by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:36 pm
One star out of five, probably.
It wasn't offensively bad, but I am amazed that all that money can be spent, and all that goes into making a movie can happen without there being any sort of tension. It was all very silly. I guess it was a little neat to see some of the characters on the screen, but it wasn't that neat.
Spoilers to follow.
Towards the end, Quicksilver dies. He is shot a bunch of times by a machine gun on a fighter jet piloted by a robot.
I think the only thing dumber than killing a comic book character -- they all come back, they all have to come back because the company needs to market the characters -- is killing a comic book character in a comic book movie. There's absolutely no tension, there's no sense that wow, this is a great story and Quicksilver had to die, yeah. Killing a relatively minor, in the scheme of things, character that has been around for 60 years is also silly.
When Wash dies in Firefly, Whedon is telling us that everyone else is in danger. Hey, we'll probably never see the crew together again, what an experience. When Quicksilver dies it's just.. oh. Wow. They really did the dumbest thing in movies and killed a guy for no thematic reason.
These Marvel movies really are not a big deal. Like I said, it was not offensively bad. There were a few neat "combo" attacks. All the Marvel movies also sort of suffer from feeling obligated to raise the stakes: this time a whole CITY is gonna blow up, oh no! Who cares?
One star out of five, probably.
It wasn't offensively bad, but I am amazed that all that money can be spent, and all that goes into making a movie can happen without there being any sort of tension. It was all very silly. I guess it was a little neat to see some of the characters on the screen, but it wasn't that neat.
Spoilers to follow.
Towards the end, Quicksilver dies. He is shot a bunch of times by a machine gun on a fighter jet piloted by a robot.
I think the only thing dumber than killing a comic book character -- they all come back, they all [i]have[/i] to come back because the company needs to market the characters -- is killing a comic book character in a comic book movie. There's absolutely no tension, there's no sense that wow, this is a great story and Quicksilver had to die, yeah. Killing a relatively minor, in the scheme of things, character that has been around for 60 years is also silly.
When Wash dies in Firefly, Whedon is telling us that everyone else is in danger. Hey, we'll probably never see the crew together again, what an experience. When Quicksilver dies it's just.. oh. Wow. They really did the dumbest thing in movies and killed a guy for no thematic reason.
These Marvel movies really are not a big deal. Like I said, it was not offensively bad. There were a few neat "combo" attacks. All the Marvel movies also sort of suffer from feeling obligated to raise the stakes: this time a whole CITY is gonna blow up, oh no! Who cares?