“If you've ever found yourself walking out of a Marvel movie and said to yourself, "I liked it. It was fine. But I don't know. I can't help thinking it could have used...just you know a lot more vivisection," then rest assured your tastes have finally been catered to, you sicko freak.””
I had a little smile when I saw the trailer for this last week as it reminded me of the last time you mentioned the franchise in a podcast, discussing the ever-decreasing title lengths. I’m glad you jumped straight in with an early viewing.
Love that you finish with the ‘Go or don’t go?’ question after starting with the statement, ‘This movie didn’t need to happen.’ I think you set your stall out pretty early in the review.
Keith and I are in disagreement over just about everything here (apart from the incomprehensible nature of the plots of Fast movies). I absolutely struggled to see what was so winning about Terrifier 2 and, despite being a huge fan of disaster movies, I thought San Andreas was awful. I am also resoundingly coming in on the side of Maverick. We loved it and I would go as far as to say it was our favourite film of last year and really stood out against some otherwise pretty mediocre offerings. I know it played shamelessly on nostalgia for the original film but it did it so well that I am unashamed in my love for it.
you only mentioned it briefly but thought you might enjoy this review of guardians - https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173031662/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-review-marvel - choice quote,
“If you've ever found yourself walking out of a Marvel movie and said to yourself, "I liked it. It was fine. But I don't know. I can't help thinking it could have used...just you know a lot more vivisection," then rest assured your tastes have finally been catered to, you sicko freak.””
I had a little smile when I saw the trailer for this last week as it reminded me of the last time you mentioned the franchise in a podcast, discussing the ever-decreasing title lengths. I’m glad you jumped straight in with an early viewing.
Love that you finish with the ‘Go or don’t go?’ question after starting with the statement, ‘This movie didn’t need to happen.’ I think you set your stall out pretty early in the review.
Keith and I are in disagreement over just about everything here (apart from the incomprehensible nature of the plots of Fast movies). I absolutely struggled to see what was so winning about Terrifier 2 and, despite being a huge fan of disaster movies, I thought San Andreas was awful. I am also resoundingly coming in on the side of Maverick. We loved it and I would go as far as to say it was our favourite film of last year and really stood out against some otherwise pretty mediocre offerings. I know it played shamelessly on nostalgia for the original film but it did it so well that I am unashamed in my love for it.