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04-17-2019, 01:37 PM #776
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04-17-2019, 03:03 PM #777
^^Only problem is that The Favourite hasn't been in theaters for months...
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04-17-2019, 06:19 PM #778
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04-17-2019, 06:24 PM #779
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04-17-2019, 08:26 PM #780
just dishing shit as I have not been to the movies in about a month (which is long for me)!
As for not getting the "British" humour, one could argue that there wasn't any/that is was severely skewed as the director is Greek and one of the co-screenwriters is Australian (the other co-screenwriter is English, though...)
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04-18-2019, 12:51 PM #781
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Fair enough. I could see where it was supposed to be funny but I just didn’t get the humor so I assumed it was English. It was the sarcastic absurdity that might have made me think English.
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04-18-2019, 07:28 PM #782
CAPTAIN MARVEL
2.5 / 5
Truth be told, I’m getting a little bored with all the intergalacticness of the current spate of Marvel movies. I long for the more “down-to-Earth” tales I remember from the comics I read at the barbershop when I was a wee lad. That and I’m starting to feel that the homogonous nature/look of many of the Marvel films is becoming boring (but as long as they keep reaping in billions of dollars I fear we’ll only see more generic and cookie-cutteresque films from here on out). Not to mention the frickin dense interconnectedness of the films (i.e. you almost have to see every one because they are all leading up to a final endgame; I sincerely hope that Phase IV comes up with some more creative stand-alone stories). I thought the same thing about Captain Marvel that I did about Black Panther: here’s a film with social and cultural significance as, in this case, it features a strong female lead, but ultimately it was kind of run-of-the-mill, both in terms of story and feel. I was not a fan of Brie Larsen’s “Starman take” on the character (watch the John Carpenter Jeff Bridges’ starring film and you’ll understand what I mean) and quite a bit of the “deadpan” humor felt forced. There were some genuine moments (Captain Marvel and Fury washing dishes, for example) and the cat “Goose” was a scene stealer (they used no less than 4 different cats, too!), but overall this was just a rather ho-hum effort, imho.
FWIW, my favorite MCU films to date have been Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ant-Man and The Wasp...
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04-18-2019, 07:29 PM #783
US
4 / 5
A serious tweak on the doppleganger/Prince and the Pauper mythos Us reminded me an awful lot of The Sixth Sense, in that the bait-and-switch trickery is revealed early on and continually hinted at throughout the film, but the somewhat confusing story and nail-biting intensity and fast pacing serve as excellent red herring diversions. That said, I felt kinda stupid for missing all the obvious signs when the twisted reveal drops at the end. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the pointed social commentary lurking in the subtext (it’s not as obvious as Get Out), but there’s lots of jabs at “keeping up with the Joneses”, nature vs. nurture, and primal urges vs sophisticated ones. Quite a few holes emerge in the story once you spend time ruminating on it post-viewing, but it’s a taut and intense horror thriller that I feel is worth a second viewing.
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04-19-2019, 02:12 PM #784Registered User
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04-20-2019, 08:35 PM #785
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Took Chinese gf to see Ash is Purist White again. She liked it and looks a lot like Qiao and dresses like her too. Good movie.
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04-25-2019, 11:26 AM #786
So it looks like Avengers Endgame is going off huge at the worldwide box office. With the majority of reviews strongly positive, some are actually thinking it could knock Avatar out of the #1 all time spot. Sounds like it is a good wrap up of the Marvel universe phases 1-3.
I hope to see it this weekend (if I can get in!).Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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04-26-2019, 05:17 AM #787
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04-26-2019, 05:32 AM #788
Glad I have zero[0] interest in Marvel comics movies and won't be in a crowded theatre for 3 hours+.
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04-26-2019, 11:21 AM #789Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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04-27-2019, 02:14 AM #790
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04-27-2019, 09:46 AM #791Registered User
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_(film)
Admittedly, it's all a hot mess.
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04-29-2019, 12:17 PM #792Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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04-29-2019, 12:29 PM #793
Honestly I didn’t really like it. It felt like the last episode of a sitcom series and not really a coherent story. Won’t go into too many details to avoid spoilers.
TBH I’ve had a hard time with the last handful of Marvel movies based on the Avengers characters.
The other offerings like Captain Marvel and Spider-verse I thought were so much more interesting.
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04-29-2019, 01:36 PM #794
Good. Then hopefully we can all have a break from them. Been getting comic book movie fatigue for a while now. Haven't even bothered with the last few. I HAVE wanted to watch them and all, but just kind of been less enthused than I used to be. Same goes for the Star Wars films. I think I preferred when a new release was something truly special. We've just been bombarded these last few years, though. Kind of like having too much cake or something. Not saying they're BAD or anything. I'm just not as hyped.
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04-29-2019, 04:52 PM #795
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04-29-2019, 05:37 PM #796
dookey67 said he was listing his favorite MCU movies. Deadpool the comicbook character is owned by Marvel Comics (a subsidiary of Disney), but Deadpool movie rights are held by Fox because the comicbook character first appeared in an X-Men related book (New Mutants #98) even though the comicbook character isn't a mutant (and the movie character Deadpool is... sort of).
So, the Deadpool movies are Fox movies, not MCU movies. But, considering dookey67's taste in comicbook movies, I'm betting Deadpool would rank pretty high with him.
It's definintely a serious time commitment to go through it all again, but I found myself enjoying it a lot more the second time around.
I hear ya. My buddy said it felt like a clip show of "Friends" or something. While I can see where you're coming from, I have a ton of respect for the unparalleled degree of difficulty these writers and directors had. Endings are notoriously difficult to write, and we've seen so many final installments of franchises fail; but we've never seen any movie attempt to bring closure (I know it's not THE END, that's not how these things work, but it is An Ending) to a decade worth of movies. I went in expecting a Dark Knight Rises, or Return of the Jedi, or The Last Crusade. While I personally like RotJ more, I think Avengers: Endgame is better than any other Final Chapter and has a more difficult trick to pull off.
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04-29-2019, 06:46 PM #797
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I hear ya. My buddy said it felt like a clip show of "Friends" or something.[/QUOTE]
Ha. Exactly. I think if you are invested in the Marvel Universe already, then it’s probably nice to see it all tied up so neatly, but for someone like me who has drifted away the last few years there wasn’t a lot there for me.
I found myself being like, “who is that guy?” on multiple occasions.
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04-29-2019, 07:52 PM #798Registered User
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04-30-2019, 07:56 AM #799
True, true. I suppose I'm just weary of the stuff coming from Disney/Marvel. How many times does Spiderman and Batman (DC, I know) need to be 'rebooted'? Although Alita's a few decades old, it at least felt like something fresh from Hollywood. Something they haven't regurgitated 20 times over.
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04-30-2019, 08:33 AM #800
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I’m w/ dookey on “Avengers Endgame”. I find it just too random who will have the best superpower in any specific fight. Captain Marvel can blow right through a spaceship, but can’t do something else? Oh, that’s right, there “Are a thousand other planets” having some issues. She’s stretched a little thin here, OK? 3 hours is too long, when the movie isn’t based on a book, and even then, I’m glad we saw it at a movie and dinner place.
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