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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Review Round-Up
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I already filled some hackysacks, wanna kick em around?
broncobuster
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In its defense, it's hard to make a good comedy sequel. From what I hear, that's what's most liked about the first, and vol 2 is at best spinning its wheels on that front. But the adventure parts are still fun and the action is decent this time.
Bobby Roberts
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I'll never get the Bridges hate in IM1. He was solid.
Roth was lame in Hulk, but the Hulk v Abom confrontation is still one of the best final act scenes in the MCU. I'd say it's second behind Civil War's final brawl.
Holy shit lmao
Roth was lame in Hulk, but the Hulk v Abom confrontation is still one of the best final act scenes in the MCU. I'd say it's second behind Civil War's final brawl.
Holy shit lmao
You dare second guess the shrewd critical insights of Awesometacular?!
Marvel has great villains. They just don't have the rights to use most of them.
I've literally never seen Bridges hate.
He's playing a villain. Villains don't save people.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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It's not about the characters themselves but about how they're written. Sure, I'd love to see Doom in the MCU but a villain like Ronan could have been just as good if handled properly.
You can write good villains and it has nothing to do with the rights. Absolutely nothing.
BoogieWoogie
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People didn't like Stane? I thought he was great!
Best Marvel Studios villain besides Loki. Then Zemo is kinda alright and the rest are just forgettable.
Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer is awesome as well. Best thing about Iron Man 2.
George Oscar Bluth II
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TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE
This means nothing.
I thought he was great. Cold blooded when he flushed that guy down the toilet.
The Broken Ska Record
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I've been so close to doing that all this morning.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
I have nothing against Bridges since I'm not a monster but yeah, I didn't care for Stane. He was serviceable but the evil CEO fatherly figure thing was a little bit too boring and predictable.
Aside from the Netflix villains, I like Loki, Zemo, Red Skull and... Abomination, kinda? Mostly because of Tim Roth. Haven't made it through Strange yet so I can't comment on Mikkelsen.
Aside from the Netflix villains, I like Loki, Zemo, Red Skull and... Abomination, kinda? Mostly because of Tim Roth. Haven't made it through Strange yet so I can't comment on Mikkelsen.
catashtrophe
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Plenty of them pop up in all X-MEN movie related threads as well, gets very tiring.
Mikkelsen is probably the weakest Marvel villain so far. He's just there for decoration, he has maybe one interesting scene,
the New York chase
Dr. Strange arrives too late and the viewer only sees the aftermath of Mikkelsen's attack
peanutbutterlatte
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Wait, OG Guardians only has a 76?
Lol, bet I'll love this.
Lol, bet I'll love this.
On Metaciritc, yes.
I personally think Metacritic is terrible for movies. Age of Ultron is at 66 while the original Avengers is at 69.
That's legitimately insane to me.
What's wrong with that?
That's the difference between game and movie review scores. A 69 average for a game is on the low-end of the spectrum, a 69 average for a film is pretty good. 80+ averages are usually for exceptionally good films, 90+ films are pretty much only films that are truly exceptional and end up in not only 'best of [year]'-lists, but 'best of [decade]' lists.
jack_package_200
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Glad to see the reviews are mostly positive.
Mahvel always wins
Mahvel always wins
Discotheque
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Nothing. Age of Ultron should be like a 30 tbh considering some of the other movies that have been in that range (some of which are undeserved imo). And 69 indicates "pretty decent blockbuster" on that site.
Don't always agree with metacritic of course but I think it's a much better aggregate for film reviews. Using the actual scores as the main aggregate as opposed to just "yes or no"
Plus its more selective about who gets in too
Dash_Riprock
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Meanwhile, at DC...
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Yeah, that's pretty much what I had heard. That's too bad, Mikkelsen can be such a perfect movie villain.
Aquaman will bring peace and redemption to all.
Let's hope.
The large gulf in quality between the two. It sounds like you would disagree with that, which is fine. Most wouldn't.
MC is weird in that their movie reviews aren't comparable to their game or music reviews because the enthusiast press is different for all 3 mediums. Just like with RT, you have to learn to interpret the reviews. MC is always much closer to the RT average score than it is the RT%
age of ultron was awful compared to the first avengers
I couldn't remember a damn thing about AoU a week after seeing it, outside of Vision's scenes.
DontBeThatGuy
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I didn't think that. I didn't like any of the trailers. Did any of the early screening even generate positive word of mouth?
And that's only because you were wondering if Vision can manifest a penis the whole time. C'mon, admit it.
jack_package_200
Banned
Reaching for the bottom of the barrel
DontBeThatGuy
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More like reaching into the future of film criticism, as horrifying as that may be.
The world wants that syntho-dong.
jack_package_200
Banned
Christ I am more qualified to be a film critic than Jeremy Jahns
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Always such a strange thing to read. Just how much herb do you smoke? Are you a young alcoholic? Concussions?
Hyperhyperhyperbole <3
Thewonandonly
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Civil war or doctor strange I would have to say. I just really like the battle when everything is getting fixed and stuff, plus "I'm here to make a bargain" is just great.
DontBeThatGuy
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I don't doubt it, but he's gets a stupid amount of views.
What did he mean by this?
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Can you give a reason?
MugiwaraCole
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I couldn't possibly roll my eyes any harder at the idea that Logan did anything approximating saving the year in comic films, much less the genre.
Jesus.
Jesus.
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