Maybe that's where lies the polarity in opinions for that movie!
What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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I guess some people want a full ground-up reboot, where everyone is introduced and explained, but that's what I liked about this one. We don't need to see baby Superman land in Kansas or show Bruce Wayne's parents getting killed again, it's been done and we've seen it so many times. There are so many better storylines so this one just gets right into it.
I think that attempting to frame or group the negative reviews as mainly being from those disappointed at the lack of a backstory is a bit off base. These reviewers just thought the film was plain old fashioned bad- corny jokes, weak acting, overindulgent, boring, and no real challenges for Superman. I will allow the reviews to speak for themselves, and it was because of the reviews like these that I saved my $15 and 2 hours of my life to be used on other endeavors. There was another review I read even worse than these two, which bashed the portrayal of Krypto among other things.
Review: Superman, more like super bad
Rating: 4/10 (Spoilers Ahead) In a world where superheroes completely saturate the movie industry, Superman does not carry the same weight and popularity it onc
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That's why I called it a guess. I would rather just watch movies then watch/read probably hours worth of other people's opinions of them, esp those around a comic book movie, but I can write you a proper review if you want to read that instead of spending $15.I think that attempting to frame or group the negative reviews as mainly being from those disappointed at the lack of a backstory is a bit off base. These reviewers just thought the film was plain old fashioned bad- corny jokes, weak acting, overindulgent, boring, and no real challenges for Superman. I will allow the reviews to speak for themselves, and it was because of the reviews like these that I saved my $15 and 2 hours of my life to be used on other endeavors. There was another review I read even worse than these two, which bashed the portrayal of Krypto among other things.
Review: Superman, more like super bad
Rating: 4/10 (Spoilers Ahead) In a world where superheroes completely saturate the movie industry, Superman does not carry the same weight and popularity it oncthebatt.com
I would like to read your "rebuttal" review to the 2 I posted above and tell me why I should invest $15 and more importantly 2 hours of my life, which I will never get back, on Superman 2025. I am still on the fence about it, although debating whether I should not first see the new Spike Lee movie which is a remake of the Kurosawa classic Highest 2 Lowest. I never felt like my money was wasted on a Spike Lee movie.
Generally, I am pretty open minded in trying movies, even when I suspect I will not like them. For example, last night I watched Emily The Criminal (2022) on Netflix. Based on descriptions of the movie I did not think I would like it and initially I passed, but after my sister told me she and my aunt liked the film, I decided to give the movie a chance. I liked it. It worked on a level I did not expect it to work at. I was expecting it to possibly glamourize criminal lifestyles but it did not do that at all. Instead, the main character of the film, saddled with student loan debt and unable to explain away some criminal convictions in job interviews, is forced into the criminal lifestyle as a means of getting out of the crushing debt. The film portrays her trying to make an honest living and failing miserably at it, and ultimately reallizing that the criminal lifestyle is her only way out of debt. It worked.
But with a Superman film, I need to be convinced that the main character embodies the values of Superman in the way he is going about his business in the film and that he picks his spots of going from C. Kent to Superman wisely and effectively.
Not sure I could change your mind about it, and that's what I was referring to initially. It's probably the most famous and done/redone superhero story so, by definition, everyone has an opinion already about how he should act in a movie, and that's before you account for fans predilection towards the previous iterations (and their actors/directors). Many people who loved the last Superman and Snyders' art style are by default going to have a tough time accepting a new one. I didn't read those 2 above so IDK what they're about but here's my 2-cent review nonetheless:
Superman is a story about a god that pretends to be human that we're somehow supposed to empathize with. Unlike the tales of Odin or Zeus, where their lust or greed or capriciousness reflects our humanity back at us, and makes them anti-heros (or even villians) we can't even do that with Superman. He's all-powerful AND all-good and that's all-boring, so instead filmmakers have had to either: Lean into his alter-ego, and the pitfalls of leading a double-life to protect family and friends, as the source of his humanity (IMO weak, but it might hit closer to home for some merbites living a double life lol); Submit him to equally powerful, world-breaking villians (IMO boring, bc there's no way to do this consistently without numbing the audience to the stakes); OR use a MacGuffin (IMO lame. And we call it Kryptonite? Come on). Every Superman movie has used all three, including this one, to make this singular god somehow relatable and they all kind of fail in that regard. This one is the only movie that says "we already know that you know" so we'll give him the friends/family to protect, insert the necessary super-villian, and add some kryptonite in there too BUT otherwise, let's just have some fun with it.
A dog, who is superpowered in the same manner as his owner (and cousin) but is also a piece-of-shit, comes to the rescue sometimes. Automaton robots programmed to keep a magical library and medical bay running in Antartica are irreverent and cheeky and fun. The villians are varied in skill and power and morality as are the heroes, who are sometimes dopey and vain and vengeful. The world, as occupied by metahumans, is in constant turmoil, as it obviously would be. Science is almost completely ignored for the magical and supernatural. Crazy shit happens and they don't bother to explain it, instead a guy who can become any material makes a jetpack out of his ass to save his similarly-afflicted son before the dimension they're in gets sucked into a black hole. A man with a T for a mask kicks a bunch of supersoldiers in the dick with his super spheres while another drops the embodiment of zionist Israel out of the sky and kills him dead. If that doesn't make you want to see it on a big screen, then I don't know what you're going to the movies for. It doesn't try and make Superman fit in OUR world, it brings YOU into THEIR world so you can watch how insane that would be.
You know, like a comic book would.
I'm a big Spike Lee fan too, but his remake of Oldboy wasn't so great. Although I'm hearing good things so far on Highest 2 Lowest. That, plus it's Spike Lee + Denzel. That's a double combo right there, as they're always great together (Malcolm X, He Got Game, Inside Man, etc.)!
As far as Superman is concerned, if you're into Superman it's a no-brainer. His values are the main subject of the movie (and what drives him when his Kryptonian ancestry comes into question). I think it's up there with the first Superman film (with Reeve) and Man of Steel (with Cavill), even though it's totally different from both.
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Man of Steel - Henry Cavil all the way.
2025 version like how Lex Luthor is portrayed as there are some Michael Rosenbaum elements. Didn’t like the Snyder version as Luthor was more Mark Zuckerberg. As for the rest of the movie? Meh. Can’t relate and forgettable. Right up there with the 2006 version.
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Margin Call.
Moneyball.
Back when movies had a script. I am not into baseball and I love Moneyball. Also read the book. Michael Lewis is a great storyteller. Margin Call is a very intelligent flick and if you catch the many subtleties you realize the brilliance. The mental math ability of the laid off risk manager is superb.
Moneyball.
Back when movies had a script. I am not into baseball and I love Moneyball. Also read the book. Michael Lewis is a great storyteller. Margin Call is a very intelligent flick and if you catch the many subtleties you realize the brilliance. The mental math ability of the laid off risk manager is superb.
Weapons (2025)
Saw it last night. Very well made & entertaining horror/mystery movie. It’s been very well received by moviegoers & critics alike. Stars Julia Garner, Josh Brolin & Amy Madigan. The movie begins with an entire class of children disappearing in the middle of the night when they each ran away from their homes. Except for one of the kids. Right away the townpeople start suspecting the teacher for the unexplained disappearance. Very good movie!
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Although it’s the same title as the original this is actually a sequel to the first three movies of that franchise. It’s a fairly good (but not great) slasher movie using the same formula as its counterparts where a group of prickly/bitchy young adults are terrorized by an unknown murdering psychopath after an incident that happened a year earlier causes the serial killer to avenge their innaction to save a young person involved in a car accident caused by members of the group. Nice seeing the likes of Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr & Sarah Michelle-Gellar make a brief return to the franchise they once appeared in. I’d recommend it to lovers of this movie franchise but be on alert that it’s basically the same old same old formula used in these types of movies. It will not win an Oscar.
I hate to break the news to you but the original movie didn't win nor was it nominated for an Oscar.
I'm pretty sure @Doc Holliday (and everyone else) knows that, lol.
The "I Know What You Did..." movies are definitely a step down from the Scream franchise. They're a bit dumb, but they're also fun.
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Final Destination Movie Franchise
Final Destination - 2000
Final Destination 2 - 2003
Final Destination 3 - 2006
Final Destination 4 - 2009
Final Destination 5 - 2011
Final Destination Bloodlines- 2025
YES, Binged all of these Horror Movies.
YES, I liked them!
Very high graphic body count!!!
Streamed these on HBO/MAX.
“Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes six films, ten novels, and two comic books.”
en.m.wikipedia.org
www.imdb.com
***NIGHTMARES***
Final Destination - 2000
Final Destination 2 - 2003
Final Destination 3 - 2006
Final Destination 4 - 2009
Final Destination 5 - 2011
Final Destination Bloodlines- 2025
YES, Binged all of these Horror Movies.
YES, I liked them!
Very high graphic body count!!!
Streamed these on HBO/MAX.
“Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes six films, ten novels, and two comic books.”
Final Destination - Wikipedia
Final Destination Movies
www.imdb.com
***NIGHTMARES***
Just crushing the Clive Barker huh? I love seeing references/homages to classic horror in newer movies like Cabin in the Woods or The Night House but my favourite Hellraiser-adjacent movie is Event Horizon.
Okay, I watch a lot of movies, but I don't really post any reviews here, because the title throws me off"
I have watched in past years all of the final destination movies and this one is the worst of the batch as far as acting goes. I love gore, blood and all and the suspense is always a bonus. But man, was the acting horrible in this one, the only one that could pass as acting was Eric, he made the movie bearable and don't get me started on Stephanie's father, he was the worst of the cast, all of the 4 word lines that they gave him, terrible. Where did they dig these people up. If I wasn't a fan of gore and the past final destination movies, I would of shut it off after the first set of gore sequences and it happened that shortly after that, when Stephany goes home, her father was introduced, boring.
Like I said, Eric, the cousin, but not really as we find out later, was the best of them as far as the acting goes, and he has been seen in other movies and tv shows. He made the movie tolerable.
And as far as the ending goes, well, lets just say, its not the final destinations final destination, there will be another, hopefully with some up and coming stars that can actually act, at least a little.
Thank you,
TJ
P.S. I'm not done, next review.
What is the best recent movie you’ve seen". And there's a lot of bad movies being made these days.
So as far as best goes, this will not be of this nature and I am speaking of Final Destination: Bloodlines.I have watched in past years all of the final destination movies and this one is the worst of the batch as far as acting goes. I love gore, blood and all and the suspense is always a bonus. But man, was the acting horrible in this one, the only one that could pass as acting was Eric, he made the movie bearable and don't get me started on Stephanie's father, he was the worst of the cast, all of the 4 word lines that they gave him, terrible. Where did they dig these people up. If I wasn't a fan of gore and the past final destination movies, I would of shut it off after the first set of gore sequences and it happened that shortly after that, when Stephany goes home, her father was introduced, boring.
Like I said, Eric, the cousin, but not really as we find out later, was the best of them as far as the acting goes, and he has been seen in other movies and tv shows. He made the movie tolerable.
And as far as the ending goes, well, lets just say, its not the final destinations final destination, there will be another, hopefully with some up and coming stars that can actually act, at least a little.
Thank you,
TJ
P.S. I'm not done, next review.
Okay, I watched The Amateur recently, I liked the plot line, the action, mystery and Lawrence Fishburne, but I found it hard to relate with Rami Malek as Charles Heller playing a wanna be James bond. Okay I know he's not supposed to be a spy, but an analyst, and still, I wished they would of gotten almost anyone else for this role, I would of been happier with Garfield then Malek. I did like Malek in the last Bond movie as the villain and maybe even as Freddie mercury but he's just not an action guy. My opinion, I just don't see it. I did watch it twice, just to see if I would change my mind, but I didn't, but I do like Fishburne, he's always good for some fun and action type movies.
My take on The Amateur.
TJ
My take on The Amateur.
TJ
My opinion was the entire opposite: I thought Malik was great in The Amateur (but not so great as the villain in No Time to Die - seemed miscast). In general, he's a very good actor though (I'm a huge Mr. Robot fan).
As far as the movie goes, I liked it. It showed how his revenge comes at a cost (i.e. casualties caught in the crossfire, etc.). But I also remember the ending as a little far fetched.
I'd probably give it a 8/10.
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The Naked Gun (2025)
When i first that they’d be coming out with an updated version of this great movie franchise i felt that it wasn’t needed & when i later heard that it would star Liam Neeson i first thought it was a joke & that people were just speculating. However i was so wrong. THIS IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE I’VE SEEN IN YEARS! Liam Neeson is absolutely great in the role of Frank Drebin Jr. it also features a terrific Pamela Anderson as his love interest & Paul Walter Hauser as the main villain. This movie isn’t necessarily a remake but it’s more of a sequel to the Naked Gun franchise starring the late Leslie Nielsen. Great script, lots of laughs & a movie that i’ll likely end up watching again! I see a very successful new movie franchise in the near future! I rate it 4 out of 5 stars. I recommend!
Its really in the middle for me.
Its a decent movie in itself, but i felt like i was thrown into "Arrow" season 5 or lets say the MCU in Phase 3 or even 4. Like im suppose to know all these random C-list characters and they don't have much background, they just there... I know James Gunn like these types of characters, thats why he did both Guardians and Suicide Squad 2.0 but for a movie that is supose to (more or less) restart the DCU its a bid weird. Basically they "retcon" Peacemaker into this new DCU so i guess it mean S1 was canon and the SS 2.0 movie too, but outside of that its the "introduction" to this Superman, no Batman we seen yet, no Wonder Woman etc. Instead we get thrown into an universe with a bunch of wacky stuff and weird characters like a B-list Green Lantern lots of people don't know, Hawkeye that is just there without her background (or Hawkman) and then all these bad guys like the Engineer ... a line or 2 to introduce them and thats it. I dunno...
On its own i give the movie a 7 out of 10. Its fun and decent and all. I just wish it was an "elseworld story" and not the DCU for 10 years to come... because its kinda too goofy for me.
No its not needed for Superman or Batman, but if you gonna put some C-list characters in there like Mr Terrific, give them some original story... If it wasn't for watching Arrow, i would had no idea who was this guy and why he look so goofy
I seen this comparison done a few times and i so disagree. You could say this was done in Black Adam as well where a nation needed a hero because they had no mean to defense. Its just an old cliché. You could say its Russia and Ukraine too or whatever. Barovia or whatever its call is clearly not Israel, even if you want it to be. The only small portion it may share is that its "aligned" with the USA. But the rest... it has all the look of a country like Syria, Bellarus or North Korea.
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