The Some Like It HOT TAKES thread

Thor, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Black Panther, and Vision all have very costumey, comic booky appearances. Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow have gone the route of body armor that references the original costumes, which I'm not so fond of. I'm still surprised that they kept the colors on Iron Man so bright and vibrant.

I'm really curious to see what they do with Captain Marvel. I hope it's not more body armor.

True, but they're mostly cool looking armor-y things instead of spandex. Thor's wearing his Asgardian armor (minus the helmet most of the time).

Ant-man needs his suit to not go crazy when changing size, and it's not wrestler shorts over skin-tight spandex like the comic version.
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Black Panther is way more armored than the bodysuit his comic counter-part wears.
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Spidey and Vision I'll give you, though Vision isn't wearing a costume so much as walking around technically naked (like Mystique is most of the time)

They all have their appearance based of comic costumes, but really that's incredibly common for comic book movies. Giving the X-men black leather uniforms and being derisive of the comic costumes was the real outlier. X-men was out in 2000, yet Spider-Man in 2002 has faithful comic book costumes.

Keep the takes hot, like Antman's pants!

Also, To be fair, both Antman and Black Panther have had a variety of costumes over the years. The Cinematic versions are very close to some era ones. The Civil War I era Panther suit was actually fairly armored. I guess fitting for the movie he was in.

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ClockworkHouse wrote:
Grenn wrote:

I thought that was James Marsden. Wasn't David Hayter Solid Snake? I think I'm missing something.

Hayter wrote the screenplay. :)

Ahhh. Now I'm picking up what you're putting down.

HOT TAKE: Netflix's Marvel's Iron Fist is bland. Like saltine crackers and a packet of chicken noodle soup eaten from a coffee mug level of bland.

Rat Boy wrote:

HOT TAKE: Netflix's Marvel's Iron Fist is bland. Like saltine crackers and a packet of chicken noodle soup eaten from a coffee mug level of bland.

This is sadly true.

Rat Boy wrote:

HOT TAKE: Netflix's Marvel's Iron Fist is bland. Like saltine crackers and a packet of chicken noodle soup eaten from a coffee mug level of bland.

This is not the thread for your TEPID TAKES.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters is the best graphic novel ever written. It's so good that it transcends that medium. I don't think I've ever experienced a piece of art that's touched me quite so deeply.

Go. Read. It.

Fishing in video games is universally stupid, bad, and not fun. Any game that requires you to do it is less fun automatically.

Chaz wrote:

Fishing in video games is universally stupid, bad, and not fun. Any game that requires you to do it is less fun automatically.

Someone's playing Nier.

Chaz wrote:

Fishing in video games is universally stupid, bad, and not fun. Any game that requires you to do it is less fun automatically.

I would expand that to "any game which provides mundane, boring tasks in the name of 'realism' is just padding out the length, and it's always frustrating". Otherwise known as "playing a Rockstar game". I don't want to drive a taxi, or deliver pizza, or take my cousin bowling, or HERD STUPID @#$!! CATTLE. None of it is fun or rewarding or adds anything to the gameplay experience other than letting a marketing department pad a few extra hours onto the potential "gameplay" time.

Regarding a spoiler of a scene in the upcoming Outlast 2

Spoiler:

In one cut-scene in the game ... a female creature prepares Blake for a ritual. She says, "I want to see your true face. Your seed will burn this world." Shortly afterwards, he objects to having psycho-active dust blown into his face, yelling, "Nope! Nope!" before he stumbles into a forest clearing.

His vision blurring, he witnesses what appears to a ritualistic orgy. His wife, Lynn, calls out for his help, saying, "It hurts! Oh god!," as she hangs from chains on a raised platform at the front of the clearing. Humanoid creatures, their skin grey, spattered with blood and scarred, implicitly have sex as others pray, or chant, or gesticulate.

One creature has another bent over a rock, thrusting as they implicitly have rear-entry sex, another sits astride the pelvic region of a creature prone on the ground, moving their hips rhythmically as they too implicitly have sex. Two other pairs of creatures in the clearing are also implicitly having sex.

As Blake yells for the creatures to "Get away from her!" a female creature, her greyish breasts bared, pushes him onto his back, holds his arms to the ground and repeatedly thrusts her crotch against him. As Blake protests, saying "No! Stop that!" the creature thrusts again, before placing its face over his midsection and then sitting up and wiping its mouth.

Although much of the contact between the creature and Blake is obscured, by it taking place below screen, the sexualised surroundings and aggressive behaviour of the creature suggest that it is an assault which is sexual in nature. The Board is of the opinion that this, combined with Blake's objections and distress, constitutes a depiction of implied sexual violence.

That sounds, honestly, potentially thematically appropriate for the game (at least, what I know of the original). Some of the comments strike me as people arguing that such content is never allowable or justifiable in a game, which is typically the opposite of what people complaining about this kind of content in games will say themselves (along the lines of "we don't want to ban it, we just want it to be not everywhere").

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Chaz wrote:

Fishing in video games is universally stupid, bad, and not fun. Any game that requires you to do it is less fun automatically.

Someone's playing Nier.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

Chaz wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:
Chaz wrote:

Fishing in video games is universally stupid, bad, and not fun. Any game that requires you to do it is less fun automatically.

Someone's playing Nier.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

And into Chaz's car.

It's a van, thankyouverymuch.

HOT TAKE: Of all the multiplayer shooters EA currently has active, Battlefield 4 is by far the best option still.

Counter Hot Take: The FFXV lead's fishing pole magically appearing the same way his weapons do is hilarious, and fishing games are harmless at worst.

HOT TAKE: New Beauty and the Beast live action film > 1991 animated film

Tanglebones wrote:

HOT TAKE: New Beauty and the Beast live action film > 1991 animated film

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

HOT TAKE: New Beauty and the Beast live action film > 1991 animated film

Spoiler:

The Alamo's preroll had a really interesting summary of the story's adaptations, going from Apuleius and the story of Cupid and Psyche up through the Linda Hamilton/Ron Perlman TV show

posted in the video thread...seems relevant.

Tanglebones wrote:

HOT TAKE: New Beauty and the Beast live action film > 1991 animated film

No... one... talks like *Legion*
No one boasts like *Legion*
No one fills up a thread with sh*t posts like *Legion*

HOT TAKE: Parks and Rec is the worst written, worst acted cringefest I've ever watched. Nothing about it is redeeming, everything about it is awful, it's not even "so bad it's ironically good."

It's terribad, and I feel bad for having watched it. I'm tempted to delete my Netflix account and blow up my Roku just to be rid of the reminder of the time I tried to watch it.

It really picks up in season 2.

Alz wrote:

HOT TAKE: Parks and Rec is the worst written, worst acted cringefest I've ever watched. Nothing about it is redeeming, everything about it is awful, it's not even "so bad it's ironically good."

It's terribad, and I feel bad for having watched it. I'm tempted to delete my Netflix account and blow up my Roku just to be rid of the reminder of the time I tried to watch it.

I'm not going to defend it, but I have to ask, have you ever watched any other sitcom ever? Like, any of them?

Alz wrote:

HOT TAKE: Parks and Rec is the worst written, worst acted cringefest I've ever watched. Nothing about it is redeeming, everything about it is awful, it's not even "so bad it's ironically good."

It's terribad, and I feel bad for having watched it. I'm tempted to delete my Netflix account and blow up my Roku just to be rid of the reminder of the time I tried to watch it.

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Grenn wrote:

It really picks up in season 2.

Getting rid of Paul Schneider and keeping Chrisp Ratt (sic) was the best decision.

Ooooohhhh!!!! This is feeling like a superhot take, even though it breaks the first rule of a true hot take by starting with "HOT TAKE" like a football player that wears their own jersey out in public.

Jonman wrote:
Alz wrote:

HOT TAKE: Parks and Rec is the worst written, worst acted cringefest I've ever watched. Nothing about it is redeeming, everything about it is awful, it's not even "so bad it's ironically good."

It's terribad, and I feel bad for having watched it. I'm tempted to delete my Netflix account and blow up my Roku just to be rid of the reminder of the time I tried to watch it.

I'm not going to defend it, but I have to ask, have you ever watched any other sitcom ever? Like, any of them?

I have, and I'll the first to admit that what I "like" isn't exactly quality TV. Gilligan's Island was the pinnacle of sitcoms for me, and nothing will ever best it.

I grew up on Married with Children, Roseanne, and Seinfeld. Perfect Strangers, Just the Ten of Us, Full House, and that Urkel show on TGIF. I've watched the entire run of Friends and How I Met Your Mother, even hate-watching the extra seasons when the sharks have already been jumped, just to spite myself. The lizard part of my brain takes over when Chuck Lorre sitcoms like Two and a Half Men, and now Big Bang Theory, exploit stereotypes for the crudest form of entertainment. The best sitcom I've seen in the last few years has to be The Good Place. It's legit funny.

I remember watching Cheers and Fraiser, Golden Girls and Too Close for Comfort, Leave it to Beaver and My Three Sons and The Brady Bunch, Alice and All in the Family. But I couldn't tell you the plots to a single episode of any of them.

It may be that I already have a natural dislike for the "Confessional" gag, overused in The Office or Modern Family. It may be that I already believe Amy Poehler is not funny without Tina Fey. It may also be that I dislike shows about bad people, and most of the characters I've seen so far in Parks and Rec are bad people.

But if those were the only failing of Parks and Rec, I wouldn't be posting in HOT TAKES.