i watched the snyder cut and avengers infinity war in the same day. i have thoughts about snyder’s strengths in that context but ultimately it comes down to like, jason momoa walking down a stormy dock while unflinchingly on-the-nose lyrics are sung. i kinda respect it lmao
Watchmen also sucked hard. I did like 300 though, and the Dawn remake is too distant in my mind to have an opinion of without a rewatch. Maybe I’ll bite the bullet and do the Justice League thing one day. But it is not this day.
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amazon chapter is the best part of justice league because it’s 300 with no men
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I honestly don’t mind his watchmen even though it is basically a nuance free zone because a) as an extremely literal realization of the comic it’s pretty successful from beginning to end and b) the music choices and the pacing are admirably aggressive in a very obvious sort of way
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The owl movie is the only good one
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don’t really give a shit about snyder either but tbh he’s generated huge goodwill just by having work set squarely against the marvel empire for so long
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saw endgame. meh, it’s a popcorn-eater but definitely not as interesting as infinity war. it does have some interesting scenes, but i feel is less philosophically rich as a whole than infinity war.
i still don’t like the mcu as a concept. feels gross. i just wanted to watch IW and endgame to see the ideas behind the “snap” because i think it is kind of a rich concept. they didn’t execute it as well as i wanted them to, i think people should just be gone, in a blink, like the hawkeye scene at the beginning of endgame. several people had like, a chance to say a few words or do shit while disintegrating which to me feels like undercutting the violence of the concept, the power of it, the philosophical legibility to a degree. then peter parker gets like 2x-3x as much time as everyone else to die so they can milk tony stark’s pathos a little. it’s not clean and tidy like it could be (you can’t really raise the stakes in endgame because you calculated the highest possible stakes for IW already, it’s a mistake to try and go bigger, because it’s really not possible, imo; also i don’t give a fuck about gwyneth paltrow and can’t take seriously any scene she’s in lmao), but it is as least interesting that there are these and many other nuggets to think over for movies this tentpole. i’ll give it credit for that at least.
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Seeing Fast 9 in 90 minutes!!! The last time I went to a theater was for a different IX and it feels like I’m setting things right.
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Say what you will about 300 but Zack understands the immediacy of the classics unlike, oh, I don’t know, fucking Troy
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saw it last night, was great
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Oh good. 8 left a bad taste in my mouth re: Elena so there’s a nagging doubt in the back of my mind.
Calculating the reasonableness of a $15 1.5 lb pretzel by looking at an Auntie Annie’s nutrition facts PDF
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yeah as someone who doesn’t watch most of these but enough of them to participate in the world, i thought Endgame was super underwhelming and a bit of a mess. something i think could only be effective if you’re super into superhero movies and maybe never seen a film without a happy ending before
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i do think most the second act is rather strong, basically everything about time travelling to prior movies is an inspired choice, and the pacing really picks up there. there are just too many kinda weak scenes that don’t land like they should. the whole hawkeye and black widow fight to see who gets to die is really underwhelming especially since you just visited this same spot in the prior movie and that scene was devastating. also lebowski thor is kind of hit or miss for me. probably the valhalla scene kind of bogs the pace a little. but by the end its clear that it’s just another ground war with rather poor emotional stakes; btw there was no need for a ground war that ultimately had no effect in IW anyway (both from a movie perspective and from a fiction perspective lol), esp if they were going to use it as a finale in endgame!! comon y’all pace yourselves haha
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best scene is every scene with paul rudd
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endgame was the last marvel thing i watched specifically because it had 10 years of shit to wrap up and managed to do it in the least emotionally satisfying ways possible. at the end i was like “ah yes, that was definitely A Film, i.e. a series of pictures shown in rapid succession to trick our eyes into believing we are seeing moving objects” and that was about it.
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Better Luck Tomorrow : Tokyo Drift :: Brick : The Last Jedi
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A one hundred course meal of incredulous delight
I was laughing and crying for two hours straight
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Oh and they got vintage keyboards for props instead of buying a set of keycaps from amazon like clowns
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