Paid Members Weezenal Posted April 24, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 24, 2022 15 minutes ago, The King Of Swing said: The Batman. Yeah it's a bit too long but I enjoyed it well enough. Really liked the final act.  Reveal hidden contents Fuck off with that Joker tease, though.  Yeah feels unnecessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 24, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Weezenal said: Yeah feels unnecessary. Â Spoiler It seems impossible for WB to allow an interaction between Joker and Bruce/Batman to not be part of a Batman film. They even forced it into Joker. Â Edited April 24, 2022 by Hannibal Scorch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 I thought the final act was the worse hacked on shit and felt like it was totally unnecessary within the tone that had been set. My mate watched it recently and messaged me during the first act to say it felt a lot like Seven then at the end to tell me it was too long. Sums it up for me and for all the people saying it was a detective film first and a Batman film second it didn’t feel very sleuthy. A solid 4 star film for me carried by a good Batman performance, a really good Catwoman performance, Colin Farrell hamming it up wonderfully and a really nice dark tone.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 They should have got the Safdie's in to direct it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted April 25, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 25, 2022 On 4/24/2022 at 11:02 AM, The King Of Swing said: The Batman. Yeah it's a bit too long but I enjoyed it well enough. Really liked the final act.  Reveal hidden contents Fuck off with that Joker tease, though.  Spoiler There’s a deleted scene between the two that was supposed to be about half way through the movie. It would have killed the movie dead because people would have just been expecting his involvement later in the film. It also just telegraphed the Riddler identity in the least subtle way of all time.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted April 25, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 25, 2022 Wasn't a massive fan of The Batman. Good performances, but that plot is dreadful. Spoiler They harp on and on about how much the city stinks of corruption, then the big twist is 'the cops and the criminals are working together!' The worlds greatest detective couldn't figure that one out? Also, for a film so long, it doesn't half rush the ending after Riddler gets caught.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Just watched THE BATMAN after getting covid during the week I was going to see it and then utterly forgetting to. I really enjoyed it. It probably should have ended half an hour before (which would have been just as good) but yeah, RPatz is great in everything these days and nails it. Everyone is good and it sets things up nicely. I enjoy Matt Reeves genre films. Seems a good pair of hands for this incarnation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 30, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 30, 2022 I’m on episode 4 of Moon Knight. It’s taken a turn and I’m confused as hell but loving it. Oscar Isaac is great isn’t he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 5 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said: I’m on episode 4 of Moon Knight. It’s taken a turn and I’m confused as hell but loving it. Oscar Isaac is great isn’t he? Ep 5 will set you right, it’s also the best episode so far. He’s been phenomenal, a lesser performance would have come across as a lot more slapstick and gimmicky but he’s just been note perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Episode 5 was my favourite. Spoiler A mental disability as a part of your super power is really cool and I hope they explore that avenue more and he hasn’t miraculously cured himself.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted May 5, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2022 Watched Dr Strange MoM this morning. Spoiler free, its pretty good. Was never going to live up to the insane hype and speculation which is sadly becoming a trademark of the marvel franchise and its all over the place plot wise.  strange has become the tired dad of the MCU which is getting closer to his comic character, the reshoots and inserts are very obvious and Strange’s wig is getting a 9.5 on the Nic Cage scale.  the girl playing America Chavez is great. I’ve not seen her in anything else so not sure how long she’s been around but she more than held her own  however it’s main plus is that Disney have given Sam Raimi the budget to essentially make a horror film and it goes full Raimi a bunch of times. There’s a bunch of shots in this that could be lifted straight from Darkman and they are glorious. Hokey compositions, POV shots, jump cuts and crash zooms. It’s got the lot.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted May 5, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2022 After the disappointment from Moon Knight (Not awful, I just think it was rushed and made little sense overall), I went to see Dr Strange tonight. Evil Dead meets the MCU. I think there were a lot of nods to Evil Dead, but like Chokeout said, lots of Rami nods. More scary then I was expecting (think some kids might be freaked out at times) but I loved it. Top 5 Marvel films for me, and Rami has redeemed himself after Spiderman 3 and Oz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted May 5, 2022 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, chokeout said: the girl playing America Chavez is great. I’ve not seen her in anything else so not sure how long she’s been around but she more than held her own   She was the best thing in the film for me. We went to see it tonight. I didn’t enjoy it. I thought Wanda was reduced to a single character archetype and her story was pretty awful as a result. Despite there being loads going on all the time, it wasn’t nearly as inventive as a film with that title should have been, and yet I felt myself being bored a fair bit. It being directed by Sam Raimi doesn’t mean much for me so none of it gets a pass just because it’s by him. Doesn’t even make my MCU top 20 I’m afraid. And I’m pretty high on it compared to Mrs HG who absolutely HATED it, and was visibly cringing at whole scenes. I’ll be happy to see America show up again, though, whenever that might be. Edited May 5, 2022 by HarmonicGenerator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted May 5, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2022 32 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said: She was the best thing in the film for me. We went to see it tonight. I didn’t enjoy it. I thought Wanda was reduced to a single character archetype and her story was pretty awful as a result. Despite there being loads going on all the time, it wasn’t nearly as inventive as a film with that title should have been, and yet I felt myself being bored a fair bit. It being directed by Sam Raimi doesn’t mean much for me so none of it gets a pass just because it’s by him. Doesn’t even make my MCU top 20 I’m afraid. And I’m pretty high on it compared to Mrs HG who absolutely HATED it, and was visibly cringing at whole scenes. I’ll be happy to see America show up again, though, whenever that might be. Interesting how we are completely opposite in our views. What did you both make of Wandavision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted May 6, 2022 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 6, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said: Interesting how we are completely opposite in our views. What did you both make of Wandavision? Spoiler Really liked it up to the disappointing final episode which turned it into standard fly-fly energy blast fighting. Up to that point it did a really good job of adding dimensions and layers to Wanda’s character, all but one of which got stripped away for this film. Spoiler tagged because it’s marginally more specific about the new film. Edited May 6, 2022 by HarmonicGenerator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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