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Watched it again today.
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I'll give you Thor. MCU could have done a better job w/ his origin movie...luckily Ragnarok made everyone forget about the first 2 movies. (Hopefully MCU can do the same w/ Captain Marvel) But there's just no way in ****in hell Captain Marvel is a better origin movie than the others mentioned in your post. |
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I just watched the first Thor again a few days ago. I enjoyed it more than I remember I did the first time I watched it. IMO, it's a fine origin story. You can really see how far Chris Hemsworth has come in terms of his own range and how he's developed Thor over the years, and Anthony Hopkins just kills the Odin role. Kenneth Branagh did a great job directing it and setting up the realm of Asgard going forward.
Still haven't seen CM yet (waiting to see it with the kid while she's on spring break), but from everything I've read non-spoliery from you guys on here so far, it's a pretty good to good movie that's worth seeing in the theater. Looking forward to it for no other reason as it will be an appetizer to Endgame next month. |
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As for the gals, my views were formed long before the #metoo stuff, going back to movies like Salt where this skinny woman is just beating the dogshit out of big male mercs etc... I am simply unable to suspend my disbelief Was watching Joe Rogans show the other day and he was saying the same thing |
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Here’s her weakness. She can’t maintain her supernova binary form for long periods of time without recharging herself. I can envision Thor recharging her with stormbreaker in a fight. Kevin Fiege said in an interview that we’ll see her weaknesses in endgame. |
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Saw it today. Thought it wasn’t going to be that great and ended up thinking it was between good and pretty good. Not the best Marvel movie but not the worst. I’m just interested to see how she’s going to be in Endgame.
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As far as suspending belief.........its a ****ing superhero movie. Suspending belief, laws of physics etc. is essential to just being entertained for a couple of hours. |
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Captain Marvel will be using the tesseract power in some plot process to defeat Thanos. Some may die that have contracts expiring but most are going to survive. |
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The "superhero fights villain with exact same powers" apex that Marvel has relied upon so often was sad, IMO. Lots of smashing. Acting out. Smashing in. If that's what you like, ok. And damn ... Tim Blake Nelson was miscast (or decided to overact in true Nicolas Cage style ... just 'cause he could). Tyler was ok, I suppose. But Tim Roth was wasted in that role (either give him something solid to work with or find somebody else). Personally, I think it's a good thing that movies are subjectively experienced. That's why I'm cool with saying that movie was a disappointment for me. Mainly because it had all the potential in the world to be much, much better. That was a movie that reeked of predetermined studio formula. FAX |
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Saw it tonight with my 5 yo.
I thought it was entertaining and enjoyed it. He liked it as well. I doubt it wins awards but it’s a superhero movie |
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Ruffalo has done a better job than I thought he would... |
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She is THE SJW/Feminist Marvel character. It's all she's about in the comix for a decade now. It would be like hiring David Duke to voice Kermit the Frog and then acting all shocked when he suddenly talks about wanting to lynch all the blue Muppets... |
I thought it was just ok...nothing I left the theater overly excited about. The character just doesnt seem all that exciting to me. Wonder Woman was significantly better.
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Seemed like they could have done a little bit more on her time on the other planet. I dunno. |
Grown men watching kids movies. The only comic book film any good is the Batman trilogy.
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I'm a fan of hers, have been for a while. |
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I was surprised as to how much I actually did enjoy the movie considering what i'd heard going in. Guess that just goes to show.....I dunno whatever that goes to show. |
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That's awesome I got all of you guys to look up information about what I've said prior about movies.
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You like the newest Ghostbusters. Your opinion is ****ing invalid from here on out. |
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BTW - Wimmenz Ghostbusters is a 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. The only reason people don't like it is because they didn't grow up watching Ghostbusters with women. If you hadn't ever seen the first Ghostbusters, you would think it was a reasonable film. |
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And get up inside all of your domes. |
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"If you haven't seen the much better original, this one seems . . . reasonable, yeah. . . . that's it. It's a reasonable movie!!" - BWillie, The Village Voice. |
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Well, I've seen the flick, and everything I heard in advance was wrong.
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Good film, had a ton of fun watching it, I think Larson is a bit miscast in the role. |
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It doesn't really have a single adrenaline-pumping action scene, but the writing and the acting is top freaking notch. |
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(And by "fumbled," I mean they haven't been amazing.) The only origin stories I have really enjoyed have been Thor's, Iron Man's, and GOTG, and I think it's because all those characters were well-realized and interesting before they became the superheroes. That's the difference with Strange, Danvers, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers... they just weren't interesting as characters until the powers came. |
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I think Larson will be better in end game with the russos. She also looks different, maybe more tone?
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I love Loki, Hiddleston slays the role (Hopkins kills his too, but that's a given). Loki ends up being a stand-out on the screen and becomes one of Marvel's most dynamic characters. But in my opinion Loki's motivations through Thor 1 end up being inconsistent as opposed to dynamic, and his arc, ultimately, doesn't make a whole lot of sense (Marvel fixed this in future movies). I love Hemsworth. The fish out of water scenes are hilarious in the movie. However, I feel Thor's character building comes at the expense of his "earth" entourage (Jane, Darcy, Selvig) and his "asgard" entourage (Warriors Three + Frigga). The characters around Thor never have a chance to be realized in the movie (or Thor 2, for that matter). It got to the point that all seven of them completely disregarded by the time Thor 3 came around (the problems were exacerbated when they tried to continue that balance and build on all of those characters in Thor 2 while adding even more people). Ultimately, it felt that Thor 1's plot ended up moving in sometimes non-nonsensical directions in order to serve the characters, rather than the characters motivations coming together to serve the overall plot. I guess I see it as an episode of SNL. Sure, there are a few sketches I love, but I prefer to see them individually on Youtube rather than watching a full episode. To be honest, it's not a movie I really care to see again. Thor 3 ultimately became a better "origin/soft reboot" of the Thor storyline than Thor 1 ever was, and I've likely seen it as much as Infinity War at this point. |
Hiddleston's "Is it?" scene in Thor 1 is freaking scary awesome.
I get chills just thinking about it. What. A. Performance. I am so happy there is a group of young actors with his range and power that have entire careers before them. FAX |
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That's fair. I disagree some on the inconsistencies, or maybe I'm just better at looking past them since the acting and quality of writing is so brilliant. I even wrote a thread on this. |
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Finally saw Captain Marvel. I'd slot it in the middle of the pack for the MCU. Not bad, not great. Some really good bits. Actually thought the girl power they rolled into it, aside from the "smile" think (which I guess I've not encountered and didn't realize it was even a thing), was really well done.
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I also finally got around to seeing this. I thought it was well done and enjoyed it. Definitely not my favorite MCU flick, but it's good. It's sort of a shame that it became such a source of outrage, as I think that really colored the experience for people.
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My best friend wanted to see it so I saw it with him. Had low expectations for it. It was very good. But it wasn't a memorable movie. Thor comparisons are sound. I liked Thor 1 too and proceeded to forget everything about it an hour after I left the theater. But there was a little black girl and her parents sitting next to us and she seemed like she had a blast, so I think this movie did what Larson intended it to do. That's pretty cool.
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Yeah the film has a lot more in it if you're a girl or a woman.
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There was a little girl probably around age 8 wearing a Captain Marvel costume when I went. That was pretty cute.
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Is it possible we just missed Brie Larson's performance because we don't have two X chromosomes?
I agree with the folks that called it wooden, but women and girls have generally adored it. I don't know if that's because her gender makes her the easiest superhero for them to identify with, or because maybe there's a lot more womanhood to that performance than we as males can recognize. |
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I stand by it being one of the better origin films. It's Ant-man level.
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I must be a horse of a different color because I really liked the movie. Went to see it with some buddies and we pretty much had the theater to ourselves.
Not sure why some give it a "meh " rating but to each their own. I enjoyed it. |
I think she played the part well. She had this sarcastic personality about her that I can 100% relate to. And she reacted to that biker dude exactly how that type of person would. The movie was hilarious to me. I laughed about every 5 minutes, it was great.
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It was entertaining.
I only watched it because I wanted to be prepared for Endgame, but I wasn’t upset having spent money on tickets. |
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I support Marvel's cinematic effortisms.
I have criticisms and it's clear that not all of their movies are spectacularly awesome, but some are. And the totality of their accomplishment is fascinating. So I want them to continue to succeed so they will continue on ... and, hopefully, even improve. That's basically why I support every single movie they make. Even if I don't love each individual film, I'll contribute my ticket money with a willing heart. FAX |
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There have been some dogs in the MCU, but the overall story has been a fantastic achievement that, imo, eclipses anything else ever done. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk |
My wife and our female roommate loved it. They went in with rock-bottom expectations after seeing the 31% user rating on RT (I didn't really delve into what was driving those scores before we saw it).
I think now we can all agree that a score at that level was pretty ridiculous. |
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