Why does this stuff keep showing up on my YouTube recommendations lol?
I watched the first episode of Falcon and The Winter Soldier. It’s actually pretty good. The action scenes alone are better than those in most movies. BUT the 2 leads have no screen presence at all. I just can’t get invested in them. Shit, they should have cast Don Cheadle as Falcon and the guy who plays Hawkeye as The Winter Soldier. Don Cheadle appears for 3 mins and Falcon virtually disappears into the background when they’re onscreen together. I’m like “No! Come back! I’m not spending the next half hour with Falcon alone!”.
IMO this movie had lots of potential but they wasted it on a lousy script.
MAAAARRRTTTHHHAAAAA
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Because you keep watching stuff like that … that’s how that works
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I think it also has do with what other people who watch these videos also watch along with stuff you search for on google and type on the internet. I don’t normally watch stuff like that. I get these recommendations when look I for movie trailers, read breakdowns of WandaVision episodes since I can’t be bothered to watch the series, and write stuff about superhero movies HERE.
Shit, we had a discussion on Dream Theater in the other thread(prior to my posting the last 2 videos and before I started listening to their newer stuff) and then they started showing up on my YouTube recommendations ffs. I didn’t even watch any Dream Theater videos prior to that. I get Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder when I write stuff in the politics forum and look up certain economic stats on google even though I have absolutely no interest in them.
Big data…
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Holy crap. James Gunn and an R-rating. Michael Rooker’s in it. Margot Robbie and Alice Braga in the same movie. My mind is about to explode and I have no idea who any of these characters are other than Harley Quinn.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier is getting better. I gotta admit I really like the silly banter between the two of them once they finally got together. The action scenes are still as good as the Marvel movies. Have they nerfed Bucky? I thought he could take on Captain America. Now he’s supposed to be in danger while trying to get off a moving truck? Captain America could take a punch from Thanos. That’s like more force than a truck running over you.
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These two definitely play off another actor much better than they do being alone, so combining them is just perfect.
It kinda seems like it. Or they’re really trying to push this whole “I’m not a killer anymore” thing. Which could make for an interesting angle.
Also, I want to punch the new Captain America in his stupid face. He’s so fucking annoying.
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I suspect they’re eventually going to end up going with a Bourne Identity “look what they make us do” kind of thing.
That guy really makes no sense. He has no super powers. So what if it’s a vibranium shield? You can’t throw it with as much force as a super soldier.
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I think he’s going to get the serum too and turn into the main bad guy representing the military like what they did in The Incredible Hulk and the 2 clowns are going to join the side of the other super soldiers. But what’s the big deal? Just give Nick Fury a call and get him to page Captain Marvel.
At least it’s not as dumb as assembling a team of bad guys consisting of normal people with both exceptional and questionable skills like Harley Quinn and that dude whose main skill is throwing a fucking boomerang as a safety net in case SUPERMAN decides to turn rogue. What the fuck is the boomerang guy going to do? Amuse him to death with his Aussie accent? What’s the point of a scantily clad chick when Superman has X-ray vision? They think he wasn’t already using it on Holly Hunter in Batman V Superman? That’s probably the first skill he used when Wonder Woman appeared.
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I think your point earlier about each of them not having screen presence was valid. I think the two together aren’t bad though. Maybe it’s designed that way?
Yeah probably. They already had that “odd couple” thing going on in Civil War. That’s what I like about Marvel. They’re very consistent with their characters. It shows how much they respect them and the audience.
Its a small nitpick… but since you brought up the nerfed issue.
One thing I have noticed is that in regards to power scale and actual abilities they are very inconsistent. Obviously that has allot to do with the indvidual writer and director of each film.
From what I’ve watched it seems they have upped the Falcon from previous appearances and nerfed the winter solider.
Reminds me of the annoyance I had at the end of End Game. When once Captain America got Thors hammer he is able to use it with more skill . Even if in the previous movie they established that in the MCU the hammer was nothing more than a tool to focus Thors natural abilities.
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Agreed. He’s a bit of a Mary Sue, and after the last episode it’s just a bit too obvious that he’s going to take the “good guy wants to be good so badly he turns bad” route.
Still enjoying the show, though.
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I can accept that Cap wasn’t going all out against Bucky in The Winter Soldier. Also, Odin said something about anyone “worthy” of picking up the hammer would have “the power of Thor” or something like that in the first Thor movie IIRC.
In the last Thor movie, I think what they really did was establish that Thor had more power than he knew he had since he’s relatively young for an Asgardian(shit I can’t hear or write this word without giggling. Ass Guard? LOL) and he was channelling some of it through the hammer and his only mentor, Odin, who was probably deliberately curbing his powers before he knew how to use them wisely(hence the “worthiness” stuff), was dead.
They gave us a hint when he was almost going to be stomped on by The Hulk earlier in the movie and Odin had to finally tell him how to unleash them in a dream sequence or something near the end.
He still can’t fly without the hammer. When they made that big axe in Infinity War, he was almost dead from taking the full force of a star and the axe revived him and gave him even more powers. I’m assuming it would have been similar with the hammer but to a lessor extent since it was the same guy who made both of them.
Of course, this is all just speculation since I’ve never read the comics and I didn’t really dig the Thor movies until the last one, but they’re fairly consistent with the characters and their dynamics when they’re all together. Thor’s character admittedly deviated a lot from the previous movies but in a good and non-jarring way and they kinda found a common ground in the last 2 Avengers movies.
The real problem I had was with the Hulk suddenly talking and communicating properly with people like a regular person because it caught me off guard but it was kinda logical since, in the world he ended up in, time passes slower and he could have been there for over a decade and gradually learned all this although he was only gone for 4 years in normal time.
I always thought he was supposed to be some kind of “force of nature” that you can have minimal control of but you need to respect this because of the magnitude of potential destructive danger of his powers when you lose control of him or fuck with him like Godzilla or shit like that. I think they should have kept it that way.
I’m not sure what to think about the “Professor Hulk” thing. Maybe it’s because I’m not familiar with the comics.
The new Mortal Komat film looks to be much nastier. Got an R18+ rating in Aus (in the USA R is generally equiv to M/MA15+ here). For a film to garner an R18+ in Aus it generally has to be quite graphic. Hostel, Midsommar, The boys, The House that Jack Built etc are examples of film/television that garnered an R18+ rating here.
I am of the belief it’s likely Mortal Kombat will be theatrically released via a “cut version” here to appeal to a wider audience.
If you hit ABACABB you can see all the blood and guts.
it’s been a while, but I remember the combat within the games was pretty nasty. Even without fatalities the later instalments (only played one of them) were quite graphic.
Even the older 2-D games in arcades had fatalities.
@dt79 have you ever seen Riki-Oh: The story of Ricky. Highly unrealistic, extreme camp factor coupled with graphic violence reminiscent of superhuman abilities. I took the film for what it was but at the same time could never figure out why the titular character was so strong. There was no mention of how he got his superpowers, he just… had them I guess
Yeah, a long time ago. I think it was adapted from some Japanese or HK manga. I liked the way they acted like they took everything seriously even though it was mostly cartoon violence with blood and entrails lol. It’s why I can’t stand those self-aware gore flicks nowadays. It’s like… do they think we’re actually that stupid that we have to be reminded time and again that all this is supposed to be absurd? Or do filmmakers nowadays have their heads stuck so far up their asses they’re afraid they’ll be written off because we’re too stupid to know they purposefully made something absurd?
That lead actor became relatively popular in TV dramas for some time after that. He was in the first Ip Man movie playing the guy who challenges Ip Man and gets smacked with the feather duster.
I figured they casted Joe Taslim for a reason.
This is one of the less violent scenes.
I’ve actually seen this film
have you ever seen headshot? That’s another one that’s quite gruesome
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