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I was doubtful about whether I wanted to buy a ticket for this because the trailers made it look like Green Lantern with lots of cringy references. Luckily it wasn't that bad. Not great either. Stan Lee tribute opening was sweet. Choosing to have the Skrulls speak and act in contemporary style was great. Sam Jackson fun as always. Brie Larson... blah. I really wanted to be supportive because of the online chuddery she gets, but she kinda sucked. Like the least screen presence I've seen from an MCU lady yet. I thought she handled the action convincingly enough, not so much for anything else. edit: oh and to beat this tired old drum once more, gently caress 3D. If I wanted a movie to look dark and blurry like I'm watching it through squeezed eyelids, I'd be 11 year old me watching Predator again. davidspackage fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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Mar 10, 2019 12:48
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Ben Mendelsohn was the best part of the movie imo
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Mar 10, 2019 18:04
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I liked Brie Larson's performance, and I like that Danvers represents everything the chuds loathe. I'm looking more forward to Endgame now.
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Mar 10, 2019 20:20
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A friend described this film as being made from MCU concentrate. I laughed and agreed.
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Mar 10, 2019 20:35
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smoobles posted:I mean probably not. super powerful space warrior Hero.  Kind of need a Captain Marvel Smugface there, but close enough.
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Mar 10, 2019 20:54
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teagone posted:A friend described this film as being made from MCU concentrate. I laughed and agreed. I love the MCU and yes this is true. The MCU works best when it smashes different main characters in the same film. Their early origin films were fun, but at this point I’m kind of done with origins. End Game and Spider-Man. Can’t wait for those. But I’m feeling like I’m kinda tapped out at this point.
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CelticPredator posted:I love the MCU and yes this is true. The MCU works best when it smashes different main characters in the same film. Not really. They're just as bad as the other MCU movies.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:14
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teagone posted:A friend described this film as being made from MCU concentrate. I laughed and agreed. Yeah, this is very much a Marvel movie. If you like them, you will like this one, if you don't this one won't change your mind.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:17
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ookiimarukochan posted:Have to say that the Stan Lee cameo, practising his dialogue for Mallrats was my favourite of all the films so far. Just don't be like me and scrutinize it for even a second
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Mar 10, 2019 21:23
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My review of this is that Talos is great, and when he isn't onscreen people should be asking "where's Talos?"
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Mar 10, 2019 21:28
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Being blasé about the MCU is passé now. Y’all are whack.
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sponges posted:Being blasé about the MCU is passé now. Y’all are whack. Touché.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:31
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Found the one person who liked the "I'm just a girl" choice. To their (discredit) though, they also loved all of the pop culture references in the Ready Player One and disagreed with me that it was too much.
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TraderStav posted:Found the one person who liked the "I'm just a girl" choice. And now you’ve found two.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:41
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Greatly enjoyed the movie. Overall I'm pretty burned out on superhero movies and have been for a couple years but I had a lot of fun with this one. It's the first time I haven't minded watching an origin story since maybe Ant Man. My chances for seeing Endgame went from 0 to 15 percent. I want more Brie Larson but Avengers movies are so dire DC Murderverse posted:A film writer on twitter pointed out that there are a lot of people who have nostalgia for Blockbuster, but the group of people immediately older than them hate Blockbuster because they wrecked all of the independent movie stores and replaced it with an inferior product. I miss Blockbuster/chain stores because my beloved childhood indie store was killed by a different and much worse indie store. And then Blockbuster rolled in and killed the usurper and justice was had.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:42
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BotL Care to discuss the implications of a film about refugees ending with the heroes deciding refugees would be better off not staying on someone else's planet but finding a new home to go by themselves instead
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Mar 10, 2019 21:42
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Mel Mudkiper posted:BotL I mean, the plan was never to exist on Earth. The only reason the Skrulls were there in the first place was to find the hyper-space drive, then use that to defeat/hold back the Kree and find a new home. Wasn’t Carol/Nick’s plan at all.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:57
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I really liked that Fury was a bit of a dork and the whole tough guy spy thing he's built up since then is an act. "Did you really lose an eye fighting space aliens?" "uh... yeah, I totally didn't lose it by snuggling with a monster kitty."
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Mar 10, 2019 21:59
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DC Murderverse posted:I mean, the plan was never to exist on Earth. The only reason the Skrulls were there in the first place was to find the hyper-space drive, then use that to defeat/hold back the Kree and find a new home. Wasn’t Carol/Nick’s plan at all. Well sure no refugee intends to be forced to leave their home but it seems toxic to imply the best place for refugees is drifting aimlessly through space rather than be taken in by a foreign power
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Mar 10, 2019 22:06
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Mel Mudkiper posted:BotL It seems to be in the same spirit of "Asgard is not a place, it's a people". What this means metaphorically? We may never know.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:17
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I saw it, it was aight.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:19
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Well sure no refugee intends to be forced to leave their home but it seems toxic to imply the best place for refugees is drifting aimlessly through space rather than be taken in by a foreign power Nah, its toxic to assume a life as a refugee minority on a planet with a populace that is A. largely ignorant of the existence of aliens and B. potentially hostile to said aliens is preferable to having a super-powered escort personally fly you around collecting your diaspora and helping you hand-pick a world to call your own, all to push a comparison to real-life issues that aren't all that similar to the movie beyond the surface level of "powerful dictatorship oppressing a minority".
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Mar 10, 2019 22:19
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Annath posted:to having a super-powered escort personally fly you around collecting your diaspora and helping you hand-pick a world to call your own, Ah so not only does it say "no refugees in my backyard" but it also asserts the white savior myth
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Mar 10, 2019 22:22
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Question that someone I saw it with brought up after the movie that I didn't pick up on at all. Is Goose the same species of tentacle monster from GotG 2 that gobbles up power cores/batteries?
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Mar 10, 2019 22:27
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Tom Gorman posted:Question that someone I saw it with brought up after the movie that I didn't pick up on at all. Is Goose the same species of tentacle monster from GotG 2 that gobbles up power cores/batteries? No. Goose is a Flerken, not an Abilisk.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:33
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As someone who's formative years were spent in the 90s (Im 36) the music choices pulled me right the gently caress out along with just about everything else that was along the lines of Ready Player One. https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/971208968323280896?lang=en It's loving lazy. The movie itself is merely OK as it's been said over and over again. There is nothing enjoyable to gleam from this movie. It doesn't really do anything exciting with what they have minus making the Skrull into sympathetic characters. Brie Larson is alright, doesn't have much to work with here and just sorta stumbles through scenes. About the only visceral enjoyment I got was the Mallrats scene as it was so out of left field and I understand why Kevin Smith was a blubbering mess.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:34
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I really enjoyed it. That is all.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:36
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Mel Mudkiper posted:BotL Oh yes, this bugged me too and any credit Captain Marvel earned for the whole Kree/Mosad, Skrull/Palestinian thing it completely lost when conclusion to that conflict was Illegal aliens hiding from genocidal dictatorship.... In my  Oh, but the noble refugees want to nobly leave earth in favor of drifting aimlessly through space searching for another planet that would take them and Captain Marvel nobly decided to escort them possibly for years and decades, instead of reconnecting with her loved ones and the life she lost and recently regained, so its ok! 
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Lt. Lizard posted:Oh yes, this bugged me too and any credit Captain Marvel earned for the whole Kree/Mosad, Skrull/Palestinian thing it completely lost when conclusion to that conflict was don't forget by making the refugees shapeshifters, they are also implying that even though refugees could perfectly assimilate with us, they would never really "be" us.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:41
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Mel Mudkiper posted:don't forget by making the refugees shapeshifters, they are also implying that even though refugees could perfectly assimilate with us, they would never really "be" us. Lmao, yeah. What reason is there that the Skrulls couldn't stay on Earth again? I just remember Maria saying they can't and that was that. Talos even wanted to be Fury's boss again and they wouldn't let him 
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Mar 10, 2019 22:49
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teagone posted:Lmao, yeah. What reason is there that the Skrulls couldn't stay on Earth again? I just remember Maria saying they can't and that was that. Talos even wanted to be Fury's boss again and they wouldn't let him I thought it was mentioned that it wouldn't be "safe" which opens up a whole nother can of worms Specifically because I think it was suggested it wouldn't be safe for earth
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Mar 10, 2019 22:51
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Earth is, as explicitly stated in the film, a shithole by intergalatic standards. A planet that has not even experienced First Contact yet is a terrible place for literal alien refugees.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Earth is a shithole by intergalatic standards that has not even experienced First Contact yet, it is a terrible place for literal alien refugees. The agency to handle that wouldn't be ready till 1997.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Earth is, as explicitly stated in the film, a shithole by intergalatic standards. A planet that has not even experienced First Contact yet is a terrible place for literal alien refugees. Ah, so a country has to solve all of its own internal problems before it can take on humanitarian aid? Why should WE take on the burden of helping the less fortunate when we can ship them off to a richer planet to do it for us?
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Mar 10, 2019 23:00
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Mel Mudkiper posted:don't forget by making the refugees shapeshifters, they are also implying that even though refugees could perfectly assimilate with us, they would never really "be" us. This seems like a catch-22 of a bad analogy to base the movie on because if they stayed it'd be suggesting it's only because they abandoned all of their identity to be an exact copy of the host culture
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Mar 10, 2019 23:01
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RBA Starblade posted:This seems like a catch-22 of a bad analogy to base the movie on because if they stayed it'd be suggesting it's only because they abandoned all of their identity to be an exact copy of the host culture the choice to portray refugees as duplicitous infiltrators was the studios own, if they created a narrative trap, it is one of their own making
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Mar 10, 2019 23:03
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Mel Mudkiper posted:the choice to portray refugees as duplicitous infiltrators was the studios own, if they created a narrative trap, it is one of their own making Agreed, it's why I called it a catch-22 of a bad analogy for the movie to based on
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Mar 10, 2019 23:03
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Ah, so a country has to solve all of its own internal problems before it can take on humanitarian aid? Your concern troll argument falls apart at this point because there is no country richer than the United States.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Your concern troll argument falls apart at this point because there is no country richer than the United States. Marvel Films are an internationally distributed statement of intent by a multi-billion dollar global conglomerate not sworn to any single national loyalty, it is naive to think the film speaks only to America.
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