Page 35 of 258
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 11:41 am
by nightflameauto
I just can't bring myself to support DC movies in any form anymore. First sign something didn't get huge reception they'll push the reset button again and I'm not really interested in watching them do that. I thought it was pathetically sad that they'd built a fairly significant franchise with the Bale movies and pulled the rug out from under them before they even had finished making number 3. Their Marvel penis envy is pretty much going to utterly prevent them from ever developing a true DC movieverse.
If they manage to maintain for a few years, maybe I'll consider it.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 11:41 am
by Steinmetzify
Yeah.....as a fan of the original Bane stories as well as Mazzuchelli's Year One (which is what these movies were supposedly based on) I found the plots generic with none of the original brilliant writing present, the storylines muddled and almost indecipherable and Bale's performance as Bruce/Batman much less intriguing than I know he can be as an actor....dude was incredible in American Psycho and much less compelling here. Redeeming features included Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox and Michael Caine did a great job as Alfred. The Heath Ledger performance will go down in Joker history and I think he even smoked Nicholson as the character, but all in all the entire series was fuckin lame and felt like it was scribbled out on bar napkins.
The continuity crap was deplorable.....it made it seem like they'd never read the stories or cared about what happened when.....Talia was never in a prison with Bane, and they certainly didn't grow up with him protecting her.
I have no hopes that Joseph Gordon Levitt as the next Batman/Nightwing can save anything about this and I want them to stop and either start over or just let it die. So yeah, awful.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 11:47 am
by Telephant
What, you actually thought they were going to follow the comics to a "T?" Thats pretty naive. Nolan took the ideas from comics he needed to build his own story. One that was much more grounded instead of being fantastical (besides some of the gadgetry).
none of the original brilliant writing present
And this is where I back right the fuck out of the thread.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 11:55 am
by nightflameauto
I'm sorry, I can't really jive with the "must follow the comics" thing either. I'm a huge Transformers fan and the one thing Bay's done right is NOT follow the cartoons/comics exactly. That'd be RETARDED to do in live action.
Granted, he's created his own brand of retarded in the process, but at least it's not Bumblebee riding the teacup ride with the kids retarded like recreating the original series would have been.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 12:16 pm
by ShaneV
nightflameauto wrote:
Whoah, knowledge droppin'. That's gonna set up some truly odd shit if they tie X-Men into the other movie continuity. Not that I think they can't pull it off. They've done incredibly well so far with this continuity. I'd just hate to see the whole thing go up in a puff of Wolverine's sideburns.
That will never happen due to the way Marvel sold off certain movie rights.
To jump into the argument: The Dark Knight is the best superhero movie I've ever seen and The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel are some of the worst.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 12:53 pm
by Steinmetzify
All good. To each his own!
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 12:55 pm
by JiveTurkey
The Nolan movies were awesome, imo; and sometimes in spite of Bale. His performance was great overall, but the vocalizations of the Batman character were very distracting at times. The Bane voice was unintentionally (hopefully) funny as well but Tom Hardy was a bada$$ nonetheless. Watch Lawless sometime and thank me later. As a character, Superman has always been and to me, always will be vanilla. That being said; Man of Steel was pretty decent, mainly due to the emotional connections that Costner and Diane Lane created with their characters. I will always prefer Batman because there is a complexity to his character that Superman never really had. This coming from the perspective of a movie goer; not a comic book fan.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 12:56 pm
by JiveTurkey
While we are on a nerd role; what's the general consensus on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman?
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 12:58 pm
by nightflameauto
JiveTurkey wrote:While we are on a nerd role; what's the general consensus on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman?
Spiderman sucks.
At least, that's the concesus in my house. I was all in on the previous Spiderman movies until they made that abomination of a third movie. They've pretty much sealed Spiderman in a tomb as far as I'm concerned with that. Fuck Spiderman movies.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 1:11 pm
by JiveTurkey
nightflameauto wrote:JiveTurkey wrote:While we are on a nerd role; what's the general consensus on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman?
Spiderman sucks.
At least, that's the concesus in my house. I was all in on the previous Spiderman movies until they made that abomination of a third movie. They've pretty much sealed Spiderman in a tomb as far as I'm concerned with that. Fuck Spiderman movies.
The first 2 were awesome. I think number 3 is better in retrospect than I originally thought. It still sucks
but if you would have removed the Peter-goes-cocky-goth sequence or wtf-ever; it would have been a much better film. Raimi got roasted for that film and I don't think it was entirely his fault. If I recall, he had multiple villains pushed on him instead of focusing on one main bad guy like the previous films?
The reboot of this series I think was unnecessary. Half of it was spent retelling the origins which we just saw 6-8 years earlier in a superior film. I think their casting choices were good, though and I am curious to see what they do now that they can move forward.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 2:23 pm
by Steinmetzify
I just watched a behind the scenes thing on the new one; looks badass. I'll see it next week.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 2:50 pm
by Yarbicus
JiveTurkey wrote:While we are on a nerd role; what's the general consensus on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman?
The new one just looks one giant clusterfuck of a Bay-ish fight scene. No thanks.
When we saw CA 2 there were a lot of interesting trailers but the Spidey 2 one looked terrible.
Guardians of the Galaxy looks like tremendous fun.
X-Men DOFP just looks totally amazing.
Godzilla! Need I say more?
I was also intrigued by Lucy. Could this finally be a female-centric super hero story?
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 3:06 pm
by nightflameauto
Yarbicus wrote:JiveTurkey wrote:While we are on a nerd role; what's the general consensus on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman?
The new one just looks one giant clusterfuck of a Bay-ish fight scene. No thanks.
When we saw CA 2 there were a lot of interesting trailers but the Spidey 2 one looked terrible.
Guardians of the Galaxy looks like tremendous fun.
X-Men DOFP just looks totally amazing.
Godzilla! Need I say more?
I was also intrigued by Lucy. Could this finally be a female-centric super hero story?
That movie looks absolutely AWESOME from the trailers and info I've seen. And Godzilla is getting watched so hard it isn't even funny.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 3:19 pm
by tweed
Saw Transcendence last week with my oldest son. Thought is was pretty good, I'll give it a 8/10.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 3:29 pm
by Yarbicus
nightflameauto wrote:Yarbicus wrote:JiveTurkey wrote:While we are on a nerd role; what's the general consensus on the upcoming Amazing Spiderman?
The new one just looks one giant clusterfuck of a Bay-ish fight scene. No thanks.
When we saw CA 2 there were a lot of interesting trailers but the Spidey 2 one looked terrible.
Guardians of the Galaxy looks like tremendous fun.
X-Men DOFP just looks totally amazing.
Godzilla! Need I say more?
I was also intrigued by Lucy. Could this finally be a female-centric super hero story?
That movie looks absolutely AWESOME from the trailers and info I've seen. And Godzilla is getting watched so hard it isn't even funny.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 4:00 pm
by Spiritinthesky
Wolf On Wall Street. Fantastic!
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 7:01 pm
by spawnofthesith
Wolf of Wallstreet is great, bale batman is great, new marvel stuff is pretty great too. Other than that agents of shield show, that kinda blows ass
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 7:21 pm
by Gunslinger
ShaneV wrote:nightflameauto wrote:
Whoah, knowledge droppin'. That's gonna set up some truly odd shit if they tie X-Men into the other movie continuity. Not that I think they can't pull it off. They've done incredibly well so far with this continuity. I'd just hate to see the whole thing go up in a puff of Wolverine's sideburns.
That will never happen due to the way Marvel sold off certain movie rights.
Case in point: Marvel/Fox has the rights to use the term mutants, but Marvel/Disney is forbidden to use that term in any their movies, hence why the twins were referred to as "miracles" instead at the end of Cap 2.
On another thought, after re-watching Cap 2, I'm pretty sure now were gonna get a Doctor Strange movie some time soon. I think that scene where they throw that Hydra guy off the roof pretty much confirmed it, since the names he mentioned were Bruce Banner and Stephen Strange. I'm wondering how well that one will turn out.
After Guardian's, Ant-man has to be next up because they have to set up the villian for Avengers 2. One thing I do love about these Marvel movies is how the all the plots tie into each other. It keeps it exciting IMO.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 8:02 pm
by ShaneV
I would pee my pants with excitement for a Doctor Strange movie. Still haven't seen Cap 2, but that's pretty cool if they hinted at it.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 6:31 am
by Marc G
Captain America 2 - 8/10.. solid movie, more than just a superhero movie, very cool spy type vibe to it.
I'm looking forward to the Guardians movie, I'm not very familiar characters from that series but the previews look pretty cool. I was thinking about Avengers 2 last night and I'm interested to see how they make the story arc get back to there based on events in Cap. America 2. Gonna catch the new Spiderman next week, so far I've gotten pretty mixed reviews on it..
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 8:55 am
by Yarbicus
ShaneV wrote:I would pee my pants with excitement for a Doctor Strange movie. Still haven't seen Cap 2, but that's pretty cool if they hinted at it.
Yup. I had heard rumors that Dr. Strange was in the works and when they mentioned "Stephen Strange" in the Cap 2 I had a little nerdgasm! Always loved that character; his stories were like 70's acid trips for kids.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 9:15 am
by SuperFlyinMonke
Gunslinger wrote:ShaneV wrote:nightflameauto wrote:
Whoah, knowledge droppin'. That's gonna set up some truly odd shit if they tie X-Men into the other movie continuity. Not that I think they can't pull it off. They've done incredibly well so far with this continuity. I'd just hate to see the whole thing go up in a puff of Wolverine's sideburns.
That will never happen due to the way Marvel sold off certain movie rights.
Case in point: Marvel/Fox has the rights to use the term mutants, but Marvel/Disney is forbidden to use that term in any their movies, hence why the twins were referred to as "miracles" instead at the end of Cap 2.
On another thought, after re-watching Cap 2, I'm pretty sure now were gonna get a Doctor Strange movie some time soon. I think that scene where they throw that Hydra guy off the roof pretty much confirmed it, since the names he mentioned were Bruce Banner and Stephen Strange. I'm wondering how well that one will turn out.
After Guardian's, Ant-man has to be next up because they have to set up the villian for Avengers 2. One thing I do love about these Marvel movies is how the all the plots tie into each other. It keeps it exciting IMO.
I don't know what you mean about having to set up a villain for Avengers 2. Thanos was in the post-credit teaser for Avengers 1.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 10:31 am
by ShaneV
Thanos isn't the villain for Avengers 2 though, he's for down the road. Ultron will be the villain BUT I believe they said Ant Man will not build him in this continuity abd that the Ant Man movie is actually coming after Avengers 2.
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 11:20 am
by Marc G
ShaneV wrote:Thanos isn't the villain for Avengers 2 though, he's for down the road. Ultron will be the villain BUT I believe they said Ant Man will not build him in this continuity abd that the Ant Man movie is actually coming after Avengers 2.
IMDB.com has it like that... Avengers 2 then Ant-Man... I can't remember who I read will be the inventor of Ultron but they aren't putting it as Ant-Man... I"m thinking they might have Tony Stark as the creator.. but I could be very wrong there
Re: Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 2:52 pm
by Gunslinger
SuperFlyinMonke wrote:Gunslinger wrote:ShaneV wrote:nightflameauto wrote:
Whoah, knowledge droppin'. That's gonna set up some truly odd shit if they tie X-Men into the other movie continuity. Not that I think they can't pull it off. They've done incredibly well so far with this continuity. I'd just hate to see the whole thing go up in a puff of Wolverine's sideburns.
That will never happen due to the way Marvel sold off certain movie rights.
Case in point: Marvel/Fox has the rights to use the term mutants, but Marvel/Disney is forbidden to use that term in any their movies, hence why the twins were referred to as "miracles" instead at the end of Cap 2.
On another thought, after re-watching Cap 2, I'm pretty sure now were gonna get a Doctor Strange movie some time soon. I think that scene where they throw that Hydra guy off the roof pretty much confirmed it, since the names he mentioned were Bruce Banner and Stephen Strange. I'm wondering how well that one will turn out.
After Guardian's, Ant-man has to be next up because they have to set up the villian for Avengers 2. One thing I do love about these Marvel movies is how the all the plots tie into each other. It keeps it exciting IMO.
I don't know what you mean about having to set up a villain for Avengers 2. Thanos was in the post-credit teaser for Avengers 1.
Edit: redundant post is redundant
Thanos is not gonna be the villain for part two. They are still building him up. Ultron is gonna be in part 2.
