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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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- What Disney has done overall for Marvel is way beyond what anyone could have expected. That said, with a 10 year build-up for the Infinity saga and doing that so well, everyone after seems like an epilogue. Don't get me wrong, I'll still watch all of the new movies for at least a decade or so, they got the previous decade so right they've earned a little runway. Not that I'm rushing to theaters, mind you, this is watching on planes or when I have some spare time to get into a movie. And the TV shows are pretty good, but again I'm watching those on a bit of a delay when I feel like it, so maybe going in with less urgent expectations helps. I agree it would have made sense to maybe start from scratch with newer characters for the next saga, the characters left over from the last one can be anti-climactic, especially Thor 4.
- Star Wars, after the original trilogy, is best with as few characters from the original trilogy as possible. In other words, Rogue One and Mandalorian. For some reason, both of those just worked. I think remembering also that Star Wars is no sci-fi, but rather a space western with wizards, is when it is at its best. Mandalorian is so very blatantly a western in space, trying to hide it even less than the original movie, but hey it works.
- I guess I would have to say the prequels were worse than the postquels, but it's like choosing lethal injection over the chair. The prequels ultimately knew what they wanted to do, with the old republic, the clone wars, and Anakin turning into Vader. But they just did ever bit of it so so horribly. The characters, the acting, the bad dialogue, the over-use of CGI, they just did it all so incredibly bad. Even III, being better than I or II, which isn't saying much, is still pretty rough to sit through in retrospect. In VII through IX, I actually liked the new characters at first, especially in VII, but they want further away from them as time went on to bring in people from the original trilogy, it felt like. So maybe the characters, acting, and dialogue were better in the postquels, but they had no fucking idea where they were going with it. Each movie completely threw away whatever the previous had built; they should have decided on one overarching plot and followed it through all three movies; it wouldn't have been perfect, but there would have been a goddam point to it all. And then there's "apparently Palpatine returned with 8 billion ships" in IX which I don't even know what that was; seriously, with all of the time and money at stake they couldn't sit down before they started all three movies and figure out some semblance of a purpose?
 
I don't know why but the Marvel films post (Infinity War?) have lost my interest outside the last Spidey. I'll watch the next Guardians in the theater but nothing else on the docket has me more than barely interested. Maybe they'll find their next Daniel Craig resurrecting bond era.
 
I feel like I’m not missing out much on having zero interest in superhero or marvel crap

only one that looked remotely interesting to me was a whatever Oscar Isaac did fairly recently- can’t remember the name
 
Oscar Isaac is in everything so that doesn't help ;^)

And Rogue One is half a good film. (because much like Solo Di$ney screwed with it and forced changes) The ending is pure trash. Seeing my buddy fall asleep during it though was highly entertaining.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I feel like I’m not missing out much on having zero interest in superhero or marvel crap

only one that looked remotely interesting to me was a whatever Oscar Isaac did fairly recently- can’t remember the name
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Moon Knight, that was Oscar Isaac’s show. And it was so far removed from everything else Marvel that it may as well had any other banner title to it for all it mattered. And it was really well done.
 
St. Clown said:
Moon Knight, that was Oscar Isaac’s show. And it was so far removed from everything else Marvel that it may as well had any other banner title to it for all it mattered. And it was really well done.
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Yes, but, that's comic books. We have turned the movies into actual comic books now and I love it. I love it all disjointed and chaotic. That's the way it is.
 
Slap Shot said:
I don't know why but the Marvel films post (Infinity War?) have lost my interest outside the last Spidey. I'll watch the next Guardians in the theater but nothing else on the docket has me more than barely interested. Maybe they'll find their next Daniel Craig resurrecting bond era.
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Give it 10-15 years and reboot the whole thing while including the X-Men this time.
 
Is there no love around here for "What We Do In The Shadows" or did I just miss the posts? It's currently the only active on-air show that I will watch routinely.

Similar to Monty Python, The Three Stooges, Letterkenny, Napoleon Dynamite, and a few others, I put this show in a category of either you can't see what's funny about it or you think it's absolutely hilarious. Nothing in-between. My wife is in the former and I'm in the later.
 
I saw the movie...I found it like most things Taika Waitti does...funny for parts of it then just way too much of the joke so it loses its potency. Never felt the need to watch a show based on it.
 
It's tiresome. There's no mystery about what funny's about it, but it's just not very good at being funny. The movie was the same way.
 
Handyman said:
I saw the movie...I found it like most things Taika Waitti does...funny for parts of it then just way too much of the joke so it loses its potency. Never felt the need to watch a show based on it.
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I watched the movie after seeing the show. Movie was meh at best. Not even close to the show.

Show is worth watching for Matt Berry alone.
 
Moon Knight was terrible. First of all Ethan Hawke sucks so hard it makes my balls hurt. I can't stand that pretentious self-indulgent douchebag. Secondly the story telling was completely whack, and the editing was some of the worst I've ever seen.
 
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