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It’s been slightly less frequent since I switched over to this blog (coincidental timing), but for those who enjoy written content as much or more than my current video-heavy output I’m also a feature writer for ScreenRant. Thanks mostly to SDCC info-drops, I’ve had quite a few pieces run recently you might have missed, and since every little bit of traffic helps why not take a quick second or third look, huh?

“Do You Need To Watch All The Marvel Movies?”

“Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Success Proves Fox Needs To Work With Marvel On Fantastic Four”

“Will Flashpoint Reboot the DCEU’s Timeline?”

“What’s Going on With Ben Affleck’s Batman? (UPDATED!)”

“What Does Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Big Box-Office Drop Mean?”

“The Politics of War for the Planet of the Apes”

“How War for the Planet of the Apes Connects to the Original Movies”

*Who aren’t Bowser or The Koopalings…

Okay, Sony? If that HE-MAN movie you keep promising isn’t at about THIS or better in terms of silly space-barbarian nonsense? Don’t even bother – this looks like the MOTU movie I’ve always wanted. Looks/feels amazing:

Of note, the “Goddess of Death” call-out  feels a lot like Blanchett’s Hela will, in fact, be filling the Thanos paramour role that Death Herself typically plays in the comics. If so, you kinda have to sympathize with at least the big purple oaf’s motivations on this one – Holy SHIT does the “Black Metal Frontwoman” look suit her well…

Look, nobody wants JUSTICE LEAGUE to be good more than me, with the possible exception of anyone who has money invested with Warner Bros right now. So I don’t enjoy the fact that this fancy new trailer looks… like nothing special.

That’s not to say that it looks “bad,” but if the idea here was to turn everyone around on what’s thus far looked like a pretty bad film (and a DCEU sliding right back into its bad old habits after the welcome respite in WONDER WOMAN) this isn’t doing it as far as I’m concerned. Flash and Cyborg still look ridiculous, the overriding aesthetic resembles 90s comics in all the least attractive ways, and after half a Summer of female fans swooning over WONDER WOMAN’s epic beach fight it very much looks like Themiscyra and The Amazons’ role here is to get killed (or at least decisively “owned”) by Steppenwolf in order to demonstrate how bad a baddie he is – if so, that’s going to go over like a lead balloon.

I genuinely hope this is good. Whatever transformations WB has to make to this franchise to get it back to watchable, I hope it begins here. But I remain underwhelmed, and I don’t want to start feeling like we’ll be waiting around until the just-announced FLASHPOINT movie in order to see the substantive retooling that this whole enteprise worthwhile.