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Rewatched this tonight

posted a year ago by DoctorThirteen (14426)
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On Blu-ray as the final part of my 'spaghetti quadrilogy'™ rewatch (Batman '89, Batman Returns, Man of Steel, The Flash).

Still a very solid 7.5/10 for me - and there are definitely parts that I rate higher. I know it was overhyped as 'the best CBM ever' etc, but I do not understand the vitriolic hate for this film. For Miller, I get it. But the dog-pile on the movie, I don't.

By the way, anyone else think Nam-Ek seemed bigger in this? He looked 10-12 feet tall at times. In MOS I thought he was around the 7-8 feet mark.

ETA Whilst the 'making of' extras are interesting, the total absence of deleted scenes feels like a real **** you to those of us who a) turned out to see, and b) bought this movie.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

I do not understand the vitriolic hate for this film. For Miller, I get it. But the dog-pile on the movie, I don't.

Movie discourse is like that. Some movies become whipping boys, cool to hate. Others get worshipped and revered for some unknown reason.

It often makes no sense at all. A lot of it is group think and the snowball effect. The Flash was hyped up then flopped at the box office, it became something to mock it with and developed a negative tone of failure surrounding the movie. People ran with it and that's that. The damage is done and the narrative is set.

I've never seen Morbius but I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't as bad as the internet would have you believe. That's one of those movies that the internet decided to get together and laugh at.

A good example is The Little Mermaid and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part 1. Both had similar budgets and similar world wide box office returns this year. The narrative is that TLM is a flop and disaster whilst no one says a peep about M:I. It's because people wanted TLM to flop due to the 'race swapping' of Ariel, whilst M:I is another Tom Cruise action flick which was quite well received.

[–] bozo_500 (13224) a year ago

Morbius is sort of fun but quite bad. but tbh no worse than ALOT of MCU (or DCEU)

Think The Flash became abit of a whipping boy bc of Ezra

[–] ATG6 (3000) a year ago

This has some great parts and some not so good parts. Overall a worthy addition to the DCEU.

It jumps from dumb humor to very dark quite often. Audiences often have trouble with that (see Ranger, The Lone).