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thebobmaster

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The only thing that bothers me about this movie - which otherwise is both really awesome and made an effort to showcase the local fauna - is that Marahute isn’t a Wedge Tailed Eagle. Like I know we’re already running on bullshit what with talking mice and Cody riding the eagle like a prototype Hiccup and Toothless arrangement but I’d really loved to have seen our big bird on that screen. Otherwise the movie is a big thumbs up.
 
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I checked out the first 50 minutes of Blonde on Netflix out of morbid curiosity. I was expecting lurid, sleazy, pretentious art porn, but the first 50 minutes are just dreadfully boring and pretentious. It feels like a rough draft of a film: scenes go on and on and on with looooong silences that don't impart anything meaningful or interesting, and don't build to anything. Visually the film's just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, and there's no point or cohesion to it at all. I was hoping this movie would be entertainingly pretentious and weird, but it was close to putting me to sleep. I guess I'll give it up to the 90-minute mark to get me invested, and if by then I'm not I'll just write it off.
 
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I watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special, and this was deeply unfunny.

I really liked Guardians 1 and 2, and the premise of this special was comedy gold, but they really dropped the ball. I thought Drax and Mantis had great chemistry in their earlier appearances, and this special mostly focuses on them, but it felt like they really phoned it in here. The musical numbers were just... awkward. And I thought that they really underutilised their concept.

Also, they have these animated flashback sequences, and they are the ugliest things that I have seen in a while.

Really didn't care for this one.
 
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I suppose I can also now evaluate the MCU's Phase 4, now that everything is out.

WandaVision - Great!
Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Fine
Loki - Boring
Black Widow - Fine
Shang-Chi - Good
What If...? - Didn't watch
Eternals - Great! (Controversial)
Hawkeye - Boring
Spider-Man: No Way Home - Great!
Moon Knight - Boring
Doctor Strange 2 - Fine
Ms Marvel - Boring
Thor Love and Thunder - Poor
I Am Groot - Didn't watch
She-Hulk - Great!
Werewolf by Night - Didn't watch
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Great!
Guardians of the Galaxy: Christmas Special - Poor

So out of the 15 Phase 4 projects that I watched, only about 6 really worked for me.

Marvel's quantity > quality approach really hurt them this time around, and I really hope that they fix this going forward.
 
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Piscian

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I watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special, and this was deeply unfunny.

I really liked Guardians 1 and 2, and the premise of this special was comedy gold, but they really dropped the ball. I thought Drax and Mantis had great chemistry in their earlier appearances, and this special mostly focuses on them, but it felt like they really phoned it in here. The musical numbers were just... awkward. And I thought that they really underutilised their concept.

Also, they have these animated flashback sequences, and they are the ugliest things that I have seen in a while.

Really didn't care for this one.
My dad forced me to watch this with him. Idk, all the pieces were there, but it lacked timing and punch of typical James Gunn faire. Like all the jokes were a little late or kinda forced. I think maybe this was really directed towards little kids so they felt they had to play all the jokes on slowmo so the tots would get it. I dont recall how many songs were in it, but the two I did hear just made me leave to go get coffee. Im not really into long drawn out bland Christmas music. James gunn did director, but this felt pretty thrown together.
 
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I suppose I can also now evaluate the MCU's Phase 4, now that everything is out.

WandaVision - Great!
Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Fine
Loki - Boring
Black Widow - Fine
Shang-Chi - Good
What If...? - Didn't watch
Eternals - Great! (Controversial)
Hawkeye - Boring
Spider-Man: No Way Home - Great!
Moon Knight - Boring
Doctor Strange 2 - Fine
Ms Marvel - Boring
Thor Love and Thunder - Poor
I Am Groot - Didn't watch
She-Hulk - Great!
Werewolf by Night - Didn't watch
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Great!
Guardians of the Galaxy: Christmas Special - Poor

So out of the 15 Phase 4 projects that I watched, only about 6 really worked for me.

Marvel's quantity > quality approach really hurt them this time around, and I really hope that they fix this going forward.
Probably your most "controversial" opinion is the negative one about Loki, it got positive response. And while Eternals was initially received poorly, yours isn't the first time I'm seeing someone come back later with something positive to say about it.
 
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Probably your most "controversial" opinion is the negative one about Loki, it got positive response.
I know online and in terms of metrics, it was the best recieved Disney+ MCU show, but my entire family found it quite boring as well. I was quite surprised to learn that it's so loved by most. Honestly still don't get what people see in this show. It has lots of individual good stuff in it, but as a whole, it was such a mess of a show.
 
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Spirited: Good / Great

A musical reimagining of the classic Christmas Scrooge story starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, and Octavia Spencer.

I didn't want to watch this movie because I really do not like modern musicals, but since my gf rules the roost, I had to... and I liked it. Quick hot take: Ryan Reynolds makes everything better by just being himself in everything he does; yeah, I'm that guy who never tires of Reynolds' schtick. The musical bits are just few and far enough between that they don't grate on my nerves, and they're mostly tongue-in-cheek. Most surprisingly, Ferrell isn't the obnoxious, overacting twit he can be this time out. Coming from a guy who despises Christmas and most thing Christmas-related, consider this endorsement high praise though not an objective qualification as to its quality.
 

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Probably your most "controversial" opinion is the negative one about Loki, it got positive response.
I honestly couldn't really tell you much about what happens in this show. Loki, and most of the other Disney+ shows fall into the same trap, where something exciting happens in the first episode, something exciting happens at the end, and then you have about 4+ hours in between where nothing of consequence really happens.

The only two Marvel shows that have been a success, in my mind, were WandaVision, and She-Hulk. The former slowly unravelled a mystery, and the latter was basically a different story every week. The rest bored me close to tears (and in the case of Moon Knight, actually sent me to sleep).
Honestly still don't get what people see in this show.
Tom Hiddleston is hot.
 

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Probably your most "controversial" opinion is the negative one about Loki, it got positive response. And while Eternals was initially received poorly, yours isn't the first time I'm seeing someone come back later with something positive to say about it.
Opposing view -

"You'd have to tie me to a chair and tape my eyelids open before I'd ever watch [Eternals] again. Even then You'd have to sedate me because I'd probably hurt myself trying to chew my way out of the harness and while screaming." Piscian's Eternals Movie review
 

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I know online and in terms of metrics, it was the best recieved Disney+ MCU show, but my entire family found it quite boring as well. I was quite surprised to learn that it's so loved by most. Honestly still don't get what people see in this show. It has lots of individual good stuff in it, but as a whole, it was such a mess of a show.
Because it's Loki.
 

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I caught up on the backlog a bit this weekend

Three Thousand years of Longing 8/10

Three Thousand Years of Longing has a rather straight forward premise. There's no surprises to be found. Idris Elba plays a Djinn whos been released on accident by Tilda Swinton. He desperately wants his freedom with three wishes made, but she both doesn't trust him, believing it's a "Monkey Paw", and she lives a quiet life as a teacher wanting for nothing. In trying to help her trust him and give her ideas for wishes he tells her a series of stories detailing his three thousand years spent in the bottle.

Absolutely beautiful film, very heavy Terry Gilliam vibes. Everything is bright, splashy and creative. Unfortunately I was a little disappointed in both the limited scope of his stories and the rather mundane, if interesting ending. See he actually does spend most of that three thousand years in the bottle so the stories are rather brief with him getting screwed over every time he's just about to earn his freedom. The ending, is pretty close to what you think would naturally happen with that title, but with an interesting little twist.

On a side note it reeks of this book by Anne Rice about a Djinn called "Servant of The Bones", which if you can put your fedora down for a second and willingly open an Anne Rice book, its lauded as one of her best and a far cry from the trashier stuff.

All in all I'd give it an 8/10 despite my disappointments I was enraptured for the full run time. I'd openly warn you the trailer makes it sound action packed, but it's closer to a rainy afternoon contemplative piece.
 

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I caught up on the backlog a bit this weekend

Three Thousand years of Longing 8/10

Three Thousand Years of Longing has a rather straight forward premise. There's no surprises to be found. Idris Elba plays a Djinn whos been released on accident by Tilda Swinton. He desperately wants his freedom with three wishes made, but she both doesn't trust him, believing it's a "Monkey Paw", and she lives a quiet life as a teacher wanting for nothing. In trying to help her trust him and give her ideas for wishes he tells her a series of stories detailing his three thousand years spent in the bottle.

Absolutely beautiful film, very heavy Terry Gilliam vibes. Everything is bright, splashy and creative. Unfortunately I was a little disappointed in both the limited scope of his stories and the rather mundane, if interesting ending. See he actually does spend most of that three thousand years in the bottle so the stories are rather brief with him getting screwed over every time he's just about to earn his freedom. The ending, is pretty close to what you think would naturally happen with that title, but with an interesting little twist.

On a side note it reeks of this book by Anne Rice about a Djinn called "Servant of The Bones", which if you can put your fedora down for a second and willingly open an Anne Rice book, its lauded as one of her best and a far cry from the trashier stuff.

All in all I'd give it an 8/10 despite my disappointments I was enraptured for the full run time. I'd openly warn you the trailer makes it sound action packed, but it's closer to a rainy afternoon contemplative piece.
As a massive fan of Anne Rice (I met her twice and have several books signed by her,) I am intrigued by that comparison. I've not read Servant Of The Bones in YEARS, but I recall enjoying it quite a bit. (And for the record, I've never bothered with her "trashier" stuff; I stick to her vampires, witches, etc.)
 

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As a massive fan of Anne Rice (I met her twice and have several books signed by her,) I am intrigued by that comparison. I've not read Servant Of The Bones in YEARS, but I recall enjoying it quite a bit. (And for the record, I've never bothered with her "trashier" stuff; I stick to her vampires, witches, etc.)
Similar backstory of a person getting unwillingly trapped in a phylactery and forced to do others bidding over the course of several thousand years. It was her attempt to do a "what would it be like to be a genji", but it had similar vibes with the other vampire stuff - of that character trying to acclimate to changing times, which I think is her strong suit. Very different literal story, but shares a lot in common with the ideas, especially the third story in the film.
 
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Troll (2022)

Not the 1986 horror comedy. This one's kind of like a kaiju movie except with scandinavian folklore, in this case a troll. Could've done with leaning into the folklore angle, but it's too busy wanting to be an American style blockbuster, and ends up very unremarkable because of it. Watch Trolljegeren instead. Better movie, or imo at least a more interesting one.
 

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