#StreetFighter review: comicbookmovie.com/video-gam…

Seeing complaints that Crystal Lake is dumb and silly... have you seen ANY of the Friday the 13th movies? 😂 If anything, the series finds a way to add a bit of seriousness and pathos while also working as an OTT slasher throwback.

As a big fan of the games, I was able to have some fun with #StreetFighter, but it has a lot of problems. It nails some characters, makes a complete mockery of others, and the humor is below American Pie levels of juvenile (I lost count of the gay jokes). The fight scenes are very well handled (which will be enough for some), but I wish the movie had taken itself just a *little* more seriously. Ryu, Ken and Akuma are standouts. Chun-Li is unfortunately landed with the worst dialogue and a frankly bizarre subplot involving an obsessive colleague who touches himself during one of her fights (yes, really). Bison is a creepy weirdo... and not in a good way. Blanka is mostly great but rubs his armpit and smells... you know what, I think the director may have some pretty messed up fetishes.

No spoilers, but there are some awesome Exorcist nods in an upcoming episode of VisionQuest.

Ends > Kills.

Finished #VisionQuest. Like a lot of these Marvel shows, it starts and ends well, but everything in between is a mixed bag. There are undeniable moments of brilliance (most of them supplied by Spader's Ultron), but the whole thing just gets a little tedious after a while, and the younger actors sometimes feel like they're in over their head. Even so, most of the emotional moments do connect, and I'd say it's up there with the better D+ series, overall.

Not exactly... but there are more scenes of people kissing, licking and smelling feet (and other body parts), and getting sexually aroused by fighting than there needs to be in a Street Fighter movie... which is zero.

One major positive is the stunning 2D animated sequences. They're so good that I found myself wishing the entire movie was animated... Street Fighter comes alive during these scenes.

I very much enjoyed, but didn't love Mike Flanagan's #Carrie... and it has very little to do with the changes (I was never a big fan of the book or De Palma's film, tbh). A lot of it just felt superfluous, which usually happens when a story is stretched out like this. Still, excellent performances all round, and I actually liked this ending a lot more.

I've only seen the first episode of #VisionQuest (the screeners only came through a few hours ago), but it seems pretty damn good. Never really been the biggest Vision fan, but there are definite WandaVision vibes here, and I can tell James Spader is going to run away with it.

First concept art for the scrapped Green Lantern/Emerald Knights HBO series that was in the works before Lanterns...

So many people feel the need to be "ride or die" when it comes to movies/shows. You can like something while still admitting that not everything works. Some of the excuses I've seen on here for the crappy creative decisions in that Lanterns finale are laughable.

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Noah rescued Hal *and* Earl from the fire. That potentially genocidal Manhunter hybrid is okay by me.

I was with #Lanterns right up to that finale, but it did not stick the landing. Some nice moments, but the big "who killed Hal Jordan" reveal was asinine. I don't need action and spectacle, I do need the central mystery to make a bit of damn sense. Even so, I'm excited for Stewart's return in MOT.