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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia You're commenting on a Marvel movie. You regularly contribute to the DCEU / Star Wars and Marvel threads. But
you're not a fantasy dudeWhat you are is in denial
Jesus, this is a thread full of pedants. I don't like fantasy as a genre in the old way it was understood - LOTR, Game of Thrones etc. Hard fantasy as a definition maybe?
But, I like stuff with a fantastical element like all that stuff you mentioned.
I like and dislike what I like and dislike. Apparently here's no rhyme or reason to do it. (Is that the saying or did I just make that up?)
So what about Marvel's Thor? You like Thor? Or is he too close to fantasy? He is basically a Boromir who gets off on a hammer.
And the Wizard dude, it is totaly a fantasy series - same as Star Wars, space fantasy. There is not too much popular so called ‘sci fi’ that isn’t actually fantasy. Almost all of it has mystical stuff, fantasy is awesome.
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@machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia You're commenting on a Marvel movie. You regularly contribute to the DCEU / Star Wars and Marvel threads. But
you're not a fantasy dudeWhat you are is in denial
Jesus, this is a thread full of pedants. I don't like fantasy as a genre in the old way it was understood - LOTR, Game of Thrones etc. Hard fantasy as a definition maybe?
But, I like stuff with a fantastical element like all that stuff you mentioned.
I like and dislike what I like and dislike. Apparently here's no rhyme or reason to do it. (Is that the saying or did I just make that up?)
So what about Marvel's Thor? You like Thor? Or is he too close to fantasy? He is basically a Boromir who gets off on a hammer.
And the Wizard dude, it is totaly a fantasy series - same as Star Wars, space fantasy. There is not too much popular so called ‘sci fi’ that isn’t actually fantasy. Almost all of it has mystical stuff, fantasy is awesome.
Bullshit. Star Wars is history and as learned academics discover more and more evidence that history is fleshed out. Occasionally (eg the sequel trilogy) some unconfirmed theories get through and get mistaken as real.
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Despite being an avid viewer of "arthouse films" with gratuitous sex and nudity, not to mention "sexual thrillers", I categorically take exception to any claim that I consume porn. That's for perverts.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
Despite being an avid viewer of "arthouse films" with gratuitous sex and nudity, not to mention "sexual thrillers", I categorically take exception to any claim that I consume porn. That's for perverts.
Yeah I don’t eat it either. Ugh, dirty porn eating perverts. I watch a fair bit though…
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@machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
Despite being an avid viewer of "arthouse films" with gratuitous sex and nudity, not to mention "sexual thrillers", I categorically take exception to any claim that I consume porn. That's for perverts.
Yeah I don’t eat it either. Ugh, dirty porn eating perverts. I watch a fair bit though…
Well I'd make a special effort to watch it but I don't like it.
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@jc said in Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia You're commenting on a Marvel movie. You regularly contribute to the DCEU / Star Wars and Marvel threads. But
you're not a fantasy dudeWhat you are is in denial
Jesus, this is a thread full of pedants. I don't like fantasy as a genre in the old way it was understood - LOTR, Game of Thrones etc. Hard fantasy as a definition maybe?
But, I like stuff with a fantastical element like all that stuff you mentioned.
I like and dislike what I like and dislike. Apparently here's no rhyme or reason to do it. (Is that the saying or did I just make that up?)
So what about Marvel's Thor? You like Thor? Or is he too close to fantasy? He is basically a Boromir who gets off on a hammer.
1 Enough of your bullshit. 2 He is a handsome, muscular man. 3 It's like a pirate had a baby with an angel.
1 back at you because
2 that describes Boromir (at least what he was supposed to be in the books and there were plenty of "Sean Bean is handsome" housewife fans) and being pulled off by a hammer is a paraphrase of what the Thor director said in character in the movie (and therefore now Marvel canon)
3 if a pirate had a baby with an angel you have basically described Adam Sandler's Little Nicky but with worse dentures. Pirates did not have the best of teeth. -
@nostrildamus Damn, I thought you'd get the Drax reference, but looks like it whooshed you.
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@jc clever. no I totally missed that, ironic really, as I think the Gunn movies are some of the best of the Marvel canon.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@jc clever. no I totally missed that, ironic really, as I think the Gunn movies are some of the best of the Marvel canon.
NB I will never forgive Stan Lee and co. for making Thor blond.i take it he's not supposed to be?
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@kiwiwomble before Marvel, red. Some say that was a Christian thing and in old Norse he had golden hair (or was that, gold hair but red beard?) Anyway, Lee and Co. apparently toyed with red hair, then chose blond.
Blond Thor: Stan Lee Wasn't Wrong
Students and scholars of Norse mythology often roll their eyes at the Marvel Comics version of Thor, with his clean-shaven chin, blond hair...
To be honest, I am more upset at their casting of Aquaman, Momoa is so clearly better suited to Namor especially in the character portrayed.
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@nostrildamus i think i always assumed it was a stereotypical scandinavian = blond kind of deal
isn't there some issue with the rights to namor? they'll never do him in the MCU surely, too similar to aquaman
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@kiwiwomble if I have not got this wrong, Aquaman is DC and Marvel is Namor but Aquaman/DC stole what I would have thought would be Namor's personality and a bit of his backstory but (and I won't search this but I think) Aquaman is old and predates Namor?
As you say Aquaman is out there so Marvel could get into trouble copying but Mavel's Namor is supposed to be the existential, brooding emo with identity issues character they had Momoa play, IMO. I just found Namor one of the more interesting characters.(I'm no expert, can get Marvel and DC and Sony mixed up now, I blame Spiderman reboots).
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Shadow In The Cloud
Mainly because I'm a BIG fan of Chloe Grace Moretz - more to the point, her lips.
Anyway...
Look this started out alright and then sort of fell into a mishmashed heap. What could have been some kind of scifi/fantasy driven with a linear, but solid plot, became a bit disjointed toward the end.
It was alright, because it was free.
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
Shadow In The Cloud
Mainly because I'm a BIG fan of Chloe Grace Moretz - more to the point, her lips.
Anyway...
Look this started out alright and then sort of fell into a mishmashed heap. What could have been some kind of scifi/fantasy driven with a linear, but solid plot, became a bit disjointed toward the end.
It was alright, because it was free.
ha ha I agree with the first part, started out ok as you said and if they had thought it through could have made it into a proper scifi/fanatsy thriller but instead should be worthy of a razzie, it was a steaming dumpster pile of turd for me even though I aso didnt pay for it . For me I felt like they should have paid me to watch it.
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@bayimports said in Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Movie review thread...:
Shadow In The Cloud
Mainly because I'm a BIG fan of Chloe Grace Moretz - more to the point, her lips.
Anyway...
Look this started out alright and then sort of fell into a mishmashed heap. What could have been some kind of scifi/fantasy driven with a linear, but solid plot, became a bit disjointed toward the end.
It was alright, because it was free.
ha ha I agree with the first part, started out ok as you said and if they had thought it through could have made it into a proper scifi/fanatsy thriller but instead should be worthy of a razzie, it was a steaming dumpster pile of turd for me even though I aso didnt pay for it . For me I felt like they should have paid me to watch it.
I was bored.
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Like if they'd made the contents of the box somehow directly related to the existence of the gremlin, that would have made more compelling viewing.
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
@bayimports said in Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Movie review thread...:
Shadow In The Cloud
Mainly because I'm a BIG fan of Chloe Grace Moretz - more to the point, her lips.
Anyway...
Look this started out alright and then sort of fell into a mishmashed heap. What could have been some kind of scifi/fantasy driven with a linear, but solid plot, became a bit disjointed toward the end.
It was alright, because it was free.
ha ha I agree with the first part, started out ok as you said and if they had thought it through could have made it into a proper scifi/fanatsy thriller but instead should be worthy of a razzie, it was a steaming dumpster pile of turd for me even though I aso didnt pay for it . For me I felt like they should have paid me to watch it.
I was bored.
Spoiler below in 10...
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Like if they'd made the contents of the box somehow directly related to the existence of the gremlin, that would have made more compelling viewing.
100% actually that would have been good. They could have even done the traditonal camera view from the gremlin approaching his/her victim with foreboding music as it attacks would have also added to the suspense..lots of missed opportunities!
