The Shiternals

[colacentral]

look i keep editing this but i'll just say that I don't think it's hypocritical or performative to not like Marvel, cheers

It's not, I agree. It's the making it a badge of honour that is.

I'm not slating Sonic either, by the way. It's just that we all like things that can be easily denigrated as being for kids, cynical, low brow etc.

[madhair60]

but the sonic series is a bastion of quality and consistency. a bastion!

[chveik]

i would've just made one post in this thread if it weren't for colacentral being a weirdo, but apparently this is cult-like behaviour and marvel fans are discriminated against.

[colacentral]

i would've just made one post in this thread if it weren't for colacentral being a weirdo, but apparently this is cult-like behaviour and marvel fans are discriminated against.

"Being a weirdo?" I directly replied to you twice and it was in response to your comment that talented film makers "don't waste their time" on franchise films, a patently false and pretentious statement. You must be confusing me with someone else.

[PlanktonSideburns]

I like video games but Sonic the Hedgehog is as low brow is low brow as MCU films

Delete your account

[Povidone]

Between this and the Squid Game thread Madhair's really killing it in the 'getting a reasonable thread-mileage out of shit I don't like' department.

I think this film looks fine, as does most of the Marvel stuff. Haven't seen one I haven't been mildly entertained by, usually better than they have any right to be. Probably more intrigued by this one than any of the others given the mixed reviews and weird source material. Not really bothered what other folk think about it, in fact I fully understand their grievances with the MCU in general.

Entirely dismissive though of yer Scorceses and Villeneuves giving Marvel stick though as that's just the product of a deranged and out of control news cycle with nothing of value to offer. "Here lets stick a microphone in someone's face and take their barely considered musings as newsworthy gospel to be relayed to the proles, they didn't try to set us on fire for our sheer fucking impudence so we must be right in doing this". Tedious clickbait landfill.

[madhair60]

A BASTION!!!

[mothman]

A BASTION!!!

You do talk a load of bulwarks sometimes.

[Povidone]

A BASTION!!!

Don't get me started on the Mario/Sonic false dichotomy. We should all be coming together to fight the real enemy....Kirby

[madhair60]

Don't get me started on the Mario/Sonic false dichotomy. We should all be coming together to fight the real enemy....Kirby

I love Kirby >: (

[Mister Six]

Jack, or the bubblegum that chews YOU?

look i keep editing this but i'll just say that I don't think it's hypocritical or performative to not like Marvel, cheers

Quite performative to turn up uninvited and unwanted in every related thread to moan on and on about them, though.

[Povidone]

Sorry to say Kevin Feige just murdered Video Game Kirby, believing him to be the reincarnation of Jack Kirby coming back for royalties.

[madhair60]

Quite performative to turn up uninvited and unwanted in every related thread to moan on and on about them, though.

it's not "performative" at all, it's 100% relevant to the subject, buddy boy, pal

[madhair60]

"uninvited" to a thread on a forum

well if it isn't the NEGATIVE NANNYS with their contemptible enjoyment of things that are "good"

edit: no though I take your point and I'll leave CaB permanently

[Mister Six]

Appreciate it.

[H-O-W-L]

To be honest, the people moaning about MCU films in every related thread seem more like a cult than the people who just watch the fucking things, but whatever.

That's a fucking insult and a half. Sorry I don't watch films you do and was just chipping in my thoughts? You're free to enjoy them?

[H-O-W-L]

And if you don't know what a cult is wrt culture then I don't fucking know what to say.

[Mister Six]

That's a fucking insult and a half. Sorry I don't watch films you do and was just chipping in my thoughts? You're free to enjoy them?

I dunno, mate, you're the one who started bandying about the word "cult". Clearly not intended in a neutral way, much less a positive one, and not etymologically linked to culture, AFAIK.

All I know is that every time someone starts a thread about an MCU thing, a handful of bores feel compelled to strut about boasting about how they don't watch MCU/superhero stuff but even if they did it would all be shite and it's much better to watch a real film and blah blah blah blah.

No idea if you're one of those people, as they all sound the same so I don't pay much attention to their identities, but it's tooth-grindingly tedious.

(The criticism of the trailer and character designs are totally fair, interesting and justified though. It's just all the boasting about never watching MCU films that's fucking wank.)

[13 schoolyards]

A few people I know who've been on board the Marvel train have been talking about giving up (or at least waiting until home release) in advance of the bad word this has been getting, and having seen it I can't really say they've made the wrong decision.

I can appreciate that the MCU is trying to do something a little different with this one, but it's a bit of a slog.

[Glebe]

Seems to be getting 2/5 reviews everywhere.

[Chollis]

Seems to be getting 2/5 reviews everywhere.

[madhair60]

^ completely unironically

[touchingcloth]

Captain Planet, with a longer running time than Infinity War.

[non capisco]

Hello film fans. I can confirm this film is very boring.

[Custard]

49% on Rotten Tomatoes now. Oof

Though audience score is 84%

[touchingcloth]

Ten minutes longer than Infinity War. And it felt it.

[surreal]

Saw this yesterday and have to agree with the reviews really (not the "woke" ones) - it's just dull.  Far too long, trying to be self-important and epic with no build up and I'm getting sick of the "humanity are lovely, they love and dance and sing and look how strong they can be with the loving and dancing and singing, i wish I was as good as humanity" schtick.

Oh and the mid-credit scene made me angry.

They could have avoided all of this if they had teased Galactus at the end of EndGame and started working towards the Fantastic Four rather than going down this rabbit hole.

Best thing was seeing both Jon Snow and Robb Stark repeatedly saying how much they loved Sersi.

Not sure where Kit Harrington's character is headed from the end-credits sequence?  Anyone?  What's with the

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sword

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, and that was

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Sam Jackson's voice

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at the end right?

[Dr Rock]

and that was

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Sam Jackson's voice

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at the end right?

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The new Blade apparently

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[13 schoolyards]

I think, based on nothing but some half-remembered memories of old Marvel comics, that he's meant to be

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The Black Knight, an occasional Avenger who has a cursed sword

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Oh wait, if you look up the related Wikipedia page it confirms it

[surreal]

Hmmm, that's interesting...