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Jakob has had the hardest face turn of anyone in those movies. Cena really gravitates to cornball roles but this is the corniest motherfucker in existence. Or was. Even before the mid credits scene I was going “you know I haven’t seen a body” at his death and the plane with everyone else getting shot down. Gisele coming back sure was a choice. I feel like you can’t do two surprise resurrections back to back like that. Dante was a lot of fun even if his ability to always be three steps ahead is completely over the top.
For some reason I had gotten the impression they finally kill off Brian in this one so I was surprised when they didn’t even mention him once.
Steam
I'm not completely sure what exactly Jason Momoa's character is, because it seemed to change from scene to scene, but he is definitely doing a lot of acting and a bunch of it is good, but I just think the concept for his persona is too much and honestly he's a villain we see too much of.
Leo Perry does a good job playing Lil B, Dom's son and John Cena is a lot of fun in this movie.
Ending stuff
The films biggest flaw was having the family split up for so much of the movie.
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Pretty great to see a band of that vintage giving airtime to pride in not a lolgay way.
Steam
To be fair, Dom has started the last 3 movies in “two days to retirement” mode.
Blue Beetle
He's perfect
"I'll give a speech about family"
"Ok roll charisma"
Imagine being the trucker that fought them off in the first movie.
Just get home like "Honey, you would not believe the day I had."
Then you flip on the news and
"Oh shit! That's them! They did what now?"
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james lipton was a tremendously insightful interviewer
He's only ever called one man a coward...
and that's Brian Doyle Murray.
Kairo
Ringu
Ju-On
Ringu is really good, but overall I personally prefer Kairo more. Ju-On feels more like a series of related shorts strung together by one super haunted house - mostly I was surprised by the body count in that one.
Edit: oh it's next weekend
I told Mrs thejokerman I'm going to go see a matinee of it while we're on vacation
Like, maybe morbid curiosity, sure
But excitement?
I'm easy to please, give me Peter Cullen voicing Optimus and giant robot action.
As for the previous films, 4 & 5 were disasters, but Bumblebee was a step in right direction, and this seems more like that than 4/5.
Tier list:
86 > 1 > BB | 3 > 4 >>>> 5
It was hinted at in 5, it's full on the main antagonist in the new one.
The 1986 Transformers is nostalgic, and it is an oddity in the way it fuckin murders all your toys to try and make you buy new ones, but I don't think it is actually very good.
I don't even know, honestly, if I would enjoy those even half as much if I didn't have a nostalgic love of Transformers, but the IDW stuff definitely reads better as a proper narrative than any of the old Transformers stuff.
I still want to get my hands on a Masterpiece Soundwave one of these days
80s cartoons (at least the American ones that I watched as a kid) were kinda across-the-board dogshit. Deliberately cheap, cynically designed to push toys, and never really intended to last in my opinion.
I can't think of a one that holds up. Things got a little better in the 90s, there are a couple of shows there that still work. But man were the 80s grim.
i strongly disagree. It's blatant on the marketing side, but it's a gorgeously animated film, and has one of the best OSTs of all time.
I outright wasn't allowed to watch them, my parents pretty much banned any kids TV that wasn't from the BBC or (Australian)ABC. But sometimes I'd be at the babysitters place, and she would put on some illicit material like Smurfs or Carebears or He-Man, and this would be tremendously exciting for all of about five minutes, until inevitably you'd realize: "oh this is actually not at all good"