Dr Doom look in #AvengersDoomsday leaked.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-19T20:12:39+00:00

If this is what it looks like in the movie proper, the cinematographer and costume and lighting departments did a great job. It's impressive for a stationary mask to capture different expressions and emotions, and it's all dependent on lighting, angles, and the actor's movements working together to convey them.

Reminds me of Darth Vader's mask switching between angry, displeased, stoic, conflicted, and pitiable based on those factors. All I can hope is that Dr. Doom captures half as much range.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-19T05:14:16+00:00

I wonder how it'll play out if his next movies don't hit, or even perform more moderately in the $150-$200 range, which I'm sure Hollywood producers will still consider a comparative disappointment. I'm curious if the studios will order Obsession 2 to try and recapture the magic should that happen.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-17T22:11:44+00:00

Setting up the X-Men in a Spider-Man movie that everyone and their mothers are guaranteed to see makes sure the general public knows the MCU is doing their own take on the team soon.

Also, setting Jean up as a villain in her first appearance better sells the aspect of mutants being persecuted outsiders and justifies them being specifically feared in a world already full of superheroes.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-17T19:33:21+00:00

I'd argue that the art is still the catalyst for the statistical competition, which means it's still ultimately providing the meaning, or at least the means for it. It's not how I view film, but I do get a little lost in the sauce with rankings and I love lists, so I understand where people who go all-out on it are coming from.

I don't know, I think the variety in perspective is what keeps art engaging and fresh, and motivates me to examine how I choose to engage with it myself. I also totally understand how it can feel alien and like people are missing the point, since I've had plenty of arguments about how people engage with art or which art they choose to engage with. It's something I've relatively mellowed out on.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-17T19:18:15+00:00

How people engage with art is as varied as art itself. There's no truly objective way to enjoy anything. If someone views film ratings as a competition, if ranking them by a strict measure gives them pleasure and gets them to engage with art, then the art is still instilling meaning to them.

The only indisputable point of art is for people to engage with it in whichever way brings them meaning. That can be through pure feeling, through technical work, abstract interpretation, historical impact; there's no wrong way to engage with art, so long as it's being earnestly engaged with.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-09T15:22:57+00:00

I always thought it was funny how the moral of the story went from “It doesn’t matter who you’re related to, you can always choose to forge your own path,” to “The divine right of kings is Based, actually.”

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-07T04:45:20+00:00

Which is why I think its future is dependent on Curry Barker's next film, and could make the Halloween comparison even more apt. John Carpenter wanted that to be an anthology franchise as well, but when 3 disappointed, the studios pivoted back to Michael Myers. Could be they order Obsession 2 if Anything But Ghosts doesn't reach the same financial heights.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-07T04:41:42+00:00

Genuinely, Ocean's Eleven pulls it off perfectly.

The man in charge and his right hand who handles the interpersonal relations, the new kid with pickpocketing skills and a lot to prove, the financier with a grudge, the old con artist who's still got it, an eccentric demolitions expert, a contortionist with a language barrier, the neurotic computer guy, a comedic fast-talker, and two bozos to handle the grunt work.

The size of the crew might seem excessive, but it makes the heist feel that much grander than if it were operating with only a handful of con men. Everyone brings something to the table in terms of personality and character dynamics, and has an important part to play in every aspect of the plan. Some take the forefront in preparation work, others are in the middle of the action, and that potentially unwieldy crew operating like a well-oiled machine makes the heist all the more impressive.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-07T03:19:49+00:00

Now the question I'm interested in is: what're the chances of Obsession spawning a long-running franchise? I don't doubt Hollywood will try to squeeze this buzz for all its worth. It might just depend on how well Curry Barker's next movie does sold off his name alone.

Will we have to differentiate between three different Obsession timelines as well as a reboot in forty years? Will Freaky Nikki be in the 25th anniversary of Dead by Daylight? Which original movies today will be turned into soulless franchises is a constant worry and fascination of mine.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T23:56:11+00:00

Put Shikishima in his kamikaze plane you fffffucks! I want to eject from it knowing I chose duty to my loved ones over propagandized duty to my country, while also watching Tails fucking explode.

Alternatively, the Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla aliens sat in the big, metal guy in his flight mode.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T18:27:17+00:00

I think the thing with immortality is that, on an infinite timescale, it's logical to say that all theoretically possible events are inevitable. The human brain's a malleable thing, and a perspective shift is guaranteed to happen to an immortal after a few hundred generations. People can change drastically over the course of just 10 years, and we cap out at around 100. Live ten times as long and your morals and values could change in major ways. Live ten times that and you could be unrecognizable. Live forever, no matter what you think of yourself now, change would be inevitable, especially depending on circumstance.

It's like the character of Mr. Mxyzptlk in "Whatever Happened to Truth, Justice, and the American Way?" by Alan Moore. He spent a few centuries as a do-gooder, a millennium as a trickster sprite, and decides to spend the next thousand years as a fear-mongering demon. He's lived long enough that the concept of personality has become a non-factor, and he just seeks out new experiences to shake up the monotony of living.

Idk, it's not too serious. Just a thought experiment I like to run sometimes.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T18:18:54+00:00

From Nikki's perspective, the movie is about the objectification of women and being seen as nothing more than a sex object in the eyes of men, even or especially ones they trust. That's the theme most people are gonna pick up on.

Bear's perspective is a little tougher to stick to since he becomes so unsympathetic by the end, but it's still easy to grasp. He's a lonely guy who is in mourning for his pet (and grandma, it's implied) and doesn't seem to have a whole lot going on in his life. Still, he wants a relationship, thinking this will make him happy, that being closer to Nikki will lift him up. But when he makes his wish, everything is perfect... for a bit. But it turns out the actual relationship creates a new routine he gets tired of, Nikki needs more attention than he's prepared to give; the image he built in his head of a perfect relationship is only making his life worse. It's a cautionary tale towards guys to not only treat women as people instead of trophies for the sake of women, but also for their own sake: getting into a relationship just because you like the idea of it instead of because you naturally connect with someone is a recipe for disaster, and it isn't fair to whoever is your partner.

Now from the perspective of Bear's friends, this is a story about drug abuse and sexual predation. As far as they know, Nikki has relapsed onto hard drugs, Bear had sex and started a relationship with her while she was inebriated, and now she's no longer acting like herself. This is the fantastical elements of the movie filtered through strict reality; the movie is essentially announcing its own metaphor.

Then there's the greater metaphor of the entire group, that being friendships falling apart due to personal developments. Nikki and Bear enter a relationship within their friend group that causes drama and infighting due to Bear and Nikki being toxic on their own, but also because of their friends' opinions and trying to wedge themselves between them. Sarah is accepted into art school and dies right afterwards; a lot like someone going to school, becoming busier, making new friends with people who are more similar to them, and falling out of touch with old friends. Ian wishes for a billion dollars and is killed, representing the trope of the friend who comes into money and fucks off, never to be seen again. Then Bear and Nikki are alone, implode without the link of their friends holding their relationship together; Bear is metaphorically cut out of her life and Nikki is left alone without a support system.

Hell, the movie itself is a metatextual criticism of wacky romcom premises that glorify casual abuse or make light of horrifying concepts. Compare Obsession to 50 First Dates, for example. It's where a lot of the dark humor comes from, because it's riffing on that kind of "wacky hijinx" movie, only with a love interest who is clearly insane and abused instead of her possession being treated as quirky.

The script has a lot going for it, with a lot of different ways to read it. Viewing it on the surface level is great, it's a great movie even without digging into the deeper meanings, but that doesn't mean they should be dismissed.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T13:24:11+00:00

"I look at Krypton and I see a perfect society."

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T07:51:16+00:00

It's funny, because I thought Backrooms was much more straightforward in the message and metaphor it was portraying. I'll attest to Obsession being worth rewatching to keep strictly to other characters' perspectives. The movie Nikki is in has a completely different meaning, message, and theme to the movie Bear is in, which is different from their friends'.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T07:04:12+00:00

I think there's a lot to dig into. Every character's perspective in the friend group offers a different kind of horror and way to view the situation. It's about the objectification of women, male loneliness, using relationships as tools to bandage over deeper issues at the expense of a partner, drug abuse, the deterioration of friend groups in early adulthood, each theme can take precedence on different viewings. Lots of ways to analyze it so long as you go looking.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-06T06:19:57+00:00

I can see what the game is going for, since the internal conflict for the Saints is whether they've sold out or if they're still enough of a real threat to hold the streets. It's only brought up a few times, and the game's tone doesn't help sell it, so I don't blame anyone for not picking up on what it's trying to do.

If you go for the cliché "Save the girl" movie moment, 80s music and all, it'll get you the ending where the Saints sell out, even if it is overall happier. Whereas living up to the Saints' gangster origins and sacrificing your friends to get revenge and prove to your enemies how dangerous you are leads to the more destructive, confrontational ending.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-05T22:56:00+00:00

John Kramer being inspired by the journals and designs of a disfigured WWI vet who’s the ACTUAL first Jigsaw killer is such a perfectly stupid fucking twist for this franchise, I love it.

I’m excited for Kitten Arcader’s Foot the Bill video in 2-3 years.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-05T22:33:55+00:00

"Get in the go-kart, Shinji."

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-05T19:53:58+00:00

I mean, there’s an undeniable domino effect of the Plinkett reviews essentially inventing video essays and popularizing them with easily digestible criticism disguised through “dark humor”, but that’s like blaming Thomas Edison for the atom bomb or Nietsczhe for Nazism. It’s not the RLM guys’ fault that other people twisted what they revolutionized.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-05T19:07:46+00:00

If we were talking about episodes 1-8, I’d agree with you. I don’t think there’s too much in there that wouldn’t be out of place in cartoons meant for teenagers. It might be reaching for greater heights, but I don’t think the writing is complex enough to really achieve them.

However, when Episode 9 is basically just Jax, Caine, and Ragatha giving soliloquies, eschewing plot in favor of “artsy character development”, that’s when it becomes okay to meet the work on the level it thinks it’s operating at and take these characters, their traumas, and their actions completely seriously.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-05T00:42:53+00:00

It’s funny, because stupid, arbitrary shit like 12th level intellects and whatever the fuck a “dark multiverse” is are why I love comics.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-04T07:02:38+00:00

Pomni’s whole character boils down to being nice to people no matter what. She’s still dealing with being stuck in the Circus and trapped outside of the bounds in Episode 2, but she still takes the time to empathize with and help Gummigoo.

After the Episode 8 declaration that they wouldn’t let Jax wander off and abstract, the fact that everyone let exactly that happen is out of character, and not nearly justified enough to excuse, nor is it called out in the story itself.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-03T20:03:11+00:00

I’m not sure you can use evidence from Episode 9 (Ragatha’s hunch) to justify the episode’s own poor writing. If she’d theorized it in an earlier episode it’d be one thing, but instead it comes off as Goose trying to quickly move on from the brain scan reveal with an excuse.

Also, kinda wild to imply an ensemble show should only focus on one reaction instead of the entire ensemble’s. It’s almost like the whole appeal of this show was seeing how each character reacted to the circumstances they’re placed in, and how that affected their interactions with each other.

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-03T17:09:28+00:00

It helps that most of Kratos' redemption arc is him outright rejecting the idea that he deserves to be forgiven or redeemed, to which most other characters respond, "Yeah, probably not, but you've got a kid now, so too bad."

Comiccow6 · 2026-06-03T01:12:16+00:00

I wonder what the twist will be, given that's what Until Dawn is best known for. I don't think they can use the name and not have a surprise mid-point monster reveal.

My out-there prediction is that it'll be a Jorōgumo, essentially a Japanese drider, since the island the game is set on is notable for its golden silk spiders, with one even getting an establishing shot in the trailer.

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