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mcgoughchris said:
marc said:
I'm just finding it really boring tbh.
Put it this way I'm posting with the film on that's how bored I am.
Ah right ha ha
Not for everyone then I guess. I saw it at the cinema and absolutely loved it but I'm a massive fan of the marvel franchise as a whole
On a film by film basis, I find them hit and miss. I've never rated the Iron Man films (the first was great at the cinema, but I found it tedious on second watching, two and three I found just a bit crap), The Avengers was "okay", I liked the two Thor films and found the Captain Americas good action flicks too.
I really enjoyed GotG at the cinema though. It's just a no-brains action film with some decent humour to break it up.
My problem though is that because they're all action, every film then has to out-do the previous ones in terms of how big and ridiculous the fights have to be. If they don't, then the films get labelled as being slow and dull. They're essentially painting themselves into a corner. That's why I prefer some of them where the characters have a bit more to them (Loki in Thor for example I think is superb).
For me though, it's not about the individual films, it's about the way they're all linked together in a fantastic, massive, plan. Agents of Shield tends to be mostly poor, but as part of the whole thing it adds in a vital element. I think it's very clever, very brave and very compelling. If you look at the thing as a book and each film/series is a chapter then it's great as a whole, even though some chapters may be worse than others.
When you then compare it to the DC world - who are now trying the same thing - it's sparkling. I find that on a film by film-series by series view that I enjoy them more. They're generally insular though. I enjoy Arrow (and The Flash is okay), but they're the only two that link. The new DC films will ignore the series. Gotham is great, but it's never going to become part of the new DC film canon. Okay, the films are going to link, but I don't get the feeling it's going to be quite to the same epic scale Marvel are working on. We'll see I guess...
Anyway, I watched the most depressing, bleak film ever last night
The Rover. It's a guy (literally a Guy
) who has his car stolen in a post economic crash Australia. He then goes across the deserts of an Australia where society has broken down to get his car back.
It's very slow (but not quite good enough in terms of cinematography to justify it and it's not clever like No Country For Old Men), then it just gets gradually bleaker and bleaker as "stuff happens".
It never really gets exciting, but there are some great tense moments. I'm glad people are making films that are away from the norm, it's just a shame that in this case it falls a little bit short. Worth a watch if you ever want to despair for humanity! 7/10