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Post by Hilltrack on Feb 15, 2018 19:44:59 GMT
Alright, I've now seen Black Panther. Even if it isn't the absolute best out of the entire MCU, it's still a genuinely great movie. It is pleasantly surprising how unique and authentic of a world they've managed to create, not just in terms of movie, but setting as well. The country of Wakanda and all the inhabitants feel like a very well established and believable concept. The combination of real-world African culture with incredibly advanced and almost otherworldly technology is very interesting to watch. The villain of Killmonger is also very convincing, and similarly to people like Adrian Toomes/Vulture, does have a point. All the elements (plot, moral, setting, characters etc.) all come together in a very solid movie which I would definitely recommend.
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Post by Sandie on Feb 23, 2018 5:33:30 GMT
Black Panther was so freakin' good!! It's certainly one of the best Marvel films I've ever seen. Lots of unexpected moments and great characters, plus a fantastic soundtrack. See it, everyone! You'll be glad you did!
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Post by Sleeper Agent on May 2, 2018 22:04:15 GMT
Wasn't sure what to make of Black Panther. Plenty of good stuff and Letitia Wright was an unexpected hoot but the larger scale battle at the end felt a little too unreal while Martin Freeman's American agent persona just felt unnatural. Beside Carter doesn't SHIELD employ any Brits? Just saw Infinity. Hard not to say much without giveaways but what a visual spectacle! Wasn't keen on the actor playing Thanos from what little I'd seen in the previous movies but that's been turned around now, interesting take on the Mad Titan.
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Post by Hilltrack on May 8, 2018 11:50:32 GMT
Martin Freeman's American agent persona just felt unnatural. Beside Carter doesn't SHIELD employ any Brits? I'll go a bit pedantic here and say Freeman's Everett Ross is actually with the CIA. And to answer the question; yeah, they do, actually. Two of the main characters in Agents of SHIELD are British. (Fitz and Simmons) It's definitely a show that's worth checking out for those who haven't. Also, Infinity War was definitely pretty great. Lots of surprising twists and turns.
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Post by Sleeper Agent on May 8, 2018 12:53:02 GMT
I like to forget details so don't rewatch movies with a high frequency these days and haven't actually seen the excellent Winter Solder since it came out in the cinema but had forgotten he started out in the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre rather than the CIA per say. Given that it's not as bad but I still think they should of just hired an American if he's going to be faithfully portraying the minor comic book character, otherwise just of re-rwitten him a Lime that came into the fold. Also forgot about Fritz and Simmons. Tried to get into Agents three times but like Smallville and Gotham it just comes off as watered down, plus they should of just left likeable Coulson dead as intended. Got a little kick out of the Starlin nods but even without Infinity is great and worth the long pay off, don't think DC is gonna be able to match
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Post by Hilltrack on May 8, 2018 13:36:26 GMT
I will admit the first season of Agents of SHIELD is a bit basic, but it develops its own interesting and increasingly complex and risky story threads as it progresses. I'd say getting through S1 pays off in the quality of the later ones.
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Post by fobhew22 on May 13, 2018 22:17:46 GMT
Agents of SHIELD has it's peaks and troughs - the latter half of Season 1, and Season 4 stand out to me as being worth their while, but unfortunately there's a whole lot of other television going on which doesn't fill you with confidence. Season 5 (the current season) I don't feel ready to pass judgement on just yet since I'm only about halfway through.
On the movie topic, I saw Infinity War today. For a film that boasts so many characters and storylines, it is incredibly well-balanced, and nobody feels truly wasted. In Thanos, they've put together a brilliant villain, and I can't wait to see how Avengers 4 pans out!
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Post by Sleeper Agent on May 21, 2018 2:23:04 GMT
Saw Deadpool 2 this eve. Found it a real shame that the opportunity for an authentic live action Domino was missed as Neena looks amazing in the comics but Zazie Beetz deserves her dues playing her and Dom's mutant ability payed dividends quite excellently. All in all if you loved the first one you'll love this one too. Not sure if there is a final post credits scene but the mid point ones are worth staying for
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Post by Sandie on May 23, 2018 2:45:07 GMT
I saw Infinity War almost a month ago (yikes, has it been that long?) and I'm still thinking about it very heavily. I've got a whole bunch of theories floating around in my head for Avengers 4. How about you?
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Post by Sleeper Agent on May 23, 2018 9:35:00 GMT
Well I know what the Hulk is doing but giving that he had the time rather than reality gem can't work out what trick Strange pulled. Whatever it is aside it'll be interesting how the second wave goes down as I don't think Mistress Death and the big celestial types are going to suddenly be introduced in the MCU for a conflagration scenario meaning that it's still gonna be quite a scrap fight when strategy inevitably goes south. We'll just have to wait for Guardians III to see how Warlock is gonna rebalance the scales a little I suppose but i'm looking forward to this
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Post by EdwardTerence on May 24, 2018 15:35:17 GMT
Aren't Hercules and Tangled the same story? I mean, both he and Rapunzel are 18, they both ask someone if they had a dream, they both get kidnapped and become outcasts, they both carry an emblem which makes them wonder where they belong, they are both set in Europe and both send their enemies falling to their deaths. They also include a clumsy white horse.
Aren't Tarzan and Tangled the same too? I mean, he and Rapunzel get adopted, both are barefoot, both send their enemies falling to their deaths and Tarzan is 18 too, isn't he? I haven't seen Tarzan for ages and I don't have the novel, so I'm not sure.
I hate all 3 and I wish they'd air consecutively in a row 1 day on any channel like Hercules 2:45 Tangled 4:10 Tarzan 5:30 or Tarzan 2:45 Tangled 4:10 Hercules 5:30. I'm not sure how long those movies are, but all present day Disney movies take between 1 and a quarter and 1 and a half hours, don't they?
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Post by Lord Pacer Commander on May 25, 2018 0:46:12 GMT
Wow - Solo was great from start to finish... A little slow at the beginning, but picks up well and the locations look well used and lived in. The actor that plays Lando was so good I really thought it was the original!
I saw the midnight opening on the 24th, so before most places in the USA, and the twelve of us in the screen gasped when DARTH MAUL SHOWED UP AS A HOLOGRAM... Also, RIP Aurra Sing
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Post by PercyFan1998 on May 28, 2018 22:00:37 GMT
Solo: A Star Wars StorySo when I first heard that they were a Han Solo movie the first thought that came to mind was ‘Oh gosh dang it, milking the fans some more huh? Instead of actually progressing the plot? This is probably going to flop even more than TLJ did…’ And it’s not as if I didn’t have reasons to be skeptical, pretty sure most people who watched TLJ saw how much it sucked thanks to the Director, and if I had to be honest whilst Rogue One was good, it was a bit out there. But Solo…oh wow I walked out of the theater Friday night completely awed. To start with, I heard from reviewers that they felt that the actor who played the younger Han Solo didn’t feel like the Harrison Ford type, and I’d agree to that, the guy who played Lando felt like a younger Lando, that guy got the acting on point. But this Alden Ehrenreich…he’s not Ford, the actual writing behind Han was real solid, it did fit the universe quite well and I enjoyed it very much, but it’s the actor who definitely let the character down just a tad bit, he wasn’t snarky and suave enough to live up the legacy Harrison Ford left behind. But Childish Gambino – er – I mean – Donald Glover – hit Lando right on the head, dang that was so good. I actually do enjoy the way this whole story was written, the idea of Han never actually starting out with a last name and belonging to a rough and tough city really fits him, and I found it amusing that it was a Empire recruiter who ended up giving him the last name Solo, it’s a nice nod that not all Empire associates were bad guys, but does so in a subtle away unlike the mixed TLJ which tried to mix the pot way too much. The inclusion of a girlfriend he had did worry me a bit since Leia was a thing, but I found that the way the writers handled Qi’ra was simply on point. The story over all I thought was very suiting to the Star Wars universe and I felt the whole idea of a smuggler like Tobias Beckett fit the world so well, as well the man he worked under. But that brings me to what is the biggest spoiler in this movie, and that’s that at the end we find out Qi’ra is on the dark side of the Force, and that the higher up alleged in the story was Darth Maul the whole time! That was wild, I freaked out when I saw that, I did not expect that and it was a brilliant, brilliant twist to have in the world of Star Wars, it definitely makes it clear that Disney is going to try and milk Star Wars for all it’s worth, but with movies like Solo, I’m welcoming that. Final words on Qi’ra – she is the perfect way in which you display a character who is cross hatching the moral boundaries, it was clear she had some feeling conflicts around Han, but the evil within her towards the end was well made because the emotions portrayed and stated were subtle but there where you could tell something could go either way, really well handled. Chewbacca was amazing as well in the movie, throughout it interestingly we saw many of the starting traits you saw him portray in A New Hope, with him being a sore loser at the galaxies version of chess, as well as his ability to rip someone’s arms out of their sockets. The inclusion of the droid L3 was interesting, a bit of a freedom fighter but went out I felt in a very fitting way unlike the droid from Rogue One who was just all right I suppose, but with L3 I felt satisfied with what we got. I gotta say though I really like how she was the type who wanted to liberate droids from essentially slavery, but it was tasteful and I like how crass she still acted, a very rude but enjoyable droid. The highlight of the movie however is also when we got to see the Millennium Falcon do the 12 par sects Castle (Kestle?) run in the movie, which was awesome to witness considering how often it was teased in the original trilogy. Speaking of the Falcon in the movie we got to see how Han won said ship off of Lando, dude did so through playing cars with Lando, and it was so satisfying to watch when the end of the movie neared, simply amusing and very much like what George Lucas tried to imply when we first met Lando in the trilogy. I’d say give it a watch, really puts TLJ to shame, and personally it was a much better watch compared to Rogue One.
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Post by Lord Pacer Commander on May 30, 2018 15:22:47 GMT
Solo: A Star Wars StorySo when I first heard that they were a Han Solo movie the first thought that came to mind was ‘Oh gosh dang it, milking the fans some more huh? Instead of actually progressing the plot? This is probably going to flop even more than TLJ did…’ And it’s not as if I didn’t have reasons to be skeptical, pretty sure most people who watched TLJ saw how much it sucked thanks to the Director, and if I had to be honest whilst Rogue One was good, it was a bit out there. But Solo…oh wow I walked out of the theater Friday night completely awed. To start with, I heard from reviewers that they felt that the actor who played the younger Han Solo didn’t feel like the Harrison Ford type, and I’d agree to that, the guy who played Lando felt like a younger Lando, that guy got the acting on point. But this Alden Ehrenreich…he’s not Ford, the actual writing behind Han was real solid, it did fit the universe quite well and I enjoyed it very much, but it’s the actor who definitely let the character down just a tad bit, he wasn’t snarky and suave enough to live up the legacy Harrison Ford left behind. But Childish Gambino – er – I mean – Donald Glover – hit Lando right on the head, dang that was so good. I actually do enjoy the way this whole story was written, the idea of Han never actually starting out with a last name and belonging to a rough and tough city really fits him, and I found it amusing that it was a Empire recruiter who ended up giving him the last name Solo, it’s a nice nod that not all Empire associates were bad guys, but does so in a subtle away unlike the mixed TLJ which tried to mix the pot way too much. The inclusion of a girlfriend he had did worry me a bit since Leia was a thing, but I found that the way the writers handled Qi’ra was simply on point. The story over all I thought was very suiting to the Star Wars universe and I felt the whole idea of a smuggler like Tobias Beckett fit the world so well, as well the man he worked under. But that brings me to what is the biggest spoiler in this movie, and that’s that at the end we find out Qi’ra is on the dark side of the Force, and that the higher up alleged in the story was Darth Maul the whole time! That was wild, I freaked out when I saw that, I did not expect that and it was a brilliant, brilliant twist to have in the world of Star Wars, it definitely makes it clear that Disney is going to try and milk Star Wars for all it’s worth, but with movies like Solo, I’m welcoming that. Final words on Qi’ra – she is the perfect way in which you display a character who is cross hatching the moral boundaries, it was clear she had some feeling conflicts around Han, but the evil within her towards the end was well made because the emotions portrayed and stated were subtle but there where you could tell something could go either way, really well handled. Chewbacca was amazing as well in the movie, throughout it interestingly we saw many of the starting traits you saw him portray in A New Hope, with him being a sore loser at the galaxies version of chess, as well as his ability to rip someone’s arms out of their sockets. The inclusion of the droid L3 was interesting, a bit of a freedom fighter but went out I felt in a very fitting way unlike the droid from Rogue One who was just all right I suppose, but with L3 I felt satisfied with what we got. I gotta say though I really like how she was the type who wanted to liberate droids from essentially slavery, but it was tasteful and I like how crass she still acted, a very rude but enjoyable droid. The highlight of the movie however is also when we got to see the Millennium Falcon do the 12 par sects Castle (Kestle?) run in the movie, which was awesome to witness considering how often it was teased in the original trilogy. Speaking of the Falcon in the movie we got to see how Han won said ship off of Lando, dude did so through playing cars with Lando, and it was so satisfying to watch when the end of the movie neared, simply amusing and very much like what George Lucas tried to imply when we first met Lando in the trilogy. I’d say give it a watch, really puts TLJ to shame, and personally it was a much better watch compared to Rogue One. Its Kessel Run There is also a reveal for a line C3P0 says when he comments to han "Captain, your ship has a most peculiar accent" - turns out, its the remains of L3!
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Post by Hilltrack on May 31, 2018 15:03:58 GMT
I was actually surprised by how good Solo was. My admittedly low expectations were definitely exceeded. Alden's a great Han Solo, the rest of the cast was brilliant, the plot is a lot of fun. So many easter eggs too, and integrated in a natural way. Some being particularly rewarding for The Clone Wars and Rebels fans like myself. I'm happy to say I've really enjoyed each new Star Wars movie since the Disney buyout.
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Post by Metamorphical on Jun 4, 2018 23:47:49 GMT
To me, Rogue One and now Solo have been more fun than the sequel trilogy movies. The movie certainly had its slow moments and its dumb moments. It started off super slow. I could tell Solo had woes with directors because of the style of humor and pacing changing at different points of the movie. Not to be a prude but there were some jokes in the movie that were beneath Star Wars. But its good Star Wars.
It's the journey, not the end destination and as unnecessary as Solo is I feel Star Wars its good star wars. Solo, actually succeeds better than Rogue One as filling gaps and answered some questions including undeniably a few that no one ever asked. But it leaves plenty of questions which is a good thing. All the new characters were great fits for the Galaxy. It was neat to have more focus on the indirect effects the Empire is having and no lightsaber wielding characters in the actual action. The action sequences got intense.
I found the movie has several easter eggs to The Clone Wars and Rebels as well as dragging some old EU into canon kicking an screaming beside the really obvious ones. I swear I spotted Filoni's Embo walking around in the seedy place we met Lando. Honestly, I feel like that could be a weakness because it felt like the movie was pushing good fanservice onto me but a casual fan might have struggled with a lot of it compared to the Sequel Trilogy. Granted, The Clone Wars in particularly probably unintentionally helps The Last Jedi make a little more sense than it does on its own with the rest of the trilogies.
The Big Cameo seems to me to be a setup for the Obi-Wan movie which seems pretty much confirmed at this point.
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Post by Sleeper Agent on Jun 5, 2018 22:02:59 GMT
Just saw Solo and even had the entire cinema to myself which is a first! Not gonna overly dissect it and as a casual fan some easter eggs went slightly over my head but it's an enjoyable supplement to the main trilogies so long as you don't go in with high expectations. All the actors were on form I would say, just don't expect Alden Ehrenreich to be Harrison Ford. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was an interesting droid that we weren't looking for.
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Post by OJ on Jun 11, 2018 15:54:00 GMT
Spoiler I've been to the cinema alot recently. To see the blockbusters. I've love them all. Avengers, Deadpool, Solo and JUrassic World.
I do have alot to speculate on Avengers though. I'll say to begin with that I absolutely loved it. It's one of the best Marvel films. Everyone was used well. I'm surprised by Gamora's death as I wouldn't have predicted that. So speculation for the next Avengers film.
1) Not everyone is dead. Some will be back such as Black Panther and Spiderman. But will some be permanently gone? 2) Iron Man is the guy who beats Thanos. DR Strange stopped Thanos from killing him for a reason. 3) Some things will change after all they have the reality stone but what would change?
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Post by Sleeper Agent on Jul 21, 2018 22:09:38 GMT
Just saw Incredibles 2 and it was really entertaining and humorous, definitely worth the wait
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Post by Sleeper Agent on Nov 6, 2019 22:39:40 GMT
Well guess everyone has forgotten about cinemas, go see Terminator Dark Fate
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