is it? top gun maverick would be the most recent us militaryganda out there, it resulted increase in RECRUIT/enlisting numbers last year.
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Coming? I thought it already fell years ago..
I quit after the snap movie. It was literally an hour and a half of all 30 main characters meeting each other and then everyone died.
It’s not like DC is better, the last dark knight movie was really good, but don’t get me started on “we can’t fight each other, our moms had the same names”. What a waste of time.
endgame was the "best" marvel movie, everything else after was just bad, and disney is clearly grasping at straw since then. the ones with agatha were enjoyable, shes seems better at acting than scarlet witch.
I’m not the biggest comic book reader, but I did prefer DC over Marvel because the stories ended every now and then. There are some very memorable self-contained stories. And then they mulligan and reboot Batman or whatever, but at least there were occasional conclusions and it wasn’t just an ongoing soap forever and ever and ever. Marvel had prompts within the story to refer to issue #blablabla of maybe the same series or some adjacent series. No.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had assumed knowledge from the fucking Christmas Special
It did? Couldn’t stand the Christmas Special, but it didn’t seem to have any bearing on anything.
Family Guy has assumed knowledge from everything ever made (not that I am a fan of that either, but at least it doesn’t expect a 3 hour to 80 year commitment to get the full story).
Family Guy had the appearance of assumed knowledge, but really the writers know as little about what they're talking about as you do.
Seriously controversial take: Seth McFarlane is one of the least funny people ever to live, he just knows how to make things sound like a joke whether it's funny or not. He's like some weird AI that just completely and utterly lacks any understanding of what a joke is outside of intonation and timing.
Family Guy did always give me the sense of referencing a thing being the punchline in and of itself. Anyway, Cyndi Lauper 4-ever.
Just since I have a rare opportunity to talk about comics; I felt disappointed when I saw the Scott Pilgrim movie. It wasn’t a bad movie by any means, but it had to gloss over a lot of the character charm. It never turned me on like this:
Marvel haters on their way to pick a random negative viewpoint and assign it to the movies regardless of whether it applies
Every movie will be ai slop soon enough anyway. Better not to watch it.
...the military doesn't come off in a good light in any of the movies that isn't the first Cap, and even then they're antagonistic by sidelining one of their best chances at winning due to bureaucratlcy.
the military also requests that any movie, must paint them in a postive light, if they are using some of thier equipment or even tech. thats probably why they never are seen as bad guys.
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Imo, the worst shit is the multiverse shit that makes it all meaningless. If they don't like how they told the story, they will just make up a new version and say multiverse and you are the idiot for saying that it doesn't make sense in another way because multiverse.
An repetitive story with no meaningful content for the franchise and no interest in consistency.
I was floored at just how many MCU movies in the past ten years I didn't know about. No fuckin wonder people are getting burnt out on it.
Not like stories without a multiverse aspect have any more meaning. If someone has an interesting story to tell but it conflicts with some other aspect of a larger storyline (but works well with the rest), why not branch it off so it can stay internally consistent with its own story and not have to worry about what some other producers thought would be cool?
It's the people who think you're an idiot for not following every variation or understanding which ones go together who are the assholes. They are also the idiots themselves IMO for putting so much importance on knowledge of a set of fictional universes (and I say this as a geek who loves diving in to fictional universes, I just understand not all such dives are equal and my own deeper dives don't make me better than anyone).
I don't care about other people. And it is not about what another producer thought.
It is literally that I can hear that a character that I liked died but I honestly don't care because 1. I don't care about this shit and 2. I know the character will be back.
Let me contrast it with star wars because I think it becomes pretty obvious there.
The story becomes meaningless because I know that that the whole team that created the media knew that they don't have to care. Disney decided to reboot star wars and they are doing great job in ruining something great by been unable to commit to a plan too. But for my enjoyment of star wars legends, I can easily ignore the current canon. When something happened in legends, you had a reasonable expectation that it will stay meaningful for the rest of the franchise. Now with the badly executed reboot, at least for rn, I can assume that the people who died in those movies are dead and will stay dead. The next movie will not have magically a dead character inside because multiverse. Movie A has an impact if movies B to Z. And yes, Lucas Art fucked the Legends story up at times but guess what.... That is life.
"But in the last movie [redacted] comes back to life" yes quite a disappointing writing from Disney. It reads like marvel.
"But in the clone wars, [redacted] came back to life" yes and no, imo one of the mistakes while I like the character. But importantly the character technically was never shown dead and it was a plot twist and his "death" had actually a long term impact on the events of the story, making it meaningful for the story.
I can't stand the multiverse write off, even "what if" (which I personally loved at first) started to suffer with the whole strange being the bbeg arc.
Multiverse is just the gg ez way to do a reboot with even less effort lol
Even less effort than what? They just released a superman movie that didn't have anything to do with previous superman movies. Isn't that the easiest way to do a reboot? How is shoehorning in a multiverse easier?
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They go and stand in front of a mirror? I don't get it.
I kind of feel like if a meme image needs an explanation it’s probably failed.
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