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Best MCU sub-series?

Iron Man 1 3.03%
 
Thor 1 3.03%
 
Captain America 12 36.36%
 
The Avengers 9 27.27%
 
Guardians of the Galaxy 10 30.30%
 
Total:33
Angelus said:
I'm down

 

The_Liquid_Laser said:
I'm in. I own most of these movies and have been watching them for the past couple of years. I'm pumped for Infinity War.

Great! Welcome, both!



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mZuzek said:
vivster said:

#dcmasterrace

I'd say "eww" but I haven't even watched any DCEU movies so I can't.

I have seen 3 of them, so I can say "eww".  One of them I saw for free, 2 of them I regret paying for.



Mandalore76 said:
mZuzek said:

I'd say "eww" but I haven't even watched any DCEU movies so I can't.

I have seen 3 of them, so I can say "eww".  One of them I saw for free, 2 of them I regret paying for.

My ratings for the DC Movies:

Man Of Steel: 5/10

BVS: 3/10

Suicide Squad: 2/10

Wonder Woman: Didn't watch. I like how the movie looks visually from the trailers

Justice League: Didn't watch. Probably garbage



 

 

Smartie900 said:
Mandalore76 said:

I have seen 3 of them, so I can say "eww".  One of them I saw for free, 2 of them I regret paying for.

My ratings for the DC Movies:

Man Of Steel: 5/10

BVS: 3/10

Suicide Squad: 2/10

Wonder Woman: Didn't watch. I like how the movie looks visually from the trailers

Justice League: Didn't watch. Probably garbage

Interesting, I feel about the same as you on BvS. That movie was straight garbage, and we needn't even go into the countless reasons why. Man of Steel though, I really enjoyed quite a lot. I liked how they made it a bit more of a sci-fi movie, and they really just kind of unleashed Superman in the second half with just awesome battles. Personally I don't find Superman very interesting as a character, simply because he's just so all powerful when not confronted with a shiny rock, and yet you never seem to ever really see that raw power in anything he's in, so to me it's just like ya....if you're gonna make a Superman movie, just let me see him blow the roof off the joint. So I'd give that movie more like a 7 or so. 

I didn't watch Suicide Squad or Justice League. Wonder Woman is excellent for like the first 4/5ths of the movie, and then the last bit is just your sort of typical CGI fight, which I don't even mind much in and of itself, but it wasn't even particularly good as far as those go imo, and they were so determined to hit on the big bad that I feel they kinda missed the boat on being able to really drive home the larger point. So that was a bit of a shame. Still an enjoyable 8/10 movie though I'd say.



Angelus said:
Smartie900 said:

My ratings for the DC Movies:

Man Of Steel: 5/10

BVS: 3/10

Suicide Squad: 2/10

Wonder Woman: Didn't watch. I like how the movie looks visually from the trailers

Justice League: Didn't watch. Probably garbage

Interesting, I feel about the same as you on BvS. That movie was straight garbage, and we needn't even go into the countless reasons why. Man of Steel though, I really enjoyed quite a lot. I liked how they made it a bit more of a sci-fi movie, and they really just kind of unleashed Superman in the second half with just awesome battles. Personally I don't find Superman very interesting as a character, simply because he's just so all powerful when not confronted with a shiny rock, and yet you never seem to ever really see that raw power in anything he's in, so to me it's just like ya....if you're gonna make a Superman movie, just let me see him blow the roof off the joint. So I'd give that movie more like a 7 or so. 

I didn't watch Suicide Squad or Justice League. Wonder Woman is excellent for like the first 4/5ths of the movie, and then the last bit is just your sort of typical CGI fight, which I don't even mind much in and of itself, but it wasn't even particularly good as far as those go imo, and they were so determined to hit on the big bad that I feel they kinda missed the boat on being able to really drive home the larger point. So that was a bit of a shame. Still an enjoyable 8/10 movie though I'd say.

Man of Steel is a competent movie that is well shot, well acted, and has a very apparent style. I suppose the reason why I rate it lower is due to personal preference. Personally, I feel this movie doesn't quite understand Superman as a character. Snyder tried to make Superman more of a relatable character by making him more arrogant and spiteful. That scene where he destroys the truck and the plane for no apparent reason just made him seem like a humongous asshole. I also felt that the movie had poor pacing due to it's insistence to cram an action scene at every point it could. The action was well done... but by the end of the movie, I felt that they could have trimmed some of it. My main problem comes down to the character. I've always seen Superman as similar to Atticus Finch as both have their morality in check and will always do the right thing, no matter the circumstance. Superman's disregard for anyone but himself and Lois Lane kinda just ruined the entire movie for me. I relate it to that shitty Spider-Man movie that came out like 5 years ago with Andrew Garfield. This movie is better than that one because of it's visual style... but both are missing the heart and personality their predecessors had. 

Suicide Squad is garbage. Don't even bother. I will get around to watching Wonder Woman eventually since I like the artistic style it's presenting. Justice League looks like a generic action movie that will most likely have a severe tonal inconsistency. Maybe Aquaman will be good if they go the Whedon route and realize how stupid the premise is.



 

 

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ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Smartie900 said:

My ratings for the DC Movies:

Man Of Steel: 5/10

BVS: 3/10

Suicide Squad: 2/10

Wonder Woman: Didn't watch. I like how the movie looks visually from the trailers

Justice League: Didn't watch. Probably garbage

I dont get the hate for man of steel. its one of the best comic movies IMO, it is the one that have the best fight scenes , 8 / 10

 

BvsS was ok , 6/10

 

Suicide squad was the worst movie i saw i think, its a turd with nothing good, that shit won a oscar lmao...

Wonder woman was good until the moustache guy in the end, the most stupid looking villain of all time.

Justice league is probably a turd, joss weadon destroyed the movie from what i see people talk.

 

I want to participate in this. There some martvels movies i only saw one time. 

 

I would have been able to enjoy Man of Steel more if it had been able to embrace a more lighthearted tone. Unfortunately, it decided to play itself incredibly seriously and wasn't able to properly develop the character into the symbol of justice and hope he was supposed to be. 

I feel Justice League was the fault of Warner Bros. Snyder and Whedon had 2 contrasting visions for the movie and the studio picked the worst director for this type of movie. Whedon would have made a fun movie with likable characters that would have been competent, even if it was shallow.



 

 

Smartie900 said:
Angelus said:

Interesting, I feel about the same as you on BvS. That movie was straight garbage, and we needn't even go into the countless reasons why. Man of Steel though, I really enjoyed quite a lot. I liked how they made it a bit more of a sci-fi movie, and they really just kind of unleashed Superman in the second half with just awesome battles. Personally I don't find Superman very interesting as a character, simply because he's just so all powerful when not confronted with a shiny rock, and yet you never seem to ever really see that raw power in anything he's in, so to me it's just like ya....if you're gonna make a Superman movie, just let me see him blow the roof off the joint. So I'd give that movie more like a 7 or so. 

I didn't watch Suicide Squad or Justice League. Wonder Woman is excellent for like the first 4/5ths of the movie, and then the last bit is just your sort of typical CGI fight, which I don't even mind much in and of itself, but it wasn't even particularly good as far as those go imo, and they were so determined to hit on the big bad that I feel they kinda missed the boat on being able to really drive home the larger point. So that was a bit of a shame. Still an enjoyable 8/10 movie though I'd say.

Man of Steel is a competent movie that is well shot, well acted, and has a very apparent style. I suppose the reason why I rate it lower is due to personal preference. Personally, I feel this movie doesn't quite understand Superman as a character. Snyder tried to make Superman more of a relatable character by making him more arrogant and spiteful. That scene where he destroys the truck and the plane for no apparent reason just made him seem like a humongous asshole. I also felt that the movie had poor pacing due to it's insistence to cram an action scene at every point it could. The action was well done... but by the end of the movie, I felt that they could have trimmed some of it. My main problem comes down to the character. I've always seen Superman as similar to Atticus Finch as both have their morality in check and will always do the right thing, no matter the circumstance. Superman's disregard for anyone but himself and Lois Lane kinda just ruined the entire movie for me. I relate it to that shitty Spider-Man movie that came out like 5 years ago with Andrew Garfield. This movie is better than that one because of it's visual style... but both are missing the heart and personality their predecessors had. 

Suicide Squad is garbage. Don't even bother. I will get around to watching Wonder Woman eventually since I like the artistic style it's presenting. Justice League looks like a generic action movie that will most likely have a severe tonal inconsistency. Maybe Aquaman will be good if they go the Whedon route and realize how stupid the premise is.

Ya I get where you're coming from. Personally I'm just not that into the sort of classic Superman character. I mean, I did enjoy the Lois and Clark TV show as a kid, which has more of that kind of classic charm that I suppose Superman is supposed to have in many people's eyes, but I enjoyed that show more due to the chemistry that the leads had with each other on screen (ironic, considering they supposedly couldn't stand each other irl), than I did for the character of Superman. There's a very weird dichotomy between Clark and Superman in that Clark is this very human character, with insecurities, struggles, etc, and Superman is just....well, perfect basically. It has it's moments, depending on the exact story, where it works well for me, but most of the time I'm just not buying it. I much prefer a Clark/Superman that is consistent within himself, preferably as a more 'real' person, who wants to do the right thing like you said, but does fail - or lose sight of it - sometimes, be it due to emotion, inexperience in a certain situation, making a bad call, not seeing the bigger picture, or whatever. 

I found the approach in Man of Steel quite interesting, with his parents - specifically his dad - raising him to basically think of himself first, rather than go out of his way to help anyone and everyone he could, at the risk of being found out. It's a very believable, human way of thinking. Likewise, I didn't mind at all seeing him smash up that one jerks truck. Obviously, it was mainly used for a quick laugh with the audience (which seemed to work for the most part), but I also liked seeing him actually be very visibly frustrated with the jackass who gets all up in him, and then act out, rather than just being Mr. Perfect above it all. I mean if you really wanna take him to that point somewhere in his character's journey through several movies or so.....ok, I personally would find him less interesting for it, but at least we could have a believable process of him becoming this faultless guy who saves everyone all the time, without ever losing his cool or anything. A Superman just coming into his own should struggle with why he isn't above all these assholes running around, and why he shouldn't just leave certain people to their own devices, and so on and so forth. He should be a good person, but good people can still do wrong from time to time, and with Superman, if you don't give him that.....what does he have going for his stories? His power level is beyond absurd, to the point that you can throw little more than cheap plot devices at him for tension in physical conflict, and the if his character is so unimpeachable as many Superman fans seem to want, then what suspense are you ever left with? Will he do the right thing always? Of course. Will he win the day in combat? Obviously. Does he get the girl? Duh, he's so charming. 

All that said, I can't say I'm well versed in Superman comics (or any comics really for that matter), so in the end, if those comic fans wanna tell me I'm wrong, and there's  all these amazing stories that Hollywood is just missing the boat on, etc, etc.....fine. I'll take your word for it I guess. All I know is that the Christopher Reeve Superman does nothing for me.



Getting back on the topic of Marvel movies, I actually watched Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 for the first time a couple nights ago, and I gotta say I was shocked at how bad it was compared to the first one. I don't recall it getting bad reviews or anything either, so.....ya.....wtf happened? I found it really really awful. Suppose I'll wait to get into specifics for the set date though.



mZuzek said:
Angelus said:
Getting back on the topic of Marvel movies, I actually watched Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 for the first time a couple nights ago, and I gotta say I was shocked at how bad it was compared to the first one. I don't recall it getting bad reviews or anything either, so.....ya.....wtf happened? I found it really really awful. Suppose I'll wait to get into specifics for the set date though.

Please go away.

Edit: thank you.

We’re all going to have to deal with some conflicting opinions during this rewatch. If we all felt the same way it wouldn’t be nearly as fun!



ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Smartie900 said:

My ratings for the DC Movies:

Man Of Steel: 5/10

BVS: 3/10

Suicide Squad: 2/10

Wonder Woman: Didn't watch. I like how the movie looks visually from the trailers

Justice League: Didn't watch. Probably garbage

I dont get the hate for man of steel. its one of the best comic movies IMO, it is the one that have the best fight scenes , 8 / 10

BvsS was ok , 6/10

 

Suicide squad was the worst movie i saw i think, its a turd with nothing good, that shit won a oscar lmao...

Wonder woman was good until the moustache guy in the end, the most stupid looking villain of all time.

Justice league is probably a turd, joss weadon destroyed the movie from what i see people talk.

 

I want to participate in this. There some martvels movies i only saw one time. 

 

You are in, my man!