Good or New Movies Review
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@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
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Exactly. They did it in Black Panther without a hitch, and while BP had some awesome female fighters, there were way fewer of them to choose from. Didn't stop Shuri from going up against Killmonger, though, which was a great part of the film.
I'm relatively confident it stems from a deep cultural unease about watching a man hurt a woman--so you end up with these silly women's league scenes like in Infinity War with Black Widow and Proxima whatever fighting in a ditch.
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@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
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@Arkandel ....A certain very nice ass also got some cheers in mine.
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@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
***=That was the only scene that got cheers in your cinema?***click to showThat was the same moment that got cheers in my theater.
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Finally saw it.
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In regards to that one scene with all the girls that people are bitching about.
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FYI it's been reported that Spyglass Entertainment is revitalizing HELLRAISER. They'll be working with Clive Barker and it will be penned by David S. Goyer (Dark Knight).
Break out the war drums and chant "Doug Bradley".
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Ho.Lee.Shitballs!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9L1jCKGnE&feature=youtu.be
I cannot wait for the new Spider-Man movie.
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Not for @AeriaNyx , but if you haven't seen Endgame, might not want to watch the trailer.
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Wait, doesn't Spider Man die in Infinity War? I haven't seen it.
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@Thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:
Wait, doesn't Spider Man die in Infinity War? I haven't seen it.
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@Thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:
Wait, doesn't Spider Man die in Infinity War? I haven't seen it.
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click to showIt was a half a joke that the existence of a new SpiderMan movie spoils Infinity War.
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@Thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:
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@Thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:
Wait, doesn't Spider Man die in Infinity War? I haven't seen it.
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click to showIt was a half a joke that the existence of a new SpiderMan movie spoils Infinity War.
I've been in a bad migraine all day and it makes me even less able to read people than usual.
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Okay, so I finally watched Infinity War, because of Going to See Endgame Tomorrow reasons, and here's what I thought:
It was like going on an Epcot ride, the Tour of Marvel Movies, some of which I haven't seen and felt completely lost as to the impact. Some of the vignettes were good, some were okay, some I just wanted over with. Pretty much every one with Thanos in it, save for one. You know the one. It's the only one where he's not being a snob.
Sure, Stark's a snob, and Strange is a snob, and Rocket's a snob, and Starlord's a snob, even Rogers can be a snob, but these are things that they overcome. For Thanos, it's his entire personality, and unlike our heroes it doesn't get in his way for one second. Not one.
And believe me, that isn't a spoiler. Thanos' personality has nothing to empathize with, though I feel like the movie wanted me to empathize with him, to sympathize with where he's coming from, but that never happened. He got out-villained by his own henchmen. I don't even think Thanos was a villain. Thanos was a plot-point.
It did not help that I already pretty much knew what happened at the end, though if I wasn't already looking for the hook to a movie that I'm just about to see I might've been upset. End Of The Second Matrix Movie upset, but except for the last five minutes, even Matrix Reloaded finished its story.
All in all, Infinity War was a decent, but not outstanding, couple of events strung together under one umbrella. If I wasn't ga-ga over it, it's because they missed the beats that would've put more impact on the story, and I'm left feeling nonplussed.
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@Thenomain You're right; if you haven't watched all the movies up to that point, Infinity War has some emotional impact that you're not going to get. And you're also right that IW's big failing is trying to make Thanos empathetic; mostly, because they completely shoehorned in that aspect of the character, rather than staying with the original comic personality.
In the comics, Thanos is the ultimate nihilist. Killing and destruction are his way of expressing his love for the actual cosmic embodiment of Death. The whole reason he goes looking for the Infinity Stones in the first place was for him to prove himself worthy to be Death's consort. The 'snap' was his 'boombox outside the window in Say Anything moment'. In the DC Vs. Marvel crossover back in the late 90's, as both universes are being destroyed and the realities themselves are actually bleeding, he's gazing all starry-eyed and whispering 'So beautiful...' as his DC counterpart and fellow Kirby creation Darkseid is watching in shock and horror as the realities begin to end.
But, somewhere, someone got the idea in their heads that Thanos had to be 'relatable' to the general audience, even though previous MCU villains like Stane, the Red Skull, and Ronan (Guardians of the Galaxy) were far from empathetic & relatable in their motives. So, they shoehorned this new 'resource crisis' motive. Which is stupid on it's face value because if you pause to think about it, in a couple of generations, you're back at the same problem of overpopulation/resource crush that you were at. You have to periodically snap to 'restore the balance' every century or so. Until the end of time.