movies

[lukethedrifter]

are you guys forgetting about Chaplin?

[cardsfantx]

Kiss kiss, bang bang was great by rdj....but I like superhero movies, so [expletive] me.


And I'd keep doing iron man for as long as they let me....pay me 50 million a movie? Yes please, I'll do like 10.

[ghostrunner]

are you guys forgetting about Chaplin?

No.

EDIT - I'll elaborate. 90% of biopics are dull, and that one was no exception. He's okay in it.

[Popeye_Card]

The Avengers is probably the best executed non Batman movie of the bunch and yet I didn't like it on any level. Those movies have become so repetitive and predictable that I can't enjoy them anymore.

This is pretty much the problem. There are diminishing returns at a certain point. You can only destroy a big city and save it so many times. Avengers only succeeds because of Whedon's dialogue, Robert Downey Jr, and the Hulk.

Though I don't think it's so different from the hundred or so Westerns released during the 50s and 60s on movies and TV. The bulk of those were forgettable and and you have about 10-20 that stand the test of time.

I'd venture to say that without Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man, the Avenger movies probably would have all been misses.

[JL21]

I'm kind of sick of indies, or at least the way they're marketed.

Take all of the most clichéd parts of Noah Baumbauch and Wes Anderson and Garden State and [expletive] like that... condense it down into an obnoxious hipstery paste for 90 seconds, and you've got every indie movie trailer.

[Fat_Bulldog]

You guys should see Juno.

[The Third Man]

Juno rules and Young Adult is even better and Diablo Cody is great aside from a couple of unfortunate catchphrasey lines that have obnoxiously defined her reputation ever since and if you disagree I will fight you to the death.

[JackofDiamonds]

SPRINGBREAAAAAAAK

[ghostrunner]

Juno rules and Young Adult is even better and Diablo Cody is great aside from a couple of unfortunate catchphrasey lines that have obnoxiously defined her reputation ever since and if you disagree I will fight you to the death.

Mostly it was whiney white dudes who were pissed off that she lapped them and didn't "pay her dues." The former stripper thing got played up to an annoying extent but I don't think you can blame her for that, or for taking advantage of it.

[The Third Man]

Also, the best superhero movie of the last few years (since at least The Dark Knight) is easily Dredd.