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[Eddie Brock]

Marvel tickled my balls with that dope 60s theme remix over the opening credits, but then they chickened out and did an original theme for Homecoming. (Which I like well enough, but c'mon... Just do the real thing.)

[Sep]

Marvel tickled my balls with that dope 60s theme remix over the opening credits, but then they chickened out and did an original theme for Homecoming. (Which I like well enough, but c'mon... Just do the real thing.)

@Eddie Brock

I just think that their scores aren't that big, and they seem to hide them in the background. There's only one that's really known and it's the Avengers fanfare that they use for freaking anything. I really wish they had established pretty early on their own kind of sound for every hero, that woulda been great.

Also you may like This then Eddie It's mixed a little of the two versions.

[Supermaxx]

I liked the Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Terrible, awful, good-for-nothing film, sure. But I had fun watching it and Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield have a ton of chemistry together, in my opinion. Electro was a campy villain with a fuckin' lit as hell soundtrack and visually pleasing powers. Goblin and Rhino were hilarious, even if the former wasn't meant to be, and Harry's character was dramatically compelling up until he turned into an evil troll doll.

EDIT: Hans Zimmerman can do no wrong.

[Sep]

Emma Stone will always be mine my Gwen Stacy.

_{And one of my few celebrity crushes.}

[mickilennial]

I will always love Blankman, though I know its now seen as a cult classic. Does that count? If it doesn't how about Meteor Man?

[Sep]

I will always love Blankman, though I know its now seen as a cult classic. Does that count? If it doesn't how about Meteor Man?

@Inkarnate

Literally never heard of either of these.

[mickilennial]

[HenryJonesJr]

I think Age of Ultron is waaaaay better than Avengers. That’s my super hero movie hot take

[AndyC]

*looks around nervously*

Nothin' to see here. I certainly don't have any unpopular opinions or hot takes when it comes to superhero movies. No sireee......

[Eddie Brock]

I think Age of Ultron is waaaaay better than Avengers. That’s my super hero movie hot take

@HenryJonesJr

*low whistle*

This take is so spicy that my shits are gonna hurt for a week.

But I also fucking love AoU and can't stand the general consensus against it. I lived through the "What were you expecting, yellow spandex?" days, so I won't apologize for getting hype about watching the Avengers fighting an army of killer robots on a floating city that's been turned into an asteroid! That's comics af.

[HenryJonesJr]

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*low whistle*

This take is so spicy that my shits are gonna hurt for a week.

But I also fucking love AoU and can't stand the general consensus against it. I lived through the "What were you expecting, yellow spandex?" days, so I won't apologize for getting hype about watching the Avengers fighting an army of killer robots on a floating city that's been turned into an asteroid! That's comics af.

@Eddie Brock

I just think the movie takes a step up cinematically all around. I love the Avengers, but it looks like a TV movie at times. Granted that’s a negative I ha e about Phase 1 MCU in general.

[mickilennial]

@Master Bruce Alright, I did some real grown up™ shit and late game clutched my finances. My power will not go out on the 24th and I should be able to finish up some post ideas when I get home. No promises on this means I'll post a RP post tonight, but you know me well enough to know I don't want to disappoint anyone here.

[Master Bruce]

As a more controversial conversation topic. We all know there have been some, questionably bad Superhero Films.

Of these films typically regarded to be bad, awful or 'eyeballs burning' bad, which is your favourite and why?

@Sep

Batman Forever.

Even though logistically I'm supposed to despise the Schumacher era with every fiber of my being for how tone-deaf (not to mention tone-confused) they were, Forever holds a special place with me for a great multitude of reasons. For one, it's the first Batman film I have actual memories of seeing in theaters (I was five), so there are good memories there. And to the film's credit, I think whenever it actually chooses to focus on the more serious aspects of the mythos, it does a damn fine job of capturing Bruce Wayne's crisis of duality. Val Kilmer is vastly underrated in the role, being one of the few to pull off a good Bruce Wayne and Batman, and the Chase Meridian love subplot actually serves a purpose. And I genuinely didn't hate Chris O' Donnell as Robin for what it was, which was a mid-90's reinvention of the character. And The Batmobile was pretty cool.

Now granted, I can't defend the villains, even with the caveat that Carrey was doing his take on Frank Gorshin. I don't particularly like Elliot Goldenthal's score, there are undeniably cringe-worthy lines, and the nipples on the suits... are indefensibly dumb. I know Schumacher added them to mimick Roman Gladiator armor, but good lord.

But I honestly love the movie on the merits of it's strengths.

[Master Bruce]

(I too love The Phantom and Blankman is my absolute jam.)

[mickilennial]

Batman Forever.

Even though logistically I'm supposed to despise the Schumacher era with every fiber of my being for how tone-deaf (not to mention tone-confused) they were, Forever holds a special place with me for a great multitude of reasons. For one, it's the first Batman film I have actual memories of seeing in theaters (I was five), so there are good memories there. And to the film's credit, I think whenever it actually chooses to focus on the more serious aspects of the mythos, it does a damn fine job of capturing Bruce Wayne's crisis of duality. Val Kilmer is vastly underrated in the role, being one of the few to pull off a good Bruce Wayne and Batman, and the Chase Meridian love subplot actually serves a purpose. And I genuinely didn't hate Chris O' Donnell as Robin for what it was, which was a mid-90's reinvention of the character. And The Batmobile was pretty cool.

Now granted, I can't defend the villains, even with the caveat that Carrey was doing his take on Frank Gorshin. I don't particularly like Elliot Goldenthal's score, there are undeniably cringe-worthy lines, and the nipples on the suits... are indefensibly dumb. I know Schumacher added them to mimick Roman Gladiator armor, but good lord.

But I honestly love the movie on the merits of it's strengths.

@Master Bruce

I had the toy mansion set.

[Eddie Brock]

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I just think the movie takes a step up cinematically all around. I love the Avengers, but it looks like a TV movie at times. Granted that’s a negative I ha e about Phase 1 MCU in general.

@HenryJonesJr

Yeah... cinematography's never been Marvel's strong suit, and Avengers is particularly flat. Plus, that middle act is a real slog on repeat viewings; you're like, "Can we just blow up the Helicarrier already?"

[mickilennial]

Yeah... cinematography's never been Marvel's strong suit, and Avengers is particularly flat. Plus, that middle act is a real slog on repeat viewings; you're like, "Can we just blow up the Helicarrier already?"

@Eddie Brock

I think the first MCU film I liked for its cinematography was either Black Panther of Thor: Ragnarok.

[AndyC]

I liked the Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Terrible, awful, good-for-nothing film, sure. But I had fun watching it and Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield have a ton of chemistry together, in my opinion. Electro was a campy villain with a fuckin' lit as hell soundtrack and visually pleasing powers. Goblin and Rhino were hilarious, even if the former wasn't meant to be, and Harry's character was dramatically compelling up until he turned into an evil troll doll.

EDIT: Hans Zimmerman can do no wrong.

@Superboy

While they were far from perfect and very clearly suffered from executive meddling, I really liked the Amazing movies. Like you said, Garfield and Stone played off each other really well, a lot of the action was fantastic, and that ASM2 suit was far and away the best Spider-Man costume put to film so far. There was a lot that really should have been cut out (all that conspiracy stuff about Pete's dad and all the sequel-baiting), but underneath the bloat and the tacked-on final battle, there's some really great character work to be found between the three leads.

[mickilennial]

While they were far from perfect and very clearly suffered from executive meddling, I really liked the Amazing movies. Like you said, Garfield and Stone played off each other really well, a lot of the action was fantastic, and that ASM2 suit was far and away the best Spider-Man costume put to film so far. There was a lot that really should have been cut out (all that conspiracy stuff about Pete's dad and all the sequel-baiting), but underneath the bloat and the tacked-on final battle, there's some really great character work to be found between the three leads.

@AndyC

How do you feel they would've handled involving Garfield-Spidey into the MCU had he been asked to stay on (or I should say didn't piss off the Sony Executive at that one party)? How would it have differently influenced Civil War, Infinity War, and so forth?

[AndyC]

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How do you feel they would've handled involving Garfield-Spidey into the MCU had he been asked to stay on (or I should say didn't piss off the Sony Executive at that one party)? How would it have differently influenced Civil War, Infinity War, and so forth?

@Inkarnate

TBH, I don't see how it would have fit into the MCU without them pulling a Ragnarok and just throwing all of the previously established stuff into the bin. The Amazing movies leaned a lot more heavily on drama and relationship stuff, which doesn't really gel with the MCU's more jokey "hey, this stuff is cool, but only dorks and try-hards would take it seriously" mentality. If they did keep that version of Spider-Man, though, I would have liked to have seen him be less Iron Man Jr. and more a bridge between the Avengers and the Defenders, have Daredevil and company show up instead of Tony Stark swooping in pretending to be his new dad.