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[Frindis]

@Pifanjr I'm curious about Thunderbolts because I watched the trailer, and the Russian accent of Alexei Shostakov by David Harbour was so atrocious it made me not want to watch the movie. So I guess my question is: Was I wrong? Final release better?

 

[Pifanjr]

@Pifanjr I'm curious about Thunderbolts because I watched the trailer, and the Russian accent of Alexei Shostakov by David Harbour was so atrocious it made me not want to watch the movie. So I guess my question is: Was I wrong? Final release better?

I didn't really have a problem with it. I think it helps that his character is an idiot and mostly exists as comic relief, it would probably be much more unbearable if he was a serious character.

 

[Frindis]

I didn't really have a problem with it. I think it helps that his character is an idiot and mostly exists as comic relief, it would probably be much more unbearable if he was a serious character.

Gotcha, I'll give it a go tomorrow and see how it is

 

[Johnway]

I watched Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*, both from Marvel. The former is fairly forgettable, but the latter was pretty good. Still a pretty formulaic Marvel movie, but at least an enjoyable one.

Honestly though, I'm mostly keeping up with Marvel just because I've already seen so much of it. It's a bit of a sunk cost fallacy, but I'm hoping it'll eventually pay off.

Agreed, we're at the stage where marvel's standards are slipping backwards. you can sort of smell the desperate commercialism of the movies now. There have been more duffers then winners. Not seen any of the recent stuff, so who knows it might be good or satisfying. i mean i liked doctor strange in the multiverse of madness and would love to see a 3rd movie, but i hear from die hard fans of the character it was pretty weak.

But i think disney in general are in a bit of trouble in general as nothing seems to be sticking properly. Remaking classics with realism isn't exactly working out and old winners from Pixar aren't hitting the spot either.

 

[Pifanjr]

Agreed, we're at the stage where marvel's standards are slipping backwards. you can sort of smell the desperate commercialism of the movies now. There have been more duffers then winners. Not seen any of the recent stuff, so who knows it might be good or satisfying. i mean i liked doctor strange in the multiverse of madness and would love to see a 3rd movie, but i hear from die hard fans of the character it was pretty weak.

But i think disney in general are in a bit of trouble in general as nothing seems to be sticking properly. Remaking classics with realism isn't exactly working out and old winners from Pixar aren't hitting the spot either.

Disney is just pumping out a ton of content, some of it good, some of it profitable and a lot of it mediocre or just bad.

Personally, I think Andor is the last Disney creation I've seen that I consider to be actually good and something I'd recommend to other people.

 

[Frindis]

Just watched Starman (1984) and K-PAX (2001) for the second time around. Both movies are about an alien that comes to visit Earth, though K-PAX got some more layers to it around the question of whether it really was an alien visiting or not. It was an interesting revisit, especially since both movies have Jeff Bridges in them. In Starman he IS the alien who visits Earth and in K-PAX he is the shrink who tries to understand the "alien".

I think both movies do a bad job at portraying how outerworld beings show their superior intelligence. In Starman, Jeff Bridges plays an alien whose species has had countless trips to Earth, so you would think they would know A LOT about its culture. That is not the case at all and Bridges kind of comes out as a complete tool at times asking about trivial stuff while at the same time can talk about just how primitive we humans are.

In K-PAX, Kevin Spacey plays the alien character and does a more realistic job in terms of the being's intellectual capacity, but also here I find the character he plays a bit too earthy for my taste, in that he is your typical HERO candidate that can save almost everyone, and he loves to strut around showing it.

Most movies just can't do the job correctly of making a distinct difference between us and IT, and unfortunately, that often means you will see tons of human characteristics in the alien, which is dumb. It's obviously cheaper that way and less time on the drawing board, but it also takes away the unknown and makes them less interesting and intricate.

That said, both movies have some good sides, and I'd like to point out that Jeff Bridges does use a lot of interesting body movements in a way to make you believe he does not quite fit in the human vessel he is using to walk around. Karen Alen does a great job as the grieving widow, Jenny Hayden.

Bridges also does a good job as the psychiatrist in K-PAX and Kevin Spacey does your typical Spacey job as the alien, Prot. It is basically Kevin Spacey playing himself, but he gets to call himself an alien.

I give Starman a 6/10 and K-PAX a 6/10. Not the best, but far from the worst out there. Your typical Sunday hangover movies.