's rogues gallery. Anti-Venom is just....Blah.
@colbster: Into the Spider-Verse looks pretty good. Really though, Sony just needs to clean house at Sony Pictures. I'll never understand why they put Rothman in charge of anything over there. That hack was behind a lot of bad choices at Fox and he was outright fired from them. He wasn't given a graceful "Creative differences" or "it's time to move on" exit, there was no softening of his release. Yet Sony rushes to hire him after demoting Amy Pascal and things have all been downhill since. Sony Pictures needs better management. Either that or just sell the whole dang thing and be done with it.
Ugh. What does everyone see in this crappy trailer? It is not remotely creepy. The writing is god awful and it looks like it has nothing to do with the book. It just looks like so much generic modern horror garbage. Those two kids (who are apparently in every episode, according to IMDB) seem pretty bad. The lines they're given are really, really, bad but their acting does not inspire confidence. From the trailer, I think I'd rather see the abysmal 99 movie again over this.
Also, this seems to be doing more than "making some changes" to the source material. The trailer seriously seems to be implying that the house really is haunted. If that's the case, then they couldn't miss the entire bloody point of the book any harder if they tried.
"for those white hot Mr. Freeze puns" I think you mean "for those ice cold Mr. Freeze puns".
The beta sounds promising. As long as they steadily add content I think the service should go well, but that is going to be the big problem. CW shows are unlikely to hit the service until their deal with Netflix is up (no idea when that is) and due to their deal with Hulu it will only be on a seasonal basis and not weekly.
With the service launching on "Batman day" and with Bats being DC's biggest hero it makes sense that early on content will heavily favor that character.
@Barighm: Bull. There are entirely valid reasons not to pre-order games, but don't start making up BS. A game will be good or bad regardless of pre-orders. If anything, good pre-order numbers might encourage a company to delay a game if it needs more time as they would see it as guaranteed money. Or, low pre-order numbers might make a publisher think that no one wants the game and they won't put as many resources behind it. However, I doubt either of those are really the case. BFV's pre-order numbers are reportedly much lower than expected, but it's not going to make EA delay the game or put extra resources into it. It will still launch in the exactly the same state it is going to no matter how many, or how little, pre-orders it received.
@freddquadros: I still disagree. I knew from the moment they even announced plans for a Han Solo origin story that I was out. An origin for Han does nothing for me. I like the character as he was in the original trilogy, I have never felt the need to know where he came from. Even as a Star Wars fan, and a fan of the character, I simply have zero desire to watch the movie. The horrible trailers did not help either. Being a fan of a movie property does not mean you have to see every single thing with that property's name attached to it. Without watching the movie I can tell you I will not like it because I do not like the premise. I don't need to see the movie to tell me something I already know.
@freddquadros: You should NEVER be loyal to any company or product. Loyalty to consumer products is insanely stupid and makes you a bad consumer. Every company that wants your money should earn it and if you do not like the product they are selling you should not give them money for it. Loyalty is complete bullshit.
The thing is, its not really Disney in either case. Marvel Pictures and Lucasfilm operate on their own. Kevin Feige and Kathleen Kennedy only answer to Bob Iger. And those first two names are all the difference. Feige created a big plan when he was put in charge of Marvel Pictures. He keeps his plans in mind across all of the movies. Kennedy, I am not entirely sure if she knows what she wants or if she had any real plan in place beyond "make a bunch of movies".
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