I was going to say this even though I was confused as frick in the first act because I missed the last two Avengers and other Marvel flicks. But I saw Blackberry after it, so technically that
My mother was confused even though she had watched the Avengers movies because they don't seem to consider that most people don't remember more than vague details about movies they saw five years ago, if that. They need to make the movies stand alone well on their own. But then they went out of their way to have that scene where Chris Pratt rambles on and on about the entire plot of every single movie to the random red lady played by Ratcatcher so I guess they recognize that to some extent.
>The lack of cgi is really noticable.
By their own admission they used a lot of CGI.
>In an interview with aviation YouTuber C.W. Lemoine, one of the VFX artists on the special effects team, Fred Lyn, stated that the use of CGI was extensive in the film with the F-14 and Su-57 visualized entirely by computer. Lyn also said that the F/A-18 scenes predominantly involved a single jet, which was then put through CGI to create the dogfight training scenes that depicted multiple jets. The four-jet strike force at the end of the film was also created through CGI from a single F/A-18.
Any use of practical effects is always appreciated in this day and age, but I definitely noticed the CGI in Top Gun Maverick.
With "lack of cgi" I meant "less cgi than capeshit". Im esl sorry. Yeah obviously the su57 scene was cgi as the americans dont have any aircraft of that model. Even less so for movie use.
Shin Ultraman, Jesus Revolution, Top Gun Maverick and The Batman . Didn’t enjoy anything else produced from 2022 until now that I’ve liked, and no I haven’t seen BarbenHeimer yet
Hear me out. I know that objectively it's a bad movie for myriad reasons, but it's one of those times where I subjectively enjoyed it because my brain was actively rewriting and headcanonning the shit out what I was seeing while also rejecting obvious crap like it wasn't even there.
There was a good Raimi horror type Wanda going schizo flick in there just fighting to get out and that's what I was watching, and piecing together in real time. I like Wanda - especially fricked up Wanda, and Olsen really grew on me fast over the course of the MCU. Cumberbatch is always good to watch, and shockingly makes a great Strange, so easy to tolerate even when he'd doing obviously badly-written shit. Couldn't care less about America Chavez, (but at least kid is kinda cute), and Wanda killing alt-universe idiot brigade and spaghettifying the Fantastic Mr. homosexual, didn't annoy me because I didn't care about any of them, and she could have been killing anybody.
ie. I was only watching schizo Wanda offing morons in a remorseless way, not characters I care about getting killed in a variety of silly disrespectful ways - if that makes any sense.
Not shilling for the film, and understand why anyone would hate the living shit out it, but still glad I got to see uber-Wanda go full-on frick nuts. And to be fair, even though her fake kids were a stupid motivation, at least it was a legit crazy female motivation.
All the stupid shit, like the Memory Store, etc. just went in one ear and out the other.
Strange and Wanda deserved better of course, but I can at least see what somebody was at least TRYING to do in the current stupid climate.
I definitely feel like Raimi was trying to make a much better movie and it was edited to shit by Disney. You can sense moments of greatness because he's a genuinely good director but Disney has a knack for sucking all the soul out of even the best directors.
The key scene that is missing from that film that would make Wanda's motivation really work, (instead of seeming stupid), is Strange explaining this shit to Wong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abduction
Childless women really do that kind of shit because it makes some kind of sense in a fricked up female mind. Like they've lost a kid, or can't have one, and it makes their brain blow a fuse, so next thing you know they're abducting a baby from a Walmart parking lot, or going to literally crazy extremes. If you cast your mind back, you've heard about these cases in the news before, and they actually happen somewhat regularly.
That real life fact should give you the heebie-jeeblies just thinking about it, so I'm sure Cumberbatch could do a decent job with it as horror movie exposition. And since Doctor Strange is a literal Doctor, his character would know this shit off the top of his head, and in that first scene he'd realise that's exactly what was going on by medical diagnosis. Especially horrific when he points out this b***h has not only gone right off the deep end, wont listen to reason, and will stop at nothing, but imagine giving a b***h like that god-like power.
Then the audience is onboard, and you just let Raimi off the chain with that shit. The kino writes itself. That's the pity of it. But you can watch it will that in mind, as if that scene did happen, and it actually improves the film significantly.
If you'd like to see a movie that actually does feature something like that as a plot point, I highly recommend Tokyo Godfathers. Better watched closer to Christmas if you care about that kind of thing, but I guess it doesn't really matter.
Though that particular motivation isn't the point so much as Wanda having legit female motivations, (much like Ripley or Sarah Connor work so well because they're motivated by maternal instinct). The unique nature that type of child abduction really lends itself to where Wanda's character ended up after WandaVision, for better or worse.
I actually have to wonder if such exposition/scene ever existed in some form, and was cut for stupid 'Feminist' reasons at some point. Like they thought it would make women seem 'le bad' or whatever. The other scenes kinda fit, because Strange sorta tries to explain, "Uh ... b***h ... your kids aren't real you know ... ", but doesn't keeping pushing it once he sees what he's dealing with, and more tries to placate her like he's tiptoeing around a certified crazy person beyond help or reason.
Which, in the absence of a stated motivation like that, seems like an omission on his part. That he doesn't take more time to try to talk sense into Wanda, along with the fact she's being so irrational in the first place and so easily justifying it.
But I just want female characters to have genuine female motivations in the end, no matter what they may be.
I watched Jules last weekend and you should too. Comfy movie about an ayyy crash landing in an old man's backyard. He calls the cops and tells everyone he knows but they think he's just senile.
Why is one eye larger than the other?
The fact that every waking moment of reality is a nightmare for you, brings me great pleasure.
Cope.
Nope
Guardians 3 was a genuinely fun time at the kinoplex. Robert let me get shitfaced
I was going to say this even though I was confused as frick in the first act because I missed the last two Avengers and other Marvel flicks. But I saw Blackberry after it, so technically that
My mother was confused even though she had watched the Avengers movies because they don't seem to consider that most people don't remember more than vague details about movies they saw five years ago, if that. They need to make the movies stand alone well on their own. But then they went out of their way to have that scene where Chris Pratt rambles on and on about the entire plot of every single movie to the random red lady played by Ratcatcher so I guess they recognize that to some extent.
Blue Beetle in 4DX "I'M SEEING IT RIGHT NOW" Not literally.
This frickin movie made me so happy man. I loved every minute of it
Yeah me too. Im so glad I went to see it on the big screen. The lack of cgi is really noticable. The shots from inside the wienerpit was incredible.
>The lack of cgi is really noticable.
By their own admission they used a lot of CGI.
>In an interview with aviation YouTuber C.W. Lemoine, one of the VFX artists on the special effects team, Fred Lyn, stated that the use of CGI was extensive in the film with the F-14 and Su-57 visualized entirely by computer. Lyn also said that the F/A-18 scenes predominantly involved a single jet, which was then put through CGI to create the dogfight training scenes that depicted multiple jets. The four-jet strike force at the end of the film was also created through CGI from a single F/A-18.
Any use of practical effects is always appreciated in this day and age, but I definitely noticed the CGI in Top Gun Maverick.
With "lack of cgi" I meant "less cgi than capeshit". Im esl sorry. Yeah obviously the su57 scene was cgi as the americans dont have any aircraft of that model. Even less so for movie use.
talk to me
Banshees of isirin
The DnD movie that released recently
The Banshees of Inisherin
Maverick
Halloween Ends
Guardians 3
Oppenheimer
You didn't have to delete the post, that was a little excessive.
Yes he did.
the flash is the newest movie that i've seen. it was enjoyable
Mad God
The Menu
Kino choice
Shin Ultraman, Jesus Revolution, Top Gun Maverick and The Batman . Didn’t enjoy anything else produced from 2022 until now that I’ve liked, and no I haven’t seen BarbenHeimer yet
Is it controversial to like The Batman? I thought it was the only good DC movie since TDK.
Fast X
Avatar: The Way of Water
pale blue eye
oppenheimer
only because it felt like no real political message was being forced down my throat
15 years ago these would be 5/10 at best films
Of course a lowercase poster somehow sees Oppenheimer as an apolitical film.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
I actually enjoyed 'Multiverse of Madness'.
Hear me out. I know that objectively it's a bad movie for myriad reasons, but it's one of those times where I subjectively enjoyed it because my brain was actively rewriting and headcanonning the shit out what I was seeing while also rejecting obvious crap like it wasn't even there.
There was a good Raimi horror type Wanda going schizo flick in there just fighting to get out and that's what I was watching, and piecing together in real time. I like Wanda - especially fricked up Wanda, and Olsen really grew on me fast over the course of the MCU. Cumberbatch is always good to watch, and shockingly makes a great Strange, so easy to tolerate even when he'd doing obviously badly-written shit. Couldn't care less about America Chavez, (but at least kid is kinda cute), and Wanda killing alt-universe idiot brigade and spaghettifying the Fantastic Mr. homosexual, didn't annoy me because I didn't care about any of them, and she could have been killing anybody.
ie. I was only watching schizo Wanda offing morons in a remorseless way, not characters I care about getting killed in a variety of silly disrespectful ways - if that makes any sense.
Not shilling for the film, and understand why anyone would hate the living shit out it, but still glad I got to see uber-Wanda go full-on frick nuts. And to be fair, even though her fake kids were a stupid motivation, at least it was a legit crazy female motivation.
All the stupid shit, like the Memory Store, etc. just went in one ear and out the other.
Strange and Wanda deserved better of course, but I can at least see what somebody was at least TRYING to do in the current stupid climate.
I definitely feel like Raimi was trying to make a much better movie and it was edited to shit by Disney. You can sense moments of greatness because he's a genuinely good director but Disney has a knack for sucking all the soul out of even the best directors.
The key scene that is missing from that film that would make Wanda's motivation really work, (instead of seeming stupid), is Strange explaining this shit to Wong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abduction
Childless women really do that kind of shit because it makes some kind of sense in a fricked up female mind. Like they've lost a kid, or can't have one, and it makes their brain blow a fuse, so next thing you know they're abducting a baby from a Walmart parking lot, or going to literally crazy extremes. If you cast your mind back, you've heard about these cases in the news before, and they actually happen somewhat regularly.
That real life fact should give you the heebie-jeeblies just thinking about it, so I'm sure Cumberbatch could do a decent job with it as horror movie exposition. And since Doctor Strange is a literal Doctor, his character would know this shit off the top of his head, and in that first scene he'd realise that's exactly what was going on by medical diagnosis. Especially horrific when he points out this b***h has not only gone right off the deep end, wont listen to reason, and will stop at nothing, but imagine giving a b***h like that god-like power.
Then the audience is onboard, and you just let Raimi off the chain with that shit. The kino writes itself. That's the pity of it. But you can watch it will that in mind, as if that scene did happen, and it actually improves the film significantly.
If you'd like to see a movie that actually does feature something like that as a plot point, I highly recommend Tokyo Godfathers. Better watched closer to Christmas if you care about that kind of thing, but I guess it doesn't really matter.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Though that particular motivation isn't the point so much as Wanda having legit female motivations, (much like Ripley or Sarah Connor work so well because they're motivated by maternal instinct). The unique nature that type of child abduction really lends itself to where Wanda's character ended up after WandaVision, for better or worse.
I actually have to wonder if such exposition/scene ever existed in some form, and was cut for stupid 'Feminist' reasons at some point. Like they thought it would make women seem 'le bad' or whatever. The other scenes kinda fit, because Strange sorta tries to explain, "Uh ... b***h ... your kids aren't real you know ... ", but doesn't keeping pushing it once he sees what he's dealing with, and more tries to placate her like he's tiptoeing around a certified crazy person beyond help or reason.
Which, in the absence of a stated motivation like that, seems like an omission on his part. That he doesn't take more time to try to talk sense into Wanda, along with the fact she's being so irrational in the first place and so easily justifying it.
But I just want female characters to have genuine female motivations in the end, no matter what they may be.
Talk to Me. Best horror I’ve seen in a while.
Better than Beau is Afraid?
Yes. I enjoyed BIF, but to me, it’s more comedy than horror. Far more.
Top Gun Maverick
GotG 3
Nope
DnD
Oppenheimer
I liked Prey
Guardians 3
Fast X
Sympathy for the devil
An the other Nic Cage one where he plays Dracula
>Sympathy for the devil
This sounds good, but it also sounds kind of like Collateral. Is it?
Aftersun
Banshees
The Beasts
Master Gardener
Godland
Blackberry
Yeah?
Barbie was a treat and a half
Mission impossible dead reckoning part one
Eternals. Very artful and thought provoking.
Isn't that from 2021?
Oops.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Infinity Pool
>Infinity Pool
I didn't get this movie at all. It didn't have Deadpool OR the Avengers.
Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm and Sarah Gadon.
hmm she looks familiar, what other works has she been in?
Sarah Gadon has been in tons of stuff
What the frick is the deal with this b***h and the spam about her?! I am not sure if I saw her in anything
She is amazing.
What was her best role?
11/22/63. Because there are hours of it.
Holy shit, she was Ruby Gloom? I had no idea she dabbled in cartoons. She really shows up everywhere.
Sometimes, things are real.
I watched a good movie recently and have now forgotten what it was.
In chronological order, the most recently released one I enjoyed was Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
That was pure operator kino.
The Northman
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
Moonage Daydream
You Hurt My Feelings
Beau is Afraid
Asteroid City
Oppenheimer
WHAT?
I watched Jules last weekend and you should too. Comfy movie about an ayyy crash landing in an old man's backyard. He calls the cops and tells everyone he knows but they think he's just senile.