Nope; the soundtrack is pretty nice, though.
She was ****** and unappealing as said ex gf, too, so *shrugs* But who knows: maybe she's like Clancy Brown and much nicer privately than professionally. But somehow, I doubt that.
Movie review rant 2019
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She was ****** and unappealing as said ex gf, too, so *shrugs* But who knows: maybe she's like Clancy Brown and much nicer privately than professionally. But somehow, I doubt that.
Those who, like me, think the fight scenes in Star Wars are too slow, dull and wordy, and should be more like a Rocky film should see this;
Aside the the super soldier serum, I don't know of any explanation. I know he's supposed to be a man at the absolute peak of human potential, but yeah he does come across as a bit indestructible sometimes.
Skull Island was my first Brie Larson movie, so I did not go into Captain Marvel with high hopes. That said, that movie made even Tom Hiddleston (Loki) look like a bad actor. So far that and the Marvel role are all I've seen her in, but she is an Academy Award winner, so I'd imagine that counts for something.
~Thylo
Indeed not. The Golden Globes are a complete joke, and we all remember the Black Panther Oscar fiasco last year.. However, for the most part, nominations are still based off of quality (as your video even states) so to even be nominated for Best Actress still means something. Now do I think her acting has Captain Marvel is Oscar-worthy or even some of the best amongst the MCU cast? No, far from it. I still enjoy the character, though.
~Thylo
Larson's Oscar was richly deserved; her performance in Room is stunning. The less said about Kong: Skull Island the better...
Oh, I didn't even know that was Loki! I wonder if he dislikes Brie Larson as much as some of the other MCU actors appear to do.
I liked Skull Island. I didn't think I would because the trailers make it look pretty dumb, but it was a nice simple monster movie with good effects, good music, and cool giant monsters. It was miles ahead of Peter Jackson's King Kong movie.
That was cool. No more two old guys gently tapping their lightsabers together like they're poking a dog to see if it's awake.
My favourite bit was the end where the door closed on Vader and he's just looking at it, thinking "Curses, foiled by a door again! If only I had some sort of power to open it..."
Agreed, it was a fun monster movie. As far as performances went, though, only John C. Reilly was worth watching.
Have you all seen the Honest Trailers for the Skull Island?:
~Thylo
~Thylo
I feel like everyone in the thread has seen every Honest Trailers. And every Pitch Meeting. Maybe even every Cinema Sins. Gotta watch 'em all!
I've seen just about every Honest Trailer and most Cinema Sins, but I haven't watched any Pitch Meetings. Are they good?
I've definitely seen every Pitch Meeting, there was only about 9 of them when I started watching 'em!
Not sure about the others, but I'm damn close!
They're pretty damn funny, and even cover TV shows, actors, and trailers.
I suspect you're more or less right there! I stopped watching CinemaSins, though, as he started to annoy me.
~Thylo
Yet CinemaWins guy doesn't annoy you...
CinemaWins doesn't blatantly make stuff up to pad his videos' runtime and make movies look worse than they are
And to be fair I only watch CinemaWins videos for movies I've seen and like. I'd imagine trying to watch them for movies I haven't seen would be tiresome.~Thylo
Not a movie and pretty crass but it expresses my thoughts almost to a T:
Additional thoughts:
-I actually don't mind that Arya kills the Night King. This story has always set out to subvert traditional storytelling and I like the idea of someone who's only just crossed over into this storyline being the one to end it, considering the point of the storyline was that this is the one true threat and eventually everyone in the world will be killed by it if it's not stopped quickly. That said, it's utterly ridiculous that Jon never gets to even engage the Night King, and the White Walkers in generally literally do nothing the entire episode. They should not have been defeated this easily or this early on. And how was Arya able to sneak past the hundreds of undead in the Godswood alone and the dozens of White Walkers that are directly behind the Night King (so exactly where she's shown dropping out of the sky from)?
-Why are the Dothraki using regular steel weapons when they're not effective against the enemy? Literally everyone else has been given dragonglass weapons but the wave you're sending in to engage the enemy first isn't? If Melisandre didn't deus ex machina herself to Winterfell and light their weapons on fire then they would have been sent in with absolutely zero weaponry that they could fight with.
-On top of all the other defense blunders, how come the walls aren't coated in dragonglass to prevent the dead from climbing them? Also why is Winterfell so dimly lit? When Arya is running through the walls there are no torches anywhere but if the dead are supposed to immediately go up in flames the moment fire touches them how come there aren't torches every four feet and big bonfires set up in the courtyards?
-Where are all the other Giants?? In season four we're explicitly told that there are a bunch of other Giants somewhere but then after that the only one we ever see is WunWun who then dies in season six. Presumably this means all the other Giants died North of The Wall and are now apart of the army of the dead-- except their not. The first time we see Giants in the army there are three, then the next couple of times there are only two. Now the army finally reaches Winterfell and there's only one. There should be hundreds! I know the show has a budget and the Giants have proven to be very expensive, but come on. You couldn't have at least given us the three?
-Why in the holiest of hells is a wolf on the front line charging in with the cavalry!? I'm convinced the writers of this show hate Ghost. He's a consistent part of the first five seasons but then we get to season six which extends past the book series (since George R.R. Martin has been too busy writing fake history textbooks about GoT to actually finish the series) and Ghost disappears after episode two to never be seen again until season eight episode two when he appears half off-screen in the background for a moment and no one acknowledges him. Then we see him in this episode where he's sent unarmoured into the army of the dead and I assumed this was just the show coming up with a lazy way to kill him off entirely off-camera. BUT THEN, he's back in episode four all cut up and missing an ear, so clearly they only did that so they wouldn't have to worry about including him in the rest of the battle. But now they've just lazily written him out of the show entirely anyway by having Jon give a throwaway line about how he'd be happier further North so Tormund needs to take him to the wild. Jon never interacts with or even says goodbye to his faithful pet wolf that he's had since season one episode one, who's literally saved other characters from dying throughout the show. The last shot we ever get of Ghost is him all beaten and bloody, alone, whimpering as Jon leaves him behind. What. The. Hell.
Game of Thrones was my absolute favorite TV show for the longest time and I can't believe how badly they've butchered the final season. Almost all of the characters are completely different people from who they were before and entire plotlines are rushed, reversed, or abandoned altogether all so everything fits this weird, half-assed narrative they've decided on for the final season. The worst part is they took two whole years to make this crap. I just don't get what happened.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the video's prediction was correct, half of the Unsullied and half of the Dothraki are all magically alive again in episode four despite us literally watching them all in episode three.
~Thylo
Additional thoughts:
-I actually don't mind that Arya kills the Night King. This story has always set out to subvert traditional storytelling and I like the idea of someone who's only just crossed over into this storyline being the one to end it, considering the point of the storyline was that this is the one true threat and eventually everyone in the world will be killed by it if it's not stopped quickly. That said, it's utterly ridiculous that Jon never gets to even engage the Night King, and the White Walkers in generally literally do nothing the entire episode. They should not have been defeated this easily or this early on. And how was Arya able to sneak past the hundreds of undead in the Godswood alone and the dozens of White Walkers that are directly behind the Night King (so exactly where she's shown dropping out of the sky from)?
-Why are the Dothraki using regular steel weapons when they're not effective against the enemy? Literally everyone else has been given dragonglass weapons but the wave you're sending in to engage the enemy first isn't? If Melisandre didn't deus ex machina herself to Winterfell and light their weapons on fire then they would have been sent in with absolutely zero weaponry that they could fight with.
-On top of all the other defense blunders, how come the walls aren't coated in dragonglass to prevent the dead from climbing them? Also why is Winterfell so dimly lit? When Arya is running through the walls there are no torches anywhere but if the dead are supposed to immediately go up in flames the moment fire touches them how come there aren't torches every four feet and big bonfires set up in the courtyards?
-Where are all the other Giants?? In season four we're explicitly told that there are a bunch of other Giants somewhere but then after that the only one we ever see is WunWun who then dies in season six. Presumably this means all the other Giants died North of The Wall and are now apart of the army of the dead-- except their not. The first time we see Giants in the army there are three, then the next couple of times there are only two. Now the army finally reaches Winterfell and there's only one. There should be hundreds! I know the show has a budget and the Giants have proven to be very expensive, but come on. You couldn't have at least given us the three?
-Why in the holiest of hells is a wolf on the front line charging in with the cavalry!? I'm convinced the writers of this show hate Ghost. He's a consistent part of the first five seasons but then we get to season six which extends past the book series (since George R.R. Martin has been too busy writing fake history textbooks about GoT to actually finish the series) and Ghost disappears after episode two to never be seen again until season eight episode two when he appears half off-screen in the background for a moment and no one acknowledges him. Then we see him in this episode where he's sent unarmoured into the army of the dead and I assumed this was just the show coming up with a lazy way to kill him off entirely off-camera. BUT THEN, he's back in episode four all cut up and missing an ear, so clearly they only did that so they wouldn't have to worry about including him in the rest of the battle. But now they've just lazily written him out of the show entirely anyway by having Jon give a throwaway line about how he'd be happier further North so Tormund needs to take him to the wild. Jon never interacts with or even says goodbye to his faithful pet wolf that he's had since season one episode one, who's literally saved other characters from dying throughout the show. The last shot we ever get of Ghost is him all beaten and bloody, alone, whimpering as Jon leaves him behind. What. The. Hell.
Game of Thrones was my absolute favorite TV show for the longest time and I can't believe how badly they've butchered the final season. Almost all of the characters are completely different people from who they were before and entire plotlines are rushed, reversed, or abandoned altogether all so everything fits this weird, half-assed narrative they've decided on for the final season. The worst part is they took two whole years to make this crap. I just don't get what happened.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the video's prediction was correct, half of the Unsullied and half of the Dothraki are all magically alive again in episode four despite us literally watching them all in episode three.
~Thylo
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Indeed, their episode on The Last Airbender is one of my favourites!