Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine were good. Nothing since then has looked interesting.
I found Deadpool & Wolverene supremely painful. Matter of taste I suppose. Haven’t seen any other dress-up movies in a while.
What did you find painful about it? While I dont think it was historic level cinema, I fid find it entertaining.
Did you like the first 2 Deadpool movies? If so, what was worse about this one?
They go and stand in front of a mirror? I don’t get it.
They reflect.
What have I been watching all this time?
Imo, the worst shit is the multiverse shit that makes it all meaningless. If they don’t like how they told the story, they will just make up a new version and say multiverse and you are the idiot for saying that it doesn’t make sense in another way because multiverse.
An repetitive story with no meaningful content for the franchise and no interest in consistency.
It’s an infinite Deux Ex Machina
For me it’s the juvenile plot and vapid dialogue. But sure, the retconning too.
Apparently, the new vision is to use the Multiverse explanation in order to bring all of the characters into one single timeline. So, apparently, Marvel has become quite aware of your issues, as the new studio head feels the same way. They’re doing what they can to address it, FWIW
They’re doing a Battleworld, the comic event where Doom kidnaps Franklin Richards, and the molecule man, in order to temporarily erase the multiverse.
The end of that particular comic storyline justified the end of the Ultimates universe, while allowing Miles Morales to join the main marvel universe.
Nothing else changed. Because the first law of comics is that nothing ever changes. Not really.
Movies on the other hand, have a problem. Actors age out of roles, so you should be changing the world with each movie… Marvel isn’t doing that.
justified the end of the Ultimates universe
Ah, I really liked the ultimates universe because it did make a whole new start that I could jump into, compared to the decades of comics earlier. Plus they were pretty free about killing some characters off. I loved cyclops deciding to
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because it felt like the characters had room to grow, fuck up, and change… like they could act in ways that didn’t need to preserve the status quo.
It was a wonderful experiment. And it showed what you can do with tight continuity control… But it was a bit too grimdark. Heroes need to be allowed to act like heroes, even when it’s hard.
The Ultimates universe felt like all the big names were slowly drifting towards evil.
I think my love for it came from the spiderman comic. Peter was great in the ultimate universe (and was the only comic I read through the entirety of). And yeah, grimdark is probably the right fit for it.
The last one I tried was Thor: love and thunder. I went out of the cinema 25 minutes in, didn’t get my money back. That movie was filled with forced jokes that made no sense.
I’m trying to remember if Marvel likes the US military. Aren’t they always turning out to be secretly controlled by HYDRA or something? I also seem to recall that Iron Man decided he couldn’t trust them with weapons and invented his suit so that he could do all of his killing personally.
Early on up until the first Avengers they were, but that movie strained the relationship due to how much the DoD wanted to meddle in the production. They didn’t like the helicarriers due to realism, for example. And you can see shit like F-35’s on the flight deck, national guard doing their thing during the invasion, Captain America straight up using an M4, things like that.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
Their involvement is blatant. They literally have a near century long intimate relationship with Hollywood as a well established recruitment tactic. It’s hardly a secret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–entertainment_complex
https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/03/22/how-why-defense-department-works-hollywood.html
Damn didn’t realize they were involved in every single film made by Hollywood. Really explains a lot about Finding Nemo
Is it Spider-Men or Spider-Mans?
Spider-Mans. Spider-Man is a proper noun so you generally don’t change it and just as pluralization to the end
But semantics have become more fluid and non-binary over the past decade.
Spiders-Man
Awww
We’re trying to be inclusive here, it’s spider-people.
Not to mention that every single movie has the same plot. But more meta each time
Wait. Wait. Wait. This one has a black guy as the protagonist. How about a woman. What if they are all alians. Or hear me out. All ultra wealthy?
What if one wore his pants inside out?
Cry fucking harder. You people will bitch about anything.
Found the Marvel fan!
I don’t want to watch anything for three hours TBH. 95 minutes is the optimal run time for a film. FITE ME.
I think 2h is optimal. Not too long, but can still fit a proper story with enough time for development.
90 minutes is enough for children/family moviesChildren/family movies can also have plenty of story and development. Case in point: Inside Out, runtime 1h 35m.
Inside Out is kinda forced through though. It ought to have been 2 hours.
Commando, the greatest movie ever made, is 90 minutes long.
I make an exception for LotR extended.
I’d rather hammer nails through my dick!
I’d also rather hammer nails through this guy’s dick!
I’m in. I got a hammer and nails already out for a project. Let’s run it.
😂
Then do so to curtail the spread of your heresy to future generations.
You have my hammer.
Yeah, my brain has been rotted by short form media too.
This seems like a good time to mention that fucking Casablanca has a running time of 102 minutes. For most of the history of Hollywood 100-120 minute running times have been the norm.
Gigantic runtimes are a feature of depression era economics, the 1930s and now.
I do personally enjoy a long film if it’s doing something good with the run time. Oppenheimer was a solid one recently, even with it being so long it was still densely-packed and I don’t think it would have been improved by being shortened. That said, I think two hours is roughly my default sweet spot. The further over that you go, the better you’re going to have to be to persuade me. I’m ready to be persuaded but it needs to be something
100%.
Nerds screeching about marvel is the new /r/athiesm
It’s high time we reintroduce the intermission… in the third dimension.
Brutalist having an intermission was so nice and made me realize how much I’d love more movies to have this. Sadly I don’t think we’ll see this being done more as that little extra time probably cuts into the amount of showings you can do in a day.
I saw Interstellar in a classy New Zealand theater that gave creatively-cooked meals during an intermission. I feel like that would be a well-appreciated change of pace for a lot of people.
Did they just serve 5 types of corn-based foods, y’know, for immersion?
They really don’t like it when you don’t swoon over the latest new hot trending macguffin.
Grogu is a MacGuffin, not an actual character.
Fight me.
You’re right, but I can still fight you if you want, say we meet at the park near sundown?
I’ll even let you get the first hit in, I’ll be walking around, and you can just run up and punch me.
Perfect, that is so fair. Please do not tell me which park or how to recognize you. It wouldn’t be sporting otherwise!
Cool post, uncool instance
Whoa, a neoliberal opinion no one asked for from piefed.world- that’s expected
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