"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/05/2018 at 23:11 • Filed to: None
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/05/2018 at 23:11 • Filed to: None | 1
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I liked it. But...like almost all the superhero movies these days, there is so much going on I honestly can’t remember hardly any of it. here is what I do remember:
1. Pretty great writing, it really was a well crafted script especially for being about a pseudo-futuristic tribal nation with magic flowers and metal.
2. Andy Freakin Serkis. Man I can’t not love Andy Serkis and he was great here.
3. Nearly related - The parade of seriously great looking 4Runners. Great bar work, great wheels and apparently, like literally 100% of the vehicles in this movie according to the audio...including the Fiat Ducato...V8 swapped.
4. seriously, why are ALL of the vehicles V8?
5. Martin Freedman is an American? Alright, I guess.
6. This is so much better than even the best DC movie (wonder woman...which to me was a meh) that you have to wonder if the people making DC movies have even been to see a Marvel movie.
thats all.
Dusty Ventures
> HammerheadFistpunch
03/05/2018 at 23:54 |
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I thought The Dark Knight was DC’s best movie
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Dusty Ventures
03/06/2018 at 00:02 |
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I suppose I meant in the DC cinematic universe.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2018 at 02:34 |
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regarding #6 - I am nearly 100% sure the studios thought “Oh this is SO EASY! Let’s just throw money at things and put names on stuff but MAKE SURE EVERYTHING HITS ALL CHECKBOXES and we have a guaranteed success!!!!”
It was beat to death on oppo a while ago, but hiring Zak Snyder was an okay/good call....If what you want is a Zak Snyder film (see “Suckerpunch” for what he likes to make and then watch it again while thinking about the concept of you, the viewer as well as the studio that funded it taking a sucker punch from the director who made it...it’s actually pretty good just a bit too arthouse for the budget and concept but this sidepoint went on too long) but it doesn;t even feel like a known director or writer did it. It feels so faceless and souless like they hired people to put names on the billing. And there are glimpses, even in batman vs superman, where you can almost see that people tried to save it. WHile a touch over the top, the scene in BvS where Batman finds renewed strength and lays waste to the bad guys while trying to save the girl like it’s a scene out of the newer batman video games? Fucking. Awesome. Maybe a bit too far, but I see it. And the pieces were there for there to be a good script I just......it still reeks of corporate checklist syndrome where they then go “See! You got what you like! So it’s a good movie, right?” not recognizing that just because I like a big breakfast spread doesn’t mean I’ll eat moldy bread with undercooked eggs and some rotten fruit and yogurt. Sure it’s technically a continental breakfast, but nothing is done correctly or in a way I actually want to eat it!
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Sorry. /rantover.
KnowsAboutCars
> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2018 at 05:22 |
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Regular people probably won’t mind it but as a car person it’s so annoying when movie cars have engine sounds that clearly don’t belong to them.
The last movie that had this I remember watching was The Kingdom. If that movie is to be believed Saudi police forces have v8 swapped FJ60s.
random001
> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2018 at 07:20 |
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I liked it a lot, except for some of the forces race issues. Like the
*SPOILERS*
last line of Killmonger “I prefer to die like my ancestors who knew it was better to jump overboard than to live a life of captivity.”
Ok, dude, we just got through an entire movie telling us how you are Wakandan, perhaps in exile, but your specific ancestors are literally, like, right down the hill. As in weren’t part of the slave trade, according to everything the entire movie has been telling us. I felt like that was a lame attempt to force a black lives matter moment. In almost any other context, it would have been fine, but 2 hours of telling us how they’ve been hiding from the world does not fit with that character’s attitude.
I would have believed it if he didn’t know he was from Wakanda early on, and so lived a life like he was claiming, but it didn’t fit the narrative.