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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    haven't seen all of them, because well, why give it more chances

    which ones were the good ones

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Mary Anne Hobbs has certainly gone all in on Drum and Bass day

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    atomika, let's simplify this

    -comic books movies are boring

    They certainly can be, if there’s not an interesting central conflict and compelling characters.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    haven't seen all of them, because well, why give it more chances

    which ones were the good ones

    Good: X-Men 2, Days of Future Past, Logan
    Mediocre: X-Men, The Wolverine, First Class
    Bad: X-Men 3, Wolverine: Origins, Apocalypse

  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    Quicksilver was the best thing about the X-Men movies.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    haven't seen all of them, because well, why give it more chances

    which ones were the good ones

    Good: X-Men 2, Days of Future Past, Logan
    Mediocre: X-Men, The Wolverine, First Class
    Bad: X-Men 3, Wolverine: Origins, Apocalypse

    Agreed. I tend to weight the first film a little stronger than it may deserve since it was good enough to kinda-sorta be responsible for the last 20 years of good superhero movies

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Trace wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    Quicksilver was the best thing about the X-Men movies.

    I refute this utterly. One great scene and another lesser photocopy of that great scene are the sum total of his contributions.

    Hugh Jackman is far and away the best thing in basically every X-Men movie he's in. Patrick Stewart is likewise excellent though not used as well as he should have been. Fassbinder and McKellan are a great pair of Magnetos.

    Also I think I prefer the Nightcrawler scene in X2 over Quicksilver's bit in DoFP.

  • FroThulhuFroThulhu Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    haven't seen all of them, because well, why give it more chances

    which ones were the good ones

    Good: X-Men 2, Days of Future Past, Logan
    Mediocre: X-Men, The Wolverine, First Class
    Bad: X-Men 3, Wolverine: Origins, Apocalypse

    Logan stands so far apart from the X-Men series in tone and quality, it might as well be Deadpool

    First Class... is...

    Fuck, it's so bad.

    It's X3-level bad. People were like "oh, they chose an aesthetic, that means it's good."

    No, it's baddy-bad-bad. Also racist in that weird way we let certain creators get away with.

    Also, it's my birthday now?

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    Lol my connecting flight out of CDG is already delayed and it’s not for another 7 hrs
    CDG sux lmao


    Also yes I haven’t seen all the X-men movies but I’ve seen the ones Bogart said are good and they’re good

    I caught glimpses of Apocalypse on an airplane and it was baddddd

    poo
  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    fassbinder was what I enjoyed of days of future past

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    First Class is definitely racist in that it introduces a character of colour who superpower is being able to adapt to any threat automatically and it kills him first.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Lol my connecting flight out of CDG is already delayed and it’s not for another 7 hrs
    CDG sux lmao


    Also yes I haven’t seen all the X-men movies but I’ve seen the ones Bogart said are good and they’re good

    I caught glimpses of Apocalypse on an airplane and it was baddddd

    CDG is way better than it used to be but unless you're in a lounge seven hours is a long bloody time to be in an airport.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    The Quicksilver scene in Apocalypse is broken and atonal. Characters are dying the whole time Pietro is fucking around, but the tone is cartoonish and superficial. Horrible direction and editing.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    DoFP was such a good close to the series

    We should all just do like we did with the Star Wars prequels and pretend they never made any after that

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    I don't remember First Class being bad.

    But Michael Fassbender is great.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    I don't remember First Class being bad.

    But Michael Fassbender is great.

    It wasn’t bad but it had some poorly thought out writing.

    It was a refreshing take after previous movies only tried to rehash story highlights.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    All the “Magneto: Nazi Hunter” parts of First Class are good

    There’s a lot of crap though

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
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  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    dying a lot is something I consider a badge of honor, in the shooters I play

    last time we played planetside 2 we had a really good session, I had some fifty kills

    and a hundred and eleven death, which I was proud of. I am no sniper, sitting pointlessly on a hill, I am not hiding in a deadlocked room, I am first in, every time!

    die more, die gloriously

    PS2 is a bit different though, if it’s still like when I used to play it the winning strategy was often “get as many men on the point and spam them with revive grenades”

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    dying a lot is something I consider a badge of honor, in the shooters I play

    last time we played planetside 2 we had a really good session, I had some fifty kills

    and a hundred and eleven death, which I was proud of. I am no sniper, sitting pointlessly on a hill, I am not hiding in a deadlocked room, I am first in, every time!

    die more, die gloriously

    PS2 is a bit different though, if it’s still like when I used to play it the winning strategy was often “get as many men on the point and spam them with revive grenades”

    that isn’t how I remember the gameplay of PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus

  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Trace wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    Quicksilver was the best thing about the X-Men movies.

    I refute this utterly. One great scene and another lesser photocopy of that great scene are the sum total of his contributions.

    Hugh Jackman is far and away the best thing in basically every X-Men movie he's in. Patrick Stewart is likewise excellent though not used as well as he should have been. Fassbinder and McKellan are a great pair of Magnetos.

    Also I think I prefer the Nightcrawler scene in X2 over Quicksilver's bit in DoFP.

    I honestly don't think of Jackman as part of the X-men team. Same thing with Patrick Stewart. McKellan is always great of course. Fassbinder I have thoughts about but I don't think he was bad.

    Also both Jackman and Stewart are done with the X-men movies so anything coming out is going to really have to pick up their slack.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Speaking of Marvel

    I guess there was a thing going around about them wanting to do a 60's Fantastic Four movie directed by Peyton Reed for 2022

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    edited June 2019
    simonwolf wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    dying a lot is something I consider a badge of honor, in the shooters I play

    last time we played planetside 2 we had a really good session, I had some fifty kills

    and a hundred and eleven death, which I was proud of. I am no sniper, sitting pointlessly on a hill, I am not hiding in a deadlocked room, I am first in, every time!

    die more, die gloriously

    PS2 is a bit different though, if it’s still like when I used to play it the winning strategy was often “get as many men on the point and spam them with revive grenades”

    that isn’t how I remember the gameplay of PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus

    You were playing it like an amateur then

    Winky on
  • FroThulhuFroThulhu Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    First Class is definitely racist in that it introduces a character of colour who superpower is being able to adapt to any threat automatically and it kills him first.

    And the other minority character changes loyalty and motivation INSTANTLY to follow her new friend's murderer after watching that because brown people are apparently stupid, incompetent and prone to violence.

    The movie bent itself into pretzels to dryfuck its minority characters in service of providing the opportunity for a bunch of very, very bland white people being bland. Like... omitting McAvoy and Fassbender, the cast was so incredibly lifeless and fucky. Jennifer Lawrence is a pretty good actor, when she feels like it. Which btw, is unprofessional as a mf. Whoever played beast is blaaaaand... Banshee? Yawn. Who... who else was in that turd? Oh, Havok, yeah. Fuck that guy, too.

    The single best moment in the entire film was a cameo character telling the two ostensible leads to do exactly what ever single decision-maker involved in the entire production needed to, and probably still needs, to do.

    Man, that's a bad movie.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    I’m not going to lie, I look back on the times I led my 48 player platoons in the decisive blows that won us an entire 500 person alert as some of the prouder moments of my life.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Huh Netflix revived Designated Survivor for another season

  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »

    many years ago there was a forumer who'd sometimes play league of legends with us. one member of our group- who i think also is no longer around- would get incredibly upset when he was doing poorly. so this first forumer, on ventrilo, used to say shit like 'i don't get it. if dying is making you upset, just stop dying'. and the other guy would be like '...what the fuck did you say' and he's like, look, if you're not doing great and getting dozens of kills then ok. but just like, not dying isn't that hard. the problem is you're dying a lot, right? stop dying a lot, and your mood will improve.

    *me, sitting in the ventrilo channel, letting out a low pitched, keening norse war chant, warbling into a crescendo joined to the shadow realm*

    perhaps the most intense case of contact discomfort i've ever experienced lmao

    [Fontsize=4] he's not wrong, just stop chasing kills after they've snowballed [/fontsize=4]

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    What about not canceling your own shows instead of reviving network trash

    Happiness is within reach!
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    hey fartsos.

    I'm still proud of myself for having a Great Victory in Cultist Simulator.

  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    dying a lot is something I consider a badge of honor, in the shooters I play

    last time we played planetside 2 we had a really good session, I had some fifty kills

    and a hundred and eleven death, which I was proud of. I am no sniper, sitting pointlessly on a hill, I am not hiding in a deadlocked room, I am first in, every time!

    die more, die gloriously

    PS2 is a bit different though, if it’s still like when I used to play it the winning strategy was often “get as many men on the point and spam them with revive grenades”

    we had one like that

    we stopped trying to poke our heads out, that was suicide

    we just stoop inside there, desperately reviving each other, dying seconds later to the constant barrage of grenades the enemy was chucking into the room

    for four minutes somehow the enemy never thought to actually move in

    just kept throwing grenades in, killing us over and over but just happened to never kill every medic at once

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  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Trace wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Trace wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    The X-Men movies are a mix of good, bad and mediocre in roughly equal amounts.

    Quicksilver was the best thing about the X-Men movies.

    I refute this utterly. One great scene and another lesser photocopy of that great scene are the sum total of his contributions.

    Hugh Jackman is far and away the best thing in basically every X-Men movie he's in. Patrick Stewart is likewise excellent though not used as well as he should have been. Fassbinder and McKellan are a great pair of Magnetos.

    Also I think I prefer the Nightcrawler scene in X2 over Quicksilver's bit in DoFP.

    I honestly don't think of Jackman as part of the X-men team. Same thing with Patrick Stewart. McKellan is always great of course. Fassbinder I have thoughts about but I don't think he was bad.

    Also both Jackman and Stewart are done with the X-men movies so anything coming out is going to really have to pick up their slack.

    Man, it’s no coincidence that all the best X-Men movies are the ones that focus on both Jackman and Stewart

  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    edited June 2019
    the most fun was the one where our platoon had bumrushed a base under attack and destroyed all of them

    all that was left was one engineer and a MAX at one of the points

    I don't know who, but somebody had the idea, wait

    wait, let's knife this son of a bitch

    (MAX suits are very very resistant to knife attacks - as a big exoskeleton suit of armor should be)

    it was glorious, all of us charging in, knives out, swarming over them, the MAX eventually succumbing to a thousand cuts

    Abdy on
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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Haphazard wrote: »
    Hello. The reviews for the newest (and last?) X-Men movie are something, all right. But I have to admit that I really like one of the posters for it.

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2019
    Speaking of Marvel

    I guess there was a thing going around about them wanting to do a 60's Fantastic Four movie directed by Peyton Reed for 2022

    I couldn’t endorse this more unless they wanted Stephen Colbert for Reed Richards

    Atomika on
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Speaking of Marvel

    I guess there was a thing going around about them wanting to do a 60's Fantastic Four movie directed by Peyton Reed for 2022

    I couldn’t endorse this more unless they wanted Stephen Colbert for Reid Richards

    Is Stephen Colbert good at not-comedy? Cause he definetely would make a good Reid.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I heard DC cancelled Swamp Thing three days after it premiered

    That’s gotta be a record

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