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Which is the better movie?

Vol. 1 17 45.95%
 
Vol. 2 10 27.03%
 
Undecided 4 10.81%
 
see results 6 16.22%
 
Total:37

Dp



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Goodnightmoon said:
GameAnalyser said:

Marvel is yet to release a sequel better than the original ever since Winter Soldier. 

Civila War was already better than Winter soldier

Da Fuck?



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I thought the movie was funny everything else was weak though



I went to see it on Friday and had a lot of fun with it, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first. It seemed like they wanted to trade some of the scale of the first for a more personal (if slightly convoluted) story, but weren't able to make that story compelling enough to justify the trade. To the film's credit though, I did leave the cinema loving the characters even more than I did after the first, so the lacking story only impacted my enjoyment slightly. The film was also absolutely beautiful, joint with Strange for best looking film Marvel have made. Overall I'd give it 8.5, versus 9.0 for the original.

The fucking pacman lol.



Normchacho said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Civila War was already better than Winter soldier

Da Fuck?

What? It was, I'm not the only one who thinks that, with a quick look I just saw Civil War is better rated than Winter Soldier on Imdb, Filmaffinity, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes



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Zekkyou said:
I went to see it on Friday and had a lot of fun with it, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first. It seemed like they wanted to trade some of the scale of the first for a more personal (if slightly convoluted) story, but weren't able to make that story compelling enough to justify the trade. To the film's credit though, I did leave the cinema loving the characters even more than I did after the first, so the lacking story only impacted my enjoyment slightly. The film was also absolutely beautiful, joint with Strange for best looking film Marvel have made. Overall I'd give it 8.5, versus 9.0 for the original.

The fucking pacman lol.

It's actually a mixed bag and rotten tomatoes have certified it fresh much earlier so as to not affect the Fandango bookings/pre-sales for the big OW when it comes to fans. Can you believe former executive of Disney  being the current president of Fandango had a famous quote once, "Yes, selling movie tickets is the core business, but really, we're trying to activate people's love of movies."  So the studio that needs to be benefitted is also in the interest and the same entity runs Rotten Tomatoes. There is compelling stuff that can make me never rely on RT fresh certifications anymore and this needs to be given a serious thought. Ghostbusters being a clear cut example before.

The good thing for us moviegoers is Metacritic still stands as an independent entity and would not be kind to these movie thereby taking all ticket agents out of the equation.  It has every chance to end up with a Metascore as low as 59 to 60 once all critics give their critiques, generally where movies are well represented when it comes to average score. Many sources have already reported the movie to be over-reliant on musical cues and lacks the fresh stuff as the original. So, yet ending up certified fresh on RT close to two weeks before its release raises so many questions.

a source worth a read to ponder over: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fandango-movies-ratings/



GameAnalyser said:
Zekkyou said:
I went to see it on Friday and had a lot of fun with it, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first. It seemed like they wanted to trade some of the scale of the first for a more personal (if slightly convoluted) story, but weren't able to make that story compelling enough to justify the trade. To the film's credit though, I did leave the cinema loving the characters even more than I did after the first, so the lacking story only impacted my enjoyment slightly. The film was also absolutely beautiful, joint with Strange for best looking film Marvel have made. Overall I'd give it 8.5, versus 9.0 for the original.

The fucking pacman lol.

It's actually a mixed bag and rotten tomatoes have certified it fresh much earlier so as to not affect the Fandango bookings/pre-sales for the big OW when it comes to fans. Can you believe former executive of Disney  being the current president of Fandango had a famous quote once, "Yes, selling movie tickets is the core business, but really, we're trying to activate people's love of movies."  So the studio that needs to be benefitted is also in the interest and the same entity runs Rotten Tomatoes. There is compelling stuff that can make me never rely on RT fresh certifications anymore and this needs to be given a serious thought. Ghostbusters being a clear cut example before.

The good thing for us moviegoers is Metacritic still stands as an independent entity and would not be kind to these movie thereby taking all ticket agents out of the equation.  It has every chance to end up with a Metascore as low as 59 to 60 once all critics give their critiques, generally where movies are well represented when it comes to average score. Many sources have already reported the movie to be over-reliant on musical cues and lacks the fresh stuff as the original. So, yet ending up certified fresh on RT close to two weeks before its release raises so many questions.

As interesting as this all is (and i mean that seriously), i'm not sure what it has to do with what i said? :p



I'm going to see it tomorrow with some friends, I'll post my impressions, hope is not a waste of money.



@mZuzek:

I mean to say in the sense of she doing anything remotely worthwhile during fights. She participates in the intro combat and kills the monster, but afterward she gets relegated to not really doing anything - save fighting her sister, and realizing what Nebula was feeling -, to not doing anything at all in the final combat. Not dissin' her for this, as it's nice she got her whole arc together, but it really feels there was more she could have done in this sense, yet she kept being relegated to be on the ship. And yeah, I meant to say Kraglin, dunno why I thought of Broker. xD

I guess that's really how they did it. But it's also what I'm thankful of; the fact that they chose to actually give organic interactions to every single character, no matter how joke-ish (like Yonda) or insignificant (like Kraglin himself) where in the previous movie, and the same applies to everyone else. I think what I really liked (due to that fact) is that there were legit moments of levity in this movie, which is something I truly appreciate. That moment when Mantis feels Drax's sadness without the need of words. Yonda and Racoon saying goodbye to each other. Quill talking about music to Ego. Gamora and Nebula hugging it out. I can't honestly remember any sequence like this in the original that wasn't inmediately "tainted" with cheap humor or something dumb (quick rant, I fucking hate how there's this sequence where the whole team is in Ego's planet with the omnious music but they had to ruin it with the cheap "Mantis gets punched with some boulder and Drax acts like a retard"). Or that scene where Quill just thinks back to his interactions with Drax, Groot, Gamora, Racoon and Yonda. This was really surprising and I wasn't really expecting the movie to take such daunting direction, particulary for how goofy the movie starts.



mZuzek said:

Seriously though, stop saying Yonda. Please.

Fuck, I'm dyslexic today. xD