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Hah. At this point, why not?
He and force ghost Han could argue over who shot first, then proceed trying to shoot each other in vain. :)
Definitely. I think that's the best "fixed" version of the ones in the OP.
But holy buckets, I still can't believe how bad they screwed up poor Sonic in this. That is the textbook definition of <i>off model.</i> If they succeed in making him look like the above link the movie may have a chance. Though I'm afraid Carrey as Eggman will still suck.
And yet some of those are likely among the top 10 reasons people <i>like</i> the movies. :)
Indeed. Sad but true.
Yes, TLJ made a lot of money. It also made a lot *less* money than TFA, had the biggest 2nd week drop of any Star Wars movie, and contributed to Solo flopping - the first time any SW movie did so.
Disney had no vision for the franchise other than "milk" and it's shown.
I think that article you found sums how I'd reply to this. Iron Man is a lot like CM personality wise, sure, but I don't recall any of his victories coming easily and he was clearly often conflicted.
I like that the article mentions Superman being one of the best fitting Gary Stus because it reminds me of how Man of Steel is my favorite Superman film - it's about the challenges he has to overcome before basically becoming god on earth. Fitting in growing up, his father's death, Zod who shows back up and quickly becomes his equal in power, etc.
And good point about Sarah Connor; you could say she was stronger in a way in T1, unprepared and terrified but confronting the machine anyway.
I guess a good summation of the article and argument is you can't validate a poorly written female character just by making her "strong".
I discovered this movie recently and was pleasantly surprised. Definitely underrated.
Low budget, campy, and overly long trippy segments seemingly for their own sake, yes. But also pretty mind blowing, story wise, with some good twists by the end when it all came together. (I'm sure its creators took a few mind blowing substances while making it, too, heh.)
It also aged well by avoiding the scifi trap of going into much detail on how the tech works. There's a bit of BS about EM waves and crystals near the end but the rest is pretty relatable even to our present tech. Smart rings!
And its contrarian (for its time) sociopolitical message resonates pretty well in our current political climate.
Nice, I felt the same about Jyn and Rogue One. The last good SW movie, IMO.
Not sure I follow or agree with your 2nd statement. But yeah, if this movie were gender swapped? Captain Marvel becomes a misogynist incel and the whole movie gets decried as "male power fantasy" and hate speech. I've not heard anyone suggest there'd be no difference. To me that's why this movie, and so much Hollywood narrative today, comes off not as equality but just plain male bashing.
There are strong female characters like Ripley in Aliens or Sarah Connor in T2, and there are "strong female characters" aka Mary Sues like sokar described. I'd like to see that article, if you can find it. I wonder if some people in the industry are finally realizing this.
The 2nd one was unarguably the low point but I liked the others, 4 and 5 especially. They were clearly intending to build to something involving Unicron and the Quintessons; I guess that arc wasn't holding enough interest. It's too bad; I'd have liked to see it wrapped up.
Haven't seen the new reboot yet. It looks like a different kind of crowd-pleaser (more Iron Giant than Transformers) but nice to see it was well received.
No, I think if they were released today they would still be critically panned and yet box office successes. While a critical 'masterpiece' today would be tomorrow's forgotten and irrelevant movie.
I think Transformers is just another example of the divide between what critics and average theatergoers like. Been like that since the days of hack-of-his-time Shakespeare, maybe even earlier. /shrug
Same for me. Was not as bad as I expected but still a net minus to the MCU for me, and dampened my hype for Endgame. I'm surprised it's doing so well; I'd guess it's mainly due to its close ties to Infinity War and Endgame.
It was boring, Captain Marvel herself was unlikable and kind of a jerk, Fury went from coolest character in the MCU to a burbling doofus, Tesseract was retconned, and most of all it introduced a god-tier character right at the end of 10 years and 20+ movies of world building, who seems poised to swoop in and more or less singlehandedly save the universe. But maybe I'm wrong and that's not how Endgame will go down.
(Incidentally kind of amusing thinking on why she had to be canonically away this whole time -- fighting the Kree, or because her presence would have negated the reasons for [i]all the other characters and movies up to now.[/i])