Invisible Man’ Loses Writer, Universal’s Dark Universe Continues to Implode

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Mandalore76 said:

COKTOE said:

As long as Pacific Rim 2 isn't a turd, I'll be happy. I THINK it's gonna be a turd though.....:(
On topic. Yeah, This is a bigger failure out of the gate than the DCU situation, which I've only been half paying attention too. So they're now doing separate DC movies outside of the DCU while still trying to go forward with the DCU movies? Or are the DCU movies done? It's such a mess I doubt I'll ever watch the ones I didn't see. ( I did see Man Of Steel, and Suicide Squad though ). Also, way off topic: I just watched Kong: Skull Island, and it made me want to drink Listerine. Or maybe an off-brand mouth wash.

Really?  I thought the copter fight early in the movie was epic.  The photographer character did annoy me.  And, John C. Reilly's character was really hammy at first, but I eventually found myself laughing along with it as the comic relief it was intended.  Overall, I loved it.  Kong's always been a personal favorite monster character of mine.  I begged my dad to take me to see King Kong Lives in the theater when I was a kid.  Not even my love of Kong would make me consider that a good movie though.  Even as I child, I knew it was awful after seeing it.  With regards to Skull Island though, I disagree.

Fair enough. It pissed me off so much, I actually wrote a mini review for it on my profile page here at VGC right after watching it, and took it down almost immediately, because I felt it was too over the top. I gave it a chance. I'd even say I tried to like it. Without going into too much detail, every time I thought I saw a glimmer of hope, it did something awful. I know that often with movies like this, it's best to not think too hard about basic logic. It's total fantasy after all. Giant Apes and whatnot. But this movie was constantly bombarding me with things I didn't like. And and can't stress enough, that these types of instances I took exception to weren't my main problems with it. Just little things that exacerbated larger issues, and wouldn't have cared about otherwise. Here' just one small thing: How in the fuck are they seeing the aurora australis at all, let alone so vividly, if the island is enveloped in a perpetual storm? And they weren't looking up at the eye either. Just straight out at the the horizon, which was so clear, you could see stars through the aurora. That scene probably bothered me less than most anything else in the movie, but it just about made my head spin off my neck. Like, somebody wrote that, it went through some type of filtering process, effects were made, the scene was acted, filmed, and eventually, shown to an audience, when it should never have existed. Just cut it. Make it look different. Something! Just lazy. Again, not a huge issue on it's own, but I found it was teeming with such things, most worse than that IMO, and by that point, I started talking like Mr. Plinkett. I'm not exactly a brutal critic either. Pretty easy going for the most part. And I certainly don't fault someone for enjoying it. I love some pretty famously low reviewed movies, and checking it right now, I see Kong: Skull Island was fairly well received by critics.