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A fine example that it's not the story itself that really matters, but the proper execution of it. Almost felt like I was watching quality anime in live-action instead of drawn.
Of all the comics-based movies of the last decade, I think only Avengers and Winter Soldier are ahead, and the Batman trilogy by C. Nolan.
now with that being said, wonder woman was decent, but because of the no stakes thing, it kind of ruined it for me, so hopefully with the 2nd one, the do something neat, because again the "no stakes" clause is going to be there, so hopefully they will be clever on how they make the 2nd movie
Oh if anyone here missed "Kubo and the Two Strings" last year, check it out. It a lavishly animated stop motion film from Laika, based on an old fairytale. The acting is really good and it has that great balance of whimsy and danger that a lot of fairytales use. I've sat friends down in front of it and they swore up and down that it HAD to be cgi until they saw the credits.
The reason I give it higher rating is because it does a good job of actually playing that classic formula straight. That, and I especially liked the
Also bonus points for great music score and Gal Gadot's physique perfectly fitting the ancient Greek theme.
1. The Last Jedi. The movie that reinvegorates a tired franchise, if not the best movie in the series, certainly the deepest. Reminded me of a Babylon 5 quote: "this isn't just some deap space franchise, this place is about something!" Also showstopping acting from the old hands, and even Daisy Ridly proves she can act after all.
2. Blade Runner 2049. Suprisingly, shares a common theme with TLJ:
3. Paddington 2. A suprise entry at number 3, this movie pulls off the trick of being a sequal that is superior to the original film, wifh bonus points for a clever homage to the children's TV version I grew up with.
4. Dunkirk. Just see the movie already.
Honourable mention: Wonder Woman, Spiderman: Homecoming, Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Worst movie (that I paid to see) in 2017:
1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Shmaltzy, purile humor, lousy music and slow, this film marked the point where my superhero fatigue became terminal. Such a shame because I really liked the first one.
Bad, just bad.
Almost to the point of it being bad in a good way (have to say that because we were all laughing during and at the end because it was so terrible).
I didn't see SW as a child, I was seventeen when A New Hope came out so please don't throw the "well of course you hated it you were just a kid when the first films came out".
Overlong, boring, appalling dialogue, poor acting, storyline that went nowhere, storylines that were started in TFA abruptly ended, no development of characters, TPM level of "lets show something using CGI because it will be so cool", pointless subplots that went nowhere and enough "jump the shark" moments to make anything anyone ever does on screen from now on look like a documentry in comparison.
Never thought I'd say it but finally SW has been killed for me. And this from a person who once, when very seriously ill, dreamt that Luke Skywalker visited and said dying would be OK and nothing to worry about (though that may have been the drugs).
And the preaching, OMG, the preaching.
Strange as it may seem in this day and age, as a woman I rather like men. I really don't believe that they are all useless or that women are all wonderful.
And the really, really annoying thing is that, as has recently been proven, the a'holes in Hollywood who pump out this garbage believe exactly the opposite.
Rant over, sorry, it was bad.
I thought "The Last Jedi" was excellent. And if people really think it's worse than the prequels, please go watch "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" again. I don't see where the preaching complaint comes from in regards to this movie. The argument of the movie was not that men are useless. It was that Poe's brash, take action immediately attitude had dire consequences because he wasn't taking even 15 seconds to think things through. His story arc was about being taught a lesson about the consequences of your actions. It just so happened that his superiors in the movie were women. This idea that the new Star Wars trilogy hates men is, frankly, mystifying.
There was bad dialogue in the original movies too. Some of the dialogue in "Attack of the Clones" is legitimately some of the worst that has ever been put on film. Nothing in "The Last Jedi" from a script perspective even approached Lucas's level of incompetence in regards to the prequels. The worst complaint you can make about "The Last Jedi" is that it's Star Wars meets a Marvel movie. Well, most Marvel movies are fairly entertaining, at worst.
Beyond that, it was time for Star Wars to grow up and move on. If it had went the way everyone wanted it to, we would be seeing the exact same story we saw the last two times, in which a robed, Dark-side figurehead ends up being the focal point of the climax of the third movie. We've done it twice. More than anything, "The Last Jedi" was a message to people who spent the 2 year gap between movies filling their heads with ever more elaborate fan theories to just chill out and relax. Almost everything that was "set up" in the "The Force Awakens" was endless post-movie theorizing about Snoke, or Rey's parents. All of which turned out to be nothing, because they weren't really anything to begin with if you remove the thousands of YouTube videos focused on the subject from the equation. "The Force Awakens" had one job, which was to rebuild the myth after a decade of looking back at the prequels and going "yikes". So it retold the story of "A New Hope". It was sleek, elegant, entertaining, and comfortably predictable. "The Last Jedi", not having that burden, was free to tear the myth down and move forward without the burdens of these impossible fan expectations, or an internet culture that seems to enjoy hating things simply for the sake of doing so.
My guess is that if the internet had existed in 1980, the backlash we are seeing against "The Last Jedi" would have been the exact same things being said about "The Empire Strikes Back". I can hear them right now....."Luke is getting trained by a muppet". In hindsight, "Empire" stands alone with "The Godfather II" as the best sequels of all-time, and also the only ones that make a real claim to being better than their predecessor. I don't think "The Last Jedi" is in that category, simply because even though I enjoy the new trilogy, it isn't ever going to be the old one. I don't even necessarily think it's better than "The Force Awakens". But I think it IS a movie that took some major risks, and that it needs to be applauded for doing so. If nothing else, it avoided complete stagnation. We now have NO clue what is going to happen in Episode IX. And thank god for that.
No.
Unacceptable.
You don't get to dismiss people's opinions of a film by inventing the straw man argument that they have been engaging in certain behavior, be it obsessing about the franchise, watching YT videos or being on the internet.
That's not argument or opinion sharing, it's attempted character assasination.
I hated the film and wrote what I thought about it.
At no point did I find it necessary to throw accusations at people who enjoyed it or give spurious and invented reasons as to why they might have enjoyed it.
You should employ the same courtesy.
And who is this "we"?
You speak for nobody but yourself.
Oh yes, and it had a wierd "B" feature shown in front of it.
Logan: fantastic first half, gets tired on the end. Best possible conclusion though.
Alien Covenant: not quite the success, disapointing. Not a total disaster but had it been another franchise it would be anecdotic.
Blade Runner 2049: my wet dream, a Blade Runner fan movie with a hollywood budget. Thank you Sony pictures for this, for allowing Villeneuve and the gang to make their movie freely. Thanks to the chief operator for this super photography, thanks to the actors who put everything they had in... This is instant cult movie to me.
Star Wars VIII: would be a shit movie if not a Star Wars. I have contrasted views on it, some points are good, lots are bad. Still it offers really nice image and is the second best directed Star Wars after the V. However a good photography is not enough to make a good movie IMO.
I stopped following the MCU line of movie after Doctor Strange. It's been a while I stopped liking those movies and at the end it felt like watching them because I watched the first ones and feeling like going on... but I really wasn't enjoying them. So I didn't watch Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (man, I hated the 1 to such a point, I know hate is a strong term but it was such a torture to watch it I really feel so) nor Thor 3 (same comment for Thor 1 & 2 than for the Guardians of the Galaxy)
I didn't like it, for many reasons. There were too many moments that interrupted my suspension of disbelief:
Dropping bombs in zero gravity. Luke astrally projecting over light years. It would have been so much more satisfying for him to have actually been there, and sacrificing himself to save the Resistance. The list of disappointing and unbelievable moments that took me out of the movie is long.
Why didn't the admiral just tell her pilots what the plan was? There was no good reason, military or otherwise, for her to be such a jerk about it, to the point of causing a mutiny. It was done only to set up a phony conflict between her and Poe, and to rub our faces in "The hotshot flyboys are always wrong."
Throwing away Admiral Ackbar with a single line, giving a very unsatisfying end to a beloved one-note character. Throwing away all the potential Snoke had to be an interesting villain. Throwing away the whole storyline about Rey's mysterious parentage.
The unsatisfying endings of things just never stopped.
The tone was dark, the lighting was dark, and what attempts there were to make it fun didn't work for me. The whole storyline with the casino didn't fit, and the relationship between those two characters didn't work.
In a way, this movie's main theme was the deconstruction of heroes. I'm not a fan of modern deconstruction in any of its forms, and I especially don't want it in a Star Wars story. I think we need more heroes in our collective consciousness, not fewer.
For me, this movie was just terrible - an epic fail.
From what I've seen online, fans are divided roughly 50-50 in opinions about it. What a shame. We need stories that bring us together, not divide us.
Like "America first".
great:
(none)
good / good-ish:
get out (the best)
okja (sorta interesting)
life (meh)
brad's status (heavily mediocre but i liked it)
dunkirk (mixed bag)
bearable:
suntan (mixed, good first half)
atomic blonde (bearably annoying)
personal shopper (don't remember, mostly ok)
unbearable:
the amazing female (no)
alien the lost ark (just no)
spiderman something something (no no)
justice superhero something (no god no)
didn't see:
wars of the blade monkeys (don't care)
To say something else, I'm wondering over the criterion people use to decide which movies to see? There seem to be quite a few people complaining about a lack of good movies who haven't seen some of the ones I have. Some of most interesting ones I saw where chosen by my wife.
2.) Finn not being allowed to kill himself by flying into the super-weapon. Again, a brash move that is seen in all movies, that would have essentially served no purpose here. And Rose (here is the teaching moment again) Finn that he is better off to the Rebellion alive than dead.
3.) Leia NOT dying in the blast. That was exactly what I thought would happen. I also expected Kylo Ren to do it. Turns out the little bastard is more conflicted than that, able to make that move against his father but not his mother. Or maybe Leia reached out with the Force and prevented it. Who knows?? As for her flying through space, I would argue it isn't flying and it's floating, and while that scene was a few seconds too long, in the world of Star Wars, it doesn't strike me as all that egregious.
4.) Snoke being killed. This is really the big one. And the most surprising. Simply for the fact that Andy Serkis was KILLING it in his scenes. So on one hand, I would have loved to have seen him play the character more. Same can be argued of Boba and Jango Fett and Darth Maul. But his death was a genuine shock, and totally destroys this whole Master/Apprentice dynamic (at least for the time being). Kylo Ren knew Snoke saw him as weak, was quite frankly pissed at him, and decided he wanted the power of the First Order for himself.
5.) Rey's parentage being......nothing. I can't think of anything that would have been more boring, predictable or cliche than Rey being the daughter of Luke, or Obi-Wan, or whoever. It turns out, her parents were nobodies who sold her for pocket change. The reason this is important is that it now establishes you don't have to be of the royal Skywalker blood-line to be a hero. This is also reinforced by the very beautiful final scene of one of the slave kids on the casino planet (a direct result of the excusion alot of people claim has no point).
6.) Luke projecting himself to the fight. Looking back, I should have predicted this as it was happening, but when you are caught up in the moment, you don't see the little details. What a swerve, and while many will claim "Jedi can't do that", they apparently can, but at great, great cost, as Luke dies as a result of the toll it takes physically. Staring at two suns. Perfect.
All in all, I think the cameo by a long-time favorite character sums up the movie best. Failure is the greatest teacher. It's a running theme throughout the film. That and deconstruction of the myth, and expectations. Which some people are naturally going to be upset about.
And that because you didn't like it you searched for confirmation of your opinion?
20yo when it came out.
Went to see it in Leicester Square at a massive 5,000 seat cinema, (always went "up West" for the blockbusting films) the first week it came out.
And then with friends again the following week, and then with anybody who hadn't seen it yet, the following weeks.
Was always full, you could hear the audience reaction to the revelations, people laughed where they were meant to and sat in tense silence when it mattered. And pretty much sat there at the end not wanting to believe it had ended.
This one, you could hear the audience laughing, but not at the "jokes", and the sounds of disbelief as they watched it. And as we walked out, heard the remarks and they were hardly positive. The children liked it I suppose, but the child sitting next to me was bored and fidgeting.