Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]
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Kromanjon
Adventurer
I found it pretty dull for the most part and then it just ended. I feels like the MCU movies have gotten a bit too comfortable holding off on the major climaxes and pushing them into later movies.
Ulorian - Agent of Chaos
Legend
Yet Thunderbolts was incredible.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
I don't even mind the ending, really. I get the concept and I like how they tried not to just resolve it with a CGI punch-up.
Thunderbolts was quite good, yeah. It helps that they had some time invested in establishing several of the characters beforehand.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
The movies have been doing the summer crossover logic from the comic books for awhile now. Once that started I checked out. Hated it in the comics and hate it here.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Yeah it's a very disappointing film. The writing comes alive briefly a handful of times in the movie, but for the most part it was turgid and clunky. And god so many of the fight scenes and action scenes were utterly terrible, like badly edited, looked fake as hell even by superhero movie standards (which is a product of a lot of factors, but in the end usually comes down to directing, editing, and sound design) and just drained energy out of the film. I've seen Mackie do better fight scenes in Netflix B-movies so I know it's not on him. The only even decent action scene was the aerial combat one, which wasn't perfect but it was fine. The vs. Red Hulk one was also less bad than the rest, but still not good (also hilariously anime-esque in that this giant point-blank partially-inside-the-body explosion leaves everyone mildly battered but essentially unharmed) - very interesting that the two action scenes they got to kinda work were absolute CGI-fests - normally its the reverse.
(I did appreciate the "I shoulda taken the damn serum" line, which had "I'm getting too old for this" vibes)
payn
Glory to Marik
While I definitely prefer spy stories such as those by John LeCarre, Bond is just iconic. I always find the buzz of who is playing him, which musical act is making a theme, etc... more interesting than the movies even.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
Personally, I just want it over I think it is a dead franchise and should be finished, but my dad would kill me if he ever learn I think that.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Yeah, Bond is kind of his own animal.
When it comes to espionage stories, there are many, many others that are more interesting (starting with Slow Horses and the Mr. & Ms. Smith TV show), but sometimes, you just want someone skiing off a mountain and then sailing away on a Union Jack parachute.
I also love that he says that England needs him. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland presumably have their own super-spies who don't go in for shaken martinis.
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