Tommy Lee looks like he's having the time of his life in one of those off-the-rails kind of roles that is certainly in his repertoire. Action packed and good all around. Probably wouldn't exist if not for Die Hard, you've really got to thank that film for launching a craze.
It's certainly got a more coherent plot than the movies thus far and that buoys it into "better" territory but that really isn't saying much. Getting to see a little more of the Cullen family history is certainly a highlight. It occurs to me that there's so much unexplored potential in this series. I keep thinking that if the concept was recycled into a more serious, darker tv show in the vein of Supernatural or even Grimm instead of a poorly executed love series for tweens it would be so much better. Also, the length on these films is killer at over 2 hours each for all of them.
Even if you're pretty familiar with the Beatles' soundtracks that spanned decades this is a fun, neat way to visually encounter the band beyond the music that you've allowed into your ears. It's very much a product of the sixties and very experiential in that regard. The hordes of screaming girls can be a bit crazy but that's an essential part of human history and Beatlemania that really couldn't be left out. I like how it kind of poked fun at having to avoid people chasing them down everywhere they go and how it really exposed that being that kind of famous still leaves much to be desired.
If you've ever even dipped your toe into reviewing, watching, or commenting on bad movies then you've heard about The Room, it's really that simple. Some of the quotes are downright iconic and the haphazard flow of the story never lets up for a second. I love being reminded that making movies is a hard business and this one was like a sledgehammer to the head.
You have to almost admire the fact that something like this exists. This whole project is the story of a man pursuing his dream to make a movie and have it be well known. You can't deny that Wiseau succeeded. The whole project is a testament to pursuing your dream and never giving up.
We all know that life is hard, but some movies just have an uncanny knack for portraying it. This one really nails that feeling of isolation and loneliness all the while being reminded that your dreams are far beyond your reach. It's a great drama and perhaps some of the best acting from Dustin Hoffman I've ever laid eyes upon. Such a slimy, pitiful character brought to vivid life by his incredible acting.
There have been many movies that have used a similar plot. That of a relative nobody working his way up using unscrupulous means and finding success for a while before it all coming crashing down at the end of the movie. This one doesn't actually fall into that trap though as there isn't a clear upward trajectory of either character throughout the film and ultimately the ending is bleak with neither character actually accomplishing what they wanted. It's sobering but also a great way to tell the story that didn't fall into cliche.
It took a long while to get going for me, just about when we finally see the play come to life. I once had the opportunity to see a large budget play in a theater district that lasted for just a week or so before being shuttered and I can unironically say that Springtime for Hitler was actually better, so there's that. Mel Brooks isn't exactly my brand of humor but I can appreciate what he's doing and it has its moments.
So watching the second movie into this (omg, wow) 5-movie saga and it occurs to me that it's pretty incredible that these films didn't end the careers of the main actors. Somehow the rest of the Hollywood casting powers that be were able to overlook the wickedly bad display. Watching these films is so surreal in the zaniest way. They are movies that have the budget of a summer blockbuster but with the acting, scriptwork, and plot of a direct-to-video film (and that's actually an insult to some direct-to-video projects.) It's not just bad, it's stunningly bad in a way that you can't take your eyes off of a train wreck engulfed in a fireball. This entry makes about as much sense as Bella emailing an account that she knows doesn't exist.
But Michael Sheen, woah... he is a major highlight in what is a dreary slog of a film. He acts the absolute heck out of his small role and runs circles around the rest of the cast. It was as if the scriptwriters actually learned how to create good dialog when they finally came to him.
I honestly can't remember watching a movie where I laughed harder than this one. It's so awkward, I mean holy vampires playing baseball level of awkward. It's not so much the acting that is subpar (Pattinson in particular can certainly act), it's the dialog that is oftentimes as clear as mud. There are so many instances where characters are speaking to each other as if entire sentences in the script were just skipped over. Not only that, but the body language of both Stewart and Pattinson is incoherent and rarely matches the jumble of lines they are trying to deliver. It's not nearly as bad as the mountains of negativity fired at it but it was certainly good for buckets of unintentional comedy. I honestly have no regrets.
It's got Sam Raimi's fingerprints all over it from top to bottom, that's for absolute certain. He knows how to straddle that tightrope between horror and comedy well enough that he's practically invented his own kind of style for horror movies, practically even his own sub-genre actually. If Raimi is your thing you won't be disappointed, if not then I can see it being kind of hit or miss with most horror lovers.
Very interesting choice as to how the whole thing kicks off with essentially the main character doing her job and being punished/cursed for it. We tend to think of the horror bad guy as being just simply evil and that's usually enough. But there's a thread of injustice and blackmail in regards to the Gypsy grandmother which brings out a different way to look at the antagonists. It's vindictive in a repulsive way.
A respectable and entertaining war picture. It's a relatively simple plot but very much a kind of misadventure which only promotes the feeling that you really aren't sure where the story is heading next. Good characters all around. Seeing Bach and Kiel onscreen together made me feel like watching a Bond film.
A film in the sword-and-sandal tradition that is fantastic all around but worth watching for the stop-motion animation alone. The skeletons are great of course, scary good how well Jason battles against stop-motion creatures, but the
Hydra
must have been a royal pain to animate for obvious reasons. I don't envy any of the guys who had to work on the sheer amount of animation for this one. Love the location filming, costumes, and scale of it all.
If Orwell's 1984 and dark comedy had a child it would be named Brazil. Incredible dystopian landscape that simultaneously makes you laugh one moment and then gasp a few moments later with how it's portrayed. It never allows you to get totally bogged down in the oppressed atmosphere the characters inhabit by using the humor to great effect. You get the sense that despite how intellectually strangled this world is, the characters are still going about their lives and eking out a living to the best of their ability.
I can't describe how claustrophobic this movie made me feel. Between the endless duct-work sandwiched into almost every shot, the busy corridors, and the magnifying shields in front of all the TVs this movie was a true psychological trip. Pryce is fantastic but everybody involved does a stellar job.
Fantastic film, so well executed. Really makes you sit back, shake your head, and marvel at the fact that in whole decades of Cold War threats that we didn't (even accidentally) bomb the world out of existence. B&W was a great artistic choice as the lack of color palette (and lack of soundtrack ultimately) drives the acting and the suspense right to the forefront, there's nothing here to hide behind. It's very up front with its themes regarding warfare and doesn't gloss over them, even within the first few minutes of film when the stage is being set.
Just such great acting in this one. I especially loved the chemistry between Cruise and Moore, they are unbelievably good when sparring against each other and it really elevates the film. Cruise really excels at portraying the whole "brilliant but chooses to be slovenly and careless" persona to great effect here.
Shockingly, and to the film's unbelievable credit, neither Cruise or Moore's characters ever resort to bashing the other on the basis of sex. More than once you think it is surely coming based on the cantankerous kind of relationship but neither one stoops to that level.
And of course, Nicholson and his close-up monologs are just too good.
Watching some of DC's films that don't quite hit the mark, I consistently get the impression that this is somehow a franchise that is still trying to figure out what it is despite being well over a decade into this venture. This entire film is so generic and The Rock has to chuck pretty much his entire persona out the window for this character. It never really works. It also smacks up against the only ever increasing problem of why doesn't the main team of Earth's superheroes show up when something cataclysmic goes down? Going back a few years, the Marvel films used to at least hand wave absences away by saying "so-and-so can't help because xyz." But are we seriously meant to believe that Supes, WW, the whole JL team are just out of town during another world-ending scenario? And only the junior varsity team is up for it?
I always tend to like a horror film that twists the formula into something new and this one certainly has that. You really have to think outside the box when making an entry in the horror genre these days and Oculus reaps the rewards of a good cast and concept. I also liked how Karen Gillan is also kind of creepy as well in a super dedicated, almost crazy kind of way. Huge shoutout to both of the child actors, this was a very kid-centric film in a lot of ways and the script demanded a lot from the two of them. They did a fantastic job.
It really reveals how stylistic the original Ocean's movies are because when it's lacking it absolutely shows which is the core problem here. Many of the characters don't have much to do and there is little to no camaraderie like in the original trilogy. I keep going back to that one scene in Ocean's 11 where all the guys are meeting each other for the first time and it really seems throughout the course of the film they have great chemistry together. There's no chemistry here, just a bunch of ladies thrown together.
One line of dialog was quite unforgivable though, when Bullock's character says, "somewhere out there is an eight-year old girl, lying in bed, dreaming of being a criminal. Let's do this for her." Absolutely disgusting message, incouraging young children to become criminals gets a hard pass from me. Absolutely floored that the scriptwriters put that in there.
Been a long time since I've seen the full series but this feature length film had no trouble in putting me right back in the thick of it. Interestingly enough, you can almost see some of the hints and tones that Whedon would eventually recycle later on when being a Marvel showrunner. I very much enjoyed the series and liked this as well. A film is the best a fan could've hoped for other than a Season 2 so, there's that.
If not for the theme song making the cut to be included in the "Queen's Greatest Hits" albums, I don't think I ever would have come across this one. Very campy, but it's so much of a spectacle that you can't really feel bored with it. Holy quotable dialog, Batman!
Perhaps the most haphazardly put together superhero film that I've seen. The final battle seems to stretch on forever and literally takes breaks in the action for side quests, something I've never encountered before. It's not just the battles though, the whole thing feels so long and needlessly drawn out because none of it flows together. It's almost the DCEU's attempt to just go full tilt with the gags and looneyness but you have to actually know what you're doing to pull that off. The trio of women villains was painfully miscast and quite boring overall, Zegler's dialog in particular was incredibly poor. The Skittles part was unbelievably cringe.
I was honestly expecting the unicorn to simply just take an immediate liking to her and the heck with it being a major plot contrivance, but woah I was not ready for a candy commercial instead. I guarantee you the writer that came up with that one probably thought it was Oscar worthy, too.
From watching the trailers I'd pretty much hatched some idea of how the plot would go and was hoping it wouldn't fall into that pit of tropes and clichés but unfortunately it did. Civil War movies are not an unexplored territory and so in order to make for compelling viewing most will opt to not shy away from the source material of slavery but this one doesn't pack enough punch to leave a lasting impression. I was not expecting the modern flash-forwards and the first one was rather jarring. It sets the tone that it's going to jump around a bit but then nearly abandons the concept completely. Ultimately the choice to tell a parallel modern story doesn't add anything. Well acted by McConaughey but leaves so much material on the table.
I only made it through the first fifteen minutes before having to bail on this one. Any script that drops f-bombs with such casual frequency can be a major turnoff and the first 6 minutes was not to be believed. Can't say I've ever switched off a movie with M.E.W. in it but the character she plays was a walking contradiction in the most repulsive way for even the paltry fifteen minutes I watched.
I think the point was to make a lighter, almost goofy superhero flick while being a radical departure from the dark and gloomy DCEU and I think they met the goal pretty well. Mark Strong has the capability to play a good villain and he does what he can with the role but could have had some more depth to the character... ok, a lot more depth. Love how it takes place in my city of Philly and includes a lot of the city's flavor and references, I haven't really seen superheroes in Philly since back when M. Night Shyamalan was a popular guy.
All that CGI, ugh, my eyes are bleeding from it all. I almost kind of pity the poor folks at DC, they just can't seem to understand how to make even a halfway decent movie in this universe these days. So many attempts seem like spending hundreds of millions of dollars to chuck paint buckets at a canvas and pretend it's a masterpiece. This trend can't continue, maybe after losing 200 mil things will finally change.
Even if all the CGI is fixed this is such a messy film. Ezra Miller is incredibly distracting to watch and the plot never seems to ground itself, instead it opts to seemingly jump from one CGI background to the next like a fever-induced video game. More than once I mentally prepared to pick up a controller as what seemed like a video game cutscene came to an end. Also one thing that sort of stuck out to me, the Justice League doesn't seem to really like each other at all. They come across as co-workers barely tolerating each other. More than once I felt as if Barry should be going to his fellow heroes with his inner struggles and realized in an odd way that they probably just don't care. Kind of like the people you work with that you feel ok striking up a casual conversation with but wouldn't be caught dead hanging together outside work. It's such an incredibly odd dynamic and ridiculous as this is not the first outing with all the heroes together, far from it. It's worlds apart from other teams of superheroes from other brands that immediately spring to mind. DC needs to get Marvel completely out of its head and stop giving so much attention to competitors and get its house in order.
I will say though that the cameo at the end certainly put a giant stupid grin on my face.
I think if you're going to make a serious departure from the tired and beat to death Marvel formula of "good guys save the world" then it better have some serious thought and creativity put into it. I didn't get that impression watching this. Quite possibly I'm just completely numb to anything Marvel at this point (Ragnarok was the culprit of that) but the tearjerker story just didn't have the intended effect. Can't say I've ever cared enough about any of the Guardians to have a whole rescue plot for one of them.
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Movie comment on Under Siege
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Tommy Lee looks like he's having the time of his life in one of those off-the-rails kind of roles that is certainly in his repertoire. Action packed and good all around. Probably wouldn't exist if not for Die Hard, you've really got to thank that film for launching a craze.Movie comment on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
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It's certainly got a more coherent plot than the movies thus far and that buoys it into "better" territory but that really isn't saying much. Getting to see a little more of the Cullen family history is certainly a highlight. It occurs to me that there's so much unexplored potential in this series. I keep thinking that if the concept was recycled into a more serious, darker tv show in the vein of Supernatural or even Grimm instead of a poorly executed love series for tweens it would be so much better. Also, the length on these films is killer at over 2 hours each for all of them.Movie comment on A Hard Day's Night
DisneyStitch
Even if you're pretty familiar with the Beatles' soundtracks that spanned decades this is a fun, neat way to visually encounter the band beyond the music that you've allowed into your ears. It's very much a product of the sixties and very experiential in that regard. The hordes of screaming girls can be a bit crazy but that's an essential part of human history and Beatlemania that really couldn't be left out. I like how it kind of poked fun at having to avoid people chasing them down everywhere they go and how it really exposed that being that kind of famous still leaves much to be desired.Movie comment on The Room
DisneyStitch
If you've ever even dipped your toe into reviewing, watching, or commenting on bad movies then you've heard about The Room, it's really that simple. Some of the quotes are downright iconic and the haphazard flow of the story never lets up for a second. I love being reminded that making movies is a hard business and this one was like a sledgehammer to the head.You have to almost admire the fact that something like this exists. This whole project is the story of a man pursuing his dream to make a movie and have it be well known. You can't deny that Wiseau succeeded. The whole project is a testament to pursuing your dream and never giving up.
Movie comment on Midnight Cowboy
DisneyStitch
We all know that life is hard, but some movies just have an uncanny knack for portraying it. This one really nails that feeling of isolation and loneliness all the while being reminded that your dreams are far beyond your reach. It's a great drama and perhaps some of the best acting from Dustin Hoffman I've ever laid eyes upon. Such a slimy, pitiful character brought to vivid life by his incredible acting.Movie comment on The Producers
DisneyStitch
It took a long while to get going for me, just about when we finally see the play come to life. I once had the opportunity to see a large budget play in a theater district that lasted for just a week or so before being shuttered and I can unironically say that Springtime for Hitler was actually better, so there's that. Mel Brooks isn't exactly my brand of humor but I can appreciate what he's doing and it has its moments.Movie comment on The Twilight Saga: New Moon
DisneyStitch
So watching the second movie into this (omg, wow) 5-movie saga and it occurs to me that it's pretty incredible that these films didn't end the careers of the main actors. Somehow the rest of the Hollywood casting powers that be were able to overlook the wickedly bad display. Watching these films is so surreal in the zaniest way. They are movies that have the budget of a summer blockbuster but with the acting, scriptwork, and plot of a direct-to-video film (and that's actually an insult to some direct-to-video projects.) It's not just bad, it's stunningly bad in a way that you can't take your eyes off of a train wreck engulfed in a fireball. This entry makes about as much sense as Bella emailing an account that she knows doesn't exist.But Michael Sheen, woah... he is a major highlight in what is a dreary slog of a film. He acts the absolute heck out of his small role and runs circles around the rest of the cast. It was as if the scriptwriters actually learned how to create good dialog when they finally came to him.
Movie comment on Twilight
DisneyStitch
I honestly can't remember watching a movie where I laughed harder than this one. It's so awkward, I mean holy vampires playing baseball level of awkward. It's not so much the acting that is subpar (Pattinson in particular can certainly act), it's the dialog that is oftentimes as clear as mud. There are so many instances where characters are speaking to each other as if entire sentences in the script were just skipped over. Not only that, but the body language of both Stewart and Pattinson is incoherent and rarely matches the jumble of lines they are trying to deliver. It's not nearly as bad as the mountains of negativity fired at it but it was certainly good for buckets of unintentional comedy. I honestly have no regrets.Movie comment on Drag Me to Hell
DisneyStitch
It's got Sam Raimi's fingerprints all over it from top to bottom, that's for absolute certain. He knows how to straddle that tightrope between horror and comedy well enough that he's practically invented his own kind of style for horror movies, practically even his own sub-genre actually. If Raimi is your thing you won't be disappointed, if not then I can see it being kind of hit or miss with most horror lovers.Movie comment on Force 10 from Navarone
DisneyStitch
A respectable and entertaining war picture. It's a relatively simple plot but very much a kind of misadventure which only promotes the feeling that you really aren't sure where the story is heading next. Good characters all around. Seeing Bach and Kiel onscreen together made me feel like watching a Bond film.Movie comment on Jason and the Argonauts
DisneyStitch
A film in the sword-and-sandal tradition that is fantastic all around but worth watching for the stop-motion animation alone. The skeletons are great of course, scary good how well Jason battles against stop-motion creatures, but theMovie comment on Brazil
DisneyStitch
If Orwell's 1984 and dark comedy had a child it would be named Brazil. Incredible dystopian landscape that simultaneously makes you laugh one moment and then gasp a few moments later with how it's portrayed. It never allows you to get totally bogged down in the oppressed atmosphere the characters inhabit by using the humor to great effect. You get the sense that despite how intellectually strangled this world is, the characters are still going about their lives and eking out a living to the best of their ability.I can't describe how claustrophobic this movie made me feel. Between the endless duct-work sandwiched into almost every shot, the busy corridors, and the magnifying shields in front of all the TVs this movie was a true psychological trip. Pryce is fantastic but everybody involved does a stellar job.
Movie comment on Fail Safe
DisneyStitch
Fantastic film, so well executed. Really makes you sit back, shake your head, and marvel at the fact that in whole decades of Cold War threats that we didn't (even accidentally) bomb the world out of existence. B&W was a great artistic choice as the lack of color palette (and lack of soundtrack ultimately) drives the acting and the suspense right to the forefront, there's nothing here to hide behind. It's very up front with its themes regarding warfare and doesn't gloss over them, even within the first few minutes of film when the stage is being set.Movie comment on A Few Good Men
DisneyStitch
Just such great acting in this one. I especially loved the chemistry between Cruise and Moore, they are unbelievably good when sparring against each other and it really elevates the film. Cruise really excels at portraying the whole "brilliant but chooses to be slovenly and careless" persona to great effect here.Movie comment on Black Adam
DisneyStitch
Watching some of DC's films that don't quite hit the mark, I consistently get the impression that this is somehow a franchise that is still trying to figure out what it is despite being well over a decade into this venture. This entire film is so generic and The Rock has to chuck pretty much his entire persona out the window for this character. It never really works. It also smacks up against the only ever increasing problem of why doesn't the main team of Earth's superheroes show up when something cataclysmic goes down? Going back a few years, the Marvel films used to at least hand wave absences away by saying "so-and-so can't help because xyz." But are we seriously meant to believe that Supes, WW, the whole JL team are just out of town during another world-ending scenario? And only the junior varsity team is up for it?Movie comment on Oculus
DisneyStitch
I always tend to like a horror film that twists the formula into something new and this one certainly has that. You really have to think outside the box when making an entry in the horror genre these days and Oculus reaps the rewards of a good cast and concept. I also liked how Karen Gillan is also kind of creepy as well in a super dedicated, almost crazy kind of way. Huge shoutout to both of the child actors, this was a very kid-centric film in a lot of ways and the script demanded a lot from the two of them. They did a fantastic job.Movie comment on Ocean's Eight
DisneyStitch
It really reveals how stylistic the original Ocean's movies are because when it's lacking it absolutely shows which is the core problem here. Many of the characters don't have much to do and there is little to no camaraderie like in the original trilogy. I keep going back to that one scene in Ocean's 11 where all the guys are meeting each other for the first time and it really seems throughout the course of the film they have great chemistry together. There's no chemistry here, just a bunch of ladies thrown together.One line of dialog was quite unforgivable though, when Bullock's character says, "somewhere out there is an eight-year old girl, lying in bed, dreaming of being a criminal. Let's do this for her." Absolutely disgusting message, incouraging young children to become criminals gets a hard pass from me. Absolutely floored that the scriptwriters put that in there.
Movie comment on Serenity
DisneyStitch
Been a long time since I've seen the full series but this feature length film had no trouble in putting me right back in the thick of it. Interestingly enough, you can almost see some of the hints and tones that Whedon would eventually recycle later on when being a Marvel showrunner. I very much enjoyed the series and liked this as well. A film is the best a fan could've hoped for other than a Season 2 so, there's that.Movie comment on Flash Gordon
DisneyStitch
If not for the theme song making the cut to be included in the "Queen's Greatest Hits" albums, I don't think I ever would have come across this one. Very campy, but it's so much of a spectacle that you can't really feel bored with it. Holy quotable dialog, Batman!Movie comment on Shazam! Fury of the Gods
DisneyStitch
Perhaps the most haphazardly put together superhero film that I've seen. The final battle seems to stretch on forever and literally takes breaks in the action for side quests, something I've never encountered before. It's not just the battles though, the whole thing feels so long and needlessly drawn out because none of it flows together. It's almost the DCEU's attempt to just go full tilt with the gags and looneyness but you have to actually know what you're doing to pull that off. The trio of women villains was painfully miscast and quite boring overall, Zegler's dialog in particular was incredibly poor. The Skittles part was unbelievably cringe.Movie comment on Free State of Jones
DisneyStitch
From watching the trailers I'd pretty much hatched some idea of how the plot would go and was hoping it wouldn't fall into that pit of tropes and clichés but unfortunately it did. Civil War movies are not an unexplored territory and so in order to make for compelling viewing most will opt to not shy away from the source material of slavery but this one doesn't pack enough punch to leave a lasting impression. I was not expecting the modern flash-forwards and the first one was rather jarring. It sets the tone that it's going to jump around a bit but then nearly abandons the concept completely. Ultimately the choice to tell a parallel modern story doesn't add anything. Well acted by McConaughey but leaves so much material on the table.Movie comment on All About Nina
DisneyStitch
I only made it through the first fifteen minutes before having to bail on this one. Any script that drops f-bombs with such casual frequency can be a major turnoff and the first 6 minutes was not to be believed. Can't say I've ever switched off a movie with M.E.W. in it but the character she plays was a walking contradiction in the most repulsive way for even the paltry fifteen minutes I watched.Movie comment on Shazam!
DisneyStitch
I think the point was to make a lighter, almost goofy superhero flick while being a radical departure from the dark and gloomy DCEU and I think they met the goal pretty well. Mark Strong has the capability to play a good villain and he does what he can with the role but could have had some more depth to the character... ok, a lot more depth. Love how it takes place in my city of Philly and includes a lot of the city's flavor and references, I haven't really seen superheroes in Philly since back when M. Night Shyamalan was a popular guy.Movie comment on The Flash
DisneyStitch
All that CGI, ugh, my eyes are bleeding from it all. I almost kind of pity the poor folks at DC, they just can't seem to understand how to make even a halfway decent movie in this universe these days. So many attempts seem like spending hundreds of millions of dollars to chuck paint buckets at a canvas and pretend it's a masterpiece. This trend can't continue, maybe after losing 200 mil things will finally change.Even if all the CGI is fixed this is such a messy film. Ezra Miller is incredibly distracting to watch and the plot never seems to ground itself, instead it opts to seemingly jump from one CGI background to the next like a fever-induced video game. More than once I mentally prepared to pick up a controller as what seemed like a video game cutscene came to an end. Also one thing that sort of stuck out to me, the Justice League doesn't seem to really like each other at all. They come across as co-workers barely tolerating each other. More than once I felt as if Barry should be going to his fellow heroes with his inner struggles and realized in an odd way that they probably just don't care. Kind of like the people you work with that you feel ok striking up a casual conversation with but wouldn't be caught dead hanging together outside work. It's such an incredibly odd dynamic and ridiculous as this is not the first outing with all the heroes together, far from it. It's worlds apart from other teams of superheroes from other brands that immediately spring to mind. DC needs to get Marvel completely out of its head and stop giving so much attention to competitors and get its house in order.
I will say though that the cameo at the end certainly put a giant stupid grin on my face.
Movie comment on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
DisneyStitch
I think if you're going to make a serious departure from the tired and beat to death Marvel formula of "good guys save the world" then it better have some serious thought and creativity put into it. I didn't get that impression watching this. Quite possibly I'm just completely numb to anything Marvel at this point (Ragnarok was the culprit of that) but the tearjerker story just didn't have the intended effect. Can't say I've ever cared enough about any of the Guardians to have a whole rescue plot for one of them.Showing items 26 – 50 of 733