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Post by Jeremy on Dec 14, 2018 8:53:05 GMT -8
Roma's been getting rave reviews, but I'm not quite sure it's my speed. (Netflix also released the Sabrina holiday special today, and I may give it first priority. Despite that show stealing half its material from Buffy, it's still fairly entertaining.)
Saw Spider-Verse last night, and it was quite an experience. I hope to have a review up shortly.
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Post by Quiara on Dec 14, 2018 14:45:09 GMT -8
Crazy Rich Asians was really fun.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 15, 2018 17:31:24 GMT -8
Crazy Rich Asians was really fun. This is an accurate assertion.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 18, 2018 19:52:13 GMT -8
I finally saw Deadpool 2! Well, sort of. I saw Once Upon a Deadpool. Tomato, potato.
The attempts to edit the hard R-rated film to (just barely) PG-13 standards weren't seamless - at times, the cut-short curses and just-out-of-frame bloody violence could be distracting - but it worked better than expected. Much of the humor - the jokes that relied less on crudities than fourth-wall breaking - remained intact. Though oddly enough, the film never uses the one F-bomb it's entitled to. (It was probably work best in the scene where Colossus says it; bleeping it out in that instance kind of ruins the joke.)
As for the film itself, I quite enjoyed it. Not one of the year's best comic-book outings, as it suffers from some of the same flaws of the first Deadpool (particularly the way it takes too long to build up steam), but it's an entertaining film with strong lead performances. Reynolds is game as ever, Zazie Beetz does well as Domino, and Josh Brolin lends a surprising level of nuance to Cable. (He's not as nucleic to the story as he was in Infinity War, but some of the film's best emotional material falls to him.)
Oddly enough, the funniest moments in this version of the film were the all-new bridging sequences, in which Fred Savage constantly interrupts Deadpool's cleaned-up retelling of the film to point out plot inconsistencies. (At one point, he even breaks the fourth wall of a fourth wall joke, which is sort of like breaking the sixteenth wall.) These extra scenes probably don't merit another ticket for folks who've seen the original, but they spiced up the film and made it seem just a tad less cash-grabby.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 27, 2018 21:02:14 GMT -8
Bumblebee is a good film. It has a talented cast (including Pamela Adlon!), decently-staged action, a lot of heart, and a great '80s soundtrack. And the friendship between Hailee Steinfeld and a giant yellow toy commercial is well-developed. I am comforted by the notion that Hollywood can make a Transformers movie that doesn't suck.
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Post by ThirdMan on Jan 1, 2019 21:25:59 GMT -8
While it may not perform all that spectacularly in North America, it looks like Aquaman is going to blow way past Wonder Woman in worldwide gross, probably in one more week. And now you know why producers don't just abandon these individual projects when their overall cinematic universe is underperforming commercially and/or critically. Not that I have any actual opinion on Aquaman, which I haven't seen.
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Post by Jeremy on Jan 2, 2019 6:13:37 GMT -8
I don't know if the Cinematic Universe angle has anything to do with Aquaman's success. I mean, Venom made $850 million despite no franchise buildup (and some pretty weak reviews).
Still, it's true that sticking with the DCEU may pay off in the long term. That was the case with the MCU as well - early films like Incredible Hulk and Thor were not major hits, and it wasn't until the first Avengers that Marvel really started getting bang for its buck.
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