Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

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Halle Berry and Julianne Moore are in the second Kingsman movie.

Jessica Chastain is in the next X-Men.

The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link

Casanova Frankenstein

Original to the film! (as are all but two of the characters iirc)

sans lep (sic), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link

AF already said he’s not counting Millar joints (though obv I endorse noting them!)

sans lep (sic), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link

firstly

unless for a comic book role, this is even more pointless than it appears

secondly, road to perdition might be an adaptation of a graphic novel, but a comic-book movie it aint and yes u fuckin know the difference dont start

puppy bash (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link

ah yes, the highbrow literary tone of a Max Allan Collins, filtered through the cinéaste vision of a Sam Mendes, produces something ineffably transformative

sans lep (sic), Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link

Graphic novels are comic books

GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Saturday, 8 December 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link

grats

road to perdition is not a comic book movie

avengers et al are

puppy bash (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 December 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link

Gone With the Wind is not a book movie.

Harry Potter et al are.

vocabulary is just a way to sound samrter than you actually are (Old Lunch), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link

Very few comics adaptations adapt particularly hifalutin comics, and even when they (arguably) do, the films themselves don't usually wind up particularly hifalutin (eg From Hell).

vocabulary is just a way to sound samrter than you actually are (Old Lunch), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

New trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX33bIOA5aA

I mean, appropriate song use there.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link

Man, "Connection" is almost 25 years old ... We're nearly as far from that song as, like, Prince's "Sign O the Times" is from "Love Me Do."

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link

i've said itt before but man i can't stop boggling at how good that de-ageing tech is getting

an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link

We've only seen it in short bursts though right? It was a little borderline in GOTG2 and Star Wars, and that was only a couple of years ago.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link

it looked noticeably better in ant-man and the wasp iirc

an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

Ant man 2 times

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

Lol at Darraghmac's attempt to argue some comic books are more equal than others.

Road to Perdition is actually more of a comic book movie than the MCU ones, because it does actually adapt the story of a comic book into a movie, whereas the Marvel films mostly have original plots that take some story elements from various comics.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

fun fact: road to perdition is absolutely fucking terrible

an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link

the de-aging in Aquaman looked good on Nicole Kidman and bizarre on Temuera Morrison... I don't think anyone has it down to a science yet

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link

Some behind the scenes/set interviews/this and that, a couple of spoilers along the way, etc etc.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/captain-marvel-will-bring-the-might-of-carol-danvers-to-1831497102

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link

the deaging on Kidman was the best I've ever seen. I mean if you didn't know she actually looked older you would not have known anything was done to her at all. Of course she looks kind of unreal in real life these days too.

akm, Friday, 11 January 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link

four weeks pass...

They know what they're doing.

https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link

lol, that's good

ILX Moderator: It's Like a Pressure Wash for Your Insides (WmC), Saturday, 9 February 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Any little girl for whom seeing CAPTAIN MARVEL has an appreciable effect on her self-worth, her ambitions, or her sense of what’s possible for her own life, is an unimaginative bore and I don’t care to know her

— Maddie Whittle 🤷‍♀️ (@maddiewhittle) March 4, 2019

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link

i think posting that says more about you than the movie

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link

so far I've only spotted one amusing Captain Marvel tweet in the wild

Captain Marvel sitting at the Air Force Base fumbling for change for the Air Force vending machine to get a refreshing ice cold can of Air Force

— glory / glory / glory (@bombsfall) March 5, 2019

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link

Reviews are ... middling.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link

seems like the reviews are on par for a lot of the Marvel "origin story" flicks. which is to say "not a classic, but a good time".

omar little, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link

one of the things that makes Rotten Tomatoes functionally useless is that, just to eyeball it, most of the "fresh" CM reviews are...2.5/4, 3/5...not exactly glowing endorsements, but it still sits at "89% fresh" wtv the fuck that means. (this is the first time I've noticed that they'll consider 2/4 "fresh" if the rhetoric is forgiving enough)

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link

lol at Morbs' post

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link

these movies would be motherfucking landfill in a quality culture

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 06:05 (five years ago) link

these movies are also pretty easy to ignore if you're not interested in them tbh

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 06:21 (five years ago) link

try having two teen daughters who love them and want to watch them with you

thank GOD for the Thor movies and Spider-Man

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link

lol at morbs tweet

but actual lol not yknow angry at morbs lol

hope its better than black panther

god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 07:24 (five years ago) link

BP is OK if you pretend the credits roll after the waterfall

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link

Walter Chaw:

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe's very own Solo, Vers (Larson) is a Kree warrior who trains with Kree warrior Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). When I spell "Kree" with a "k," I mean it: these aren't the First Nations "Kree," they're mostly-green space aliens at war with shape-shifting lizard people called Skrull. As the film lugubriously opens like a corpse flower in a greenhouse, Vers is captured by Skrull leader Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) and has her memory probed, leading to a flashback to 1989 in which Vers is Carol Danvers, plucky test-pilot given to cheeky affirmations shared with her buddy (wait for it) Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch). Say it out loud. Yeah, baby, Maria RAMBO. Sick, right? Carol, see, was a human but is now Kree because reasons, leading to the whitest inspirational declaration I have ever heard when she says, summoning would-be iconic gravitas, "My name is...Carol!" (It's no "They call me Mister Tibbs!", but it's destined to be memed whenever some soccer mom calls the cops on a renegade lemonade stand going forward.) This is just one of many attempted moments of affirmation in Captain Marvel, with another coming when Carol robotically intones at Yon-Rogg that she doesn't need his approval--an assertion that essentially says his accusations of her being incapable of controlling her emotions are not only true but indeed the root of her strength. Not what they meant? Well, then, they had over two hours to be clearer; and why are you defending something that cost the GDP of a small nation to produce and advertise? Look, if one small girl is inspired by Captain Marvel, that's fantastic. When I was a small Chinese boy, I loved Condorman. I had the novelization and everything. Condorman is one of the two or three worst movies ever made. Captain Marvel is not just the worst MCU film, it's also the worst DCEU film--and, folks, I really hated Suicide Squad and Justice League. I'm glad Condorman exists because of what it meant to me, but Condorman, let me repeat, is terrible. I'm also glad that Captain Marvel exists, I guess, because real equality is when movies about women are allowed to be as bad as most movies about men.

I was never going to see this anyway, but now I do kinda wanna see Condorman a little bit.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link

The debut appearance of Monica Rambeau was published the same month as /First Blood/ landed in theaters, and three years before the sequel film made that name synonymous with military toughness, imo. Seems pretty unlikely that there's any connection.

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link

based on a cursory IMDb'ing, Condorman sounds like a hoot

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link

I've always meant to see it, while routinely forgetting it exists and mixing it up with Pumaman.

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link

Wikipedia says Monica Rambeau first appeared in 1982. First Blood also out that year. Just coincidentally, my guess. Other than phonetics, the characters have no shared characteristics. But hey, why would filmfreakcentral.net let research get in the way of a hyperbolic, Comic Book Guy review? Fwiw, I don't have stock in the film. Just not a fan of bandwagon, self-indulgent pans.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link

too few movies are torn to pieces by hyperbolic reviews tbh

god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link

whats easy isnt whats always wrong

god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link

The debut appearance of Monica Rambeau was published the same month as /First Blood/ landed in theaters, and three years before the sequel film made that name synonymous with military toughness, imo. Seems pretty unlikely that there's any connection.

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link

I was never going to see this anyway, but now I do kinda wanna see Condorman a little bit

Saw it in theaters at the time! Disney does a bizarre Bond manque, in essence, but you get a Henry Mancini score and Oliver Reed eating the scenery. Plus, at the very end of the film, the lead actor from Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin in a one or two line role!

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link

I feel like I might have read another Walter Chaw review at some point. Holy fuck, is he a shitty writer. If Armond White was Comic Book Guy...

grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link

I don’t want to derail into this thread into my defence of Walter Chaw, but his positive reviews are definitely a different animal than his pans.

Anyway, carry on Marvelletes. I’ll show myself out.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link

enjoyed this a lot.

Walter Chaw is a cock.

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 March 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link

it has an orange cat in it apparently so I'm 110% going to see it this weekend

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 8 March 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link

enjoyable mid-tier marvel. i'll always love Brie

Nhex, Friday, 8 March 2019 06:13 (five years ago) link


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