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Fart City posted:Brie Larson's line deliveries seem really... weird. Like I can't quite get what the vibe of what the character is supposed to be. The tone makes it sound like she's this kind of emotionless weapon, but she's quipping all over, and something about it doesn't mesh. The by-the-numbers production of Marvel has been slowly creeping into the actors' performances for a while now, and they used to be the standout. Most of their movies since at least Doctor Strange have had some phoned-in performances. Michael B. Jordan, Tom Holland and Michael Keaton have been able to rise above, and Paul Rudd still gives it his all, but something like Infinity War is full of people going through the motions. Brie Larson will fit right in.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 07:22 |
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:One thing that always drives me crazy is how dour and hopeless people say MoS feels. I just can't agree. Every single human in the film is a fundamentally good person with two exceptions. The trucker, and Clark's childhood bullies. And the bullies grow up to be fundamentally decent people. Pete Ross is obvious, since you even see him come around as a kid, but am I right in reading the other bully who attacked Clark in the junkyard as growing up into the priest Clark visits?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 18:13 |
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Mameluke posted:Pete Ross is obvious, since you even see him come around as a kid, but am I right in reading the other bully who attacked Clark in the junkyard as growing up into the priest Clark visits? That's always what I took away from it though I don't think it's explicit
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 19:58 |
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This is actually a pretty funny tweet: https://twitter.com/RobertIger/status/1082664056350228482 Fart City posted:Brie Larson's line deliveries seem really... weird. Like I can't quite get what the vibe of what the character is supposed to be. The tone makes it sound like she's this kind of emotionless weapon, but she's quipping all over, and something about it doesn't mesh. It's just that the lines don't scan. It's like in that Orson Welles peas commercial where he complains about how poorly the lines are written and how tiring they are to even read, much less say.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 20:16 |
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It's absolutely incredible to me that Marvel is pulling the same con job they did with Black Panther - that fattening their shareholder's wallets is some victory for PoC or women if they're part of the product - and it's working! Especially after Wonder Woman! Woke-washing really works (and btw I want to state that it's good to be woke, and that Disney ain't)
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 21:50 |
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It didn't work for Sony
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:12 |
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the girl power stuff doesnt really play in Captain Marvel, the character seems empty, a cypher. the whole thing looks incredibly rote
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:38 |
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Ammanas posted:the girl power stuff doesnt really play in Captain Marvel, the character seems empty, a cypher. the whole thing looks incredibly rote IIRC the comic side of Marvel has tried really hard to push her but it hasn't really worked.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:40 |
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wdarkk posted:IIRC the comic side of Marvel has tried really hard to push her but it hasn't really worked. Mainly because it was so transparent. Carol Danvers was, at best, a reserve Avenger for a long time. She was there, but not really an anchor character. Then a couple of years ago Marvel decided they wanted to hotshot her into being a top-tier face for the imprint. But they didn’t do the ground work. There was no meaningful storytelling history or character work to build on. As a result, she’s kind of been inconsistently written since, with Civil War II being a good example of how scattershot her characterization is.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:44 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:It's absolutely incredible to me that Marvel is pulling the same con job they did with Black Panther - that fattening their shareholder's wallets is some victory for PoC or women if they're part of the product - and it's working! Especially after Wonder Woman! Woke-washing really works (and btw I want to state that it's good to be woke, and that Disney ain't) is it working though?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:44 |
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I can’t believe how brave disney is for making a movie with an attractive young thin white woman.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:48 |
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Brother Entropy posted:is it working though? According to the 100% anecdotal evidence of "my twitter timeline": yes People gushing that the movie is coming out on International Women's Day and such Having said that - no I have no objective evidence that it is.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:49 |
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Fart City posted:Mainly because it was so transparent. Carol Danvers was, at best, a reserve Avenger for a long time. She was there, but not really an anchor character. Then a couple of years ago Marvel decided they wanted to hotshot her into being a top-tier face for the imprint. But they didn’t do the ground work. There was no meaningful storytelling history or character work to build on. As a result, she’s kind of been inconsistently written since, with Civil War II being a good example of how scattershot her characterization is. They're basically trying to make her the next Face hero, trying to force her to become the next Wolverine or Deadpool But no one forced Wolverine and deadpool to become as stupid popular as they were. That happened entirely naturally and organically. Plenty of people like Carol Danvers, but no one is really keen on the stick up the rear end caricature that they put in her place Throwing her into the MCU like this feels like a mistake. She's suddenly so important, despite never being mentioned before? Fury didn't think to give her a call when the Avengers poo poo went down?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:49 |
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Who’s going to be the first Fat superhero?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:49 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:According to the 100% anecdotal evidence of "my twitter timeline": yes fair enough, i feel like i've been hearing not that much buzz over it for a marvel film, especially after that endgame trailer hit and sucked up all the air in the room but that's just dueling anecdotes so shrug
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:55 |
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I mean I freely admit that Twitter is an echo chamber and I might have just gotten one really loud shout bouncing around a bunch of times. It just bugs me because we already had a big-time Lady Power superhero movie in Wonder Woman and yeah it made people feel good for a week and then it's back to hellworld as usual.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 22:58 |
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Burkion posted:Throwing her into the MCU like this feels like a mistake. She's suddenly so important, despite never being mentioned before? Fury didn't think to give her a call when the Avengers poo poo went down? Master planner Kevin Feige has a master plan.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:10 |
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Ironically, Kamala Khan is probably more popular now than her idol. By the way, her creator G Willow Wilson will be writing Wonder Woman comics soon. porfiria posted:Who’s going to be the first Fat superhero? Unless Marvel makes a Great Lakes Avengers movie first, Sony is making movies based on Valiant comics and there's a fat blonde woman among their characters. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jan 8, 2019 |
# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:10 |
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where's my fat cobra movie
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:14 |
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porfiria posted:Who’s going to be the first Fat superhero?
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porfiria posted:Who’s going to be the first Fat superhero?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:17 |
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porfiria posted:Who’s going to be the first Fat superhero? That Paul F. Tompkins lookalike from Deadpool 2.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:42 |
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What about the first ugly superhero?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:49 |
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Mameluke posted:What about the first ugly superhero? Darkman.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:50 |
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K. Waste posted:Darkman. The Toxic Avenger has him beat by six years.
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:53 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:The Toxic Avenger has him beat by six years. drat you're right.
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Mameluke posted:What about the first ugly superhero?
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# ? Jan 8, 2019 23:58 |
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K. Waste posted:Darkman. Fighter of the Brightman
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 00:23 |
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Ammanas posted:the girl power stuff doesnt really play in Captain Marvel, the character seems empty, a cypher. the whole thing looks incredibly rote ...And you just described every Captain Marvel comic of the last five years not by Kelly Sue Deconnick.
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 01:13 |
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RBA Starblade posted:Fighter of the Brightman Perhaps I'm misreading this but dude, if you seriously do not know who Darkman is you've got one hell of a fun education ahead of you.
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 01:23 |
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Necrothatcher posted:Perhaps I'm misreading this but dude, if you seriously do not know who Darkman is you've got one hell of a fun education ahead of you. Out of smoke and he appears, the master of disguise
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 02:25 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:The Toxic Avenger has him beat by six years. Swamp Thing has Toxic Avenger beat.
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 02:31 |
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Darko posted:Swamp Thing has Toxic Avenger beat. Swamp thing fucks. Those Moore books go some places
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 04:33 |
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Heads up, Zack Snyder has a new production company. https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1025545-the-stone-quarry-zack-snyder-launches-new-production-company
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 05:04 |
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Stone quarry? Hopefully that means he's finally making a Tokusatsu
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 05:05 |
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porfiria posted:Who’s going to be the first Fat superhero? Plus-size superhero Faith to Get Own Movie From Sony and Valiant Comics Lobok fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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I can't believe no one had mentioned the Great Lakes Avengers
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 05:09 |
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Stone quarry? Hopefully that means he's finally making a Tokusatsu gently caress yes
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 05:10 |
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:I can't believe no one had mentioned the Great Lakes Avengers someone did.
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 05:58 |
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Darko posted:Swamp Thing has Toxic Avenger beat. Fantomah has Swamp Thing beat by more than 30 years. (But she was only ugly in her hero form.)
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# ? Jan 9, 2019 06:06 |