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I loved Desplat's Godzilla score as well. The style was very different. Desplat really nailed the suspense and the horror/terror. McCreary's score focused on the mythical grandeur of the monsters. More blunt force, but I really like it as well.

Just watched it and I have to say, I am disappointed.

Will Smith sounds bored as hell. I think Ejiofor doesn't sound menacing enough, but I think I could buy into his voice as I get used to it.

I agree that Lion King could really benefit from having a longer runtime. But Aladdin...I am not sure. I feel like everything extra will be songs and fluff.

They shown like 27 minutes of the film already so I still have some faith in it. At the very least, I think this movie will be technically great. You have Lee Smith, Mauro Fiore, and Hans Zimmer behind the scenes.

Thor's powers are incredibly inconsistent too. In the first Avengers movie, he was summoning a lighting storm to decimate the enemies coming out of the portal. Then 80 percent of the time, we don't see his lightning power and he start fighting hordes of enemies hand to hand. Thor's inconsistency is similar to Storm's in the X-Men movies. She could summon tornadoes and hurricanes but only use lightning powers 80% of the time.

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Now that I have time to think about it, I think I'll give it a 8 out of 10. I honestly thought Infinity War was better. What hurts this movie for me is that despite the secrecy surrounding the plot, the story was really disappointingly simple. They travel back in time to undo everything. The one thing that elevated the film was how well the emotional aspects were. Almost all the scenes that were supposed to hurt you, hurt you.

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i just came back and I have to say...I have mixed feelings. The movie really good, but it is not clear cut my favorite movie of the MCU. I think the first act of the movie has way too much exposition. Just too much back and forth over a single concept. The movies gets progressively better and the final resolution scenes are among the best in comic book history. A lot of things I like and don't like:

Looks great. Looks more unique than any Marvel film in recent years.

Yeah probably.

Yes. I don't want everything to be under Disney's formula. Bob Iger is arguably the greatest CEO in the world and his business decisions made Disney into a unparalleled empire. But artistically, people have stated that he really push for familiarity over risk taking and that is my problem with this deal.

I just saw the movie. I really like it. I think the story has just enough heart for you to keep going and the characters showed enough charisma and personality without overwhelming the audience, something that other Marvel films had trouble with. Brie Larson is fine as Captain Marvel, despite a lot of criticism about her portrayal that I read about and it is always great to see Fury on screen doing something clever. I think the action sequences are definitely the weakest part about this movie. Spaceship dogfights? Really? Star Wars sort of owned every shot of those already. None of the villains are that interesting and she didn't really fight anyone of note. I also feel that she has gotten so powerful so quickly, all the battle scenes are sort of pointless anyway. But overall, I enjoyed the movie. Not top tier Marvel, but a good mid-tier one.

I think this is terrible for the industry. I also think this is bad for the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.

Because they had executives that were dumb and thought that Zack Snyder is a some visionary director when he is basically only a visionary cinematographer? This is a company that made The Dark Knight and they squandered that prestige overnight. They could totally beat Marvel in quality with director-focused movies, instead, but they had zero vision and decided to complete with Marvel building a forced shared universe. Fox was able to make interesting movies because while the people there made dumb moves, at least a lot of the directors they picked had some kind of vision.

I think Dark Knight spent a lot of time melding various political issues including surveillance, vigilante justification, torture, using lies to justify an end, etc. A few of those themes are also the reason why I think Captain America: Winter Soldier is arguably the best Marvel film because it actually has something to say, even though most of it was broad strokes. A lesser level down are films like Venom, where it channels some cautionary elements about biotechnology, but everyone knows they just needed a plot device to justify the film's battles. Logan to me, is one of the few comic movies that reflects on a hero at the end of a journey where redemption is nearly impossible. The story has nothing to do with saving the world or battling a super villain, rather, but it is a reflection of what a man has to do to die with some kind of fulfillment. I have similar appreciation for A Days of the Future Past where the real villain in the film is humanity's distrust and our misguided beliefs of safety through separation. Read the synopsis of Noah Hawley's Doctor Doom movie: "Hawley said during the panel, as he has before, that he envisions Doctor Doom as a geopolitical thriller more than a standard superhero movie. It begins with Doom putting a dome over Latveria, the fictional European country he rules. He later invites a female journalist to be his voice to the world, meaning its protagonist would be someone without superpowers." Could this film be a disaster? Sure. But I give him mad respect for trying something different, for taking risks. I hope this gets made. Do I think Disney will support this? I am not holding on to hope. Marvel Studios is unquestionably in the driver seat. The industry goes where they will go. I will say that I am optimistic to see films like Black Widow, Black Panther, and even The Eternal getting made. Maybe none of those films are that groundbreaking, but getting indie directors like Cate Shortland, Ryan Coogler, and Chloe Zhao is a positive first step that they want more director input, and perhaps, more uniqueness.

Yeah, it is hard to write those films, and as long as people settled for "easy" films, there will be very little incentive for studios to make "hard" ones. Yes, Legion and Marvel shows on Netflix like Daredevil are great, but the freedom and the creativity on TV/Streaming do not crossover to films. I wish they do. As for Blade and Morbius, I am not convinced they are not just stylized Marvel films with darker skins like Venom was. I doubt those movies will actually reflect on society culturally/politically or touch on the nature of the human condition. Brightburn is interesting, but probably more horror than drama.