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Why does Fox keep rebooting X-men wrong? Just loving copy Harry Potter and make massive bank. Kids with special abilities at boarding school become friends and have adventures, make a new one every year. It's not that hard. X-men shouldn't be a drat horror movie.
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May 26, 2017 21:24
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Mecha Gojira posted:The best part about Supaidaman isn't just that he has a giant robot, it's that it's a giant lion-shaped alien spaceship that transforms into a giant robot that is controlled by a flying car. Yes, they should bring back Supaidaman in the movies, the show is genuine fun. Even Stan Lee loved it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDyPSJvybQ
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May 26, 2017 21:25
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feedmyleg posted:Why does Fox keep rebooting X-men wrong? Just loving copy Harry Potter and make massive bank. Kids with special abilities at boarding school become friends and have adventures, make a new one every year. It's not that hard. X-men shouldn't be a drat horror movie. Because X-Men is for dweebs. Which reminds me how loving lame the Sentinels looked in DoFP: 
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May 26, 2017 21:27
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feedmyleg posted:Why does Fox keep rebooting X-men wrong? Just loving copy Harry Potter and make massive bank. Kids with special abilities at boarding school become friends and have adventures, make a new one every year. It's not that hard. X-men shouldn't be a drat horror movie. I too would like an X-Men Evolution movie. (seriously)
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May 26, 2017 21:35
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I'll have you know that the internet can say with authority that Batman is in fact, pretty swole Not just the internet, it's even specifically stated in the Lego Batman Movie.
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May 26, 2017 21:36
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Taintrunner posted:Because X-Men is for dweebs. Which reminds me how loving lame the Sentinels looked in DoFP: 
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May 26, 2017 21:50
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feedmyleg posted:Why does Fox keep rebooting X-men wrong? Just loving copy Harry Potter and make massive bank. Kids with special abilities at boarding school become friends and have adventures, make a new one every year. It's not that hard. X-men shouldn't be a drat horror movie. The most profitable and critically-acclaimed X-Men movies recently have been two R-rated movies, one an over-the-top comedy and the other tearjerker, and a time travel movie that alternates between Bryan Singer's leather fetish future and the 1970s. All of them were better than Apocalypse, a more typical superhero movie. The New Mutants story they are apparently adapting also has demonic possessions and body horror elements, with two of the main character being a witch and a werewolf.
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May 26, 2017 22:05
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Taintrunner posted:Because X-Men is for dweebs. Which reminds me how loving lame the Sentinels looked in DoFP:
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May 26, 2017 22:31
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feedmyleg posted:Why does Fox keep rebooting X-men wrong? Just loving copy Harry Potter and make massive bank. Kids with special abilities at boarding school become friends and have adventures, make a new one every year. It's not that hard. X-men shouldn't be a drat horror movie. counterpoint: legion
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May 26, 2017 23:08
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Brother Entropy posted:counterpoint: legion Legion is good, but I think it is exactly right for its format. If it were much more than 8 episodes or just a 2-hour film, then I think it would be really hard to do at the same level of quality + content.
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May 26, 2017 23:10
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Apocalypse aside, Fox is doing a lot of weird stuff with X-Men lately and it's pretty great, bring on the dumb space adventures and werewolf horror.
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May 26, 2017 23:13
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feedmyleg posted:Why does Fox keep rebooting X-men wrong? Just loving copy Harry Potter and make massive bank. Kids with special abilities at boarding school become friends and have adventures, make a new one every year. It's not that hard. X-men shouldn't be a drat horror movie.
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May 26, 2017 23:43
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Martman posted:I find it funny how Mystique has been shoe-horned so hard into being a/the main character (because Jennifer Lawrence) despite being less inconvenienced by her powers than just about any other mutant. Like, sure, she has a "real" appearance that she has to hide, but she's also completely free to just wander around humans and be seen as completely normal. Seems a bit less tragic than literally everyone else in the movies. I mean, there's a lot of relevant social commentary around the idea of members of out groups feeling pressured to pass as "normal" for acceptance. That's like saying that light skinned black people or trans folks who can "pass" are getting off easy.
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May 26, 2017 23:50
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big money big clit posted:I mean, there's a lot of relevant social commentary around the idea of members of out groups feeling pressured to pass as "normal" for acceptance.
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May 26, 2017 23:54
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Martman posted:Relative to the guy whose eyes explode everyone around him yeah, I think it's kind of easy. I'll bet all of the butch closeted gay dudes, past and present, were very comforted by how easy they had it. And really, wearing sunglasses seems pretty easy too.
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May 26, 2017 23:59
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big money big clit posted:And really, wearing sunglasses seems pretty easy too.
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May 27, 2017 00:03
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I get the idea of Mystique having a more personal dilemma in that she COULD just fit in if she wanted and stay "closeted" but she shouldn't have to and that's a choice she'll never really stop having to wrestle with. But it does play a little odd when its presented as "she can turn into Jennifer Lawrence and immediately disarm every male in the room" vs all the other hosed up poo poo like physical "deformities", crippling and dangerous "handicap" powers, or getting your entire family murdered. Its probably an execution problem with the films generally playing much broader and Mystique's dilemma being a much more nuanced and personal thing.
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May 27, 2017 00:03
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Patty Jenkins talked about her version of Thor 2. It was going to be a Romeo & Juliet story with Jane on Earth and Thor being forbidden from leaving Asgard because Odin thinks Earth does not matter. Then it turns out Malekith stashed the Aether in Earth for this very reason.
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May 27, 2017 00:51
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The MSJ posted:Patty Jenkins talked about her version of Thor 2. It was going to be a Romeo & Juliet story with Jane on Earth and Thor being forbidden from leaving Asgard because Odin thinks Earth does not matter. Then it turns out Malekith stashed the Aether in Earth for this very reason. That actually sounds kind of bad.
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May 27, 2017 01:03
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Taintrunner posted:Because X-Men is for dweebs. Which reminds me how loving lame the Sentinels looked in DoFP: I quite liked this.
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May 27, 2017 01:12
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That actually sounds kind of bad. It sounds pretty similar to what we got, except instead of the aether being inside Earth it's inside Jane, and Odin isn't explicitly keeping Thor away from Earth so much as his responsibility to Asgard and the Nine Realms.
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May 27, 2017 01:26
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Phylodox posted:It sounds pretty similar to what we got, except instead of the aether being inside Earth it's inside Jane, and Odin isn't explicitly keeping Thor away from Earth so much as his responsibility to Asgard and the Nine Realms. Anything that focuses more screentime on Thor and Jane's relationship drama is a net negative for the movie.
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May 27, 2017 01:30
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A producer at Warner Brothers is apparently sharing "viral" Facebook memes asking women to see Wonder Woman to protest Warner Brothers. This could have been the most 2017 sentence ever if they worked Donald Trump and Fidget Spinners in somehow.   
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May 27, 2017 01:33
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You kind of have to appreciate an advertising campaign that both clearly advertises while also decries the lack of advertising. I wonder if someone is getting a bonus for an effective campaign or a talking to for potentially showing that a restrained ad campaign can work.
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May 27, 2017 01:42
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Gyges posted:You kind of have to appreciate an advertising campaign that both clearly advertises while also decries the lack of advertising. I wonder if someone is getting a bonus for an effective campaign or a talking to for potentially showing that a restrained ad campaign can work. Remember when buyin Ghostbusters reboot merchandise was considered a feminist act?
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May 27, 2017 01:49
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Taintrunner posted:Remember when buyin Ghostbusters reboot merchandise was considered a feminist act? It still is.  #SmashThePatriarchy 
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May 27, 2017 01:54
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I mean isn't the simple explanation that Wonder Woman has less advertising because BvS was one of the most expensive movie of all time?
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May 27, 2017 01:58
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That actually sounds kind of bad. Yeah what we got was way better. 
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May 27, 2017 03:15
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah what we got was way better. I liked Thor 2. 
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May 27, 2017 03:35
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I like parts of Thor 2, but it felt like someone stitched together a serious superhero story with something more akin to Guardians Of The Galaxy.
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May 27, 2017 03:52
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The MSJ posted:I like parts of Thor 2, but it felt like someone stitched together a serious superhero story with something more akin to Guardians Of The Galaxy. I've said it previously, but its biggest sin is casting an actor on the level of Christopher Eccleston as the heavy and then having 95 percent of his dialogue be utter gibberish. Hiring Alan Taylor to direct is its second biggest sin. Jesus, what a hideous movie.
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May 27, 2017 03:53
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I watched Thor 2 and other than Lokis use of illusion magic to cover up how distraught he was I cant name an interesting or positive thing about it.
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May 27, 2017 03:54
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Barudak posted:I watched Thor 2 and other than Lokis use of illusion magic to cover up how distraught he was I cant name an interesting or positive thing about it. I honestly can't recall a single thing about it outside of Frigga getting killed, Loki pretending to be killed but really replacing Odin and Thor and whatever the gently caress Eccleston's character was named doing the world's longest bodyslam as they go through various portals.
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May 27, 2017 03:56
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Loki shapeshifting into Captain America to taunt Thor was pretty rad.
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May 27, 2017 04:03
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It's an okay movie, just okay, with high highs and low lows. But, Thor 2 has some really great scenes. It's about 10 amazing ideas, 2 bad ideas (Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings), and 5 good ideas that were executed terribly stitched together into one movie. Go Youtube: - The funeral pyre scene - The fight/death of Frigga - Loki's prison scene where he drops his illusions after learning that he helped get his mom killed - The Kurse fight scene - The climax fight with the portals - The wide shots of Asgard in ruins - The initial awakening of the Dark Elves - The closer with the Loki/Odin reveal - Pretty much any scene with Odin, Frigga, or Loki really. They do a lot of cool subtle stuff with the costume design and themes too. How the Asgardians have grown complacent and all of their weapons are melee-style swords and shields that are mostly ceremonial and they get wiped out because the Dark Elves are thirsty for revenge and use guns and grenades. They definitely goofed by cutting down on Malekith in favor of Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings. I'm glad that they have been removed from Thor 3.
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May 27, 2017 04:04
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Thor hanging up his hammer is a great little gag.
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May 27, 2017 04:10
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Thor 2 is very good.
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May 27, 2017 05:19
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Dan Didio posted:Thor 2 is very good. In a "cinematic universe" comprising, what, 14 movies, the only one more forgettable is Ant-Man. Maybe Iron Man 2.
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May 27, 2017 05:31
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Timby posted:In a "cinematic universe" comprising, what, 14 movies, the only one more forgettable is Ant-Man. Maybe Iron Man 2. Doctor Strange and Incredible Hulk? Also Ant-Man is great.
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May 27, 2017 05:34
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Doctor Strange and Incredible Hulk? I absolutely love everything about The Incredible Hulk outside of the weird fight sequence at the end. Doctor Strange, I'll give you. But I don't remember a single thing about Ant-Man.
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