I really shouldn't watch such movies. Insidous, just for example, gave me insomnia for weeks, and that movie had a good portion of silly moments in it. But I really wanted to watch PA4, just to see what gimmick they use this time, and if it gonna be another prequel. It would be kinda hard to go back further than VHS tapes. So they don't. Apparently someone sensible decided "Screw it, let's make a sequel". And they did.

It was a spoiler in PA2, that entire movie was a prequel, but this time it's made quite obvious - in it's very first shots movie shows us ending of PA2, probably to set the mood that "Shit already went real, bro, like two movies ago!". So this time it's completely another family - father, who looks like Leo from Charmed, his enstranged wife and two kids, Wyatt (from Charmed) and hot blondie, who is our POV character. And the gimmick of the day iiiiss - PRODUCT PLACEMENT!!! Yay, all hail Mac and Microsoft! No, really, this time it's all digital - via web-cams, skype and laptops. And Kinect. Yeah, big spoiler, your Kinect can see demons. Buy it now and be safe! I've always suspected that Microsoft and Apple turned to whitchcraft and demon worshipping in their marketing, but this is waaay too obvious.

They finally ditched the fast-forvarding gimmick, so now video weirdly jump-cuts for no visible reason. I've even thought at first that demon learned Movie Maker in past years and scewing with the audience. And overall tone of the movie is somehow lighter - ether that, or I've finally been desensitized by the previous three movies. Some twists are telegraphed a mile away, some unexpected, but nothing actually groundbreaking. I don't think I'll lose sleep after this - which I suppose is a plus, I reeeally could have an extra night of peaceful dreams. But it's still good for overall mythos arc. So, anyone else watched it?

PS,

So, I've played The Amazing Spiderman game, liked it, until the ending. It got me thinking - Smythe there gos some sick moves with his tech. Giant scorpion robots, flying squids, tunneling snake-bots. Man, that's got to be expensive... So watching all this glowy flying thingies got me thinking - why the hell he and Iron Man never clashed? (on my memory at least). They're both brilliant engineers and apparently can just fart out convinient gadgets as plot requires.

So let's consider this situation - let's pretend for a second ASM and Avengers do share Cinematic Universe. Smythe's snake Spider-Slayer trashes the cityblock and Tony actually gets off his couch and helps Peter to put it down for good. From this point on this is on. Alistair is aware that rich playboy, philanthropist and, oh yea, a genius in superpowered armor is out to get him. Tony is aware that renegade OsCorp robotics expert literally expropriated conveyor robot assemblers and builds new dangerous stuff non-stop.

For convenience sake let's assume that's Movie-Stark and, since the game was a tie-in, that version of Smythe doesn't have Ultimate Slayer enhancements.

Well, I've read Amazing Spiderman 692, looked at that Alpha-kid. And noticed that I've already seen that somewhere...

Right, that was about six months ago, maybe more, I was going to make a new character for RPG, and thought that there's almost no enthusiastic superheroes around this days. So I decided to stick to the classics - made a college student, whose scientific adviser turned out to be Mad Scientist. So after a Freaky Lab Accident with one of his gizmous, my Adam Wilkinson got amazing powers of super-strength, stamina and resilience, stole rocket-boots from the lab and flew away to fight crime. Then I spliced a bit of anime in it, and said that his powers come from cosmic Getter-Rays, constantly developing and adapting his body - endlessly. That made "Getterman" a potential global threat, capable absorbing all biomass on Earth, if left unchecked. Adam, of course, totally digs his new powers and delights in using them, just barely masking his identity.

Um, sorry, I didn't mean to ramble about some OC but I need to illustrate my point. Two days ago I read ASM 692. Sooo, this Alpha-kid is a student... And he got his amazing powers from a Freaky Lab Accident, when experiment went Horribly Wrong... Right, that... Well, that's just to draw parallels with Spiderman, right?.. Um, ok, so his Andys new powers include amazing strength, stamina and resilience... Flight and force-blasts too, yes. Wait, what's that Reed saying? His power comes from Univerce itself? Like cosmic power, right? Hmmm... You say they're will grow endlessly? And potentially can become a global threat? Meh, who cares? Of course Andy totally digs his new powers and delights in using them, not even bothering with secret identity... Oh, and just look at that fabulous anime-hair!

Apparently, it's easy to predict new marvel characters... Hm, or maybe I need to work in Marvel, if I already think their characters in the future? Or maybe I'm ALREADY WORKING IN MARVEL?! O_____O

So I Automatically get a blog? Neat.