Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted September 28, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 minute ago, Mr_Danger said: The second one is as good or as bad as the first one. I don’t know what people saw in the first that was missing in the second other than the jokes getting a bit older in the second one. If anything by virtue of having Zeze Beetz in it you can make a case for the second being better. EXACTLY. It was just the same jokes and action with a worse script and longer. Zazie Beetz is great generally. Unfortunately she is not in this or Bullet Train (so we'll blame the director for her misuse in those) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Jim Bob Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Deadpool 2 was like GOTG 2 or Thor Love and Thunder for me. The balance was all wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 13 hours ago, Cousin Jim Bob said: Deadpool 2 was like GOTG 2 or Thor Love and Thunder for me. The balance was all wrong. Yeah I think this is a good summing up of it. I think Gunn learned from Volume 2, because I thought Suicide Squad was great fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted September 29, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 29, 2022 According to his tweets from when Disney bought Fox, Reynolds said the original plan was for a road movie with Deadpool and Wolverine told from different perspectives, Rashomon style. I'd be all up for that as long as they reign it in a bit, giving the Director and star too much freedom gave us Love and Thunder which was too much. Just let them chuck a load of fan casting in it, give a load of existing Xmen actors a proper goodbye and have some OTT comicbook violence and I'll be a happy man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted September 30, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2022 On 9/28/2022 at 12:15 PM, Carbomb said: I liked Deadpool 2 ☹️ I thought it was good. More of the same but slightly different. They did well translating Domino’s power to the big screen too which had been my biggest concern. My only real criticism was Fox AGAIN deciding that even though they’d already established that a character exists in this universe, they can just use that character again but looking, sounding or acting completely different. Two different Juggernauts to a mix of Colossus, Emma, Caliban, Angel/Arcangel and (officially) Psylocke. The worst of course being Emma, managing to be older in the 60s than at the point of Wolverine getting his Adamantium, but then I suppose if Deadpool tells us that that film (especially its version of him) “didn’t really happen” in the reality of his films, maybe we should pretend it didn’t happen in the reality of First Class either. E.g that they were the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 This has to be fucking good, right? There's no way they can fuck this up. I'm really excited for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavemanLynn Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Marvel DAREN'T fuck this up. Black Panther might have been a superhero film, but it was a cultural milestone that tackled a lot of race and culture issues as smartly as any blockbuster can, and will go down as Chadwick Boseman's biggest hit. The trailers have covered all the bases brilliantly so far. I'm fascinated to see what the craic with Namor is, love the South American aesthetic of the Atlanteans, and the balance between grieving what has been and moving on to what's new. I hope they've given Ryan Coogler carte blanche and let him do whatever he likes, because I do fear anything overly tropey or with even a whiff of studio mandate is going to get mercilessly slaughtered, like the CGI mirror image fist fight of the first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted October 3, 2022 Moderators Share Posted October 3, 2022 It was a mediocre film that just happened to come at the right time for cultural relevance. There's a million ways they can fuck this up trying to follow on from that lightning in a bottle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) I enjoyed the first one but it was just another flavour of the same brand of ice cream. It helped that it felt more like it’s own little universe but like all Marvel productions it still had Kevin [s]Dunn[/s] Feige’s fingerprints all over it. That’s being said I’m aware that it meant a lot more to a lot of people whose life experiences are completely different to me, mr average white man and it should get credit for that. Edited October 3, 2022 by Mr_Danger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted October 4, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) Black Panther was lucky enough to have Boseman and Jordan in it as those two brilliant powerhouse actors managed to raise the film up a level it doesn't really deserve. Apart from those two main performances it's a fairly dreadful film with some of the worst action sequences out of any Marvel film - and that's saying something, the action in all these films is mostly bad. Recently watched Thor Love and Thunder. Pretty rubbish but watchable fluff, Waititi clearly phoned this one in. Not offensively bad as people make it out to be but obvious that no one involved but much effort in. Edited October 4, 2022 by LaGoosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted October 4, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 4, 2022 1 hour ago, LaGoosh said: Not offensively bad as people make it out to be but obvious that no one involved but much effort in. I applaud the direction of “do for Guns N Roses what Iron Man did for AC/DC.” Use of Welcome To The Jungle especially fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) On 10/3/2022 at 5:21 PM, Chest Rockwell said: It was a mediocre film that just happened to come at the right time for cultural relevance. There's a million ways they can fuck this up trying to follow on from that lightning in a bottle. Especially given they're missing the main character. I have really mixed feelings about them not recasting the role, but I can understand why Coogler wouldn't have wanted to. Edited October 4, 2022 by Factotum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 I love Alan Moore. Him and Scorsese should pose for a picture together just to annoy twitter https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/07/watchmen-author-alan-moore-im-definitely-done-with-comics Obviously I don't agree with him 100 per cent on what he says, but I'm glad he takes shots whenever he wants to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted October 7, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 7, 2022 Werewolf By Night is superb. It's a shame it's not another twenty minutes longer or so. Easily my favourite thing they have done in phase 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wideload90 Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 In the last week I've caught Thor 4 and She Hulk. Thor was the absolute pits whereas she hulk hit the mark for me - light hearted, fun and easy to consume. Granted, the CGI was ropey as fuck in places but it was a low stakes marvel series that has tremendous potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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