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Movie was alright. The best part was the midcredits scene when Chris Evans showed up on screen and a woman in complete earnest yelled "It's her father!"
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Mar 9, 2019 06:48
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Good lord, de-aging technology has gotten scary good. It was completely indistinguishable on Jackson. A couple shots on Gregg looked a bit wonky though. That's my main takeaway. Movie was pretty good. Nothing special.
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Mar 9, 2019 06:58
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MisterBibs posted:Wait, they do that? Jesus wept. I thought it was bad when I recently discovered that if someone owns two dogs, you need to buy two bones because they evidently don't like sharing. Yeah, it's a perfect recreation of a cat spitting up a hairball. When it happens you just sorta have to uncomfortably watch your beloved pet gag and hope that it doesn't make too big a mess.
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fishing with the fam posted:Good lord, de-aging technology has gotten scary good. It was completely indistinguishable on Jackson. A couple shots on Gregg looked a bit wonky though. It was Lola VFX, they did all the de-aging in other Marvel movies like young Robert Downey Jr in Winter Soldier. Star Wars thought they could do just as good in house with ILM and that’s how we got Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One.
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"I wish I had this kind of movie when I was a kid. Also it made me feel like a kid and I loved all the music and I felt like I could kick a million asses." -Mildly Drunk Friend that I saw the Film With
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Redjakk posted:"I wish I had this kind of movie when I was a kid. Also it made me feel like a kid and I loved all the music and I felt like I could kick a million asses." I feel like your friend needs to go watch Blade, or roll back to the beginning of the 90s and rewatch Terminator 2
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Bedshaped posted:you're in the CIA? Don't tell anyone.
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I overall really liked the movie. I thought it was fun and good and if I didn't have a baby to find a sitter for, I'd definitely go see it again. However, couple of minor gripes... - Having Just A Girl as the final fight track was lame. Like, I get it (girl power!), but Prodigy's Firestarter and about a million other perfect songs were just sitting there. - Film set in LA in 1995 and not a single culturally relevant reference to anything that actually happened from 1993-95, that I noticed. OJ Trial? West Coast/East Coast bullshit? Instead we just got a Buzzfeed-esque "remember this?!" with CD ROMs, Blockbuster Video, dial-up internet and pay phones, among a few other things. - Would have liked for Korrath to have a teeny tiny bit more to do. - Carol "Avenger" Danvers was the only thing I literally groaned about in the film. That was a "Martha?" moment if there ever was one in the MCU. Now on to the things I really liked... - The flerken/cat! Total scene stealer. When it unleashed near the end, I laughed so much. That was awesome. - I LOVED that the Skrull/Kree conflict wasn't as cut and dry obvious as it came across in the trailers. - Speaking of the intergalactic conflict, I appreciated that the movie didn't get bogged down with that and the film kept its focus on everyone it needed to. - I know Carol was overpowered to the point of removing tension at the end of the movie, but I kind of liked that it wasn't drug out and belabored and enjoyed just watching her go full Binary at the end. I just hope they don't inexplicably de-power her for Endgame just to engineer tension - I like all the little changes to the lore from the comics. I thought it all worked well. Not a spoiler, but I didn't realize until I walked out of the theater that I never once thought about or questioned the de-aging with Fury and Coulson. It was THAT good. EDIT: Since Carol and Maria's relationship has been debated, I never once felt like they were romantically involved. Just super close and competitive kindred spirits. Maybe I'll feel differently on re-watch, but sometimes friends are just friends. I think with any two characters in a film with good chemistry, you can parse whatever subtext you want out of their relationship. I don't think there was anything in the final product to support a theory of them being an actual couple. Doronin fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Mar 9, 2019 16:48
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Do they at least have Fury on a payphone talking to his cousin Jules?
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Steve Yun posted:It was Lola VFX, they did all the de-aging in other Marvel movies like young Robert Downey Jr in Winter Soldier. Those two situations aren't comparable at all. Smoothing an existing actors wrinkles is much easier than essentially whole-cloth creating a human via CGI.
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Ammanas posted:Those two situations aren't comparable at all. Smoothing an existing actors wrinkles is much easier than essentially whole-cloth creating a human via CGI. Eh I'd argue that 17 year old RDJ in Civil War was as close to 100% CGI as you can get. That wasn't smoothing wrinkles, it was a child version of a middle aged actor. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oQ0E3OkaIk Still amazing
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Mar 9, 2019 18:24
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Overall the special effects on Samuel Jackson de aging were real good but there was one specific scene where he was in the elevator with someone and holy poo poo was that loving terrible and obvious. He looked SOOOooooooooooo bad.
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Mar 9, 2019 18:54
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I have zero familiarity with the comics but I thought the supreme intelligence was an interesting take on the ai trope. Instead of just wiping out all life a la terminator or ruthlessly exploiting like the matrix it’s more of a paternalistic, symbiotic, upper level management kind of AI.
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Question about a certain mac guffin that shows up in this how did Mar-Vel end up with the tessaract, wouldn't it be at the bottom of the sea with the other captain at this point?
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Mar 9, 2019 19:53
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Avalerion posted:Question about a certain mac guffin that shows up in this how did Mar-Vel end up with the tessaract, wouldn't it be at the bottom of the sea with the other captain at this point? Howard Stark picked it up off the sea floor soon after
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Mar 9, 2019 19:57
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Steve Yun posted:Howard Stark picked it up off the sea floor soon after That raises more questions I guess
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Mar 9, 2019 20:10
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Have to say that the Stan Lee cameo, practising his dialogue for Mallrats was my favourite of all the films so far.
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Mar 9, 2019 20:40
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As Nero Danced posted:Do they at least have Fury on a payphone talking to his cousin Jules? "you know that new sound you've been looking for? Listen to THIS! < 'Just a Girl' plays louder > "
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smoobles posted:That raises more questions I guess the early version of Shield got it, and they probably had it stored at Pegasus for future testing, which is how Mar-Vell got it and started using it to build her engine.
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So if Carol's powers came from the tesseract, she's not gonna have any post-snap, right?
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:the early version of Shield got it, and they probably had it stored at Pegasus for future testing, which is how Mar-Vell got it and started using it to build her engine. But if sheild has the tesseract they also have Steve? Or I guess it could just have taken them a long time to resurrect him?
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Mymla posted:So if Carol's powers came from the tesseract, she's not gonna have any post-snap, right? This depends entirely on how the writers feel. There are no rules for them to follow regarding space magic.
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Avalerion posted:But if sheild has the tesseract they also have Steve? Or I guess it could just have taken them a long time to resurrect him? In First Avenger the tesseract burned through the plane and into the ocean way before cap crashed. It was no where near him.
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I guess they'll need to do another season of Agent Carter to explain everything that happened with it. Please please please please please please
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Good thing to come from Twitter: https://twitter.com/getfandom/status/1104448726557319168?s=21 https://twitter.com/dayrhyme/status/1104366293048676352?s=21 https://twitter.com/moira_hawthorne/status/1104457120823590913?s=21 https://twitter.com/24frames_uk/status/1104445811436544003?s=21 https://twitter.com/georgia_heapyx/status/1104477769197649920?s=21 https://twitter.com/nnoj8/status/1104460264856936449?s=21 DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Mar 9, 2019 22:36
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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. Holy poo poo... now that's a deep cut and I love it
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I'll make is very simple and clear: Captain Marvel is really worth a watch. it's just entertaining and visually impressive, exactly what it was meant to be. Just keep this in mind that it's an origin story so don't go looking for an overstuffed complex story. it's just a fun action movie that intro.. More
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I'll make is very simple and clear: Captain Marvel is really worth a watch. it's just entertaining and visually impressive, exactly what it was meant to be. C/p’d from Letterboxd or elaborate joke?
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Decided to go see this earlier on a whim. I've been spoiled by Fury Road and Alita since I've watched both films a lot in the past month because I found this movie to be wholly unremarkable in every aspect by comparison. Captain Marvel is not a bad movie, but it's just a movie; very much feels like the apex of the MCU formula, the ultimate display of a film that is inoffensive, harmless, milquetoast, vanilla, etc. The story and everyone involved comes across as an exercise in just going through the motions leading up to Endgame really. Nothing ambitious or compelling about this film at all. Brie Larson was alright, but as with everything else in movie, there was nothing really standout about her performance, or the character. She's just there, just like this movie existing. Sam Jackson was fine; de-aging tech looked good, but the film should make me care more about his character than being amazed by the de-aging tech; almost nothing interesting is done with his character. Again, he's just there. My only real takeaways from this film were Ben Mendelsohn as Talos chewing up the scenery and the moment when Jude Law tries to save face and Carol just blasts him away. Other than that, yeah. Pretty unremarkable overall. As far as romantic undertones regarding Carol and Maria's relationship that were up for debate earlier, yeah, I didn't pick up on any of that all personally. [edit] Also, this is right up there with Black Panther in having the most boring and uninspired set pieces in a big blockbuster film. teagone fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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Seems everyone liked Jude Law’s speech but the punchline was so predictable. It was such a Joss Whedon thing to do.
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Mar 10, 2019 02:22
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Steve Yun posted:Seems everyone liked Jude Law’s speech but the punchline was so predictable. It was such a Joss Whedon thing to do. Jude Law sells it hard, that's what I liked it about it most.
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I got vibes of Indiana Jones bringing a gun to a swordfight there - very predictable, but still satisfying.
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You know with some tweaks this would be a pretty neat Green Lantern film. Anyway. I suspected already that I was starting to get burnt out on Marvel stuff and this movie confirmed it for me. Although there were a few nice wrinkles here and there such as the nature of the Kree/Skrull war I think I would have liked the movie more if it divorced itself from the Standard Marvel Hero Origin Story stuff. The film feels very much like an artificial product spawned by someone throwing "woman, 90s, space-laser hands, mysterious past" into a giant Marvel supercomputer that goes through and replaces the madlibs in the standard script as needed. Some of the dialogue was clunky, but Larson and Jackson have a fantastic dynamic together and I genuinely loved their buddy-cop friendship. The "I won't tell your boss if you don't tell mine" scene in the jet particularly stands out as a moment of genuine warmth, respect and friendship. The stuff about Fury's eye injury was cute, but I almost wish they kept swerving it all through the movie like they do with the first car-crash one. "How's your eye?" "Fine.". The CG for making Jackson look younger is extremely well done and avoids the weird plastic-face or horrible-uncanny-valley effect that some other attempts in cinema to de-age people have resulted in. I really liked Brie Larson's performance and think it carries the movie, a less charismatic actor as Carol would have left me feeling much, much colder on the film. She brings a really great warmth and humour to the role - and by humour I don't mean the occasional jokey zingers (as a side-note I don't think they're "Whedon-esque" as I don't feel like they serve to cheapen emotional moments and there are moments where characters are capable of responding with sentiments other than snark) but the little smile she does when she's winding people up. Also seeing how delighted she is to be in the thick of things and utilising her powers is an incredibly refreshing change - there's the requisite superhero movie angst over, in this case, lost memories but it feels like it's dealt with smoothly as part of the story rather than being the foundation of the character and a well that they're going to go back to again and again. For the most part, Carol is confident, outgoing, energetic and capable and Larson capably sells that mix of excitement and joy. Goose is an Extremely Good Cat. Overall, it's fine - I'd still comfortably put it in the top third of MCU stuff, but mostly for Larson - because the movie doesn't take any real risks the worst sin it commits is being bland. I hope she has a decent role in Endgame, particularly with Thor and the Guardians to represent that "cosmic" area of Marvel.
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My girlfriend asked if she was going to be out of the loop if she saw Endgame by missing this. lol.
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Fart City posted:My girlfriend asked if she was going to be out of the loop if she saw Endgame by missing this. I mean probably not. All you need to know is Captain Marvel is a super powerful space warrior. Done.
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Mar 10, 2019 05:52
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I do hope Rambo and Annoying Kid are never heard from again.
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a WOMAN superhero? Well now I’ve seen it all -some guy in South Carolina
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CelticPredator posted:Hmm. No. Uh I think it was pretty obvious that Sam and Frodo were lovers. Luckily this was confirmed in the ultra-extended edition of the Two Towers
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