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I know there's someone out there with Cannibal Holocaust or Movie 43 as their favorite and I hate them

People involved in making a bad movie might have them as their favorite.

MK Annihilation is not my favorite movie but it holds a soft spot in my heart. First DVD I ever bought

Annihilation is probably the most disappointing movie of my life

I wouldn't be surprised to find people who really love Soithland Tales.

That's my least favorite movie.

She-Hulk is easily my lowest ranked MCU show but I skipped Ms Marvel, Moon Knight and most of What If so working off an incomplete dataset here. Probably should've skipped this one too but the trailer was so good and so were the first few episodes, the last 4 not so much. I'm more hyped for Secret Invasion than I probably should be.

UltimaterializerX posted...

Is Annihilation the movie with "yes now YOU... will die" in it?

It is

Leonhart4 posted...

Jenna Fischer was almost the lead in Alias but execs thought she wasn't "hot" enough so Jennifer Garner got the role instead

I never knew that, but the execs were correct tbh

no idea what my least fav movie would be but i recently saw Spiral (2021) and fuck that was trash

if you don't wanna make a saw movie then just don't make a saw movie yeesh

A lot of people need to watch feardotcom to find their new bottom tier film.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/1/AAeYFbAADwqD.jpg

i'm so happy this thumbnail is a thing god bless Rogue Theory

Well, Matt is a devout Catholic

I'm a dummy who has actually seen Batman & Robin fully and still doesn't think it's QUITE one of the worst movies ever, but I also refuse to watch movies I think I might like less.

Give me more Werewolf By Night.

Grimlyn posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/1/AAeYFbAADwqD.jpg

i'm so happy this thumbnail is a thing god bless Rogue Theory

should have put sunglasses on the baby

LinkMarioSamus posted...

I'm a dummy who has actually seen Batman & Robin fully

Most of us grew up in the 90s and watched through Batman and Robin more than once. And no it's not the worst movie I've ever seen.

That privledge either goes to the Water Horse or something else my friend forced me to watch that I have successfully blanked from my memory.

LMS thinks he's a unicorn for watching Batman & Robin huh

I was 4 by the time the '90s ended. I somehow knew the Titanic was real before I knew about the 1997 movie.

Batman & Robin is just vanilla bad, really. I could name dozens, maybe hundreds, of worse movies.

what a beautiful mind

Several movie release dates getting pushed back.

BLADE
Previously dated 11/3/23 moves to 9/6/24

UNTITLED DEADPOOL MOVIE
Previously dated 9/6/24 moves to 11/8/24

FANTASTIC FOUR
Previously dated 11/8/24 moves to 2/14/25

AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
Previously dated 11/7/25 moves to 5/1/26

https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/marvel-studios-update-theatrical-release-schedule

Yeahh Blade's the big shift there there's really not a surprise with the recent news, not just swapping out the director but needing to rewrite a bad script

Oh I didn't hear that Blade was in development hell

Big gap now between The Marvels and Captain America 4. I expect Spider-Man 4 will end up in the middle of it somewhere, though.

The only reason I brought up Batman & Robin was that we were briefly discussing the worst films we've ever seen. All I mentioned is that I highly doubt I'd actually find it one of the worst movies ever made, except that I have no desire to watch movies that I think I might like less. Heck, last year I watched the thriller Ava starring Jessica Chastain with my family and I think I found it worse than Batman & Robin, albeit not in any interesting way. I didn't mean to get across that I'm a special unicorn for watching Batman & Robin, more that the movie itself is one because I rarely actively seek out movies that are so notoriously bad (do like watching the Nostalgia Critic and Cinematic Excrement destroy them though), but I watched the Schumacher Batman movies because of their casts, the man himself passing away, and that people still talk about them after more than two decades for better or worse.

I wanted to avoid derailing the thread too much, so I'm only clearing up why I brought up Batman & Robin earlier.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Though there are two ways to tie Batman & Robin into the MCU:

1) John Glover was in both that movie and an episode of Agent Carter.

2) It was reported before the release of the new Thor movie that people were comparing it to Batman & Robin based on the trailers. I personally think, especially after watching both movies that such comparisons are a load of hogwash and are based entirely on Thor 4 being "campy" - even though it's a completely different kind of camp than Batman & Robin and if anything is more comparable to something like Flash Gordon or even Big Trouble in Little China. And not to get too off-topic, but I personally had no problem whatsoever with the Schumacher Batman movies being campy. Their scripts were awful, camp in and of itself was not the problem. Also, IMO Forever wasn't any campier than the Burton films - only less blatantly grotesque. I also watched the '89 Batman last year in addition to the Schumacher ones. I've seen Returns before, but I remember not liking it so I'm not really looking forward to re-visiting it.

Our favorite Marvel superhero, Batman!

"I don't want to derail the topic too much"

*continues to derail the topic*

I did tie it into the MCU though! I explained why comparing Thor: Love & Thunder to Batman & Robin is a massive false equivalency IMO.

Thank you for answering the questions nobody asked LMS.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

I did tie it into the MCU though! I explained why comparing Thor: Love & Thunder to Batman & Robin is a massive false equivalency IMO.

In other words, it had nothing to do with anything because literally nobody here made that comparison but you.

I was up all night worrying about the LMS thought process on this Batman and Robin conundrum glad it's all sorted out

Now we can get back to talking about star wars

LMS is my hero

JonThePenguin posted...

AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
Previously dated 11/7/25 moves to 5/1/26

Happy 39th birthday to me!

LinkMarioSamus posted...

I did tie it into the MCU though! I explained why comparing Thor: Love & Thunder to Batman & Robin is a massive false equivalency IMO.

I want this on a shirt

10/10 best show ever.

She-Hulk finale is insane holy shit wtf

really she-hulk smashes you with some wtf is happenings, first all the madness "twists" going on at Blonsky's before Jen literally just friggin' nopes this shit with "K.E.V.I.N" lmfao wow my mind was imploding and loving it.

I've got conflicting feels, but then the show is intentionally pushing you to feel that way so it's really great. It's incredibly enjoyable to watch unfold, although I can understand this being an unsatisfying ending like as a conclusion to the season's plot itself - but on that point I feel like you got your priorities mixed up for what the show's been actually leaning on, where this actually fits right in perfectly. I know there's a few of you that have been having issues with the show not taking things seriously and uh yeah this finale's not gonna be for you.

I loved that I really hated Todd Hulking Out only for that to quickly get canonically retconned out oh my shit thank you for saving us from that Jen. I was though hoping to just fully retcon Blonsky's involvement because damn man this is some real heinous shit you're a part of wtf and there's really know time given for you to explain it. Made it kinda awkward for the post-credits scene to free him but then I'm thinking "damn but you're a real piece of shit now"

Wish the episode was longer geez c'mon it's the finale and it definitely could've used a bit more time to explain wtf happened

I'm also disappointed in myself for not IMMEDIATELY realizing that it was Blonsky's cabin as soon as we got there. Like holy shit literally Abomaste and all the Today is Today signage everywhere how god damn bad is my peripheral vision christ. And duhhh of course Nikki & Pug are going to the same place Jen is, they're all coming together for the final set! Literally it took Abomination's physical appearance before I finally friggin' realized.

I got so much thoughts about this episode every which way but I think I gotta ultimately say this was my favourite finale, warts & all. It's just so crazy making me feel a whole buncha things and I really enjoyed it. tbf the track record for D+ finales isn't great anyways, I enjoyed Loki although it's just a lot of exposition, plus Hawkeye was a fun satisfying end... but yeah I'm pretty comfy putting this one on top, the sheer absurdity is far too great.

Reading up I'm hearing complaints about Skaar's appearance but as a non-reader with no familiarity I didn't have an issues crossing my mind at the time, I was just happy with myself for correctly predicting Hulk was gonna come back with him straight from ep1 (well, ep1 convinced me Bruce was getting news of Skaar, then ep2 convinced me he might be picking him up already)

She-Hulk > Hawkeye > Moon Knight > Loki > WandaVision > F&WS >= Ms. Marvel

also holy hell my recent 1978 Hulk series watchthough was so incredibly worth it oh my god the intro to this episode was *spectacular*

Updated MCU Disney+ rankings

1. Hawkeye
2. Loki
3. She-Hulk
4. Moon Knight
5. Wandavision
6. What If...?
7. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
8. Ms. Marvel

the final episode of She-Hulk though might be the best thing out of all of them combined

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Our favorite Marvel superhero, Batman!

Gorr the God Butcher isn't who I'd call a superhero but he was pretty good.

The final episode of She-Hulk was amazing

I watched the first 2 episodes of She-Hulk. It wasn't bad but like I wasn't really into it. It was "fine." Then people's reactions to later episodes made me not encouraged to catch back up.

Is it worth it to finish it for the final episode? I feel like my reaction isn't too far off from what other people in here had so.

Lopen posted...

Gorr the God Butcher isn't who I'd call a superhero but he was pretty good.

Good catch lol. If the movie had like one or two additional scenes with him that weren't comedic, I would have probably actually liked it instead of being just off the fence. Anyway, that Batman is in heaven while the other got warped into another universe somehow. Guess it had something to do with Spider-Man.

Lopen posted...

I watched the first 2 episodes of She-Hulk. It wasn't bad but like I wasn't really into it. It was "fine." Then people's reactions to later episodes made me not encouraged to catch back up.

Is it worth it to finish it for the final episode? I feel like my reaction isn't too far off from what other people in here had so.

Without having seen the finale, I think you can literally just watch the Daredevil episode and be satisfied. It's some very quality Daredevil if you're a fan of the character from the comics--and even the TV show really.

But the rest is completely missable imo if the first two episodes didn't hook you.

Very very solid finale. She Hulk is probably one of the best marvel shows at this point?

First, people asked "Why don't the Avengers work as a team full time so they can all gang up on every villain who fancies their chances?"

Then, people asked "Why doesn't Ant Man shrink himself down, climb inside the villain then grow while inside them to kill them immediately?"

Now, people will ask "Why doesn't She-Hulk break into the writer's room and re-write every script so that the villain is immediately defeated in humiliating fashion?"

oh