[ SECRET POST #3052 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3050 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Falcon Densetsu/F-Zero GP Legends]


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(Stephen Paul Manderson aka Professor Green, Never Mind the Buzzcocks)


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[Elysium]


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[Jeremy Renner]















Notes:

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Comments

[ariakas]

Eh, it's got 66 on metacritic and an average 6.7/10 on rotten tomatoes, which is about what I'd give it. It wasn't bad. I was entertained.

At the same time it wasn't anywhere near as good as the first one and really does seem like they're running out of ideas. If Avengers 3 follows the same formula I doubt I'll bother with it.

That said, the Transformers movies still make money by the truckload, so I'm not sure mediocrity is a barrier to popularity.

[kaijinscendre]

Rottentomatoes is showing at a 74% for me?

And I can't see how they are running out of ideas. I mean, all the major plot points are from comic books. And there are a ton of story lines for them to choose from.

And the Transformers is a perfect example of why there is NO reason to be worried. The Transformers review terribly but they keep making them. Because reviews don't reflect what audiences want to see.

[ariakas]

The 74% is the percentage of critics who gave it a positive score. A "positive score" on RT is anything over 6/10, I believe. If you look right below that number, it'll give you an "Average Score" of 6.7/10 which is what they actually rated it, on average. It functions differently than Metacritic, which gives the average out of 100, rather than the percentage of critics who gave it a score over a certain threshold.

The result is that a fairly mediocre film can end up with an almost perfect score on RT, lol. If everybody thought it was a 6.1/10, it'd be rated at 100%.

I've never been much of a comic fan, but if there's that much to choose from, why are the plots for the main entries so samey? I understand that the Civil War is something different, but I don't want to pay another $10 to watch yet more uninspired group tower defense with a couple of mediocre-to-adequate one-liners before someone inevitably gets Joss'd for cheap drama.

[kaijinscendre]

Because that is the nature of superheroes? They are good guys who fight bad guys. Different bad guys, different conflicts (internally and externally) but that is what they are about.

Most people don't want to see a superhero movie where Tony Stark spends the whole time doing corporate takeovers.

[ariakas]

lol I'd pay to see that

Nah, the formula is a lot more specific than "good guys who fight bad guys." The Winter Soldier was nothing like either of the Avengers films. Neither was, say, Man of Steel. Or The Watchmen. Or The Dark Knight. Or even the original Iron Man. Yet these are all superhero movies.

They really don't have to all be "save the planet from robot-aliens through team tower defense."