After the disappointment that was Apocalypse and the fact that they are once again doing the Dark Phoenix Saga without making me care about Jean Grey AGAIN! Not only that but having the person who did The Last Stand, one of my least favorite movies from the X-Men Universe, I didn't want to see it either.

I can't believe that someone looked at what Tom Hooper was planning and didn't hit him over the head with a newspaper yelling, "NO!" There is nothing from the idea to execution that is a good idea in this movie. Even if you go with digital people like cats, why make the entire thing so drab and uninteresting and dark? Why take a musical that is a spectacle with fun dancing and not makes either the spectacle or the dancing the main highlights of the movie? Why make the cats look so creepy? Why make them so horny? Why cast people who can't sing and can't dance in a movie that is nothing but singing and dancing?

It is a movie I am happy I saw in theaters because I don't think I will ever see a movie that bad from beginning to end and that fascinating to look at, while also being very boring, ever again.

 

I happened to watch Missing Link yesterday. It was an enjoyable movie. I'm surprised it lost that much. I don't recall much advertising for it. I wonder where they spent all the money? I recall reading that their budget was very small, something like $6.5 mil. Makes me wonder how they reached that loss estimate.
I had no desire to watch any of the others on the list.

 

I thought Dark Phoenix was OKAY....not nearly as horrible as some made it out to be, yet not good enough to ever watch all the way through again either. If I happened to catch it on HBO or something though, I might watch 10-15 minutes of it again.

 

Yeah, I think I watched it on Disney+ as well. You already know the story line and it's worth looking at anyway- it's just a darker rendition of the earlier versions. I'm personally not in love with any of the newer X-Men movies though...I'd say most of them were just "okay" as well. Phoenix was just as good (or bad) as the other X-Men stuff they put out the last 5-10 years.

I'm a tough critic anyway though- I though Infinity War II was straight-up boring for 90% of the movie.

 

Oh, Deadpool counts as an X-Men movie? Okay, I liked both of those and I liked Logan too (and all the Wolverine movies). In fact, I think most of the solo character movies have been pretty solid (spidey, iron man, etc). The new x-men family didn't impress me as much as the Picard-led versions though. Again, it's not that they were bad....they just didn't have me on the edge of my seat. I loved infinity war and hated the 2nd one, mostly because the 2nd film was all about undoing the last 60 seconds of the first and it took them hours to do it. I would have been fine with it ending on Thanos's snap personally and say the heroes lost. To me, that doesn't kill any future movies because they all reset every 10-15 years anyway.

Captain America...I loved the 1st but lost interest quickly. The Thor movies were fun (although again, fat Thor in Infinity War II...I could cuss about for days. The same goes for "scared hulk"...don't fundamentally change my childhood heroes!). So I really enjoyed most of them up until Infinity II. Avengers movies were also great overall...the Hulk smashing Loki maybe my favorite movie scene ever!

But at the same time, I think the writing got weaker and a lot of characters were "skimmed over". Hawkeye wasn't impressive. I have no idea what Scarlett Johansen's character can even do superpower-wise. Storm should have been WAY more powerful. Some stuff like that felt like they needed support actors that didn't fit the lineup or the story they wanted to tell, so they just threw them in there anyways.

 

They will keep it up as long as the money keeps coming in. If that starts to falter because people who built connections to early characters don't feel like investing in the newer generations, then they will drop it and reboot. Personally, I like what they have done far, and think they have shown a good ability to keep things fresh with more obscure heroes like the Guardians while keeping their anchors in Iron Man, Cap and Thor.

 

I also feel for Laika having enjoyed their previous 3 movies. I think I liked Box Trolls the best.

 

At the beginning of this I wanted to rent Kubo And The Two Strings. I can only get it on Vudu and iTunes.

 

It's a good one. Their movies are always quality. Someone here mentioned some botched/lack of marketing, and considering I'm a huge movie watcher and hadn't heard of Missing Link, I would agree that might be pretty accurate.