🦇 The sci-fi, fantasy and capeshit thread

Compared to other “Superhero Franchises” most recent output, Guardians of the Galaxy V 3 is not shit.
It’s totally pointless, but not shit.
If it was an episode of Star Trek - “A Major Characters’ back story episode” it would be fine, but a whole movie devoted to Rocket’s back story? Jeez couldn’t the assembled throng of Disney Interns come up with anything more creative? Some Supervillain trying to destroy the Galaxy (again)? Please?
So compared to everything else I have seen from MCU Cinema of late it wasn’t shit, not worth paying money to see but a good watch on a stream.

Now, Secret Invasion? Well that continues to kick some ass and has a story.

Foundation returns nextweek on Apple + looks massive

If you have Insta ot takes you straight to Lou Lou belle

The Flash.

Ezra Miller’s rendition of the titular character is simply not in anyway likeable or engagable. It matters not if he can act it is just he doesnt fit the role.

They make the film unpleasant.

Everything else about the film is actually great, it is enjoyable, the whole revisit to the whole General Zod thing, Batman, multiverses, all great, just Ezra doesnt fit the suit and doesn’t vibe in the role

A good film to watch, should have made zillions, bombed and i can see why, great to watch crap to pay for

Watched The Flash last night. I went in with low expectations, and some of those were met, but I also enjoyed it a lot. Ezra Miller, known wrong’un in real life, carries this movie very well playing two versions of Barry. Unlike most DC films, there’s a relatable emotional element to the film, strong motivations and likeable characters.

It does fall apart a bit in the final act. There are aspects of that I liked, but the cameos section was fucking awful both in terms of what they showed and how it looked.

Minor spoiler. One of the cameos is Nicolas Cage as Superman, which will just confuse the fuck out of people who’d never heard that Cage was once up to play the role.

That all said, easily one of the better DC movies.

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Just finished Silo S1.
Very good, very dark & claustrophobic
And from that darkness and closed shop suddenly oh yes S2 has to happen.
Very clever.

And yes @pap Flash was good, hated Ezra Miller

Been thinking about why these movies are tanking.
Avengers were simple Iron Man had a story, Thor is a God, Guardians had a family, you didnt have to be a nerd.
Flash?
Well unless youread the comics OR loved Netflix Barry, you wont understand the speedforce and other geek stuff
Just too complex

There was an actual Superman cameo?

I think there are at lest three different Supermen of the past, including the one who killed himself for being typecast as Superman.

The cameos were in very poor taste, I feel. Most of the characters that are actually in the film work well.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is not shit

This was a damn fine show on Apple + and amazingly is back for a S2.

Oooh Ooh OOOOH!!

Prime Video

15th August!

I have questions.
But a HUGE amount of love for that project

Ahsoka the series.
No idea why.
Just watched Ep1
It is not shit

It seems like actual Star Wars

And oh clever…
There is a green female general in the show who seems attractive so I googled
Turns out she’s Ewan McGregor’s wife…

How weird, I’ve been hearing that it’s not good (shit) :man_shrugging:

Still, whatever works for the viewer

I didn’t say it was good.
I said it wasn’t shit.

I think you’ve got to have watched “Star Wars - Rebels” to understand Ahsoka, so many references to characters from that show.

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Brutal.

And fair.

It’s obvious that this hack hasn’t watched, or even bothered to find out about, Star Wars : Rebels which is a big part of the story line of this series.

For mine I don’t find it too bad, there are characters in there that have never been mentioned before or after, such as Baylon Skoll and his apprentice Hati.

Also Ezra Bridges is supposed to be one of the most powerful Jedi born yet he is never subsequently mentioned.

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Ahsoka does ramble though.
But it is proper Star Wars and doesn’t have men in silly hats and stormtroopers who cannot shoot (yet)

But the key issue is that those shows were really for nerds, not the general population, so you have Disney/Lucas creating content for a small percentage of the public that saw those shows and are still around/bothered now they have grown up.

Where exactly are we going with SW?

Ahsoka rambles on. It is OK the latest episode away from Cruisers adds more to the universe…

Invasion continues to be superb, it also is only moments from disaster and falling back into a million other series. At the moment it’s up there.

And Wheel of Time. A bunch of you were big fans of the books and S1 when I found it “rambling”

S2 is better it doesn’t ramble, equally it doesn’t exactly fly along but so far I am happy to plod along with it. It fill the time in between the weekly Lower Decks fixes which continues to be

Most not shit

Loki S2.
Is by far the best thing Marvel has put out since, well, probably Loki S1

Tom & Owen are just perfect and it is good.