SDCC trailers

[tielan]

I'm excited by Justice League, but not by Thor: Ragnarok. The word 'bloated' came up in a description of the MCU franchise in a review last year (or possibly this year, when comparing Wonder Woman with the current crop of superhero movies) and 'bloated' perfectly describes the trailer of Thor: Ragnarok.

Spiderman: Homecoming has good enough reviews that I might actually watch it (sometime), and I will be there to watch Black Panther with BELLS ON. But I might pass Thor: Ragnarok in much the same way that I passed on Thor: When Dark Elves Attack The Dark World. I eventually watched it and enjoyed it, but it wasn't All That. (Then again, I feel like the Thor franchise is one of the weakest ones in the MCU storyline.)

I haven't even looked at the trailer for Stargate: Origins, although if it's Catherine Langford's story, I will almost certainly give a looksee.

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[tielan]

FEIGE WANTED IT

UGH. DIAF Feige!

And the through line is going to be yet another battle, Even More Shit Blows Up Pretty In Space, and I'm just so tired of the CGI-driven stories. I like stories with people in.

Stories with people in - honestly, we went through this in the 00s with the SW prequels: they got all hung up on LOOK! LOOK AT THE CGI! And forgot that the things that made the original SW movies great was that it was a story about people fighting for a cause they believed in and struggling with who they were and who they wanted to be. That's the core of human stories.

Hell, Yoda said it best: War Not Make One Great. That applies to movies as well as people...

[kore]

UGH. DIAF Feige!

FUCKING SERIOUSLY

I'M GOING TO MAKE A POPPET AND STICK PINS IN IT

Stories with people in - honestly, we went through this in the 00s with the SW prequels: they got all hung up on LOOK! LOOK AT THE CGI! And forgot that the things that made the original SW movies great was that it was a story about people fighting for a cause they believed in and struggling with who they were and who they wanted to be. That's the core of human stories.

Oh Jesus, did they ever. And then Lucas went back and smeared CGI all over the original trilogy too, altho at least he couldn't cut all the characterization out of it. Same thing with James Cameron and Avatar. Titanic was kinda soppy and predictable, but it also had all those human dramas playing out and that's a big part of why it keeps being retold, IMHO, viewers are fascinated by the people in those dire cirumstances.

Hell, Yoda said it best: War Not Make One Great. That applies to movies as well as people...

Scifi just does SO MUCH MORE than just war, but it seems like the mainstream scifi cinema is either all about wars or mano a mano manly fights. (And then Civil War was both. LOL.) That was another part of what I really liked about GotG -- there was Thanos, yeah, but the focus was on saving Nova Prime and the people there and on the connections the crew managed to forge with each other. And the fights had real emotional punch to them. So to speak.

(I have to say I am less than apathetic about Thanos being the centerpiece of these last two big movies in the sequence. He strikes me as a terrible fanboy creation -- an ALL-POWERFUL PURPLE GUY, whose love is DEATH!!! -- and I cannot stand the way he looks. He reminds me of claymation made out of used Hubba Bubble grape chewing gum.)

I am also a sucker for extremely different people all flung together as a crew and they have to make it work and in the end they'd wind up dying for each other but they still fight all the time. I think a big reason why I loved GotG was it reminded me of my beloved Farscape. Before it went off the rails with the pregnancy crap, sigh.

That reminds me, I was meaning to type up my impressions of the latest Dark Matter, which is a bit like Farscape. But more diverse, typically, which is nice.