they love it because they can say “actually, Logan is more like a western than a superhero film” to everyone within earshot and feel smart for recognizing the most recognizable genre trappings in Hollywood.
(Logan is a superhero movie, with some nods to western aesthetic)
My dad got me to see captain america the winter soldier by telling me it was gonna be like three days of the condor and “70s conspiracy movies” because he saw that bullshit kevin feige interview and its testament to my saintly nature that i believed him
Last Stand’s only standout moment was the Juggernaut line. It came right on the heels of the Internet outcry to let Snakes on a Plane keep its working title. I remember having a conversation back then about how catering to internet nerds was a beautiful way to let the inmates run the asylum. I would have never pictured things going so wrong and Rise of Skywalker happening.
apocalypse: meh? loses any focus days of future past had in favor of an omnipotent megalomaniac villain. sonic steals the show again
dark phoenix: doomed movie where everyone involved knew it. looks fantastic by comic book movie standards. did not need a villain besides a megalomaniacal jean so ends up feeling like bad MCU fare whenever jessica chastain is on screen
new mutants (rewatch): chopped and screwed in post-production hell. really strong performances, shot in a “historic” state hospital. vfx pieces all toward the end which lets the whole thing breathe. actually gay which is probably better than will ever happen under disney
this is why we need better antitrust enforcement in this country
They really painted themselves into a corner with this one, by having only one character with any kind of visually/cinematically interesting super power and yet an incredibly limited range of uses that can actually move the plot forward
they kind of get there with cerebro’s willy wonka tunnel lighting but the quicksilver bits stand alone
i wonder about the versions of days of future past and apocalypse with vaughan because he is (annoyingly) a stylist if nothing else
I am fucking losing it at this MODOK image that’s from the latest Ant-Man trailer.
I know the FX houses Marvel contracts are grossly overworked and underpaid, and that of all characters, MODOK probably doesn’t lend themselves to a decent realistic interpretation, but damn.
Guy who I only know as “guy from the end of Loki” is having a real renaissance right now. Between him and Pedro Pascal, that Disney bump is real
He’s a great actor! Watch The Last Black Man in San Francisco and The Harder They Fall!
I watched The Harder They Fall like the day they put it on netflix yo
And yes, he is very good.
Don’t act like you don’t know who he is!!!
I have no idea what his name is! I don’t like looking things up just to make posts, performative ignorance is more fun. How else would Veronica get to make fun of me constantly
Learn the names of the current Hollywood stars old man!
Speaking of feeling seen, The Last Black Man in San Francisco sure did get to the heart of growing up in a stupid old house that is objectively awful except aesthetically and having it completely destroy your brain
I am genuinely going to have such a hard time when my mom sells lol
i have nothing to add to this except that i just watched Last Black Man in San Francisco and wanted it to be good! But I thought it really felt like an A24 movie, if you know what I mean. Or, like, an AI version of A24 if that makes any sense. That dude is real good in it tho and I like the story a lot.
I also recognize him as a dude getting a lot of work (deservingly!) and I also will refuse to look his name up for this post.
Yeah I ended up having kinda mixed feelings about it but the parts of it I liked I really really liked
ok we watched the last stand in two sittings as winding down and eating breakfast accompaniment
i can see if you saw it in theaters in 2006 it would be frustrating but we both had fun because we could talk through it
i think it has the most mckellen screen time of any and he gets great lines like [after flying the golden gate bridge to alcatraz] “charles always said he wanted to build bridges”
definitely fun if you’re just rooting for magneto and his gang of hot people
we also conceived of leech as an omelas kid that lives in a cell to make everyone else normal, and that’s a micro meme we’ll have forever
in retrospect kitty is absurdly underutilized in days of future past. phasing is almost as telegenic as quicksilversonic
now we’re watching x-men origins wolverine which appears to be a very edgy bush administration morality play a la revengeance
poor logan is a 19th century man, he doesn’t need these people giving him lip about his century old nicotine addiction
the wolverine: like a christopher nolan you only live twice. sincerely stunned when viper says she’s immune to the “toxin of men” in the last set piece and peels off her face/hair, like it became total schlock at the eleventh hour
logan: decided its border depiction was too real to revisit casually
deadpool: the reddit superhero, right down to the pegging
deadpool 2: no, really, bangarang is used to punctuate a meta joke into an action scene twice. but it’s righteous fun this time because it’s about a kid who wants to immolate an abusive school administrator and domino’s luck power is fantastic on screen
man they really are depending on a comics style Crisis in the flash movie to be able to pick and choose what they want to keep. it’s very funny to see them try to cobble together something coherent out of the cursed mess that was the dceu
