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Yep its bad, Avatar 2 isn't really about Avatars anymore. The one cool concept got abandoned quickly in favour of the worst cowboys and Indians nonsense I have seen in a long time.
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I believe the film is a modern take on vampires. They're not vampires per se, but the author ran with some of the themes and applied it within the context of cannibalism.
- It's genetic/born with it. As we see the young girl unable to help herself, her mother before her etc.
- So there is a 'them and us' thing (Eaters or Normals), similar to vampires vs humans (monsters preying/feeding because they have to/feel compelled).
- There could be a degree of 'inducing trances'/hypnosis/putting people under the spell (such as easily persuading the fairground guy), but this is speculation on my part, its just the way it was filmed/close up of eyes etc which leads to to thinking this.
- Heightened senses, smell. A little like vampires having heightened or enhanced abilities.
So yeh, its a folklore thing made modern fable but with grit and realism rather than giving too much special attention to (the folklore). Really it is a romance film, love vs monsters etc. I quite enjoyed it.
It is truly awful lol, I couldn't stop watching it ahha
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Gotcha, but they also look exactly the same as the ones she conjured up :S
*injects a huge amount of suspended belief...
Ok... so I guess I missed the point that there's another universe where her kids are real and not still conjured up and Wandavision world still in action (despite the kids looking the same as her made up ones.. woah... what a coincidence!) :D
I guess the fact that the kids are the EXACT same as the ones she lost (conjured up) in Wandavision threw me off, it felt like she was trying to get back to Wandavision illusion again, in some other universe and I just thought 'but you're the scarlet witch... just make them here again? Why go to all the (destructive) trouble?'
Unless... she actually DOES value real life kids more than conjured up ones, which makes her flippant sarcastic comment make even less sense... (and yes I understood what she meant by it at the time, life is a miracle bla bla, little bundles of magic lol etc etc).
But even if she does have real kids in another universe and wants to be with them, I think if she truly felt like there was no difference to conjuring up the babies via magic vs 1v1 hip bumping (with vision etc) then she could just create them again in her own universe, I didn't quite see the connection between having to seek out the multiverse and get to another world to solve her pain, she's the friggin Scarlet Witch! She can literally change reality. Or... she's also totally hot, get a boyfriend and make some real babies this time...
I dunno... I felt as though for her to suffer so badly from her illusion grief was a little weird, it felt like it undid some of the closure of Wandavision.
It wasn't a bad movie, I think perhaps it lacked emphasis on the evil book thing making her mad, evil and corrupted. Yes I'm a parent, and if my kids would unfortunately die it doesn't mean I'd have it in me to go on a killing spree for a guaranteed reunion. Good Wanda would probably not have done this either, it's because she was evil, not that it's a rational justification for any grieving parent... jesus...
But that's the point, they are not bad films!, Joker in fact was excellent, but they are now completely unrelated?!! wtf... that's the POINT. It's a mess because DC is running what... another two Gotham universes side by side? :/
Are we now to expect ANOTHER NEW BATMAN to tie into the Joker film?! Or... was that a one off? Seems like it now... bizarre, and it wouldn't be so bizarre if not for the fact that DC seem unable to progress at all with anything, its reboot after reboot. Right now DC is like Jane Eyre, "let's do ANOTHER adaptation! YAY!"
Here we go...
Enough defending DC. Marvel have done something no studio has ever done, what they have pulled off since Ironman has been nothing short of cinematic history. The complex aspects of doing something like this is mind blowing and so of course they have had some hurdles in the way, but even then they have done a tremendous effort on pulling things together (like this recent Spiderman flick which attempts to tie in nicely the Toby and Andrew sagas), and I believe the legal ties for X-men are coming to an end with Xavier being featured in soon to release movies.
DC on the other hand, a hot mess of reboots after reboots without any of the complexities that Marvel had to endure. I love DC comics as much as the next but Marvel just translates so much better and easier to the screen than DC. DC is tougher and they have had less talent and vision behind the wheel.
But anyway, I'm not even talking about Marvel, I'm simply saying for DC to release a Joker film and Batman (both reboots) in such close succession to one another but to have them unrelated is just bizarre af imo. I am sure I was not the only one thinking at the end of the film a 'wtf... it's another NEW Joker?!?! How many are they going to do?!'.
No foresight or cooperation at all. Missed opportunities again!
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Joker
That's it, that's all that DC have done that is good (and very good at that) since 2005.
And as it is now its just isolated flicks, no follow-ons, dead end films.
Haha yeah this was bad. I too much like you gave it a go due to being a huge fan of the original DooM (finished all three episodes on Nightmare as a kid!!).
Everything you've said was spot on, I was already worried 20mins in when they spent a lot of time on the chick... I was thinking "Oh no... they're not gonna actually do a 'Doom guy' are they? It's gonna be her!" and then I would see the Captain with the sawn off, and the aussie guy who LOOKED like DooM guy (but his accent, script and acting did not work...) I realised it was all over before it began haha.
Thing is... I actually think DooM could be done really really well as a film. It just needs to be handled properly, something along the lines of a Rodgriguez/Tarantino's 'From Dusk Till Dawn' style, 1hr15mins of sensible character plot/building stuff with just a 20-30mins of absolute wtf genre changing gorefest splatter fest from the only survivor DooM guy etc. It would at least set a precedence that these kinda computer game films could really be done well if properly handled. I hope Half Life is one day made into a proper film with big names attached to it.
Sigh.. such a shame.
Yeah will be interesting to see where they go from here. Even if they fail they done good by me. From Iron Man 1 to this, not bad at all, no easy feat imo. I mean it's like a tv show, sure there were 'filler' films but on the whole they orchestrated what would had to of been (logistically, financially and legally) a nightmare to do.
Some folk can't stand 'the end' and want certain characters to live on indefinitely, but I think they doing it right by axing off people.
Yup.
Ok, Thanos wins, 50% dead, how do they fix this without TT? Curious to know...
Amen.
Hence why ending a linage and starting new ones with a continuation is probably a better (financial) course of action rather than constant reboots <cough *Sony* cough>.
Well... so what... more reboots. CE wants to leave so now we have to find an alternative Steve Rogers?... ew... nah... I think they are doing the right thing, just not sure about Sam is all.
I had strong suspicions they would use TT as a way to fix all this, and that's a problem in itself. My main concern is it would be rushed, and it was kinda. If they split this movie into two parts and handles the TT stuff better, it could have been good. But we had a few loopholes that are a bit hard to ignore because 3hr runtime is enough basically.
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Um maybe you're looking a bit too much into it? I don't mind a 'girl power' moment, it doesn't tick me off... why does it tick you off? Male superhero no one batters an eye, female superhero... "now wait just a minute here!"
I think they are changing stuff because actors want OUT, they want their lives back and focus on other movies where they can flex their acting skills differently without being constrained to precontractual agreements.
Sam is a weird choice for Cap A, not because he's black, but just because he's not supped up. Storywise I know very little about him, which is why I said they will need to work hard on giving us a good origins or better understanding of who Sam is.
All good things come to an end. We just can't have RD and CE as these hereoes indefinitely, I think you struggle with that concept, and because we need to get others to fill in the shoes/suit/shield all of a sudden it's because of gender and identity politics? Really?! :/
But then that would be two new black heroes and you know everyone couldn't handle that... :/