Watched Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home this weekend. I've been waiting for so long for a streaming service to get Far From Home as I've only seen Homecoming and No Way Home on multiple services but never the second movie. So when I noticed on Friday that Max had all added all three movies, I just had to subscribe for another month just to watch through the rest of the trilogy.
Far From Home was great! I really enjoyed how chill the movie was while still maintaining an interesting story as well as having a grand finale. No Way Home was really cool in terms of all the throwbacks but I didn't really like the ending that much.
All in all, I'm so glad that I've finally watched these movies as I've waited so long to watch them.
I also saw that Max had added the Into The Spider-Verse movies with Miles Morales. I might watch them as well while I'm at it.
@LtSarge@Th3solution@JohnnyShoulder The Spider-verse movies are, to my mind, the very best Spider-man movies ever made. I really like the Holland trilogy (though I'm not as big a fan of "No Way Home" as others are) and Raimi's Maguire movies are good, too, but the Spider-verse movies are in a league of their own, I think.
@FuriousMachine Yeah same here with the Tom Holland Spider-Man films. I'm way more interested in the third Spider-Verse film than the fourth Tom Holland one.
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@JohnnyShoulder I'm not much of a Spider-Man fan generally. Don't hate it or anything but just not my thing. Additionally, his story has gotten a bit like Batman's in that we've all seen certain aspects play out so many times it has gotten a little old. So I've really enjoyed both the Holland Spider-Man and Spider-verse films immensely. Really both in equal measure because they are quite different, especially with the Miles version.
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Checked out Godzilla Minus One. This feels like a direct response to the complaints people had with Shin Godzilla. They aren't complaints I shared, so I felt like this was a huge downgrade from Shin.
The one exception here are the special effects, Minus One has effects that are an astounding leap over the oftentimes pretty ropey effects in Shin. But even then, something about how grounded and haunted Shin was made those set pieces work even with the limitations of the effects. Minus One is more like a theme park ride, so the effects are better but the set pieces are weightless.
They also have only one set piece actually set in a populated area and its easily the best moment of the entire film. It also comes in around half way through this thing which is a good two hours, so it just made it a bit of a slog for me. Felt like the movie peaked and then I had another forty five minutes of cheesy melodrama to wade my way through before we had a limp final set piece in the middle of the ocean and a goofy cliffhanger ending.
I personally enjoyed Shin alright, but I thought the human stuff was a bit drier than it was meant to be. I felt the human part being a worthy story without Godzilla elevated the film in a way Godzilla hasn't seen since the first one, or perhaps that had never been done before.
@LN78 I think it was the state of New York, where Gotham is. Joker 2 had an awful ending, and upon retrospect and rewatching the first, the rest of the movie gets weaker and weaker too. It's astounding how the movie set out to not be good and fail as a sequel.
@Jaz007@LN78 I’m no comic book scholar, but supposedly there’s an old Frank Miller quote that says “Metropolis is NYC during the day and Gotham is NYC at night”, which seems feasible as an explanation of the artistic inspiration of the two settings in isolation, but once you start having Superman and Batman crossovers then it completely falls apart when trying to have a real world grounding of the fiction. Likely the originators of the comics didn’t intend for readers to reach for real world parallels (but I will anyway…)
Over the years I’ve personally always considered Gotham as being analogous to Chicago and Metropolis to NYC, just because of the vibe of each of those cities . However that also isn’t really a perfect association because I think a lot of the crossover content relies on the two cities being close to each other. So another explanation out there says that the neighboring cities correspond to NYC and Newark, New Jersey. Yet another theory says that Gotham is Bronx/Brooklyn/Queens and Metropolis is Manhattan/Staten Island… or something like that. My knowledge of the NYC boroughs is lacking. Either way, the metaphor still falls apart when you get into the fictional content because the two settings seem to clearly be isolated and independent cities with their own government, leadership, and structuring. They don’t seem to be merely cultural carve-outs of the same city.
Then there’s the supposed proximity of Metroplis to Smallville which is clearly located in the state of Kansas. That would make Metropolis more akin to Chicago geographically speaking, but it doesn’t quite fit artistically, imo.
But one thing is clear — I’m definitely putting too much thought into it. 😂
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@FuriousMachine I’m glad that someone else likes to get lost in the fan theory weeds! 😄
It’s pretty clear that comics draw from historical and literal people, places, and events. I think overall DC is more metaphorical than Marvel who tends to be more openly unmistakably about its references. It’s fun to think about, regardless.
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@Th3solution I think you're digging into the issues of joining characters that were built to be separate. You have to forget a few things for the co-existence to work. we just have to accept that New York City was built twice in two different places and one doesn't have night time and the other doesn't have day time.
Watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse this week. Both were absolutely brilliant! Exceptional art style and animation. The plots were really engrossing, especially the latter movie as seeing all the different Spider-Men was just awesome. I seriously love Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen, more so than Peter Parker. They're just more interesting to me.
Anyway, great movies and I can't wait to see the next one.
What can anyone tell me about Transformers One as someone who thinks (some live action loved aside) Transformers hasn’t had a good series since Cybertron?
@PorkChopExpress Oh no! At only 69, that's too young I've loved him ever since I saw him in "Candyman" and every project he appeared in was better for it.
@LtSarge Glad you loved them, too They are truly great movies and the only reason they're not on my shelf is that I'm holding out hope for a box set when the third one is out.
@FuriousMachine Yeah, I'm really looking forward to watching the third movie.
Speaking of animated media, I saw that Prime has the Batman Animated Series as well as a new animated show from 2024 called "The Caped Crusader". Max also has some Batman animated movies as well as a Harley Quinn animated show. Are any of these worth watching? I've really become interested in animated superhero media now after the Spider-Verse movies and want to watch more.
@LtSarge The latest TMNT animated film i can highly recommend. It has a similar art style to the Spider-Verse films, but also feels different enough. I think there is also a TV show, but I've not seen that.
Not super hero related, but Arcane and Castlevanie on Netflx are top tier animanted shows IMO. The second season of Arcane drops today too.
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