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I enjoyed Green Lantern more than Thor.
Though a lot of that was probably expectations. I was really looking forward to Thor and was massively disappointed. On the other hand, I expected Green Lantern to be amazingly corny and dumb. When it only turned out to be slightly corny and dumb, I was pleasantly surprised.
But in terms of "objective" film quality, I'm willing to admit that GL was likely the worse of the two.
ross is just "mad as hell" that drive got snubbed is all.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
I finally watched Stalker, which someone recommended a really long time ago to me in this thread. It was good and hmmm, good. I still think I like Solaris better (the original).
I also saw the Lady in Black. Movie wasn't too bad, but the set design, and locations were fucking GREAT.
You just described every Marvel movie ever
Yeah, pretty much. I thought Iron Man was decent and justified its running time.
The Oscar noms, in total, pissed me off so much that I skipped the show for the first time in probably 15 years.
A literal farce. But at least the best nominated movie still won.
Oh, and is it me or, outside of biographical films, can black actors only be nominated for awards for roles in which they are chiefly required to be black? It's starting to look extremely racist to continually reward black actors only when they're reminding us of the black experience. "Black civil rights struggle" is starting to form its own pandering niche at the Academy, on the shelf right next to "Prestige Period Epic," "Holocaust/WWII/Nazi film," and "Biography of recently deceased pop icon."
I dunno, man. You might be right, and you might be wrong. I guess it depends on your opinion of Denzel Washington's performance in Training Day. I will agree it's time for black actors to be getting more unconventional roles in majorly recognized movies.
Well, "unconventional" in the context of the kinds of roles they usually get, I hope you mean.
Meaning that they need to get more "conventional" roles that non-black actors seem to get routinely. I'd look to Will Smith, Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Idris Elba to help move this trend forward.
I'd love to see an Idris Elba Green Lantern movie.
I was really excited about those rumors of Idris Elba as a new James Bond; not that Craig isn't great, but Elba would have been fantastic as well.
(rumors turned out to be false)
Yep.
Back when there were supposed rumblings of a Halo movie, I'd heard a rumor Denzel Washington would play the Master Chief.
I really would've wanted to see that movie.
At least we got the superior version of Fury in the marvel movies
Indeed.
Well, even Marvel and DC have a paltry selection of minority characters out of the hundreds they have, and those select few still end up being somehow stereotyped into those same kind of roles.
Before the Ultimate Nick Fury, Marvel's most prominent black character was Luke Cage, a character charged with the immediate task of . . . . cleaning up his bad neighborhood.
I've long given up on the Oscars. Pretty much around the time where it became obvious even to me, that it's a popularity contest based not on craft, skill or anything like that. But purely on how good the Academy felt watching the film.
Sadly this goes double for most of the "tech" awards.
It really is kind of striking at the lack of heroes with any kind of color other than white. I can remember idolizing Indiana Jones, Captain Kirk, Luke Skywalker, Superman, Spiderman as a kid, and still to this day. It's really sad that there aren't those kind of strong black men with those kinds of stories being told.
I don't know the breakdown on the tech awards, but I hope to god that the voters are actually in the industry themselves.
But like they say, with the Academy and its awards, you can usually replace "best" with "most." The Academy loves anything that bothers to be self-serious AND drawing a lot of attention to itself. It's how you end up with Rooney Mara getting a nomination for a performance that was basically a shitty haircut and vintage leather.
Well obviously guys like DDL or Oldman are legendary actors. I was just saying that Law is pretty great IMO because I never realize that it's him.
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Even the few Black heroes there have been in pop culture are largely defined by their race, and many were formed specifically as reactions to pop culture's all-White cast of characters. Characters like Shaft, and Foxy Brown weren't just heroes, they were Black heroes fighting for Black issues.
Again, Star Trek (and Star Wars!) shows us the way.
They were getting better in the 90's and 2000's. Jaime Reyes is a success in other media. Cassandra Cain's Batgirl is a possible hit but she'd never get a chance when they don't give her a character rather then have Barbara or Katana (in the upcoming Batman series).
Black Panther was more well known then Luke Cage. Until recently Cage was an obscure character only a small faction of comic fans knew or cared about.
Not to spend too much time on it, but... over the course of the Halo games Master Chief moved from being an enigmatic figure draped in legend only half-imagined, to some boring-ass Guy Named John. This was my original perception of the guy:
I imagined the Master Chief with a raisable visor and a helmet that can be surgically removed for short periods of time. He doesn't look old, but then again, he never has to eat. He's immeasurably strong and can self-heal. He's known more people that are now dead than most average living families can find in their scrapbooks. He could save humanity. He could also single-handedly blow the lid off the governments running earth. For now, he's on this giant artifical construct in deep space with a rag-tag group of soldiers who will die anonymously if he cannot bring them home.
I woulda watched it, anyway.
Dude, the newer games didn't do that. The first Halo's booklet proved that stuff wrong in the first place.
Master Chief is...
Not really meant to be a complex character. I like to compare Halo to Beowolf. He is a weapon with a job to do and no conflicts about doing it.
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He takes his helmet off in the first game.
A Halo movie could work by either following a group of human characters, or treating the Master Chief like Anton Chigur or a similar force of nature character.
For that to work we'd need a balance of human characters or a play up of Cortana.
It's probably best if they leave Halo to video games, to be honest. A Halo movie could be cool but it would probably suck.
Fine by me. I didn't really want to bring Halo discussion in here anyway, to be honest.
Yes, it's really better if we move along now.
How was the Zemeckis Beowulf? I keep forgetting to take a look at it for some reason.
It's pretty bad in my opinion, but not so bad that you can't get through it if you've got two hours to kill and you can see it on like, cable or netflix or something.
What? Did I say something stupid? They both are very simple tales based around a hero who has no qualms fighting evil. Both are very simple and Direct.
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Did they did some Halo the Anime bullshit that turns out the be yuck plastered on film?
Yeah, keep Halo to video games.
Can you two put a sock in it?
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That wasn't really the fault of the medium. In fact it mostly ignored the game as much as possible. And looked UGLY.
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Done.
Green Lantern was the worst superhero movie of the year, because all the other ones tried. F for no effort.
Green Hornet was entertaining and features the most endearing Seth Rogen performance I've seen (I usually hate him), gets bonus points for really goofy 3-D, featuring a strong Asian character, and everything to do with Christoph Waltz. That said, it was very much "style over substance" but not in a way that let you forget the substance.
Thor was awful as previously stated, although some of the CG was pretty and it had some decent ideas. Just piss-poor execution and an odd delineation between turgid, characterless nonsense plot (Asgard!) and airy, plotless nothing (Earth!).
X-Men: First Class was frothy, entertaining (especially as a period piece), but sadly ill-plotted and half-baked after a ripping good first act promised a movie in which one man used superpowers to hunt and kill Nazis while his best friend used superpowers to fuck his way through the Swinging Sixties. I maintain my version would have been so much better than what we got instead: lackluster, rehashed angsty teens with boring powers and boringer personalities.
Captain America was totally decent, but flubbed the character arc by finishing it way too soon. Spoiler'd for that:
Luckily for the Avengers, Captain America gets a new character at the end of the movie and then suddenly things are interesting again.
With the best Marvel and DC had to offer coming in at "severely flawed" at best, the best and most excellent superhero movie of the year was, quite naturally, that other movie about a costumed vigilante exercising his sociopathy on the craven criminals of his community:
Uh the director himself has said that Drive was sorta his take on the superhero genre.
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