And Midnight's Edge was like 7 to 8, which sounds pretty underwhelming to me. I can't help but pity James Gunn if this movie underperforms because not making a billion or as he put in a lie, "$700 million," it still counts as a failure given the authority he was granted for the entire division. Not enough to actually go out and watch the movie though.
Thunderbolts was that rare gem (specifically thanks to Florence Pugh, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, and Julia Louis Dreyfus; plus a genuinely different story than the usual marvel slop) in a sea of shit.
I can well imagine that I would FAR rather work for Snyder than Whedon. Way less creepy and from everything I've heard a very professional man who treats his role as an actual job as well as a passion. E.g. with Man of Steel, he didn't write that he was handed the script and made lemonade. It's heavy with a muted colour palette but I still maintain it has the most visceral Kryptonian fight scenes of any comic book movie ever. Kal-El and the others duking it out and feels powerful when those punches connect or a building is shattered. Ditto Batman vs. Superman. He didn't write it but the ground-view scene of Superman's battle with Zod really captures the terror and amazement of people. And Hell yeah I prefer his version of Justice League over the Whedon abomination. The former is something not necessarily what people want, but the latter is just plain bad.
Like I said, Snyder views his films as a job he was required to deliver. Not in any way saying there's a lack of passion in his work but he delivered Man of Steel for $225m largely on time so far as I know and with expected budget and it returned triple that.
In some ways that's good. Honestly I am tired of Western media's glamourised criminal-heroes. I'd like to see Huntress kick the shit out of actual gangsters. Also, are you sure about no depicting of drugs? Because I watched Bad and Crazy and the villains in that are drugs smugglers. I thought I recall seeing their smuggling but if not, that's actually testament to it because it didn't affect my understanding or the story at all.
That’s Wonder Woman, whose schtick is constantly up in the air and nobody has any idea what to do with her. She’s only been “well-received” due to the show and the movie, that rode a wave of shit and seemed better by comparison. It’s also why she’s the most influenced by Elseworld depictions, because the core is weak.
This is the line we've been waiting for... Let the avalanche begin.
I said previously that my fear was that this would be "a bad movie done well". That is to use the colloquialism, a turd polished well enough that people will like it for its superficial or concessionary qualities despite still being shit underneath. How on the mark was I with that? Do you think this will do well?
I'm honestly not sure. I really couldn't tell you if it's a bad movie done well, or a good movie done poorly. Nor could I really tell you what the general audience will make of it. It was a weird viewing experience for me, because most of what I flat out didn't like or hated, (outside of the types of jokes and quips everyone knows I can't stand) was technical stuff that I historically have never noticed watching something for the first time or not at least enough to note. Stuff like how the action is shot, and the music, that type of thing normally my brain is off until it's over then I think about it. But here the whole movie that stuff bothered me.
Woah. That's a lot less kid-friendly than I expected this movie to be. But at the same time sounds like it jars tonally with the rest.
That's a pretty great description of the character. And as regards the casting, I know the name Nathan Fillion from somewhere and feel I've seen him in something memorable enough to note the name, but cannot say if it was positive or negative or what the Hell it was.
It was jarring. I do think it was probably the most effective part of the movie though because its the only time anything feels serious. I didn't need the whole movie to be like that, I just wanted to feel like I should care about superman stopping the threats, when even the citizens don't care about them. this scene in particular is to make Superman miserable and it really worked.
He's been popular in nerd circles for 20 years because of Firefly, Castle & Dr Horrible's Sing a Long. I used to just not like him much as an actor. but he's one of those guys people throw around his name for every single role ever that over time ive grown to hate him because I dont understand his huge appeal. He's does fine with what he's given here (or the lack of)
Yeah, nerds say they love him for Firefly, but that was also the last time he acted as anything other than Frank Castle for the past 20 years.
*raises hand*
I think mediocre is the closest word to describe how people have different opinions on this movie. I don't want to watch this movie so I'm glad for your reviews and opinions about it.
If by that you mean, in addition to all the other characters in the first film, they made the right decision. Too many cooks in the kitchen and all that.
If I wanted to see David Harbour get ritually humiliated by his co-stars for an hour, I'd rewatch Season 3 of Stranger Things.
Warner Bros.: "We're moving on from Zack Snyder. So here is the dark stuff, like Metropolis being destroyed and a guy getting his head blown off, critics and audiences had issues with again."
I have a higher opinion of Dark World compared to most, though that might change as I see it getting a resurgence. I like that they played a majority of it straight and had some actual stakes. Would never have expected a Marvel film to kill the mother and throw a nice funeral.
They pretty much were scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Marvel's big hitters are Spider-Man and X-Men. Those two series are the only ones with their own fleshed out world, cast, rogues, etc.. Characters like Iron Man and Ant Man were built with the idea of the Avengers and wider Marvel universe carrying them. At best, they have 1-2 good villain and/or storylines to make use of without involving 20 other characters.
They really got lucky with Iron Man being the hit it was. RDJ as Iron Man carried the entire universe through sheer charisma. Marvel was also smart enough to drop an endpoint early with Thanos, so people felt compelled to see the story through.
It was also long enough ago that the films weren't too neutered. I remember everyone laughing in the cinema in the second one where Natasha Romanov floors Happy in the ring and he says: "I want one" and Pepper says "No."
