Author Topic: Marvel Musings. Now with Spidey Spoilers. (Read 631313 times)

John_P · « **Reply #3040 on:** March 28, 2017, 03:42:25 pm »

Mental how much of the movie that seems to have given away compared to the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2.

AndyMuller · « **Reply #3041 on:** March 28, 2017, 06:30:32 pm »

I think it looks boss but that trailer did spoil a lot!

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lionel_messias · « **Reply #3042 on:** March 31, 2017, 04:47:44 pm »

It looks alright. Wow, how much of that film is the normal Sony Spiderman film propped up by Iron Man/Tony Starkness?

Looks like Keaton plays the ALT Father figure as well.

Garrus · « **Reply #3043 on:** April 1, 2017, 07:56:28 am »

Didn't mind Iron Fist. Enjoyed it in parts and I suppose Netflix's model means pacing issues aren't that much of a problem for the viewer. The main disappointment for me was:

Spoiler

We barely saw anything of K'un L'un and of Danny receiving his power from an undying dragon. That should have been the coolest part of the show!

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Chakan · « **Reply #3044 on:** April 1, 2017, 12:00:35 pm »

Quote from: Garrus on April 1, 2017, 07:56:28 am

Didn't mind Iron Fist. Enjoyed it in parts and I suppose Netflix's model means pacing issues aren't that much of a problem for the viewer. The main disappointment for me was:

Spoiler
We barely saw anything of K'un L'un and of Danny receiving his power from an undying dragon. That should have been the coolest part of the show!
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5 and a bit episodes into and I can't watch anymore. There's not 1 character I'm actually invested in.

Garrus · « **Reply #3045 on:** April 1, 2017, 12:08:14 pm »

Quote from: Chakan on April 1, 2017, 12:00:35 pm

5 and a bit episodes into and I can't watch anymore. There's not 1 character I'm actually invested in.

The latter episodes have a bit more action but I suppose they aren't too much different from the first 5. Agreed about the characters, only Coleen was remotely interesting imo.

Redcap · « **Reply #3046 on:** April 5, 2017, 12:02:31 am »

Quote from: Garrus on April 1, 2017, 07:56:28 am

I suppose Netflix's model means pacing issues aren't that much of a problem for the viewer.

Only if you feel inclined to mash a weekend into a show that by consensus seems to be 'bad, but not quite as bad the reviews indicated'.

I mean, why watch a bad show at all, let alone all at once to overcome pacing issues?

tubby · « **Reply #3047 on:** April 5, 2017, 09:51:14 am »

Bakudo sounds like Zoolander when he talks.

Sheer Magnetism · « **Reply #3048 on:** April 7, 2017, 03:21:28 pm »

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Redcap · « **Reply #3049 on:** April 8, 2017, 02:10:17 am »

Quote from: Sheer Magnetism on April 7, 2017, 03:21:28 pm

Great video from probably the best video essayist on film around. All of his stuff is worth watching.

This is a good response though.

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Schmidt · « **Reply #3050 on:** April 8, 2017, 11:05:54 am »

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Teaser for The Defenders dropped a couple of days ago, looks like it's out mid-August.

Anyone still watching Agents of Shield? It feels like this season has been a big disappointment, though I don't think it helps that they take a break every few episodes.

Barefoot Doctor · « **Reply #3051 on:** April 8, 2017, 11:30:04 am »

Quote from: Schmidt on April 8, 2017, 11:05:54 am

Teaser for The Defenders dropped a couple of days ago, looks like it's out mid-August.

Anyone still watching Agents of Shield? It feels like this season has been a big disappointment, though I don't think it helps that they take a break every few episodes.

Heh, fun teaser. That's Sigourney Weaver's voice, isn't it?

Barefoot Doctor · « **Reply #3052 on:** April 10, 2017, 02:14:07 pm »

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Redman0151 · « **Reply #3053 on:** April 10, 2017, 02:28:16 pm »

Meh, was kinda hoping for a darker and more serious movie

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #3054 on:** April 10, 2017, 02:29:11 pm »

Take my money, etc.

Schmidt · « **Reply #3055 on:** April 10, 2017, 02:32:03 pm »

Could go either way for me, seems like they've gone for a bit of a GotG fun romp but not sure if it'll work.

Emo Cate Blanchett can squeeze my hammer any time.

gazzalfc · « **Reply #3056 on:** April 10, 2017, 02:33:24 pm »

Silly 80's style filler before the ultra serious Infinity Wars... Sign me up

Ultimate Bromance · « **Reply #3057 on:** April 10, 2017, 03:44:37 pm »

Well that looks like stupid fun.

Chakan · « **Reply #3058 on:** April 10, 2017, 03:46:39 pm »

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #3059 on:** April 10, 2017, 03:48:56 pm »

It looks like a decent bridge between earth affairs and GOTG. At least that's how they are marketing it.

tubby · « **Reply #3060 on:** April 10, 2017, 03:49:12 pm »

All in.

Miguel Sanchez · « **Reply #3061 on:** April 10, 2017, 04:48:06 pm »

Looks great fun. Ticket please.

thegoodfella · « **Reply #3062 on:** April 10, 2017, 07:52:12 pm »

Oh that looks brilliant and then some.

Beav · « **Reply #3063 on:** April 11, 2017, 09:05:39 am »

Looks phenomenal. Pure Taika Waititi, colourful, mad fun.

Cannot wait.

lionel_messias · « **Reply #3064 on:** April 11, 2017, 12:51:27 pm »

Quote from: Beav on April 11, 2017, 09:05:39 am

Looks phenomenal. Pure Taika Waititi, colourful, mad fun.

Cannot wait.

Looks great. And Jeff Goldblum obviously.

Thor and his bro are more colourful than most of the Marvel Universe, you can see them meeting the Guardians crew.

That will be great.

Haemoglobin · « **Reply #3065 on:** April 11, 2017, 01:57:36 pm »

You know, I really wouldn't mind a flick with very '70s/'80s visual & thematic high-fantasy sensibilities (love some of the framing, colourisation and font{!} in that trailer there), but which takes itself deadly seriously.

Yous feel me? Like a totally pre-irony era vibe. Not so grim & gritty in visual style, instead choc full of strobing neon colour & magic, but just still very severe in tone. Harsh, stony, zero-light-relief blood & sorcery. 18 cert, heads getting lopped off and the life slowly fading from their expression, face-tattooed shredded viking wizards ripping ribcages open with their black spells and eating their still-beating hearts for increased power, impossibly beautiful & athletic (and all-but-naked, obv) valkyries spearing golems in the dick while riding lustrous jewel-encrusted winged chariots, tiny-loinclothed Arnies unceremoniously ripping off arms for their enchanted gauntlets...

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Frank Frazetta, Roger Dean, Golden Axe, spacey psychedelia, all pumped in there. Just an uncompromisingly brutal neon-soaked Conan/Ulysses 31/Dark Souls/Legend/Knightmare mash-up basically, not much to ask for is it.

And without a wink or ironic wisecrack to be found anywhere. To hell with modern sensitivities, both the male & female warriors are scantily-clad and objectified, the represented diverse races are all distinctly tribal and unintegrated; no one's fighting for any noble ideal, and the ones who are just get crushed by the merciless forces of darkness. Everything in the world is simultaneously horrible and beautiful, cruel and enchanting. No Shire, no jaunty flute motifs, just blaring warhorns and the crunch of axe-meeting-bone in a kaleidoscopic haze of intense boy's own back-of-school-notebook sexually-charged fantasy earnestness.

This is what I want.

Inpeace · « **Reply #3066 on:** April 11, 2017, 02:30:06 pm »

must admit I have not watched it but wasn't that what Warcraft was?

Haemoglobin · « **Reply #3067 on:** April 11, 2017, 02:41:44 pm »

Quote from: Inpeace on April 11, 2017, 02:30:06 pm

must admit I have not watched it but wasn't that what Warcraft was?

I haven't seen it either, but I very much doubt it.

WoW has an overall visual style that I'm not into, or at least the games and promo material. Maybe the film adaptions will take it in another direction, but what I've seen of all that stuff just kind of annoys me, frankly.

Now the Dark Souls series, that's more like it, for me. For that completely earnest, brutal, ethereal, hideously-beautiful mediaeval fantasy approach, at least. But then, that doesn't have the mad neon-hued '80s-inspired elements that I'd love to see injected into the visual tone - god though, that would be a fucking boss Souls branch-off, like Bloodborne did with gothic steampunk Victoriana.

Redman0151 · « **Reply #3068 on:** April 11, 2017, 03:14:06 pm »

Warcraft was shite, the CGI was awful and it looked like some shitty 90s fantasy movie. Even the armour looked plastic

tubby · « **Reply #3069 on:** April 13, 2017, 01:28:48 pm »

Josh Brolin cast as Cable in the next Deadpool movie. Good choice for the part but weird having him play Thanos too at the same time.

Beav · « **Reply #3070 on:** April 13, 2017, 01:36:53 pm »

Good casting, he'll be great.

Kinda bummed we didnt get Michael Shannon though.

Redman0151 · « **Reply #3071 on:** April 13, 2017, 01:38:13 pm »

Glad it wasn't Dolph Lungdren or somebody, I like Brolin should be good

JongWK · « **Reply #3072 on:** April 13, 2017, 05:48:15 pm »

Could have been Stephen Lang...

gazzalfc · « **Reply #3073 on:** April 15, 2017, 09:28:51 pm »

No surprise but Infinity War part 1 and 2 will be the 1st $1 billion back to back film. Beating the The Hobbit trilogy which stands at $623m

It'll beat the most expensive budget film so far (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($379m))

Obviously the majority of that budget will go to paying the humongous cast

John_P · « **Reply #3074 on:** April 17, 2017, 08:32:28 pm »

James Gunn has just confirmed he'll be writing and directing Guardians of the Galaxy volume 3.

AndyMuller · « **Reply #3075 on:** April 17, 2017, 08:49:55 pm »

GoTG is on BBC 1 now for anybody that's been living under a rock and hasn't seen it before.

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gazzalfc · « **Reply #3076 on:** April 18, 2017, 07:06:55 pm »

Be prepared to stay til the very end

GoTG vol 2 has FIVE post credit scenes.

tubby · « **Reply #3077 on:** April 18, 2017, 09:28:07 pm »

Quote from: gazzalfc on April 18, 2017, 07:06:55 pm

Be prepared to stay til the very end

GoTG vol 2 has FIVE post credit scenes.

Bet they're all Howard The Duck.

Mr Mingebag Squid · « **Reply #3078 on:** April 19, 2017, 01:26:22 pm »

Quote from: gazzalfc on April 18, 2017, 07:06:55 pm

Be prepared to stay til the very end

GoTG vol 2 has FIVE post credit scenes.

Calling it now, one of the scenes is them getting a "distress" call from the planet Hulk and Thor are on or being alerted to them being there, and they go to pick them up. One of the Thor post credit scenes will be the ship landing and Star Lord telling them they're off to kick Thanos' arse!

Groundskeeper Willie · « **Reply #3079 on:** April 19, 2017, 07:34:11 pm »

Watched the first season of Iron Fist. It was decent. I really liked Ward Meachum. The hero himself was a bit bland. But I'll watch season 2.