I don’t know where any of the positive reviews are coming from. It was awful. Not even for a MCU movie, it was a bad movie, period. Everything is so disjointed and all over the place. There’s no explanation for things that need explanations and they over-explain things that are obvious. The villain, while having some motivation, was just weak and forgettable.
Brie Larson was in and out. Sometimes she was decent, but a lot of times felt like she was reading off cue cards. Teyonah Parris was OK, but she’s terrible at fight choreography. She kept running up and getting in position constantly and just looked off. Sam Jackson was a clown. I mean I don’t think he had a single line that wasn’t a joke. I don’t even get his characterization at all. Iman Vellani was the best thing about this film. She was a delight every time she was on screen and I love how she’s the new ‘Fury’ in recruiting the YA team. Glad to see references to the other members finally.
The whole singing planet was just…IDK. The flerkin stuff was OK but I felt wore out its welcome, especially the end there. But the mid credits scene was interesting. Beast looked kinda weird, but he seems to be a completely CGI character and not Kelsey Grammar, despite using his voice. So I wonder if the X-Men are only in that universe. It would give an explanation why we haven’t seen any mutants up until recently.
I’m still in as a long time Marvel fan, but wow, this movie was a mess.
Movie itself was pretty even keel, not great, not terrible.
Cons: weak uninspired villain, that fucking singing planet
Pros: Kamala and her family, cool explorations of the the Marvels’ powers, taking advantage of their quantum entaglement, and probably one of the best real hype post credits scenes since the OG thanos teaser.
I liked the singing planet but wish they had leaned much harder into it.
When we arrive everyone is just standing around and don’t start singing until they notice the Marvels. I understand the reveal joke but they could have handled it better.
The prince being bilingual was fine.
However when it came to battle that should have been a huge musical number. It could have been an added step to the Marvels working in unison. Have them try to time things together but occasionally messing up. Then they could have hummed/sung along to get more in sync.
Oh yeah. It’s gotta be some over the top story arc. Like Ernest Jr’s mother was/is a circus strong-woman that met Ernest Sr in the early 80s. Ernest Jr goes on an adventure to learn all about his father, embraces the absurdity. Could
If I were an actor in today’s age, I would legitimately rethink ever working with WB at this point. Hell, even if I were a PA. This goes to show that if you make something with WB, it likely won’t come out.
Yeah but spending months of your life working on something for it to never be seen by people really sucks. Even if you get paid. You make a thing, you are proud of the thing and then the thing gets put in a box and no one else ever gets to enjoy that thing. Capitalism sucks
While that’s all true, there are a lot of productions where I assume basically nobody involved is actually proud of the thing they are trying to create. Like all those soulless cash grab movies that Illumination pumps out. I figure basically everyone there is just trying to collect a paycheck
Well, I’m open to other interpretations in general. There’s room for that, despite the Wilder Wonka being impossible to beat.
I didn’t hate Charlie and the chocolate factory, though that’s mostly because it was a movie of the book rather than a new version of the movie.
And, I like chalumet (however it’s spelled). He’s done some good work. So I’m not against the idea of him doing it.
It’s what you said, it feels like a cash grab rather than a genuine attempt at making a new movie. Those so rarely end well. And, if it sucks as bad as I fear, it kinda t aints the story itself; it would be harder for someone else to do a new movie based on the book in the future (I still maintain that the Wilder movie wasn’t meant to be a true translation of the book, and the Depp movie failed at that despite trying). I’d like to see a truly faithful translation of the book.
I just saw this on IMDB and was like “great…how are the re-imagining it now?” but nope, it doesn’t even look like a re-imagining of it, they just taking the original story and using new actors for 99% of the cast. I think the only two original actors left are Tim and Tina.
This is going to be terrible, but it’s going to get rave review no doubt, just like the stupid Charmed remake, which is somehow still on AFAIK.
Either way, taking a movie and then making it a Broadway musical and then making that musical into a movie, just sounds like a bad game of “telephone”.
Good on SAG, I hope they got a good deal (and didn’t throw anyone under the bus…)
But, selfishly speaking? I am way more excited for all my favorite media podcasts to get back to watching shows rather than awkwardly finding ways around it.
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