Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted February 22 Paid Members Posted February 22 I am, but purely based on Doom being one of my favourite villains. Quote
DavidB6937 Posted February 22 Posted February 22 I'm excited. It'll still be an awesome cinema experience regardless. Definitely not one I'd wait for home release. Quote
theringmaster Posted February 23 Posted February 23 22 hours ago, Lorne Malvo said: Watched another bunch of the Marvels over the last few weeks; X-Men: The Last Stand - Not as bad as I remember actually. I quite enjoyed it. It's biggest issue is that the first two X-Men films are really strong so this looks worse in comparison, plus they try to cram too much in - doing both the 'Mutant cure' and 'Phoenix' storylines together is a bit of a mess, if they'd just focused on one it would've made for a much better movie. Still, I don't think it's as bad as people say. This is spot on. This is one of those films that has a rep of being terrible when it's just average and perfectly watchable, it's the sort of movie I would never choose to watch but flicking through tv and it's on I'm watching till the end. The movie had LOADS of behind the scene drama as well; Change of director, cast going with him, studio wanting to bring in the Cure storyline, Halle Berry contract negation was said to be very difficult, Hugh Jackman was eyeing up his solo projects, other cat members were very clear they were not interested in doing a 4th film so wanted their storylines wrapped up. It's a miracle the movie even got made with all that going on. Quote
Paid Members Chris B Posted February 23 Paid Members Posted February 23 There have certainly been worse superhero movies since. The problem was that there were a whole bunch of reasons for high expectations going in: 1 - X2 had done some stuff better than the first one (particularly Wolverine getting something similar to the Hellfire saga moment of properly letting loose), and Spider-Man 2 had just performed even better, so there was a sense that they really could achieve something exciting when they were doing the Phoenix Saga. There was a bit of a feeling of 'oh, they've got this'. 2 - The Phoenix Saga was very much seen as the all-timer X-Men story, so it was already a bit of a dream project. And the cartoon had actually done a pretty good version of the Phoenix Saga, so it was pretty fresh in people's minds. 3 - Smaller-level, but Grant Morrison had just had a really interesting X-Men run in the comics, which had handled the return of Phoenix well, and Joss Whedon's run had started off well. Away from all that context, it isn't bad. But it's always the danger when you adapt something genuinely exciting. Quote
theringmaster Posted February 24 Posted February 24 One mad fact is X3 and Dark Phoenix were written by the same person (Simon Kinberg). So he basically had 2 attempts at the story and essentially failed it twice. He has an interesting wiki if you read through it, he essentially has been involved with all the X-Men movies post the first 2 (aka the good ones) as well as Deadpool, F4 etc. On the topic of under rated X men movies, The New Mutants, I felt this was a fun spin off and really captured the energy of the first x men film. Due to the fox buy out it was dead in the water upon release, it felt like it got panned because everyone knew there would be no chance of a sequel. Quote
Paid Members gmoney Posted February 24 Paid Members Posted February 24 Is The Last Stand the first example of shoehorning an internet meme into a film? Can still get a cringe shiver from just thinking about that Juggernaut scene. God bless you all for rewatching and reappraising it, I'll never make myself sit through it again, I thought it was absolutely rancid. @Chest Rockwell pointed out the answer might be Snakes on a Plane, but I am sure The Last Stand predates it. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted February 26 Paid Members Posted February 26 On 1/26/2026 at 5:07 PM, Carbomb said: Alfred Molina as Doc Ock is one of my favourite performances in superhero films ever. Plus the film re-imagining of the character is one of the best too - prior to S2, I don't think he'd ever used the tentacles for mobility, and it works really well. Ock uses the tentacles to get around in one of the boss fights in the Acclaim PS1/N64 Spider-Man game with the Apollo 440 theme song.Possibly in the '94 snimated series as well. I agree that the Raimi/Maguire Spider-Man 2 is one of the finest superhero films. Quote
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted April 30 Paid Members Posted April 30 The latest episode of The Boys was really enjoyable for me. The celebs playing themselves was a little hokey, but fun, and I loved the boys from Supernatural being on screen together again. Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 30 Paid Members Posted April 30 I came here expecting Jean Grey chat but didn’t dream it would be about X-Men 2/3. The problem with The Last Stand is that X-Men and X-Men 2 set the bar too high. The complete absence of any decent quotable dialogue doesn’t help, nor that it was too ambitious - you can do a Cure film or a Phoenix film, not both. Plus it’s a bit all over the place. Returning to Mags as the big bad after X2 works, but the Cure hovering over it as the real faceless end boss cuts him off a bit, never mind the Phoenixalypse at the end. They get us emotionally invested in Warren/Angel and they he barely appears for the next 2/3 of the film. Psylocke is allegedly there but nowhere near the presence she should have (stood next to the far more utilised Arclight most of the time). Mystique is written out early, Cyc is barely in it for the second film in a row. It’s just a bit of Return of the Jedi in comparison to X2, except without Ewoks. Although I always like to think the “No to The Cure!” chant is having a pop at the Robert Smith band. ”What’s your name?” ”John.” ”What’s your real name, John?” (shivers) Quote
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted May 31 Paid Members Posted May 31 Spider-Noir is a delight bit of ridiculousness. Cage is hamming it up like his life depends on it, and the rest of the cast try their damndest to match that energy (but fail, Nicolas Cage is utterly mental). Amazon gives you the option to watch in colour or B&W, I went B&W for the fill film noir experience. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted May 31 Paid Members Posted May 31 How is it though? Does it look like it was filmed in black and white, or just like they've drained all the colour from it with computers? Quote
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted May 31 Paid Members Posted May 31 11 minutes ago, Jazzy G said: How is it though? Does it look like it was filmed in black and white, or just like they've drained all the colour from it with computers? Quote
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted May 31 Paid Members Posted May 31 Interesting look, colourised black and white for the coloured version. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted May 31 Paid Members Posted May 31 2 hours ago, johnnyboy said: Interesting look, colourised black and white for the coloured version. Yeah, it does look like that. It's a nice touch. Quote
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted May 31 Posted May 31 Watched the first 3 episodes this afternoon, decent show with a delightfully corny performance from Cage, definitely works better with this than he did in both Ghost Rider films Also watched the Punisher special, casting Jon Berenthal in the role was just perfection for Daredevil and this justified it more. Be interesting to see how much of a role he plays in the next Spidey film out in July Quote
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