Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread

[Devildoc]

Saw Downton Abbey last night. Very much enjoyed it.

 

[Gunz]

This looks entertaining.

Explosions, automatic weapons, Black Sabbath...what's not to like?

 

[Gunz]

Saw Downton Abbey last night. Very much enjoyed it.

I like British television. I like British movies, generally. They can still write intelligent scripts and their actors can act rings around most of ours. My wife is a Downton Abbey fan. I haven't boarded the bus yet but may.

We were watching "Around the World in 80 Days" (the David Tennant version) but we never finished it. We're kind of getting turned off by the trend of each and every production having to address racism. I'm not a racist. I don't need the message every time I turn on the TV.

 

[AWP]

This looks entertaining.

A movie about SEALs? That's so fucking cool! I haven't seen one of those since like breakfast or something. No, that was the local weather report. Hard to keep track of all their sightings. "...high's in the upper 80's with sunset around 8:38PM. Quarter moon, low visibility for you boaters and SDV drivers out there."

Props to the screenwriters for including hatchets. Art imitates life yet again?

 

[Grunt]

I like British television. I like British movies, generally. They can still write intelligent scripts and their actors can act rings around most of ours. My wife is a Downton Abbey fan. I haven't boarded the bus yet but may.

We were watching "Around the World in 80 Days" (the David Tennant version) but we never finished it. We're kind of getting turned off by the trend of each and every production having to address racism. I'm not a racist. I don't need the message every time I turn on the TV.

The wife and I have binged the entire Downton Abbey series a time or two and will again. We love the series.

I spend a lot of time on British movies and different series. They continue to have great plot lines that I find missing in a lot of “our” movies.

 

[RackMaster]

A movie about SEALs? That's so fucking cool! I haven't seen one of those since like breakfast or something. No, that was the local weather report. Hard to keep track of it all their sightings. "...high's in the upper 80's with sunset around 8:38PM. Quarter moon, low visibility for you boaters and SDV drivers out there."

Props to the screenwriters for including hatchets. Art imitates life yet again?

That's why I said entertaining. It'll be good to kill time but I doubt it's an award winner.

 

[MIkeH92467]

I follow Ward Carroll on YouTube. He is a retired F-14 RIO and author, has worked for Naval Institute. He's pretty critical of military aviation movies (I think he has three vids on what's wrong/bad about Topgun). He saw this movie in NYC and said there are an equal amount of cringe-worthy moments, but it's the best military aviation movie, ever, with the best aerial cinematography.

I'm in.

But first I have to get past Downton Abby this Friday.

Could be worse. I'm a ninjutsu instructor...

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

Just finished the new Doctor Strange this evening. Was honestly pretty disappointed overall. The plot felt very forced and the pacing was all over the place in my opinion. And Wanda's character arc was fucked up from start to finish. Without getting into spoilers, I generally hated what they did to her, and felt the ending was too deus ex machina. Overall 6/10.

We will see if that changes after I sleep on it.

 

[Devildoc]

Just finished the new Doctor Strange this evening. Was honestly pretty disappointed overall. The plot felt very forced and the pacing was all over the place in my opinion. And Wanda's character arc was fucked up from start to finish. Without getting into spoilers, I generally hated what they did to her, and felt the ending was too deus ex machina. Overall 6/10.

We will see if that changes after I sleep on it.

I agree about being disappointed. I thought it neither great nor awful, just...OK. Better than The Eternals and a couple other Marvel flicks, but wholly less than the Ironman/Avengers/Thor franchises.

I didn't mind the Wanda storyline, though.

I do wish they had tied into Wandavision more, and touched on Loki.

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

I didn't mind the Wanda storyline, though.

I've always been a fan of Wanda (and Elizabeth Olsen, side bar, I think she is hotter than Scarlett Johansson) and her arc went from grieving mother to interdimensional murderer without a glance. It just felt too forced for me. Was a fun enough movie that I don't feel like I wasted my time but like you said, wasn't nearly on the level as a lot of the other character series.

Granted though, I've been becoming less and less interested in Marvel since Endgame. I think I've hit Marvel fatigue. Most of the stuff they've pumped out since this new phase is ok at best.

 

[Devildoc]

I've always been a fan of Wanda (and Elizabeth Olsen, side bar, I think she is hotter than Scarlett Johansson) and her arc went from grieving mother to interdimensional murderer without a glance. It just felt too forced for me. Was a fun enough movie that I don't feel like I wasted my time but like you said, wasn't nearly on the level as a lot of the other character series.

Granted though, I've been becoming less and less interested in Marvel since Endgame. I think I've hit Marvel fatigue. Most of they stuff they've pumped out since this new phase is ok at best.

Of the franchises, Dr Strange has been 'meh' for me. I really like Thor and Ironman. So I thought it was an okay movie, but I have been just as happy to have seen it streamed in a few months.

I agree regarding Elizabeth Olsen being hotter looking than Scarlett J).

 

[Blizzard]

Granted though, I've been becoming less and less interested in Marvel since Endgame. I think I've hit Marvel fatigue. Most of they stuff they've pumped out since this new phase is ok at best.

I'm with you on the Marvel fatigue. The MCU franchise is being diluted. It reached it's pinnacle with Infinity War and should've concluded with Endgame.

Instead of continuing to ride the coat tails and flooding us with tired, mediocre, half-baked stories, studios should spend that energy of developing a new successful franchise...or just some quality stand alone material.

 

[RackMaster]

I think Marvel is just in cleanup mode, post pandemic. Dr Strange was originally supposed to be released before Spider-Man No Way Home. Just dealing between Sony and Disney, then the whole pandemic; has fucked up all major franchise's. I enjoyed the latest Dr Strange, I have to look at them independently and connect the dots to the rest of the franchise separately.

 

[AWP]

The MCU has a few flaws, internal and external. There's a certain amount of saturation given that we used to have 2-3 movies a year? With Endgame, Downey's "death", no Captain America, no Black Widow (and whoever else is gone) material for the storyline plus Wakanda living forever, but not Boseman, that's slowed things down.

Roll your eyes, but societal changes have screwed with things. I have the impression that Feige's carefully crafted narrative found itself contending with MeToo and other "SJW" causes or whatever. Forcing "girl power", anti-colonial Black nationalism, and whatever else into scripts changed the tone of some movies IMO. It may have even changed a plot or two, nothing would surprise me.

The movies are also out of order or took WAAAAYYYYYY to long to make, produce, and release. The Black Widow movie was about 5 years too late, maybe more. The unknown virus of unknown origin as mentioned above trashed shooting and release timelines, which slowed the release of new movies. You have beloved characters gone with the round 2 characters coming a bit too far behind to take advantage of the momentum. Some stories are streaming only, but the movies build off of those streaming-only moments... They have given themselves a self-perpetuating cycle of mediocrity even with the unknown virus of unknown origin behind us...wait, MONKEYpox? For fucking real? Anyway...

A saturated market, popular characters gone, new characters are unknown and suddenly thrown into the fray, missed timelines, society having an ADHD "squirrel" moment...of course the MCU is looking rough right now.

Still better than DC's 32 Batmen, 21 Jokers, whateverthefuck happened to Harley Quinn, the Suicide Squads, eleventy5 trivial superhero characters dumped into a movie (Sharkman or something? LOL, wut), ensemble casts with absolutely no backstory, the Flash in jail, Heard in court, and Wonder Woman 1984's "whattheshit" plotholes.

But if you can get ScarJo and Gal into a kiddie pool full of Jello, holla' at ya' boy. That's the superhero crossover we deserve. Throw in special guest referee Scarlet Witch and I'll forget about the Loki series.

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

The MCU has a few flaws, internal and external. There's a certain amount of saturation given that we used to have 2-3 movies a year? With Endgame, Downey's "death", no Captain America, no Black Widow (and whoever else is gone) material for the storyline plus Wakanda living forever, but not Boseman, that's slowed things down.

Roll your eyes, but societal changes have screwed with things. I have the impression that Feige's carefully crafted narrative found itself contending with MeToo and other "SJW" causes or whatever. Forcing "girl power", anti-colonial Black nationalism, and whatever else into scripts changed the tone of some movies IMO. It may have even changed a plot or two, nothing would surprise me.

The movies are also out of order or took WAAAAYYYYYY to long to make, produce, and release. The Black Widow movie was about 5 years too late, maybe more. The unknown virus of unknown origin as mentioned above trashed shooting and release timelines, which slowed the release of new movies. You have beloved characters gone with the round 2 characters coming a bit too far behind to take advantage of the momentum. Some stories are streaming only, but the movies build off of those streaming-only moments... They have given themselves a self-perpetuating cycle of mediocrity even with the unknown virus of unknown origin behind us...wait, MONKEYpox? For fucking real? Anyway...

A saturated market, popular characters gone, new characters are unknown and suddenly thrown into the fray, missed timelines, society having an ADHD "squirrel" moment...of course the MCU is looking rough right now.

Still better than DC's 32 Batmen, 21 Jokers, whateverthefuck happened to Harley Quinn, the Suicide Squads, eleventy5 trivial superhero characters dumped into a movie (Sharkman or something? LOL, wut), ensemble casts with absolutely no backstory, the Flash in jail, Heard in court, and Wonder Woman 1984's "whattheshit" plotholes.

But if you can get ScarJo and Gal into a kiddie pool full of Jello, holla' at ya' boy. That's the superhero crossover we deserve. Throw in special guest referee Scarlet Witch and I'll forget about the Loki series.

We really gotta get a better "love" emoji. Absolutely nailed it with this!

While the new stuff isn't the best, comparatively to the dogshit that Hollywood is pushing out in most of their movies, Marvel is still killing the game.

 

[Bypass]

Me and my Dad watched Northman together. We were unimpressed. When dude kissed his Mom we about turned it off. I honestly don't have one good thing to say about the entire movie.

 

[Devildoc]

The MCU has a few flaws, internal and external. There's a certain amount of saturation given that we used to have 2-3 movies a year? With Endgame, Downey's "death", no Captain America, no Black Widow (and whoever else is gone) material for the storyline plus Wakanda living forever, but not Boseman, that's slowed things down.

Roll your eyes, but societal changes have screwed with things. I have the impression that Feige's carefully crafted narrative found itself contending with MeToo and other "SJW" causes or whatever. Forcing "girl power", anti-colonial Black nationalism, and whatever else into scripts changed the tone of some movies IMO. It may have even changed a plot or two, nothing would surprise me.

The movies are also out of order or took WAAAAYYYYYY to long to make, produce, and release. The Black Widow movie was about 5 years too late, maybe more. The unknown virus of unknown origin as mentioned above trashed shooting and release timelines, which slowed the release of new movies. You have beloved characters gone with the round 2 characters coming a bit too far behind to take advantage of the momentum. Some stories are streaming only, but the movies build off of those streaming-only moments... They have given themselves a self-perpetuating cycle of mediocrity even with the unknown virus of unknown origin behind us...wait, MONKEYpox? For fucking real? Anyway...

A saturated market, popular characters gone, new characters are unknown and suddenly thrown into the fray, missed timelines, society having an ADHD "squirrel" moment...of course the MCU is looking rough right now.

Still better than DC's 32 Batmen, 21 Jokers, whateverthefuck happened to Harley Quinn, the Suicide Squads, eleventy5 trivial superhero characters dumped into a movie (Sharkman or something? LOL, wut), ensemble casts with absolutely no backstory, the Flash in jail, Heard in court, and Wonder Woman 1984's "whattheshit" plotholes.

But if you can get ScarJo and Gal into a kiddie pool full of Jello, holla' at ya' boy. That's the superhero crossover we deserve. Throw in special guest referee Scarlet Witch and I'll forget about the Loki series.

Apparently the SJW/MeToo/BLM/LGBQT garbage is pretty well infused into the comic books (graphic novels, whatever they want to be called these days), so trying to walk that line between Marvel and movie, I guess.

My 17 year-old son said this about the latest Dr. Strange movie: "I went in looking for sorcery and magic and I got space gays."

 

[RackMaster]

Best way to end discrimination is through more discrimination. lol

 

[Gunz]

Very good Jackie Chan movie on Netflix called The Foreigner. It was directed by Martin Campbell (who did Casino Royale) and stars Pierce Brosnan as a former IRA gunman-turned-crooked politician. Intelligent and intricate plot, great action sequences. If you haven't seen it yet it's worth your time.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Watched Memory and loved it. There Isn't a Liam Neeson film I won't watch and this one didnt let me down. It could be called "Taken 16".

Monica Bellucci didnt age well though. Lol