Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-13 (Thursday)

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:37:10 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 2/14/25 9:05 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
 

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

I watched:
 
Captain America: Brave New World (theatrical) - Picking up after the
events of "The Incredible Hulk" (this is almost a sequel to Hulk), "The
Falcon and the Winter Soldier," and "Eternals," Sam Wilson (Anthony
Mackie) is the new Captain America, Joaquin Toerres (Danny Ramirez)is
the new Falcon, and Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) is the U.S. President.
President Ross is dealing with the international fallout from the
events of "Etenals" with the local major powers scrambling to the
celestial island, with Ross determined to claim it for the U.S.  Ross is
also trying to reconnect with his daughter, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler who
hasn't been in the MCU since The Incredible Hulk).  Meanwhile Samuel
Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson reprising his role from "The Incredible Hulk")
looks slightly more comic accurate and is out for revenge against Ross.
He sets in motion a convoluted scheme and it's up to Captain America to
save the day.
 
It's common knowledge that this movie had massive reshoots and as part
of the reshoots Giancarlo Esposito was added as "Sidewinder" the leader
of the Serpent Society.  He's brought in as basically Stern's muscle.
His scenes are probably the better scenes, Giancarlo is going to
Giancarlo, but they do feel a bit inserted in.  I also noticed a scene
involving the President Ross' personal Black Widow where she shows up
with what appears to be wearing a super hero costume under her jacket,
but she's never shown in any other scene in the movie wearing a costume.
I suspect all of the scenes of her in costume got cut.  And the
scenes/plot involving the Japanese President felt like they were from
the earlier version of the movie before reshoots and left unresolved as
a result.  I still have *no* idea how Sterns was able to control people.
Yeah, he's a super genius, but they never showed how he got the upper
hand.  I don't know if that was left on the cutting room floor or a
victim of reshoots.  It's not *that* important, you can read between the
lines, super evil genius, that's how he did it, but it would have been
nice to *see* a flashback of him setting things in motion.
 
That's not to say the movie bad.  Far from it.  I liked it.  I thought
it was OK.  Not great or anything.  It's not "The Avengers" and Captain
America is not battling an alien invasion.  It's an Earthbound movie
with Captain America trying to stop an evil genius from causing Ross to
Hulk out.  If you've seen the commercials, you already know how well
that goes.

 
It was posted yesterday that they’ve already officially declared that it’s
going to have a much smaller opening weekend than previously claimed. I
don’t know why the hell you’d put out a press release like that talk about
self-fulfilling prophecy.

 
I think the answer is that Disney is basically a sh*t show now, and
nobody seems to know what they're doing, or what they're trying to
accomplish.
 
And it feels like that goes double for SW and the MCU.
 

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And that they still haven’t learned to keep their peoples mouth shut, not
even after Larson and Zegler and Mackie.

Ah, that may not be the case. At least from what I've seen Larson has
learned to try and keep quiet on subjects outside of the movie she's
helping promote. According to one video she even responded to a
question from a reporter with a comment that there was no good answer
to that question. So they can learn, even if it takes a few years and
multiple mistakes.