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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

make 100 of anything, make a hundred blenders a hundred cars or a hundred bottles of hooch - there's gonna be good ones, bad ones, mediocre ones, a whole range.

you can see this in star trek, star wars, marvel, etc.

funny enough, you don't see it in the DCU....because aquaman is a high point over there. blech

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Re: DCU, THE Suicide Squad is quite enjoyable. The series Peacemaker that is a spin-off of it is also good. THE Batman is good, and the Penguin series is good.

But ya, they have some huge stinkers. I basically just assume a DCU product is going to be garbage. I can't believe they still let Zack Snyder make movies.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

The Batman and Penguin are DC but not DCU. The Suicude Squad and Peacemaker are both made by Gunn - they're kind of the unofficial start of a new era. The Zack Snyder days is the DCU we're criticizing. It seems with Gunn things are getting better.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Creature Commandos was surprisingly good as well.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hadn't even heard of that, I'll add it to the list. Thanks!

Animated series on Max that dropped a few weeks ago. It's the first release of James Gunn's DC universe.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

valid points.

I don't think anyone can make a lot of any product and have uniform perfection, it just doesn't work that way.

[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

they never deserved a B

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Well obviously cinemascore is just racist.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's a new captain America?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Yeah, you gotta feel kinda bad for Anthony Mackie. Poor guy really getting shafted because the writers can't do anything decent with the MCU properties anymore.

IDK if people just watched Endgame and Falcon & The Winter Soldier, they wouldn't be surprised that Sam is Captain America

[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

he's in marvel movies there's only so bad I can feel for the guy

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I mean, sure, he's getting real paid, but being stuck in the contract means he can't choose to be in better films that might get him more well known as a serious, good actor.

Instead, he may just languish in relative obscurity because while he's been in great stuff prior to the MCU, the MCU has taken a lot of his time away from more quality projects.

He's a good actor, and on some level I'm sure he'd appreciate being known for his talents and not known for being a forgettable MCU star because the writing was so bad, no matter how much money he makes.

But who knows maybe he's happy with the money and doesn't give a shit if people think he's good at his job or not.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

He's been doing some interesting low budget stuff on the side. Synchronic, Io, a bunch of others I haven't seen.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

twisted metal was really good, season 2 this summer, no game tho think it got cancelled

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Holy moly, somehow this one slipped under my radar. I'm gonna check it out later, thanks!

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its got rosa from brooklyn 99, they both are like the opposite of typecast for this

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

...also Will Arnett and Thomas Haden Church. What I've watched was pretty fun so far. Honestly surprising for how bad the story was in the original Twisted Metal.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Tbf, The Falcon series was pretty good and touched on some subject material that's otherwise almost completely absent in mass media.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s how I felt seeing him in altered carbon s2. I know he got a lot of hate for being in season 2 but I don’t think he was necessarily the problem in it.

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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes and he can fly, he can fight, and he can crow.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Im gonna wait and see for myself, the internet has been shitting on marvel movies regularly since Endgame came out.

People have been shitting on superhero movies ever since Green Lantern came out, regardless of who made them.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I saw it and posted my thoughts in the discussion thread, but if you want, you can see it for yourself and form your own opinion.

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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'd feel bad for Anthony Mackie that he's inherited an almost thankless task, I say almost, because except for the millions he's making playing a character in major motion pictures should calm his furrowed brow considerably

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[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

People still watch the marvel movie?

[–] simple@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Lower interest than the marvels? I doubt it.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

The Marvels had a target audience that didn't watch the movie, and a "wrong" audience that watched it and didn't like it.

This movie seems to have no hype at all in no audience group.

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I just have never been impressed with Anthony Mackie. He’s always kind of been a mediocre actor which is fine if you’re in a side character role, but he doesn’t stand up to playing the star character. I’m convinced his performance in the second season of Altered Carbon is why it got cancelled, because that first season was some excellent sci-fi and the lead in that season was good and most importantly convincing. Mackie fell flat.

So him suddenly being the new captain America is…lol. What did marvel think was going to happen here. It’s like that second black panther movie where that antivax lady became the star character. Thrust into the lead role and the movie fell apart.

Anything with Mackie in it will suffer the same fate. I hope this proves me wrong though

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