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Post by sarapen on Apr 17, 2023 13:21:09 GMT -5
Okay, this looks like fun. Apparently people didn't much like the Captain Marvel 2019 movie? I don't mean misogynistic shitheads, I mean people who wanted to like it. I thought it was fine and breezy and not trying too hard. Brie Larson runs like a knock-kneed goober and is outshined by her supporting players, but her confident air fit the character. I didn't hate it but thought it was second-tier MCU. This sequel actually looks more enjoyable to me. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 20, 2023 16:52:27 GMT -5
Why was Wakanda Forever so dark? I don't mean in subject matter, but in "couldn't the MCU afford to light their scenes?" I watched it on D+ and at least 2/3 of the scenes were severely underlit, especially in Atlantis Talokan, but also above ground.
Also why could nobody pronounce Namor's name? I can understand if they saw it written down and then changed the vowel sounds around, but he introduced himself as "Nah-more" and immediately half the cast were calling him "Nay-more".
Also also The Gay Scene™ was like two seconds that could be easily stripped out so as not to offend the Chinese, as always. Yay representation.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 20, 2023 19:22:15 GMT -5
Crash Test Dumbass It comes from trying to avoid any light that appears too “source-y,” so trying to go for omething a naturalistic (or really looks naturalistic) as possible. It’s an odd mix with the MCU, which is so brightly-colored and not usually trying for much realism. It’s a pretty common fan complaint across a lot of genre moviemaking—a tyle that works great drama or “elevator horror” may not be ideal for stuff where it’s better to have large amounts of legible action. Like any style its effectiveness depends on how well it’s implemented, too. It’s mainly being widely applied now becaue it’s the in thing—maybe even getting close default—right now.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 20, 2023 20:10:33 GMT -5
Also why could nobody pronounce Namor's name? I can understand if they saw it written down and then changed the vowel sounds around, but he introduced himself as "Nah-more" and immediately half the cast were calling him "Nay-more". His name has always been pronounced "Nay-More," at least dating back to the cartoons in the 60s. The "Nah-more" was an attempt to make his name make sense with his new origin. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 20, 2023 22:11:30 GMT -5
Also why could nobody pronounce Namor's name? I can understand if they saw it written down and then changed the vowel sounds around, but he introduced himself as "Nah-more" and immediately half the cast were calling him "Nay-more". His name has always been pronounced "Nay-More," at least dating back to the cartoons in the 60s. The "Nah-more" was an attempt to make his name make sense with his new origin. Right, I got why he called himself Nah-more, even if that was a terrible reason. I was wondering why everyone was rudely mispronouncing the name he just gave them ten seconds ago. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 21, 2023 5:52:37 GMT -5
His name has always been pronounced "Nay-More," at least dating back to the cartoons in the 60s. The "Nah-more" was an attempt to make his name make sense with his new origin. Right, I got why he called himself Nah-more, even if that was a terrible reason. I was wondering why everyone was rudely mispronouncing the name he just gave them ten seconds ago. Because he's a jerk and they hate him. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Apr 30, 2023 3:42:09 GMT -5
Finally got round to seeing Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. What an absolute piece of shit movie. Just a ghastly CGI vomit-fest it's impossible to care about. I think I might be pretty much out for MCU movies at this point, unless something comes out that gets pretty much straight-A reviews across the board. Other than Spiderman: Spidermen-ing (which I'm aware I largely like because it was tickling my nostalgia balls), I don't think I've just straightforwardly enjoyed an MCU movie since Endgame. Every movie has either been a misfire, needs to be excused or just hasn't been good. So that might be me done. GOTG3 might be decent but I won't be rushing to see it.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on May 8, 2023 19:57:48 GMT -5
I also finally caught Quantumania and agree that it was almost entirely terrible, and by "almost" I mean "William Jackson Harper had like five lines and does that world-weariness bit he does so well, but if I wanted that I could just rewatch The Good Place, which was actually, y'know, good; anyway, the rest of the movie was shit". I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters, even Hey Kids It's Bill Murray™. I couldn't bring myself to care about whatever the plot was. Some of the backgrounds were pretty, in a generic Hubble telescope / scanning electron microscope kind of way, and probably looked cooler in the theatre at the more expensive 3-D showings, but that can't even sort of carry a movie (see also: Strange, Doctor). The only really good parts of the last two Ant Man movies were the supporting characters, and none of them were in this, especially not Luis. I don't know if even Luis could have saved this movie.
And what the fuck was that iteration of MODOK? Somebody got paid for that atrocity? The Happy Mondays dude in the Gorillaz' DARE video was a more convincing MODOK and they weren't even trying for that. Ugh.
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Post by ABz Bđź‘ąanaz on May 9, 2023 9:37:47 GMT -5
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was great. The Guardians continue to be my favorite MCU team.
Yeah, Quantumania was entertaining (I DID see it in 3D in the theater) but kind of empty too. And focusing so much on Jonathan Majors' Kang is an immediate downside now.
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Post by ganews on May 10, 2023 9:38:27 GMT -5
I saw GOTG 3. It was pretty good, despite being 1) darn long 2) not as concise a story and 1 and 2. The ending was definitely a big "time for all the bigger-name actors to move on to different projects now" like with Avengers: Endgame, so I was surprised by the after-credits announcement of more Star Lord. I could have done without the extended time with cute mutilated animals, which feels manipulative and doesn't have the novelty of the original Toy Story.
It really showed what a pale imitation The Suicide Squad was.
Also since this setting for this movie is basically The Island of Dr. Moreau, for the first and last time ever I wondered what former AVC commenter and MCU hater MANIMAL thought about it.
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Post by Nudeviking on May 13, 2023 0:23:36 GMT -5
Saw GotG 4 yesterday with my kid and in a sign that I'm either an excellent or terrible parent she spent the bulk of the movie howling with laughter and elbowing me to be like, "Dad did you hear that?!" anytime anyone got called a "dumbass" during the movie.
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Post by sarapen on May 13, 2023 20:42:49 GMT -5
Saw Guardians v3 earlier today. Pretty satisfying send-off. But Eternals had the MCU's first sex scene and now this has the first F-bomb. If this trend continues then we'll have full penetration in a summer blockbuster within our lifetimes. Also I was looking up Easter eggs and that little girl who join the team at the end is apparently Phylla Vell, the goth lesbian dating Drax's daughter in the comics at the time I quit reading them. Incidentally, I just learned that the MCU is putting Sabra the Israeli superhero in the next Captain America movie. Remember when she and the Saudi superhero Arabian Knight (ugh) met for the first time?  I foresee no problems at all. |
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Post by haysoos on May 25, 2023 16:05:48 GMT -5
I finally saw Quantumania this last weekend, and it reminded me a lot of Rise of Skywalker. And not in a good way. There have been few times I've been so actively disinvested in the proceedings of a movie, as they fumbled every scene to make it somehow the worst version possible of that scene. The biggest problem, for me, was that there was no attempt to actually make the Quantumverse a believable location, with any kind of plausible society or culture. SNL skits have better worldbuilding. Every character and scene was just a set-up for a joke, and most of the jokes were really lame, and many of them were rip-offs of better jokes from other places (including Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
Easily the worst Marvel film to date. And that's in a field that includes Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder. As others have noted, the general quality of films in Phase 4 have been markedly lower since Endgame. I quite enjoyed Shang-Chi, and didn't hate Black Widow or Doctor Stranger, but No Way Home is the only one I'd even consider watching twice (and I have). I will definitely watch GOG3 when it shows up on Disney+, but otherwise I don't really have any interest in any of the upcoming films.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 12, 2023 8:53:39 GMT -5
We finally saw GotG3, which may be the first Phase IV movie we've seen in the theaters, unless Spiderman 3 is one. We figured we could get there at the advertised start time to get tix and snax and still be fine, and we technically were, but literally the only tickets left were in the front row, far left. At least the seats reclined, because the angle was terrible. The movie was great, though. Guardians has probably been the most consistently good series. Maybe the animal stuff was a bit heavy, but it still got us all choked up. Somehow we hadn't noticed that none of them are particularly 'smart' heroes, although they all have moments of cleverness. Even the 'bricks' on the Avengers are world changing scientists.
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Post by ganews on Jun 12, 2023 11:06:39 GMT -5
Looks like it's an unpopular opinion, but I liked Quantumania. I wasn't crushed to have missed it in the theater or anything, but even with all its faults I enjoyed it. Paul Rudd is always entertaining, and it's too bad Jonathon Majors turns out to be terrible in life because he's good in this. Lightweight even if it has higher stakes than any of the others in this series. MODOK is so ridiculous, why not have a laugh? Now over to the Unpopular Movie Opinions thread to really stir the pot...
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 2, 2023 9:57:39 GMT -5
Finally caught GOTG3. It was OK. Definitely better than the other Phase 4 movies I've seen so far, but that's not exactly a high bar to clear.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 5, 2023 17:07:18 GMT -5
We finally saw GotG3, now that it's on D+. We both enjoyed it, though the animal stuff especially was depressing enough that I don't think we'll be watching it again any time soon. I'd probably call it the weakest of the GotG trilogy, but that's whatever the opposite of damning with faint praise is.
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Post by ABz Bđź‘ąanaz on Jan 25, 2024 18:29:01 GMT -5
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Post by sarapen on Feb 14, 2024 9:39:35 GMT -5
There's a Madame Web movie? I only found out just this second because I was browsing what was showing at my local cinema. The profile of the MCU has really sunk in the last few years. I guess after Endgame and GOTG 3 it feels like the old stories ended and nothing compelling has taken its place. Oh well, we had a decade of a shared comic book universe that people around the world watched, that's a pretty decent run.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 14, 2024 10:04:01 GMT -5
There's a Madame Web movie? I only found out just this second because I was browsing what was showing at my local cinema. The profile of the MCU has really sunk in the last few years. I guess after Endgame and GOTG 3 it feels like the old stories ended and nothing compelling has taken its place. Oh well, we had a decade of a shared comic book universe that people around the world watched, that's a pretty decent run. It's not MCU. It's one of those terrible Sony cash-in movies like Morbius and the upcoming Kraven. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 18, 2024 15:42:14 GMT -5
There's a Madame Web movie? I only found out just this second because I was browsing what was showing at my local cinema. The profile of the MCU has really sunk in the last few years. I guess after Endgame and GOTG 3 it feels like the old stories ended and nothing compelling has taken its place. Oh well, we had a decade of a shared comic book universe that people around the world watched, that's a pretty decent run. It's not MCU. It's one of those terrible Sony cash-in movies like Morbius and the upcoming Kraven. I did in fact watch Madame Web and it's actually very funny what percent of the movie is scenes where Adam Scott's character says stuff like, "boy, I, Queens resident Ben Parker, sure am really excited to become an uncle for to my soon-to-be-born nephew (EXTREMELY LOUD AND CONVENIENTLY TIMED CAR HONK)"
Other than that and the very clunky exposition though, this is not an unintentional laugh riot like Morbius, though.
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Post by ganews on Feb 20, 2024 14:09:36 GMT -5
I found out over the weekend that Disney Parks actually did produce a version of "Rogers: The Musical" last year.
I watched it. Somebody sure was a fan of Hamilton. I think there will be some interested people here.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 24, 2024 18:06:23 GMT -5
I found out over the weekend that Disney Parks actually did produce a version of "Rogers: The Musical" last year.
I watched it. Somebody sure was a fan of Hamilton. I think there will be some interested people here.
I watched about half of it. I don't hear anything in this that is reminiscent of "Hamilton". Disney Parks has had several musical shows in over the years. There was a decent Aladdin show there before the Aladdin musical hit Broadway.
This is a more traditional, classic Broadway sound. As per Disney's press release:
“Rogers: The Musical” at Disney California Adventure park is inspired by the fictional Broadway musical theater sequence featured in the first episode of the Disney+ series “Hawkeye.” This new musical project will come to life through the creativity of Disney Live Entertainment in partnership with book writer Hunter Bell, star and book writer of the Tony Award-nominated “[title of show],” and will feature five all-new songs with music by Grammy-winning composer Christopher Lennertz and lyrics by Jordan Peterson, Christopher Lennertz and Alex Karukas. Plus, fan-favorites songs “Save The City” from the Disney+ series “Hawkeye” (written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman), and “Star Spangled Man” from the film “Captain America: The First Avenger” (written by Alan Menken and David Zippel).
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Post by ganews on Feb 25, 2024 20:50:07 GMT -5
I found out over the weekend that Disney Parks actually did produce a version of "Rogers: The Musical" last year.
I watched it. Somebody sure was a fan of Hamilton. I think there will be some interested people here.
 I watched about half of it. I don't hear anything in this that is reminiscent of "Hamilton". Disney Parks has had several musical shows in over the years. There was a decent Aladdin show there before the Aladdin musical hit Broadway.
This is a more traditional, classic Broadway sound. As per Disney's press release:
“Rogers: The Musical” at Disney California Adventure park is inspired by the fictional Broadway musical theater sequence featured in the first episode of the Disney+ series “Hawkeye.” This new musical project will come to life through the creativity of Disney Live Entertainment in partnership with book writer Hunter Bell, star and book writer of the Tony Award-nominated “[title of show],” and will feature five all-new songs with music by Grammy-winning composer Christopher Lennertz and lyrics by Jordan Peterson, Christopher Lennertz and Alex Karukas. Plus, fan-favorites songs “Save The City” from the Disney+ series “Hawkeye” (written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman), and “Star Spangled Man” from the film “Captain America: The First Avenger” (written by Alan Menken and David Zippel).
Clearly you didn't get to the ersatz Nick Fury bit. The rotating round stage was reminiscent as well. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 26, 2024 16:54:02 GMT -5
I just find it fun that Madame Web became the “Millennial dad takes his young daughters to” movie. Our parents’ generation had Lynda Carter in a skimpy outfit, mine has a jaded Dakota Johnson half-assing it and we can relate.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 27, 2024 1:57:06 GMT -5
I watched about half of it. I don't hear anything in this that is reminiscent of "Hamilton".
Clearly you didn't get to the ersatz Nick Fury bit. The rotating round stage was reminiscent as well. You don't watch a lot of musicals, obviously.
First of all, there is no rotating stage in this show, as far as I could see. I watched fully half of it. I just checked the back half at every 30 second mark and there is no stage movement. Do you have a timestamp on that?
Secondly, many many many many shows use a rotating stage. Going back many decades. "Cats" and (the original staging of) "Les Mis" are two big examples. OMG, that original staging of "Les Mis" had a phenomenal use of the turntable stage, as they could spin around the giant barricade and let you watch both sides of it. I've seen "Miss Saigon" use it (though the phenomenal staging of the evacuation scene in that show uses quite a LOT of stage trickery). "Phantom of the Opera" uses one. I've seen it used in "Carousel". I believe "Book of Mormon" uses one. There are dozens of shows that have used a rotating stage, many years before "Hamilton" premiered. What "Hamilton" used was a two-tier rotating stage, two circles that could rotate in both directions independent of each other. I believe it was the first show to do that.
Also, I watched the Nick Fury scene. That is also not reminiscent of "Hamilton". It is an old fashioned Broadway patter song.
Everything in this show sounds like it is 30 years older than anything Lin Manuel Miranda wrote.
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Post by ganews on Feb 27, 2024 10:08:57 GMT -5
Clearly you didn't get to the ersatz Nick Fury bit. The rotating round stage was reminiscent as well. I watched fully half of it. I just checked the back half at every 30 second mark and there is no stage movement.
Is it worth it to you for me to pull up the timestamp? Is it worth it to me? |
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Post by Celebith on Feb 27, 2024 11:01:58 GMT -5
His name has always been pronounced "Nay-More," at least dating back to the cartoons in the 60s. The "Nah-more" was an attempt to make his name make sense with his new origin. Right, I got why he called himself Nah-more, even if that was a terrible reason. I was wondering why everyone was rudely mispronouncing the name he just gave them ten seconds ago. He don't go by 'nay-more' namore. |
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Post by Celebith on Feb 27, 2024 11:33:10 GMT -5
Clearly you didn't get to the ersatz Nick Fury bit. The rotating round stage was reminiscent as well. . OMG, that original staging of "Les Mis" had a phenomenal use of the turntable stage, as they could spin around the giant barricade and let you watch both sides of it. I've seen "Miss Saigon" use it (though the phenomenal staging of the evacuation scene in that show uses quite a LOT of stage trickery). "Phantom of the Opera" uses one.
We went to a lot of Broadway stuff by getting last minute cheapo tickets, although my mom and sibs went to way more shows than I did. We also ended up with a lot of soundtracks on constant repeat at home. I'll still randomly have snippets of ' think of me' and ' music of the night' floating through my mind, but Les Mis is the only one I really loved, and the only show I saw multiple times. But the turntable stage in that and Miss Saigon were both amazing, although I feel like MS doesn't hold up as well. This has nothing to do with the MCU, and I haven't seen the Rogers musical, but ugh! Les Mis was just so great. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 27, 2024 15:37:34 GMT -5
I watched fully half of it. I just checked the back half at every 30 second mark and there is no stage movement.
Is it worth it to you for me to pull up the timestamp? Is it worth it to me? It's up to you. You're saying you see a rotating stage. I didn't see this in the segments I watched, which is obviously not all of it. But if that stage moves, it doesn't move in a way that most shows use a rotating stage.
Regardless, this is not a "Hamilton" thing. As I said, dozens and dozens of shows use this.
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