"...it's refreshing to see Roth speaking so candidly about his experience."

So it's "refreshing to see" the writer and director basically say "Nope. Wasn't my fault. It was everybody else's... and the pandemic's..."

The reason it flopped was because it's a (relatively) successful game franchise which, despite featuring a new cast of characters every installation, keeps one thing in common- its predominantly adult-orientated humour and violence.

From hearing the cast, everyone (fans of the games and those unfamiliar alike) saw it for what it was- hiring a bunch of big name actors hoping to bring in viewers.

When we saw the first trailer, the same "everyone" saw that it looked like what we all feared... a Super Mario Bros. for the 21st century. They tried to play it straight for the most part, aimed it at children and, most importantly, it just looked bad.

The only funny thing about it was you guys rated it as a 7/10 film. That's a minimum of 8 marks too high.

You've missed out some rather crucial information there, Owen.

Here's a direct quote from Colossal (as a company)- "No ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf's genome."

Effectively, all they've done is produced two males and a female from existing gray wolves which physically resemble the now extinct dire wolves. They've not claimed they've recreated them because it would be factually wrong to do so.

The D23 trailer had this...

Red Guardian: We are the Thunderbolts!

Winter Soldier: We can't call ourselves that!

Ghost: Thank god!

Guardian: The Thunderbolts... it's a cool name...

And they all shake their heads in disagreement.

Seems pretty obvious that it's being used (as it frequently can be) to show that it denotes something that isn't necessarily the case or is a work in progress.

Alexei thinks it should be the group's name, everybody else hates it but he's constantly going to be trying to call them that.

Of course, I could turn out to be completely wrong but it seems like it's pretty cut and dry and doesn't seem very "frustratingly vague" to me...

"John Wick: Chapter 4's ending gave the character a definitive conclusion..."

Still wouldn't say the ending of Chapter 4 was really all that definitive.

Sure, it showed his grave but when Winston and the Bowery King are by it, King says "Where do you suppose he is? Heaven or hell?" and Winston says "Who knows?" and they both laugh.

You could take that as a straight question or you could view it as being asked in a knowing (to them) way that his death was staged and asking if he's found himself a nice, quiet place for himself to enjoy his time of "death" as well.

ittedly, it may be a stretch but it's how I always took it and believe it was done to be deliberately ambiguous rather than definitive.

The first Raimi film literally states that the "Goblin Formula" shows "an 800% increase in strength." while it was still in the testing stages.

People just mistook the fact that he wore the armour as being the source of his strength, endurance, etc and while it no doubt would have enhanced his attributes even further, he was bonafide superhuman without it.