Kraven The Hunter Knows Nothing
Welp, Sony continues to churn out these non-Spider-Man Spider-Man films. They didn’t learn their lesson with Morbius. They learned the wrong lessons with the successes of the Venom films. So let’s go with Kraven The Hunter. Because nothing will stop them!
Also, it’s a red band trailer, so go watch it on YouTube and the come back here to leave a comment. Don’t give YouTube all your good comments!
It’s just Morbius all over again. Seemingly ordinary fella gets some kind of magic animal injection, now he’s got similar powers. What are Kraven’s new animal senses if not just Morbius’s bat senses? And he can control animals now? So he’s not even comic book Kraven the Hunter? And that’s definitely now how comic book Rhino works.
How many failures does Sony need before they stop this?!
Anyway, I’ll definitely see it when it comes to theaters in October.
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I Like the Look of Elio
I went and saw Elemental this weekend and I liked it. The film is cute and it won me over in the end. I don’t think it’s a great film or anything that’s going to fix Pixar’s recent losing streak, but it was a fine watch. It was also as predictable as I feared it would be based on the trailers, and a lot of the logistics of its world really annoyed me.
Why do you have chain link fences? Because the animators put them in the movie, that’s why. Jeez.
Anyway, Pixar’s next film is Elio, which is a bad title for what looks like a fun film.
I think this looks neat. It’s not as predictable, I don’t think. Lotta weird and funny stuff could happen out in space to this kid. That “Uh, Earth” joke is stale as hell and has been done a bajillion times, but that’s fine. Surely that’s not going to be indicative of a bad script overall. This looks cute.
Also, what’s up with Pixar/Disney animated films and these one-word titles? There are so many interesting titles that could come from this wild, sci-fi alien premise, but they just go with the kid’s name? Heck, “Uh, Earth” would have been a better title.
Anyway, we can expect Elio in March, 2024.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 6/17/23
Fun week in comics for me this week. We’ve got a pair of new issues, and that’s always a hoot. But we’ve also got the second issue of Green Lantern. So it’s one of those weeks.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Void Rivals #1 for a pretty much perfectly structured and told first issue, which sufficiently teases whatever this new Energon Universe is going to be.
Meanwhile, I’ve taken a pause from Tears of the Kingdom to try out Diablo 4 with some friends of mine, and it’s been a fine choice. I love the Diablo games and this one is just as fun as the others. I also watched and enjoyed The Flash movie, so come back on Wednesday for my review/thoughts.
Comic Reviews: Black Panther #1, Green Lantern #2 and Void Rivals #1.
Read the rest of this entryNimona Looks Pretty Great
There’s a new animated movie coming to Netflix called Nimona, based on a comic by N.D. Stevenson. I never read the comic, but Stevenson was the genius behind She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, so I trust everything they do from now on. Nimona looks pretty great!
Looks fun, looks pretty silly, but it also looks touching and cool. Nimona is being hailed as an LGBTQ+ story, which is great for Pride Month. I’m definitely looking forward to watching this one.
Nimona comes to Netflix on June 30.
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Our First Look at Star Wars: Outlaws Looks Pretty Good
A big, open world Star Wars game has been rumored for some time now. I even did a List of Six about what I’d like to see in such a game when it was first announced two years ago. Based on the new trailer and game announcement, looks like I’m getting about half of what I hoped for. Star Wars: Outlaws will be a non-Jedi game where you play as a plucky, young scoundrel getting up to crimes and mischief sometime during the original trilogy timeframe.
Here’s the cinematic announcement trailer.
Looks fine. Looks full of Star Wars stuff. The protagonist looks neat. I’m disappointed that she’s just another human. And a white person at that. But I can live with it. At least she’s a woman. This is Star Wars. Why can’t we have really diverse alien protagonists for some of these games? Does that not test well? Would nobody buy the game if the protagonist was a lady Twi’lek?
Anyway, here’s the gameplay trailer.
Again, looks fine. That’s all the open world gameplay stuff that I really enjoy. I like how she can transition between locations, including planets, maybe. I like how she can use her little pet to accomplish stuff in game, like effect the environment and grab new weapons.
But it also all looks kind of samey. Nothing really stands out as new or exciting for an open world game. So perhaps it will just be a generally enjoyable Star Wars game. Nothing wrong with that. I like those.
Star Wars: Outlaws, produced by Ubisoft, comes out sometime next year.
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