The Monkey was great. Almost like a big budget re-imagining of one of the old Scary Movie films.
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Mackie is a really B/C-grade actor. The movie was an absolute forgettable and pointless one. No character growth, no links to other movies, to continuing plot for the MCU.
no links to other movies
Except that giant Celestial in the ocean.
to continuing plot for the MCU.
And whatever that Celestial is made of...
I do hope The Leader & Ross make a return in future films. Sidewinder (Giancarlo) was also wasted, so hopefully he returns.
I wouldn't call it forgettable, there are some fun action scenes in the film, both at the Celestial and The White House/surrounding area.
However just action with a rushed story does make it a weaker film overall.
I stopped watching marvel movies a long time ago. I didn't even know Cap was a black dude now.
My favorite joke about marvel movies is that when Thanos snapped his fingers, he killed half my enthusiasm for Marvel movies.
I would consider myself an MCU fan so I stuck around longer than most I think, but Quantumania just bored the hell outta me and I haven't watched one since.
That's falcon bruh
Don't even know who that is lol. I got bored around avengers 2
He was introduced in The Winter Soldier, a few movies before Avengers 2.
Right on. My son is around the age where he should enjoy them, and I figured I'd eventually have to marathon them with him, but so far, he's not into it. I'm sure eventually I'll get around to watching them.
You only have to watch up to Endgame. After that they’ve been hard watches.
Well, you would've needed to watch one of the tv shows for that lol
I don't mean to shit on what's his name that took over the Captain America role, but dude has just no fucking screen presence, charisma what so ever, Joel Kinnaman fucking killed it on altered carbon season 1, then this dude, Mackie?, took over in season 2, and god damn it was a hard watch.
He reminds of that dude that played the Boomerang guy in suicide squad, then he was kyle in Terminator: Genisys, that fucker is the same, 0 screen presence, no charisma.
Altered carbon season 2 also had been cut to the bone budget wise. The entire production paled in comparison to the first season.
100% AC was dead for me as soon as this guy took over. Same with Cap.
Yeah I tried the second season after loving the first. Lasted about 15 min. Nope.
His portrayal of Boomerang and his character in Spartacus were great though. He’s just not built for main lead roles, which I guess applies to Mackie too.
His real name is Clarence
I heard Clarence's parents have a real good marriage
is 68% a normal dropoff for 2nd week?
It wasn't a bad movie, but it had problems.
The big problem, and this is pretty common with Marvel, was a weak villain. The Leader just wasn't a big threat. He spent most of his time in the shadows. He got very little screen time. And his motivation was also really weak. He wanted a pardon... But he was also completely capable of starting world war 3, like that doesn't make sense. Like an iron Man 3, The Mandarin started off the movie as an epic threat... Only to be revealed to be an actor and the actual bad guy was Killian... Who was an awful villain. But you don't even have to have a villain that's super strong or even has great motivation as long as they're well written, like Mysterio. Red Hulk ends up being wasted on this movie, because they had no faith they could write something people would want to see, because post Thanos they've kind of been fumbling the ball. But I think they seem to forget is Thanos wasn't there from the beginning they eventually led into him.
They either needed to really lean into The Leader, or Red Hulk. Not waste both on a 2 decade late Hulk sequel that doesn't have Bruce or the Hulk.
Lost interest after Endgame.
Endgame was a clipshow which was a let down for me. That was my step off as well.
Same. I enjoyed Infinity War a decent amount, but Endgame didn't quite sit right with me for some reason; maybe because it felt like the pulling of strings to make the narrative fit certain things was more apparent. Lost all steam after that
I enjoyed some of the shows like Wandavision and Loki but I’ve pretty much fallen off watching any of this stuff entirely now.
The only thing I've been looking forward to recently is the new Daredevil series. Wandavision was decent. Moon Knight was good. She-Hulk had lots of potential but just dropped the ball IMHO. We never finished Loki season 2 (just lost insterest). We ended up canceling Disney+ because the Marvel shows were a dud for the most part.
Loki Season 2 ended really well.
I enjoyed Agatha as well, but didn't watch it until just recently.
Loki was the only one I really liked.
I lost interest after the first Iron Man movie.
I wouldn't say I lost interest, but rather that Endgame was a great ending for the MCU. Why would I want to watch past the end?
I still enjoyed the latest Spiderman but the rest seems quite uninspired.
Could it be that after milking that sorry Marvel franchise for all it was worth for years, Disney fails to excite people with their nth ultra-samey, ultra-low-originality rehash?
They're just not willing to take the risks they were talking when marvel was still going solo before it's Disney acquisition. Disney isn't big on risks.
Disney bought them out after like the third or fourth movie, MCU is pretty much just Disney.
What risks did they use to take? As long as I remember the Marvel movies have been formulaic copies
Giving creative control to specific directors to let their vision shine through the project: Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor Love and Thunder, etc.
Edit meant Thor Ragnarok the Taika Waititi directed movie.
I mean, Iron man was like literally the first movie in the MCU (discounting that Hulk movie), it also literally started the trope of Bad Guy has literally the same skillset/power as the good guy that was replicated a bunch of times.
GotG, and Thor: Ragnarok are the only movies that are unique and carried by their directors.
Love and thunder is a dumpster fire.
I think bad guy having the same skillset is really just a superhero trope.
- Flash vs Zoom
- Green vs Yellow Lantern
- Spidey vs Venom
- Aquaman vs Black Manta
- Wonder woman vs Ares
- Green Arrow vs Dark Archer
I listed DC heroes primarily to show it isn't just a Marvel thing. But all of these arch enemies are basically evil duplicates of the hero.
I think the trope largely stems from a "How do you defeat someone who is as powerful/strong as you" kinda thing.
But count how many DC films have it vs how many MCU films
Ah I think Thor Ragnarok was what I meant, the Taika Waititi directed movie
Some of the TV shows have been more creative. The current movies are just rehashes though.
The marketing for this movie and been atrocious. The Cross advertising spots I've seen are terrible cash grabs. Marvel is done.
These comments are depressing.
I for one enjoyed the movie a lot. Had fun with it.
Yeah it wasn't bad, fun little time waster
Marvel is depressing.
Y'all still watching this slop?!
I mean, I might when it comes to Disney+. Not going out of my way to spend extra money to see it though.
But honestly, most stuff post-Endgame has been pretty boring to me. And I’m not liking my favorite super heroes having to deal with a “post-snap” world. It’s a universe I’m not very fond of.