i survived the fantastic four
Apr. 17th, 2016 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoeleventhat is, last year's superhero turkey. i think it descends into being so bad it's good: wooden acting, trite dialogue, predictable plot... and eminently worth a laugh because of it. if you're into wretched movies and have some time to kill, it's probably worth seeing.
ex machina, however, is just bad. i may have come into it with a bad approach, since i kept wondering if it would add anything to cinema beyond what blade runner already did. spoiler: it doesn't. that wouldn't be so awful if it wasn't trying to, but the movie kept wanting to.
the result, IMAO, is that it keeps calling blade runner to mind, holding itself up for comparison, and being found wanting. perhaps it wouldn't be so bad for a viewer who'd never seen blade runner... but in that case, i'd recommending seeing that and skipping
ex machina.
ant man is harmless. it's a superhero origin story movie, a sub-subgenre i find tiring. others may not care so much about that. otherwise, it's not noteworthy: it's a workmanlike example of a supers movie. see it if you're interested in the character, or are a marvel supers completist. otherwise, well, expect to see more of ant man in future marvel movies.
ex machina, however, is just bad. i may have come into it with a bad approach, since i kept wondering if it would add anything to cinema beyond what blade runner already did. spoiler: it doesn't. that wouldn't be so awful if it wasn't trying to, but the movie kept wanting to.
the result, IMAO, is that it keeps calling blade runner to mind, holding itself up for comparison, and being found wanting. perhaps it wouldn't be so bad for a viewer who'd never seen blade runner... but in that case, i'd recommending seeing that and skipping
ex machina.
ant man is harmless. it's a superhero origin story movie, a sub-subgenre i find tiring. others may not care so much about that. otherwise, it's not noteworthy: it's a workmanlike example of a supers movie. see it if you're interested in the character, or are a marvel supers completist. otherwise, well, expect to see more of ant man in future marvel movies.