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Post by chronotigger65 on Mar 14, 2019 19:48:45 GMT -5
Started watching the Marvel Universe movies starting with Iron Man. Got the first six movies along with the second Avengers but saving that one for later when I get the other movies that take before it and watch them.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Mar 14, 2019 21:49:47 GMT -5
The MCU movies have been consistently not complete shit, and some of them are even quite good. Which is a pretty big accomplishment for a superhero movie franchise. I watched Captain Marvel recently. I liked it, but I'd put it squarely in the midrange of marvel movies. With a little tweaking I'd put it higher but the first quarter of the movie really drags, and after spending like 10 movies firmly establishing the Kree as the bad guys it was a little jarring for this movie to go "But maybe they're actually good? LOL JK"
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Post by windfisch on Mar 15, 2019 9:52:57 GMT -5
There are not that many Marvel movies I liked, but the following were pretty decent: Iron Man 1 and 3 (maybe 2) Dr Strange (cool visuals) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 (enjoyed it a lot more than the first, though the humour and the big action scenes were hit and miss)
Thor Ragnarok (actually this movie RAGNAROKS, instead of being just "decent")
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Post by lurker on Mar 15, 2019 13:43:15 GMT -5
Funny you should mention Marvel. Gunn's back!
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Mar 15, 2019 22:05:43 GMT -5
Yea Ragnarok is great. I haven't decided if it's my favorite or not, but it's definitely at the top of the list.
Glad to hear Disney is reversing that ridiculous decision about Gunn. Also glad to hear he isn't bailing on Suicide Squad 2.
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Post by lurker on Mar 23, 2019 15:48:22 GMT -5
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Post by xolta on Mar 24, 2019 22:54:20 GMT -5
Goat story 3 may 4/10 its like a bad drug trip.
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Post by windfisch on Mar 25, 2019 11:19:38 GMT -5
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
It was pretty dumb. It also was pretty entertaining. I laughed a lot and frankly, I had considerably more fun than I had watching Logan.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Mar 27, 2019 22:37:32 GMT -5
I remember really liking Wolvering.
I watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
I think most people have seen it at this point. I was a holdout because I didn't like the art style in the trailer, but I was dumb.
It's really a great movie.
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Post by windfisch on Mar 28, 2019 10:20:05 GMT -5
I remember really liking Wolvering. I watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse I think most people have seen it at this point. I was a holdout because I didn't like the art style in the trailer, but I was dumb. It's really a great movie. Spiderverse is definetely one I'm planning to see. I did watch the first 10 or so minutes on Youtube (as part of an, admittedly clever, marketing campaign from the studio) and those minutes alone were better than anything I'd seen in a Spiderman movie, aside from the Raimi ones. It's all character introduction, no big action scenes whatsoever, which makes it even more impressive that it's so captivating.
I watched Ready Player One recently and it was pretty boring. I liked the story better when it was an *actual* 80s movie called "Tron" not just a bunch of hyperactive action scenes and pop culture references (okay, Tron had a few, too but just a few). And even those references sometimes completely miss the point: The Iron Giant was an anti-war film at heart, but here the character is diminished to just another cool killing machine. I guess herein lies the difference between good and bad fanfiction - and this is certainly the latter.
It's also a rather ugly movie: There's rarely a sense of composition (shots are littered with stuff), camera movement is all over the place and most scenes look kinda fake. This fake-ness might be the point in the virtual world (though It'd still be a bad decision, as it hampers the viewer's immersion) but this also applies to many of the real world scenes, especially the lighting. Characters were also flat and the plot barely worth mentioning.
(Also: Would it really take all these years and an army of geeks to finally figure out that the VCS game "Adventure" might be of relevance in an "easter egg" hunt? )
I'd recommend (re)watching the original Tron and Wreck-It-Ralph (also featuring some similar concepts) instead, alongside the actual movies referenced in RPO.
And taking my own advice to heart I started watching the Back to the Future films. I still regard them fondly, but at the same time it's hard for me to ignore that they contain some seriously fucked up parts. But that's a topic I might be getting *ahem* back to in the near future...
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Post by lurker on Mar 28, 2019 21:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Mar 28, 2019 22:10:26 GMT -5
I watched Ready Player One recently and it was pretty boring. I liked the story better when it was an *actual* 80s movie called "Tron" not just a bunch of hyperactive action scenes and pop culture references (okay, Tron had a few, too but just a few). And even those references sometimes completely miss the point: The Iron Giant was an anti-war film at heart, but here the character is diminished to just another cool killing machine. I guess herein lies the difference between good and bad fanfiction - and this is certainly the latter.
It's also a rather ugly movie: There's rarely a sense of composition (shots are littered with stuff), camera movement is all over the place and most scenes look kinda fake. This fake-ness might be the point in the virtual world (though It'd still be a bad decision, as it hampers the viewer's immersion) but this also applies to many of the real world scenes, especially the lighting. Characters were also flat and the plot barely worth mentioning.
(Also: Would it really take all these years and an army of geeks to finally figure out that the VCS game "Adventure" might be of relevance in an "easter egg" hunt? ) I'd recommend (re)watching the original Tron and Wreck-It-Ralph (also featuring some similar concepts) instead, alongside the actual movies referenced in RPO.
And taking my own advice to heart I started watching the Back to the Future films. I still regard them fondly, but at the same time it's hard for me to ignore that they contain some seriously fucked up parts. But that's a topic I might be getting *ahem* back to in the near future...
I still love the original back to the future movies, warts and all. Watched them not long ago.
For such a meh franchise, I could honestly probably talk at length about Ready Player One, both the book and film. There was a lot of interest there but it's all smushed in with bad fanfic and corporate bullshit. I will say that overall I think I like the movie better than the book, as the movie made me feel some sympathy for the designer (who I'm pretty sure is kind of a Woz stand-in.) and the easter egg challenges in the book were pretty dull.
Wreck-It-Ralph and especially Wreck-It-Ralph 2 are great movies.
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Post by GamerL on Mar 28, 2019 22:54:33 GMT -5
What I liked about Ready Player One the book was the world building, it's vision of what the future might be like, it all felt very plausible, the story and characters were just ok.
The movie ditches most of the world building, not only is the sheer scale of OASIS dulled (hampered by what they could get the rights to show, the book makes it more clear that it's a world of everything you can think of) but what really sucks is the state of the real world is brushed over, this is what most people don't get about RPO, it's not just a nostalgia trip, the book makes it clear that the real world of the future is a very terrible place, there's a contrast between the story and it's happy ending for our hero Wade and the state of the real world which of course remains unchanged at the end, I feel like the author was trying to say something with that although what is not totally clear.
But the movie way brushes over all that, details like Wade's mother being a drug addict who died from an overdose are not mentioned, there's maybe a single line in the whole movie referencing the state of the world, for the most part all you know is that Wade is a poor kid in the future, not that the whole world is a dystopia.
So yeah, the movie was just kinda dull and strangely ugly looking, I didn't hate it but I was hoping for more, at least we can say that there exists a Steven Spielberg movie with a large breasted catgirl in it, that's pretty hilarious.
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Post by lurker on Mar 28, 2019 23:18:53 GMT -5
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Mar 29, 2019 2:17:17 GMT -5
Yea I can follow that, Griff. The movie touched on the state of the world, and there was a lot that was hinted at but it didn't really press the issue, and it definitely didn't get across the scope of Oasis.
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