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# Movies seen last year: 27 Projection of 2018: Enthusiastic about : Isle of Dogs Deadpool 2* Rampage *They could really gently caress this one up. Will probably be good: The Incredibles 2 MI:6 The Equalizer 2 Goosebumps 2 Hmmm, all sequels. Hope it's good but it's a toss up: Tomb Raider Pacific Rim Uprising The Happytime Murders Will probably be poo poo: Jurassic World 2 Will not watch: Fifty Shades Whatevered Ready Player One 15:17 to Paris I'll watch whatever Marvel movies come out as long as they get decent ratings. The only DC offering seems to be Aquaman which I'll only see if it gets decent ratings or if I'm really bored. The track record for DC so far isn't good, and the only one that's been close to univesally liked so far is one I haven't seen. I really want Solo to be good but I'm having trouble believing it will be. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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The next Cloverfield movie has been delayed from February to April 20, same day as Rampage and the Overboard remake.
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CelticPredator posted:“Hardcore and back to the roots” which translated to “we murder children and have direct references!!” Maybe they should have had the Predators rescue some civilians, then you'd shut the gently caress up about it.
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Deadpool 2 will likely be fine. I do wonder if the (presumably) last main X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, is going to bomb horribly or not. I'm pretty sure that Apocalypse was a commercial disappointment.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Deadpool 2 will likely be fine. I think Apocalypse might actually be the worst in the series. Nothing else has tried for so many things and failed at so many of them, while leaving us with the haunting outline of how good the "Magneto with family" story could have been.
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DarkSol posted:What are you thoughts on Black Panther? Edit: If they're going to have a bad movie this year it will probably be Infinity War. It's a sequel to Age of Ultron, one of the lesser films in the series, and the first one has been ecclipsed by "smaller" movies too. Civil War was good but was right on the cusp of having too many heroes in it. They're working with a lot of margin for error here. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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muscles like this! posted:Also Super Troopers 2. People schedule movies on hitler's bday like whoa What's the deal with that 
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Snowman_McK posted:I think Apocalypse might actually be the worst in the series. Nothing else has tried for so many things and failed at so many of them, while leaving us with the haunting outline of how good the "Magneto with family" story could have been.
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Casimir Radon posted:I thought Chadwick Boseman was really good in Civil War, and whoever is steering the MCU right now seems to have most of the bugs ironed out. They finally made a Thor movie people wanted to see so that seems like a good indication that they know what they're doing now. Meanwhile the Russo Brothers, who have done Winter Soldier and Civil War, are doing Infinity War and from what I understand are involved heavily in the plotting of most of the upcoming movies.
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Snowman_McK posted:Maybe they should have had the Predators rescue some civilians, then you'd shut the gently caress up about it. Man of Steel is the worst movie ever made hth. I don’t mind being a dick about movies in this case. CelticPredator fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Jan 3, 2018 03:14
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FlamingLiberal posted:Wolverine Origins is still the worst. If you're not counting spinoff films, then it's The Last Stand. Nah, The Last Stand had the good grace to be really short. As bad as it was, it moved pretty quickly. Origins was kind of entertainingly terrible. Apocalypse was just dull and long.
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FlamingLiberal posted:AoU was done by Joss Whedon, who is no longer involved in the films.
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Casimir Radon posted:Civil War was good but was right on the cusp of having too many heroes in it. For a Captain America film, it totally did. For an Avengers film, it didn't. The problem came from them labelling an Avengers spin off as a Captain America film, so it occupies this weird middle between them.
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Tars Tarkas posted:A Wrinkle In Time - a 9-figure big budget feature with a diverse cast that could be a gigantic mess or could be secretly awesome. Potentially one of the most divisive films of the year. I want this to be good even though I didn't really care for the book as a child. I'm strangely excited for this movie and I don't know why, I haven't read the book in almost 20 years and I have no idea who this ~visionary director~ is. I guess I just think it looks trippy, and I like Chris Pine and Mindy Kaling. Also bonus points for using Sweet Dreams in both trailers.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:For a Captain America film, it totally did. For an Avengers film, it didn't. The problem came from them labelling an Avengers spin off as a Captain America film, so it occupies this weird middle between them. I didn't really get Stark's motivation to try to beat the poo poo out of cap at the end. I mean I get it but he's supposed to be this super genius Bucky wasn't born bad he's just drawn that way And admitting to collateral damage in an attempt to save the world from alien invasion. 
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syscall girl posted:I didn't really get Stark's motivation to try to beat the poo poo out of cap at the end. They really had to make both main characters idiots in order for the plot to happen and in order for one to suddenly be in a mindset to be pro-registration while the other is not so they could be on the same sides as in the comics.
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hamsystem posted:I just want The Predator to be good and I'll consider 2018 a success. I have terrible news for you buddy  Casimir Radon posted:So Showtime used to film extra scenes with tits (Stargate SG1, The Outer Limits) and it eventually just caught on as something that prestige television has? Stargate only did it for 1 episode which made it extra odd. They even edited it out for the updated dvd.
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The lady in Civil War confronts Stark about stuff that happened in AoU, which really was his gently caress up. A lot of the other motivations were forced but he messed up really bad with Ultron.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Stargate only did it for 1 episode which made it extra odd. They even edited it out for the updated dvd. A few years later Penn and Teller found their way to Showtime and did similiar things. "We don't want you thinking about how childish our opinions on global warming are so here are some boobs"
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Neo Rasa posted:They really had to make both main characters idiots in order for the plot to happen and in order for one to suddenly be in a mindset to be pro-registration while the other is not so they could be on the same sides as in the comics. Also, Stark shirks the rules for 90% of the movie (crucially in a scene to find out where Cap went) and lectures a girl who lost her entire family in Sokovia about the human cost of the event. Civil War is a loving mess. I predicted when it was announced that it would be billed as a movie where both sides were right, but would in fact be a film where both sides are wrong.
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syscall girl posted:I didn't really get Stark's motivation to try to beat the poo poo out of cap at the end.
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Casimir Radon posted:
Casimir Radon posted:The lady in Civil War confronts Stark about stuff that happened in AoU, which really was his gently caress up. A lot of the other motivations were forced but he messed up really bad with Ultron. Yeah, he was finally dealing with the consequences of his actions and was all alone because of his split with his girl, and increasingly frustrated trying to hold the one constant thing that he accomplished the was doing good in the world together. Meanwhile his new best friend is distrustful of authority over his actions due to the prior film where he found out the last authority was corrupted from within by nazi parasite, his old best friend gets crippled, every action he's tried to take to save the Avengers has just helped make things worse, and he finds out that his parents were murdered, the murderer is right in front of him, and his friend knew about it for years and didn't tell him. But as stated a lot of the problems could have been solved if they had just talked to each other, instead it becomes all forced because people make decisions without telling anyone. Many of the characters are blaring hypocrites in the most hilarious way, Black Panther literally leaves the meeting where they announce the accords were signed that he supported to dress up in a costume and become a vigilante with no accord authority. Sure, his father was just murdered, but everyone bends the rules to do whatever they want the entire film and even the heroes that get caught are broken out in a few days. The conflict was too manufactured and Winter Soldier is a superior film, but everything so far out of Infinity War looks fun. And the trailer actually used the score effectively instead of using a pop song like every other trailer.
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Casimir Radon posted:The lady in Civil War confronts Stark about stuff that happened in AoU, which really was his gently caress up. A lot of the other motivations were forced but he messed up really bad with Ultron. I'll give you Ultron but "my son died because the Hulk was smashing the poo poo out of alien invaders and *surprise* not in control of his emotions" Worst hallway scene ever.
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Casimir Radon posted:That's a relief. I think I've hated just about everything Whedon has done outside Cabin in the Woods Dr Horrible is a goddamn masterpiece. Which is nuts as I don't care about anything else he's ever done.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Because he just got to find out how his parents really died and he was pissed off? Like he was clearly unhinged, and the last couple of movies have focused heavily on Tony and his PTSD from Avengers, which led to him creating Ultron who almost destroyed the planet. Yeah but I guess stupid is as stupid does because he knew Bucky wasn't acting under his own will and even though he was cap's bro back in the wwii Recovering alcoholics I guess
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Tars Tarkas posted:But as stated a lot of the problems could have been solved if they had just talked to each other, instead it becomes all forced because people make decisions without telling anyone. I give Civil War a lot of credit for: -Creating a spot-on MCU version of Peter Parker -Not having the final battle be Tony and Cap versus a bunch of super soldier serum powered goons thanks to that last swerve -T'Challa sparing a broken Zemo at the very end when he tried to kill himself after accomplishing his goal I agree that the initial framing for the story, ie. the idea that the superhumans had to be registered because they caused too much collateral damage, had problems if you remembered even basic details about the plots in Avengers 1 or 2.
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FlamingLiberal posted:-Not having the final battle be Tony and Cap versus a bunch of super soldier serum powered goons thanks to that last swerve Barring everything else (which I agree with), this alone is the best reason of why this film works, and is one of dozens of reasons Batman v Superman doesn't
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Tars Tarkas posted:Barring everything else (which I agree with), this alone is the best reason of why this film works, and is one of dozens of reasons Batman v Superman doesn't Instead of one fan servicey fight, we get a different fan servicey fight.
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What about the secret subtext that hallway woman was lying about her dead son? She's actually a nightclub owner and politician involved in dirty money from Harlem.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Barring everything else (which I agree with), this alone is the best reason of why this film works, and is one of dozens of reasons Batman v Superman doesn't Ah, yes, that climactic Batman v Superman fight against a bunch of super-powered goons. I don't even remember how Civil War ended, like at all. Edit: the north won
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Shoombo posted:Ah, yes, that climactic Batman v Superman fight against a bunch of super-powered goons. The real answer is that someone brought up Iron Man's dead parents but instead of making him stop fighting it drove him into a murderous rage.
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Shoombo posted:Ah, yes, that climactic Batman v Superman fight against a bunch of super-powered goons. as a super-powered goon I
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Remulak posted:Dr Horrible is a goddamn masterpiece. Which is nuts as I don't care about anything else he's ever done. The Hammer is... I agree with you about weedman
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Re: Monster Trucks Guy Mann posted:This is pretty much exactly why I know it's not true, if this really had gone far enough in production for them to be screening it then more people other than a single anonymous Redditor would have come out by now and at the very least stuff would show up in artist portfolios if not be outright leaked. I haven't actually gone looking for the portfolios of all the concept artists listed as working on the film but I've stumbled across some stuff:   It's from the portfolio of a guy who has worked on a ton of things including Monster Trucks Gaunab posted:Jurassic World 2 is disappointing because they could have gone with the obviously cool idea of dinosaurs as tools of war but didn't. Well, they haven't shown anything like that in the trailers so far but on the other hand they allegedly haven't shown anything from the second half of the film and judging from the list of characters on imdb it looks like someone will be auctioning off some dinos to some shady people for unknown purposes so it might still happen I guess?  Wheat Loaf posted:I would rather see Shane Black getting onto the Doc Savage movie with Dwayne Johnson he's been talking about for about five years now. feedmyleg posted:I've come to accept that it's never happening. Not because it's been taking so long, but because I feel like Johnson refuses to work with any script that isn't as 4-quadrant as possible. Or at least catering to a 14-year-old audience. While the only audience for Doc Savage is weirdos like me who collect pulp paperbacks. 
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