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This film definitely is not as forgettable as you're claiming. Sure, it's dull and poorly paced, but it's memorable in the ways it is bad. I couldn't stop thinking about it for days after I watched it. It's been a while since a movie I didn't like stuck in my craw quite the way this did. Also, you don't see the moral implications of taking over someone's body and loving in it? Edit: This thread really isn't the place for this, so I'm just gonna shut the gently caress up. fishing with the fam fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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enigmahfc posted:the fact that people actually have STRONG OPINIONS about WW84 shows just how few movies there were this year, and how hungry people are to just have STRONG OPINIONS about a movie. WW84 was weird but I find it really strange that people are going insane about just an overall bland movie. If this had been any other year with roughly 20 huge blockbusters releasing every few minutes, no one would give 2 shits about WW84 and they def would not write full articles about how it shows the destruction of Hollywood and mankind as a whole, and at most We Hate Movies would have maybe mentioned it in passing or something. People just REALLY want to hate this movie and they want to make sure EVEYONE knows it. I haven't seen it but I think it might have a lot to do with how big a drop off it was from the original. Which I also haven't seen.
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enigmahfc posted:I also so not see any 'rape problems', but yeah, the movie is kinda a mess. The guy Steve takes over. Like, takes over the body of. Diana sleeps with him, right? His body is used to have sex with Diana. Where is his consciousness when this happens? His body is used as a vessel for sex, and then Steve leaves it, and Diana just sort of hits on him at the end, with him none the wiser that she's seen him naked and had sex with his body, because he wasn't conscious for any of it. It's a weird fantasy moment, so not really analogous to real life. But they still wrote it like that, when they could have written it literally any other way. They could have written Steven magically appearing out of nowhere. Hell, that's how the wall and the nukes appear, so there's no reason they couldn't have done the same for Steve. Someone else in a different thread pointed out that they could have played up the 80's feel and had him be a mannequin come to life. Or have Diana wake up and have Steve come out of the shower, Dallas style. But instead, they had Steve take over someone else's existence for literally no reason. They didn't use it to comment on that being one of the reasons Diana had to give up Steve, because the only reason given was that Diana needed her powers back. They just had Steve take over this guy's whole life and being for...reasons. And that's loving weird for a lot of reasons. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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I think Wonder Woman pulling a MaxGruber would have given me a shitload more respect for them.
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I mean they could have just not had sex too. It isn’t that much of a stretch from where they ended up. She wasn’t even weirded out by seeing another dude.
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Angry_Ed posted:] Nah. Just lol if you aren’t cocking your eyebrow at a fake Egyptian politician talking about his stolen land before a wall goes up in a movie starring someone who defends people who shoot Palestinian nurses. And it’s not like I’m SMG and the only person who thinks this is a wildly bonkers decision in a movie that aggressively supports austerity.
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END ME SCOOB posted:Holy loving poo poo I didn't see that WLM coming. Oh I forgot to include everything else. Patreon Exclusive We Love Movies — Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Animation Damnation — The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special The Nexus: TOS: "A Piece of the Action" (s2, e17) TNG: "Peak Performance" (s2, e22) Gleep Glossary: Mister Bones I love the WLM choice, so I'm all in for this. Also, I'm confused, looking up the TNG episode of The Nexus, isn't that e21, not 22, and that's one more episode in the season? I'm just ready to be done with season 2, and be done with Pulaski.
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I thought bad boys for life was considered OK.
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I am so hyped for the WLM, I absolutely loved that film. it was FUN, god forbid, a fun movie!
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teen witch posted:I am so hyped for the WLM, I absolutely loved that film. it was FUN, god forbid, a fun movie! 100% agreed.
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gently caress YEA another excuse to rewatch the WLM ep.
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dorium posted:gently caress YEA another excuse to rewatch the WLM ep. I've never seen it 
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I haven't seen Birds of Prey yet, but it has a lot of dudebros say things like, "How could DC go from badass masterpieces like Man of Steel to garbage like Birds of Prey?" So I assume it's good.
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Birds of Prey's only downside is that it's a DC movie. Just watch it as some bonkers action thriller. It's fantastic.Invalid Validation posted:I thought bad boys for life was considered OK. Also, I called the WLM.
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It’s easily the best superhero related film I’ve seen in a very long time. Totally redeems pooicide squad
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Marin Karin posted:I haven't seen Birds of Prey yet, but it has a lot of dudebros say things like, "How could DC go from badass masterpieces like Man of Steel to garbage like Birds of Prey?" So I assume it's good. I really like both? But think they're not even comparable, so that's weird. The comparison is Birds of Prey to Suicide Squad, and I think BoP is so much better than SS that it hurts.
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Invalid Validation posted:I thought bad boys for life was considered OK. They did the previous two Bad Boys movies already so might as well keep going.
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Marin Karin posted:I haven't seen Birds of Prey yet, but it has a lot of dudebros say things like, "How could DC go from badass masterpieces like Man of Steel to garbage like Birds of Prey?" So I assume it's good. It's... fine? It's pretty good. The script is kind of all over the place and never really gels, but the individual plot threads are mostly fun; it's good but not greater than the sum of its parts. The worst thing I'll say about it is that the Cassandra Cain character is a weird waste of a comics character in that she has nothing at all other than her ethnicity in common with the Cassandra Cain from the comics; even then the character herself is fine, they should have just made her a new character.
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thrawn527 posted:The guy Steve takes over. Like, takes over the body of. Diana sleeps with him, right? His body is used to have sex with Diana. Where is his consciousness when this happens? His body is used as a vessel for sex, and then Steve leaves it, and Diana just sort of hits on him at the end, with him none the wiser that she's seen him naked and had sex with his body, because he wasn't conscious for any of it. okay, I wasn't connecting it like that, but I see where you're coming from there. I just saw it as hosed up and weird and a really bad story beat., but I get your point. If I was the guy that got taken over, I'd have more of a problem with all those Pop-Tarts and coffee that Chris Pine subjected me to. I also didn't mean to start this, I'm just tired of the Takes Machine going off the rails and everything on the internet being the worst/best thing ever, no in between. I'm not going to die on the WW84 hill. I did like the first 30 minutes where it felt like a cheesy 80's Superman movie. Marin Karin posted:I haven't seen Birds of Prey yet, but it has a lot of dudebros say things like, "How could DC go from badass masterpieces like Man of Steel to garbage like Birds of Prey?" So I assume it's good. Birds of Prey is fine. I forgot literally 95% of it the moment it was over, though. I'd say that I find that a really weird pick for WLM, but I do not want to start another derail. enigmahfc fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Chris Pine is the most redeeming actor in WW84. Any time he was on screen I was there for it, but he's only it for like sub-30 minutes at most. What a shame there probably wont be another stark trek... drat.
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Marin Karin posted:I haven't seen Birds of Prey yet, but it has a lot of dudebros say things like, "How could DC go from badass masterpieces like Man of Steel to garbage like Birds of Prey?" So I assume it's good. I enjoyed it a lot. It's not some gold medal of film but A) in the rather dire world of super hero movies it's up there with Ant Man and Guardians for 'oh loving thank god a super hero movie where people are having fun' so that's worth some brownie points as is, and B) it's a real good 'I've got nothing to do today, time to just watch a movie and chill' movie so I'd say it's a good WLM pick.
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dorium posted:Chris Pine is the most redeeming actor in WW84. Any time he was on screen I was there for it, but he's only it for like sub-30 minutes at most. What a shame there probably wont be another stark trek... drat. There are rumors because he's been talking up Patty Jenkins' bonafides, that he may be in the Rogue Squadron movie (assuming that still gets made and Disney doesn't get frightened by a movie not being a huge success and thus pulls Jenkins off the project)
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Angry_Ed posted:There are rumors because he's been talking up Patty Jenkins' bonafides, that he may be in the Rogue Squadron movie (assuming that still gets made and Disney doesn't get frightened by a movie made by a woman not being a huge success and thus pulls Jenkins off the project) FTFY
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AceOfFlames posted:FTFY Yes that is also depressingly likely 
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:OK, true, I'll cop to Pascal being great, mostly because the man just oozes emotion in every facial movement. His career has REALLY taken off after GoT--getting the title role in Mandalorian and having it be such a huge success has helped.
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AceOfFlames posted:FTFY I think the closest comparison would be Colin Trevorrow being pulled off of Episode IX after the failure of Book of Henry, right? So being a woman wouldn't necessarily be relevant. Has Disney pulled a woman off of a big ticket project after a bad showing that I'm forgetting?
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thrawn527 posted:I think the closest comparison would be Colin Trevorrow being pulled off of Episode IX after the failure of Book of Henry, right? So being a woman wouldn't necessarily be relevant. Whereas most male directors can put out critical and box office failures and still manage to fail upwards, whenever a female director makes even a middling success, her career is pretty much over. See for example Lexi Alexander (Punisher Warzone).
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AceOfFlames posted:Whereas most male directors can put out critical and box office failures and still manage to fail upwards, whenever a female director makes even a middling success, her career is pretty much over. See for example Lexi Alexander (Punisher Warzone). Didn't WB just announce they were fast tracking WW3? I'd say announcing the death of her career is premature.
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thrawn527 posted:The guy Steve takes over. Like, takes over the body of. Diana sleeps with him, right? His body is used to have sex with Diana. Where is his consciousness when this happens? His body is used as a vessel for sex, and then Steve leaves it, and Diana just sort of hits on him at the end, with him none the wiser that she's seen him naked and had sex with his body, because he wasn't conscious for any of it. Men on the internet so worked up about Ethics in Offscreen Body Swap Hookups that none of them seem to have noticed the literal attempted rape scene lol. Personally I think it would be cool to have a "girl power" comic book movie without a man trying to rape a woman in it. That would feel empowering, to me.
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thrawn527 posted:Didn't WB just announce they were fast tracking WW3? I'd say announcing the death of her career is premature. Oh, didn't know that. Good for Jenkins at least. Let's see if she and DC learn from the mistakes of this one.
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Huego posted:Men on the internet so worked up about Ethics in Offscreen Body Swap Hookups that none of them seem to have noticed the literal attempted rape scene lol. Personally I think it would be cool to have a "girl power" comic book movie without a man trying to rape a woman in it. That would feel empowering, to me. Oh, I definitely noticed that. That was just obvious, and the would be rapist is beaten up for it, first by Diana, then by Barbara. As where the whole Steve and Diana thing is seemingly seen as a good thing, so seems worthy of more discussion. Yeah, it's also hosed up how the movie shows someone almost rape Barbara, and when Barbara beats the poo poo out of him later, it's seen as a "bad thing" because bad guy music plays. But that doesn't make the Steve and Diana thing not worth discussing, because it's weird that the movie treats it as super cool. I agree, though, it would have been way better to include neither of them.
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AceOfFlames posted:Oh, didn't know that. Good for Jenkins at least. Let's see if she and DC learn from the mistakes of this one. https://deadline.com/2020/12/wonder-woman-3-wonder-woman-1984-opening-box-office-1234661808/ ‘Wonder Woman 3’ Being Fast-Tracked Following Sequel’s Current $85M WW To Date; Patty Jenkins & Gal Gadot Will Be Back quote:Wonder Woman 3 is being fast-tracked, Warner Bros. announced today. The news comes as the pic has amounted to $85M WW after a $16.7M domestic debut. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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That WLM slaps.
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Cannot wait for the 30+ minute egg sandwich digression we're guaranteed to get during that WLM.
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Huego posted:Cannot wait for the 30+ minute egg sandwich digression we're guaranteed to get during that WLM. They are New Yorkers and there was a bacon egg gently caress I might make some for the occasion. I’d kill for a proper fuckin Kaiser roll here
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thrawn527 posted:Didn't WB just announce they were fast tracking WW3? I'd say announcing the death of her career is premature. I don't think anyone's saying that's for sure going to happen with Jenkins, but there's definitely precedent for other female directors with careers on the rise that are ruined by one flop. Huego posted:Men on the internet so worked up about Ethics in Offscreen Body Swap Hookups that none of them seem to have noticed the literal attempted rape scene lol. Personally I think it would be cool to have a "girl power" comic book movie without a man trying to rape a woman in it. That would feel empowering, to me. That part was definitely a sour note, especially coming more or less right after the slapstick robbery scene which feels like it was made for 8-year-olds.
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