But also movies are definitely worse now, right?

    • Not_irony [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Swole Carrot Top is legit terrifying, but in an It clown kinda way

      • goldsound [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yup, Cheetah. I think I saw 1 or 2 trailers and everything from her pre/post transformation looks to her personality shift seem like a 1:1 copy of Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy lmao.

        • Not_irony [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Decent chance she is the mini-boss and there is a big reveal, like in the first movie

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            the "big reveal" in the first movie was such an obvious fuckup. having there be no big bad villain, like the entire films narrative was leading up to, might have made that shit show of a cape movie actually good.

            just brutally disappointing

            • Not_irony [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              Trying to change up the movie tropes a bit, but, yeah, doesn't work enough to compensate for the lack of emotional payoff

              • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                having her be forced to realize that mans inhumanity was the cause of all the suffering rather than a mystical god-plot to yadayada would have been such a better payoff, and it would have made sense in terms of her proceeding to fuck off back to her island for the next hundred years which is jarring as hell to hear about in whatever the big ensemble movie was, because it turned out her mom was right about people being monsters or whatever.

                but no. god fight! super punch! none of that introspection on human failure stuff here!

                :virgil-sad:

          • Ol_King_Coleslaw [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I'm fairly certain Maxwell Lord is the main villain of the movie with Cheetah as the secondary antagonist.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Ugh. Really selling me on skipping this with the Batman Forever comparison.