@gotrekfabian: Yes, but by the time I actually get a PS5, I'll probably either have already gone through the game or own it myself. Suffice to say, it will be a while before I actually get a PS5, even accounting for low supply of consoles.
I guess I can finally finish Days Gone? Shame I won't be able to get Oddworld. Have really been looking forward to playing that and being able to get it for free would have been a nice bonus.
I go out to theaters? And with practically no one in them, I have absolutely no worries about being around anyone. In fact, I will be seeing Godzilla in theaters. As I said, I have a reason to care about the Marvel characters, this movie barely gives me a reason. That's what having individual films for your characters does: it fleshes out your characters before you jam them together and force them into a boring plot that we've already seen. Avengers likely wouldn't have been as good as it was had we not already known these characters and seen them developed. Here, what is there to attach to with these characters? Cyborg has a tragic background? Ok. Seen it. He's still not that interesting. Flash gets slightly fleshed out more and he's probably the character that's easiest to care about, but it's still not much to go on. And Steppenwolf is still a boring villain. He barely gets developed. Compare that to Loki and all we knew about him going into Avengers. And I only bring up Marvel because YOU brought them up. Even without the MCU to compare it to, JL is still a dud.
I'm glad people like it. And honestly, I'd like to see WB continue to make DC movies. I loved Wonder Woman (the first one, not the garbage sequel), and enjoyed Aquaman. I'd like to see them make more films like those and less like JL and BvS. And I would like a JL sequel, but hopefully one that is much better.
@dubshark: Plot was cliche, I barely cared about anyone in the film, and it barely added anything of substance to the original. At least Marvel takes time to develop it's characters so we actually care about them. This gave us a handful of scenes that, I guess, is supposed to make use care. Idk, I barely did. Not to mention most of these heroes are god-like, so unlike the Avengers, which is mostly composed of humans, there's never any real sense of danger of expectation any of them could lose. And Batman is still a joke: "I'm rich." Give me a break. Half the plot has nonsensical reasons for why things happen, like Superman resurrection.
The plot skeleton is practically a 1 for 1 of Avengers: superhero is trying to assemble team, enlists female superhero to help, the two separate to find said heroes, heroes must stop bad guy from using cubes to call in alien invasion/destroy the world, big bad guy works for bigger bad guy we catch a few glimpses of, bigger bad guy has middle bad guy as go between, good guys are reluctant to work together but eventually do when personally affected by their own plot devices.
So no, no it's not better. But hey, at least it ended up on HBO and no one had to pay to see it in theater
My expectations going into this have been set to King of the Monsters levels. I was stoked going into that movie and it turned out to be garbage. The fact this delivers more on the monster front is good news, but it makes no sense they kept the same level of human element with the same substandard development. I'll go in expecting to enjoy the creature fights and the surprises in store, and hopefully the rest of it goes by fast enough that it doesn't matter.
@deth420: It doesn't HAVE to be bad. It wasn't bad in the original and the Toho films have sporadically had decent human drama. Heck, the Netflix animated films did a good job of developing the human world and making it interesting. Hollywood just doesn't seem concerned about how or what it delivers when it comes to the human aspect of these films, thinking that as long as they deliver a few spectacular monster scenes, everything else will be okay. It begs the question: why have all but the most minimal of human-led exposition if you're not even going to develop it well?
@fuening: You're right. Snyder Cut deserved more like a 5 because it was about as mediocre as the original, just longer. This review seems to reflect about what is expected of this movie and what the previous movies have delivered: boring human BS, well done monster clashing.
That doesn't really make sense unless they've changed Kano THAT much. Johnny was always the guy who had to make the biggest change in the mythology. He comes into the tournament as probably the most regular, a guy who doesn't take anything serious and has average martial arts abilities, and grows as both a person and a warrior. Kano has always been a villain and I think he should have stayed that way, hopefully he ultimately does. Heck, they could have used Cage instead of this new guy they created for the movie, made him some down on his luck, washed out martial arts actor who is brought into the tournament, kept Kano as the bad guy or just got rid of him altogether. I can't imagine most fans picking Kano over Johnny Cage.
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