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Deadpool 2: The Final Trailer
*Red Brand obviously!
* Time to get back on LInkedIn!
* On 2nd viewing you see him earlier in the trailer (you will know who I mean)

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farley3k wrote:

Deadpool 2: The Final Trailer
*Red Brand obviously!
* Time to get back on LInkedIn!
* On 2nd viewing you see him earlier in the trailer (you will know who I mean)

I love the call back to Wolverine Origins.

Loved the Deadpool 2 trailer. Definitely seeing that in the cinema

"Pump the hate brakes, Thanos."

The timing on the music, too... just amazing. "Don't jam it UH" just as the mook's pistol pointing at Domino jams.

ranalin wrote:

I wonder how much of movies like this, Taken, and even John Wick to a lesser extent, are there because baby boomers want to be comforted that they can still be badass.

bnpederson wrote:
ranalin wrote:

I wonder how much of movies like this, Taken, and even John Wick to a lesser extent, are there because baby boomers want to be comforted that they can still be badass.

I'm not a boomer and I love Taken and John Wick. I've not seen the Equalizer, but now I need to.

bnpederson wrote:
ranalin wrote:

I wonder how much of movies like this, Taken, and even John Wick to a lesser extent, are there because baby boomers want to be comforted that they can still be badass.

It is all about ticket sales and baby boomers are making up a larger and larger part of the market.

Unfortunately it appears that the equalizer is not currently available to stream free. But you can rent it hd for $3 at the usual streaming places. Or buy it for $10 if you have a crush on Denzel.

I'm all over Deadpool 2 and The Equalizer 2. Equalizer is one of the most underrated action movies in the last several years.

The Equalizer is the kind of movie that probably cleans up on disc and digital for rentals and sales.

Like, that stat came out earlier this week or last week sometime that The Accountant was the most rented movie in the country last year.

Thin_J wrote:

The Equalizer is the kind of movie that probably cleans up on disc and digital for rentals and sales.

Like, that stat came out earlier this week or last week sometime that The Accountant was the most rented movie in the country last year.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me anecdotally. Soon as it became available to rent for a solid month it seemed everyone i knew wanted it to watch it when asked what movie we should queue up.

ranalin wrote:

Awesome! Everyone needs to go see this in 70mm if it shows up near you. 100% the most intense movie experience you'll, well, experience. When Hollywood Theater in Portland got 70mm back up and running, this was the first thing they showed, and it was just glorious. The opening theme was so loud; I actually had trouble breathing and got choked up emotionally.

You will never recreate the full 70mm theater experience with a home theater on this one.

That has just become the most exciting film anything to happen all year for me.

farley3k wrote:

Johnny English Strikes Again

This just makes me so happy.

Looking forward to the shark movie with Jason Statham as well.
And the Don Quixote movie!

...wut? why?

...at least it's not set in New York with a bunch of white dudes in it.

This looks better than I thought it would

Promising trailer, but still high suck potential. People don't like grimdark superhero movies. It is known.

If Tom Hardy doesn't do a goofy dance-walk down the street a huge opportunity will have been missed.

(before clicking)

ooof....I hope "venom" looks better moving than in that youtube still...

(after clicking)

nope!

I just learned who the Venom screenwriters are.

This was written by Kelly Marcel (Fifty Shades Of Grey) & Will Beall (Gangster Squad).

Aw HELL naw. Suck Fony.

BadKen wrote:

I just learned who the Venom screenwriters are.

This was written by Kelly Marcel (Fifty Shades Of Grey) & Will Beall (Gangster Squad).

Aw HELL naw. Suck Fony.

I just posted in the Marvel thread that I hope this tanks hard so Sony can get the message to stop making Spider-verse movies without Marvel Studios. Sony, stop. Just stop already!

To be fair to the writers, I'm not sure the end-product of those two films can be placed squarely on their shoulders. Kelly had some poor source material to work with, and from what I heard even the actors seem unhappy to be in the movie. Might be better to compare to her work on Saving Mr. Banks as a writer, or episodes she wrote of Terra Nova. Gangster Squad had a lot of directorial and post-production issues that likely didn't help it. Unfortunately, the only other comparisons for him are episodes of Castle and Training Day (the TV series (which...okay, I guess that needed to be a television show for reasons?)).

Not to say I'm liking the look of this film. I don't dislike it, but I'm not sure I like it either. It's better than the first trailer, and I get all the boners for Tom Hardy (trivia: according to IMDB, Kelly was a script editor on Bronson, which is a... most interesting Tom Hardy flick completely lacking in commercial appeal). I like the idea of creating a film where the focus is on his fight with the Venom symbiote. I'm rolling my eyes at generically evil corporation performing experiments on people in a manner fit for a Saturday morning cartoon (or a comic book (bah-dum-psh)). Honestly I feel like this film would be more enticing without that traditional villain character, and also without the meta-knowledge that Sony is trying to kick off a Spider-man free universe. That means the story can't simply be the struggle between Eddie's darker side personified by Venom, finally breaking free or whatnot. It needs to end with room for a sequel, so the symbiote won't be destroyed or might not even be removed at all. So you gotta have this kernel of a good concept that's strong enough to build a movie, but shove it into a formula in hopes you can out-Marvel Marvel, including the completely bland and uninteresting villain.

Plus, there are probably like fifty additional script doctors we won't be seeing anyway.

I want to be hyped up for aspects of this film, but... eh. Maybe I'll Netflix it.

Well I didn't hate the Venom trailer, so it's better than I was expecting. I still have no interest in seeing it though.

ccesarano wrote:

To be fair to the writers, I'm not sure the end-product of those two films can be placed squarely on their shoulders.

Thing is, my hell naw is directed at the scripts of those movies, not the end product. Plenty of reviews called out the poor character development, unfortunate dialogue, and weird plotting of both Fifty Shades and Gangster Squad. There are plenty of other subpar things about those movies, but the scripts are weak.

Who knows, maybe working together they will do better. It's hard to tell anything about the plot or character development of a movie from the trailer. The dialogue in this trailer, though, is... not great.

I can't speak to Gangster Squad, but E.L. James infamously exerted a large amount of control over the 50 Shades movies, and nixed attempts to deviate from her "vision", so it's not really fair to hold those movies against the credited writers.

The Venom trailer does look rubbish though.