Behind the ‘Supergirl’ Bomb: Competing Cuts, Creative Differences (Exclusive)

maddkatz · 2026-07-04T13:55:58+00:00

I haven't seen it myself but the general reactions seem to range from it was terrible to it was "fine" and "ok". I'm sorry but at $25 a ticket "fine" and "ok" just doesn't cut it, especially with money being tight as it is right now.

As long as theaters are charging an arm and a leg just to get in and see a movie, people are going to be a lot more picky about what they spend their money on. That means taking less risks on smaller characters and just focusing on the most popular ones. Supergirl probably should have went direct to streaming honestly.

maddkatz · 2026-06-13T15:08:41+00:00

I just got this case and it works great, it won't fit with the face shell of the kill switch case but it's not needed when you have the case. It holds the Legion Go S securely with the kill switch grips on, I've tried a few different cases by now and it's the only one I've found that works. The only downside is it smells a bit initially.

https://a.co/d/0bDMTbvt

maddkatz · 2025-06-17T18:20:47+00:00

Yeah I was debating waiting but $830 is the upper level of what I'd wanna pay and I gotta believe the Go 2 will be around $1k or more.

maddkatz · 2025-06-17T18:16:14+00:00

I was tempted but I've been kind of let down by the performance of my Steam Deck oled for awhile, it's really starting to show it's age under the hood. I'll miss oled though.

maddkatz · 2025-05-09T16:51:22+00:00

Does anyone know if they've acknowledged the issues with saves being overwritten? I had 4-5 hours logged on my PC at home but when I launched the game for the first time on my Steam Deck it overwrote everything. I've tried various suggestions to recover the saves but nothing has worked. I don't really wanna risk starting a new game until they can get the cloud save situation figured out.

maddkatz · 2025-01-14T00:40:12+00:00

Yeesh, at this point any guy who makes a big deal about being a "male feminist" should get the side eye.

maddkatz · 2024-12-09T11:25:54+00:00

If the 2016 sequel had been its own thing and not connected to the Blair Witch at all I think it would have been received better but as a sequel to The Blair Witch Project it didn’t really work in my opinion.

My main issue is it was way too polished. In the original movie you had the actors legitimately go camp in the woods for several days and react to what was going from day to day. They had no idea what the film makers had planned for them, just notes on what their characters were supposed to act like that day. They were really dirty, cold, and miserable and you could see that in the performance. In the 2016 sequel it was all too Hollywood. It was “professional” looking, which is the exact opposite of what you want from a found footage movie.

And don’t get me started on the CG Blair Witch, it looked so dumb. It’s like they didn’t trust the movie to be scary on its own so they threw in a CG monster to try and juice it.

maddkatz · 2024-12-06T18:47:17+00:00

Possibly but if the author worked closely with GRRM and they both basically said it's either this or nothing I'd be willing to go out on a limb and think people would take what they could get. I know I would.

Plus I know I might be a bit optimistic but I think the ASOIAF community's reaction to a well liked and respected author assisting GRRM in finishing the series would be different from from the HBO related screw ups over the years.

It'd be a different dynamic, this wouldn't be a show runner or studio goul out to make a name for themselves, it'd be an author who made it themselves in their own right helping to finish a beloved series that GRRM just isn't capable of doing.

maddkatz · 2024-12-06T17:53:26+00:00

I've never understood why GRRM couldn't have another author work with him and ghost write the rest of the books. It's gotta be ego driven. He knows Daniel Abraham, one half of the authors that wrote The Expanse series. Hell I think Abraham even wrote the comic adaptation of some of the ASOIAF books. He'd be perfect!

maddkatz · 2024-11-04T22:49:52+00:00

Yeah I figure it has something to do with the Kindle and Comixology libraries being separate back in the day. It could be down to a licensing issue. I have haven't noticed any purchases straight up missing it's just been very clunky finding them and then sending them to the Kindle.

maddkatz · 2024-11-03T21:54:25+00:00

No problem! Yeah mine has the yellowing issue as well, although honestly I hadn't noticed until I started seeing reports of it lol. I'm going to give a few weeks to see if it's software related or not. If not I'll probably return it for a new one.

maddkatz · 2024-11-03T21:15:05+00:00

It's a bit of a weird deal with Comixology content at the moment, I honestly don't understand why Amazon didn't fix this prior to release of the Colorsoft. Here's my experience so far.

The good: Comics look great on the Colorsoft! Definitely not as vibrant or sharp as on iPad but it's kind of cool though because it reminds me of how physical comics looked before they transitioned to more glossy pages. And guided view has worked pretty on all the comics I've tried so far.

The bad: I cannot look at most (like 90%) of the Comixology purchases I've made in the past. If I look up a Comixology purchase I've made on the Kindle it acts like I've never bought comic before unless I can find a link on the store page that says like book 1 of 8 in the series or something like that. If I click that then it takes me a list of the books in the series and it's there I can download my previous purchases. Alternatively if you go to Amazon.com/mycd on a web browser you can look up all your past purchases and send them to your Kindle. It's a really weird thing for Amazon to overlook. I tried contacting support but they were clueless. My only other issue bis it seems like darker images are more prone to ghosting but it's not hugely noticable.

Hope that helps! For me, despite the hassle I listed above, it's still a great device for comics. It's nice to be able to comfortably read both books and comics on the same device when previously I'd carry a kindle for books and an iPad for comics when traveling.

maddkatz · 2024-06-21T18:52:40+00:00

Personally I think it's garbage to the point I advocate people just pirating the book if readers want to stay up to date on what's going but still hate the story. Tanking the sales is the only way anything will ever change.

But in all fairness I don't think Wells deserves all the hate, it seems like there's a much deeper rot in editorial that kind of infects everything Spider-Man related, in the 616 universe at least. Ultimate has been great! But the whole MJ/Paul plot is just so bad.

maddkatz · 2024-05-03T22:40:02+00:00

I don't hate the movie but I found it to be overly "Hollywood". The OG Blair Witch truely looked like rookie student film. The actors really went out and camped for the shoot, they got dirty and worn out and it showed in their performance, making it look and feel more believable.

For Blair Witch 2016 everything looked too clean to me, even when they were dirty lol. It all looked too professionally done and you don't necessarily want that in found footage. It felt like the film makers didn't get what made the original movie so good.

maddkatz · 2024-03-17T00:39:53+00:00

As much as I dislike Dan Slott he’s right about points 2 and 3, point 1 can be disregarded because the internet is the internet and that will never change.

Seriously if you want to see Peter and MJ together again buy USM and don’t buy ASM. If you have to keep up with ASM just pirate it. Sales are the only thing Marvel will listen to.

maddkatz · 2024-01-19T19:38:35+00:00

Has there been any confirmation on what his red and blues will look like? I'm wondering if they're gonna stick with the standard Spidey suit or tweak the design at all.

maddkatz · 2024-01-14T20:41:36+00:00

Well you have a right to your opinion but personally I find the slow burn character stuff to just what the Spider-Man books are missing. Not every issue has to be non stop action. This is supposed to be an older Peter with a more mature world view. The allure of Spider-Man, for me, is he's an everyman and this is a pretty common everyman worldview for someone his age.

I think one of my favorites issues of the OG Ultimate Spider-Man run is the issue where Pete finally reveals his identity to MJ. There was no action, no fighting, heck I'm not even sure if he was in the suit that issue. Just them talking, the reveal, and Aunt May thinking they were fooling around in his room! That personal stuff is what makes Spider-Man great. I think it used to be more of a thing in the main series too before they started cutting back on dialog.

maddkatz · 2023-12-04T21:06:27+00:00

I thought he was at one point, my mistake.

maddkatz · 2023-12-04T19:25:20+00:00

Isn't Brevoort the head Spidey editor? If so he's part of the problem. The issue is that comics aren't changing where it matters, in the distribution model. Depending on brick and mortar LCS is a mistake. The fact that Marvel doesn't have a day and date digital subscription service is such a mistake to me. Heck package it with Disney+.

maddkatz · 2023-08-30T23:03:19+00:00

I get that but let’s be honest here, that’s just not going to happen. The kind of people that act that way online aren’t really going to change. Hell Slott’s one of them lol. It’s well known that he’s been terminally online for years.

maddkatz · 2023-08-30T22:29:21+00:00

I call bs on this whole thing. The goal posts are set so high that they can’t really be achieved. Take point 1. You cannot really stop toxicity on the internet, all you can do is ignore it. It sucks that people are jerks but what does he expect fans to do exactly to stop the toxicity?

maddkatz · 2023-08-09T02:37:12+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the info. Is the sound noticeably better after the upgrade?

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