Recent content by MarkB

I voted for Men at Arms. Guards! Guards! establishes the City Watch series, but Men at Arms is where the wider cast of characters comes together.

Both of those things were more likely due to how assassins work, though. I think a good option would have been to give the assassin some disposable hired goons whose brief was to lock down the party's healer to prevent interference with the kill, but whose CR was too low for them to be...

To be fair, they're probably operating at a significant loss just showing a movie to that small an audience in the first place. I do remember the time I went to see The Force Awakens in 3D near the end of its run. I'd seen it in 2D when it first came out, but figured, hey, might as well...

I'm still playing Ghost of Yotei, having a good time with it so far. I'm just starting in on the second major 'chapter', not that they're set in a particular order - you choose which particular thread to pull on in which order. I'm glad I did the Kitsune first as that region unlocks most of...

As I interpret the spell, fleeing targets would not only fail to avoid cliffs, they would actively seek them out if available. The spell specifies moving away using the fastest means possible, and there are few if any faster means of movement in the D&D ruleset than falling.

My impression was that this was their intended function - that the facility had been deliberately buried, and these were fans intended to unbury it at some future, post-apocalyptic date. So, actually a poor example - this was tech specifically built to withstand the test of both time and nuclear...

One I'm not sure has been mentioned yet is Hot Fuzz, just for being so very carefully crafted in terms of set-ups and pay-offs while also knowing exactly what it's doing in terms of simultaneously parodying and paying homage to that specific breed of action cop thrillers. Plus it's really fun to...

Yeah, I think the substance of the complaint against Fury Road was that We Don't Need Another Hero.

I haven't been keeping up with the redesign, but I know one issue with the game as it originally released was that you couldn't really do that Skyrim-style aimlessly wandering around doing stuff and avoiding the main quest to more than a limited degree, because at some point you'd have...

I know you meant individually, but now I've got an image in my head of someone in Leeloo's white top and orange rubber bracers, sporting Ruby's hairdo, makeup and mic cane. Presumably with a double-sided multipass.

It's good but a little simplistic. Top Gun Maverick, on the other hand, feels finely-crafted to deliver the best possible experience, its early acts introducing and defining its characters while also providing the audience with so perfect a roadmap for the actual mission to come that they aren't...

One thing to bear in mind with a lance is that the optimal successful outcome of using one in combat is to leave an entire armoured human or possibly a horse impaled upon it, and once that happens you as the rider are going to need to let go of it pretty promptly or else you're not going to be...

Terminator 2: Judgement Day. I know it's a sequel and therefore hard to consider on its own, but the ways it builds upon the original to create something better and more complete is part of its perfection.

Wait, Yodas are Gremlins? That explains why we've never seen more than a couple of them. The Mogwai are actually Ewoks, and Yoda, Yaddle and Grogu are the handful of them who've eaten after midnight.

The Fifth Element Returns coming to Theaters Man, these legacy sequels just keep coming.