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Green Lantern.
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Is it just disappointing or truly bad?
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looks a little too deliberate to be Tom's problem, I guess the use of the glow stick of destiny is supposed to tire him out?
Remarkably so.
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The only thing.
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If it had just been "House Party!" then the fight with the Mandarin while things exploded in the background and was ten minutes shorter, that might have worked.
But it kept cutting to the Robots getting blown up and fighting Extremis soldiers. After the fifth or six shot I was thinking "Yeah, I get it."
It just felt like they were re-hashing/one-upping the drone fight in Iron-Man 2, which suffered similar problems. At least we got a proper fight from the villain this time, though he did suddenly go to chopping through every armor like it was cheese.
That and the action in the big finale was kinda hard to follow at times, basically just when the drones were zipping around.
Basically any and all of my complaints stem from that last 20 minutes.
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The effects are awful. The costume doesn't work in the least, the hard light looks silly, and anything at Oa may as well be a cartoon.
The movie introduces and then abandons characters with no logic whatsoever.
The Villains are terrible. One is a petty science professor and the other is a yellow cloud.
I think the Green Lantern might accidentally kill a guy and then run off to Oa to avoid dealing with is.
Everybody sucks at acting. Even the guys who are normally alright are terrible in this.
Amanda Waller is in this and she is skinny.
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Oh hey I got the alien artifact it's cool i guess.
Avengers Assemble
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Each was paid differently with the lowest being 200k. I think that was either Scarjo or Hemsworth.
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that's why RDJ is apparently using himself as leverage to re-negotiate the others
Which is, of course, a lot of money, sure. But considering he got paid 5 Million to be in the much less high profile than Avengers 2 or Thor 2 Snow White and the Huntsman Marvel is being super stingy.
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Good on him in that case.
It is.
RDJ's contract is up and he's a big deal.
ANd the great thing here is that RDJ knows this and he's still fighting for other people to get a bigger paycheck.
Which, lets be honest will probably mean he takes a smaller one.
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I assumed the biggest take-home was still Jack Nicholson's Joker
'Cause he was smart as hell and took a large slice of merchandising profits
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When RDJ signed his initial contract he got a share of the gross.
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Didn't Snow White come out after Thor?
Part of the reason why you pen multi-year deals is A: to give the actor some idea of what they make so they don't starve and B: get the rate of the actor at 'fresh young face' for years to come instead of dealing with your overnight A-lister.
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The dude isn't going on a social crusade for wage reform, he is helping out his friends who are being paid far less than any other studio would be paying them for how huge the franchises are.
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And I understand that Marvel is making smart business decisions, wage wise, but they should not be surprised that the cast is upset with the contracts they signed years before Avengers became pretty much the largest film franchise around.
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scarjo surprises me though; she'll really play a pretty involved role in a major, major movie for 200k?
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
The Accountant?!
Look, as bad as that show was
One of the bad guys was a mobster gorilla, complete with pinstripe suit.
For that, I'll tolerate its existence.
Turtles Forever is seriously the best thing.
Like, it has no RIGHT being as funny as it is.
I should mention that I never really got that into the 2003 series. Loads of people shower it with praise, but it mostly bored the hell out of me. Mainly because I put a lot of value in the voice acting, and the cast on that show was really small and so many of the character voices just sounded very stale and boring, which kinda killed it for me. It also wasn't particularly funny, and kinda played things really straight for the most part, which never really felt right to me.
But Turtles Forever balanced it out pretty perfectly by throwing in the classic turtles. The way everything they did clashed with modern storytelling was perfect.
Also this scene
It will be in my heart forever.
That'd be Disney.
Who has a reputation for dicking over actors.
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i actually think i read somewhere back when IM2 came out Scarjo was getting paid more than most all the other cast, maybe even RDJ. Of course that's before royalties or whatever and just for IM2.
That and Marvel is still headed up by Ike, who is INSANE on his penny pinching.
Okay while I agree that smart recasting could be cool, I do not at all agree that the focus should be on the fucking visual effects over the story and the interactions of the characters
that way lies George Lucas
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A lot of those guys are protected by unions for wages
you know...im not entirely sure about actor unions or what their rules are on this. Hmm...
From what I've read and how I understand it, VFX companies basically work on a contractual basis in general and because of competitive rates, subsidies, and tax incentives from companies outside of the US, the turn over rate for such artists is high and their salaries don't cut it with the way they're hired and terminated in quick succession. While I respect RDJ for trying to make sure every actor, especially in such an ensemble project as the MCU, be paid as close as possible to equally, I understand why some would argue he could help make a difference in regards to many of these VFX studios tanking because they're not being paid enough for the amount of work they do. At the same time, there are too many factors, too many issues, and a lot of them aren't to do with Hollywood specifically, that are causing such an issue within one sector of the film industry.
But the tone I got from that passage was less "VFX guys should get what they're due" and more "who cares, people only see these for the effects" which is likewise not a good attitude
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