I keep having visions of clairvoyants hitting me with cars, I don’t know how to process this.
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My favorite Sony Spider-Man movie where they remove basically all connection to Spider Man.
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Spoiler for the Spider-Man film without Spider-Man aka. Madam Web.
The evil spiser-man motivation hinges on a dream of him being thrown out of a window in his apartment by three Spider-Women. Causing his death. Remember that this is a Spider-man’ish guy who in the film survives jumping from the top of a building (I think) and land on his feet.
1) it makes no sense
2) he could also just move, his fate is tied to his current apartment
Sony should have taken a tax return on this film. Maybe they can recoup some the cost of Kraven, by doing so. This film have doomed what little money could have made.
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Move? In New York? Not with those housing prices…
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Here is crazy idea, sell your apartment and move to the countryside. Find a ground level house and live a very pleasant life.
And in other news, I actually watched a good film tonight. The Creator. I knew I would enjoy it. I did not expect to like it as much as I did. Cementing why Sci-fi films are my favorite genre. If you have yet to watch it, do yourself a favor and watch it. It might not have been a big hit on the global box office, but it’s a film that deserves so much more then majority of sluggish blockbusters that have infested cinema landscape (herre I’m directly targeting 90% of the MCU and Faste and Furious franchise).
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Is it as crazy as having a film with four Spider-Women yet never actually having them wear their costumes? Is it as crazy as a film where the villain is taken out by a billboard for Pepsi? Because I heard that is what happens in the film.
Besides if I was born and raised in New York I wouldn’t swap it for a small town. I already hate the very small city in which I live in right now.
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It’s better than dying. Then again his super power should negate that death he dreams about.
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So he shouldn’t leave at all? Wait… If he is afraid of falling out of widows then he should just stay the fuck away from them?
Did anyone give this script a pass before they sent it off?
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Remember this is a Spider-guy that can survive this kind of fall. Also a specific window non the less, in his apartment. Why I suggest moving.
If I was to kill Spider-Man, I wouldn’t start by throwing him out of a window.
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That seems extreme when you could simply avoid the window or pay someone to board/brick it up for you. Then again you have watched the film and I haven’t so maybe there is some big reason that I will never know.
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Ha god no, It was just spoiled in my movie podcast. So we didn’t have to suffer. I haven’t watched a marvel film since the extremely mediocre Black Panther.
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Which podcast?
Imagine spending your own limited time on Earth watching Madame Web…
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The John Campea Show, I also listen to Kristian Harloff’s the big thing and other movie related podcasts.
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Yeah I think I have heard of Campea, I remember him being bigger or at least more disseminated in online discourse when the MCU was huge. I always found him a tad too corporate for my tastes but I am pretty selective in my choice of reviewers.
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Both Campea and Kristian were part of Colliders and their podcast series. Both theme and others have created their own podcast shows now. On their own terms.
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Trapped from 2002 on Netflix
Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Dakota Fanning, + Courtney Love. It’s about an elaborate kidnapping. It’s suspenseful but full of non believable incidents. You’ll keep saying “no way he would have allowed that,” or “that was pretty stupid of them.”
But it was entertaining enough, if you have seen all the other stuff that looked good.
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Saw Dune: Part 2 at the cinema today. I saw Part 1 in cinema and while I had a good time, I felt like it was a movie I more appreciated rather than actually enjoyed, if that makes sense. Grandiose but felt a little plodding. Part 2 though, perhaps because it is the conclusion of the book it adapts, while still being a slow film, feels like it has a far better pace to it, while also being grand and cinematic in scope. Really enjoyed this, deserves the to be called a sci-fi epic. It makes me want to read the Dune novels, and the idea that this director may return to adapt the next Dune novel makes me very excited.
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Dune: Part 2
I feel like I just watched a great 6 hour movie that someone cut down to 3 hours. It feels in parts rushed, in parts it goes nowhere with scenes, and some stuff just comes out of nowhere or with insufficient setup/foreshadowing.
I enjoyed the spectacle of it, the visuals and so on, but I just feel like it got butchered in the editing bay.
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So, definitely not just watched for the first time, but a follow-up to a post about a first time watch. Last night, I watched The Fast and the Furious for the first time since my first watch of it last fall, and I found that my opinion of it had curiously changed. It’s still not a very good movie and is still the weakest entry in the franchise, I stand by those observations I made.
However, I found myself watching it more fondly and enjoying it more than I did the first time. And it was by the end of the first street race that I realized why: it’s because, the first time I watched this movie, I had no idea who these characters were, why they did what they did, or why I should care. And since the cast of characters dispersed and expanded with the two movies that followed, it took until the fourth movie to start caring when the prime cast started to come back into focus, having followed their journey to that point.
And I think that’s why I like the first movie more now than I did the first time I watched. I now know who these characters are and what life has in store for all of them, and now, retroactively, it makes their story in the first entry more interesting. The series starts off pretty low, peaks in the middle, and then jumps the car into space, but taken as a whole, each entry is actually uplifted in quality and enjoyability when truly seen as one small part of a greater story.
Normally, that doesn’t happen; normally the first entry is considered the best and the rest of a series is trying to recapture the magic, or the second one is the best, and after the first two, it starts going down hill. I can think of only two examples that did something similar, both in relatively recent times: John Wick, which critically and commercially got better as it went, but only has 4 entries and even if they make another, that for sure will be the last one, still less than half of what FF has done; and Assassin’s Creed, which had a similar weak first entry and then climbed to success, but it’s a video game, not a movie. Its surprising that a series based around ridiculous car worship could turn out this good, or make its weaker entries look better in hindsight, but there it is.
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Finally watched The Beekeeper tonight, and I enjoyed it about ad much as I expected I would. Jason Statham of course is the standout, with his usual few words and many kicks and punches. However, I also really loved the performances of Jeremy Irons and Josh Hutcherson as the villains, and the two FBI agents were a delight. It had all the campiness of Statham’s other films, but where it works, it really works, and it comes off as a nice blend of John Wick and The Equalizer. The low points of the movie are really just everyone else’s acting outside of the five main cast members mentioned. Everyone else just seemed either too dull or too over-the-top.
The scene at the beginning where the old lady gets scammed was absolutely infuriating for three different reasons. One, because it showed the gullibility of an older person who isn’t the least bit tech savvy, yet has their entire life on a computer, like a stereotypical boomer. Two, because I know real people have been scammed for all they have in this same way and it’s enraging that they prey on people so vulnerable. And three, because the whole scene was so step-by-step that the acting wasn’t believable at all. Even her means of suicide wasn’t very believable. Setting aside the fact that women don’t usually resort to the method of shooting themselves when choosing suicide, we’re supposed to believe that this old lady who can’t even work her laptop keeps a gun lying around and knows enough on how to use it to self-terminate? Between the two factors, I don’t buy it, it seems like a bit of sloppy writing.
Gotta say, the part where the Beekeeper is hiding under the truck, knocks out the secret service agent, and takes his uniform to infiltrate the President’s party was so 47, I’d swear the scriptwriter had to be a Hitman fan. To say nothing of the whole concept of the Beekeeper program itself, which is practically a sister organization of the ICA, but who operate on principle rather than payment.
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