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...sucked.

Really? Haven't seen it yet. You're the first person I've heard say that it sucked, though. Including non-comic fans.

What sucked about it?

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Really? Haven't seen it yet. You're the first person I've heard say that it sucked, though. Including non-comic fans.

What sucked about it?

1. WRITTEN BY A TWO-YEAR-OLD. After the Iron Man movies and Nolan's Batmans (not that either were literary masterpieces by any stretch), it's no longer acceptable to excuse writing this bad because it's a comic book movie. I'm not asking for huge subtlety, but when there is CONSTANT EXPOSITIVE DIALOGUE to make sure you understand ALL OF THE CHARACTERS FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS AT ALL TIMES, it's almost insulting. Yes, I know the raccoon guy is mad because he doesn't like being called a raccoon. You don't have to have him SAY IT. It's like this the entire movie.

2. ALL THE SHIT GOING ON ALL THE TIME. This is a modern invention by filmmakers, the hope that if they throw up as many brightly-colored, fast-moving things as possible into every single frame, it will pass as "interesting content". But it doesn't. It just looks like a lazy way of saying "let's get the CG guys to just have fifty million things going on all the time and then audiences will love it, and will probably not notice that this was written by a two-year-old, because audiences love SHINY THINGS." Insulting yet again.

3. THE FARSCAPE THING. I don't dislike Farscape. However, what bugged me about it the most was that this guy from Earth is constantly making pop cultural references which he has to know nobody will understand -- they don't show THREE'S COMPANY RERUNS on the other side of the galaxy, IDIOT. So he's constantly making "Calgon, take me away!" jokes and having all the aliens look at him like he's crazy. This movie is like a bad Farscape episode where he does it the entire time. I mean, it's a bad Farscape episode to begin with, but that just makes it worse.

There are some funny, cute moments. I laughed more than once, but less than five times, and all of the time I wasn't laughing, I was just staring at a screen full of brightly lit shallow characters speaking to each other like infants, and looking at the clock trying to guess when it was going to be over.

We saw it tonight! Three out of four stars.

You have described Farscape to me and turned me off to it. But I would say that there's only a few references I can think of? The Jackson Pollock one was really funny so I forgive it.

The star fight battle at the end dragged on because really, who cares. I thought it was a solid half-hour too long. When they showed the scene of Dr. Steve Brule embracing his family even a child of four could see that they were dragging this shit out. He had two scenes! Oh thank God the family we didn't know he had was safe!

I will say that I don't know how anybody followed what was happening without knowing that Ronan the Accuser was one dude and that Thanos is one of the mightiest villains in the Marvel Universe and so forth. But you said that everyone stated their feelings and goals all the time.

I like the part at the end where a bunch of idiots try to come up with a plan to save the day but spend most of their time insulting each other. But I also wrote a scene like that at the end of Cryptozookeeper. But that scene is probably in a lot of stuff. I mention this because you haven't played it and I hate you.

I dunno. I liked it. We saw it at the dollar theater. It was worth a dollar!

I am looking forward to seeing it again. While watching it in the theater, I gave up trying to figure up who was who... it just seemed like I got lost at some point trying to figure out who was fighting with whom and the special effects were so... distracting? ... that it kind of clouded the plot. Except for the main characters who, like Pinner said, explained everything the entire time.

Yeah, they didn't even bother to set who hated who up, not really.

Did I mention how I liked that they used songs from the Billboard Top 100 around like 1978? When all the space shit at Marvel was coming to a close? I did like that.

I liked it.

But then, I am a simple man of simple pleasures.