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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Basically this.
Norton Banner is as dull as dishwater. The movie doesn't properly establish him at all and he's completely bland and uninteresting (seriously Norton feels like he's barely acting the whole time), so I really couldn't care less what happens to him. His whole character and romance with Betty is completely and utterly weightless. Like I said, all the characters except Blonksy are either poorly established, uninteresting, unlikable, or some combination of the three. We've already made multiple jokes about how Betty's emotional state in the film varies between "crying" and "nearly crying" for most of it.
I haven't seen Dark World, but while Iron Man 2 isn't a great movie it has multiple scenes that are quite well-done and ideas that are at least interesting. Its main problem is it wastes Vanko after giving him a great introduction and meanders with too many plot threads that don't really help the story and are more about setting up the larger MCU.
TIH meanwhile has pretty much nothing remotely worthwhile or interesting about it at all. The same dullness and mediocrity of its screenwriting applies to pretty much every other part of the production. It's a film completely devoid of any real personality or artistry, just a dour action movie that's soul-crushingly generic and boring.
I'll never agree with anyone that puts the Ang Lee Hulk movie below it because while very flawed, that film at least had some real effort and cool ideas put into it, not to mention literally every single character is better-established and much easier to care about.
Yep. This is an even bigger problem in videogames in my opinion. Having a save the world premise isn't inherently wrong but it's used so often I kind of see it as a lazy shorthand a lot of the time because it's assumed that it's a big enough event that the audience will care about it "by default", as opposed to the harder task of actually taking the trouble to develop a complex and interesting character and creating a personal journey for them that the audience will be invested.
edited 26th Mar '18 2:10:05 PM by Draghinazzo
While I don't want Carol to come off as stupid/incompetent in her own film, I think you could have some nice Dramatic Irony in her thinking of the Kree as good guys, especially when the audience knows that Ronan is/will become a genocidal terrorist. Because at face value, the Skree are all about bringing justice and are good-looking Human Aliens, whereas the Skrull are seemingly murderous conquerors and are pretty ugly when not shapeshifted.
So, you'd have Carol on the Kree side for most of the film, until she finds out they genocided the Skrulls and are megalomaniacal galactic conquerors.
He did not say anything of the sort. Weaving said he liked playing the Skull but viewed the deal Marvel gave him as "pretty basic stuff", followed by saying he had no idea if he'd be in the other films.
In the end, though, Carol will be fighting the Skrulls. I don't know if it'd be for the best for a white woman to be fighting a species of people who used to be slaves by using the powers of the species who enslaved them. Maybe leave that part of the backstory out of the movie.
edited 26th Mar '18 2:33:58 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
I used to kind of like Weaving as Red Skull but after rewatching TFA, I'd rank him a bit lower as a villain. He's a bit hammy but his problem is that he's not terrifying enough. He gets some alright moments but compared to Stane in Iron Man and Loki in Thor (solely Thor, not the ones after) he's flatter and less inspired. I'm annoyed with how people have slagged on Stane as of late because he's genuinely threatening and Bridges gives a great performance to sell the character, plus he actually ties into the themes of the film unlike Vanko. Loki meanwhile, in the context of the first Thor, is even better, and he kind of has his own arc going on in contrast to Thor's. Red Skull is just kinda meh by comparison. Better than Vanko (a good idea wasted by poor execution and a script in dire need of edits) and Blonsky (the only interesting part in an otherwise abysmal film).
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I kept reading TFA as The Force Awakens and was very confused.
edited 26th Mar '18 2:53:54 PM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.Aw hell, I just realized that the Skrull's, who used to be slaves, Modus Operandi is to invade other planets, replace the natives and replicate them to blend in, and take over the world. Are we ABSOLUTELY SURE that the Skrulls aren't a metaphor for crazy far right conspiracy theories about minorities taking over the government?
MCU Red Skull was reimagined to be a bit more "WW 2-era pulp serial"-esque, a la the movie's general Genre Throwback theme. While imo he really works as an example of that kind of villain (he would've fit right in with the Star Wars original trilogy, which referenced much of the same tone), it does admittedly cut him off from a lot of the comics' "basically the spawn of the devil" terrifying menace.
edited 26th Mar '18 3:06:37 PM by KnownUnknown

I was not aware of this.