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Post by SeriousJupiter on Mar 27, 2015 20:20:28 GMT -4
Big Hero 6 was lots of fun. However, I didn't fall in love with it the same way I did with Tangled and Frozen. I like superheroes and Disney, so seeing them combined should have been absolutely epic, but I just feel like something was missing. The characters were fun, but there wasn't nearly enough time to really get to know them all and the villain wasn't that intimidating. Still, the emotional scenes were very touching, the action scenes were top-notch and the jokes weren't bad either. The movie also looked gorgeous, the animators really outdid themselves.
Oh, and they're making Frozen 2. I'm both excited and nervous. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the characters in a new movie, but I also remember all those crappy Disney movie sequels that everyone hates. I guess I shouldn't be too worried, though - the same people who made the first movie are working on the sequel and Frozen was such a hit that I have a feeling Disney wouldn't dare make the sequel any less good, at least not on purpose. That way they can make even more money off the franchise.
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Post by sassywhofarted on May 10, 2015 19:12:31 GMT -4
Disney movies
Tangled: I can only watch it once. Maleficent was okay... not much else to say. Frozen was okay but it bored me. Cinderella was terrible and by the end of the movie I had more sympathy for the stepmother and I was like: JUST GIVE HER THE POSITION! YOU CAN'T RULE THE KINGDOM YOURSELF YOU'RE ONLY, LIKE, 12 I THINK!
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Post by beriorn on May 11, 2015 10:33:34 GMT -4
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron
The good:
- Action scenes were pretty good.
- Movie was funny when it needed to be.
- Sets the presumed tone for Captain America 3 and Avengers 3.
- Expands on the Infinity Gems plot line: the Staff does indeed hold the Mind Stone. Their colors are changed though.
- Fun little references for knowledgeable fans (such as Andy Serkis playing Ulysses Klaue).
The bad:
- Ultron was too much a funny villain to be an intimidating one.
- The scars of a cut-up script are very visible. For example, Thor goes to some pool of visions that was never explained. I'v heard that an hour of footage was cut (from a film already 2,5 hours long): a retooling should be done as a special DVD release.
- Emotional scenes were a wreck.
- Cringeworthy Hulk/Black Widow romance subplot.
- Nobody seems surprised that Nick Fury is not dead.
- Tony Stark is fucking crazy and nobody tries to stop him until it's too late.
- Ultron's plan to kill all of humanity to save the world (because he's an AI, of course that's his plan) by doing something I'm fairly sure would not work.
- Plenty of handwaves in regarding to important plot things (How did JARVIS do what he did? Where did Ultron get all that Vibranium? How can Hawkeye blow up all those fast-moving targets made out of a tough material? Where the fuck did Nick Fury get that Helicarrier?)
Conclusion:
Age of Ultron is fun but flawed. It drags a bit on here and there, and you really feel the long running time, but at the end of the day it is superheroes fighting HYDRA, robots and each other. Action is good, talking scenes are not all that good. If you want a mindless flick where Iron Man piledrives Hulk through a skyscraper and where robots are torn apart by the heroes, you're good. If you want something with a substantial or interesting plot, you're in the wrong place.
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Post by SeriousJupiter on May 11, 2015 13:56:45 GMT -4
I loved Age of Ultron, but I also felt like it wasn't quite as good as the first Avengers movie. I agree with everything you listed as "good", Beriorn, but I don't think the emotional scenes were a "wreck" (although I can't remember them all atm) and of course there will always be handwaved plot points in movies like this, that's only to be expected. I'm not sure if I can say the plot wasn't interesting, either. Like you said, superhero movies are always mainly about fighting and explosions, but the plot of this one could have been much worse and I wasn't really bored at any time during the film. 8/10.
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Post by pokemonfan on May 14, 2015 18:29:31 GMT -4
I can address a lot of these questions: The bad: - Ultron was too much a funny villain to be an intimidating one. I thought it made him rather different, he is meant to be basically an evil version of Tony after all, as well as something like a child. In the movie it was explained by Thor as a pool that is found in every realm and can provide visions if the "spirits" allow it. I don't know if there is any comic book equivalent with additional explanation. I didn't feel like that was all that bad, though I dislike it when romance plots don't get closure. Captain America and Black Widow already knew, and its possible the others were told between movies. Well in his defense he was mindraped by Scarlet Witch, which sent his PTSD over the whole wormhole incident (and his fears of the godlike evil forces out in the universe) into overdrive. Even then, who would have expected a malevolent intelligence to emerge? Thor even said it was no coincidence, perhaps Thanos implanted the start of Ultron's mind inside the gem before he gave it to Loki. From what I've read a landmass that size dropped from enough of a height would indeed cause a mass extinction event. Keep in mind though that at first Ultron did not want to kill off all of humanity, just most of it. He believed the struggle to survive would evolve humanity to the point where they could survive the galactic threats that will eventually come again for the planet. He wanted the Vision to be his new body and act like a messiah that would lead the surviving humans to the next level. Course once the Vision got taken from him and the twins left him he decided to screw all that and just make the world burn. 1. JARVIS was the most advanced artificial intelligence out there, hence why Ultron tried to destroy him. He partially succeeded but the base of JARVIS' programming escaped and acted to block his attempts to launch nukes (without even knowing what he was doing, acting on his base programming to stop a threat) until Tony was able to piece him back together. 2. You didn't notice? He got it from that Black Panther movie character (the one whose hand he cut off). This movie is the introduction to the name of the place where Vibranium comes from, Wakanda. Said cameo character had managed to get a large amount out of the country. 3. Don't know much about Hawkeye in the comics, but his arrows aren't all ordinary plus he is so accurate with them he seems able to hit weak spots. A lot of them seem to be equipped with explosives too. 4. It was stated in the movie to have been in storage. The Agents of Shield tv series explained further how the remnants of SHIELD had kept it hidden (no small feat) in case of an emergency. |
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Post by SeriousJupiter on Jul 5, 2015 8:23:59 GMT -4
I went to see Minions a couple of days ago. I had low expectations after being disappointed by Despicable Me 2, but this movie wasn't half-bad at all. I hadn't watched any of the trailers and I honestly didn't even know it existed until I checked out my local cinema's website a while ago. I decided to give it a go and I'm glad I did. It tells the story of the Minions before they worked for Gru, which is a little odd, because the first movie gave me the impression that Gru had created them all himself, but whatever. Apparently the Minions are a real species that have existed since the dinosaurs' days and the ones in the movie seem to be the same ones they were back then. Yowza. No explanation whatsoever is given to their extreme longevity, but since it's a kids' movie about sentient yellow pills, I really don't mind. This movie has more characters than either of the DM movies and I love that, because everyone is so over-the-top in the DM world. I laughed out loud more than once during the movie. I recommend it if you have some spare time and don't care about not understanding a word about the main characters' language. (Don't worry, there's a narrator!)
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Post by sassywhofarted on Jul 20, 2015 15:17:00 GMT -4
I liked Minions... I especially like the twist ending they put at the end. Wow.
Anyhow, did you guys see they're making a movie for Jem and the Holograms? By the looks of the trailor, they're not following the show at all. I mean, Jem is supposed to be an action packed show where a rival band continues to try to harm or even kill the holograms just so they could get a record label. But the movie takes all that plot out and just makes it about her getting back with her dad ...but wasn't she with her dad in the show? I haven't seen it in a while. I know it sounds silly for me to get all in a tizzy over a girl's show from the 80's, especially since I only watched it on the Hub, but I watched that show on a binge, every night for who knows how long. I would like to see it get an equal representation just like any media deserves when it changes mediums. Also, they're not doing any 80's music or even any punk music that even remotely sounds like it belongs on Jem and the Holograms; it sounds like modern day Pop crap.
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Post by SeriousJupiter on Aug 15, 2015 12:31:45 GMT -4
Ant-Man was tons of fun. I haven't enjoyed a superhero movie that much since the first Avengers, I think.
Fantastic Four, however... Do yourself a favor and don't go see it. Just. Don't. I liked the original two Fantastic Four movies more than this piece of garbage. Heck, I enjoyed Daredevil more!
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Post by SeriousJupiter on Aug 31, 2015 10:57:23 GMT -4
Inside Out is a fucking beautiful film. Pixar's back, baby!
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Post by LUNI_TUNZ on Mar 26, 2016 0:21:38 GMT -4
Just left Batman vs. Superman and... ooh-wee, it was definitely a film committed to celluloid. (I don't think celluloid is still a thing, but go with me here) The movie had an over-reliance on what I like to call "meaningful face", I.E. long slow shots on character's faces. A character would spit out some bizarre line of dialogue - something no real human being would ever say - and another character would react with "meaningful face" There was just a lot of slow close-ups on faces, to signify that "this is a meaningful moment".
And speaking of dialogue, the first hour of this 2 HOUR AND 30 MINUTE PICTURE FILM was talking. I'm not stupid, I can follow conversations, especially in movies, but goddamn. Speaking of scenes, half the movie feels like it could have been thrown out, or referenced in a past tense. A comment I made about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 qualifies here, the movie felt like a collection of scenes, it just cut haphazardly from scene-to-scene. It also reminds me of something I think Jeph Loeb once whined about, I.E. the movie being too busy trying to establish other movies. Ironically, he was referring to Marvel's Movies when he said that, which has somehow managed to avoid that feeling.
Also, a lot of scenes felt like trailer shots. Like, they were in the movie to be used in the trailer. Those shots were all almost deliberately slowed down. And god, when they finally fight, the reason they stop fighting. ooh-wee. Also, everyone (save Luthor) at all points talks in a low monotone, so you don't feel like you accidentally stumbled into a fun movie.
To sum this review up, I hope DC didn't sign those checks for the Justice League spin-off movies just yet. The worst part is, it has a solid premise. Superman destroyed half of Metropolis, and Batman feels he's a danger, and tries to stop him. It just... dives from there.
It also had like 5 endings. There's like 5 scenes at the end that feel like they should be the end BUT IT KEEPS GOING. I thought I was never going to leave that theater, I thought that was were I was going to die.
There's also a lot of *wink, wink* moments, like Luthor going "BRUCE WAYNE AND CLARK KENT. BOY, YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE HIM IN A FIST FIGHT". Also, Batman legitimately kills people in this movie. There's no two ways about it. He has Gatling Guns on his Batmobile and flying kajigger. Batman, guns. How did this get through?
I was hoping Tony Stark would show up and yell "UNDAROOS", because that would be the best line of dialogue in this film if that happened. Also, oddly for a 2 1/2 hour film, there was quite a few flashbacks. Like, more than zero. I almost forgot the scene where Batman straight up used a grenade in close quarters with some bad guys. Not a Metal Gear Solid Stun Grenade, a Grenade. Boom boom Grenade. Also, one more thing, Batman brands people, what the hell was that? Like with a branding iron. What?
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Post by SeriousJupiter on Mar 27, 2016 17:40:14 GMT -4
Thanks. I wasn't going to watch it anyway because I had a feeling it would be terrible, but now I know it for sure.
Deadpool was fucking amazing, though.
I haven't seen Zootopia yet, but I've heard only good things about it. Guess it's not Chicken Little 2.0 after all. I'll probably go see it next weekend.
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Post by treyboss96 on Feb 9, 2017 19:34:45 GMT -4
A movie I just seen recently was Split and it was pretty decent! It's directed by M. night shyamalan and I think the guy is back to make shit again!
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Post by LUNI_TUNZ on Jun 5, 2017 20:34:08 GMT -4
Saw Wonder Woman with my niece over the weekend. It took forever, but DC finally made a good superhero movie. Congrats DC, you did it, now keep this momentum going and you just might catch up with Marvel.
Except the next movie coming from them is the Zac Snyder directed Justice League.
Welp.
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Post by LUNI_TUNZ on Jul 13, 2017 16:31:43 GMT -4
Spider-Man: Homecoming may be one of the best Spider-man movies since Spider-Man 2. It just feels like a fun movie, and all the scenes actually connect to the next. It didn't even feel like two hours, I was left wanting for more when it ended.
This forum's old enough that my original post in this thread was about The Amazing Spider-Mess 2, a messy mess of a movie, which seemed to give way for that annoying haphazard style of editing where scenes feel like they were picked out of a hat.
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