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Latest Mission Impossible - 4/10.
Looked like it had been made on the cheap. Aside from the opening scene and paying The Cruiser's wages I just don't know where the money went.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron - 3/10
I have a rule of thumb which has always served me well with action blockbusters. It goes - if you like the villain more than the heroes - there's something wrong somewhere. Well, I liked Ultron. It had more humanity than all of the Avengers put together (with the possible exception of Captain America).
Someone really needs to put a bullet into the Marvel franchise. It's going absolutely nowhere.
You could amalgamate all of the Marvel films and together they still wouldn't amount to half of what George Miller achieved in Mad Max.
To be honest, I don't think they'd outstrip the inexplicably underrated Dredd movie.
I can't agree about the remake of Mad Max, I thought it was awful!
Age of Ultron was OK but definitely a step backwards after Avengers Assemble and with the change in cast for the next one I'm not optimistic.
The best Marvel movie to date was Guardians of the Galaxy which due to low expectations I avoided watching for months but was massively surprised with when I finally watched it.
I've got the same daunting feelings about the next Marvel incarnation, Suicide Squad, but maybe they'll pull that one off as they did with Guardians.
Mugwump wrote:Since when did box-office become a reliable judge of quality?
It didn't - and I've made the same point before; but to suggest that someone needs to 'put a bullet in the Marvel franchise' because you judge that 'its going nowhere' is plain daft; subjectively up to your quality standards or not, they are a money making box office juggernaut and as such, won't be going away anytime soon.
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The Avenger wrote:........................................
.......................I've got the same daunting feelings about the next Marvel incarnation, Suicide Squad, but maybe they'll pull that one off as they did with Guardians.
Suicide Squad is DC Got high hopes for this, Jared Leto as The Joker will be interesting.
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ParanoidAndroid wrote:Suicide Squad is DC Got high hopes for this, Jared Leto as The Joker will be interesting.
Been reading some interesting stuff about this one - I gather the studio have basically taken a light touch and let them make the film they want to make, so it's likely to be fairly near the knuckle.
Joined: Mar 07 2003 Posts: 2743 Location: in an ocean of denial
The trailer certainly whetted my appetite, could be a big year for DC with Batman v Superman coming out earlier in the year. They need these two films to wrest back some of the momentum/market Marvel has attained recently.
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Got high hopes for this, Jared Leto as The Joker will be interesting.
