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OOOH! Very awesome man!

I dig the new stuff. Pattinson looks completely different as any kind of Bruce Wayne, and I like that. I like his emo anime hair. He doesn't look handsome at all, but he does look like a kind of Batman in his eyes.LOVE Gordon. He looks perfect and love seeing him and Batman together.Think Penguin looks great, but I wish he were putting on airs of being dapper, rather than just a straight mobster. But I can't see Colin Farrel in the makeup, which is cool.Catwoman looks acceptable but we didn't see too much of her.Honestly I dig the intense, gritty vibe to be honest. I like the choice of song, I like the Batman Begins-esque music. I like the reality of it. It almost looks like it takes place in the same world as Joker, but I really didn't care for that movie.This could still suck. Aside from the collar, which I think is an awesome addition, I do not like the costume. The ears are better than Batfleck's cowl, but the Bale-esque military puzzle piece all black look...I really hope he changes that by the end. It's a decent idea as a prototype, but I'll never see it as iconic.Moreover, Reeves swore up and down that this is Batman as the detective, but we just see more of him out-punching someone. That's cool in doses, but that's not what sells the character to me. Prioritizing that just disagrees with my sensibilities.This looks like it might be rated R. R rated comic book movies are so hit/miss that they're still not justified to become the norm yet, especially for such an innately juvenile core concept as Batman. But Reeves' Planet of the Apes films were dark as hell but also PG-13s, so we'll see.It looks neat, but ya can't know until you watch the movie.

Oh, I don't know...the era wasn't that strange... ...okay it was.

I've personally seen memorials and WB employee obituaries spam-bombed by cries to RELEASE THE SNYDER CUT.

I've always wanted to watch Clean and Sober. Wasn't he nominated for an Oscar for that? I suggest Spotlight as well.

I agree with that, Bucky was sort of an appendage to Steve, and Peggy definitely has a higher priority of focus in the film that he does. Which, given how they characterized Bucky as Steve's same age BFF and not his teenage sidekick, isn't so much a flaw in that first film as it is an observation. And to Will's point on the Black Widow, I like that even after The Avengers, she's still not a million percent trustworthy in the way that Steve expects her to be at first because of her nature as a spy. It's a good use of her character I think, which does fall by the wayside down the line to where she's just one of the Avengers.

🤣🤣🤣 Sure, same, but as an adult and particularly someone who naturally relates to the geeky token black guy on the ship, I'm just imagining him as the "This is Fine" dog, only the surrounding fire is a bacchanalia of Space Orgies. That is so not fair.

I think the tech is a fair point, but as a comic fan I dug that. It does come out of nowhere, but it also feels very Marvel Comics to me. It's like the detail of Fury having a flying car, but the propulsion system is busted after he's first attacked, so we don't see it but we learn he's got it.

LOL no worries, I'm not sweating being spoiled, I just find that outrageous! Not even in the movies?

What?!

Once Cap becomes proper CAP, the film looses its grip on its focus. His wartime career is sped up in a montage, which is odd because it’s not as though the mainstream moviegoing audience was super aware of Captain America fighting in WWII in 2011. I really enjoy First Avenger, but the second half is a little too pleased with itself in how it speeds towards its end. Especially after Bucky “dies”. Winter Solider has more surprises, more compelling characters, way better action, heightened suspense, and balances everything while developing Cap as a character.

Secret of the Ooze was always my favorite as a kid, but I've not seen it in...going on 20 years. I love the first one now, whereas the violence such as Raph getting beaten up and Splinter getting "tortured" (?) upset me as a kid. I wonder how I'd take to the second film now... Turtles in Time I just remember the Turtles looking like they had Sickle Cell disease or something. And the wet willies.

There's some snarky leftist commentary to find in saying that Chris Evans perfectly embodied the physicality of both Johnny Storm and Steve Rogers by being a blonde haired blue eyed white guy, but whatever, he was great.

Heheheheheheeee...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/apr/06/chris-evans-captain-america

Uncut Gems: Watched on Netflix after much hype. It's a very solid movie that took me forever to finish. It's too long, with the last act just stretching the point further than it needed to. But Adam Sandler can't possibly have had a better performance, and the supporting players like Julia Fox and Lakeith Stanfield were great as well. And I loved The Weeknd playing his scummy self in a way that was 100% not an exaggeration. Far and away my favorite thing about it however was the score. There's a wonderful, 80s synth, almost Vangelis score in this was grabbed my attention from the getgo.

This is interesting because all three movies are claimed to be near perfect. Of course none of them are, and in fact all three have glaring flaws. I'm leaning towards Cap. The first half is perfect. The use of the period is perfect because (unlike Captain Marvel) it doesn't come off as hammy or distraction, simply involving. It hews extremely faithful to the source material, and the detours it does takes simply plusses, not subtracts. I wish Red Skull was scarier and Cap's fighting style was better established like it gets later down the line, but that's it really. Guardians is good, but for me it comes down to how high does my enjoyment of it rank against the others. I enjoy Cap more than not, and with Ragnarok it's ultimately unsatisfying.

Everyone's (gleefully) calling for the end to the DCU Streaming site, but my editors so far have survived the day. Dunno about the near future, but DCU isn't going anywhere at the moment.

Endgame's ambition equates to something like spinning three stories of plates. It's ultimately pulled off and I don't really have much wrong with it, but it does have that requisite MCU humor that it feels to need to tack on that is jarring in between the serious stuff. Like the quibbling over time travel mechanics by going all pop culture crazy, Scott Lang turning into a baby and Avengers-era Tony needing Mjolner-defibrillation from Thor. It's not as...EGREGIOUS...as some of the other films, but they are tonal whiplash all the same. The movie needs humor, but the humor runs too broad. Additionally, and this is a personal thing, but while I know MCU secret identities are for shit, it's a little annoying that Scott Lang just throws his out there to a bunch of kids because h'es jealous of Hulk (How public is Ant Man anyway? His movies set up that the whole thing with Pym Particles was supposed to be secret), and Tom Holland constantly having his mask off when he's surrounded by hundreds of strangers straight up bothers me. I know they're cribbing off of Ultimate Spider-Man, but at least Peter tried maintaining an identity. Here, he's just telling people his name for the joke of him being an awkward kid, and it's more of that sensibility that he's pretty useless in the universe. But that's not the hugest deal. Do people really care all that much on Black Panther's CGI in the third act? Yeah it's not the best, but it's not like they're transforming into claymation dinosaurs or anything. It's a flaw, but the way people talk about it, it's almost like they walked out of the movie in that final fight. Still, BP's only real flaw is that T'Challa gets lost in his own movie after Killmonger defeats him for a while. It does a great job on centering on the women, but you don't feel as though you're with T'Challa as much as you should be in the story. The movie's more like the world of Wakanda rather than Black Panther, but it's not the biggest deal either. Winter Solider has no flaws. The action is the best, the use of continuity is terrific, the characterization is great, the humor isn't fucking stupid, it develops Steve's character and as a result made him a fan favorite of the MCU, where he wasn't during the first phase.

Batman and Robin is a good movie, because it's entertaining. In a Commando way. It's badly written, silly as hell and commits several betrayals, but its energy is so wild and bizarre that these days I side-eye people who angrily scream about it. We're never going to see anything like it again, and if we do it'll be *actually* good like Batman: Brave and the Bold. Oh, I watched The Patriot last week and it sucked.

Yep. I've no problems that in the Flickchart Forum, Winter Solider won the most points. Of all the MCU films, it's the hardest to argue points against.

Iron Man is a better film. Even Jeff Bridges' Iron Monger is a good character who's not the best villain when compared to other better ones. But he's the best Iron Man villain of the trilogy. I wish we saw more of Hella, who I thought was great. I hope we haven't seen the last of her.

Wow