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17 hours ago, waveking said:

 

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the movie is a waste if it does not have a scene where venom honks the horn while driving a van....

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Avengers: Infinity War reviews out.

 

RT - 90% fresh.

Metacritic - 70/100

 

Average rating: 7.7/10.

  • The problem is that with so many characters to shoehorn in and so many realms of the galaxy to put out various fires in, the heroic horde is broken into four or five smaller subgroups that we keep cutting back and forth to. And some, naturally, are more entertaining to sit through than others. And some just seem to vanish for long stretches until you find yourself wondering when the hell are we going back to Wakanda or wherever? It ends up feeling a bit too disjointed – like we’re flipping the channels between four different movies instead of watching one cohesive one
  • Avengers: Infinity War may be the biggest Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far, it is nowhere near the best. It is esssentially set-up for whatever comes next year. But it works as big-scale entertainment.
  • This grand, bursting-at-the-seams wrap-up to one crowded realm of the Marvel superhero universe starts out as three parts jokes, two parts dramatic juggling act and one part deterministic action, an equation that's been completely reversed by the time of the film's startling climax.
  • Considered on its own, as a single, nearly 2-hour-40-minute movie, “Avengers: Infinity War” makes very little sense, apart from the near convergence of its title and its running time. Early on, someone menacingly (and presciently) says, “You may think this is suffering. No: It’s salvation.” That’s a bit overstated either way. It’s puzzlement and irritation and also, yes, delight.
  • And Avengers: Infinity War feels like a really special event. There are at least ten moments in this movie that made me want to just yell out, “yeah!,” at the screen. If you are a human being who likes comic books or comic book movies, it’s almost impossible not to enjoy the spectacle of it all – even though you might leave the theater a little disappointed...
  • The long-awaited face-off between the Avengers and Thanos (Josh Brolin), the MCU’s ultimate big bad, is massively entertaining, deftly incorporating dozens of characters across multiple storylines with a kinetic flair. Its devotion to banter and one-liners makes it one of the funniest movies in the studio’s history, but it’s also a film where very bad things happen to good people. After years of movies where even the most mediocre heroes appeared to be invulnerable and indomitable, it’s an arresting jolt — and exactly the film the franchise needed.
  • Even by Marvel's own standards of serviceable mediocrity, Infinity War fails.

  • This is definitely a fun movie. But it doesn't make for a great movie.

  • A wildly ambitious and incredibly successful exercise in long-form cinematic storytelling.

  • There's no pacing in Avengers: Infinity War. It's all sensation and no pulse. Everything is big, all of the time.

  • Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War -- an overstuffed sausage of summer entertainment -- is the Ocean's Thirteen of spandexed heroism, if you can imagine a version of that movie with two times as many Brad Pitts and no poker dealers.

  • Infinity War, by design, feels like one half of a completed puzzle, with the other pieces strewn about waiting to be put together.

  • The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination.

  • What saves Infinity War from being just another bloated supergroup tour - and what will end up being the thing that blows fans' minds to dust - is the film's final stretch.

  • Marvel has pulled off all sorts of cinematic flavors in its 10-year legacy, from heist films and political thrillers to space operas and fantasy epics. Now it boasts a full-fledged Shakespearean tragedy.

 

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17 minutes ago, adity said:

It's gonna suck. Same directors as Amazing Spiderman 2.

Also "Embrace your inner........ Anti Hero" 

Wtf is that. 

 

 

One of the writers you mean?

But yeah, I'm not very hopeful about the movie after watching the trailer. Let's see how it pans out.

 

Also, those Avengers reviews are not very encouraging. Guess it's time to lower my expectations :\

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Average down to 7.6.

 

RT: 86%

Metacritic: 68/100

  • Ten years ago this month, the Marvel universe was launched with the fresh, lively, relatively easygoing "Iron Man." It seems more like 100.
  • A celebration of mediocrity on a scale the cinema has never seen before. Avengers: Infinity War isn't a movie: it's advertising and brand management
  • Ten years of Marvel movies all culminate in Avengers: Infinity War. Was it worth the wait? Yes and no.
  • Just when it looks as if all hope is smothered under the heavy weight of fan expectations [and] a reported $300 million budget, it comes roaring to life with a wake-'em-up battle on the fields of Wakanda and a quietly spectacular, sobering ending.

The Avengers

  • RT - 92%
  • Metacritic - 69/100

Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • RT - 75%
  • Metacritic - 66/100

 

Can't be worse than Age of Ultron. Let's see. 

 

3 hours ago, STICK3Rboy said:

Wow, that Venom trailer looks sooo.....generic :mellow:

 

It's from the writers of 50 Shades Of Grey & Gangster Squad...

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3 hours ago, adity said:

Dude, Marvel can't be as bad as DC even if they try. I kinda enjoyed JL but it was a bloody terrible movie in hindsight. 

 

Avengers 2 is worse than any DC movie apart from SS. JL was far from a terrible movie, far from it.

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