What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

DarthJoJo wrote: Saw Spider-Man: No Way Home about a week ago now, and I’m still not totally sure how I feel about it.

I saw it last week as well, but I absolutely loved it. I had very low expectations going in, but it really surprised me with good action and great heart.

The plot though?

Warning: Spoiler!

it throws Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men under the bus. They were the brutes who let their enemies die. They solved their problems with violence, not their empathy and brains, and I don’t think that is totally fair to their movies.

I didn't get that read on it at all. The rest of your points are valid, but this one has much more nuance than I think you're giving it.

This is the binary world of comics. Having superpowers ALWAYS lead to a split path of superhero or supervillain.

A NO POINT did Peter Parker realize that he could make MILLIONS as the smallest NFL quarterbacker in history and help his friends that way.

jason10mm wrote: This is the binary world of comics. Having superpowers ALWAYS lead to a split path of superhero or supervillain.

A NO POINT did Peter Parker realize that he could make MILLIONS as the smallest NFL quarterbacker in history and help his friends that way.

What? His origin story is literally him trying to go into pro wrestling.

dysjunct wrote:

jason10mm wrote: This is the binary world of comics. Having superpowers ALWAYS lead to a split path of superhero or supervillain.

A NO POINT did Peter Parker realize that he could make MILLIONS as the smallest NFL quarterbacker in history and help his friends that way.

What? His origin story is literally him trying to go into pro wrestling.

Maybe we should interpret the origin of most superheroes as some sort of criticism of effective altruism.

Millionaire Peter Parker donating 10+% of his salary would probably do more with his great power and responsibility than his current methods. At least Bruce Wayne appears to be Batman on top of his philanthropic efforts.

Saw Red Rocket. Is some good. dichotomouspurity.blogspot.com/2021/12/reality-in-raw.html

In the end, I think asking why Batman doesn't donate to charity is a bit like asking why in Gundam they don't use tanks instead of cool space robots. Sure, you can make a good argument about it, but, in the end, does it really matter?

Wait, I thought the Bruce wayne cover was nothing BUT charity fundraisers and whatnot?

Erik Twice wrote: In the end, I think asking why Batman doesn't donate to charity is a bit like asking why in Gundam they don't use tanks instead of cool space robots. Sure, you can make a good argument about it, but, in the end, does it really matter?

Or asking why we have stories of Zeus screwing everything that moved or Thor being tricked into drinking the ocean instead of using their divine powers to keep people warm and fed.

Watched Don’t Look Up. Was less horrifying than I expected, but parts of it are definitely too real. Sadly. People not in the USA or UK will probably laugh more.

There were some funny parts, but I found the parody/satire to be so far over-the-top that the whole thing turned silly dumb.

Into the Spiderverse - better every time I watch it. I guess by my daughter's standards I'm ready for No Way Home, but I'm still not sitting in a theater just yet. Maybe after I get my booster shot.

No Time To Die - It didn't do much for me; too long and overstuffed with a bunch of stuff I didn't really care about.

Don't Look Up was very funny. My favorite part was the free snacks bit she kept coming back to.

Watched two manga adapted movies. The Fable and Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill. Best way to describe them: John Wick/Jackie Chan action, with humor interspersed in. It's more Wick than Chan, and the only reason why I say that is because it has a more serious tone than a Chan movie. Essentially Sato (Wick), has trained as a killer since childhood by his mentor. He Baba Yagas a LOT of people, and then his mentor wants him to lead a normal life for a year, without killing anyone. If he does, his mentor will kill him. So, his mentor contacts a local Yakuza syndicate that owes him and forces them to take Sato and his counterpart and let them live a normal life.

Well, like in the Wick movies, life just doesn't let them do that. Still, some of the action scenes, especially in the second movie, were awesome.

Shellhead wrote: A lost weekend of heist movies. First, I watched The Italian Job. Then Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. They are all effectively urban fantasy movies, no more realistic than your average vampire movie. It was a pleasant but empty experience, all glittering surfaces devoid of meaning.

I just got to work, and now I want to go home and rob the Golden Grin Casino in Payday 2.