[Dr Kain]

Naked Gun - I have never seen this movie before but it was pretty funny and enjoyable. There are a few jokes that went over my head (such as the people introduced to be doing commentary for the baseball game), but the movie was hilarious. I'd say it is on equal footing to Airplane. I think my favorite joke in the movie is after he burned the dude's place down and the girl asks him if he has scene the priceless art collection. Overall, I give it a 7/10.

[thunderstrike541]

I just got back from seeing The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Unfortunately, my brain is not functioning properly at the moment, so I will just say one thing to express how I felt about the movie:

Oh my god that was amazinogkksdvibiuwhgsjkhbreighoi *dies*


On another note, I am preparing to marathon through all the X-Men movies in about 2 - 3 weeks to prepare for X-Men Days of Future Past. Basically, my marathon will consist of:
X-Men (The Movie)
X2: X-Men United
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (oh god help me.....)
X-Men: First Class
The Wolverine
X-Men: The Animated Series
Wolverine & The X-Men

[Powerman293]

Amazing Spider Man 2

I liked this movie. Granted, there was a fair amount of dumb shit in it to not be magnificent (this movie has ruined the word amazing for me due to the amount of times its dropped, so I'm using different adjectives instead) but I liked it. The movie didn't feel too crammed, but I felt like it could have reorganized things and made better use of its time. This movie seems to be a big fan of Kamen Rider Faiz as it has a lot of similar tropes to that series. An insane amount of coincidences are needed to get the plot to function, the corporation is evil through and through and behind everything and huge flaws in a lot of the characters. If you're a huge Spider-man fan, you'll get a lot of cool shout outs from Spider-man lore, from names to tech.

Garfield as Peter is as funny as ever. But he has just enough creepy in him to make him not look completely pure. I also liked how Aunt May was flawed. I feel like a lot of Spiderman lore glorifies her alot as perfect, so its nice to know that she can be as secretive and flawed as Peter.

Electro is fantastic. His look is super unique and I love his character arc, his obsession, his desire to be seen, his egocentric view and mission to kill Spiderman and his death was all so well done. Go watch it for yourself.

Harry Osborn was a pretty cool character but he has bullshit plot sickness. You see Norman die in Harry's introduction dying from the disease. Harry says he's dying from the same disease his father is but they never explain if he's going to die immediately or a long time away like his dad. His transformation from Peter's friend into his enemy was great as well.

But Green Goblin. When I saw him for the first time, I literally laughed out loud in the theater. He looked so fucking stupid. He wasn't full on mutant like Norman in the Ultimate universe, armored badass like New Goblin in Spiderman 3, nor was he a completed cartoon golin character like in the comics or the original Spiderman movie. He's this awkward middle of all 3 with his disgusting mutated pours and hair. I like his fight scene but I think he should have had one more fight, his Green Goblin transformation felt sort of rushed. He's well integrated into the plot, don't get me wrong. But Green Goblin was not.

While the movie was dragging out the suspense of Gwen's death and everybody knew they were going to do it, it still felt somber and respectful when it happened, except for that slow motion fucking web hand.

The Rhino felt badly placed. The impression I got from the trailers was that he was going to man on man fight Spidey and then get in his Power suit. But he shows up at the end as the super forced introduction to Oscorp's Sinister Six.

[Dr Kain]

Green Goblin is one of the worst parts of the movie. There was no reason for him to exist, especially with how hideous they made him look. It made me miss the Raimi costume and that should not be possible.

[Locke]

Amazing Spider-Man 2's emotional impact made the film stick with me much longer than other favourites of the year like Winter Soldier and the Robocop remake.

Maybe it's callous, but killing off a major character we actually care about and sticking with that decision is probably one of the most important events since the superhero boom. Especially considering Marvel Studios is already starting to stagnate in the comics logic of "the only returning characters are the ones who died".

Shame this is the same year as we got Her, I don't think a film will top that one for me this year.

[Dr Kain]

It depends. I am a Gwen Stacy fan and I hate MJ to death. I think killing Gwen off in the comics was lousy and almost as bad as One More Day. The only thing that saves it is Marvel did not retcon everything back then. Thankfully JMS gave us a great apology about ten years ago for Marvel cranking up the stupid back then.

As such, killing her off in the movie rages my fire because it is absolutely unacceptable!

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

It depends. I am a Gwen Stacy fan and I hate MJ to death. I think killing Gwen off in the comics was lousy and almost as bad as One More Day. The only thing that saves it is Marvel did not retcon everything back then. Thankfully JMS gave us a great apology about ten years ago for Marvel cranking up the stupid back then.

As such, killing her off in the movie rages my fire because it is absolutely unacceptable!

But the fact you're having a strong reaction is kinda the whole point I'm trying to make. So much of The Winter Soldier was - in my books at least - forgettable even if it was a great movie. I can still remember Amazing Spider-Man so clearly because it did elicit such a strong emotional reaction from me and not in another eye rollingly Marvel Studios way of undermining and undoing something bold a few scenes later for fear of altering the status quo they've established.

Maybe it isn't fair to call Amazing Spider-Man 2 "good" because of one water cooler moment decision, but the fact that ASM2 proved that it was willing to take HUGE risks gives the franchise going forwards an edge. Whether they'll capitalise on that edge or not going forwards is unknowable at this point, but it gets me excited for ASM3 in a way I'm just not for Captain America Three this one will really be about the Winter Soldier.

[Dr Kain]

I really didn't see it as a risk, I saw it as predictable and boring. Not to mention they threw three movie plots into this one movie.

The Winter Soldier left a lasting impact. How far is your government willing to go for security?

Touch of Evil - I'm kind of in a Film Noir mood, so I picked this movie up yesterday and we watched the Reconstructed Cut (the one that is supposed to be the closest to what Welles wanted) and it was an incredible movie. The acting was great and the story was very interesting. However, my god, the use of shadows and cinematography in this movie were nothing short of top notch. That was some of the most stand out work I have ever seen. This movie was brilliant. I give it a nice 8/10 stars.

[Locke]

How is it either of those things? Marvel Movies have not killed a single major, important character and sure we all know it happens in the comics with Gwen but me and my finds collectively held our breaths as we weren't sure if the movie really had the balls to do it on screen also. But I had no moments like that in Winter Soldier.

[Dr Kain]

Because they killed her in the comics, so it was only obvious they were going to kill her in the movie, which was utterly annoying. Now they are going to replace her with MJ, which is also blandly predictable. I hate MJ with a passion as well.