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It just looks like a strange movie. Don't have any gut feeling on it, one way or another.
Couldn't finish it.
Hard to believe the cast of this received praise for their roles. What a preachy, it-takes-a-village bunch of horseshit. Everyone I ever knew in highs school, be they band geek (me), bookworm, jock, punk, redneck, cheerleader or goth chick, they all got bullied by someone. Guess what we did in the 80's? We sucked it up and ignored the bully or punched their lights out. Both ways worked good.
So basically 13 Reasons is a show where no one is a grownup, not even the grownups!
" Studios might as well lean into that and tell the story they want to tell."
Um no... I don't agree. Let the story tell the story, without taking a definitive side in advance and let viewers (left or right) decide for themselves. If they can do that so well with movie stories like Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther, then can certainly keep a neutral stance. Let a story play out and let fans decide for themselves. If you announce to the world that Captain Marvel has a distinctive feminist slant before anyone has watched the movie, it's not going to gin-up support from everyone in the fan base. A good story that excites all fans is a good story, it doesn't have to take on a social issue in it's marketing campaign.
That's what I've pointed out.
Apparently the MCU has noticed that fans have been turned off by some of the trailers and interviews concerning Captain Marvel and that's why we got a 3rd trailer that was more fun in presentation and not so much emphasizing that Captain Marvel is a woman. And let's be honest, if that's the only reason to watch the movie (her gender) then it might not be that good of a movie. Marvel was smart to put out that trailer because people are talking and they have a right to an opinion too.
Just saying.
Hmmmm...
So let me get this straight, a super hero movie isn't "high brow" enough for you? Not many probably are, since most of them are made for escapism and pure fun. Simply put, none of it is War And Peace. If Tolstoy is your cup then Lee is likely not.
Just quit watching comic book movies then. That will solve your angst.
At least she's not a whiney buzzkill, like Pepper Potts from the MCU. I'll give her that much.
I don't know what an "incel neckbeard" is supposed to be, however I've previously stated that I want Captain Marvel to succeed, while acknowledging the MCU needs to watch the identity politics. That's pretty much my argument. As long as they don't swerve into politics (left or right) they will be fine.
Although I'm not high on Brie Larson, I'll give her a chance to show what she can do with the character. In the end, I have faith in Kevin Feige to keep the story focused in the comic book world. Thus far, he seems to know what he's doing.
I agree totally. Tommy Shelby is bad-ass! His complexity, cunning and foresight make him one of the best characters in any show today. Cillian is very good in this role.
After Peaky Blinders, I'd have to say my next favorite performance from him was as Doctor Crane/Scarecrow in the Nolan Batman movies. He was also excellent as Kappa in Sunshine, which was a more introspective character for him but still well acted.
This box office feat confirms what everyone - except executives at Warner Bro's - figured out years ago. "Dark and Gritty" was not a strategy for making every other comic book movie not starting with BATMAN in the title.
Looks like they will finally (literally) be buying a clue.
Welcome to the big leagues of comic book movies, WB! It only took 10 year and wrecking the mystiques of Superman, Batman and the Justice League to figure it out.
I suppose it's better late than never but the cost was awfully high.
Yep! Cosmic migraine level dumb.
Something else that's MASSIVELY stupid, is the scene where the death row inmate inquires to the doctor injecting him if what he's doing is legal or not.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Since when would a death row inmate who's scheduled to die for murder give two shits about the legality of something?!? How f-ing dumb! A legally conscious-minded murderer. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet ANOTHER example of how stupid the conversations are between people in this show. Idiotic!!
I don't know. The RT critics score is 21% and that vibes with the only slightly better audience score of 29%.
That's not good. It's a shame too, because I like McConaughey and Hathaway. They were good in INTERSTELLAR but this movie appears to be a bomb.
I'm still waiting.
I had read on another site that it would be a February release and yet, I'm seeing no adds on Netflix for the second season.
Red Skull was a great villain, a classic golden age comics baddie!
You wrote "Not every villain needs to be the Joker." I agree but what's really telling is that when you look hard at Heath Ledger's version of that character, he had no background. Now Nicholson's Joker from the 1989 movie did.
Don't misunderstand, I love the character! However often find it ironic that those who scoff "MCU villains aren't developed" seem to ignore that certain portrayals of the Joker lack development as well. The same could even be said of Jared Leto's version of the Joker. He's not that developed either.
Too early to tell and no way to predict.
I think the noise about M.C.U. villains being weak is a straw man argument based on a phony claim.
The phony claim is the villains lacked depth or motivations.
Last I checked the roster of their villains have a backstory you can understand, even break down into categories.
1) Revenge:Whiplash (Stark Sr. stole his dad's idea), Loki (sibling rivalry, always being second, desire for power and praise), Zemo (death of family due to destruction of Sokovia by Avengers) and Killmonger (for father's execution and thirst for ethnocentric revolution).
2) Messiah Complex:Thanos (kill half of all living things to save the other half).
In the categories above, you have fleshed out villains - two of which (Thanos and Loki) have made appearances in more than one M.C.U. movie. All the others have very personal reasons for their actions.
The villains in the latter categories have much less impacting reasons for their actions, save desires for base things.
3) Power and Money: Obadiah Stane (control of Stark Industries), Darren Cross (duplicating Hank Pym's research and assuming power through Hydra), Red Skull (ruling the world through Hydra), Dormammu (absorbing the realm of Earth into the Dark Dimension through his convert Kaecilius), Sonny Birch (money from stolen technology), Ronan the Accuser (power to destroy all his enemies), Alexander Pierce (using SHEILD as a cover for Hydra takeover).
That's how I'd arrange them and there are minor villains - Crossbones and Ghost for example - who also fall into the first category. An argument for less developed villains makes sense with them, as their backstories are fairly simple and don't require a lot of exposition.
Most of the arguments used against the M.C.U. have been by those who don't like the success of the M.C.U. and want to find something (anything for that matter) to use in order to take shots at that success.
Anyway, that's my take.
Well the words "weakest" and "strongest" have a pretty set meaning, so if he was going to rank them based on their character traits, he needed to choose a better title for his list.
There was one glaring absence on his list that others might have caught as well. Where was Crossbones? He's at least more powerful than the first three characters on the list - Trevor Slathery, Sonny Birch and Alexander Pierce. I'm pretty sure he could whip Zemo's ass too.
I concur. This has aged pretty well and the cast captured the comic book characters almost to a tee. Standouts were J.K. Simmons as J.J. Jameson, William Dafore as Norman Osborne/Green Goblin and of course Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-man. Everyone did good but these were the best portrayals.
Well the original ID was vapidly stupid, so I can only guess as to how much worse this thermonuclear crapfest was.
It's the best Space Race movie I've seen and captures the spirit of America and the world of that time.
it's a masterpiece. I showed it to my niece (she's into all these current, stupid horror movies like Truth Or Dare) and she was mesmerized by it. She said it was one of the creepiest movies she'd ever seen. I told her initially to be patient with the intro (her generation wants everything NOW) and let the story play out. In the end, she really liked it.
I rank it as #1 in my horror movie rankings. I don't give a crap if King didn't like it, Kubrick's movie was scarier than his book, which was actually kind of lame.
Anyway, just my opinion.