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Also Re-SHANG-CHI....I LOVE Awkwafina. I would literally watch her in ANYTHING. Her comedy is a fine art, and her delivery is great. She's usually one of my fave things in most movies she's in....and her show NORA FROM QUEENS is great and if you've not watched it yet what are you waiting for?
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Posted 28 February 2023 - 04:02 PM
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Posted 28 February 2023 - 04:43 PM
QuickTidal, on 28 February 2023 - 04:02 PM, said:
Also Re-SHANG-CHI....I LOVE Awkwafina. I would literally watch her in ANYTHING. Her comedy is a fine art, and her delivery is great. She's usually one of my fave things in most movies she's in....and her show NORA FROM QUEENS is great and if you've not watched it yet what are you waiting for?
I was thoroughly prepared to dislike her in TEN RINGS and blissfully surprised to have the opposite reaction.
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Posted 28 February 2023 - 05:22 PM
Abyss, on 28 February 2023 - 04:43 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 28 February 2023 - 04:02 PM, said:
Also Re-SHANG-CHI....I LOVE Awkwafina. I would literally watch her in ANYTHING. Her comedy is a fine art, and her delivery is great. She's usually one of my fave things in most movies she's in....and her show NORA FROM QUEENS is great and if you've not watched it yet what are you waiting for?
I was thoroughly prepared to dislike her in TEN RINGS and blissfully surprised to have the opposite reaction.
TEN RINGS felt as close as Disney would let the MCU get to a Chinese Wuxia/Xianxia epic, and I hope the second one leans even farther into it as it felt really fresh to see in a genre that is so dominated by RaRa American stuff.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
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Posted 28 February 2023 - 09:42 PM
The one single movie out of phase four I want to see (Spidey No Way Home) is actually NOT on D+. Goddamn.
Don't you think Endgame was the perfect moment to just... stop?
Don't you think Endgame was the perfect moment to just... stop?
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 28 February 2023 - 10:25 PM
Gothos, on 28 February 2023 - 09:42 PM, said:
The one single movie out of phase four I want to see (Spidey No Way Home) is actually NOT on D+. Goddamn.
Don't you think Endgame was the perfect moment to just... stop?
Don't you think Endgame was the perfect moment to just... stop?
It wasn't called Stopgame
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Posted 28 February 2023 - 11:30 PM
My phase 4 rankings:
No Way Home- didn't care enough to watch, so this is an honorary ranking only.
Eternals- I didn't hate it, hell, some of the ideas I liked a lot, but it was just... not interestingly presented. Should very clearly have been two separate films, because it essentially functioned as its own prequel and that just didn't work.
Black Widow- fun at the time, but hindsight makes it clear Florence Pugh was carrying it. Most frustrating is the set-up for an incredible action finale on the falling sky fortress, that they just waste.
Shang-Chi- it was fun, but it frustrated me because I felt it was felt short in the wuxia stylings, and also they set the finale in a wondeful fantasy world at dawn then put most of the action against a gray cliff under a grey sky.
Doctor Strange- It hasn't stayed with me much at all, but it was fun while watching, seeing Raimi impose at least some of his style. And Wanda was excellent in it.
Thor: Love and Thunder- I liked it. Come at me.
Guardians Holiday Special: I don't think I'm ever gonna watch it again, but it was so much better than it had any right to be.
Wakanda Forever- bit overlong (actually in hindsight I think it was too short and, like Eternals, could have been two separate movies, but in any case, mis-paced), but the strongest of the actual full movies by a bit.
Werewolf by Night: I mean, it's just a good bit of well-made kitsch-horror. Massively helped by being able to go 'fuck the template, let's do what we want'.
TV shows:
She-Hulk: Faceplant.
Ms Marvel: this is actually quite unfair, because I liked much of what I saw better than some of the shows I put higher, and it was genuinely a quality production with some nice Edgar Wright style visuals and editing. But the single character of the mum in the early episodes irritated me so mch I didn't finish.
Moon Knight: fun and interesting while watching. Ended up feeling a lot of the weirdness was just distraction that didn't come to anything, though. Still, fun enough.
WandaVision: The early episodes drove me up the wall and I barely got through, but it pulled out a good ending and Wanda is a cracking character.
What If?: Kind of light fluff, but good light fluff.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: pacing was a little off at times, and it got a bit lead-footed with some of the villainy, but Zemo was great fun and the leads worked well off each other. And I enjoyed its interrogation of what Captain America might actually mean.
Hawkeye: hey, turns out with good writing, any premise can be enjoyable.
Loki: double stamp. Also, Jonathan Majors fucking killed it.
No Way Home- didn't care enough to watch, so this is an honorary ranking only.
Eternals- I didn't hate it, hell, some of the ideas I liked a lot, but it was just... not interestingly presented. Should very clearly have been two separate films, because it essentially functioned as its own prequel and that just didn't work.
Black Widow- fun at the time, but hindsight makes it clear Florence Pugh was carrying it. Most frustrating is the set-up for an incredible action finale on the falling sky fortress, that they just waste.
Shang-Chi- it was fun, but it frustrated me because I felt it was felt short in the wuxia stylings, and also they set the finale in a wondeful fantasy world at dawn then put most of the action against a gray cliff under a grey sky.
Doctor Strange- It hasn't stayed with me much at all, but it was fun while watching, seeing Raimi impose at least some of his style. And Wanda was excellent in it.
Thor: Love and Thunder- I liked it. Come at me.
Guardians Holiday Special: I don't think I'm ever gonna watch it again, but it was so much better than it had any right to be.
Wakanda Forever- bit overlong (actually in hindsight I think it was too short and, like Eternals, could have been two separate movies, but in any case, mis-paced), but the strongest of the actual full movies by a bit.
Werewolf by Night: I mean, it's just a good bit of well-made kitsch-horror. Massively helped by being able to go 'fuck the template, let's do what we want'.
TV shows:
She-Hulk: Faceplant.
Ms Marvel: this is actually quite unfair, because I liked much of what I saw better than some of the shows I put higher, and it was genuinely a quality production with some nice Edgar Wright style visuals and editing. But the single character of the mum in the early episodes irritated me so mch I didn't finish.
Moon Knight: fun and interesting while watching. Ended up feeling a lot of the weirdness was just distraction that didn't come to anything, though. Still, fun enough.
WandaVision: The early episodes drove me up the wall and I barely got through, but it pulled out a good ending and Wanda is a cracking character.
What If?: Kind of light fluff, but good light fluff.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: pacing was a little off at times, and it got a bit lead-footed with some of the villainy, but Zemo was great fun and the leads worked well off each other. And I enjoyed its interrogation of what Captain America might actually mean.
Hawkeye: hey, turns out with good writing, any premise can be enjoyable.
Loki: double stamp. Also, Jonathan Majors fucking killed it.
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Posted 01 March 2023 - 05:49 AM
Here's mine, without much commentary
Movies:
Tier 1 (I liked them): Wakanda Forever, Shang-Chi
Tier 2 (they were ‘ok’): No Way Home, Red Sparrow jk I mean Black Widow
Tier 3 (not so good): Love and Thunder, Venom 2 (I know it’s not MCU but I watched it so I’m putting it somewhere)
Tier 4 (really bad): Eternals, Doctor Strange 2
Shows (Not in tiers, cuz I liked them all more or less so they’d be in Tiers 1 & 2 above, but from top to bottom):
WandaVision
Ms. Marvel
Hawkeye
She-Hulk (except the first episode, which was pretty bad imo)
Moon Knight
Loki
The Falcon & the Winter Soldier
What If?
I didn’t watch GotG Holiday or Werewolf by Night yet
Movies:
Tier 1 (I liked them): Wakanda Forever, Shang-Chi
Tier 2 (they were ‘ok’): No Way Home, Red Sparrow jk I mean Black Widow
Tier 3 (not so good): Love and Thunder, Venom 2 (I know it’s not MCU but I watched it so I’m putting it somewhere)
Tier 4 (really bad): Eternals, Doctor Strange 2
Shows (Not in tiers, cuz I liked them all more or less so they’d be in Tiers 1 & 2 above, but from top to bottom):
WandaVision
Ms. Marvel
Hawkeye
She-Hulk (except the first episode, which was pretty bad imo)
Moon Knight
Loki
The Falcon & the Winter Soldier
What If?
I didn’t watch GotG Holiday or Werewolf by Night yet
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
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Posted 01 March 2023 - 07:35 AM
I enjoyed the female lead stuff a lot more than most of you and I am trying to work out if it is because I'm desperate for it or because as a female, I have a different view and you are mostly emotionless drones raised by the patriarchy.
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Posted 01 March 2023 - 07:44 AM
Why not both?
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
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Posted 01 March 2023 - 11:39 AM
I like the cut of your jib, Tiste. Yes, let's go with both!
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
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Posted 26 March 2023 - 01:44 AM
Well, Jonathan Majors is an abusive POS and is likely to get recast now. What an absolute fucking clown.
https://apnews.com/a...441ccc536b254f2
https://apnews.com/a...441ccc536b254f2
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Posted 26 March 2023 - 07:31 AM
QuickTidal, on 26 March 2023 - 01:44 AM, said:
Well, Jonathan Majors is an abusive POS and is likely to get recast now. What an absolute fucking clown.
https://apnews.com/a...441ccc536b254f2
https://apnews.com/a...441ccc536b254f2
Is this part of a pattern? I don't recall anything else with him involved but I freely admit I don't exactly follow celebrity scandals closely.
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"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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Posted 26 March 2023 - 11:05 AM
Tsundoku, on 26 March 2023 - 07:31 AM, said:
QuickTidal, on 26 March 2023 - 01:44 AM, said:
Well, Jonathan Majors is an abusive POS and is likely to get recast now. What an absolute fucking clown.
https://apnews.com/a...441ccc536b254f2
https://apnews.com/a...441ccc536b254f2
Is this part of a pattern? I don't recall anything else with him involved but I freely admit I don't exactly follow celebrity scandals closely.
A bunch of nyc film and stage people say that this is sort of an open secret, that this is what he’s like.
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Posted 26 March 2023 - 01:24 PM
More coming out now. Yeah, he’s toast as Kang now.
https://thedirect.co...-arrest-accused
It blows my mind that Disney didn’t vet their new big villain better than this. This is BAD.
https://thedirect.co...-arrest-accused
It blows my mind that Disney didn’t vet their new big villain better than this. This is BAD.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 26 March 2023 - 02:03 PM
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 26 March 2023 - 03:27 PM
I hear Ezra Miller is available.
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Posted 20 April 2023 - 01:31 PM
While Jonathan Majors is clearly on his way out of the MCU and someone else will be cast as Kang (My hope is John Boyega)...
...the newest news is that Adam Driver is in final talks to play Reed Richards in the MCU.
I'm on board. I'd watch that guy in anything, he's an incredible actor.
https://bgr.com/ente...fantastic-four/
...the newest news is that Adam Driver is in final talks to play Reed Richards in the MCU.
I'm on board. I'd watch that guy in anything, he's an incredible actor.
https://bgr.com/ente...fantastic-four/
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Posted 20 April 2023 - 01:53 PM
QuickTidal, on 20 April 2023 - 01:31 PM, said:
While Jonathan Majors is clearly on his way out of the MCU and someone else will be cast as Kang (My hope is John Boyega)...
...maybe?
Boyega's a solid actor, i'm not sure about him as an Evil Overlord type.
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...the newest news is that Adam Driver is in final talks to play Reed Richards in the MCU.
I'm on board. I'd watch that guy in anything, he's an incredible actor.
I'm on board. I'd watch that guy in anything, he's an incredible actor.
I agree w your assessment of Driver as a great actor, but, maybe it's just that i'm mid Slott's recent FF comic run, i think Reed should be a bit older. Driver could sell the 'hipster mad scientist' element, but i'm less sure about the 'experienced adventurer and dedicated dad' element. ...but hey, i liked Krasinski in the roll and that seems to be universally disliked so what do i know?
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Posted 20 April 2023 - 03:01 PM
Abyss, on 20 April 2023 - 01:53 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 20 April 2023 - 01:31 PM, said:
While Jonathan Majors is clearly on his way out of the MCU and someone else will be cast as Kang (My hope is John Boyega)...
...maybe?
Boyega's a solid actor, i'm not sure about him as an Evil Overlord type.
Or perhaps they can tease Aldis Hodge into the role? He's likely not going to be in Gunn's DC universe as Hawkman, so who knows.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
