verslibre wrote:Except by consensus Watchmen is anything but mediocre, especially the Director's Cut.
Bullshit.
Rotten Tomatoes' critic's score is 65%. Even the fan score is only 71.
IMDB scores it at 7.6
You can't get much more mediocre than that. And, I have absolutely no interest in watching the directors cut.
Maybe for comic book fans it is "anything but mediocre" but for a general audience, it is boring. Most of the movie is dialogue. There is hardly any action at all. The mystery of "who is killing the heroes" becomes irrelevant because you just stop caring. The only thing I remember about that movie is the giant blue guy moving to Mars. The movie is EXTREMELY boring, just like Eternals.
Also, the few defenders Eternals has praise it for being almost indistinguishable from other MCU movies, save the fleeting references that connect it.
I really don't care. Eternals sucks.
Monker wrote:It was refused by LucasFilm...and it is obvious why. The story SUCKS.,
And you're fully entitled to hold that opinion, but keep in mind the second film, The Scar Giver, is supposed to be significantly better.
Hardly anybody disagrees. Rebel Moon may be the worst movie on Netflix. Funny...the first movie was supposed to take on Star Wars and be the start of a new franchise. Now the second movie is just supposed to be "significantly better". And, if that fails, it will be the R rated directors cuts that will make up for everything.
Tell me you haven't watched Eternals without telling me. Bland performances, mystifying plot points, liberal borrowings from films of another franchise, the absence of any semblances of physical laws, and a stupid twist thrown in because the story's too predictable, with nary an explanation as to the title characters' goings-on while Thanos' armies were doing their taps on the face of the Earth. They must've been moonlighting for Door Dash.
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Yep, I don't disagree. But, at least it has a story that somewhat makes sense. Rebel Moon has a story of Seven Samaria in space, and it makes absolutely NO SENSE AT ALL. So, Snyder's Rebel Moon is WORSE than Eternals. It has all of the above flaws, and more.
I haven't seen a big budget film that bad in a while.
Then you either have not seen Rebel Moon or are just too much of a Snyder fanboy to admit how bad it actually is.
It's past time to get Feige out of there. He'll just green-light projects to keep his job, to hell with continuity.
I don't think so. He has his job because even the worst of the MCU movies still made money...The only recent Marvel movie that did not make money was "The Marvels"...prior to that, you have to go all the way back to "The Incredible Hulk". Marvel is also pivoting to X-Men and Fantastic 4. "Deadpool and Wolverine" will be the turning point to a new direction.
Marvel had a few issues. There was the pandemic and then the strikes that pushed everything back and forced things to go out of order. They also stretched things thin with so many Disney+ shows. Feige could not oversee EVERYTHING and mediocre movies and shows were released when common sense would send them back for reshoots and/or delay the release...or cancel them. For example, I can't believe Feige saw screaming goats and decided to leave it in, or the ridiculous MODOK, or the entire Secret Invasion series. The Marvels had WAY too high of a budget and should have been canceled. I would have rather seen a true origin story for Rogue for the next Captain Marvel movie....but, whatever.
And, again, if you want to see how to start a franchise to rival Star Wars, watch Dune....not Rebel Moon.