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So after four months of waiting, I finally had the opportunity to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home and it was a blast from start to finish in particular the third act remains as one of my favourites so far.

Whilst I really enjoyed the parts where the alternate Peters conversed with Max and Otto, but Otto and Maguire's Parker is what really gave me the good flashbooks and vibes that I remembered when the two first met during Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2.

If anyone asked me about do I prefer critics or audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Firstly, critics are often very constructed as they tend to look through all aspects of the film from the character development, acting, pacing, the script etc. On the other hand, audience tend to be very less constructed as most of the reviews only highlight on the entertainment value of the film and often at times, very vague.

I will say that I do follow at least 3 or 4 critic reviews that I trust just to be on the cautious side a lot more than audience reviews. But in the end, what I consider is mostly important is that you, yourself should judge on whether the film is good or not.

Having watched Sonic the Hedgehog 2 yesterday which was released in the United Kingdom a week earlier than the US release:

Overall, I'd say it is a decent, fun and entertaining film that does level itself up from its first film. However there are only a couple of issues in terms of some of the scenes being quite draggy in areas and sometimes it loses its focus on what it is attempting convey. But I would watch this over Morbius for sure.

Earlier I gave my brief thoughts on Morbius and here is my full overview and my thoughts on the future of Sony's "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe":

Decided to take a bite (no pun intended) and watched Morbius and yeah..........................to no surprise, it is absolutely awful.

After watching all of the current seasons of Bunk'd, here is my overall review:

The first two seasons whilst the story had several fun and entertaining moments, could had done without the use of stereotypes whether this was from Ravi, Jorge, Tiffany and Zuri. However after some of its cast decided not to return from the third season onwards and Lou was the only character to remain since the first season. They drafted in several new characters from Destiny, Finn, Matteo, Gwen, Noah, Ava and Parker throughout the seasons, the issues that I have is that these new characters do not add anything new to the Bunk'd's perspective, felt like they were casted as shadows who shared similar traits with its former characters and rather forgetful.

As I had stated that Lou was the remaining cast member, I felt that the quirky and funny aspect of her character vanished as the seasons progressed in which the writers somewhat made her in to a rather boring and bland character.

Overall, I do feel that the first two seasons, some decent performances from its former cast (plus Mallory James Mahoney) were the highlights, it felt like the writing department really needs to find what made Bunk'd so special in the first place.

Sometimes I do wonder whether or not certain channels learn to do their research before they even tackle a topic?

So I saw the UK advert for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and then realised that the film is coming out on April 1st which is a week earlier from the US release which now meant that Morbius is now completely screwed (in the UK.)

Massive congrats to the Wales national football team who are now one win away from qualifying in a World Cup tournament since 1958.

Still shocked that the Euro 2020 champions Italy stunned by North Macedonia!

Well, finally decided to give Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie a watch and overall, I would put it on par with Detective Pikachu, but I do feel that Jim Carrey's performance as Dr "Eggman" Robotnik is fun and memorable.

Saw a video called "Ms. Marvel - How NOT to build a hero", a Disney+ show that hasn't even come out.

Yet this video made a really poor comparison of the Ms. Marvel trailer with the Iron Man full movie which isn't really the best way to use for analysis and construction. People can have their own opinions on trailers on anything upcoming, but there is no point in jumping to conclusions on something that has not been released as of yet as there are still plenty of aspects that we don't know about and you are not going to get anything else out from the trailers.

The objective of a trailer is to briefly showcase and highlight what viewers should anticipate and expect within a show without sharing or spoiling of all the details that can ruin everything they want to be shown. Otherwise that will ruin the purpose of a trailer. In comparison, a full film will usually highlight all of the aspects whether this is from telling a compelling origin to discovering their internal struggles and external threats and so forth.

If you are going to make a trailer comparison with something, make sure you compare it with another trailer and if you are going to compare a full tv show with something, make sure you compare it with another full tv show. That way, you will get a much better idea for analysis and construction.

My thoughts on the Ms. Marvel trailer:

Whilst I do feel that it does look pretty good, it is going to be interesting to see how her new powers will work in contrast to its source material and I will wait and see how it is done as soon as the show hits on Disney+ on June 8th.

My only rant is the amount of hate and racist remarks circulated on the Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan character within social media and Youtube comments.

So I enjoyed watching Turning Red which was on Disney+ last Friday, but I am actually quite baffled with some of the hate it recieved such as the theme of kids disobeying their parents.

Had they not watched the likes of the Lion King, Mulan, Little Mermaid, Tangled, Finding Nemo, the Incredibles which also had the same recurring theme?

I do sometimes question to those that provide criticism within negative reviews, whether or not they had put any thought or empathy behind what they wrote?

Sometimes I really do wonder why certain individuals that spread nothing but hate still have a platform on Youtube.

Can't believe that it took a long while for Ash to finally bring out Gengar in the latest episode of the Japanese version Pokemon Journeys. I really thought they had completely forgotten about Gengar!

I recently watched this episode of Bunk'd on Disney+ and I really do have concerns and questions raised in regards to the casting choice of Tiffany's mother at the time in which I felt this was "whitewashing."

I know I've been discussing a lot about Darkstalkers lately, but I really do hope that if the Capcom Fighting Collection does really well in terms of gaining decent sales and gauged enough audience interest, this could be the breakthrough Capcom needed to make a sequel, something that Darkstalkers Resurrection had attempted almost ten years ago, but couldn't quite achieve to do so.

So since Darkstalkers, Cyberbots and Red Earth are going to make their Nintendo debut with the Capcom Fighters Collection, would that make them eligible for a future Smash game or has that been thrown out of the book?

Capcom Fighting Collection: Whilst I will say that this is a pretty neat collection of Capcom's past fighting games that include five different ports of Darkstalkers plus Red Earth finally making its console debut, this is a rather interesting direction. This will hopefully give these titles an opportunity to shine and perhaps it could may be a way to determine and gauge audience interest within the series.

Street Fighter 6: Well, it was bound to happen at some point as Capcom's Street Fighter is going to have a new entry. So far only Ryu and Luke (with new designs) are the only ones confirmed and it will be interesting to see what new information they will share in the Summer. Also, this will be a test for the new team without Yoshinori Ono (who left Capcom) and an opportunity to hopefully not make any hiccups with what happened with the vanilla port of Street Fighter 5.

It's been ten years since Street Fighter X Tekken came out on home consoles, a game that was supposedly meant to celebrate two iconic fighting game franchises but had garnered headlines for all the wrong reasons.

At the same time, Yoshinori Ono who was the former head of Street Fighter tried to push hard for a new Darkstalkers entry that still laid dormant for many years despite bringing out "Resurrection" which did not help gauge interest.

I do believe that there was a window of opportunity for Yoshinori Ono to promote and gauge interest for Darkstalkers in which even though Street Fighter X Tekken had Bad Box Art Megaman and Pac-Man, I felt they could had been included as guest characters to build upon the franchise even further from Darkstalkers Resurrection.

Whilst I cannot say much about Amazon Prime's Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, but it is really sad to see how certain parts of the Internet community had been reacting with a lot of hatred, toxicity as well as spamming an old quote from Tolkien which does not really do them much favours.

In addition, I understand why Zack Snyder distanced himself away from this particular community by telling them that "there is no room for hate."

Saw some people on Twitter predicting that a Mario movie trailer could be shown in tomorrow's Direct.

Personally, I don't highly expect a trailer to be shown yet as it is hard to tell at this point how far in production the film has been going.

Realistically they could share a small teaser or glimpse of the artwork, but if they were to show a first trailer, they may perhaps save it during the month when E3 takes place.

Watched the latest episode of the BBC's Apprentice and I find it really baffling to understand whether or not one of the teams understand what is on trend within the video game market as well as how can you not spell the word "Arctic" correctly?

There sure has been quite a lot of discussion of video game acquisitions made by Microsoft and Sony. Not sure why some predict that the likes of Square-Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco etc should also be acquired as I don't see this happening at all.

If Smash Ultimate had continued providing DLC characters, I wonder how they could transit a Hisuian Trainer as a playable character?

So here are my thoughts on the Uncharted live action film trailer and how well it could do potentially within the box office:

I'm somewhat not very sure about this and even though I do believe that Tom Holland is a brilliant and talented actor, I don't know if Nathan Drake is the right role for him as I could say the same about Mark Wahlberg in which I'm not sure if Sully is the right role for him.

This is one of the films that will be released in February 17th and with not much competition going on that month, I think it is hard to say how well the film will do at the box office as this will depend on how well the reception will be recieved but since Tom Holland does have his own fans and this is based upon the Uncharted video games, I'm thinking this could fetch a slightly decent number (in which I'll reiterate depends on how well the film will be recieved and how well the film is being marketed.)

So I've been seeing a number of Youtube videos that had posted about the recent reshoots that have been going on in which the likes of Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Ms. Marvel. Whilst the term "reshoots" is often thought to be considered as a negative buzzword, it actually is the complete opposite and this isn't exactly anything new within film and tv productions as these a are highly common and are bound to come up.

There are various reasons to why reshoots takes place for example, perhaps they have an additional idea/scene that they want to shoot or improve the quality etc.

Haven't done much film reviews lately, but anyways here are some that I have seen through Disney+:

Encanto

The 60th Disney animation takes on the magical and vibrant Madrigal family that had all recieved a "miracle" gift with the exception Mirabel voiced by Stephanie Beatriz. The animation and visuals within the film is not just stunning, but it was beautifully animated. The story showed great amounts of fun and emotional depth and the characters from Mirabel, Luisa, Isabella and Bruno were very well built and constructed. The one aspect that makes Encanto very special is the soundtrack in which Lin-Manuel Miranda produced. I will say that this is probably the Disney's most memorable soundtrack containing the likes of "Colombia Mi Encanto", "What Else Can I Do?" as well as fan favourites "Surface Pressure" and "We Don't Talk About Bruno" which had recently been a massive hit on the Billboards chart.

My rating: 9/10

When will some learn that when a film/tv show does reshoots it is sometimes not neccessarily a bad thing.

Posting this later than usual, but here are my overall thoughts on the first episode of Battlebots:

Sawblaze Vs Minotaur: I really thought Sawblaze could end up having a challenge against Minotaur after it showed early aggression. But that all changed when Sawblaze's saw-axe struck what is the most internal section of Minotaur causing it to smoke and losing its primary weapon in the process. Overall, it was a convincing win for Jamison Go and as for Minotaur, they will need to get something in their next fight to keep their qualifying hopes alive.

Uppercut Vs Gigabyte: After sufferring a shock loss against Ribbot last season, Uppercut punched out a knock-out blow on to Gigabyte as they started their campaign with a win. I thought that Gigabyte could had gone and attacked their exposed wheels but unfortunately their machine proved to be rather difficult control and as soon as they were not able to self-right, it was game over for them.

Switchback Vs Gruff: You can probably tell that despite having an innovative weapon, Switchback's lack of experience costed them the fight and gave Gruff their first win.

Tombstone Vs Capt. Shredderator: Had a feeling Ray Billings' was going to have a challenge against the full body spinner of Brian Nave's machine. Once again, Tombstone smoked out which gave Captain Shredderator their third-ever win in Battlebots.

Free Shipping Vs Blacksmith: This was probably one of the most exciting matches I had ever watched. Both machines showed great amounts of aggression, but it was Blacksmith who managed to edge out Free Shipping to get their campaign off to a winning start.

Deep Six Vs Pain Train: Pain Train had endured a poor run during last season and unfortunately they had even more pain inflicted as Deep Six sunk them down with a devastating blow.

EndGame Vs Hydra: The champions of last season kick start their campaign in which they face off against Jake Ewert's Hydra. Unfortunately for Hydra, they had reliability issues with their machine that started to smoke and their flipper configuration got stuck which meant that it is game over for Jake Ewart's machine as the champions got off to a winning start.

Sharing my concerns and fears I have about the Bob Chapek Disney CEO era.

He had already made one mistake with Black Widow's simultaneous release last year and now I feel he is about to make another by putting Pixar's Turning Red on streaming instead of theatrical releases which is a rather odd thing to do considering that they usually do a 30-45 day theatrical window first.

Here is the thing. Whilst I do acknowledge and understand that there is still a pandemic going on which is causing further disruptions, but it is massively important especially for Bob Chapek to ensure that he keeps the creative talents and the animation studios happy. Turning Red has now became the third Pixar film to head to streaming instead of of theatrical release and I am sure that the creative talents that had put all their hard work will not be pleased with this.

This is why I feel Chapek's vision and direction is nowhere near as good or even close to what former CEO Bob Iger had achieved.

Having watched the first couple of fights of the new season of Battlebots and to summarise, there was a load of fire!

Looking forward to watching some robot-mashing time as Battlebots makes its return with its sixth season which commences this week.

The champions of last season EndGame will kick start their campaign against the flipper bot Hydra in its first fight.

Well it is not long until we close the page of 2021 which had proved to be a challenging and tough and open a new chapter in 2022.

I have not been able to achieve much this year as I stayed mostly at home and only went out a few times whilst following safety guidelines provided within my country where I continue to wear my mask wherever I go, keeping my distance and recieving my vaccination and booster jabs. But everywhere I go, there are so many things that had come and gone in which it almost feels like I was walking in to an alternate reality.

I just want to put my fingers crossed and hopefully things will be better in 2022, although this is very hard to tell what will happen next at this time.

Anyways on the bright side, I want to wish to everyone on Smashboards, a Happy New Year and may 2022 bring you luck and prosperity!

I like to wish everyone here on Smashboards, a Merry Christmas!

Going on for a bit of a rant post. There were several bizarre things that I have seen commented throughout the Internet and social media lately that left me rather baffled and bemused.

As of today, Spider-Man: No Way Home made a huge amount within the global box office where it is the largest domestic numbers to date. But seeing how some parts of the Internet and social media are using Spider-Man: No Way Home's box office numbers to say that it wasn't "manufactured" unlike the other MCU Phase 4 films and defeating their narrative is just a terrible analysis considering that these films were released during uncertain times within the pandemic is something that should never be ignored. At the same time, they have illustrated their bias.

Can't believe next week is going to be Christmas day. I'm aware that the current situation within my country is getting worse with the rapid increase of cases, but all I can do at this time is to ensure that I keep myself and others safe and continue to follow guidelines.

To get in to the Christmas spirit, here is a tracklist of game music from a number of Nintendo 64 games:

Spider-Man: No Way Home comes out tomorrow within my country which is two days earlier than the US release.

Sadly, I won't be able to watch the film due to the concerns of the rapid Omicron cases throughout the United Kingdom and therefore, I will most likely await for the Blu-Ray release.