Bob's once again harping on Marvel and allowing Edgar Wright to split from the Ant-Man project, and hiring another director to finish it. Sounds like he already declared it Marvel's first big failure before it's released.walsfeo said:If the number of responses to your posts drop, it's because the website is sluggish when pushing the "comments" button.
It would have been nice if Taken 3 were like Die Hard 3 - but yeah, January.
When I was a kid I loved the Paddington Bear books. I'm shocked an pleased if it turns out they didn't butcher the bear.
What is the deal about the dance? What did Marvel do this time?
Oh, gotcha.Darth_Payn said:Bob's once again harping on Marvel and allowing Edgar Wright to split from the Ant-Man project, and hiring another director to finish it. Sounds like he already declared it Marvel's first big failure before it's released.walsfeo said:If the number of responses to your posts drop, it's because the website is sluggish when pushing the "comments" button.
It would have been nice if Taken 3 were like Die Hard 3 - but yeah, January.
When I was a kid I loved the Paddington Bear books. I'm shocked an pleased if it turns out they didn't butcher the bear.
What is the deal about the dance? What did Marvel do this time?
Disagree with you there. If a movie, specifically a balls-to-the-wall action movie such as this one, causes part of its audience to fall asleep in the movie theatre (and said audience doesn't happen to include my mother), that has to be an indictment of the movie on some level. Yeah, maybe the bit he slept through was the best, most engaging, and most profound piece of cinema since No Country for Old Men (unlikely), but the movie still can't get full points because IT PUT ITS AUDIENCE TO SLEEP. And if the rest of the movie is trash, the chance that the small part the audience slept through is good is rather slim.Baresark said:Also, you fell asleep in it... I can't help but feel you should not actually be reviewing it at all because your opinion is that it's still crap despite not having been conscious for the whole movie. If I fall asleep during a movie and then find the portion I do see not satisfying, I don't go around telling people it's a crap movie, I actually try to see the whole thing before I give my opinion. Journalistic integrity doesn't extend to your show all of the suddenly being about a first impression of a medium that first impressions are useless on.
They are setting the tone that you're not supposed to take this one as seriously (self deprecation, lamp-shading how silly the idea is, etc). Probably setting the expectations bar a bit low, ala Guardians. So if it succeeds, they do a victory lap. If it tanks, or is just mediocre, then nobody was really expecting anything from it anyway.Darth_Payn said:Bob's once again harping on Marvel and allowing Edgar Wright to split from the Ant-Man project, and hiring another director to finish it. Sounds like he already declared it Marvel's first big failure before it's released.walsfeo said:What is the deal about the dance? What did Marvel do this time?
The very real threat of human trafficking that disproportionately targets poor, vulnerable immigrant women from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America--basically anyone except rich, white American tourists 5 minutes after they get off their plane? Seriously, was the lothario who gave them a ride from the airport the dumbest human trafficker in France? Even if she didn't have a CIA superspy for a father, it was obvious someone with enough money to afford the ritziest apartment in Paris would be looking for her. Taken can also refer to the people who took this nonsense seriously.SnakeoilSage said:Would you be happier if this somehow balked "traditional gender roles" and the very real threat of human trafficking
That last sentence doesn't really make sense. Yeah, a paranoid "I toldya so" macho father-knows-best fantasy is the basis of making the movie, and that's a bad thing. As someone else mentioned above me, rich white tourists are pretty much the people human traffickers avoid like the plague, because CNN goes DEFCON-1 whenever a pretty white American sniffles overseas. It's not a movie about the realistic danger of human trafficking, it's a transparent power fantasy for men who go apeshit whenever their daughters so much touch a boy without an interview.SnakeoilSage said:I really don't get the whole "dad's always right" angle. He's former-CIA and he's a concerned father. Of course he's going to have reservations about his daughter going anywhere without an escort. The fact that he's proven right is just grounds for making the movie in the first place.
Unfortunately, a lot of the similar reviewers that were ever good to begin with have all gone in the same direction these past few years. I gave up following Bob's Twitter long ago because he had turned into one of those too-liberal-for-their-own-good types, but his videos were still pretty good. Now, it's all just leaking into this and "The Big Picture", and I think I am out as well.Paradoxrifts said:And that's one diatribe too far. I'm hitting the ejection button and escaping from Escape To The Movies. There is just not enough fun in these videos to justify wading through all of the negativity. If people enjoy this then all the more power to them, but I'm out. Can anyone suggest a replacement?