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Post by Felix on Jun 5, 2022 21:21:16 GMT -8
Top Gun 2: Maverick
Fun fact, they had military recruiters outside the theaters when the first Top Gun movie was released.
I enjoyed the film, saw it with my uncle, probably wouldn't have gone otherwise.
I'm not going to say any spoilers. But it sure makes the 80's seem great.
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Post by Swindle on Jun 10, 2022 8:16:43 GMT -8
I finished my rewatch of Avatar The Last Airbender. One of the finest children's cartoon ever produced. Definitely has to be top 10 of all time. The story, its willingness to tackle heavy topics, the characters all evolve and change, it offers universal lessons, and it uses proper storytelling techniques. The music and animation are amazing in the 4-part finale. Highest possible recommendation.
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Post by Felix on Jun 10, 2022 8:22:26 GMT -8
I finished my rewatch of Avatar The Last Airbender. One of the finest children's cartoon ever produced. Definitely has to be top 10 of all time. The story, its willingness to tackle heavy topics, the characters all evolve and change, it offers universal lessons, and it uses proper storytelling techniques. The music and animation are amazing in the 4-part finale. Highest possible recommendation. I've only ever seen a few clips, but everyone I know who has seen it has really liked it. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll give it a go one of these days. |
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Post by Swindle on Jun 10, 2022 10:15:14 GMT -8
I've only ever seen a few clips, but everyone I know who has seen it has really liked it. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll give it a go one of these days. I think there's some interesting philosophy handed down throughout you might appreciate in particular. |
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Post by Felix on Jun 10, 2022 10:41:13 GMT -8
I've only ever seen a few clips, but everyone I know who has seen it has really liked it. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll give it a go one of these days. I think there's some interesting philosophy handed down throughout you might appreciate in particular. The one clip I know is about the chakras, and clearing them out. I showed my mom that one to try and help explain it :-) |
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Post by Swindle on Jun 10, 2022 11:47:32 GMT -8
avatar.fandom.com/wiki/ChakrasIf you scroll down it lists them all out. Yeah, that's a great episode. I thought the point about Illusion blocking insight and that the separation was the greatest illusion was well founded (we are all one people even if we live as separate nations).
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Post by Bravo on Jun 14, 2022 20:06:52 GMT -8
Watched 2010 on dvd, which I got when Hollywood Video closed like in 2010 for super cheap and never got around to watching. It's funny I recall it airing on HBO in the 80's but not sure I ever saw it back then, probably because I had not seen 2001.
It's just okay. Relies heavily on narration. Relies on sending 3 Americans who aren't really astronauts on a mission with Soviets...ha ha...USSR still around in 2010. You just can't make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie, his style is too distinct.
YOUNG JUSTICE Season 4 ended. The main villain for half of the season was General Zod's son Lor Zod who was like a Killmonger (from Black Panther) wannabe with actual super powers. Because House of Zod is black on the show. Blah, blah time travel, lots of fake out deaths. Meh. Teaser for next season, female heroes gone bad....Super-Meh.
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Post by Swindle on Jun 26, 2022 15:05:57 GMT -8
Dr Strange 2
This is a case where other movies kind of took the air out of this (No Way Home with multiverse Spider-Men).
The idea was WandaVision, then Strange 2, then Spider-Man No Way Home, then Loki TV Series. But Covid messed things up.
But I'd say, when you watch Strange 2 and suddenly you see his supporting cast from the orginal movie, the love interest and villain set up for the next movie, its like, who are these people? Strange had operated as the Calculating info dump for Iron Man and Spider-Man, a surgeon who will make the cut coldly (hand over the time stone), but the arch here is he actually is human. Suddenly him and his love interest had this amazing could never be love, I don't recall that. So, its a bit of a retcon. The problem with Strange 1 is he isn't the most compelling lead and his cast isn't too compelling either and the biggest visuals are some Inception ripoffs.
Sam Raimi's style ends up lifting this movie. You have horror tropes and his directing flare to give it a nice style. There's no real narritive ground, the stand out performance is Olsen as Scarlet Witch and some amazing direction. So, this is basically a flawed, but enjoyable movie that lives as style over substance.
I'd say its a second tier Marvel Movie.
Greats: Iron Man, Captain America WS, Endgame as examples
Good: GotG 2, Captain America TFA, Spider-Man Homecoming (put it in with these movies)
Blah: Thor 2, Iron Man 2, Doctor Strange 1 (bad scripts, bad villains, lack of compelling directions)
Those are just examples, but I'd put Strange 2 in the 'good' category. 3 out of 4 stars.
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Post by Bravo on Jun 26, 2022 15:38:07 GMT -8
Never bothered to see Dr. Strange 1. None of the Marvel movies are anything I call a favorite, because I was never invested in the leads, the closet closest was Iron-Man, but the sequels were Iron-Meh. I found Chris Evans' Cap a little too flat, sullen and lacking the charisma I assumed the comic one had. THOR's movies were forgettable until Ragnarok, but even that one is hurt by Valkyrie being unlikable and quite frankly, homely.
I haven't seen anything Marvel since SPIDER-MAN: Far From Home. I don't expect that to change. Just don't care that much.
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Post by Felix on Jun 26, 2022 22:10:27 GMT -8
I like Doctor Strange.
He doesn't wear a mask.
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Post by Bravo on Jul 8, 2022 12:00:32 GMT -8
Watching tv again after months. Since I found a digital antenna thing I got free at a garage sale lsat year or so.
Broadcast tv...get quite a few channels in southeast Michigan, thanks to Toledo, OH having its own stations, Can't pick up any Canadian ones...bummer. Also, so channels go in and out.
COMET, which I didn't realize was a free over the air sci-fi channel.
X-Files just as good and frustrating as I recall. They were masters of the mythology teases, until it that crap got old and it was obvious they had no idea where it was going. And stand alone episodes could be great, forgettable or eye-rollingly bad (the past life regression one). They won't show HOME, the one with inbred/incestuous hillbilly killers, on tv anymore it seems.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, much cheaper looking than I remember. WB network budgets, it's so 90's. Still I watching it in its fun era (season 3), before it got all dour.
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Post by Swindle on Jul 9, 2022 1:57:30 GMT -8
I know there's two levels of X-Files eps, filler eps, then eps dealing with the larger mythology. You keep on with it because you like the two leads. But for me, the formula was tiring.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I like season 2 the best, Spike firmly a villain. End of story.
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Post by Bravo on Jul 9, 2022 8:44:20 GMT -8
Oh, absolutely the X-Files formula got tiring, especially Scully's stubborn skepticism in the face of the unexplainable. I think I bailed at some point in the show, then came back.
I've never seen Buffy season 1 and only parts of season 2. I was a later comer/inconsistent watcher to that show.
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Post by Felix on Jul 9, 2022 11:41:14 GMT -8
I like the older episodes best. If you look closely the beginning segment says, "TRUST NO ONE."
Then they change it to, "The truth is out there."
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Post by Felix on Jul 9, 2022 18:41:29 GMT -8
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