@alex33x: Yes, that's right, please take Activision/Blizzard. Texas can support sexual harassment. Leave actually giving a $#!& about people to California.
Saw it tonight and loved it. It was a great time at the theater, probably the most fun I've had since going back. Gunn really did deliver something great.
As I've never heard of this before now, what makes this such a big deal? What are you getting out of it for nearly $200? It doesn't look like much more than what the original Gameboy was with internet connectivity.
I have a feeling BR fans are going to hate this, but the fact this is coming from Shinji Aramaki is enough for me. His movies have always had fantastic animation and the action is always well done. I know that's not really what BR is about, but I am okay with it for something like this.
I don't understand how anyone can enjoy the action in this. Save for the climactic action scenes, every single other action scene in this was practically all shaky cam. It was starting to make my head hurt. It's as if the director and cinematographer forgot that steady cam's existed and that they could use them. Perhaps they simply weren't in the budget. What made it even worse was the fact that the editing of the action scenes was actually decent and that, at points, they actually had well shot action like the highway chase. Other than that, the script was incredibly cheesy. How many times do they need to utter the word honor? We get it already! And what was with Golding's accent? I would probably have to use both hands to count how many times he fell into his Malaysian dialect. Just make the guy Malaysian. There was no need for him to be American.
Look, I didn't expect this to be Oscar worthy material. I was actually entertained by the previous entries in the franchise, even if they were terrible films. This was a mediocre mess from start to finish, full of cliches about Japan, with things like 'fighting with honor'. I can forgive things like having a random, blind, black martial arts master serving as a sensei in clan that is supposed to be the backbone of Japanese society, and a clan that is supposed to be pure blooded at that (they supposedly don't allow in outsiders, but somehow unexplained black guy is okay). But this was just a silly, uninspired, poorly filmed mess of a film. Everyone should go see Old instead.
While I am wary of early reactions, I also trust James Gunn. With the kind of creative control he had on this film, I expect it to be accurate to these reactions.
@bloodbornelore: I don't particularly disagree, but Marvel always does its own thing and creates its own stories. Usually, they just take things as light inspiration.
@bloodbornelore: I'm still not sure what you're trying to get at? That the majority of people in the world won't see the film? If that's the case, then yes, most of the world neither has access to these movies when they're released, nor will the nearly 8 billion people in the world all be seeing the film. Majority for movies often speaks strictly to the movie going audience in two categories: domestic and global. In the U.S., Marvel films are immensely enjoyed by a majority of movie going audiences, hence why they often make over $100 mil. in their lifetime, and often much more. I can really speak to global audiences besides box office numbers and audience ratings.
@bloodbornelore: It's not that serious. The comics have only ever done this for fun. It comes down, essentially, to "it would be fun to see Thor and Hercules fight" and then they create a situation within a story where that can happen. Marvel has always played loose with mythology. These are essentially fictional characters existing outside the mythology they were adapted from.
There probably is some kind of cosmology, but these worlds also often exist outside of one another. These characters finding one another is typically situational.
@bloodbornelore: Wtf are you talking about? Ragnarok made $315 mil. domestic and nearly a billion worldwide. It's got an 87% audience approval on rotten tomatoes and 7.8 audience average on metacritic.
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