The story feels like a cheesy straight-to-video horror movie that came out in the late 80s but the visual style is very slick and modern. I don’t know if we are supposed to take this seriously. There is lots of bad dialogue and bad acting and yet the premise is so wacky (yet predicable) that it remains a fun watch until the end.
The story is not very interesting and the movie is almost 60% dudes fighting in the sky lameness. We’re getting to a point where they are introducing too many new superheroes. I can’t keep track and I am watching these one after another. But still, it’s mindless entertainment.
The Guardians films remain the best of the Marvel movies. This is mostly due to their disconnect from Earthly reality. I am more willing to accept physics defying action when it takes place in a colorful wacky spacescape. The characters are all well-defined and genuinely funny and this feels like a comic book movie should feel (still doesn’t hold a candle compared to the greatest comic book movie of all time, Danger Diabolik).
The third in the reboot series which is more or less the same as its predecessors. Excellent graphics, the usual fun mix of platforming, puzzles, and combat.
The story is the typical bad guys that want the object that will give them the ultimate power in the universe! Plans are thwarted and Lara triumphs! I was close, but I didn’t have the energy to 100% this one.
This one is a little better than the last few Marvel movies I’ve watched. The first half is basically a spy thriller. This is far more interesting than the hackneyed “guys fighting in the sky” climax that, unfortunately, ends the film.
None of the actors except the guy who plays Loki appear to be having any fun. Everything just feels like rip-offs of other (better) fantasy movies—the art direction, the music, the sound effects, everything. This could have been 90 minutes. It wasn’t.
These Marvel movies feel like a Television series, and by Television Series I mean a mindless sitcom that you watch because it happens to be on every afternoon when you are getting supper ready. They are enjoyable yet predictable and nothing of substance ever happens. I was glad most of this entry was just unsuited Tony Stark doing stuff. There was a cheesy kid sidekick subplot that teetered on annoying.
Fish out of water parts were okay. The stuff in Middle Earth was really dumb.
The great superhero slog continues. Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal is fun, but nothing interesting really happens in this movie and, as always, suffers from the same stakes-free CGI action climax. The main villain is really dumb and inappropriately played for comedy at the expense of plot logic.
An okay horror movie with some annoying acting at the beginning but it get better as the horror ratchets up. It’s like The Fog meets Cabin Fever.
