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Ah, really? I felt it was a refreshingly light-hearted take on superheroes compared to most of DC's recent movies. That era you're referring to is filled with guff like Catwoman and Daredevil, and I can't see Shazam falling into the same bracket of trash as those.

I see the mention of the Daredevil film of old and feel the compulsion to retch.  Good grief that film was something else in its awfulness.  I can only thank the heavens that I've never seen Catwoman.  

This is a decent summary of that shitshow.

Watched Ant Man and the Wasp last night. I enjoyed it,vit had laughs and character, adventure and action, spectacle and wonder. It was very much a film about fallout from other Marvel films, so I don't really know how it holds up alone. As someone fully invested in the series, though, I enjoyed it.

I also recently finished Jessica Jones Season 2, which has all the same problems and all the same strengths as Daredevil season 2. Go figure.

That's Stan Lee gone.

He's reached a fair old age, passing at 95 years old. I'm glad he managed to see the MCU take off in such a way - it must have been such a treat for him seeing what it's turned into. Although, his last cameos are going to be tinged with a touch of sadness now, I'm sure.

Yep, RIP big man. I saw Venom last night and I remember enjoying the Stan Lee cameo but, like Deadpool, thinking it was a bit of a stretch. He invented X-Men and Spider-man but we should have had Todd Macfarlane in Venom.

Still, the man created characters who shaped my life probably more than any real person. He's responsible for the biggest, maddest fictional world and characters ever. What a guy.

Speaking of Venom: it wasn't a "good" film, but I loved it. If Infinity War was the film I never imagined was possible when I was sat reading those comicbooks as a kid, Venom is exactly the movie I'd have written when I was a 13-year old idiot who liked seeing a big bad dude in black killing baddies and swearing and stuff. It definitely has some plot holes and the characterisation of Venom going from monster to anti-hero happens way too suddenly, but I guess that's a factor of the whole Spider-man chapter of the symbiote's life being cut out.

I honestly can't see a Venom movie working well without Spidey, to be honest. I heard Tom Hardy helped it along by being weird and suitably B-Movie about the whole affair - was that the case?

Have ye's seen the theories that the Symbiote has already been in the MCU? The one I really like is how Hela is working with one in Thor Ragnarok.

JayMoyles wrote:

I honestly can't see a Venom movie working well without Spidey, to be honest. I heard Tom Hardy helped it along by being weird and suitably B-Movie about the whole affair - was that the case?

Yeah Tom Hardy is pretty much the only reason its an enjoyable film. Not having Spider-man was definitely an issue. If they couldn't include him, the smart move would have been to just skip the origin and start with eddie and symbiote already bonded. But this is Sony . . .

Also, even worse, in the opening logos there was a big screen for Tencent . . .

Saw everyone's bro last night Aquaman and got to say it's the second best DCEU film which okay isn't hard but even this year's superhero films I'd say it's better than Antman and the Wasp.

The CGI is a little bad in some places that's about it, otherwise, it's a good popcorn movie.

I can foresee a fair few cinema trips in my near future as there seems to be loads of movies I want to see currently out in cinemas... namely Spiderverse, Creed 2, Wreck-It-Ralph 2, Aquaman and Mortal Engines. Could be time to invest in a Limitless card...

I saw Aquaman last night. Easily the most fun I've ever had watching a DC movie. It was spectacularly stupid in the best possible ways. Every scene had something ridiculously weird that caught me off guard, and there were so many scenes where a conversation became boring so a nearby wall exploded that I lost count.

And Jason Momoa is just infinitely charming and watchable.

11/10

I saw Captain Marvel last night and got to say it has me ready for Endgame and worth a watch in its own right.

It is just sort of a good to great Marvel film though.

It didn't do much for me. It's fine, but that's about it. The setup for endgame is really no different to how it was at the end of infinity war.

I enjoyed it! Marvel's origin stories are usually hit or miss, but Captain Marvel felt much more like a hit to me. I'd slot it behind Iron Man and Guardians Vol. 1, but ahead of the other origin stories. The opening didn't half drag, but once the film opened up it zipped along at a fair pace. The dialogue was good fun and reminded me of a buddy cop movie in the best ways. Cap herself was great and I'm looking forward to seeing her interact with the rest of the gang.

The only major downside outside of the dull opening was that there was no real peril or risk for Cap or her motley crew. That's probably more to do with the film being sandwiched between both chapters of the Thanos story than anything else though. Roll on Endgame!

Excuse me but the name Cap is already taken. May I suggest Marv instead

Home Alone is now in the MCU

'Now he's defending the only home they have left.' I reckon Kevin McAllister would have stopped Thanos within five minutes of him appearing on Earth.

OrangeRakoon wrote:

Excuse me but the name Cap is already taken. May I suggest Marv instead

If I was a betting man, I think the title of "Cap" may be up for grabs by the end of, er, Endgame.

Am I the only one who finds what they're doing with Captain Marvel to be kind of bulls***?

We've been following the core Avengers for over a decade. We've built up to the Thanos stuff for the entire time. Hell we even broke everything back down to the core Avengers for the grand finale.

And yet despite all of that in the eleventh hour they're now introducing Captain Superwoman. All of a sudden she's the first superhero, she is the first Avenger, and she will likely become the linchpin for taking down Thanos. Not the characters we've been following since the start in a clever finale, but some barely-built up new factor.

It just rubs me like a cat being stroked the wrong way. It even looks like we won't even have an arc after Endgame dealing with the departure of most of the veterans and the power vacuum, since they're making it abundantly clear they're planning to simply pass the torch straight to Carol.

Ah well, at least Gunn is going to be back for Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

Endgame is going to be 3hrs long I think they can do the passing of the (human)torch during that.

The Avengers couldn't beat Thanos in IW, sure Carol is coming in late and she might do a Superman in Justice League with haha I win or more likely sparks things to get going in Endgame.

Nah, I think she's there to be established as the face of the next wave of Avengers with most of the OGs likely bowing out after Endgame. I think it'll still focus heavily on Cap, Tony, Bruce and Thor.

Ah, I came into this thread expecting Athrun to have a bad man opinion and he didn't disappoint

It's worth noting we haven't actually SEEN endgame yet.v I'm sure Carol isn't gonna turn up and outshine all our favourite bearded men. They'll put her on a bus for the last act.

As for the film itself, I loved it. I liked the modern twist on the kree/ skull war, I liked the mystery angle to the origin story, I liked the characters. I'll agree it lacked in tension but a lot of marvel films suffer from that and also it didn't help that this one was set twenty years ago and we know most of the cast were still alive.

Highlight for me though was the cat gag. Not for the on screen comedy but for the Japanese dude who loudly laughed at it and set the rest of the audience off

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Ah yes, the good old "you have an opinion I don't like, that makes you a bad person" mentality. I notice a trend whenever I say anything you seem to dislike. Involves a fair bit of condescending mockery in what I suspect is an attempt to make up for the fact that you rarely have the ability to actually counter the facts I bring to the table (or, in the case of posts like my earlier one, attempt to create a rebuttal for something that doesn't actually have a valid one as it deals entirely with a hypothetical concern that has yet to be realised one way or the other).

As for the opinion you labelled as making me a "bad man", expressing an opinion backed up with reasonable logic does not make a person "bad". However constantly condescending and snarkily putting someone down for having views that differ from your own, even when they put forward a large amount of thought and consideration into those views and typically favour use of both hard logic and objective facts when forming said opinions, well. I'll let you fill in the blanks about what that makes a person.

And to be clear I dislike deus ex machinas in all stories that have given me reason to expect a good logical and emotionally satisfying conclusion. They are, at best, lazy. At worst they can even completely destroy the internal consistency previously established in a story. If that makes me a "bad man" then so be it.