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Post by sleeping on Dec 26, 2020 12:50:55 GMT -6
I have no objection to cape movies as a general rule, my objection comes from the "cinematic universe" crap where there are 28 movies that cross over and advance the stories of 86 characters. I understand that this is also how comic books work, but there's a reason I watch movies and don't read comic books.
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Post by krentist on Dec 26, 2020 13:14:03 GMT -6
My favorite part of Black Panther (a movie I actually enjoyed) is when they go to a CIA black site and nobody acknowledges it as a thing that might be bad, in a movie that has a shitload of US military consultants on hand so that America is represented appropriately. There are some good superhero movies but so many of them are not so subversively propaganda for the US military lol. According to twitter this one is actually Israeli propaganda rather than American: Edit:
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Post by ultravisitor on Dec 26, 2020 14:23:15 GMT -6
I have no objection to cape movies as a general rule, my objection comes from the "cinematic universe" crap where there are 28 movies that cross over and advance the stories of 86 characters. I understand that this is also how comic books work, but there's a reason I watch movies and don't read comic books. I think it's easier to follow the storylines you want to follow when you just read the comic books. Like, if there was a crossover, it was easy enough to just buy an individual issue from a series that I didn't normally read. Following 80 billion different movies is much more annoying, especially when I don't really care about most of the characters and their stories.
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Post by alady on Dec 26, 2020 15:08:28 GMT -6
So I do not as a rule watch superhero movies, tho I've seen a few here and there. My bf, however, is a comic nerd and wanted to watch them all in order leading up to WW84. We got pretty close (I think we still need to see Shazam and Birds of Prey?) and they were all pretty uniformly dumb/boring but I enjoyed the hell out of Aquaman perhaps because it was the dumbest?? Granted redacted, and lots of pretty effects and pretty people, and neither Momoa or Mera could enunciate worth a damn but that shit was hilarious
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Post by rango420 on Dec 26, 2020 15:59:42 GMT -6
So I do not as a rule watch superhero movies, tho I've seen a few here and there. My bf, however, is a comic nerd and wanted to watch them all in order leading up to WW84. We got pretty close (I think we still need to see Shazam and Birds of Prey?) and they were all pretty uniformly dumb/boring but I enjoyed the hell out of Aquaman perhaps because it was the dumbest?? Granted redacted, and lots of pretty effects and pretty people, and neither Momoa or Mera could enunciate worth a damn but that shit was hilarious Almost every superhero movie is created by a committee of the dumbest and most evil people in the world to advance American imperialist interests except for Aquaman where they gave James Wan $200 million to do whatever the hell he wanted and he came up with one of the biggest, dumbest, most creative and fun movies made in decades. I think you may like Shazam and Birds of Prey because (Shazam especially, hard to not feel like Birds of Prey was pushed into Deadpool-territory heavy in post production even though I liked it much more than any Deadpool movie) feel like commercial movies written to entertain vs. commercials for the next movie with an overarching theme to justify the bombing of Libya or to get a multicultural cast to say all lives matter or whatever.
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Post by ultravisitor on Dec 26, 2020 16:21:41 GMT -6
I liked Shazam because it was intentionally silly.
Bird of Prey just looks annoying.
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Post by thebosma on Dec 26, 2020 17:36:52 GMT -6
So I do not as a rule watch superhero movies, tho I've seen a few here and there. My bf, however, is a comic nerd and wanted to watch them all in order leading up to WW84. We got pretty close (I think we still need to see Shazam and Birds of Prey?) and they were all pretty uniformly dumb/boring but I enjoyed the hell out of Aquaman perhaps because it was the dumbest?? Granted redacted, and lots of pretty effects and pretty people, and neither Momoa or Mera could enunciate worth a damn but that shit was hilarious Almost every superhero movie is created by a committee of the dumbest and most evil people in the world to advance American imperialist interests except for Aquaman where they gave James Wan $200 million to do whatever the hell he wanted and he came up with one of the biggest, dumbest, most creative and fun movies made in decades. I think you may like Shazam and Birds of Prey because (Shazam especially, hard to not feel like Birds of Prey was pushed into Deadpool-territory heavy in post production even though I liked it much more than any Deadpool movie) feel like commercial movies written to entertain vs. commercials for the next movie with an overarching theme to justify the bombing of Libya or to get a multicultural cast to say all lives matter or whatever. Further proof that you're the only person who should be getting paid to talk about movies
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Post by irvred on Dec 26, 2020 19:32:23 GMT -6
WW84 was embarrassing.
Haven’t watched Aquaman yet but Shazam and Birds of Prey were great and goofy so I was kind of hoping these movies were turning around.
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Post by alady on Dec 26, 2020 23:00:53 GMT -6
Shazam was pretty cute and entertaining.
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Post by sleeping on Dec 26, 2020 23:03:35 GMT -6
Bird of Prey just looks annoying. FWIW I found it very cute and fun.
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Post by sleeping on Dec 26, 2020 23:10:21 GMT -6
In non-cape news, I just watched The Loved Ones which is entertaining if a bit torture-porny. I would have enjoyed it more if it had ended differently, but that's only because I had been rooting for the bad guys
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2020 23:30:56 GMT -6
welp, i think WW84 might be favorite movie in the DCU, followed by Birds of Prey, the first WW, and Shazam. I guess Aquaman can be #5 cause everything else is trash.
but anyway yeah that ruled.
also thought the style was perfect and exactly what makes things like Birds of Prey so fantastic as well. stop doing the SnyderSoSerious shit. these stories revel in the absurd.
(i still dont think i like it as much as some Marvel movies and the Nolan films and such, but hey at least DCU is on a hot streak right now compared to the MoS and BvS years)
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Post by zircona1 on Dec 27, 2020 11:26:58 GMT -6
Good movie.
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Post by thebosma on Dec 27, 2020 11:46:14 GMT -6
Soul was insanely good
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Post by Timbo on Dec 27, 2020 11:50:02 GMT -6
I was legit coming to say the same thing. Loved it. Reminded me a lot of Inside Out which was one of my favorites by Pixar.
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Post by Timbo on Dec 27, 2020 11:50:40 GMT -6
Good movie. Is this streaming somewhere? I wanna see it.
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Post by munkivelli on Dec 27, 2020 12:11:36 GMT -6
Good movie. Is this streaming somewhere? I wanna see it. I think its just in theaters rn....PVOD on Jan 12th, unless there is a [redacted] that I'm not aware of
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Post by ultravisitor on Dec 27, 2020 12:31:03 GMT -6
Good movie. Is this streaming somewhere? I wanna see it. I believe there's a 17 day window for theaters before it's released for streaming.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2020 13:09:43 GMT -6
We watched the first half of Hamilton last night. Kind of remarkable how Lin Manuel-Miranda is constantly the worst part about the whole production. He’s not great at singing, not really a good actor and looks lost during the more active sequences. The rest of the cast is pretty damn stellar. Overall pretty enjoyable so far.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2020 13:34:47 GMT -6
i think a big reason eric and i enjoyed the chicago production so much and never cared about the broadway one when it went to disney+ is that the cast for the chicago show (especially Miguel Cervantes in place of LMM) was so damn good
same thing happened with Book of Mormon where the Chicago cast is way better than the broadway one that's on the official soundtrack with Josh Gad and whoever else.
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Post by krentist on Dec 27, 2020 13:37:18 GMT -6
Josh Gad? More like........ Josh Bad
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Post by clouddead on Dec 27, 2020 13:52:29 GMT -6
i think a big reason eric and i enjoyed the chicago production so much and never cared about the broadway one when it went to disney+ is that the cast for the chicago show (especially Miguel Cervantes in place of LMM) was so damn good same thing happened with Book of Mormon where the Chicago cast is way better than the broadway one that's on the official soundtrack with Josh Gad and whoever else. Did you see the Chicago run with Ben Platt?
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Post by alady on Dec 27, 2020 14:50:20 GMT -6
I did. Wish we could've somehow seen an Andrew Rannells/Ben Platt version.
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Post by thebosma on Dec 27, 2020 14:51:44 GMT -6
We watched the first half of Hamilton last night. Kind of remarkable how Lin Manuel-Miranda is constantly the worst part about the whole production. He’s not great at singing, not really a good actor and looks lost during the more active sequences. The rest of the cast is pretty damn stellar. Overall pretty enjoyable so far.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2020 19:56:58 GMT -6
Clips I had seen made it look like he was going to be a highlight. Basically a DC movie trailer. I had been surprised by how lacking he had been in when I'd seen him in movies. He was just dwarfed by the rest of the cast.
And to wretched's post, I would love to see this with another cast. Some of the original cast are pretty phenomenal, though. King George, Angelica Schuyler and Aaron Burr in particular.
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Post by Kamera on Dec 27, 2020 22:04:25 GMT -6
Has anyone here seen Wolfwalkers? The trailer looked promising and it’s on...Apple TV+
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Post by munkivelli on Dec 27, 2020 22:05:26 GMT -6
Has anyone here seen Wolfwalkers? The trailer looked promising and it’s on...Apple TV+ It's not on your favorite streaming service, but it is the best animated film of 2020...check it out
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 22:33:36 GMT -6
Host on shudder is super duper spooky and fun! not amazing but for a cheap made at home film during a pandemic, it slaps.
Bad Education on HBO was so good, pretty much like everyone already said months ago.
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Post by zircona1 on Dec 29, 2020 8:23:07 GMT -6
Bad Education on HBO was so good, pretty much like everyone already said months ago. Yeah, Hugh Jackman was great in it.
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Post by neader on Dec 30, 2020 9:59:23 GMT -6
Soul was phenomenal. Loved it. As I was watching I actually thought to myself wow 22, I've never seen an animation character look and sound so much like the actor and was 100% convinced it was Miley Cyrus. Still think 22 looks and sounds like her more than Tina Fey *shrug*
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