The movie is about Cultural identity and African Americans lack of it but somehow you cant find anything to break down in the characters. You havent had one genuine critique except that they shoulda established a relationship and had them be friends first. That demonstrates that the entire point of the movie goes way over your head. Oh well i tried
The MCU heroes are flawed just like the comics, the only things not grounded is the world they live in. And it's far from grounded in the comics. Wolverines wears a bright yellow and blue suite and the world is colofurll and full of crazy looking ****. Thor Ragnarok was the closes was have got to Jack Kirbys art brought to life. You want everything to stay true to the source material but you cherry pick stuff and ignore the vast majority . Most the heroes are in New York and not all given they're own made up city becuase Stan Lee built Marvel on interconnectedness and crossovers.
Ehhhh. If we are being real, I found Endgame too bloated to be resonate on any character. In the grand scheme of the MCU, if you followed it from the beginning, I could see how you would tie all those decade long feelings about Tony Stark back and find it that way. But in that film, it was just too big and relied on too much from prior films. In the end it was time travel hijinks and then a big dumb battle ending that had a main character sacraficing themselves. It would be different it was Tony centric and it was about some sort of reckoning for him. But they just never gave it enough behind Tony occassionally mentioning his need to preserve his family. Also not for nothing, even if you take it as a two parter with Infinity Wars. Also in the context of the MCU, we already saw Tony willing to be selfless for the world in the first Avengers. As far as I'm concerned the reason he survived there and died here had more to do with the actors willingness to stay in the role than an actual narratively driven initiative.
It's very different from Irishman where you had Frank (Deniro) and Hoffa (Pacino) fostering a friendship all film and then watching one man's hubris force the hand of another man's corrupt lifestyle into an action that would haunt him forever. Most of the film was in service to that moment. Or Marriage Story where the whole film was about the dissolving of a relationship coming into conflict with all the emotions they still felt for one another. Or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where the entire film built up to that ending but it's harder to explain without spoiling it.
Nah if we being real it stuck the landing. We follow popular culture enough to see what happens when things we love doesn't stick the landing. It is criticism proof in that aspect we have recently seen Game of Thrones and Star Wars endings and are audience walking away satisfied? I can name Lost, Sopranos, How I met your Mother,etc as well. It is ridiculous hard to have majority of people walk away happy with the ending with these pop culture monsters. You can sit down and over analyze after the fact and the flaws will pop up but accomplished its mission. The first time most people watch the ending(and they movie) they were happy with it. You can't talk about Irishman,Marriage Story or Once upon time ending in the same context however good they might be because they aren't carrying years of expectation of an large audience and they don't have satisfyingly close a franchise and close a movie at the same time.
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Return of the King won a bunch of awards even though it is generally considered to be the worst of the LOTR trilogy. It was representative of the whole project and not the individual movie.
The problem is, the LotR trilogy were all worked on by the same people, more or less. Which isn't true for the MCU. With exception to actor nominations, you can't really give an award out to the creative people involved in the project because they lean so heavily on other peoples work. Like the costumes, didn't at least some (if not most) of them appear in different movies before Infinty War/Endgame?
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I liked Endgame, but it's not award worthy. It was bloated, convoluted and about as far from a tight film that you could possibly have. And it committed the worst sin that a movie can have, IMO, it devolved into a scavenger hunt film. Most of the second act was built around finding MacGuffins, which to me is so lazy. It's so highly regarded because it generally stuck the landing for so many fans of the MCU (myself included), but so much of its good will comes from 21 previously released movies. Endgame has to do very little to create interesting and likable characters or build stakes and tension because previous films do that for it. Marriage Story, The Irishman, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood don't have those crutches.
Really? Didn't think any of them were that bad. (I mean, I got that the Oscars it got were for the whole trilogy, but I thought it was good enough that the nominations felt "deserved," if that makes any sense.)
Dunno, I've seen the MCU have its ups and downs, even if the quality level has been pretty darn consistent since mid-Phase Two. I don't frankly believe anyone who says that its a flawless series (or anyone who claims that's what that fanbase believes).
Can't speak for Game of Thrones fans, since I never watched the show or anything (although the "backlash" over the finale really did not endear me to them, given how petulant it all came across). I am a Star Wars fan and can assure you that that fandom is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Not so much "standards" as entitlement and the willingness to whine and moan when they're not pandered to. (Look up the "Fandom Menace" sometime if you want to see what toxic fandom is.)
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
Is it? I thought most people felt Return of the King was the best one.Originally Posted by Pinsir;4790718[B
I still remember the bat **** crazy good word of mouth when the film opened in 03'.
I don't think there's a real consensus as to the best of the three LotR movies. I think most people who like the trilogy hold all three in pretty high regard. Without a scientific poll, it always seemed to me that Fellowship was generally spoken of as the favorite. But again, I don't think there's real consensus.
Yeah, I think I like the first one the best, but I think the other two might be better made, if that makes any sense.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
True.
Theres no consensus on the best LoTR movie. I think RoTK is fresher in my memory than the others.