I also watched that. I liked the line that everyone else likes.

JRPC wrote:

Been a long time coming, but I'm finally seen Ragnorok. 

Sadly and a bit surprisingly I really didn't care for it. I say surprisingly because not only am I a big Marvel fan (obvs) I've also loved all Waitit's stuff so far. This didn't work for me as either.

It was just so undercooked and disposable. 

Didn't like the characterization of any of them really. Thor's on usual good form I guess, but pretty much everyone else is underwritten and forgettable. Actually, some of the regulars come out worse than they went in - Hulk/Banner and Loki were utterly misused. 

I get that it's doubling down on comedy this time, and there was definitely a reasonable quota of chuckles, but there were way more misses than hits.

Rock guy was the best, but even he was a little too on the nose for me.

It's the best of the 3 Thors for sure, but still bottom tier I think.

Disappointed.

Agree 100%

They should let Trump write a Captain America film. He's heard great things about what a good writer he is.

Just seen Black Panther, and thought it was...alright, I suppose?  It hits all the right beats, the performances are good, but it all felt slightly flat and joyless.  The action works, but didn’t feel particularly thrilling - there’s no sense of peril, not even when... Fundamentally though I think it was just too po-faced, Marvel are usually good at acknowledging the inherent absurdity of people in Lycra saving the world, but here it seems they were too busy being Important to be any fun.  (I guess it’s the inverse of Thor: Ragnorok in that regard.)

Except when they do it with Batman himself.

Reg noes.

regmcfly wrote:

I contend that Batman Returns maintains the camp to dark ratio perfectly

Nah, it's a rotten film. 3 great bits of acting but the film itself is truly rotten. It has dated terribly.

I should probably give Burton Batmen another whirl, but last time I did so they were woefully bad.

Get out.

regmcfly wrote:

Get out

Terrible film

Dark Soldier wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

Get out

Terrible film

Get out

Mark Millers thoughts on why marvel movies work and dc movies dont. i think he's onto something...

“I think it’s really simple: the characters aren’t cinematic, and I say this as a massive DC fan who much prefers their characters to Marvel’s. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are some of my favorites, but I think these characters – with the exception of Batman – they aren’t based around their secret identity, they are based around their super power. Whereas the Marvel characters tend to be based around the personality of Matt Murdock or Peter Parker or the individual X-Men. It’s all about the character. DC, outside of Batman, is not about the character. With Batman, you can understand him and you can worry about him, but someone like Green Lantern, he has this ring that allows him to create 3D physical manifestations and green plasma with the thoughts in his head, but he’s allergic to the color yellow! How do you make a movie with that? In 1952 that made perfect sense, but now the audience have no idea what that’s all about.

People will slam me for this but I think the evidence is there. We’ve seen great directors, great writers and great actors, tons of money thrown at them, but these films aren’t working. I think they are all too far away from when they were created. Something feels a little old about them, kids look at these characters and they don’t feel that cool. Even Superman, I love Superman, but he belongs to an America that doesn’t exist anymore. He represents 20th Century America and I think he peaked then.”

I caught up on some men in tights movies over the long weekend. Have now seen Thor Ragnarok and Spidey Homecoming. I thought Thor was the better of the two, and was less connected to the Marvel connected universe stuff. Probably not a coincidence, that.

I also watched Spotlight, so it was a bit weird seeing Keaton go from that to Spider-Bad-Guy. Shift of mental gears required there.

That's a bit simplistic isn't it? Comics published by these guys make shit films (except Batman), comics published by these guys make good films (except all the shit Marvel films).

They keep making Superman films, that's it. He's the absolute worst.