Well we had the tesseract … But you have a valid point . I haven’t seen anywhere that has brought up the redundant nature of that key plot point.
Alright.
Can you describe Captain Marvel as a character like you would, say, Iron Man. What is the image you have of her?
Ugh… she allot like Tony without the charm or charisma. Lets see Tony has a motivation of making up for his sins of making weapons. CM is motivated to make up for any atrocities she may have done as part of the Kree ( which oddly we do not see). Both are suppose to be about characters looking for redemption But Tony is the only one that seems to have any depth. Tony can be viewed as a Ass hole at the start of Ironman because he has made a conscious choice to developed advanced weapons even if uses the morality of defending his nation. Which finally comes to the point in his story arc were he must except the reality of the consequences when Karma came back and bit him in the ass. CM … they use the out that she has been mentally manipulated which makes any acts of redemption seems less meaningful.
How is Larson a Oscar winner? I honestly I do not think she took the role seriously and she phoned in the lines!! I can see Jackson and Mendelsohn standing around and complaining about how they should be paid more for having to carry Larson on their backs.
Lol see? You can’t describe her based on the image you have of her other than Brie Larson is a block of wood. Neither can I. In fact, you don’t even really buy it when the movie tells you what she’s supposed to be.
You know back then there were still vcd and dvd stores around, I’d go to the “action movies” section and all the Steven Segal movies would be placed together with all the covers facing you and I’d laugh my as off because they all had his face on them with the same expression. She’s like Steven Segal in every scene.
I watched The Dirt on Netflix this weekend. It’s a Motley Crue biopic and a great rock-and-roll movie. I really enjoyed it. Definitely worth checking out if you were a Motley Crue fan back in the 80’s. I still remember when I got Girls Girls Girls on cassette for Christmas from Santa Claus when I was 7.
Haha! When Shout At The Devil came out my brother got a radio with dual cassette decks and I got a corvette raceway slot car track. We sat around for the rest of the winter racing slot cars and listening to Motley Crue.
We went to see it on Saturday. Based on all the crap thrown at the movie in here I wasn’t expecting much. I enjoyed it. It won’t win any prizes but did the job it was meant to do and kept me entertained. Maybe it’s because I don’t know or care about any back stories. There was flying, explosions, light shows, shape shifters, Samuel L Jackson and a cat.
I will say I didn’t find the SJW stuff that over the top like several movie web sites claimed. So I was good with that at least.
I also watched this. It was awesome. Not because it was a good movie, but because it’s Mötley Crüe. Dr. Feelgood was my favorite album when I was a kid.
It was a bit weird watching Ramsay Bolton play Mick Mars, but Iwan Rheon did a great job. Machine Gun Kelly was by far the weakest actor (as Tommy Lee). He was fine until he had to play serious, then it all went to shit. Didn’t spoil the movie for me though. The rest of the cast was solid.
7/10
Godless finale was a letdown IMO. 7/10 overall but it would have been a 9 if they’d stuck the landing.
This is what’s making me hold off watching it. I can’t imagine this guy playing Tommy Lee.
I had never seen or heard of MGK before watching The Dirt. I’d heard the name before but I didn’t know he was a rapper until I read his wiki. I thought he did a good job, but there were a few moments where the movie felt like Spinal Tap. This is overall a good thing though, because Motley Crüe actually lived the over the top rock and roll antics that Spinal Tap parodied, right down to the umlauts.
I’d agree completely. It wasn’t fine art, but neither was Motley Crue. They were easily my favorite band in elementary school during their heyday. They were larger-than-life huge. Huge enough for my (relatively) conservative Catholic parents to buy me Girls Girls Girls and say it was from Santa when I was 7. You were never out of eyesight of a Crue shirt at the mall, an arcade, a movie theater, at the county fair or anywhere else teenagers congregated at the time.
They were maybe the last rock band to really have the same levels of fame and fit the same off-stage mold as the titans of 70’s rock. I don’t think there were any that came out of the 90’s, when bands were trying hard to be nothing like Motley Crue. Guns and Roses might be the only band at peak popularity in the 90’s you could mention.
Bands like Tool are just as popular, but their music is too good and they don’t behave like assholes. Not the same at all, and neither were any of the 90’s largest acts. Motley Crue were part of Rock and Roll’s last gasp as a dominant cultural force. I’m not sure you’ll ever see anything like them again.
Edit: Upon further reflection, I’m not sure Tool sold anywhere near as many records, let alone got nearly as much radio and MTV play. I just like them way better.
Capt. Marvel - eh, it’s was fine I guess. So many others have poked holes in it better than I ever could but I agree with nearly all of what’s been said up-thread. 5/10
Us - I really, really liked this. It was scary, a bit funny, and entertaining. I could go back and pick it apart much like any horror flick (“Does Jason Horvees take off his mask to eat?”, “Why aren’t zombies consumed by flies and fly larvae since they’re dead?”) but none of that seeped into my head while I was watching. I even liked it better than Get Out. 7.5/10
Watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure a few days ago. It has stood the test of time. Watching Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey currently. Still fun, but what stands out the most? The movies are rated PG. I had forgotten that “dick” and “shithead” are both used liberally. There’s also pussweed, dickweed, robot Ted gets a “full on robot chubby” when he sees one of the princesses, and Missy the step-mom kicks Bill out of his own room so his dad can bang his young wife on his son’s bed.
I don’t even disagree with the rating - most of this would go way over a kids head, as it did with mine, it’s just a sign of how much things have changed. None of that would ever be allowed to have a PG rating.
Motley Crue’s music didn’t really suck, though. They were still part of an era where all the artists in the band actually knew how to play their instruments properly before Nirvana, Oasis and Pearl Jam came along. Tommy Lee was better than any drummer Guns and Roses ever had lol.
I gotta admit I also liked Skid Row a lot because of Sebastian Bach’s singing. This dude was in a class of his own back then.
Someone needs to make a movie about Led Zeppelin based on their biography by Peter Grant. That would be way more over-the-top than anything ever made about a rock band.
Oh the Crüe were good musicians, no doubt about that. A lot of their stuff still holds up today.
Tool is just way better and yes, a Zeppelin biopic would be epic. No other band soared to greater heights of hedonism and rock and roll absurdity while making such great music.
Kids still play Zeppelin on the jukebox in the bar I sometimes bounce at. I was a generation late for them and they were still one of my favorite bands as a teenager in the 90s. They definitely need a movie.
Anyone gets a chance I would suggest watching the animated anthology series Love ,Death and Robots on Netflix. The story went that they wanted to do a reboot of the Heavy metal movie but decided to save money on the rights and did their own thing. Some of the episodes are hit or miss but over all its good.
I don’t know how pretentious a person has to be to think Mötley Crüe sucks. I just know that I would probably not get along with such a person. They probably only listen to fucking jazz or something.
Top 5 rock vocalist IMO. Dude could WAIL in his prime.