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Welcome to the first-ever Fanboys Anonymous MOCK DRAFT of Pokémon! Hosts Tony Mango, Robert DeFelice and Callum Wiggins will pick between the original 151 Pokémon found in Generation 1 (Red, Blue, Yellow and Green), ranging from Bulbasaur through Mew.

First, we will set the "I choose you" order and then go in snake-style for our picks. All choices are based on the final evolutionary form, so if you choose Charizard, you get Charmander and Charmeleon as well, unless you opt not to take them.

Once all the Kanto region has been explored and every Pokémon has been assigned to a trainer, we will choose our team of six to battle it out with on Pokémon Showdown to determine who is the very best like no one ever was.

That battle will take place as a special edition of Bonus Features on the Fanboys Anonymous Patreon, so be sure to join there to see who wins the battles and to help keep this website and channel going with your monetary support.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Mena Massoud for Ezra Bridger?

Rumor has it, and I like that rumor. He looks the part to me and I thought he was good enough in Aladdin. I could totally buy it.

Jennifer Lawrence as Sue Storm?

This...not as much. Lawrence doesn't strike me as the type of person who would want to sign on to be a tentpole character for the franchise in the way they need. The Fantastic 4, particularly without Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, AND Black Panther, are going to need to hold down the fort for a good portion of the MCU going forward. I want people who are invested in being in the franchise for a long time, like some of the others that have come our way in this series.

Also, there's nothing that strikes me that she's the right person for the part. There are hundreds of women, blonde or not (hair dye exists, but people forget about that when they're fan casting) who could do the part service just as well, if not better, and likely for a cheaper cost, too.

To me, you run the risk of having Lawrence decide she's over it, take lots of money to do the part, and everyone just looks at her as Jennifer Lawrence rather than Sue Storm.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Why did they need to make all these films follow the "home" name? Homecoming made sense. Far from Home...unnecessary. No Way Home, we'll see if it's a stretch or if it is worth it. But I'm confused as hell about this movie. How are they cramming in "Peter on the run" and the multiverse?

Bad Batch and Loki Release Dates

The Bad Batch is premiering on May the 4th, which is a perfect date for that.

Loki pops up June 11th. Very excited to see what they do with that show.

Anime Terminator Netflix Series

Does it have to be anime, though? I do think animated and/or a television series is a good direction to take this franchise (provided the plot isn't as dumb as T3 onward have been) but anime? I'm just not a fan of that media.

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On episode 005 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film You Only Live Twice including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE:

DIRECTED BY
Lewis Gilbert

WRITTEN BY
Roald Dahl (screenplay), Geoffrey Jenkins (story idea, uncredited), Harold Jack Bloom (additional story material), based on the novel by Ian Fleming

STARRING:
Sean Connery (James Bond), Akiko Wakabayashi (Aki), Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki), Tetsurô Tanba (Tiger Tanaka), Teru Shimada (Mr. Osato), Karin Dor (Helga Brandt), Bernard Lee (M), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Charles Gray (Henderson) and Donald Pleasance (Ernst Stavro Blofeld)

During the Cold War, American and Russian spacecrafts go missing, leaving each superpower believing the other is to blame. As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war, British intelligence learns that one of the crafts has landed in the Sea of Japan. After faking his own death, secret agent James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to investigate. In Japan, he's aided by Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) and the beautiful Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi), who help him uncover a sinister global conspiracy.

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On episode 004 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film Thunderball including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

THUNDERBALL:

DIRECTED BY
Terence Young

WRITTEN BY
Richard Maibaum (screenplay), John Hopkins (screenplay), Jack Whittingham (original screenplay and story), Kevin McClory (original story), Ian Fleming (original story)

STARRING:
Sean Connery (James Bond), Claudine Auger (Dominique "Domino" Derval), Adolfo Celi (Emilio Largo), Luciana Paluzzi (Fiona Volpe), Rik Van Nutter (Felix Leiter), Guy Doleman (Count Lippe), Martine Beswick (Paula), Molly Peters (Patricia), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), and Bernard Lee (M)

Led by one-eyed evil mastermind Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), the terrorist group SPECTRE hijacks two warheads from a NATO plane and threatens widespread nuclear destruction to extort 100 million pounds. The dashing Agent 007, James Bond (Sean Connery), is sent to recover the warheads from the heart of Largo's lair in the Bahamas, facing underwater attacks from sharks and men alike. He must also convince the enchanting Domino (Claudine Auger), Largo's mistress, to become a key ally.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Zack Snyder's Justice League Official Trailer

In some ways, this feels like such a drastically different movie, which is insane. How could something as simple as setting up a Justice League film go so awry? Marvel did it before them, even, to show them the blueprint, and DC/Warner couldn't pull it off! It's nuts!

I'm very, very curious to see this. I'll binge the whole 4 hours like it's nothing (unless it's a terrible film, naturally). More than likely, what I'm going to do when this is out is watch the whole thing and then do a Reviewpoint and then possibly even a FanTracks to go along with it. Definitely very excited to see this "what if" scenario play out.

Transformers: Beast Alliance

Seems like they're finally going to the Beast Wars well for the Transformers movies. Frankly, I'm surprised it took this long.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't think Bumblebee was all that great or impressive. I think it's literally the same film as the first movie but with less charm and taking less risks, just repackaged with a female lead with the "Wouldn't it be cool if this was in the 80s!?!?!!" element (which I'm so tired of as just an arbitrary selling point rather than an actual purpose of storytelling).

They would probably be better off just setting it in modern times, rather than in the 90s.

Tim Burton - Wednesday Addams

Tim Burton's making a live-action spin-off series on Netflix about Wednesday Addams that reads to me as 50% great idea and 50% CW drivel meant to be nothing but a means to market to the goth Hot Topic "edgy girl" audience.

She'll be at school, dealing with psychic powers and mysteries and monsters. So basically Buffy, Sabrina and The Craft all wrapped in one.

Look. That might sound harsh, particularly because I could totally see myself pitching this exact same thing. This screams to me a pitch I would suggest if I were working as a producer or something. In fact, I'll have a whole segment on here, eventually, revolving around how I think you can make television shows based on characters in this sort of fashion.

I just feel like they're going to need to sell me really hard with that first trailer or else I'll end up looking at it the way I looked at the first episode of Ratched: "Wow. This blows and I'm not watching any more of it and you just sullied the good name of the original."

Nintendo Direct

I looked through the announcements of the Nintendo Direct and there wasn't a single damn thing I found interesting except for how Smash seems to LOOOOOOOOOOVE these animated sword-wielding characters. Why are there like 50 of them in the game and characters I've never heard of, but they still don't have Toad, Dixie Kong/Funky Kong/Cranky Kong, Dr. Robotnik/Knuckles/Tails, Zero from Mega Man X, Bomberman, some more Street Fighter characters (Chun Li? Guile?), etc?

I get that they would have issues with some characters that are on the PlayStation side of things. I wouldn't expect Crash Bandicoot or Spyro or whatever (but they'd naturally be main characters people would love to see). But I see no reason why there are all these anime characters and not something like the little dudes from Bubble Bobble.

Cruella Trailer

Maleficent has some pros and cons. This feels like another attempt at that. But it doesn't at all give me the dalmatians vibe like this sets that up. Maybe that's a good thing. I really don't know what to make of it, but I'll check it out.

Mortal Kombat Trailer

.....admittedly....this looks like they did the best possible job they could have. Right?

My only question is why there's no Johnny Cage. Maybe this Cole character actually uses that stage name or something and they're just keeping that reveal.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Jason Momoa?

The title of the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog will be...Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Why are people annoyed about this? It makes the most sense.

But in other news, Jason Momoa was reportedly offered the role of Knuckles in the film, which is wild. I never would have imagined that would be the casting decision they'd go with. However, as much as I can't picture it at all, it seems kind of awesome.

Clone High Revival

Say whaaaaat? They're bringing Clone High back and it's coming to HBO Max??? That's awesome!!! I loved that show so much.

Zack Snyder's Justice League's Intermission

Snyder said that if the film gets released in theaters, they have a 10-minute intermission "built into the movie" with "a beautiful suite of music" which I find very interesting and a damn good idea. So many people (not me) complain about sitting through 90 minutes without running to the bathroom. There's no way most people (myself not included, as I'm a damn camel) would see the full 4 hour long cut of this film and not have to make at least one stop.

Gina Carano

After some more controversial posts on social media, Disney (and her talent agency) have dropped Gina Carano going forward. That means no Cara Dune spin-off, which seemed like it was the purpose of that whole story of her character joining the New Republic.

Why not recast? You get to keep the same character arc and everything you've built, but you replace the actor you don't want to work with anymore. Is anyone REALLY going to care about the recasting other than the ones who are pro-Carano? I don't think this is like recasting Han Solo for Return of the Jedi or replacing Ewan McGregor halfway through filming Attack of the Clones or anything.

FACE/OFF Sequel

...they're going to do a sequel to Face/Off. Why? I can't imagine Cage and Travolta returning (especially given what happens in the film) which means this is likely a sequel in name-only and utterly pointless. It's not like there's a giant mythology to explore.

Face/Off 2: Some other people get their faces replaced and we redo the same plot as before with some tweaks.

Pass.

The Spot

Rumor has it the villain of the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will be The Spot. He's not even a C-list villain in the Spider-Man rogues gallery, which may make it a perfect choice. The Spot is able to create portals, so maybe they'll get into that for the trippy visuals and the dimensional plotlines.

Frankly, I was assuming the sequel would be based off time and focus more on Spider-Man 2099. Maybe it still can. The first one is great, so I'm sure this will be great, too.

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On episode 003 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film Goldfinger including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

GOLDFINGER:

DIRECTED BY
Guy Hamilton

WRITTEN BY
Richard Maibaum (screenplay), Paul Dehn (screenplay), Berkely Mather (story, uncredited), Johanna Harwood (adaptation, uncredited) based on the novel by Ian Fleming

STARRING:
Sean Connery (James Bond), Gert Fröbe (Auric Goldfinger), Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore), Harold Sakata (Oddjob), Shirley Eaton (Jill Masterson), Tania Mallet (Tilly Masterson), Martin Benson (Solo), Cec Linder (Felix Leiter), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), and Bernard Lee (M)

The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated Operation Grand Slam, a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin, must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Golden Globe Nominations

Normally, I go ahead and post the full list of nominees and winners in separate pages on this site. This year, with the pandemic being the way it's been, I figured it's not worth it. So instead, this is just a spot on Week in Geek. How the mighty have fallen.

So what stands out to me, if anything? Let's see...

I'm a fan of Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner nominated for Ozark. They're great and that show is great.

The Mandalorian is awesome. Give it wins. This is the way.

I haven't even heard of most of these films nominated for anything. That's sad.

Despite not seeing the other nominees, I'll just say Soul needs to win Best Animated Motion Picture because I liked it.

And...that's it? Really? That's all I have to say? That's terrible.

Super Bowl Ads

Falcon and Winter Soldier? I dig it. This gave me Black Panther vibes, actually. Not the story, obviously, but the music used made it seem like it's got that sort of "let's change things up from the formula with a different sort of attitude" flair to it by bringing in a more hip hop based inspiration for a series about a black lead. Totally down for it.

Old - Looks kind of interesting, but certainly not something to see in theaters.

F9 - I still haven't seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, but even so, this felt like the most underwhelming trailer of the bunch.

Nobody - Looks interesting.

Shazadam

Rumor has it Black Adam is going to go by the name SHAZADAM going forward. That's pretty awful. I can see where they're going, but yeah...no. Just give him a different name. Shame Black Lightning is already a thing, right? But if you've got Isis and Osiris and all, why not give him some sort of Egyptian-based name, instead? Baal is the Egyptian god of thunder. Do something with that. Just not Baalackadam.

Keanu Reeves as Kraven the Hunter?

If these rumors are true, Keanu has been offered the part of Kraven. I really hope that's not the case. He's not at all the right person for that role. Keanu should be in the proper MCU and could play a variety of characters, but I don't at all think Kraven is one of them. I see him more as a Silver Surfer or something more...other-worldly. Kraven should be a buff, more grizzled, bear of a person and not someone who is super nice and all.

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On episode 002 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film From Russia with Love including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE:

DIRECTED BY
Terence Young

WRITTEN BY
Richard Maibaum (screenplay), Johanna Harwood (adapted by), Berkely Mather (screenplay, uncredited) based on the novel by Ian Fleming

STARRING:
Sean Connery (James Bond), Daniela Bianchi (Tatiana Romanova), Pedro Armendáriz (Ali Kerim Bey), Lotte Lenya (Rosa Klebb), Bernard Lee (M), Walter Gotell (Morzeny), Vladek Sheybal (Kronsteen), and Robert Shaw (Donald "Red" Grant)

Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi) to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

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As requested through our Patreon "Pick Your Poison" tier by Guest Five, Fanboys Anonymous is providing you with another edition of the FanTracks podcast, this time for the animated DC film Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

For copyright reasons, we cannot provide the movie itself, but after a short introduction, you will be told when to sync your copy of the film so you can following along with us and listen to our thoughts on the movie as we crack some jokes, expose plot holes, and discuss anything else that comes to our minds for commentary.

FanTracks Episode 32 hosted by Tony Mango along with Robert DeFelice .

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Cloverfield Sequel in the Works

It took them long enough, right? At first, I thought it would be a mistake. The first film works well enough on its own. Then, I thought that a sequel should happen. However, they followed it up with 10 Cloverfield Lane and that felt like it wasn't at all a sequel and they would just go with Cloverfield being a universal name for a new Twilight Zone type thing.

10 isn't a wonderful film for a series like that. I think it works better as a standalone and ideally, without knowing if the aliens are real. But then, Paradox happened and that just sucked.

Now, a Cloverfield sequel in "proper" form, supposedly, will happen. It won't be found footage, which I think is a major mistake. That was the gimmick of the first film and if you're going to bother doing a follow-up, I want to know what happened to those characters and to see how someone found that camera. If they just do a generic action flick with the monster...meh.

WandaVision Episode 4

I haven't been loving the series so far. I'm not into old sitcoms, so when the episodes were pretty much just a pastiche of those with about 10 seconds of "maybe there's something more to this", I wasn't digging it. I felt like that's the type of material that would be charming if it were 20 minutes of a 2 hour film, rather than 60 minutes of a 9-episode show.

This most recent episode did a lot to undo that. I still felt like there were some issues, like how I'm not the biggest fan of Darcy Lewis, but getting a few answers to things and progressing the plot forward rather than continuing to live in the bubble any longer is a thumbs up for me.

I'm still assuming Nightmare or Mephisto is manipulating Wanda. I'm hoping Vision isn't still dead, as I'd like to see him brought back in the franchise in the white version like in the comics. I loved seeing The Blip in action. Jimmy Woo learning the card trick over the past few years was great.

All in all, the best episode so far.

Black Panther Wakanda Spin-off for Disney+

It was announced Ryan Coogler will be developing a series that dives more into Wakanda as a spin-off to Black Panther. Not much else was revealed.

In theory, this premise is great. However, without recasting T'challa, I feel like this could be much ado about nothing. The whole Black Panther series, in my opinion, hinges on T'challa, and if they just kill off his character for the third time and move on to a new person under the mask, I don't think I'll be as invested. I just don't think a series about Shuri holds the same weight as she's better as a supporting character. The same for M'Baku or Okoye or anyone else.

But maybe there's something to it. Without having much information, it's impossible to know. Had Chadwick Boseman not tragically passed away, I would be super into this idea. Without him and without the T'challa character, I'm hesitant to trust this is worth diving deeper into a side of these films that won't have the same weight to it. That would be like getting rid of Doctor Strange and focusing a whole spin-off on Wong, or wanting to do a deep dive on Luis from Ant-Man, or a show revolving around The Howling Commandos. Supporting characters support, most of the time, based on the strength of the lead. Without the lead...well, I guess we'll see.

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On episode 001 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film Dr. No including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

DR. NO:

DIRECTED BY
Terence Young

WRITTEN BY
Richard Maibaum (screenplay), Johanna Harwood (screenplay), Berkely Mather (screenplay) based on the novel by Ian Fleming

STARRING:
Sean Connery (James Bond), Ursula Andress (Honey Ryder), Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No), Jack Lord (Felix Leiter), Bernard Lee (M), Anthony Dawson (Professor Dent), Zena Marshall (Miss Taro), John Kitzmiller (Quarrel), Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny) and Peter Burton (Major Boothroyd)

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

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As requested through our Patreon "Pick Your Poison" tier by Guest Five, Fanboys Anonymous is providing you with another edition of the FanTracks podcast, this time for Mulan.

For copyright reasons, we cannot provide the movie itself, but after a short introduction, you will be told when to sync your copy of the film so you can following along with us and listen to our thoughts on the movie as we crack some jokes, expose plot holes, and discuss anything else that comes to our minds for commentary.

FanTracks Episode 31 hosted by Tony Mango along with Robert DeFelice.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Batman: The Animated Series Sequel?

Rumor has it HBO Max is looking to host a sequel to Bruce Timm's Batman: The Animated Series.

GIVE. IT. TO. ME. The Timmverse has a few flaws, but it's few and far between (like how they screwed up Dick Grayson's future and had the whole Batgirl/Batman romance and skipped over Jason Todd). I'm ALL for this to happen if the right people are involved. Obviously, you need Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill and as many of the old cast as you can get. Sadly, not all of them are alive anymore, but they should try to go for as much of a replication as possible.

Movies Abandon Ship Again

Got excited that a movie was maybe finally coming out? Well, everything's leaving their 15th rescheduled dates and getting pushed back further to the fall.

Another year of nothing, basically. No Time to Die is in October now, Morbius goes from October to January, A Quiet Place Part II goes from April to September, Ghostbusters moves, The King's Man moves. Basically, if it hasn't come out yet, it's not coming out for a while unless it's an HBO Max thing.

I'm not risking going to theaters right now, but this is so disheartening to see. Just don't bother announcing a release date anymore. We know it's not going to stick.

Xbox Gold Subscriptions Price Increase

I'm not a gamer. I've established this much on this site. But when I hear that the price of Xbox Live Gold subscriptions has gone from $10 a month to $25, that's a MASSIVE spike.

Their reasoning? "Periodically, we assess the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional marketplaces and to continue to invest in the Xbox community; we’ll be making price adjustments for Xbox Live Gold in select markets. In many markets, the price of Xbox Live Gold has not changed for years and in some markets, it hasn’t changed for over 10 years."

Translation: "We figured we want more money and we just assumed we could get away with it right now. Corporate speak corporate speak. But we haven't done this before, and we could have, so you should be happy we weren't greedier beforehand, rather than mad at us now."

Well, it seems like people complained enough that they've reversed this policy. They even started it with "We messed up today and you were right to let us know" as if they didn't know people would be upset.

Companies are insane. People are insane. Greed is just the worst and everyone acts like they don't understand how the game works. Everyone wants to get the most amount of money for the least amount of work/effort/output. EVERYONE. And in turn, everyone wants to spend the least amount of money for the most amount of return. EVERYONE. The end. Now can we all stop bullshitting each other and just be direct with the way we speak about things?

Godzilla vs Kong Trailer

They finally released a first look at Godzilla vs Kong and it looks just like I thought it would, which is great. This is dumb "monster vs monster with a thin plot" popcorn nonsense. I don't need it to be anything else. They're turning into the skid, it seems. Thumbs up. It's not as awe-inspiring as the King of the Monsters trailer was, but it hits the mark in a different way as an action commercial.

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