This is a tangent, but this drives me crazy about Castlevania on Netflix, too. I still love the show, but it's way too snarky.
I hated the Avengers the first time I saw it, and I still think it’s near the bottom of the MCU totem pole. Its significance and influence on the industry (good or bad) cannot be denied, but I think it’s another one of those movies that’s not really going to hold up to scrutiny years after the fact.
Nice fetish, bro.
Ellis's metoo-ing/cancelling was so pathetic and half-hearted by today's standards that it makes you wonder just how crazy things are going to get. I've seen both seasons and enjoyed parts but thought it was generally pretty gay (literally and figuratively) and filled with a lot of 2edgy4you type stuff. Like him or not, Ellis can actually write when he tries and my prediction is that the the show is going to get way worse without him and you'll be able to gauge the fall based on the rich and diverse names you see pop up for writing credits. The mega-machiavellian female vampire sisterhood is going to be painful, mark my words.
I have almost no overall interest in MCU films. I've seen over half, but only because my friends wanted to, and I didn't mind. There are completely random ones I've never seen. Like Civil War or Endgame or Black Panther. But I'll rewatch the shit out of Guardians of the Galaxy, because Drax is love.
There are actually three seasons. Season 3 was dropped last year and is the weakest of the three so far in my opinion, but it's still got a lot of good stuff in it.
You're what's wrong with movies in 2021.
IIRC there was a corrupt priest early on who tries to appeal to God when the baddies come for him, and gets explicitly rejected. So within the context of the show God actually exists and has standards.
this makes me hate the snyder cut much less than i did when they finally got it working at like 1am on movie night
But hates the original Independence Day. As far as plots go, the two are aggressively similar to each other and had the same kind of attitude towards special effects. The difference between the original and Resurgence is just how important charismatic actors are to a movie. Resurgence has a lot of Kristen Stewart kind of actors: bland, attractive people who read their lines and nothing else. It's really noticeable in this movie since they've got most of the original cast to be compared to, but every movie has this charisma void in their actors these days.
I kind of have to disagree. The similarities were skin-deep. It felt like a spec script of an XCOM movie, rather than a sequel to a film everyone knows well.
I WISH it was an X-com movie. It would have been great watching that African warlord guy wage a guerilla war in the jungles of Africa with the assistance (because movie has to suck Chinese cock) of the Chinese military experimenting on alien technology. Instead of going so big the mothership covers North America, it goes smaller and they fight Alien remnants. Cheaper too since the cast doesn't have to be star-studded. It would only "need" Chinese lady for stunt casting purposes, the African Warlord guy, and maybe Jeff Goldblum (or whoever else wanted to come back).
The best independence day movie is Pacific Rim.
Even the virus makes sense since it's a logical inference that the Roswell ship was how the Information Age started. Unfortunately, Emmerich & Devlin didn't rewatch this movie because Bill Pullman makes it clear that the Aliens just want resources in general, not geo-thermal energy which is far more common than garden planets. After all, Brent Spiner told us that the aliens aren't that much different than us.
The first Iron Man and the first Guardians of the Galaxy are the only MCU movies worth watching. And the later only if you are into space opera.
I love that they're not afraid to have spooky demons murder women and children, though.
When I found out that Alucard gets fucked in the ass and cries about it, I was so glad I skipped the show.