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Post by schizo on Apr 3, 2019 13:04:49 GMT -5
"BAH! Can't even crack 2 Billion, I knew this was a failure"
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Post by Dub H on Apr 3, 2019 14:45:32 GMT -5
It is a good movie,but at this point this thread is more being Snarky and laughing it time it reaches a number than the movie itself I assumed it was decided these people are idiots pages ago.
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Post by chrom on Apr 3, 2019 15:48:15 GMT -5
Wonder Woman: I made over 820 million at The Box Office
Captain Marvel: That's cute
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Apr 3, 2019 16:32:07 GMT -5
It is a good movie,but at this point this thread is more being Snarky and laughing it time it reaches a number than the movie itself I assumed it was decided these people are idiots pages ago. All true, but I think it's just because discussion has now gone to Avengers Endgame, due to that film releasing in mere weeks.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 3, 2019 16:35:40 GMT -5
I'm baffled by a lot of these people who rant about this movie. My brother is actually one of them, refusing to even go see it at all, though I think he's just sick of the Marvel movies in general. So I saw it yesterday and it was....a decent movie. Probably a nice *** affair. Nothing life changing. Nothing worth getting into angry fanboy mode about. I have noticed one dilemma when movies or shows go back to the 1990s. Namely there isn't really much period flair to it. Is throwing a Blockbuster and Radio Shack into a movie really a big nostalgia deal? Both were actual places until the past decade or so. Carol's whole semi grunge look with the torn jeans, plaid shirt tied around her waist, and NIN shirt isn't particularly different from a random Hot Topic teen now. I could go to Bardstown Road today and probably see someone that is dressed like that. I guess the dawn of internet crappy connectivity and pager stuff was a little amusing. While Blockbuster and Radio Shack existed until more recently. They weren't really things since the 90s. Blockbuster was huge in the 90s but in the 00s+ they were antiquated by Netflix and their stubbornness to not change until it was too late. Radio Shacks last big attempts to rebrand itself was based entirely on 80s and 90s nostalgia to show they werent old and outdated any more. Both of their heydays were firmly behind them which is why they are mostly gone. Carol's human outfit is also 100% 90s hell it's almost a WCW Raven cosplay. The tied flannel especially hasnt really been popular since the grunge age. Sure some people still do it but it was EVERYWHERE in the 90s. An Internet cafe with beige desktop computers, and a pay phone, were also plot points of the movie... both are also super 90s.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Apr 3, 2019 16:44:26 GMT -5
The music was the most 90s part.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 3, 2019 16:47:16 GMT -5
I'm baffled by a lot of these people who rant about this movie. My brother is actually one of them, refusing to even go see it at all, though I think he's just sick of the Marvel movies in general. So I saw it yesterday and it was....a decent movie. Probably a nice *** affair. Nothing life changing. Nothing worth getting into angry fanboy mode about. I have noticed one dilemma when movies or shows go back to the 1990s. Namely there isn't really much period flair to it. Is throwing a Blockbuster and Radio Shack into a movie really a big nostalgia deal? Both were actual places until the past decade or so. Carol's whole semi grunge look with the torn jeans, plaid shirt tied around her waist, and NIN shirt isn't particularly different from a random Hot Topic teen now. I could go to Bardstown Road today and probably see someone that is dressed like that. I guess the dawn of internet crappy connectivity and pager stuff was a little amusing. While Blockbuster and Radio Shack existed until more recently. They weren't really things since the 90s. Blockbuster was huge in the 90s but in the 00s+ they were antiquated by Netflix and their stubbornness to not change until it was too late. Radio Shacks last big attempts to rebrand itself was based entirely on 80s and 90s nostalgia to show they werent old and outdated any more. Both of their heydays were firmly behind them which is why they are mostly gone. Carol's human outfit is also 100% 90s hell it's almost a WCW Raven cosplay. The tied flannel especially hasnt really been popular since the grunge age. Sure some people still do it but it was EVERYWHERE in the 90s. An Internet cafe with beige desktop computers, and a pay phone, were also plot points of the movie... both are also super 90s. The Street Fighter II arcade cabinet, too.
It's also not the movie's fault that a lot of 90's stuff is still popular now.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Apr 3, 2019 17:39:59 GMT -5
The music was the most 90s part. Also, Mallrats.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Apr 3, 2019 22:24:30 GMT -5
The music was the most 90s part. When she had the fight scene on the ship, and No Doubt's "Just a Girl" started playing, I'm not gonna lie. I marked HARD.
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Post by cabbageboy on Apr 3, 2019 22:29:37 GMT -5
Depending on where you live you could probably find pay phones well into the 2000s. Not now though. As far as movie rental stores go I recall them being around until about 2008 when the economy tanked and wiped out a lot of stuff, including Circuit City. I interviewed with Radio Shack as late as 2011, so some locations were still very much around.
Gotta be honest...I've never been to an internet cafe. I don't recall the net being much of a thing in Louisville when I was in HS. In fact my HS was wired for the net around the time I was a senior (1996-97). By the time I was in college I would just go to either a computer lab in the Communications dept. or to the library. But an internet cafe? Nah. I don't find much nostalgia for crappy connectivity and waiting forever for something to load, haha.
I enjoyed the soundtrack but inherited my dad's penchant for constantly thinking about whether a song is time accurate. I know at the end here that Celebrity Skin is clearly a 1998 song, not 1995. They needed something from Live Through This if they wanted period appropriate Hole. Miss World perhaps? I vaguely recall seeing a calendar saying June, but maybe it hadn't been changed, so it's hard to know the exact month the film took place. Elastica and TLC were fine choices, though I tend to think of Garbage being notable in very late 1995 and into 1996 (I bought that CD in June of 1996 at a Target in Evansville). In the back of my mind I knew they would play Just a Girl though. I was actively sort of dreading it since I have never liked the song. It too was on the radio in late 1995 or so, but I never cared much for No Doubt until Spiderwebs was a single in the spring/summer of 1996. Then of course Don't Speak really broke that album huge in the fall.
I tried to find the soundtrack for the film on Amazon but it's just the film score and not the songs. Why would you release a soundtrack of this without the 90s songs?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 22:36:13 GMT -5
Miss World's too dark. Celebrity Skin is very sarcastic but it has that power pop sound that makes it work.
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Post by the2ndevil on Apr 3, 2019 23:01:44 GMT -5
The music was the most 90s part. When she had the fight scene on the ship, and No Doubt's "Just a Girl" started playing, I'm not gonna lie. I marked HARD. That was honestly my favorite part.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 3, 2019 23:08:04 GMT -5
The music was the most 90s part. Also, Mallrats. A movie featuring Stan Lee talking about how he created a bunch of comic book characters is now canon in a universe where those same characters are living, breathing people.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 4, 2019 0:42:12 GMT -5
Justin Hammer was a really underrated villian. Everytime he was on screen you just want to punch him in the face. Sam Rockwell did a great job in this role IMO I realized I never responded to this. He was great as the Sleazy Tony Stark Wannabe. He thought he was super slick and in charge of everything the whole time while it's pretty damn obvious he wasn't.... again one little thing that I think was meant to originally be played up if they didn't completely change 3 was that Hammer was always wearing a pinky ring that looks like one of the Mandarin's rings in the comics. also in looking for a picture of it I saw a picture another little detail I forgot about with how well he was played. The massive amounts of cheap self tanner all over his hands to try and be the billionaire playboy but is too cheap to actually do it
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 1:01:00 GMT -5
Just stumbled on a video on Youtube called, "Congratulations Captain Marvel! You Finally Passed $1 Billion!" and with a thumbnail saying, "Despite every advantage it barely crawls to $1B!"
Move those goalposts! Move, move!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 4, 2019 1:03:58 GMT -5
Just stumbled on a video on Youtube called, "Congratulations Captain Marvel! You Finally Passed $1 Billion!" and with a thumbnail saying, "Despite every advantage it barely crawls to $1B!" Move those goalposts! Move, move! Yep that’s the new goalposts. Of course it was going to make a billion dollars it is after infinity war and will have necessary setup for the movie. Which is why Antman and wasp made 600 million... wait Edit: they can not wrap their heads around a movie they disliked is massively successful without them so it’s obviously everyone else that’s wrong And several of them are acting like victims in all of this. Also saw some guy cutting the head off a captain marvel figure... because that is both healthy and not at all spending money on something you claim to hate
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 4, 2019 1:23:45 GMT -5
Just stumbled on a video on Youtube called, "Congratulations Captain Marvel! You Finally Passed $1 Billion!" and with a thumbnail saying, "Despite every advantage it barely crawls to $1B!" Move those goalposts! Move, move! Yep that’s the new goalposts. Of course it was going to make a billion dollars it is after infinity war and will have necessary setup for the movie. Which is why Antman and wasp made 600 million... wait I made the same point to one of these troglodytes who was trying to push that very same narrative, and got "But Ant-Man and the Wasp wasn't advertised as being the most important character of Endgame!" in return. Only with poor spelling and grammar, and 300% more ad hominems and insults. Of course, it seems now that while Carol is an important character in Endgame, Ant-Man is actually the most important character, and Ant-Man and the Wasp is far more relevant to Endgame than Captain Marvel is. Besides, Carol wasn't advertised as being the most important character anyway.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Apr 4, 2019 9:54:25 GMT -5
Sorry, so I don't want to crawl through 30 odd pages to find out but why have so many people chossen to hate the movie from the start? Is it because it's a female lead and not the orginal male captain?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 9:57:35 GMT -5
A movie featuring Stan Lee talking about how he created a bunch of comic book characters is now canon in a universe where those same characters are living, breathing people. .....more importantly, Stan Lee is now canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Beautiful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 9:59:37 GMT -5
Sorry, so I don't want to crawl through 30 odd pages to find out but why have so many people chossen to hate the movie from the start? Is it because it's a female lead and not the orginal male captain? That's part of it. It's really a number of factors, from that to the fact this was basically destined to be the most successful women's superhero / action movie from the outset, I've seen some people bitching about how the costume isn't sexy enough (saw one response video yesterday to someone who was going on and on about how female superheroes are solely there to masturbate to and the reason Wonder Woman was so successful is DC knew that; that person was under the delusion the movie wouldn't break $100 million in its entire theatrical run), lot of it's stemming from how she's being positioned as Marvel's Superman, the lack of a love interest is seen as trying to muscle men out or something... One person I saw was absolutely enraged by Nick Fury washing dishes in a scene (which I really didn't even especially notice he was doing) because that's emasculating him. Really it basically just boils down to, "A bunch of sexists can't handle the idea that this movie wasn't made only for them."
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