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LesterGroans posted:Benedict Wong rules and I'm glad someone at Marvel seems to agree. Love that he gets to cash those cameo checks across the MCU. i really think they could even do a movie that's mainly about him. one would think he would at least sell more tickets than Eternals where literally nobody even knows who the gently caress those people are. i read comics in the 80s and i literally had never heard of them haha
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LesterGroans posted:Benedict Wong rules and I'm glad someone at Marvel seems to agree. Love that he gets to cash those cameo checks across the MCU. He does rule, but also gets his rear end kicked up and down throughout the whole movie and appears so much weaker than Strange. Really prompts me to question his legitimacy as Sorcerer Supreme .
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May 6, 2022 19:35
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Its never really explained why strange is so good at what he does beyond 'he read a lot'.
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May 6, 2022 19:36
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Consummate Professional posted:Legion has some really cool and interesting stuff going for it. Worth a watch, I'd say. I also really liked Prof. X in the third season. Legion is by far the most ambitious marvel property and Hawley is excellent.
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I actually think this is worth seeing for fans of Raimi even if you don't give a poo poo about the MCU. It won't be your favorite movie but it scratches a lot of itches for that type of thing. Plot-wise: the MCU is much like Marvel comics at this point in that the storylines are convoluted and they are having difficulty coming up with new stories without retreading on previous character arcs or selectively resetting them, but that's just how it's gonna be. It is kind of a shame that you see Wanda reading from the Darkhold at the very end of Wandavision (post-credits, even?) while she's seemingly repenting for her sins alone in the mountains. For people that watched Agents of Shield or know comic poo poo, most of us thought "well, she is/others are hosed now" and her being 100% the villain in this movie isn't totally surprising. If you didn't happen to watch the post-credits Wandavision scene or didn't know what the Darkhold was, it probably seems completely out of left field. If anything, it's a twist at the end of Wandavision, not really this movie. At this point I look for (1) intelligible plot and (2) fun sequences, and this movie delivered. I don't super care for the general directions of the characters, but the movie is loaded with fun parts. The Illuminati sequences were absolutely great for the audience's reaction and far more brutal than I EVER expected Marvel to get.
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Also, why is Wanda the most powerful force in the universe all of the sudden, ripping through captain marvel and the rest of the Illuminati in a couple of minutes? the
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Jedit posted:The scene where Strange fights his counterpart with them using the movie's musical score as a weapon is one of the most fun and imaginative sequences I've seen in any movie recently, let alone a Marvel joint. Hearing the actual classical musical scores like Beethoven's 5th (which of course makes perfect sense if they were pulling the literal notes from the pages) kinda threw me off a bit. But as the fight goes on, you can see the notes changing into magical rune shapes
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RBA Starblade posted:It's funny how boring comic movies are, from anyone, in comparison to whatever madmen ramblings apparently get written down into these *glances over at the comic version of Civil War* You have no idea.
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May 6, 2022 19:49
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Jackie D posted:
It's 100% not. Movie and What If spoiler: This evil strange went searching for a better universe and killing off other/unhappy stranges after his Christine married someone else. Strange Supreme has a whole different origin where Christine dies in the crash instead of him losing his hands, and his whole becoming a sorcerer thing is to be able to undo it, despite it being a fixed point on that timeline and screwing up that universe.
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Rental Sting posted:Also, why is Wanda the most powerful force in the universe all of the sudden, ripping through captain marvel and the rest of the Illuminati in a couple of minutes? the Wandavision establishes that she always had magic abilities, the Mind Gem helped bring them out but her power's innate
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Rental Sting posted:Also, why is Wanda the most powerful force in the universe all of the sudden, ripping through captain marvel and the rest of the Illuminati in a couple of minutes? the WandaVision explained that Wanda always had witch powers, but she wasn't really aware of it and chalked up her abilities to luck. The Mind Stone was like steroids to that and unleashed her powers. She was at a point where she could kick Thanos' rear end one-on-one, but she didn't start to truly realize how powerful she was until WandaVision. Then the Darkhold made her even stronger at the cost of her sanity.
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Rental Sting posted:He does rule, but also gets his rear end kicked up and down throughout the whole movie and appears so much weaker than Strange. Really prompts me to question his legitimacy as Sorcerer Supreme . His friend dies to destroy the book and he tells Wanda where to get a new book three minutes later, like bro come on bro.
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May 6, 2022 20:05
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Dr. Strange 2 is such a crazy movie that there's an unexplained minotaur dude in it and I have yet to see anyone talk about that.
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Bananaquiter posted:His friend dies to destroy the book and he tells Wanda where to get a new book three minutes later, like bro come on bro. Wish they would have had you know, any characterization.
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Gavok posted:WandaVision explained that Wanda always had witch powers, but she wasn't really aware of it and chalked up her abilities to luck. The Mind Stone was like steroids to that and unleashed her powers. She was at a point where she could kick Thanos' rear end one-on-one, but she didn't start to truly realize how powerful she was until WandaVision. Then the Darkhold made her even stronger at the cost of her sanity. Ah, yes, of course, the mind stone. Thank you. I've seen all of this marvel stuff save for What If and Moon Knight but just can't hold it together anymore. My mind is fractured. Kinda feel like Angelina Jolie in Eternals.
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Bananaquiter posted:His friend dies to destroy the book and he tells Wanda where to get a new book three minutes later, like bro come on bro. 
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Bananaquiter posted:His friend dies to destroy the book and he tells Wanda where to get a new book three minutes later, like bro come on bro. Minotaur guy was at stake!
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LesterGroans posted:Minotaur guy was at stake! Let's hope not! 
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Movie was very fun. Love Sam Raimi. Don't care about the MCU as a whole so I was generally satisfied, though I think Stephen and America were a little under-written. I could watch some of those jump scares all day
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Doc Fission posted:I could watch some of those jump scares all day All the witch stuff was great. Easily my favorite stuff outside of the Strange musical note duel.
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Movies have gone out of their way recently to show that torture doesn't work when the good guys do it, but it only takes the villains about two seconds of torture to get 100% compliance from a hero. Seems to me that the lesson is that protagonists need to get better at torture.
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I really liked how a lot of Stranges spells had a creature or parts of a creature being summoned, it felt proper horror magic and made Strange feel actively creative in how he handled situations instead of just blasting glowing vfx.
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Also, the Scarlet Witch mind control effect where she freezes time, appears behind them, and whispers in their ear is her most visually/narratively interesting power, but this was the first time she has used it since Age of Ultron. Use it more!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Also, the Scarlet Witch mind control effect where she freezes time, appears behind them, and whispers in their ear is her most visually/narratively interesting power, but this was the first time she has used it since Age of Ultron. 10000% agree. I don't harp on the critique of laser battles in every marvel movie a ton, because superheroes, but if you can avoid it you should!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Also, the Scarlet Witch mind control effect where she freezes time, appears behind them, and whispers in their ear is her most visually/narratively interesting power, but this was the first time she has used it since Age of Ultron. You know, she really should have done that left and right in Wandavision
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When she was full-on Scarlet Witch Elizabeth Olsen had some real Vera Farmiga vibes
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Also, the Scarlet Witch mind control effect where she freezes time, appears behind them, and whispers in their ear is her most visually/narratively interesting power, but this was the first time she has used it since Age of Ultron. She used it on Agatha, but it didn't work all that much.
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https://twitter.com/Gtooowavyy/status/1522304847407890432?t=FvyORkwBQIdeZfFq69m6Eg&s=19
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Avatar 2 looks insane btw.
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I couldn't remember anything from Avatar and have no idea why they have both a human and tree cat child.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I couldn't remember anything from Avatar and have no idea why they have both a human and tree cat child. Oh that's easy: they have the purrfect marriage.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Oh that's easy: they have the purrfect marriage. Where did Jake Sully put his jizz to make the human baby? And did the human scientists make the Avatars capable of jizzing? And whose DNA is the Avatar jizzing? Since they have already announced 4 sequels, I bet they are going to keep it a cliffhanger until the last one.
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also why was the human so big? the avatar people are like 12ft tall
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Since they have already announced 4 sequels, I bet they are going to keep it a cliffhanger until the last one. Cameron has said that all the Avatar films will be standalone and self-contained stories. There's not gonna be some overarching narrative across the movies. I'm mostly hyped to see the HFR underwater action sequences in IMAX 3D. [edit] You remembered the main character's name. Fraud! teagone fucked around with this message at 21:39 on May 6, 2022 |
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teagone posted:Cameron has said that all the Avatar films will be standalone and self-contained stories. There's not gonna be some overarching narrative across the movies. How can they be stand alone and self-contained when the first one is a direct sequel with the same cast? The official summary even says: quote:Following the events of the first film, Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet. teagone posted:[edit] You remembered the main character's name. Fraud! I had to look it up on IMDB! I also forgot that Zoe Saldana was one of the main characters.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:How can they be stand alone and self-contained when the first one is a direct sequel with the same cast? https://screenrant.com/avatar-sequels-standalone-stories-movie-franchise/
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Avatar 2 will be much like the first. Fun as hell to watch and exceeding stupid to think about. What type of 3D is it using? Has glasses or 3d shooting tech progressed much in ~5 years? Will IMAX 3D be the best way to see this one? it's right there in the header  quote:their own standalone story revolving around the ongoing adventures of the Sully Family Actual standalone stories would be exploring different characters/tribes/times. This is very much a continuation of the characters' story even if the events of this movie are their own arc. Its pretty lame that they're just repeating human vs alien conflict already though. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 6, 2022 |
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From what I remember, Cameron's reasoning for making the films self-contained sequels is in the event 2& 3 do bad and Disney is like nah we don't wanna make 4 & 5 anymore lol.
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quote:Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5 will each have its own standalone story centered on the Sully family, it has been revealed. Since they are all following the Sully family, they can keep the jizz secret reveal until later. quote:Indeed it’s previously been teased that the children of Jake and Neytiri will take center-stage in the new Avatar films. Poor Sam Worthington. There goes his paycheck.
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