Frozenprince
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Why? People have gotten enjoyment out of bad movies since movies became a thing.
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Batman v. Superman RT Thread: like standing ovations in rain
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Why? People have gotten enjoyment out of bad movies since movies became a thing.
Oh please, they are still going to go for it. They can't stop now; they have committed to doing what Marvels doing, so that ship has sailed. They may reign in a few budgets a bit. But they aren't cancelling the universe no matter how bad the films are.
clay_ghost
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At least someone got some enjoyment out of something bad, not everyone will be miserable out of this!
blummer102
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PUNISHER WAR ZONE, BABY
Fockin' awesome movie that got completely shat on by reviewers
No worries. Legends Of Tomorrow is there to do all the damage to Arrowverse.
Indeed, MST3K and Rifftrax made jobs out of it.
bananafactory
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I'm not going to give you that easy avatar quote
Work harder boy
I wouldn't say I'm ENJOYING the bad reviews. I really wanted this to be good. But I'm not surprised in the slightest, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't getting amusement from the meltdowns, 180s, and memes this is spawning.
OricWindstar
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I don't mean enjoying bad movies, but rather satisfaction that a movie failed to live up to expectations.
orthodoxy1095
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flaxknuckles
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Yes, thank god because that would be even worse
Discotheque
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it should be for some people. everything's gotten cookie cutter.
only xmen and nolan are handling good character stuff and singer will probably leave the franchise soon (to the cheers of fanboys) and nolan's gone for good.
But that show's better than Arrow!
Schadenfreude exists everywhere in life.
bananafactory
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Yeah. Outside of the dog scene, I fucking love that movie.
ElBoxyBrown
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Which X-Men are getting good character stuff, again?
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Trashing on Speed Racer and calling Sucker Punch a great movie.
I agree.
They both suck.
If the best defense one can offer for Ang Lee's Hulk is "It's not cookie cutter," that's confirmation Aang Lee's Hulk fucking sucks.
Even the visuals, while creative and often stunning, function as little more than annoying gimmicks. "CAN YOU TELL THIS IS A COMIC BOOK MOVIE?"
OricWindstar
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True. Haha, I guess as a writer it irks me most in the arts.
GlenChivas
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All valid points.
But in this specific instance I don't feel that comparing Star Wars to the MCU is the best comparison.
I'd say that Star Wars is just 3 or 4 movies (I don't count the prequels) in a singular series that's been spread out over what is now 30? 40 years? And that their story is supposedly centered around the Skywalker family from what I understand. I haven't been really into Star Wars in years.
Granted with the MCU they all feed into one larger universe but it just seems different when you're getting them several times a year over consecutive years.
Fuck it. It's all Disney anyway these days.
I'll still enjoy the Marvel flicks for what they are and I hope I'll enjoy this. I tell my kids all the time how lucky they are. The Golden Age of super hero movies. If you would have told 6-year old me I'd even be having this discussion one day I'd tell you to shut up.
Xavier, Magneto, Mystique to name a few as of the latest film.
RustyNails
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Completely agreed. Eric Bana was awesome as Bruce and the Hulk scenes were fuckin dynamite.
bananafactory
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I knew it'd be a bit of a flop critically speaking. The only two of his films I've actually enjoyed or thought were half decent were Dawn of the Dead and 300, and even then only in a loosely entertaining, not taking anything too seriously way. Sucker Punch was utter dog shite, Man of Steel pretty poor, Watchmen only average. I don't know why Warner Brothers and DC have so much faith in him. In any case, still willing to give it a go.
Discotheque
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x2 and dofp. did you miss stryker and wolverine, magneto and xavier, wolverine and xavier, mystique (even with a barely there jlaw) and xavier. freaking xavier AND xavier lmao
it's a narrow set of characters but he does damn good work with some of the players on the board. you don't get melodrama in other comic book movies aside from nolan's films tbh. it's a huge strength of the series for me.
no i don't wanna bother defending hulk again that's why. but it has excellent acting from bana, nolte, connelly and sam elliot. and the soundtrack is so good.
plus it's the most disturbed bruce banner. the only hulk on film that i actually feel sorry for.
Sibersk Esto
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Ang Lee Hulk is the genesis of "tried something, didn't exactly work out". Art film introspection mixed with hulk dogs, comic book panel transitions, and a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE third act.
Still, great score by Danny Elfman, the greatest of comic book movie composers.
Still, great score by Danny Elfman, the greatest of comic book movie composers.
Obliterator
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I like Legends of Tomorrow though....
Angry Chair
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Remember when we thought MoS trailer 2 feels like a Terence Malick's movie?
Good times.
BewareTheBatsie
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Can this be a Hulk thread now?
I have a feeling it will review really well and rustle all the jimmies somehow.
(pretty unlikely, tho)
sunshine and gasoline
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Damn. 40% on RT? Critics sure aren't liking it. Thought that it would start off relatively high before dropping down to 75%-80%.
Going to wait for my favorite reviewers to watch the movie to better give me an idea of what I should expect going into the movie.
Going to wait for my favorite reviewers to watch the movie to better give me an idea of what I should expect going into the movie.
openings gonna be huge. the 1 billion worldwide is definitely less certain now though
I don't see the opening being majorly affected, but yeah, the legs are going to get hurt real bad if audience WOM is in-line with critical reaction.
blummer102
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I love Snyder simply because with every goddamn movie the man makes he breaks the internet
But seriously if this movie's RT score ends up falling below Green Lantern then they gotta scale the dude back just a bit. Make him producer or visual designer or logistics cheerleader but shit, the DCEU ain't gonna be catching up to Marvel in the long term with these mixed ass reviews. At this point DC has established that they won't go the Marvel route of one liners and relatively bright stuff, so the only alternate route is operatic full-fledged dramatic madness a la Mad Max: Fury Road. The problem is that Based God Snyder can't quite pull off that kind of organized insanity the same way that George Miller can.
BRING IN GEORGE MILLER
BELIEVE
But seriously if this movie's RT score ends up falling below Green Lantern then they gotta scale the dude back just a bit. Make him producer or visual designer or logistics cheerleader but shit, the DCEU ain't gonna be catching up to Marvel in the long term with these mixed ass reviews. At this point DC has established that they won't go the Marvel route of one liners and relatively bright stuff, so the only alternate route is operatic full-fledged dramatic madness a la Mad Max: Fury Road. The problem is that Based God Snyder can't quite pull off that kind of organized insanity the same way that George Miller can.
BRING IN GEORGE MILLER
BELIEVE
Hero_of_the_Day
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Every reviewer should be required to say whether they think it's better than Man of Steel or not. That's really the only useful information I need.
The climax of the movie is so goddamn bad. It's almost intentionally bad.
Doesn't it need to hit $800 mil WW or sommit to be successful?
illmatic22
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Good lord I can only imagine what would've happened if Star Wars had the same reception. Everbody would've been strangling eachother and we'd all jump off a cliff or something.
This thread is something else tho. Thanks for the laughs, GAF.
This thread is something else tho. Thanks for the laughs, GAF.
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