I’m not the biggest comic book reader, but I did prefer DC over Marvel because the stories ended every now and then. There are some very memorable self-contained stories. And then they mulligan and reboot Batman or whatever, but at least there were occasional conclusions and it wasn’t just an ongoing soap forever and ever and ever. Marvel had prompts within the story to refer to issue #blablabla of maybe the same series or some adjacent series. No.
I’m trying to remember if Marvel likes the US military. Aren’t they always turning out to be secretly controlled by HYDRA or something? I also seem to recall that Iron Man decided he couldn’t trust them with weapons and invented his suit so that he could do all of his killing personally.
Early on up until the first Avengers they were, but that movie strained the relationship due to how much the DoD wanted to meddle in the production. They didn’t like the helicarriers due to realism, for example. And you can see shit like F-35’s on the flight deck, national guard doing their thing during the invasion, Captain America straight up using an M4, things like that.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
I don’t want to watch anything for three hours TBH. 95 minutes is the optimal run time for a film. FITE ME.
I make an exception for LotR extended.
I’d rather hammer nails through my dick!
Then do so to curtail the spread of your heresy to future generations.
Yeah, my brain has been rotted by short form media too.
This seems like a good time to mention that fucking Casablanca has a running time of 102 minutes. For most of the history of Hollywood 100-120 minute running times have been the norm.
Gigantic runtimes are a feature of depression era economics, the 1930s and now.
Marvel haters on their way to pick a random negative viewpoint and assign it to the movies regardless of whether it applies
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine were good. Nothing since then has looked interesting.
I found Deadpool & Wolverene supremely painful. Matter of taste I suppose. Haven’t seen any other dress-up movies in a while.
Haven’t seen any other dress-up movies in a while.
Isn’t every movie a dress-up movie?
Maybe not certain porn.
Technically, I guess that’s true.
What did you find painful about it? While I dont think it was historic level cinema, I fid find it entertaining.
Not OP but personally the plot was a monumental example of wasted potential with regards to the plot. The villain’s motivations being the poorest.
Even then, fight scenes between basically immortal self-healing characters are a snoozefest. Add that to the imo hit-but-mostly-miss humour and you’re just waiting for the credits to roll really.
I honestly think I’d rather watch Eternals, and that was pretty bad too.
I mean… The fight between Deadpool and Wolverine was basically just a giant sex scene.
There is a significant difference between something being entertaining to watch in the moment, and it being good.
I watched D&W in theaters with my boyfriend. Had a deadpool themed margarita. Had an excellent time, highly recommend.
Hours after leaving the theater, I started actually thinking about the movie. The more I thought about it the more I decided that it actually wasn’t very good. At the time, I had a detailed list of complaints. I’ve forgotten the details since then.
The broad strokes though, it’s insulting.
D&W actively disregards and insults established MCU canon. They had a chance to expand the lore, instead they shat on it.
The best moments in the movie could be described as “HEY! HERE’S THAT THING YOU LIKE!!! YOU LIKE THIS RIGHT?!?! LIKE THIS!!!” Which is the most disrespectful kind of reference you can do, as it’s insulting to the media and even more so to the audience.
Ryan Renolds has a writing credit for this movie, and he has demonstrated that he fundamentally does not understand the metaphysics of marvel comics. Therefore, his commentary on the state of the MCU can fuck off. Sure, the later MCU movies had a lot of problems, but I can tell that myself, I have the power of media literacy on my side, so I can tell when the pot is calling the kettle black.
If I were willing to actually put effort into it, I could come up with actual examples to go with my complaints, but I don’t feel like watching the movie again any time soon.
If Deadpool wasn’t shitting on canon, it wouldn’t be Deadpool.
Did you like the first 2 Deadpool movies? If so, what was worse about this one?
It was lazy, it just did the same as before without adding anything new. It felt like watching the first one on repeat, sped up.
Huh, I think that just wrong. The character of Deadpool is still him, which would be strange to change, but I think alot of it was unexplored before and an interesting contribution to the Loki storyverse. Also Hugh Jackman did a great job reprising the role of wolverine.
Deadpool is a meta character, but despite that (or because of it?) I think it’s a fresh take on the state of the MCU each time, taking pot shots at the existing formula from within it.
Different person. But I thought the first two were genuinely good movies.
The third felt like an excuse for cameos and jokes. It was entertaining, but not necessarily good.
Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four were both really good. Actually, I thought Ironheart was really good too.
It really feels like every other movie since Endgame has been really good or really bad.
Ant-Man 3, The Marvels, and Captain America 4 were various degrees of not good.
Echo and Secret Invasion weren’t good either (actually, I think overall the shows have had a better track record overall).
Fantastic Four is good? I’ll have to see it at some point, then. Those poor characters have never managed to be in a good movie before now, so I kinda forgot there was a new MCU one.
It’s pretty much the perfect Fantastic Four movie. They’re actually characters in this one instead of caricatures of their main personality traits.
And it’s lighter on action and heavier on the story. Without giving away too much, it feels a lot more appropriate for the characters.
With Ironheart, the show is okay, but there’s just no way to make the main character work. Unless they transition the character to be a villain.
It’s high time we reintroduce the intermission… in the third dimension.
I saw Interstellar in a classy New Zealand theater that gave creatively-cooked meals during an intermission. I feel like that would be a well-appreciated change of pace for a lot of people.
Did they just serve 5 types of corn-based foods, y’know, for immersion?
Every movie will be ai slop soon enough anyway. Better not to watch it.
Nerds screeching about marvel is the new /r/athiesm
They really don’t like it when you don’t swoon over the latest new hot trending macguffin.
Grogu is a MacGuffin, not an actual character.
Fight me.
You’re right, but I can still fight you if you want, say we meet at the park near sundown?
I’ll even let you get the first hit in, I’ll be walking around, and you can just run up and punch me.
Perfect, that is so fair. Please do not tell me which park or how to recognize you. It wouldn’t be sporting otherwise!
Cool post, uncool instance
block it
But then who would downvote all of the tankies?
tbf, you’re on .world
100% intentionally
I’m not surprised
Whoa, a neoliberal opinion no one asked for from piefed.world- that’s expected
I’m so glad we swapped out sub participation bans for instance racism
Cry fucking harder. You people will bitch about anything.
Found the Marvel fan!
Is it Spider-Men or Spider-Mans?
We’re trying to be inclusive here, it’s spider-people.
Spider-Mans. Spider-Man is a proper noun so you generally don’t change it and just as pluralization to the end
The last one I tried was Thor: love and thunder. I went out of the cinema 25 minutes in, didn’t get my money back. That movie was filled with forced jokes that made no sense.
That was like the worst one lmao
