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It really was. Watched recently. This movie was "Spider-Memberberries". Plot was a complete contrivance to bring back all the old cast. It was just another well-crafted nostalgia trip ala SW:TFW. A movie whose premise is "hey, 'member these other movies?".
Credit where credit's due, though, I guess, Disney still can still make a schlocky movie that the lumpen-moviegoers will fork over good money to watch. I'm more disappointed in them than Disney at this point, honestly.
If you don't see how I inferred that, I suggest it's you that needs a literacy refresher.
Nationalists of any ethnicity can, and do, hold such a position, and it's not unreasonable.
And I've been here far longer than you, going by your post history. I just don't spend as much effort arguing with idiots.
Races shouldn't be allowed homelands? Careful with the anti-semitism, there.
I'm happy to see it garnered enough of a fandom to have that many movies. I remember seeing the movie's box on rental store shelves for years as a kid (parents would never let me watch it of course), and had always been curious so a friend and I watched all seven recently.
They're awesome goofy monster movies -- it reminded me of the Sharknado movies and I was kind of amazed another such long running movie series started so much earlier.
Opinions vary on the sequels but I think they're all at least worth a watch. IMO the first 3 are the best, 4 is a fun creative twist, and 7 is a good send off to the series.
Not at all comfortable. People want to live like first worlders but breed like third worlders and it's simply unsustainable.
Either the first world takes it upon itself to forcibly apply baby-making brakes to the rest of the world, or, the third world overruns and eats the first world and lowers all our life expectancies back to a dark-age equilibrium. :-/
The Trinity thing was from rumors / trailer analyses, not the trailer itself, my error.
Anyway, replacing the male main character with a woman. That's how.
Enjoy. A friend and I recently marathonned them too. I'd never seen any except part of the first one.
They're awesome action movies and most of them, excellent dramas also. With 2 and 3 you can kind of tell they were steering it toward more campy action but 4 and 5 are much more serious.
It's an overall tragic hero tale of an elite Vietnam veteran with PTSD born of a war the US government wouldn't let its soldiers win. I had an uncle who was a veteran of the same war and it hit home what he and his brethren went through.
Yep. About all that needs to be said. From what we've seen so far this looks to be yet another nostalgia bait, cash grab, woke(r) recontextualization of a franchise made good by a previous, better movie.
The trailer makes it look like most likely just a retelling of the first movie, only with, surprise, Trinity replacing Neo.
Think I'll be passing just like on Terminator 6 etc. I wish everyone would stop supporting this crap so Hollywood would stop making it already.
While it might make sense in the movies' mythos, it would be really hard to believe that such a change didn't come at the behest of the directors' politics and/or hollywood Woke Stasi.
I enjoyed the original movies as a teenager because they were good sci-fi (basically a stylish cyberpunk "I, Robot" if you ignore the humans as batteries BS), and good action with groundbreaking special effects at the time.
I'd always viewed the depiction of the architect and agents in particular as more "oppressive government bad" and not "whites bad", but it's a little harder to enjoy the movies now that I'm more aware of the messaging the directors really intended.
Not too keen on the animation either - the style is more reminiscent of something like Clone Wars or Overwatch - but it is nice to see He-Man may be the star of his own damn show again. This might be worth following.
I think he was mentally ill, but not a predator.
I still like his music and don't want him, or anyone, "cancelled".
I have and I've very much enjoyed some of their recent movies, matter of fact.
Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Henry Cavill's Superman (minus BvS).
I'd say they're a great fit for people who love comics and who have low enough ADD they don't need a joke every 5 seconds. ;)
I disagree that it worked beautifully in Thor. The first two movies were fun high fantasy that took themselves mostly seriously. The MCU already had titles that were saturated with meta-humor.
IMO the only "dark" he's good at is dark comedy, which is mostly what his other movies I'm familiar with are. Jojo Rabbit was a good movie but not a serious one. Mostly dark humor.
Disney has already MCU-ified Star Wars with perfect superheroines and constant forced jokes. It of course doesn't need to be completely serious but it could stand to be rebalanced toward more of it, not less.
I feel the same. I see it as a best worst case scenario.
I wish our culture could be reclaimed, but it may be too far gone. I was raised Christian but sadly would be hesitant to raise children the same now, being a shrinking demographic vilified by those in power. Most people I know have given it up already. I feel as if carrying a torch with no one to pass it to.
History repeats and only tends to move forward, not backward. As Christianity once took over post-Roman Europe, I wonder if Islam will do the same to post-collapse America. The idea of converting has been crossing my mind. But the religion still clings to a lot of superstition. If it does end up taking over I hope it can evolve into something that keeps the important aspects of cultural conservatism but accepts changes based on scientific evidence (let's maybe not all put our mouths on a statue during a pandemic etc).
It did; the game was essentially Ghostbusters 3 in spirit.
It's a great game, besides; I'd definitely recommend it for Ghostbusters fans.
It does not, but according to IMDB it was planned to be how Robotnik got his coffee in that one scene. They went with the assistant bringing it to him instead.
I'd bet this is the major reason critics are dumping on it -- on its own, I'm sure they'd just write it off as a fair-to-good video game movie for kids, but but *gamers* and it's outperforming their latest pitcher of woke kool-aid.
Not quite destroyed yet but on its way. Sonic's raced past Harley in the US but still has about 20-30M to go worldwide. Harley had a week head start however.
Make a fun movie that gives fans what they want, and succeed at the box office! Crazy, right?
I'm just thankful we still live in a time (for now) where we're allowed to *not* pay to see preachy movies "not meant for us" without being imprisoned.
Ha, I've thought about this too. My guesses are:
- the portal gun doesn't have coordinates to everywhere so physical travel is still needed, especially to unknown places where he might portal right into something deadly;
- sometimes he needs the extra utility of the car (cloner in the trunk in case of death etc);
- or maybe he just likes driving sometimes for leisure. :)
Good question! For a movie being marketed on its wokeness it's not getting those darn white males angry enough to get it the level of exposure of CM and others, hah. But seriously, I think it's just not as well-steeped in controversy, and Harley is not as popular.
CM had Larson's racist, sexist commentary going for it, and the debate over the movie being shoehorned into the MCU in time for Endgame to push its agenda when directors of the previous Avengers movies didn't want the character. And Harley just seems less well known to me so I doubt people are expecting a much different narrative that what it'll deliver. Admittedly I'm not a comic book aficionado but she's just Joker's sidekick/girlfriend and a literal clown, not a criminal mastermind.