Last Film Watched.

[Crickett]

Originally Posted by Empty Glass

Opinions on those?

tl;dr I liked both movies. I better have, I signed up to AMC A-list, so I'm going to be watching them a combined three times a week every week until they leave theaters or until Shazam is released.

Unfortunately, Alita: Battle Angel is a great example of why I am going to avoid any spoiler material regarding Avatar 2 including the plot details recently revealed by James Cameron. There's one particular character who dies in a fairly heartbreaking manner late in the movie. And I'm sure that scene would have gotten to me on an emotional level had I not seen the source material. But I did, so instead I saw it coming from the moment I saw the first trailer. Some of the fight scenes (particularly certain fight moves) reminded me of Avatar enough that after I got home I checked whether Alita and Avatar had the same fight choreographer, which they apparently do not. I've heard criticism that Alita is a Mary Sue and that no one in the movie actually provides a challenge, and I don't agree with that in the slightest. Some of the dialogue between the main character and the main male love interest is rather cringe-y, but they're supposed to be teenagers, so that's not out of the ordinary.


As far as How to Train Your Dragon 3, warning, spoilers in small black text:
The dragons don't all die. I was afraid going into the movie that they were going to all die and it didn't happen


I didn't enjoy it as much as the first two How to Train Your Dragon movies, but I would chalk that up to having a lesser soundtrack compared to the first two (although I said that about HTTYD 2 at first and I eventually came around to love it) and not having what I guess I'll call extended epic flight scenes like the first two did for most of the movie. But it's still a How To Train Your Dragon movie, so it still does have some amazing flight scenes and a decent soundtrack and of course it's still definitely worth watching. But the most common albums I listen to are the Avatar soundtrack, the Pandora: the World of Avatar soundtrack and the soundtracks to HTTYD 1 & 2 and the third one will likely not be joining them.

Two things I appreciated about HTTYD 3 were
A. They did a call back to the Gift of the Night Fury holiday special. Other franchises may claim holiday specials are canon, but how many times do you actually see the referenced in actual sequels?
B. One of the main criticisms I saw of How To Train Your Dragon 2 was that a some of the characters from the first movie such as Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were shifted into the background in favor of a focus on Hiccup, Stoic, Astrid and Valka. I felt like they took that criticism to heart for the third movie as those characters do get at least some more screen time than before.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

Captain Marvel (2019) in both 2D and Real-3D formats, going again to see her in IMAX.

CM is nearing $600mil in 7 days of release, $180mil USA and $320mil international markets, now playing in 38 countries, Japan opened yesterday 3/15.

[Crickett]

I recently saw How to Train Your Dragon 3 again. My opinion has changed regarding the flying scene (or allegedly lack of) although I'm still not the huge fan of the soundtrack that I was of the first two films. I also double featured that with Captain Marvel. A lot of the criticisms of that movie were..... complete and utter BS. Aside from the eye thing. That was dumb imo.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

Originally Posted by Crickett

Captain Marvel. A lot of the criticisms of that movie were..... complete and utter BS. Aside from the eye thing. That was dumb imo.

i agree, and i no longer watch most of the youtube channels because they have become haters and toxic trollgrounds, so much hatred. disgusting. i have seen Cap Marvel three times now, and the film is great 9/10, just a few technical quibbles but i enjoy the film immensely. i admit the eye thing is kind of anticlimatic after 10 years of wondering, but i can live with the explanation tbh because the movie adds another great superhero and more connections between all the films.

[Yrel]

Us

i really really liked this movie personally and i highly recommend seeing it at least once

[Empty Glass]

Richard III, with Ian McKellen in the title role. I don't know Shakespeare as well as I'd like but I know I liked this overall.

[Crickett]

Shazam

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2

[Crickett]

Hellboy. If you liked the first two Hellboy movies.... just watch those again. This isn't an improvement. I've saw a review that said if you liked Venom, you'll like this..... I really liked Venom, this was meh.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

Black Panther (2018)

[Crickett]

Avengers: Endgame

[iron_jones]

Originally Posted by Crickett

Avengers: Endgame

Do you have anything to say about said movie?

[Crickett]

Originally Posted by iron_jones

Do you have anything to say about said movie?

I really enjoyed it, especially the third act. I'll probably say more in a few weeks when I've given people a bit more time to see it. Don't buy drinks, it's three hours with about a half an hour worth of trailers. There is no post credit scene, although it's worth it to stick around at least until the screen fades to black and the regular credits start rolling.

[Rogue Aw]

Watched Star Trek: The Voyage Home last Friday. First ST movie I had seen in 15-20 yrs, LOL! It was pretty good, forgot how well written they were. Probably going to start watching the MCU movies this weekend, got 22 to watch, LOL!

[Crickett]

Detective Pikachu