Topic: Latest Movie You Watched

[smokester]

took the plunge and watched Zack Snyder Justice League cut.
For 4 + hours length it moved on pretty quickly.
Some parts could have been left out but enjoyed.

We watched that but did it in 2 hits. TNG grumbled that it should be done in 1.

[dweez]

I started watching it one evening and about 1.5 hrs in checked and saw it was 4 hrs so finished it the next day. I enjoyed the character development but feel Marvel did it best, doing it in solo movies before releasing the Avengers movies.

[goldshirt*9]

I started watching it one evening and about 1.5 hrs in checked and saw it was 4 hrs so finished it the next day. I enjoyed the character development but feel Marvel did it best, doing it in solo movies before releasing the Avengers movies.

well apparently  the Avengers / Marvel directors have gone over to DC to make their films more Marvel.

[8ullfrog]

Sick burns. And yeah, after IM2, Black Widow was kind of... there.

Could they have done more with Widow? Holy poo yes. Did they? No. Ever. She's the same in IM2 as she is in Endgame.

The closest thing we got to actual black widow development was when Barnes was choking her to death and she said "You don't recognize me? Really?"

When Marvel decided to have the winter soldier kill Howard and Maria Stark, I understand they had Black Widow involved. I don't know how, I didn't read those issues.

But holy poo.

Plus, the comic black widow, as well as Fury, have the Infinity formula, which slows aging significantly.

I remember wondering if Wolverine took Fury's eye in WWII, but no, Natasha is a 1980's Soviet spy/hooker, and Fury is... I think a marine? I did not enjoy Captain Marvel.  And yeah, Captain Marvel made it canon that Fury lost his eye to an bottom alien cat.

[smokester]

I struggle with movies (or stories, in fact) built around "the irresistible force meets immovable object" principle, as resolution isn't based on logic but on the director's (/author's) whim.

Every superhero story involves a superhero coming up against a super villain that is stronger, but for no apparent reason the hero beats the villain.

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The long-winded version had a slightly better end to the villain, in that it took three goodies to beat him (as opposed to the first version, where Supes beat him on is own, mostly by scaring him. Really?), but even so - WW's sword bounced off him through the whole fight until it conveniently cut his head off. I thought that the baddy's suit was better in the tediously long version, though.

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The reason that they couldn't go the Marvel way was that backstory doesn't help with Flash or Cyborg, as neither of them are much use for anything (Sort of like Black Widow, but she appears to be in the team solely to fill an outfit, so doesn't need a back story). And JLA doesn't really work as well as the Avengers, as Superman doesn't need help: Iron Man (or Captain America, or ...) leads a team, who complement each other but Superman is the team - the others are only there to remove any Kryptonite that inconveniently appears. e.g. Batman and Iron Man have the same superpower, but they use it quite differently)

I see so much of the Rocky syndrome in movies these days whereby you get the poo kicked out of you for 14 rounds, but just about manage to get one decent punch in during the 15th and win the fight.

This actually means you're a poo boxer with no right to be in the ring in the first place.

[dweez]

This actually means you're a poo boxer with no right...

This is correct. Rocky was a lefty.

[8ullfrog]

I'm tired of what I call the "Jesus Christ Sacrifice" where the hero has to die to save everyone. First time I noticed it was lousy matrix end sequel.

The Wachowski's even admitted that it wouldn't work in the video game, so you got to have a giant boss fight against a godzilla sized agent smith. It was pretty cool.

Plus Tony killing himself goes against the characters ethos, which was "outsmart the problem" I also don't like that it ultimately makes Cap the winner of their little snippy fight on the Heli carrier.

[smokester]

This is correct. Rocky was a lefty.

I didn't think he had any political preference. Good for him.

[goldshirt*9]

Promising young women. Wow, loved it.

[goldshirt*9]

I see so much of the Rocky syndrome in movies these days whereby you get the poo kicked out of you for 14 rounds, but just about manage to get one decent punch in during the 15th and win the fight.

Isnt that what Humans do, manage to pull it off in the end. (except for social distancing and climate change that is)

[smokester]

If you pull it off, you aren't playing with mine.

You're already starting to sound like a PCer.

[goldshirt*9]

If you pull it off, you aren't playing with mine.

When you sell about 2 million pounds on last three day of the financial quarter and the manager states "wonder what will be wrong" on predominantly military Aerospace parts, "pull it off" is always with a cost 

[goldshirt*9]

Kong V Godzilla -- All about the CGI not a lot else

[6pairsofshoes]

I prefer the guys in the rubber suits stomping on models of Tokyo and knocking down high tension wires.  And it's quieter, too.  No toxic masculinity soundtrack.

Here:  who can resist these two?

[goldshirt*9]

I remember those well 
much better and fun