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#641 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 22 April 2021 - 07:34 PM

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View Postworry, on 22 April 2021 - 01:33 AM, said:

Whiplash?! Not every JK Simmons character is from comic books duder.

I just want you to know I appreciate this joke. Also Whiplash is a superb film.


While I did not LIKE WHIPLASH from a story POV, I 100% agree it is a technically superb film.

Not the thread for it, I know, but I'd like to hear more of this. I was hooked for the whole thing and when they first start playing the song "Whiplash" for the first time I was so in awe.
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Posted 22 April 2021 - 07:56 PM

That dude is Russell and Hawn's son? Shit. He lucked out in the looks department. And the charisma department.
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Posted 22 April 2021 - 07:59 PM

View PostAptorian, on 22 April 2021 - 07:56 PM, said:

That dude is Russell and Hawn's son? Shit. He lucked out in the looks department. And the charisma department.


When he was yelling in the last episode he sounded EXACTLY like his dad yelling. It was eerie.
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Posted 22 April 2021 - 08:42 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 22 April 2021 - 07:59 PM, said:

View PostAptorian, on 22 April 2021 - 07:56 PM, said:

That dude is Russell and Hawn's son? Shit. He lucked out in the looks department. And the charisma department.


When he was yelling in the last episode he sounded EXACTLY like his dad yelling. It was eerie.



My wife and I commented the exact same thing! I also think his walk looks very similar to Kurt's. There was a scene where John Walker is walking away (down a hallway, maybe?) and I had a vision of Snake Plisken walking...



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Posted 23 April 2021 - 07:17 AM

I dunno, I feel like he's gotten the Kurt features, but over dialed. The chin is too strong for a start.

But agree on red haired lady being a shit actor, and walker being the true enemy and we're only 3/4 eps in
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Posted 23 April 2021 - 07:20 AM

Kinda reminds of the origin of USAgent in the comics.
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Posted 23 April 2021 - 08:24 AM

This is the first time I'm seeing Wyatt in anything without a big bushy beard, so I'm definitely seeing (and because of that, hearing) all the Kurt Russell similarities a lot more than usual.
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Posted 24 April 2021 - 08:10 AM

I think for a man there is just no coming back from having Kurt Russell as your dad. Imagine knowing you will never be more cool than your father no matter what you do.

He totally should have gone into banking or something.

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Posted 24 April 2021 - 11:49 AM

That was a pretty fantastic finale! Much better than the WV finale.
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Posted 24 April 2021 - 05:34 PM

Yeah, it was a pretty good ending. I was surprised that this wasn't a ten episode series.

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Posted 24 April 2021 - 06:57 PM

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Yeah, it was a pretty good ending. I was surprised that this wasn't a ten episode series.

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So ALL the MCU D+ series are all 6 hours. WANDAVISION was just divided into smaller segments so lasted 9 eps, but was still 6 hrs total.

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Posted 24 April 2021 - 10:12 PM

I found it consistently amusing as an MMA fan how to almost everyone, Batroc is just some dude played by some dude, but me and my brother are like 'shit that's GSP he'd better be in it more!!!'.


Anyway, good show. Satisfying. Some awkwardnesses, but nothing killer. Zemo had better get a Thunderbolts show of some stripe.
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Posted 25 April 2021 - 01:41 AM

Sam’s speech in the finale is one of the finest speeches in the entire MCU.
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Posted 25 April 2021 - 04:22 AM

Pretty good finale with some mediocre moments (but I'm not one of those folks who insists "mediocre" is worse than "bad"). You can count me among those who thought Falcon and Bucky were low tier MCU characters before this, and my affection for both (especially Sam) rose a lot from this show. Flag Smashers remained underwritten (those we see and those we don't see) so I don't even blame the performances for that issue, but I do think the upswing from ep 5 was continued here and they coulda been more interesting if given more attention as characters. Ah well, at least they weren't robots.

One of my favorite aspects of this show was seeing Sam fly (or using his wings in general). It looked consistently great to me, better than a lot of studio movies. We've come a long way from watching people plummet off a cliff into a green screen ocean!

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Posted 25 April 2021 - 03:59 PM

Finished up today, solid enough ending. Not sure I dug the carter angle though.
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Posted 25 April 2021 - 10:30 PM

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Posted 26 April 2021 - 01:57 AM

I don’t think superhero shows are for you man. Some of that is DEEP nitpicking.

...and Sharon violated the Sokovia Accords in CIVL WAR and helped Cap...she became wanted by the US govt then and has been on the run since.

And the new suit is so comic-accurate for Sam that I was super pleased by it.
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Posted 26 April 2021 - 05:23 AM

Only the part involving the truck bothered me. The shield comment is just something I noticed, but thought looked cool in the moment. The shield by its very nature breaks physics, no real object could act as it does so understandable that it’s hard to be consistent with it.

I think the suit is too bright for me maybe. Too much white.
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Posted 26 April 2021 - 06:53 AM

I agree about Falcon Caps suit. I think in action in looks fine but in various shots where you see Sam from the front he looks too bulky. Like he's wearing football pads.

Doesn't fit with the idea of a sleek flier.

And yes the Shield physics are wonky. Sometimes the shield, even thrown by a normal human, goes straight into material, through wood, plaster, stone. Other times it bounces off surfaces and people's heads with little damage. I guess you can handwave it by saying it's about how the characters throw it. It's all in the wrist.
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Posted 26 April 2021 - 07:03 AM

Hard disagree on the shield thing.

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