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  2. The Flickchart Forum - join in!

    in Earth-2.net: The Show

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    6 hours ago, slothian said:

    Yes - insofar as I don't consider Gilliam to be problematic/unlikable unless I'm forgetting something major.

    He's not Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, Mel Gibson, or Kevin Spacey, but he's problematic for at least the following reasons:
     

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    -Along with Weinstein, Allen, and others, he signed a petition in 2009 demanding the release of Roman Polanski after his arrest in Zurich that year.

    -He called the #MeToo movement a witch hunt and Ellen Barkin accused him of doing something to her in an elevator.

    -He blasted Black Panther not just for reasons similar to Coppola and Scorsese, but also for some pretty racist-sounding comments about Africa.

    -He publicly endorsed Dave Chappelle's recent Netflix special.

    I'd still love to join you for or even just listen to a Gilliam-themed episode, but I thought you should know beforehand.

  15. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    3 hours ago, Davedevil said:

    Ms. Marvel - The finale was really good.

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    I enjoyed the Home Alone feel of it even though the imagery itself that they were dealing with was really disturbing, especially recently (which explains the disclaimer up front).

    More than anything, they nailed how Kamala would act in that situation. She would use violence to protect people, not to hurt anyone. The stretching effects strained credibility, but didn't break it, which I'm sure is why they were nervous about the whole thing.

    My biggest issue is the villains. They are not convincing at all, especially Kamran. I couldn't help but be reminded of Hayden Christensen in Revenge of the Sith, he does a decent job looking desperate and angry, but that's about it.

    Side note but, man did it take me out just to hear the name Clandestines spoken out loud. I had an issue of ClanDestine guest starring Spider-Man as a kid, so that was something I had a bit of history with, but dismissed as being far too obscure for the MCU.

    I wish it could've been 8-10 episodes, or hell, a regular 20-24 episode season. I doubt they could've pulled in all of the cast members, or had as much CGI (thinking mainly of the animated thoughts) that way, but teen heroes especially need the serialized format.

    Oh, and about that change:

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    I frankly missed that whole mutant implication (and 90s X-Men theme drop) because I thought they were just being coy about the Inhumans. 

    I'm okay with the change, frankly I don't care what her affiliation is, because it hasn't affected her story. Her supporting cast is her family, friends, and her fellow teen heroes. 

    I didn't even watch the other shows and I'm just sick at all the speculation of when we'll get the Mutants or the FF. To be fair, Marvel started it with the casting of Evan Peters back in WandaVision, and I'm sure they enjoy the attention they get from the fan theories. I'm just glad this show that I'm really invested in managed to avoid that for the most part, even if it's now getting the wrong kind of attention. 

     

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    I learned about the mutant reveal (though not through how it would be revealed) earlier in the day and I was hoping that Deever would somehow be turning out being Mystique (given her comic book roots, plus with Deever being portrayed a mean-looking redhead). Still, it's not too late.

     

  16. Help Influence Episode 92!

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    2 hours ago, dc20willsave said:

    She's in a few scenes at the beginning and end. I haven't watched it in years so can't necessarily say how much in the middle. Another idea for an early Nat Po appearance: Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

    Having rewatched that recently in conjunction with the Obi-Wan series, I think only Liam Neeson has enough screen time in that movie to warrant its inclusion in an episode. Also, your miles may vary, but I had a hard time telling when the Queen was Natalie Portman or Keira Knightley in the scenes where Padme wasn’t present too (as apparently did one of their moms when they visited the set).

  20. The Flickchart Forum - join in!

    in Earth-2.net: The Show

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    I’ll not throwing my hat either in just yet, but if neither Donovan, Mike, nor someone else isn’t chomping at the bit to be the third host, then I’d happy to join you, Ian and Will, as long as it’s after the Spider-Man one (one rewatch at a time).

    The X-Men were my gateway to the Marvel universe (via the 90s cartoon) and have been listening to a lot of CEREBRO episodes lately. While I have mixed feelings about the films as a whole, I am due for a rewatch with most of them and still haven’t seen three of them.

  21. Every film you've watched in 2022

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    19 minutes ago, Davedevil said:

    Felt a little like going from Rian Johnson back to JJ Abrams, appropriately enough.

    That actually reminds of another thought I had shortly after leaving the cinema, and which I stand by a day later: I enjoyed Rise of Skywalker more than this and that's not going to get better with a second viewing either.

  22. Every film you've watched in 2022

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    1 hour ago, Davedevil said:

    That bothered me too. 

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    It's supposed to be the Avengers: Endgame of the Jurassic movies, from what the director said, and there aren't any consequences. Even someone losing a limb could've gone a long way to having something they have to live with.

    I also think that, for a movie focused so much on references, nobody saying "welcome...to Jurassic World" at the beginning or end is a wasted opportunity.

    Otherwise, I thought it was entertaining enough, glad I saw it on a big screen. The two and a half hour runtime was weird, I was surprised they didn't want to make it a three hour one, but maybe on home media, who knows.

    There is supposed to be a director's cut.

    Also, Malcolm did say it at the end of Fallen Kingdom, so reiterating it in this film would have been a bit much (in a film that already had a lot of too much).

  23. Every film you've watched in 2022

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    8 hours ago, Missy said:

    It's all over the place, relies way too hard on fan service, begs us to care about Strange's failed relationship with Christine, uses a literal device to deliver the plot, assassinates Wanda, is filled to the brim with awful acting, the dialogue made us pause to facepalm multiple times, and while I don't care that it visually breaks the MCU mold I do care that it relies on lame tropes for scares and doesn't push anything forward.

    Out of curiosity, from whom? I have seen it but bad performances rarely jump out at me during most MCU films (I'm sure they're there but the only ones I can remember at the moment are in Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World).

    Jurassic World: Dominion: Still processing this one and glad I ended up seeing rather than skipping it and having too much of it spoiled by social media. I don't dislike it as much as Jurassic Park III (yet) and it does right some of the franchise's previous wrongs. However, there's too much in it that belongs in other movies or stories rather than in a Jurassic Park story, including

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    James Bond films (with the roof jumping and motorcycle chases in Malta), Journey to the Center of the Earth (with the Dimetrodons in the cave), the Old Testament (with the locust swarms), and the DuckTales reboot (Dodgson is a lot like Mark Beaks -- a critical parody of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerburg -- and at times as almost as silly).

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    Also, despite a lot of action sequences and more dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures than any of the previous movies, I can't recall any of the goodies ever getting seriously injured or even bleeding, let alone getting killed or eaten. For all their problems, at least The Lost World and Jurassic Park III maintained the illusion of danger by having people on the heroes' side get ripped in two, swallowed whole, or have their necks snapped). I'm pretty sure the damn super locusts also got more screen time than the T. rex, the Giganotosaurus, or even the three raptor species in this film put together.

    O well. At least,

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    they didn't kill off the T. rex in a quick and nonsensical manner this time.

    It also finally brought feathered dinosaurs into these movies (that's not a spoiler; they were in the trailer and now the marketing), and if it keeps getting people interested in dinosaurs, then that can only be a good thing.