I was hoping for a picture or joke mostly. Some sly reference not a real character.
tbh I thought the cartoon/joke characters were the worst part of spiderverse
I liked the tech bro part of the story. Itâs not necessarily the most realistic when it comes to an asteroid destroying the planet, but tech bro hubris which ultimately is harmful seems like a richer vein to mine than mass media is vapid and politicians are venal.
Also JLaw > DiCapro
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Never did I ever expect such serious discussion from my post on the subject. Yikes.
I wouldnât expect any spider verse ppl in live action until they do their 3 animated movies. Next one is out next year, trailer already came out.
Probably get a live action Miles then, but thatâs like 2025 at earliest
An after credits scene of J Jonahs infowars type broadcast seeing a half pig half spiderperson would have been funny though.
Yes that would have been a great way to work it in, as some bizarre conspiracy theory.
His character gives off a strong Alex Jones vibe in presentation and voice.
Alex has said âThey made me the main villain of a Spider-Man movieâ because he is a delusional twat
Only thing that irritated me about no way home was no âjameson is always the same person in every universeâ type joke but oh well. Also daredevilâs line after catching the brick should have been âIâm a defense lawyerâ =/
In the Spider Man videogame, Jameson is clearly a parody of Bill OâReiley.
If you like action movies with some brutal scenes it is a good watch. You only need to survive the first 15-20 minutes. 
I wouldnât say I liked it, but the tech bro story felt 100% like something Elon Musk would do if he had more influence in the government. His ego and tendency to spin frauds is so deeply ingrained in his personality he wouldnât even consider that heâs putting the entire world at risk.
âDonât look upâ : not as bad as expected given the bad reviews, the cast does a good job and managed to keep it entertaining enough.
As noted the satire doesnât really work though. On some points itâs hard to blame them (political satire after Trump is clearly very hard to pull off), but a bunch of stuff about social media was very boomer-ish (the post-credits scene was maybe the worst example).
Also this was a very US centric movie. I guess this is the target audience (despite the movie having a global release on Netflix), but the fact that the rest of the world isnât mentioned more than 30sec was a bit annoying. I also think the satire would have hit better if they spent more time showing how other countriesâ efforts also failed for systemic reasons but in a different way.
The fact that the âscientist good guysâ basically end the movie saying a prayer to God is also another very American thing which I found annoying.
I fully expected Adam McKay to end his movie by having âglobal warming factsâ shown over the end credits (like he did at the end of âthe other guysâ for the financial crisis), so I guess he deserves at least credit for not doing that lol.
That said, with all the things I didnât like about this movie, the sense of âimpending doomâ is sadly relatable these days, and I couldnât help but feel emotionally connected at the ending.
This reminded me of when I watched Lars Von Trierâs âMelancholiaâ last year which has a similar theme/ending which hit me very strongly. A much better movie, which still has some flaws and Iâm not sure I would have liked it in 2011, but works well in 2021. âIf the world endsâŚthen that means my son will die tooâ is a line of dialogue in âTenetâ at which half the theater probably rolled their eyes at, and yet taken seriously this is of course a tragic and moving story, and this is basically the second half of âMelancholiaâ.
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Yeah thereâs definitely too many parts like this in the movie that only work in the context of the metaphor but not of the actual story being told, which is lazy writing. Another one was when the scientists insisted on the âpeer review processâ for the mission, which makes sense for viral or climate research, but itâs not like they would have double blind reviews or whatever for a mission to blow up a comet lol.
In Bruges is pretty good , laughed out loud a bunch and the drama was good too
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Gleeson is one of those guys that can really bring a movie to life. Another amazing little movie from around the same period of his career is this one:
He is superb as Bill Hodges in Mr Mercedes.
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Movies just need to stop with the digital color filtering, wtf man. Why do we even have color films of every shot is going to be a boring monochromatic mess?
This has to be photoshopped to extend this dudeâs forehead.
Itâs aim is wider than just conservative politics, imo. There are a few digs at EDems and tech bros. Also, it paints a pretty bleak (and accurate) picture of the media and consumers of media generally.