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Wonder Woman review

10 Saturday Jun 2017

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Everybody quiet down!  Women are talking!

by Thom Yee

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Wonder Woman images courtesy of Warners Bros. Pictures

“I respect women incredibly.  I have just amazing admiration and respect for women.  I have more respect for women than anybody would understand. I cherish women.  And I treat women with respect.  I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy.  I respect women more than I respect men.  We know they believe in certain things that we don’t want to believe in.  I want to help women.  Nobody has more respect for women than I do — that I can tell you.  Nobody.  I have tremendous respect for women.  And women have respect for me.” ~ Donald J. Trump, current POTUS Continue reading →

The Superman, the Wonder Woman, the Golden Raspberries and the Batman — Just what’s going on in the DC Extended Universe?

31 Tuesday Jan 2017

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batman-affleck-oneIn these dark days of new Presidents, #fakenews, and #alternativefacts, we here at GOO Reviews thought it important that we all slow down for a minute, take a deep breath, and contemplate what’s really important: Batman.

Now we’re not sure exactly when it happened, whether it was a broader shift in society or if what Thom wrote about Batman in his review of Batman v Superman is true and it’s just a natural part of growing up, but at some point we the people got sick of Superman and took on Batman as our favourite superhero, and it’s a title the Dark Knight Detective’s been running away with ever since. Continue reading →

Suicide Squad review

13 Saturday Aug 2016

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Oh, I get it. Sometimes we’re all bad guys. Oooohhh.

by Thom Yee

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Suicide Squad images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

“That looks stupid”, I thought to myself. “A comicbook about a group of people gathered together to kill themselves?” That was my first exposure to the weird little team called Suicide Squad. I didn’t buy it. Not that first time and not even years later after I’d either found out or figured out that the “Suicide” in Suicide Squad referred to the nature of the missions the team went on rather than each team members’ propensity for ending their own lives.

Suicide Squad is one of those rare “big two” (i.e., DC or Marvel) comicbook properties that I’m not very familiar with, probably because its origins lie squarely in the 1980s and almost definitely because it’s a book about bad guys. You see I’m one of those weird eggs that’s never found the bad guys more compelling than the good, and while that might be an odd thing to hear, at least for comicbook kids like me back in the ‘90s, it was only natural. Continue reading →

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition review

16 Saturday Jul 2016

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There’s a saying in Metropolis — I know it’s in Gotham, probably in Metropolis — Fool me once, shame on… on you, fool me twice… you can’t get fooled again…!?

by Thom Yee

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Once again we stand here, soon after the release of a version of Batman v Superman, and once again I feel compelled to begin this review by defending its predecessor, Man of Steel, if only for just a little bit. You can skip to the next section if you just don’t want to hear it.

This time, I’d like to start with some of the most common, most consistently held criticisms I’ve heard of Superman, what it is that makes him such an easily outgrown and discarded as a character from the perspective of maturity: Continue reading →

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice review

02 Saturday Apr 2016

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I don’t even know anymore

by Thom Yee

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

I get a little defensive when it comes to Man of Steel. The 2013 Extended Universe movie designed to kickstart DC’s burgeoning cinematic line has its share of problems, but when people tell me that Pa Kent would never tell his son that he shouldn’t have saved his classmates or that Superman would never kill or when they say the movie’s too dark, I can’t help but feel that they missed a lot of what was going on. In Man of Steel, we had a Superman who didn’t simply spring forth as the fully formed superhero we’re all familiar (and, most of us, board) with, but instead was a man torn between two worlds, having only recently discovered the secrets of an origin that left him isolated for his entire life just before being attacked by the last remnants of his own people. Man of Steel wasn’t dark, it was real, exactly as hateful, cruel, dismissive, uncaring, and dangerous as people can be in a real life where answers aren’t easy. Continue reading →

Batman v Superman trailer reaction and an announcement

12 Sunday Jul 2015

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by Thom Yee

So first of all, some site news — GOO Reviews is going on hiatus for retooling.

We’re looking at a website redesign (don’t worry, we still don’t know enough coding to go beyond just picking a different template), a change in our grading scale, some structural alterations to our review format, and a bunch of other improvements we haven’t really thought through because we’re such big fans of overpromising and underdelivering.

We’ll be back in August, but in the meantime, here’s my reaction to the just-released Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Comic-Con trailer.   Continue reading →

Simul-Review: Man of Steel

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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by Thom Yee and Grace Crawford

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All Man of Steel images courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures

Thom: The superhero concept has been around since 1938 and the debut of Superman in Action Comics #1. Superheroes have been with us long enough that, for a lot of people, they form a modern mythology more appealing than established faiths, a rich tapestry of stories instrumental in forming a set of core beliefs. Certainly for me, superheroes have been incredibly important and meaningful, and their stories have helped to inform who I am and most of everything I do. Of course, I would never claim that I regularly act heroically in any significant parts of my daily life, but every time I help someone out when I don’t need to, every small kindness, every moment of compassion comes from my view that good is its own reward and that we owe it to everyone to do right by them. And for me, most of those sensibilities came from reading comicbooks. If I was going to offer a theory on why superheroes endure in society and why, for many, they maintain fan followings into adulthood more so than many of the other elements of our childhoods, I would like to think it’s because they teach us about truth and justice in an unbreakable, intractable way; they help us to become the great people we can be and wish to be by giving us the light to show us the way. And in a world where religions destroy civilizations, where the Bible Belt won’t let go of its guns, and where priests are more associated with molestation than divinity, they do it in a way that we can actually be proud of.

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