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Post by endorbr on Nov 26, 2017 20:08:31 GMT
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 27, 2017 13:53:32 GMT
I went and saw Justice League! And it was bad! It's not even interesting bad, like BvS or Suicide Squad were. Just sort of generic and kinda boring bad. It's apparently one of the most expensive movies ever made, but damn if it isn't ugly.
The plot is bad as well, in that not much actually happens. And what does happen is really silly and dumb. For all the shit Marvel movies get over how cookie cutter and structurally similar they all are, at least they have some sort of identifiable shape compared to this lazy mess. It also has one of the worst superhero villains I've seen in ages - it's a big, dumb CGI monster man with an army of robot orcs (and it all manages to be so damn dull).
Cyborg sucks (he's so damn boring) but Aquaman is the worst. He's a surfer bro whose catchphrases include 'Oh yeah!' and 'My Man!'. He's also in one of the worst parts of the movie He goes to Atlantis and sees Amber Heard and they have a stilted conversation where she clumsily blurts out his entire backstory in a borderline monotone. This is in lieu of a personality because, like Cyborg, he has none. The Atlantis scenes are also ugly and everything has a blurry filter on it (because its underwater!) which likely means a standalone Aquaman film would be unwatchable. .
I won't go into other spoilers for now (unless anybody had any questions) but it's a mess. But while BvS and Suicide Squad had so many baffling, eyebrow-raising WTF choices and moments, this one has more shrug-worthy ones.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 27, 2017 14:53:04 GMT
I went and saw Justice League! And it was bad! It's not even interesting bad, like BvS or Suicide Squad were. Just sort of generic and kinda boring bad. It's apparently one of the most expensive movies ever made, but damn if it isn't ugly.
The plot is bad as well, in that not much actually happens. And what does happen is really silly and dumb. For all the shit Marvel movies get over how cookie cutter and structurally similar they all are, at least they have some sort of identifiable shape compared to this lazy mess. It also has one of the worst superhero villains I've seen in ages - it's a big, dumb CGI monster man with an army of robot orcs (and it all manages to be so damn dull).
Cyborg sucks (he's so damn boring) but Aquaman is the worst. He's a surfer bro whose catchphrases include 'Oh yeah!' and 'My Man!'. He's also in one of the worst parts of the movie He goes to Atlantis and sees Amber Heard and they have a stilted conversation where she clumsily blurts out his entire backstory in a borderline monotone. This is in lieu of a personality because, like Cyborg, he has none. The Atlantis scenes are also ugly and everything has a blurry filter on it (because its underwater!) which likely means a standalone Aquaman film would be unwatchable. .
I won't go into other spoilers for now (unless anybody had any questions) but it's a mess. But while BvS and Suicide Squad had so many baffling, eyebrow-raising WTF choices and moments, this one has more shrug-worthy ones. See now I thought the opposite. I thought it was pretty good. Not best movie ever made or anything but serviceable. Better than Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, not as good as Man of Steel or Wonder Woman. Some of it was a bit rushed here and there and the backstory for the new guys is mostly exposition dump but then if they would have spent an hour talking them up the movie really would have had no flow. I didn't go in wanting a CGI explosion fest but the movie had several moments of that. This was essentially a live action version of the animated movie Justice League: War with a few tweaks and other storylines tied in. I didn't go in with any real expectations and I had a good time with it.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 27, 2017 20:04:46 GMT
Black Widow is going to be blonde in Avengers: Infinity War... WTH Hollywood? What is your disdain for redheads all about anyway?
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 28, 2017 8:45:45 GMT
endorbr - Justice League just didn't work for me. I think the tone is why - the darker Zack Snyder stuff from BvS and Man of Steel didn't mesh with half he film, where it felt a bit like a kid playing with action figures. There were some cool moments, but a lot of it fell flat for me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 17:21:41 GMT
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Post by endorbr on Nov 29, 2017 18:43:37 GMT
Oh damn. They hype is real.
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 30, 2017 14:52:59 GMT
Oh damn. They hype is real. Damn straight. Though Thanos without his helmet looks a bit silly (as many have said, he's got a Stone Cold Steve Austin look going).
It does seem to have a lot of Black Panther stuff in the trailer there as well.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 30, 2017 15:00:51 GMT
Oh damn. They hype is real. Damn straight. Though Thanos without his helmet looks a bit silly (as many have said, he's got a Stone Cold Steve Austin look going).
It does seem to have a lot of Black Panther stuff in the trailer there as well.
I'm wondering what setup will happen in Black Panther leading up to this. We're still one Infinity Stone light as of Thor Ragnarok.
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 30, 2017 15:07:52 GMT
Anybody here watched Z Nation? I started watching it out of boredom, and while it's pretty bad I'm sort of getting into it now.
It's a blatant Walking Dead ripoff, but with a substantially smaller budget, bad effects (though the zombie makeup is decent), way worse writing and awful acting - though the tone is a lot sillier. It's set three years after a zombie apocalypse, and follows a group on a cross-America road trip to get a guy immune to the zombie virus to a lab to make a cure. It at least gets right into its plot and world building, and has more of a road trip structure, but you can really tell that they didn't think much about the characters (they seem to have gone with a "We'll figure it out later" thing).
It's a total mess, but for some reason I'm sort of intrigued by it. I think it's because its sort of got a Fallout-esque feel to it. The wasteland-like America, the shanty towns and compounds of survivors, and even the various storylines (secret cannibals, doomsday cults, abandoned nuclear reactor meltdowns) give me that feel. It also gets weird (killer zombie babies, 'meth zombies' and one episode had a Groundhog Day thing going on).
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 30, 2017 15:11:13 GMT
Damn straight. Though Thanos without his helmet looks a bit silly (as many have said, he's got a Stone Cold Steve Austin look going).
It does seem to have a lot of Black Panther stuff in the trailer there as well.
I'm wondering what setup will happen in Black Panther leading up to this. We're still one Infinity Stone light as of Thor Ragnarok. I think 'Wakanda is revealed as the world's greatest/most advanced superpower' will end up being a big deal to the MCU. It'll probably be revealed that their technological advances are because of the final stone, and Thanos will probably attack the city for it in Infinity War (that's what the big battle in the trailer seems to be).
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Nov 30, 2017 15:11:27 GMT
Anybody here watched Z Nation? I started watching it out of boredom, and while it's pretty bad I'm sort of getting into it now. It's a blatant Walking Dead ripoff, but with a substantially smaller budget, bad effects (though the zombie makeup is decent), way worse writing and awful acting - though the tone is a lot sillier. It's set three years after a zombie apocalypse, and follows a group on a cross-America road trip to get a guy immune to the zombie virus to a lab to make a cure. It at least gets right into its plot and world building, and has more of a road trip structure, but you can really tell that they didn't think much about the characters (they seem to have gone with a "We'll figure it out later" thing). It's a total mess, but for some reason I'm sort of intrigued by it. I think it's because its sort of got a Fallout-esque feel to it. The wasteland-like America, the shanty towns and compounds of survivors, and even the various storylines (secret cannibals, doomsday cults, abandoned nuclear reactor meltdowns) give me that feel. It also gets weird (killer zombie babies, 'meth zombies' and one episode had a Groundhog Day thing going on). I tried to watch some episodes of it when I had access to the Sci Fy channel,but I never got into it.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 30, 2017 15:11:30 GMT
Anybody here watched Z Nation? I started watching it out of boredom, and while it's pretty bad I'm sort of getting into it now. It's a blatant Walking Dead ripoff, but with a substantially smaller budget, bad effects (though the zombie makeup is decent), way worse writing and awful acting - though the tone is a lot sillier. It's set three years after a zombie apocalypse, and follows a group on a cross-America road trip to get a guy immune to the zombie virus to a lab to make a cure. It at least gets right into its plot and world building, and has more of a road trip structure, but you can really tell that they didn't think much about the characters (they seem to have gone with a "We'll figure it out later" thing). It's a total mess, but for some reason I'm sort of intrigued by it. I think it's because its sort of got a Fallout-esque feel to it. The wasteland-like America, the shanty towns and compounds of survivors, and even the various storylines (secret cannibals, doomsday cults, abandoned nuclear reactor meltdowns) give me that feel. It also gets weird (killer zombie babies, 'meth zombies' and one episode had a Groundhog Day thing going on). I think I have this one in my Netflix queue. Haven't watched any of it though.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 30, 2017 15:13:30 GMT
I'm wondering what setup will happen in Black Panther leading up to this. We're still one Infinity Stone light as of Thor Ragnarok. I think 'Wakanda is revealed as the world's greatest/most advanced superpower' will end up being a big deal to the MCU. It'll probably be revealed that their technological advances are because of the final stone, and Thanos will probably attack the city for it in Infinity War (that's what the big battle in the trailer seems to be). You're probably right. What's the backlash going to be from that from certain publications? Oh Marvel made this technologically advanced African nation but the reason why their so much stronger and better than everyone else on Earth is because they cheated. LOL.
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 30, 2017 15:22:37 GMT
I think I have this one in my Netflix queue. Haven't watched any of it though. It's very, very rough and the acting/writing is pretty bad (especially in that first episode). I got into it about four or five episodes in, mostly by having it playing in the background but I'm sort of into it now. It takes some going, but one character in particular becomes pretty interesting as they go along. A lot of the others, however, are underwritten.
If you're used to Walking Dead, this is gonna look like total garbage in comparison, especially early on when it's rip-off status is way more obvious.
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