Venom was a barely passable airplane movie. At least I could make out what Hardy was saying most of the time in it.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
Oi u in pieces bruh
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
Simon, what percentage of the impetus for seeing Venom in the first place was the puckish, premeditated thrill of disseminating the notion that a widely-panned film was better than the entire MCU slate? 40%? 60?
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
Venom was decent
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
[Venom was a barely passable airplane movie. At least I could make out what Hardy was saying most of the time in it.]
^^^ Of the three leads, Riz Ahmed was the only watchable actor. Hardy's mumbled New York accent and constant "OMYGOD WHAT'S HAPPENING!?" made me yearn for Nic Cage's nuanced Johnny Blaze. Michelle Williams was low-key and seemed tranquilized. The FX were decent enough.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Problem was Upgrade was the same movie but 300 times better
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
sony pretty much made my favourite superhero movie ever with multiverse and one of my top 5 videogames ever with the ps4 spidey
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Upgrade, featuring Other Tom Hardy, was great.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Oh I way preferred venom to upgrade
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
God I hate Disney bootlickers on Twitter
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
uh, no percent. I heard it was batshit and endearingly dumb and it was. also, Riz-as-Musk getting owned was pretty cathartic
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
MCU has backed itself into a corner with the entire “important people solving important problems” shtick and has jettisoned a lot of what makes comic books fun.
The Venom movie had some slapstick moments and dumb humor bits that didn’t quite land but having a character that didn’t spend the whole movie deathly afraid of losing control, because he never had it, was a nice departure. The motorcycle chase was actual fun.
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
I categorically disagree with this.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Among the things I find fun in comic books:
- banter- heroes facing near-insurmountable odds- villains who operate off of deception rather than strength- reality-bending events- normal people stepping up to impossible tasks
MCU has all of this in spades, IMO
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 21, 2019 10:51 AM (two hours ago)
wait til they find out why Spiderman isn't public domain despite being nearly 60 yrs old
― rob, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I appreciate all of those things as well, but I need a healthy dose of joy and wonder
Unfortunately, my writing skills leave a lot to be desired so my Ghost Rider script where a number of background characters are heard to exclaim, “holy shit, that guy’s head is on fire!” is yet to be produced
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
For joy and wonder, hoping the MCU folds in the FF soon and has a Kirby-esque exploration of the Negative Zone, Blastaar, Annihilus, etc. Would be a nice precursor for the next 22 films culminating in an Annihilation Wave.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
rob with the key point there: most everything kirby and ub iwerks and co touched should absolutely be in the public hands by now. that it's not is one of the main reasons why we're in this weird nostalgia culture ouroboros in the first place.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
^^^
also
Stan Lee's daughter sides with Sony over #SpiderMan dispute, says no one could have treated her father "worse than Marvel and Disney's executives:"https://t.co/YlQbWOv8HA pic.twitter.com/GlBdyazD7I— Comicbook.com (@ComicBook) August 22, 2019
― Simon H., Thursday, 22 August 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
real high-quality witness there
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Eh, stories about her own relationship with her father haven't exactly been glowing.
ha, xpost
― Dez Tekken (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
is she the one that was accused of elder abuse?
― akm, Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
They only had one daughter. (There were many accusations of elder abuse against a variety of parties, though.)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
(One living daughter, I should clarify - another died three days after birth, so was not accused of committing elder abuse at the age of 69.)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
nice
― Simon H., Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
This was terrible -- depressingly terrible, i.e. hundreds of millions spent on third-rate video game effects.
And Jake wasn't nude.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Why don't you use some of those graphics to make a Jake nood video
Deepfake!
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
The awkward high school comedy was the best, and a couple of Jake's scenes with Hollnad (i.e. the bar scene in Italy) had real charm, but, oy, that last third.
I do not like Shouty Jake -- the Jake of Nightcrawler, although I can see the connection between the two characters: on-the-spectrum tech bro who can't handle being thwarted.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
The high school comedy was much better in the first film, though. I do like that there is a real focus on high school comedy in this series, but no, this was not a good film.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
Far From Home doesn’t get enough credit for the soundtrack imo.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
The Official Trailer for the third of these, with everyone that we'd heard about and a few more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYzbalQ6Lg8
They are sending Tom Holland out to fight armed with the same joke as three and a half years ago, though ("oh, we're using our made-up names?")
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 10:41 (two years ago) link
I truly love the sleuthing of Brazilian twitter that has convinced people characters were digitally removed from this (or a version of) the trailer to keep some surprises. And I believe it, too!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Hah. Probably true though - they do things like that all the time! Most obvious I can remember was that thing with the eye in Thor: Ragnarok's trailer, and more recently a costume change in Black Widow's trailer to not spoil a last act surprise.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
pretty much everything about this movie smacks of desperation???
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
looks like utter trash too
This movie (or at least the trailer) does seem desperate or messy, but the last two Spider-Man movies were good fun (three, if you include the cartoon), he's been a high point of the other Marvel movies, and Marvel has yet to make a movie that felt desperate or looked like utter trash, so benefit of the doubt, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
also feels like a big Tom Holland and/or Spidey send-off from the MCU, which i guess it is time for
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
Marvel has yet to make a movie that looked like utter trashcitation needed
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
for as like increditerrible as the garfield movies could be they are far less anonymous than mcu spidey. far from home was dreadful, homecoming pretty much only elevated on michael keaton’s shoulders
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
this looks like the actual shitty version of the raimi spider-man 3. dr. strange saying “scooby-do it!” what the ever living fuck is that
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
lol brad i'm glad someone else had my same reaction to this trailer.
also seems reeeeeeeally similar to the premise of Into the Spider-Verse, which was pretty much a masterpiece imho. gorgeous film, incredible sense of heart, breathtaking action. they couldn't have waited a little while to reuse the premise of a multiverse of Spidey characters?
my understanding from my students' comments is that Maguire and Garfield are also in this, which is somehow both more and less desperate than bringing in the villains from the Raimi and Webb films as literal ghosts. what a weird idea. can't Spidey just save downtown Flushing from the Rhino or something? why is he so bound up with Doctor Strange, if it's not a New Defenders movie? i hate the idea that he always has to be paired with the current Senior Schmuck of the Marvel films.
seems really stupid to do the "Spider-Man unmasked" twist at the end of the last film, then have it be reversed in seemingly the first act of this one --- by Peter Parker screwing up a magic spell, apparently?! this was the same basic error made in the comics about ten years ago, when Spider-Man unmasked himself; a bunch of horrible things happened as a consequence, and he pretty swiftly struck a deal with Mephisto to change it all back, at the price of undoing his marriage (which editorial had decided made him seem too old and stuffy, apparently). this was not exactly a widely-celebrated series of developments, so it's funny that they would use it as the basis for a big giant cinematic story.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
I’m excited and worried and of course I’ll see it.
Quibble with all these MCU SpiderMan movies: they’re all so … busy, somehow, almost schizophrenic. And, yes, I’ve read Spider-Man comics! I’ve seen the SR movies. But I wind up thinking, always, “I like these conceptions of the characters a lot but wish I enjoyed the movies more. Maybe it’s because they aren’t allowed to just be Spider-Man movies; they also have to be part of the ever expanding MCU puzzle.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
Or: Doctor Casino OTM
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
Spider-Man is Rabobi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_TJVOmdsLE
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
That was kind of what I liked about the second one is that it felt like it de-emphasized the larger MCU to a large extent. Obviously there was the Nick Fury and Maria Hill stuff, but really once they got the funny look at "the blip" out of the way, it was a relatively self-contained adventure until the unmasking stuff.
I did like spotting the "Blip Anxiety?" posters in the background of the SF scenes in Shang-Chi.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
A thing to keep in mind is that, pre-release, a lot of people speculated a lot of things about Far From Home's plot (a movie I wasn't crazy about, fwiw) that wound up not being the case.
― Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
This does absolutely look very similar to the overstuffed Raimi Spider-Man 3, and echoes the premise of "Into the Spider-Verse," so I hope it's more than that and I guess kinda assume it is? Or maybe it sucks!
And I don't think most of the Marvel movies look particularly *good*, not at all. I just don't think they look like trash. There are movies that look like trash, like bright sitcom lighting in every scene. But the Marvel movies just look flat and 90% artificial, because they are.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
Spiderverse is the best comic book movie, imo.
― DJI, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
this movie was bad and all the ostensibly smart and capable heroes made many many very stupid decisions! and jamie foxx just seemed so bored and sad
― adam, Saturday, 9 April 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link