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It killed a lot of my interest pretty early. I get it's irrational-ish and not the point of the movies, but when you have Magneto drop a stadium on the White House and rip the Presidential nuclear bunker out of the building in 1973, picking up in 1983 and claiming the entire world is exactly the same, didn't even delay the release of Star Wars just felt like..why bother.
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Hey, at the end of the first X-Men prequels (First Class?) it ends with Xavier standing up, and we're all like WHOA WHAT THE gently caress and then... the next movie wasn't a prequel and I lost track. Did it explain what's going on there? Why was he able to do that at the end of the film? Or, haha, was I missing something super obvious and explained?
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Mar 29, 2024 05:39
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It's explained, it's because he's started injecting some formula that gives him back mobility at the cost of dulling his psychic powers. Something like that, anyway. In the next of the prequel ones, where that's explained, he's convinced to stop taking it, probably by Hank iirc
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Grendels Dad posted:Since it was discussed a few pages ago how Beast from the X-Men comics was at best an irresponsible asshat always bordering on supervilliany, I rewatched X-Men: Days of Future Past and it's kinda perfect that he is basically an enabler to Charles Xavier's drug addiction. Just full on "He's lost too much, here I have prepared an extra dose because you missed the last one" while doing sad "He's such a wreck, right" looks at everyone else. That kinda sucks. If you have a character that looks like a monster, but is actually very smart and civilized, in a show all about judging people for their looks and innate traits it seems like a misstep to make that guy an rear end in a top hat. "You shouldn't judge people! Oh that guy who looks like a monster? Yeah he's totally a monster. Inside and out."
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Mar 29, 2024 06:07
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Cowslips Warren posted:i just wanna see Quicksilver zipping around saving people set to cool 80's or 90's music. even update it through 2024 as he ages and keeps saving people from random poo poo. Yep. Would watch a series of like fifty shorts that was just that. I'm a sucker for a speedster.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:14
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Quicksilver will never reach the heights of CGI baby in microwave.
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Push El Burrito posted:Quicksilver will never reach the heights of CGI baby in microwave. So what exactly was in that infamous scene? Haven't watched the film and definitely don't want to, but I have garnered through cultural osmosis that there's something really fucky with that scene?
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Mar 29, 2024 06:27
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Push El Burrito posted:Quicksilver will never reach the heights of CGI baby in microwave. Gotta admit, I had fun watching the opening action sequence of The Flash. My IIMM is that Ezra Miller ended up being a real nutjob IRL so it actually affected watching that movie.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Gotta admit, I had fun watching the opening action sequence of The Flash. It was lol because the movie got delayed so much it came out long after Ezra Miller was a known nutjob, abuser, apparent cult leader, probably groomer, nepo baby, and possible boss fight in Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth irl.
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Breetai posted:So what exactly was in that infamous scene? Haven't watched the film and definitely don't want to, but I have garnered through cultural osmosis that there's something really fucky with that scene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFGQJxpkPg4
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Mar 29, 2024 06:56
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wow thats stupid as gently caress and a whole bunch of bad cgi.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:57
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What in the actual goddamn hell.
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Lmfao what in the world
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PhazonLink posted:wow thats stupid as gently caress and a whole bunch of bad cgi. Sadly Ezra Miller is not CGI. You got the rest right though.
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Cowslips Warren posted:i just wanna see Quicksilver zipping around saving people set to cool 80's or 90's music. even update it through 2024 as he ages and keeps saving people from random poo poo. We have Quicksilver zipping around saving people at home. Quicksilver zipping around saving people at home:
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Mar 29, 2024 09:45
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That poo poo's indistinguishable from parody.
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Breetai posted:That poo poo's indistinguishable from parody. When he dove for the vending machine I had to check that it wasn't an ad for hostess fruit pies or whatever the DC equivalent was.
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Mar 29, 2024 10:59
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Ah, but see, this is what you wanted, this is real superheroes who smile and save the day, not horrible grimdark Snyder that they saved you from.
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Hel posted:When he dove for the vending machine I had to check that it wasn't an ad for hostess fruit pies or whatever the DC equivalent was. you want vending machine ad placement? Hoo boy does Madame Web have just the thing for you
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The weird fisheye shots of their face are somehow the worst part. I don’t want Ezra Miller to perceive me.
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Mar 29, 2024 11:31
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Ezra Miller is already behind you
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And here I thought the worst scene would have been “Hey, look at all the dead people we totally got permission to recreate with horrible CG”
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I know the Flash TV show went downhill pretty sharply after season 2 but it still tickles me that they already had an actor who'd played the Flash for years, who was charming and likeable and knew how to do it, and still easily young enough, and just went 'no let's find the most terrible dickhead possible and use them instead'.
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Mar 29, 2024 12:36
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As terrible as it is to give Disney any credit, the contracts they got their acting talents to include doing shows (on Disney+) at least kept things consistent.
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Literally every single aspect of that scene is completely godawful, what the gently caress. Imagine being a VFX artist with your name associated with producing that.
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Facebook Aunt posted:That kinda sucks. If you have a character that looks like a monster, but is actually very smart and civilized, in a show all about judging people for their looks and innate traits it seems like a misstep to make that guy an rear end in a top hat. there's a comic montage i keep seeing online of the Croc, I believe, going to job interviews and no one hires him. dude, anyone would want to loving hire him! Make him head of your returns or complaints, make him the guard at the bank, make him loss prevention, no one is stealing poo poo if he is there.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:49
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I thought Ezra Miller's just running was terrible. Worst looking floppy form I've ever seen. That scene with the babies is on another level of terrible I didn't even know existed.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ah, but see, this is what you wanted, this is real superheroes who smile and save the day, not horrible grimdark Snyder that they saved you from. They can both be bad.
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Jen heir rick posted:They can both be bad. Sorry, if one thing is bad that means the other thing is good
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so just a general IIMM about supa speed in visual mediums. everything is in "bullet time" but then there's some shots of things suddenly going faster even in bullet slowmo time. its like the Highschool of the Dead boob sniper thing. like the scalpels suddenly rotating to point to the baby. the chem bottle unscrewing and pouring its contents onto baby, the oxygen tank flame burning the baby(actually this ones fine because chemical reactions "move" fast, but whatever). things arbitrary speed up to show danger / "coolness." this is why its just easier to just freeze everything and then do a cut back to everything saved. but I guess they wanted to one up the Quicksilver scene and failed
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Zero_Grade posted:Literally every single aspect of that scene is completely godawful, what the gently caress. VFX provided by Alan Smithee Studios.
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Byzantine posted:It killed a lot of my interest pretty early. I get it's irrational-ish and not the point of the movies, but when you have Magneto drop a stadium on the White House and rip the Presidential nuclear bunker out of the building in 1973, picking up in 1983 and claiming the entire world is exactly the same, didn't even delay the release of Star Wars just felt like..why bother. Yeah, as much as I like Days of Future Past, you have to completely sort of forget the whole plan was "stop Mystique from murdering Trask cause that will kick-start mutant hate." Because, call me crazy, but all the insane poo poo Magneto did is, to the PUBLIC, far worse than a single murder. Obviously the movie has to follow "PG-13 logic" and Magneto stealing Sentinels, the stadium, crashing it, etc.. somehow caused no deaths...but the United States public wouldn't give two flying shits. Just because Magneto heard a little heartwarming speech and decided, at the last second, to NOT murder the president doesn't erase the MASSIVE spectacle and display of his powers from the public eye. The "future" timeline of that movie would have been ten times worse for mutants than at the start of the film.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, as much as I like Days of Future Past, you have to completely sort of forget the whole plan was "stop Mystique from murdering Trask cause that will kick-start mutant hate." It's also because she gets caught after the murder and the experiments on her allow humans to develop the adaptability that would make the Sentinels so dangerous. The joke of the 1970's Sentinels is that they are flashy in a way Dick Nixon would like, but they are ultimately useless against someone like Magneto.
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I forgotten the movie intro, but is the bad timeline bad only for mutants or did "normal" humans also get effed too because humans are the ultimate source of mutants and therefore the AI went Law Zero/Paperclip?
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, as much as I like Days of Future Past, you have to completely sort of forget the whole plan was "stop Mystique from murdering Trask cause that will kick-start mutant hate." Really they should have been trying to help Mystique get away with murdering Trask, help her cover it up so no one knew a mutant did it.
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PhazonLink posted:I forgotten the movie intro, but is the bad timeline bad only for mutants or did "normal" humans also get effed too because humans are the ultimate source of mutants and therefore the AI went Law Zero/Paperclip? Yeah, it's something like the Sentinels keep adapting until they can detect people who will have mutant children, then people who will have mutant grandchildren, and so on until all of humanity counts.
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Byzantine posted:Yeah, it's something like the Sentinels keep adapting until they can detect people who will have mutant children, then people who will have mutant grandchildren, and so on until all of humanity counts. Also, most of humanity tries to help the mutants but at that point the Sentinels just gently caress everyone up.
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I thought The Flash just ran really fast but he does all sorts of wacky poo poo with physics, all around him? Every one of those babies and that nurse has insides that are soup after being jerked around like that at such high speeds. also: this guy's face in that mask looks so dorky. Dorky in a way that none of the other superhero masks look. credburn has a new favorite as of 18:48 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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credburn posted:I thought The Flash just ran really fast but he does all sorts of wacky poo poo with physics, all around him? Every one of those babies and that nurse has insides that are soup after being jerked around like that at such high speeds. The Flash has the Speedforce, which is basically an excuse for anything involving his super speed ignoring physics and also lets him do a lot of other dumb poo poo. I have no idea why he’s powering up with snacks though, last time I saw anything Flash related that wasn’t a thing.
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