Captain Marvel - March 2019

[Russian Troll Bot]

JagLover said:

Halb said:

I'm a bit sad that the output of the rlm boys has slowed down. They're half in the bag bit. I do love the re:view stuff. I never would have experienced SUspiria without it.

It hasn't really slowed down that much by the looks of it, they always haven't reviewed every movie.

Over the past few months they have reviewed Glass, Bird Box and now Captain Marvel. The only other new recent release they should have reviewed, IMO, is Alita.

I like Re:view as well but it is different. Unless Mike is involved it usually isn't particularly funny for one thing.

And they just introduced us to Rem Lezar, which even by the standard of what they usually watch manages to be truly jaw dropping

https://youtu.be/FT5D7rJ8TPQ?t=843

[SpudLink]

Maybe I need to see it again.
Talking to other people that have seen it, they all seemed to enjoy it more than I did. My view was “it’s fine”, but others have really enjoyed it.

[JagLover]

Halb said:

Half in thebag was more prolific, but then they started squashing them together, and there was a general feeling of malaise with them, which they talked about. I do like the other stuff they still keep up with though

I've seen most of the half in the bags fairly recently, as I discovered RLM late, and haven't really noticed any general "malaise". Mike is a bit fed up with comic book movies but he is hardly unique in that.

Bird Box is a really good review, deconstructing why it is popular and why it didn't really work, while throwing in lots of good humour. As long as there is a movie they are interested in talking about there is no loss in quality IMO.

[JagLover]

Some of the best RLM movie intros

Intersteller

RLM said:

He lives on a dusty farm with his ungrateful daughter, dimwitted son, and Jonathan Lithgauw. When offered a chance to get away from his family on a suicide mission, Cooper jumps at the chance. Their mission? To find a new planet for Anne Hathaway to overact on.

Batman Vs Superman

RLM said:

It’s finally time, it’s finally here! Years of anticipating the most dark, loud, explosive and longest movie ever and now everyone can finally see it. You probably think I’m talking about Miracles From Heaven, but nope, I’m talking about Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice mother*ckers! Zach Snyder brings us another movie. Yes; punching, monsters, overacting, bad acting, explosions, a confusing plot. But who cares. You fill your face with popcorn you dumb fat cows. Eat the slop before the slaughter you f*cking pigs

Avengers 2

RLM said:

Disney’s Marvel’s Avengers 2 Age of Ultron. That’s right, man-children, it’s that time of every other year, when the Avengers assemble to fight something, smash buildings and learn the importance of teamwork. In this second film, Iron Man makes an A.I. crazy person named Ultron. Ultron wants to kill off life on planet Earth. His counterpart is a man with red skin who lives in a metal box. His name is the Seer or the Watcher of the Knower or something. He shoots at Ultron with a laser crystal on his head. Other characters have some development. The movie ends eventually

[ukaskew]

SpudLink said:

Maybe I need to see it again.
Talking to other people that have seen it, they all seemed to enjoy it more than I did. My view was “it’s fine”, but others have really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it more second time around. Still a fairly generic superhero movie but I absorbed some of the little nods and call backs second time out. I'm actually going a third time this Friday (the joys of Limitless, my wife wants to go and see it to!)

[Halb]

Chattd to a few more friends...seems those who expected it to be good, were a lil let down. I expected little, and loved it, yeh it has issues, Brie is the weak link, but I do intend to watch it again. I still think it's not formulaic, but it doesn't crak my top 6 mcu
edit
my friend thought brie was the best thing, and the writing sucked. I think the writing was very good...but the execution was lacklustre, and like the rlm boys, can't figure if it's the actor or director...yet Fury managed to hit home...

Russian Troll Bot said:

And they just introduced us to Rem Lezar, which even by the standard of what they usually watch manages to be truly jaw dropping

https://youtu.be/FT5D7rJ8TPQ?t=843

THat was just..so...

JagLover said:

I've seen most of the half in the bags fairly recently, as I discovered RLM late, and haven't really noticed any general "malaise". Mike is a bit fed up with comic book movies but he is hardly unique in that.
Bird Box is a really good review, deconstructing why it is popular and why it didn't really work, while throwing in lots of good humour. As long as there is a movie they are interested in talking about there is no loss in quality IMO.

Yeah, it happened some time last year, they just slowed, they do actively mention in one video, but I can't really recall which, I@ve seen loads of theirs, though not all. THey're still as good as ever, just not as prolific, it's interesting they're branched out into streaming stuff, when there's something really worth chatting about...and all the star trek stuff of course. Which I have no interest in...but I watch because it is nice to see an expert who loves his chosen world. I appreciate that in others

[JagLover]

Halb said:

Yeah, it happened some time last year, they just slowed, they do actively mention in one video, but I can't really recall which, I@ve seen loads of theirs, though not all. THey're still as good as ever, just not as prolific, it's interesting they're branched out into streaming stuff, when there's something really worth chatting about...and all the star trek stuff of course. Which I have no interest in...but I watch because it is nice to see an expert who loves his chosen world. I appreciate that in others

Yes I watch Mike and Rich talk about discovery even though I have no interest in seeing it. Also liked the time Mike talked about his fan fiction idea for the Picard series.

A review for something that doesn't exist as they put it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe1hKZjCVyM

[irocfan]

Halb said:

...it doesn't crack my top 6 mcu...

just out of curiosity what comes above it?

Edited by irocfan on Thursday 14th March 07:34

[highway]

I thought Brie’s performance was restrained and a bit bland. This was ok. At least it wasn’t let down by cgi as was Black Panther.

Telling for me that the best moment was end credit scene 1.

[l354uge]

I enjoyed it but not my favourite, I feel she was starting to get superman syndrome, just too powerful to be an interesting character.

What infinity war did so well was show that hulk and Iron man (who had just started to become too powerful) weren't really that strong when faced with a real threat. Ofcourse hulk will VERY angry next time..
But I think we need to see CM get a beat down whilst she's in full glow mode to put her into real context.

Goose stole the show, for me. I think he should be the one to defeat Thanos.

[ukaskew]

Loved this, Kevin Smith talking about officially existing in the MCU...

https://youtu.be/2j0gsV9J7Ts

[RemaL]

Went with the family last night and all enjoyed it.
I did my best to not read to much since it's release
And glad I waited for the end credits

[Halb]

irocfan said:

just out of curiosity what comes above it?

Edited by irocfan on Thursday 14th March 07:34

I had to think on this!
no real order, but these ones I can watch over
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Iron Man
Avengers: Infinity War
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers Assemble
Captain America: The First Avenger (first half, then it goes downhill, but the last ten minutes are magic)
Captain Marvel may fit in here, will have to ponder


Thor: Ragnarok (if more Sakaar less Asgard, it'd be higher)
Captain America: Civil War - only seen once, ill need to rewatch
Ant-Man, this used to be top 5
Spider-Man: Homecoming - one of the best twists too

[irocfan]

just found out that the scene where she blows Arnie's cardboard head off (True Lies) is important because TL is (I'll paraphrase here) "... a vile, racist film and one of the most sexist of the '90's...".

It shows women taking back control yada, yada, yada

[louiebaby]

irocfan said:

just found out that the scene where she blows Arnie's cardboard head off (True Lies) is important because TL is (I'll paraphrase here) "... a vile, racist film and one of the most sexist of the '90's...".

It shows women taking back control yada, yada, yada

True Lies is one of my favourite films.

There's a motorbike vs horse chase, and a lovely Corvette.

[JagLover]

irocfan said:

just found out that the scene where she blows Arnie's cardboard head off (True Lies) is important because TL is (I'll paraphrase here) "... a vile, racist film and one of the most sexist of the '90's...".

It shows women taking back control yada, yada, yada

Tricking women into doing a striptease probably is sexist. Not sure how it was racist for having a realistic enemy though. Not all movies can have a British villain with an upper class accent, it would get very boring

[Guvernator]

I agree, action movies where basically made for men in the 90's, the striptease and limo cat-fight pandered to that but it was a sign of the times and the movie industry has moved on a lot since then. As for the racism comment I've heard that before and thought it ridiculous too, middle-eastern terrorism is a fact and guess what, most of the perpetrators of that kind of terrorism are from that region.

90% of film villains are portrayed by white, middle aged, British males, should I be offended too?

I think sometimes people go deliberately looking for things to be offended about, there are much bigger problems in the world then some action movie made in the 90's.

[chris watton]

Strange, True Lies is one of my wife's and step daughter's favourite films!

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

True Lies is one of the best films I've seen.

Personally I thought it empowered women as it showed the dull housewife on a journey of boredom to becoming an Omega Sector spy Plus her revenge on Simon, beating the st out of the man encouraging her to strip etc

Probably comes second to Total Recall

[JagLover]

Baby Shark doo doo doo doo said:

True Lies is one of the best films I've seen.

Personally I thought it empowered women as it showed the dull housewife on a journey of boredom to becoming an Omega Sector spy Plus her revenge on Simon, beating the st out of the man encouraging her to strip etc

Probably comes second to Total Recall

oh True Lies is a good movie, a lesser Cameron, but that still makes it better than most of the movies out there.

The issue is more around the actions of Arnie, who is our protagonist. I don't have much time for modern feminism, but can understand why many women would have a problem with our supposed "hero" acting that way.