I understood that reference. Well played Marvel

Has pandering gone too far?

Please tell me that's fake

>first thing to come to the mind of a man stuck in his childhood from the 80s to empower himself is to turn into pacman
>first thing to come to the mind of a man with such a big ego he's literally called ego to empower himself is to turn into a giant version of himself

kino and deeper characterization than every DCEU movie put together

>>82517095
Yeah but what about the Jesus symbolism?!

>>82516879
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*Inhales helium gas*
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha he he heeh hhhhhhhhhhh XXXXXX

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Why does hollywood have such an obsession with pacman?

I don't get it.

>>82516879
thats actually hilarious. major props to marvel to remember the hardcore gamers

>>82517139
the old fogey execs probably lived through the fever in the 80s

>>82517139
>two films

OBSESSED

He should have turned himself into a giant dick because then Ego would be afraid to touch it.

>>82516879
What the fuck is this FUCKING TRASH?! HEAPS OF TRASH!

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>>82517236
and futurama

>>82516879
>people will defend this

>>82517139
>Two, count em two movies in the span of 30 plus years
OBSESSION

>>82516879
And you will still argue that beauty and the beast wasn't kino...................

What is wrong with the first guys head? It looks like it was added in by a 10 year old

>>82517304
>Jewish race-mixing propaganda
>Kino
Pick one

>>82517304
I wont argue anything about it. I'm not a 13 year old girl, so it wasn't for me and I didn't watch it

>>82517120
>jesus symbolism in a postmodern kino
how plebian of you

>set up earlier in the movie that Starlord want's to make a pacman and skeletor statue
>this is the payoff

There is your context

>>82517139
Because retro pandering to hipsters who never stepped foot into an arcade is the easiest fucking thing in the world.

NOOOOOO! YOU CANT HAVE ANY FUN IN A CAPESHIT FLICK!!!!

>>82518677
>>82517366
>>82517277
Star Wars digits deserve checking

>>82516879

If the movie tried less it would have been alot better

>>82517075
It's fucking not, It even WAKAWAKAs, as if that makes any fucking sense.

>>82516879

it doesnt get much more reddit than that

>>82516879
Wow, that looks really fucking retarded.

Holy lels, the absolute state of MCU in 2017

>>82516879
What other references were there in this movie?

That whole scene was as cringy and terrible as the Green Lantern. Can imagine anything and it will become reality, imagine something uncreative and gay as fuck.

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>>82517095
So instead turning in something like CARR or whatever he turns in Pac-Man without swallowing orb which is most useless ever?

>>82517370
Which is why I am not.

>>82516879
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>82517277
GotG volume 2 is literally two or three episodes of Futurama crammed into one The Flick

>>82516879
Please tell me Kurt Rusell dies in this shit so he's not stuck with this meme franchise

>>82517139
Pixels was a good movie

>>82517095
> That damage control

>>82516879
>first one ruins the climax with the dance off cringe shit
>this one ruins the climax with this pacman cringe shit
What the fuck is wrong with these people?

>>82519223
The "Sovereign Citizens" (yes, you heard me right), don't go into battle in their ships. They strap into what are, for all intents and purposes, old-school arcade games booths and fly their ships from safety.

It makes sense until you notice that those booths are spitting back arcade game noises.

>>82519323
Baby groot kills him

>>82517095
>movie is a piece of shit
>b-but Snyder!
Say what you want about Bayformers but that franchise still has more dignity than Marvel

I knew what that was so I clapped!

>>82519274
>So instead turning in something like CARR or whatever he turns in Pac-Man

Fucking thank you. I could have bought him morphing into KITT, but no, we get Pacman because lolsorandumb.

They really dropped the ball with Ego, too. There was a way easier way to make him heartless, and one way more in keeping with the father/son theme.

HAHA SHAKE IT BABY GROOT! XDXD

>>82519394
fuck marvel tbqhwyf

hella f*cking epic! it was like deadpool haha xD
EDIT: thanks for the upboat

Wow, other people in this thread know Pacman? Very cool.

I'm guessing this still got like 90% on RT?

No fun allowed.

It was worth a chuckle at the very least.

>>82516879

I tipped my hat to Gunn with this scene, well played good sir, scholar and gentleman.

>>82516879
>those backgrounds
Worse than the r*ddit pandering

>>82517075
>fake
How exactly would you fake this?

Practically every gag in this movie suffers from "The Family Guy" syndrome, where it goes on just a little too long, becomes just a little too forced and obvious. It's fucking infuriating.

>>82516879
>this is what passes for a good blockbuster in the year of our lord 2017
Just nuke hollywood

>>82517075
It is, but its a nice photoshop though.

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>>82516879

holy fuck, I can't believe this is actually in the movie

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>>82519681
It doesn't take much.

>>82519223
Drax makes a Gurren Lagaan reference

>>82519740
The tape thing pissed me right the fuck off. Why doesn't the resident "tech wiz" just rewire it so they both do the same damn thing?

>>82519740
>The Family Guy
Thanks anon because I couldn't point my finger on why the humor worked so bad in this flick and this is the reason

>>82519740
well the racoon is practically Stewie

>>82516879
>people going to theaters to watch this film and not like it
Why do you do this? Why not just not go?

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>>82519928
But how else would he know?

>>82519928
Because they buy reviews so we think it's good enough to give it a chance.

>>82516879
If this is real why did RLM like this movie, just because its justified by the character doesn't make it any less pandering to manchildren.

>>82519854
What does he say?

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>>82517095
Snyder is the master at cinematography and deep kinography. If you deny this, you're either an actual shill or a falseflagger

>>82519928
>Go to theater
>Enjoy the film
>See other people enjoying the film
>"Shit, it must be a bad movie"
>Pretend to hate movie on /tv/ because all good critics are contrarian, right?

>>82519976
Tells Mantis "Don't believe in yourself, believe in me" when she's about to make Ego sleep

>>82520028
Why are you replying to yourself? You know we can count IPs right?

>>82519323
Yes I hope he returns to the next fast and furious movie.

>>82519947
You could just assume it's bad and wait until you can see it online. If it's so likely you're not going to watch it, you would have wasted time and money to get an unpleasant result that you expected.

>>82516879
Don't want to be that guy but

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>82519951
>Because they buy reviews
That only had to happen to me once to realize what bullshit reviews are, especially RT.

>>82520028
I didn't hate it. It's just never going to be one of my favorite films. It's completely empty entertainment, Disney's stock-in-trade. It won't challenge you. It won't inspire you. It won't even give you anything to think about afterwards. It aims for more laughs than it gets and its shotgun approach to it obscures the more inspired attempts at comedy and humor. It's an excuse to sit in the dark for two hours and look at the pretty lights. As such, it passes with, pardon the pun, flying colors.

In its defense, the lights are very pretty.

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>>82520028
But there's obvious issues with the film. Are you blind or can you not read the fucking thread?

>>82520102
If you're serious, I guess that could be a valid reason to some. Even if you absolutely need to shitpost about a movie, I would just look at reviews, especially the most negative, as a basis. Do you think people on /v/ play all the games they attack, or that anyone would pay $60 just to rip it? Of course not. It might be cheaper to see a film for the same purpose, but it's not necessary.

>>82520036
That's not a reference unless he said "believe in me who believes in you". And even then it wouldn't count as a reference but just as them stealing some funny one liner. A reference implies that there is at least a chance the audience knows what said scene is referencing. No Hollywood movie will ever reference some obscure anime hardly anyone has seen.

>>82520036
It's "You don't need to believe in yourself, because I believe in you."

>>82520104
What kind of drooling retard would go to a superhero movie expecting to be intellectually challenged and being inspired to think?

>>82519310

this is what I said. so many things reminded me of Futurama.

>>82520104
It was bad entertainment though, most of the jokes felt like zombie Simpsons tier.

>>82520174
>dude it was bad on purpose lmao
jesus christ

>>82520146
Isn't mining/tunneling a big part of Gurren Lagaan?

They're at Ego's core when he says it.

>>82516879
damn that compositing and cgi is terrible

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>>82519985

>>82520220
I didn't say that it was bad, are you an idiot? It's just very obviously not meant to challenge you intellectually and make you ponder over the human condition.

Why do contrarians like you pretend that fun little action flicks are no longer allowed and everything must be some 2deep4you bullshit to justify its existence?

>>82516879
Will they ever make a good movie? I'm starting to think Iron Man 1 was a one off hit

>>82520174
Oh, so you're one of those guys who's already been brainwashed, I see.

Break the conditioning.

It was ok, I had fun
People seem to forget Peter left Earth around that time so he idolizes his childhood and everything that represents it

>>82520310
>Why do contrarians like you pretend that fun little action flicks are no longer allowe
As long as we all agree that they are shit, they can exist as much as they want. I have nothing against Fast and Furious movies as long as we are all on the same page about them being absolute trash

>>82520337
The only people who seem brainwashed around here are DCultists. I've enjoyed stupid and fun action flicks since the early 90s and contrarian faggots like you aren't gonna make me stop enjoying them.

>>82520335
Winter Soldier is also good imo, would even be better if it werent for the 100k cuts on every fight scene

>>82520335
Cap1 and TWS are pretty decent movies, though I'm starting to think TWS was the Russos' bottled-lightening moment.

Thor was a good movie for about 45 minutes, too. You can almost feel the moment in production where Disney took a firm grasp on the reins.

Why does everyone love 80s nostalgia pandering but throw fits at even the slightest trace of 90s nostalgia pandering?

>>82519449
>we get Pacman because lolsorandumb.
He says earlier in the movie the first thing he's going to make is a giant Pac-Man though. It's a brick joke.

IM1, WS, AntMan (though is pretty much IM1) and Avengers1. Yes, Avengers1 was a good movie, but main because it was the first movie that could handle several superheroes at the same time without feeling weird, it was something we didn't see before

>>82520377
That's my thing, though - I never said it was bad. I just said it's a damn far cry from being anything great. I gave it an honest critique and you're acting like I just shit on your dining room table.

I'd re-watch Lethal Weapon 2 before I gave this one another sit-through.

>>82516879
>marvel shills will defend this

>>82520146
>>82520150
Actually, Kamina at the beginning used to tell to Simon not to believe in himself but to believe in Kamina instead, obviously the "who believes in you" isn't necessary because it already makes its point.

Also,
>TTGL
>obscure
Are you serious?

>>82519985
Are you autistic?

>>82520363
If I go and watch some mindless blockbusters like Fast and Furious, Transformers, GotG, Avengers, BvS, Suicidie Squad etc I expect fun, entertaining 2 hours. If the movie delivers that, it's not trash because it did exactly what I was expecting from its genre. Only if the movie fails to do that then it's trash. You can't blame a genre for not delivering something that it never wanted to deliver in the first place. That's like watching a Jackie Chan kung fun movie and complaining about a lack of romance drama.

>>82520470
Nah he's falseflagging

>>82519418
lmao do people still do this? I haven't been to a theater in 10+ years. I gotta go to one sometime, you know to experience what it's like to be a mindless drone.

>>82520461
As far as western audiences go? It's obscure as fuck. I'd wager less than 1% of the people who watched GotG2 have ever even heard of TTGL, let alone watched it. You are really overestimating how many weebs there are in real life.

>>82520480
Then you are what we call a "pleb" and I politely ask you to put on a trip so we can filter you forever

>>82520480
"Capeshit" isn't a genre. I can't even believe you lump F&F in with comic book movies. That's how skewed your perceptions have become on what comic book movies even are, and what they can be at their very best.

>>82520480
It's literally not mindless action, though...they talk for about 2 hours in the middle of the film. It's boring as shit.

>>82520518
TTGL ran on either SyFy or the cartoon network for better than a year. It's not as obscure as you think.

>>82520518
Obviously the average normalfag wouldn't have a clue but those who watch anime at the very least know about it.

Besides, we had Robin Williams namedrop Evangelion in a Hollywood movie so it wouldn't be the first time.

>>82520521
If you want to filter every single person who enjoys mindless stupid action flicks like GotG, BvS and Transformers, it would be easier if you just stopped coming here altogether.

>>82520510
They stopped for a while under Obama, but since this whole white nationalism thing started gaining ground Americans have been reclaiming the cultural heritage.

>>82520543
It suffers from what I call "Matrix moments," too, where characters step up to each other and drop 45-second truth bombs of character development and really weird times and places.

"Listen while I tell you what I am and why I know what you are."

>>82520536
You're a comic book movie.

memelord confirmed for smash

>>82520536
They can be both stupid fun and serious storytelling. We can have Logan AND Suicide Squad, we don't need to act like they ALL have to be Logan or Daredevil.

>>82520613
For you.

>Gamora does the CIA stance when Nebula leaves at the end
/tv/ doesn't notice this

>film sets up that Starlord wants to make himself a giant Pac Man and paysoff with it during the climatic battle in a subtle jab at the boring superman/zod fight in Man of Steel
/tv/ throws their shit everywhere

>>82517138
Oh, I get it. But helium doesn't make you laugh, it makes your voice funny.

shitty quality, but is this scene one of the most kino scenes in any superhero film?

I actually think Marlel do Ironman right. Everything else is shit, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsxXoOL1DCA

>>82520647
Putting your hands on your belt is a common pose, anon.

>>82519985
The only good thing to come from TDKR was baneposting.

>>82517139
It's only the best videogame ever made.

>>82520660
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlkH8cPz-2s

Better link I think

>>82516879
I sometimes get the little quirks here and there but this is ridiculous.

>>82516879

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a perfect example of the decay of modern entertainment. A perfect paradigm of the vapid pop trash our youth is being conditioned to like.

It's not a coincidence that the "comic relief" characters are explicitly retarded: the audience is meant to relate to them.

At least the original Star Wars had a heart, an archetypally powerful message —the Hero’s Journey—, artistry behind its script/cinematography/soundtrack… but this DisneyMarvel garbage is just getting utterly brainless. Getting us one step closer to Idiocracy.

>>82520639
At this point, I'd like to refer you back to >>82520104 and >>82520445.

I'm basically saying, "Hey, it's kind of an empty experience, but it's far from the worst time I've ever had at the movies. If you've got two brain cells to rub together, it might insult your intelligence on occasion, but it's not trying to do anything but aim low, so try to keep that in mind,"

>>82520742
>Getting us one step closer to Idiocracy.

Lol autist

When you hire hack directors to work as proxies for producers, hire hack writers to do the same, you rely on star power so much that they can't do stunts because they are too big for insurance companies, so the action scenes are fucking awful and have to be composed in post pro by grace of cutting to death and back and CGIng the whole thing, the only thing that can work is humor. Normal movies use comedic relief as a way to lighten an otherwise dark or too action packed tone. Marvel uses it in already light flicks because you don't relief from the tone of the movie but from the glaring awful movie making

Anyone saying this piece of shit is good needs to learn what makes a movie good. This wasn't a good action/superhero movie just like Modern Family isn't a good family show despite having quips

>>82520694
They do get a lot right about Iron Man. My chief complaint is that they got the poster child for substance abuse to play the role and never seriously explored that aspect of his character. To me, that's what makes him Iron Man - his ability to overcome his addiction and persevere through sheer strength of will. That's pretty much non-existent in his movies. Tony's reduced to just being a quipster instead of demonstrating any of that massive willpower that goes hand-in-hand with that genius intellect.

You can sort of see that RDJ and Favreau entertained notions of exploring that aspect in Iron Man 2, but that's when the Disneyfication started to kick in, and that's when it firmly became a franchise aimed at children, not necessarily actual fans of the characters.

I also believe that's about the time that I think RDJ stopped giving a single fuck about the character.

>>82516879

I don't recall MC guy having a pac man obsession to the point he'd choose that as his avatar.

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Best character or best character?

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>>82516879
oh no jesus christ oh no please god

>>82517095
Actually true

>>82522634
It's a throw back to earlier in the movie where he said it do what he did in the clip.

>>82520742

The rich irony in this post.

You're complaining a movie designed for as wide(and therefore as simple) an audience as possible is written in a simple crowd pleasing way and then suggesting you're somehow smarter for criticising it.

By the way, Disney writing is all about """The Hero's Journey""", in fact the book by Joseph Campbell is considered a key text for disney writers.

dipshit

Did anyone else get extremely uncomfortable when they started taking about dicks. Just like everything other """joke""" in the film it lasted way too long.

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>mfw the beginning of movie is an epic battle against a Lovecraftian horror and all I get to see is the retard tree baby dancing to ELO
GoGv2 is the laziest of the Marvel Capeshit yet.

>>82522878
>in fact the book by Joseph Campbell is considered a key text for disney writers.

Yeah, because it's the formula they use and never elaborate, expand, or dwell upon any single facet. It's always just the broadest, most shallow of strokes, every single film to the point where it's rendered meaningless in their hands.