when will Marvel green light the All About Eve comic book?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Not til the last drug store has sold its last pill.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
fast color is great, one of the better endings I've seen in any superhero movie. viola davis is apparently trying to make it into a series for amazon.https://deadline.com/2019/07/fast-color-series-adaptation-amazon-viola-davis-julius-tennons-juvee-productions-1202656971/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
... and apparently they're trying to do an Octavia Butler "Wild Seed" series too which would be rad
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
oh hey, fuel!https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fernando-meirelles-marvel-superhero-films-1249498
I like the technique, sometimes I watch fragments and trailers and all the VFX and the production is really spectacular, really first class people are involved. But I can't engage with the story, I get sleepy. Sometimes I watch those at the cinema and after half an hour I am sleepy. It's very overwhelming. It doesn't interest me at all.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
I mean, there’s nothing to talk about with that quote, it’s totally reasonable
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's cool. Opining differs slightly from proclaiming.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:36 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Whoa @ this
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Agreed on Fast Color being a fun watch. Would be an excellent triple feature with Midnight Special and Kin. I'd like to see more from all three of those worlds.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
I do find myself getting antsy for most Marvel movies to get over
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
no shame in that. the “big action piece” is usually pretty boring!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
They would be better without any narrative at all, honestly.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
i feel the opposite, the action scenes are really flat to me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
but it's not the narrative that's good either, you're right. it's more the world building and little offhand momentsI don't know if I could sit down and tell you the plot of any of them, I mean the mcguffin or w/e that was being used
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah, they should ideally just be the raccoon yelling at Robert Downey Jr for half an hour, and then there's a Kendrick Lamar song.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
this is the funniest thing i've seen pic.twitter.com/ywSFGMWFuD— meeraan (@masturbatwing) October 23, 2019
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
I mean...anyone making that argument with any degree of seriousness probably has a full-time caretaker to keep them from sticking their tongue into wall sockets and what have you.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
On that we do agree
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
they should ideally just be the raccoon yelling at Robert Downey Jr for half an hour
that's a really mean way to refer to gwyneth paltrow ffs
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
That's really dumb, but the first Ant-Man is essentially a heist film, so it's not entirely wrong on that count. I won't even try to make a case for the bottom two there.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
you find yourself feeling like Paul Rudd
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
are you coming on to me?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
If you refer to Doctor Strange as a 'surreal avant-garde experimental film' then you have seen maybe twelve movies in the course of your entire life.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
someone's gearing up to release some pym particles, that's for sure xp
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
xpost Eleven of them superhero-related (with one of the Paul Blart joints filling out the roster).
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
best thing about that tweet is correctly categorising the last temptation of christ as a crime film
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
my main problem w/Marvel movies is they're not very kinetic or gripping in terms of the action scenes w/the arguable exception of Winter Soldier. and the visual style of the films is mostly very flat. the exceptions being Ragnarok and the GOTG films. and i've said elsewhere, so many of these films end with a large smoldering craft of some kind slowly crashing to the surface while people onboard fight to escape.
i think there's also the larger point remaining about how much talent behind and in front of the camera has spent a decent chunk of their peak years working on these films vs more interesting projects. i'm not gonna suggest they all needed a Cassavetes to give them a kick in the ass, or necessarily would be worth giving a talking-to (i'm not going to "what-if" myself thinking about missing all those Jon Favreau auteur projects) but it's certainly true that in today's Hollywood even moreso than the past that a lot of competent talent is lured with big paychecks so they can knock out tentpole product, and there's little room for anything else from a lot of them. So other filmmakers and actors giving a zing to that entire process is completely cool. i mean like i've also said i like the Marvel movies, for the most part, but more recently i've found their seeming omnipresence fairly wearying.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
I fell asleep during one of the My First Mushroom Trip action scenes in Doctor Strange
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
these days when i see an action film done right i sit up and take immediate notice. honestly it's very rare and even the John Wick films (which i enjoy very much) kind of just feel like a pummeling after awhile, just this relentlessness which is impressive in its own right, taking place in this beautiful purple and blue and red world, but more exhausting in certain ways than they are completely thrilling. and they do remain impressive to me but i have to be honest about their shortcomings.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is underrated as a modern action movie - like Bourne I (also Liman) and John Wick, the action is always visually coherent but it's dialed down even further than either of those.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
discounting occasional outrage from sexist idiots online, there's nothing in any of the marvel films that really deviates from baseline mainstream american cultural mores
I feel compelled to watch and have some base level of enjoyment from watching these movies but there's no sense of risk in the scripts, shots, or acting. And after a while, without any risk there's no promise of a reward
I guess while I was typing this, omar said it better
― mh, Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
i think there's also the larger point remaining about how much talent behind and in front of the camera has spent a decent chunk of their peak years working on these films vs more interesting projects.
I think about this a lot and am surprised its not brought up more often, the opportunity cost of whole careers getting sucked into the gravitational pull of these franchises
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
and whole audiences' hours of filmgoing life
― j., Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
so did you guys get this sorted yet
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Just waiting on Soderbergh to weigh in.
― Galangal Baker (WmC), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGGfnLBTLdY
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
(Soderbergh I'd be really interested in the views of, particularly since he helped the Russos get the gig)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
All the lost Oscars for developmentally-challenged character roles. It's a tragedy! We'll always have Juliette Lewis, though.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
i think there's also the larger point remaining about how much talent behind and in front of the camera has spent a decent chunk of their peak years working on these films vs more interesting projects.I think about this a lot and am surprised its not brought up more often, the opportunity cost of whole careers getting sucked into the gravitational pull of these franchises
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), 24. oktober 2019 18:11 (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I really don't get who this would be? Most of the people making these films would otherwise be making a different kind of shitty blockbuster? If anything, making a marvel meant that Hitler bunny comedy got made.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
this is all theoretical of course but certainly many of the actors have previously shown a lot of talent for picking interesting films, playing characters who aren't wearing capes. keeping in mind that i generally think most of these actors have done good work on the cape-character front.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
which is also why separately it's a little disappointing to see Pattinson signing on to play Batman after a period in which he really went all-in playing a wide array of interesting parts. now if he's just doing it to allow himself to continue to play more of these parts, i'm all for it. As long as he doesn't Robert Downey Jr himself and start working exclusively for DC Entertainment Corp
― omar little, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
xxp the person i can think of who this might be referring to is Chloe Zhao but she's got her first film with them on the way and I can only hope that this can fund her next six projects. and eternals might even be interesting (nb it likely will not)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
RDJr's hit rate would be considerably higher if he was exclusive to Marvel, in fairness.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
If anything, making a marvel meant that Hitler bunny comedy got made.
*faye dunaway floating math equations.gif*
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
painting all superhero films with a broad Worthless Trash brush There have been three superhero adaptation films that aren’t worthless trash, but some of the others are fun worthless trash I thought everyone in tha biz calls him “Marty”??Christopher Moltisanti is not technically “in tha biz”Mr. & Mrs. Smith is underrated as a modern action movie - like Bourne I (also Liman) Live. Die. Repeat. is a better Liman in this comparison, as it’s punching CGI monsters in a green-screen environment but the action is clear, coherent, and with a concept of physics behind it. The last 45 minutes of the recent Avengers was an interminable array of sprites floating nilly, if not willy, against a sea of pixels.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
One that bums me out is Ryan Coogler - I thought Fruitvale Station was a great debut, and he immediately got ensconced in the Franchise Industrial Complex. His upcoming projects are Black Panther 2 and Space Jam 2. I realize that nobody put a gun to his head but still, by the time he gets to his next non-franchise project a decade will have passed.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
First of all, it's a bullshit standard. But even going by those standards, all of them pass! All of the superhero films have scenes of 'human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.' And consistently, those are the worst scenes!― Frederik B, Thursday, October 24, 2019 10:25 AM bookmarkflaglink
― Frederik B, Thursday, October 24, 2019 10:25 AM bookmarkflaglink
FWIW I think you are misreading Scorsese here - he's talking about movies which are acts of human beings trying to convey etc. etc. to the human beings in the audience. we could argue over whether the marvel movies do this (or which ones try/succeed/fail), but obviously he is not just trying to argue that the movies contain no dialogue scenes about emotional or psychological experiences.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
It's good at least that Taika Waititi is using his newfound clout to make passion proj---oh no
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Fred is off on his own thing here with this hyper-literalist “technically correct is the best form of correct, and we have NAILED Scorsese by determining that these are in fact motion pictures that play in theatres (I have never talked to a human btw)” crusade xp weirdly the day the clown cried IS cinema unlike the mtpu
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
you guys know that uh not old white dude directors prob feel the same way about disney but can't say it unless they wanna wake up in their beds to bloody mickey mouse ears hanging off the edge of their beds and "you'll never work in this town" written in disney font on the wall— chai goth, a hit 2000s reality show Survivor fan (@Abid_ism) October 23, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link