Fuck every Pirates movie made after the second one, won't watch any more
Fuck every single Michael Bay transformers film after the first
Jurassic World fucking sucked
Terminator 3 sucked
Terminator Salvation sucked
Terminator Genisys probably sucked, I didn't watch it
Alien Resurrection is nothing less than punishment from cruel unknowable gods
Prometheus was fucking garbage
Alien Covenant is Prometheus 2 and is also fucking dogshit
Fuck AvP and fuck AvP2
Not one of the fucking Mummy movies was any good or in any way memorable
Fuck the people who want to make Beetlejuice 2
Fuck the fetid walking piles of human dogshit who consider the fucking NOTION of Labyrinth fucking goddamned Two
Fuck the Hobbit films
Fuck this
Fuck that
Fuck everything
It's all dogshit
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Predators was kinda good actually
Co-signing this. TDK was all style above substance. Which is fine for a superhero movie, but Nolan's gritty and oh so "realistic" take on the franchise fell flat on its face, in my opinion.
Those films acted like sequels or relatives to films like Heat or L.A. Confidential in terms of scope and narrative, but what they actually did, was randomly glue-ing together action and drama scenes in a way that made those films 2 hour long trailers with messed up scripts full of plotholes.
Nolan seems to be a hybrid of Kubrick and Michael Bay.
The Accountant (2016): stupid.
John Wick 2 (2017): incredibly, unbelievably stupid.
As a franchise Star Trek has lost its way, real bad. Paramount has mishandled the motion picture franchise, certainly so with the soft reboot Abramsverse films, but the problems go back even further to the nextgen films being generally meandering and/or unnecessary when looked at in context with the nextgen TV series. Also Paramount/CBS was showing signs of faltering with Voyager which while generally good it was certainly not on par with the best of TNG or DS9, but they finally dropped the ball completely with Enterprise which was a series concept nobody was really asking for anyway. The poor ratings and ultimate cancellation are it’s real legacy. It doesn’t feel like Star Trek: Discovery is going to be the franchise savior. It sounds like there have been considerable production issues, and that its being relegated to CBS All Access makes me question how much CBS even believes in it.
Sorry to nerdrage here, but…
The visuals in the trailer are confusing. Tagline puts events of Discovery just 10 years prior to TOS supposedly in the prime timeline(?). But the aesthetics in the trailer don’t seem to fit that at all. Bridge looks generally dimly lit like a seedy lounge with bizarre lighting angles. It looks like Quark should be running a dabo tournament in this room.
The uniforms look way more connected to Enterprise era than to TOS. Plus if this is supposedly set in prime universe then we already have a reference to what the Starfleet uniform should look like around 10 years before the Kirk five year mission on the enterprise. “The Cage” episode takes place in that timeframe and the uniforms look like this,
And if those are supposed to be Klingons in the trailer… why?
The tendency in social media and seemingly a lot of movie blogging sites and/or critics to rate movies/tv shows on their level of "wokeness" is really getting tiresome to me.
As a reader of those and a film enthusiast there are only so much "takes" on why a tv show "has a race/woman/rape problem" or why a new movie offers a certain type of story or heroine "we need now" I can take (see the "controversy" about Blade Runner 2049 from last year for example).
Same goes for all that hyperbole of "groundbreaking", "powerful", "revolutionary" and so on. Those are not terms to be thrown around so likely... like being applied to, say, a fucking superhero movie with a half naked model flying around in a mess of a story. Let it be what it is and not try to turn something so banal into Schindler's List.
That's not to say it's wrong to call out art that's truly problematic. But let's not get carried away with the hysteria, please.
Constantine (the movie) is not nearly as bad as a lot of people say it is. Sure, Keanu's voice is monotone throughout but I think it's due to Constantine's blazé attitude. Shia LeBeouf is a hoot as Chas, proving he is talented despite the awful Transformers movies.
And my darling Tilda can do no wrong.
In a broad sense: (X-Men Movies and Shows) > MCU
American Hustle, the films everyone was going mad over how good it was a few years back, was the dullest film i've ever seen in cinema's. It was just an excuse for great actors to act great...the story was just SO BORING!
...but that's just me.
Watched it again yesterday and no, Logan was a mediocre movie. I can't believe how overly invested people become with an X-Men movie. While it indeed switches up the formula a bit and plays more on the emotional side combining it with an R-Rating it only shines that bright because it follows movies that didn't even try to deliver the matter in a serious way. So while that movie was the best we've seen from Wolverine in the cinematic universe together with the last scene of Apocalypse and parts of Days of Future's Past, this movie gives nothing to me, it's proposed depth is rather shallow compared to other critically acclaimed movies and hype is surreal.
With that being said, the overthinking that goes on with comic book movies these days just baffles me. They are essentially kids movies or aimed at a fan audience while being approachably by casual enthusiasts as well. But please stop making these movies seem like there's more to it other than fun, furious action, copious amounts of (mostly well done) CGI and some A-list actors involved. It's a roller coaster ride, sometimes a really entertaining one, but as @r_z pointed out no Schindler's List.
On another note: can Alicia Vikander please disappear? Thank you.
I have and while I very much enjoyed the former I still can't stand her at all. One of the few actresses/actors I truly avoid.
I liked Blade Runner 2049 more than the original.
The way the last act of Logan played out made the whole thing less than it could have been for me. It trades in all of its seriousness and sense of modern grit for the silly theatrics of the older X-Men movies and it suffers heavily for it -- the tonal shift is too huge.
Mother! was as heavy-handed and obvious in its symbolism as everybody says it is, but it's still a fantastic movie. The whole last forty minutes are the best kind of insane and the fact that a major studio treated it like a guaranteed blockbuster is fascinating.
The Exorcist isn't remotely scary to me, whatsoever, and I fully understand the historical context and innovation and impact of it, but it didn't make me enjoy it. I've never had any connection to Catholicism so maybe that's part of my lack of terror over it but I also don't believe in xenomorphs or the devil and I was still scared by Alien and Rosemary's Baby, so I don't know.
Don't Breathe was dull as fuck.
Whether or not a director is a bad person has no impact on my ability to enjoy a movie. There are often hundreds of people who work on any given movie and plenty of them have major impact on the finished project, and I'm sure plenty of those people are horrible, but it isn't stopping people from enjoying those movies. I haven't seen anybody saying they're going to never watch True Lies again even though we found out the stunt coordinator was a creep, and that movie is loaded with stunts. I'm all for not wanting to financially support bad people but to condemn the collaborative work of dozens-to-hundreds all because one person involved was a piece of garbage punishes all of the decent people who worked hard on something and had the misfortune of having a terrible person for a coworker.
The only reason Ridley Scott is taken so seriously is because of his younger successes and his ability to make professional-quality studio movies quickly and within budget. He hasn't made any great art in over a decade. The Martian was fun popcorn pop music and Prometheus has interesting ideas that it does nothing decent with.
Auteur theory is outdated and insulting to all of the people that make movies what they are. Editors, casting directors, costume designers, audio engineers, cinematographers, actors and set designers all have as important an impact on most movies as individual directors or screenwriters have. It's also dumb to judge a screenwriter who isn't a director off of the resulting movie -- read any early draft of a screenplay and then a finished film and you'll see something wildly different most of the time. Screenplays are usually guidelines instead of perfect blueprints and get changed enormously due to budgetary, scheduling and other constraints and the writer can have little to do with it the moment it's sold off to a studio. The fact that Roger Deakins and Emmanuel Lubezki are the only two cinematographers known by name by a lot of film fans is depressing and I'm as bad about it as anybody else -- directors get way too much credit for cinematography a lot of the time and editors are horrifically unsung. Tarantino's last two movies were drastically lower quality than any of his others and a big part of why is the death of his lifelong editor. The sense of focus, pacing and overall flow in Inglourious Basterds vs. Django Unchained is enormously different and one is clearly more smoothly put together than the other.
On that note, Tarantino isn't as amazing as his fanboys act like he is and he's not as terrible as the people who hate him act like he is. He's not god-awful but he isn't flawless. Nuanced opinions have become unwanted in the world of film discussion and it's a shame because you either have to absolutely adore everything or absolutely loathe everything about a movie and there's little wiggle room allowed. Almost everything is flawed in some way and to act like acknowledging those flaws is to call a movie terrible is ridiculous and reductive and leads to flaws being applauded out of bizarre defensiveness.
Absolutely no good has come from the endless slap-fighting about The Last Jedi
Quentin Tarantino is seriously overrated.
Christopher Nolan too.
I'm getting so tired of franchises. Pretty much all of them, even Star Wars. There's just something exhausting about them, like if I get into one of them it means I gotta sign up to watch another 17 fucking movies.
I recognize that this isn't really rational. I have no problem with TV shows, which might literally add up to the same length of time, so I don't understand why I feel this way.
There's just something that feels so off-putting about them, like I'm getting enrolled in a fucking program. I'm getting to the point when I see some big unveiling of a new franchise trailer that I just let out a big long groan of exhaustion.
It's probably just because I'm becoming really grouchy and old.
I cannot stand all these superhero movies which look and feel like video games. The massive dragon ball z cgi fights just leave me numb. Why are we so preoccupied with characters made for kids? It is seriously like a year or two of reading age above teletubbies
I'm not saying we should only watch black and white French dramas and kill ourselves, a bit of fluff is fine and there's a lot of superhero movies I like (crow, some of the batman films, blade), but there are SO many of them and people love and hype them so much... I feel like a space alien
The comic book characters were, but the films aren't. That's what I find odd. Rather than just being children's films, they are sort of darkened and hardened a bit. But nonethless, they are what they are. The hulk, Spiderman etc... are in the same drawer as Scooby doo for me.
The current crop of these movies feels as strange to me as a straight up horror movie of Scooby doo would
I agree Superhero Comic's were originally created for kids, they haven't been aimed at 'kids' for a very very long time. Hell when i was growing up even Sonic the Comic was going for a teen and older audience! And a lot of the hype from people for the films are coming from people that grew up with the characters, and are just excited to see them on the big screen.
Also i'd agree most of the films are far more family friendly then the comics. Nothing wrong with not being into the current comic book movie hype machine, all the power to you, but writing them off as stuff 'made for kids' is the wrong argument i feel.
You can't really refute a bad comparison by making a bad comparison... peppa pig is for kids, bebop is for adults. Hulk and spiderman were not created for adults, were they?
I've read all the Frank Miller batman stuff - fair play that's not for kids. But we've never really got a faithful live action of any of them. Last spiderman I read was ultimate Spiderman about 13 years ago, Last hulks I read were planet hulk and world war hulk. Sorry but that stuff is for kids, or teenagers at most.
Ice haven, mox nox, black hole, the invisibles, spawn, the crow, Alan Moore books etc are what I would call adult fiction
I'm not saying it's morally wrong (although there is a whiff of protraction about it), I'm just a bit alienated by how huge and constant it is
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