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  1. tekering
    Well, die-hard Star Trek fans are the only audience they can expect to keep watching... and there's kind of a battered woman syndrome going on there.
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    Every film is shot that way, of course; the average shooting ratio on film is 10:1, and much higher for Hollywood blockbusters. That has nothing to do with a movie's runtime. Wingard is saying there's five hours' worth of CONTENT, not raw footage. No, Independence Day is dumb. Alien vs. Predator is dumb. Godzilla vs. Kong is STULTIFYING. HBO Max should add a viewer discretion warning to the effect of "Watching this film could result in neurological illness or permanent brain damage."
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    So last week, Adam Wingard was interviewed by Den of Geek, and his comments reveal the biggest problem with the film: With FIVE credited writers (and surely more uncredited), there were obviously big script problems... It sounds like the film was rushed into production before they had a finished script, which is always a recipe for disaster. So he shot FIVE hours of scripted material for a film he wanted to be under TWO hours? He sounds like an irresponsible idiot, trying to solve problems in the editing bay that should've been solved before millions of dollars were wasted shooting unusable footage. Strangely enough, the most basic problems of geography haven't been addressed in any online review or YouTube video I've come across:
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    Lots of new voices, but they sound good in the trailer... and I like the fact that two feature-length films are required for a faithful adaptation. The second part will reportedly be rated R. As always, DC does better in the animated realm, and Marvel fares better in live-action.
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    Ryan George makes it fun, as he always does. He covers most of my criticisms so succinctly I've decided to abandon my own review video, which was just bitter and sarcastic.
  6. tekering
    That depends entirely on the scale. I'd pay $180 each if they were 1:12 scale, or $120 each for 1:18... but I imagine they'll be a lot smaller, in which case we already have the superior Moscato crabs.
  7. tekering
    I have a strong nostalgic attachment to Centurions, but I'm too old to think these look cool. I'd rather they tackled Mighty Orbots or Pole Position... you know, toyetic IPs that never got toys.
  8. tekering
    Not if they want my money. Ah, who am I kidding? They could paint it Day-Glo orange and I'd still buy one.
  9. tekering
    Wow, that Prime's not to scale with the others, is he...?
  10. tekering
    Whether he's directing Star Wars or Godzilla, Gareth Edwards has proven to be the real King.
  11. tekering
    You obviously haven't read the book. It starts out great, but just gets worse, and worse, and worse.
  12. tekering
    Well, of course: if it's between MMC and XTB, that's a no-brainer. MMC will always be the clear winner. Oh, they will... just not until FansToys, X-Transbots, and DX9 announce theirs.
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    You'd think, after a solid decade of this behavior, I would no longer be surprised by how these Asian third-party manufacturers are constantly competing with each other, announcing the same projects at the same time, fracturing and dividing the very market they're trying to appeal to... ...but it continues to dumbfound me.
  14. tekering
    Wow, those are the worst figures I've ever seen from Magic Square. The chests look better than New Age's 'Bee and Cliffy, but the faces are much worse... and the alt. modes are an abomination.
  15. tekering
    Okay, having watched it myself, I think you guys were trying to take me for an April's Fool. I went in with low expectations, knowing it was a stupid premise to begin with, but... this went WAY beyond stupid. What a frustrating, aggravating experience.
  16. tekering
    Yeah, I suppose the Masterpiece ideal would be halfway between the lanky HasTak and the beefy Sentinel proportions. Thanks for the reference pics. LEK exists on a higher plane of existence than us mere mortals.
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    Does it? Is it? Maybe I'm too used to my Sentinel Gigantic Action Scorponok, but I really don't like the elongated chest and skinny little legs on the HasTak... ...but I'm sure the Titans Return figure has a much better alt. mode.
  18. tekering
    What's with the separate branding? They're both legacy characters from the same movie, produced at the same scale, so shouldn't they be part of the same line?
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    Lex Luthor...?
  20. tekering
    Would any of those vehicles be 1:64 scale, though? If they're all an equal 1.65 inches in length -- as those images suggest -- then every vehicle will be a different scale. I mean, cars with a similar wheelbase may end up being close to equal in scale (Crosshairs and Barricade, perhaps, or Jazz and Bumblebee...?), but that would likely be a fluke, rather than by design. I absolutely hate how Jada, Hot Wheels, and Matchbox treat "scale" as if it were marketing lingo, rather than a measurement of relative size.
  21. tekering
    Yeah, almost as good as the first Suicide Squad ...trailer. And we all remember how that turned out.
  22. tekering
    It took nearly 20 years for Southern Cross to get a DVD release, and nearly 20 years have passed since then... Now, however, we have new video algorithms for upscaling anime to HD standards, and software to adjust color-timing and replace the old analog music with digital stereo recordings. Dare to compare!
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    I'd agree the Heisei films are more consistent in tone and quality than the Showa series that preceded it (and the Millennium films that followed it, for that matter), but I think this last decade has been The Big G's finest. I consider both Gareth Edward's Godzilla and Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla better than any previous films in the franchise, and I suspect Godzilla vs. Kong will complement Edward's film at least as well as Michael Dougherty's King of the Monsters does. And, regardless of how you feel about story, plot, or human characters, you can't deny how much more suited CGI is for kaiju than rubber suits or stop-motion ever were.
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    When in doubt, go to Scorched Earth Toys at anymoon.com! The general consensus is that Yamato's 1:48 still shines in fighter mode, but battroid mode has skinny arms and extremely awkward hands. Bandai's DX has a much beefier robot mode, better articulation, more tampographed details, and particularly well-designed hands.
  25. tekering
    I think you're forgetting the Warbotron, and the MechFansToys, and the Custom Robots... It's a pretty old pic, but you get the idea.
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