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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4530 on: May 14, 2019, 05:58:10 PM »
See, if it had been more grounded, like an actual fucking film noir detective story, that would have been great! Instead it turns into MCU lite at around the halfway point. BOOM! CRASH! ZAP! Don't look away, you might miss something!

I don't think I laughed. I laughed at the promotional scenes initially, but like I said, by the time the movie finally came around that shit was tired.

Again, I'm fully aware of my middle-aged manitude. I'm sure kids will enjoy this movie. I just thought it would be way more "something for everyone"-ish. And it's not.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4531 on: May 14, 2019, 07:23:15 PM »
I've never gotten Pokemon, and I haven't tried. I always looked at it as a young children's franchise and below my consideration as I fawned over a different young children's franchise that preceded it by 10-15 years....
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4532 on: May 14, 2019, 10:50:45 PM »
Yeah it was hard to laugh at the funny stuff again, because you had seen it all like a million times....

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4533 on: May 15, 2019, 01:00:12 PM »
I watched Harry and the Hendersons recently. It's still zany fun.

Rewatched Into the Spider-verse with the wife. It's also still zany fun, but more fun.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4534 on: May 16, 2019, 08:49:56 AM »
Into the Spider-Verse was surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting much out of it and it was pretty fucking great.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4535 on: May 16, 2019, 11:45:16 PM »
Again, I'm fully aware of my middle-aged manitude. I'm sure kids will enjoy this movie. I just thought it would be way more "something for everyone"-ish. And it's not.

I felt it was too old for it when it came out back in the 90's but I found first seasons of the cartoon to be a cute enjoyable show. Nothing I'd go out of my way to watch but certainly something to eat my cereal to. And lots of people our ages still got into the games and everything. So there's anything to a twenty year gulf between the older fans and younger fans, not to mention the Gen Xers who also got into it or just found the monsters cute. Theoretically, whole families would be going to this movie where both the parents and the kids grew up on it. Therefore, a live-action film about it should certainly be geared towards kids but have something for everyone. But movie execs are too simple-minded for something smart like that.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4536 on: May 18, 2019, 07:11:23 PM »
You're right. Pikachu could have wowed me, it just didn't.

I watched Under the Silver Lake the other night. When it was over, my cousin says to me, "I can't decide if that's one of the best, or one of the worst movies I've ever seen."

If you get the chance, give it a look.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4537 on: May 19, 2019, 09:29:37 AM »
ugh....Andrew Garfield. That's already a strike against it right there. I can't stand that guy.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4538 on: May 19, 2019, 05:53:56 PM »
I'm in the same boat, man. He didn't bother me in this, though. In fact, he was pretty amusing.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4539 on: May 19, 2019, 07:47:14 PM »
ugh....Andrew Garfield. That's already a strike against it right there. I can't stand that guy.

That's my cue.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4540 on: May 19, 2019, 10:25:37 PM »
I was thinking about that as I typed that. 

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4541 on: May 20, 2019, 01:26:50 AM »
That reminds me...


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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4542 on: May 21, 2019, 12:12:15 AM »
Ha ha! What the fuck? I have no words.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4543 on: May 24, 2019, 04:04:58 AM »
Right? Dude's channel is effed. I like it.

Saw John Wick 3. Great movie. Every action scene is excellent. Here's the thing, though. The best fight of the movie happens right off the bat, and nothing that comes after it can even hope to compete! Story-wise, it makes total sense, because he's fresh at the start and gets more and more worn down as things escalate, but still! That initial barrage had the audience gasping and laughing and groaning in quick succession, it was just relentless.

I don't know where they can even go from here. I feel like they've hit the ceiling for believable combat, if they go any further it's basically a super hero flick.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4544 on: May 25, 2019, 08:36:32 AM »
I was honestly disappointed in it. The fights were fun, but
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Wick 2 was somewhat underwhelming. 3 was a letdown. I'm still on-board for 4, though, if for nothing else than the ass-kicking. If my dad were alive, the Wick flicks would probably have ranked as some of his favorites, and I think about that every time I see one.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4545 on: May 27, 2019, 12:13:06 AM »
Batman vs. TMNT was deceptively fun with a crossover that actually made sense. The first fight between Batman and Shredder was freaking awesome, but the best part by far were the end credits and the modified comics covers.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4546 on: May 28, 2019, 09:30:22 AM »
The best fight of the movie happens right off the bat, and nothing that comes after it can even hope to compete! Story-wise, it makes total sense, because he's fresh at the start and gets more and more worn down as things escalate, but still! That initial barrage had the audience gasping and laughing and groaning in quick succession, it was just relentless.

The book thing was great (asmuch as the pencil thing) but I thought the best fight was the dog fight (not really spoilers because you can see it in the trailer). Needless to say I think the movie was AMAZING. And can't wait for the 4th one. Also Im tots going to watch it again when it comes out in Japan (sept/oct I think).


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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4547 on: May 28, 2019, 04:05:21 PM »
Shit, I was referring to the knife fight in the antique weapon shop. That totally made me forget about the library. Let's say the entire opening of the movie ending with the horse stable was my favorite.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4548 on: May 29, 2019, 02:55:13 AM »
Brightburn. The overall plot was mostly predictable, but that didn't stop the individual scenes from being unsettling. I kind of liked it.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4549 on: May 31, 2019, 05:04:48 AM »
Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It was good. Better than the previous one, which I also enjoyed. Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah all looked fucking amazing. It's still your typical Godzilla movie though, so if you've got beef with the human stuff, this is no different.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4550 on: Jun 02, 2019, 12:58:40 PM »
I saw Godzilla as well and I really liked it. I've been a Godzilla fan since I was a kid, and this things really did for it for me. You didn't have to wait an hour to see Godzilla or wait till the last 30 mins to see Godzilla kick ass like you did in the 2014 film. So I was happy. And I really need to get a better look at that screen when they are showing the 17 titans they have discovered. They all had names on them...I did notice one that said "Gojira" which was the original name for Godzilla in Japan. And the whole film had Easter eggs in there like that if you knew what to look for. Monster Zero, the oxygen destroyer, the Mothra twins. It was pretty great. And the sound track...not only did you get to hear the Mothra theme, but the original Godzilla theme shows up as well. And then that was pretty awesome cover of Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla over the credits. So this was a vast improvement over the last one, and I think even better then Kong: Skull Island which was my favorite up till this point.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4551 on: Jun 02, 2019, 01:32:57 PM »
I watched Captain Marvel yesterday. Aside from the humor intrinsic to watching a de-aged Samuel Jackson love on a cat-like creature, I found it to be dull as hell.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4552 on: Jun 02, 2019, 03:56:08 PM »
I was relatively positive with my Captain Marvel impressions in this thread, but thinking back, I don't know that I could ever double dip on that movie.

@Rama, did you stay in Godzilla until the bitter end?

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4553 on: Jun 03, 2019, 12:37:52 PM »
I did. It wasn't really worth the wait though. The stuff that was one the screen during the credits was more interesting. It was kinda cool to the see the in memory of for one the original suit actors who died recently though. That was kinda cool.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4554 on: Jun 03, 2019, 09:43:04 PM »
Shazam.
Reasonably good movie. Enjoyed it. Don't have a lot of thoughts about it either way. Kinda felt the whole "I'm trying to find my mom" thing wasn't focused on as much as it should have... so he finds his mom and find out she deliberately lost him because she was 17 (even though she didn't remotely look 17) and the kid's like "oh... okay" and I didn't feel a lot of emotional impact from that scene despite it being an important plot point.

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So I had this spoiled pretty early for me, and anything I type after this is a spoiler so you've been warned, but I had seen people post that Nat and Tony die, and that Tony uses the gauntlet to snap Thanos into dust. But I hoped those were fake spoilers. Nope. So during the soul stone scene I knew what was going to happen even though I didn't want it to happen there. I still enjoyed the movie. Not surprised about the time travel aspect, I figured before that the movie would either involve the time stone or the quantum realm, and I was half right.

Some things that bothered me about the movie:
- 5 years after Antman 2, and Antman finds his daughter. Who's in college now? Wasn't she pre-pubescent in Antman 2 or am I remembering shit wrong? In order to be in college she would have had to been mid teens in Antman 2.

- Later in the movie Thanos blows up Avengers headquarters with a missile bombardment... and EVERYONE SURVIVES. You want to talk about plot armor? Some of the characters it makes sense. Thor and Hulk would survive. If Tony and WarMachine were wearing their armor they would probably survive. But what about the rest of them?

- 5 years pass before everyone's snapped back to life. That's quite a long time for people to be gone. Imagine you come back to life... for you it's been an instant. Your dog is dead, your wife is fucking some other dude, your house is fucking gone, your beloved mother with cancer is dead now. Fuck you, right?

- Also, how exactly does the powet of the Gauntlet work? Thanos snaps his fingers and the gauntlet destroys his arm, which makes sense as the amount of energy needed to erase half the life in the universe would be a lot. Same thing with Hulk bringing people back. But, would the gauntlet destroy your arm if you asked it to make a cup of coffee? Thanos uses it a lot in IW and never destroys his hand, yet Iron Man uses it to destroy Thanos and his army (a billion times less people than half the galaxy) and it basically does to him what it did to Thor and Thanos. I can only assume that if you use it to kill anybody it will destroy your arm or something.

- The time travel thing confused me at first. Because of the things that happened in the past, that Loki steals the Tessaract, that Thanos comes to the future, I thought "well, how does the tessaract end up in the gauntlet later and how does Thanos snap his finger in the past if he dies in the future". Took me a bit to realize those events spawn new universes, so now there's a universe where Loki has the Tessaract, and there's a universe where Thanos isn't around anymore because he ended up in the future of OUR universe.

- So, if Capt returned the Soul Stone to the past, does that mean Nat came to life again, or is she just fucked? There's a Black Widow movie coming out, so how does that work? Or are they doing a Capt Marvel thing and having it in the 80s?

- Speaking of Old Capt, why didn't he give the shield to Bucky? See, Bucky is the one who actually has the same super serum powers as Capt, so he could put on the Capt suit and no one would know the difference. Falcon doesn't have super powers, his suit is the only thing that gives him powet. So he would be Captain America but with no super strength at all... he'd be weak-ass Captain America.

- Nice little nod to having Tony's father's butler be named Jarvis.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4555 on: Jun 05, 2019, 09:26:52 AM »
- No idea about Antman's kid. But if she was in seventh grade in the previous movie and a freshman here, that makes sense. However, I just don't see people going right back to normal 5 years after an endtime apocolyptic event like the Snap.

- As Daffy Duck once stated after catching hell in a cartoon, "I'm the start of this picture!" They get that leeway.

- Yeah, pretty much. But I personally prefer being alive to never existing, and I figure most people would feel the same despite the pain in the ass it would be to effectively be Rip Van Winkled for half a decade.

- Remember that Tony is just a puny human with nowhere near the Constitution of either Thanos or Hulk. He had the will but not the powet to command the gauntlet.

- Yeah, pretty much.

- The new BW movie stars a new BW. Nat's dead, as they still had to procure the stone from Red Skull at the price of a life previous to the claimant.

- Bucky is a criminal. Falcon isn't. Bucky is a tremendously compromised person morally. Falcon isn't. Besides, they can always flim-flam a way to get the super soldier serum into Falcon.

- That was actually a nod to the Agent Carter series, where Peggy's partner was Jarvis, Howard's butler, who was played by the same actor in the movie.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4556 on: Jun 06, 2019, 01:06:06 AM »
- Bucky is a criminal. Falcon isn't. Bucky is a tremendously compromised person morally. Falcon isn't. Besides, they can always flim-flam a way to get the super soldier serum into Falcon.

Well, about the criminal part, I don't think that would be that big of a problem. Captain himself was a fugitive from Civil War to Infinity War, although he didn't exactly do a lot of superhero stuff during that time. And other heroes have had moments where they were considered "criminals", or the police tried (unsuccessfully) to arrest them (Batman for instance).


Oh, one more thing that really really bothered me about Endgame.

Did they really have to have that scene where Tony was checking out Steve's ass in the past? Normally I wouldn't care one bit about this moment, but this is going to have all those damn Tumblr fangirls screaming their overly-emotional heads off about how their fucking Tony-Steve gay bromance is now canon. "Omg omg I told you they were really gay for each other." Sweet Jesus that's going to be annoying.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4557 on: Jun 06, 2019, 04:59:01 PM »
- Bucky is a criminal. Falcon isn't. Bucky is a tremendously compromised person morally. Falcon isn't. Besides, they can always flim-flam a way to get the super soldier serum into Falcon.
Well, about the criminal part, I don't think that would be that big of a problem. Captain himself was a fugitive from Civil War to Infinity War, although he didn't exactly do a lot of superhero stuff during that time. And other heroes have had moments where they were considered "criminals", or the police tried (unsuccessfully) to arrest them (Batman for instance).
Be careful equating the two: Bucky was busy being a part-time assassin while Cap was busy being a full-time popsicle. Massive difference...just ask Tony.

Did they really have to have that scene where Tony was checking out Steve's ass in the past? Normally I wouldn't care one bit about this moment, but this is going to have all those damn Tumblr fangirls screaming their overly-emotional heads off about how their fucking Tony-Steve gay bromance is now canon. "Omg omg I told you they were really gay for each other." Sweet Jesus that's going to be annoying.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4558 on: Jun 07, 2019, 03:03:09 AM »
Bad news, everyone. Dark Phoenix fucking stinks. Easily the worst X-Men movie. How? How can this be? It's worse than Last Stand. It's also written and directed by the same guy who wrote Last Stand. Fucking why?

Why does this movie exist?

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4559 on: Jun 07, 2019, 08:44:11 PM »
Actually that's good. It means I won't feel obliged to watch it and can ignore it with impunity.
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