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theFallGuy said:
I enjoyed the movie and thought it was well done.
None of the films will ever match the Last Crusade with Sean Connery.
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A great sequel that was lightning in a bottle, and it had amazing action scenes which includes a scene that looked like it was from the great movie The Birds.
 
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TMNT Mutant Mayhem
7/10

An entertaining good reboot TMNT movie that is unique, and is the darkest TMNT movie.
The reason why it's the darkest is because SuperFly's goal is to eradicate all humans, and he has a believable motivation for why he wants to achieve this destructive goal.
Also, the humans are shown to be terrible characters because they reacted with panic and fear when they saw SuperFly and his group of Mutants instead of accepting them, and humans react with fear and hostility after seeing Splinter after seeing that he is a bipedal rat.

A glaring flaw is multiple action scenes are hard to follow.
Standout details for product placement are the Pizza Hut Pizzas, and Raphael is shown holding an Adidas Orignal t-shirt that is gray and the Adidas Original logo is red.
Splinter has a believable reason why he doesn't want the Turtles to interacting with humans.


A highly entertaining climax with the Turtles, Splinter, and the Mutants having to defeat a giant animal.

It's believable that Donatello would think of a weakness that the giant animal has after Leonardo reminds him that he's read multiple comic books where a group of super heroes have to defeat a giant animal that has a common vulnerable area.
SuperFly does introduce the group of mutants to the Turtles which does include Rocksteady and Bebop.


April O'Neal is a unique character that has an understandable motivation for her achievable goal.

A flashback scene is shown when SuperFly talks to the Turtles that he and his group of mutants weren't accepted by humans when humans saw them because humans reacted with fear and panic even though SuperFly and the Mutants weren't doing anything harmful.
This information shows the main antagonist SuperFly to be a tragic character since he wanted him and the group of mutants to be accepted by humans which didn't happen so, as a result, he has a cynical view of humans, and he's not wrong when he states the main flaw about humans which is why he believes he's justified to eradicate humans which he explains to the Turtles for how he plans to achieve a destructive genocidal goal.

The Turtles know that humans are terrible mainly driven by fear so it's believable that Leonardo is asked why the turtles should not eradicate humans, and he gives an understandable cliche answer for why the Turtles eradicating humans is wrong.

The changes in this TMNT Movie are earned because of great writing, and an entertaining ending.
 
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of destiny - honestly I didn’t hate it. There were things I didn’t like - mostly the henchmen for Mads Mikkelson’s character. The main guy took me out of the movie with his southern accent (why?) and the big guy got killed too easily. Some of the de-aging cgi on Harrison Ford looked bad. But I loved that Indy was fighting Nazis and it felt more like an Indiana Jones movie than Crystal Skull ever did. I give it a solid B.
 
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Meg 2 The Trench
8/10

An entertaining great sequel.
The Trench in this movie is 25,000 feet below the Ocean. That area gets explored by Jonas and the other protagonists in advanced submersibles.

The human antagonists have a believable motivation for their main goal.
The movie does have a high amount of entertaining action scenes most of which happen on Fun Island.



How Jonas Killed a Meg Shark has high suspense, and how he attracts a Meg Shark obviously was inspired by Jaws 2.


This sequel does have 1 line which is a reference to the first movie, and with returning protagonists, it's unmistakable this is a direct sequel.

A giant octopus does fight a Meg shark, also Jonas does ride a Jet Ski while using Makeshift Harpoons to kill the Meg Sharks.
Jonas does have a memorable creative 1 liner after defeating a human antagonist.
The 1 liner is similar to "Let off some Steam Bennett." from Commando because it's creative. Also because the 1 liner fit with what was shown in the scene.

The movie repeatedly uses the perfect timing cliche which isn't a flaw because this is a Popcorn movie set in a universe that has Meg Sharks, a giant octopus, and prehistoric marine reptiles.
It's not contrived that a protagonist says he modified bullets for his hand gun to poison-tipped bullets which he got from Jaws 2.
Multiple protagonists are shown to be competent protagonists in action movie scenes which made me very happy.

This sequel does focus on human antagonists that have a believable motivation for their achievable goal, also prehistoric marine reptiles that can run on land, a giant octopus, multiple Meg Sharks including the biggest Meg, and the protagonists exploring the Trench area.

All reasons why this sequel is outside the box instead of being an uncreative sequel that reuses the same style creature feature killer shark story.

This movie does have a high body count including creative for the Meg Sharks that are shown killing human characters.

The third act on Fun Island is a high-stakes battle for survival with the Protagonists having to save bystanders from the giant Octopus and the Meg Sharks, also the Protagonsits and Anatagonsits having to kill the prehistoric marine reptiles, also the Human Antagonists fighting the protagonists.
 
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firestorm said:
Meg 2 The Trench
8/10

An entertaining great sequel.
The Trench in this movie is 25,000 feet below the Ocean. That area gets explored by Jonas and the other protagonists in advanced submersibles.

The human antagonists have a believable motivation for their main goal.
The movie does have a high amount of entertaining action scenes most of which happen on Fun Island.



How Jonas Killed a Meg Shark has high suspense, and how he attracts a Meg Shark obviously was inspired by Jaws 2.


This sequel does have 1 line which is a reference to the first movie, and with returning protagonists, it's unmistakable this is a direct sequel.

A giant octopus does fight a Meg shark, also Jonas does ride a Jet Ski while using Makeshift Harpoons to kill the Meg Sharks.
Jonas does have a memorable creative 1 liner after defeating a human antagonist.
The 1 liner is similar to "Let off some Steam Bennett." from Commando because it's creative. Also because the 1 liner fit with what was shown in the scene.

The movie repeatedly uses the perfect timing cliche which isn't a flaw because this is a Popcorn movie set in a universe that has Meg Sharks, a giant octopus, and prehistoric marine reptiles.
It's not contrived that a protagonist says he modified bullets for his hand gun to poison-tipped bullets which he got from Jaws 2.
Multiple protagonists are shown to be competent protagonists in action movie scenes which made me very happy.

This sequel does focus on human antagonists that have a believable motivation for their achievable goal, also prehistoric marine reptiles that can run on land, a giant octopus, multiple Meg Sharks including the biggest Meg, and the protagonists exploring the Trench area.

All reasons why this sequel is outside the box instead of being an uncreative sequel that reuses the same style creature feature killer shark story.

This movie does have a high body count including creative for the Meg Sharks that are shown killing human characters.

The third act on Fun Island is a high-stakes battle for survival with the Protagonists having to save bystanders from the giant Octopus and the Meg Sharks, also the Protagonsits and Anatagonsits having to kill the prehistoric marine reptiles, also the Human Antagonists fighting the protagonists.
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I watched the first one about a year ago. Really enjoyed it. It's a straight up old school 80's/90's action 🍿 flick!
 
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Blue Beetle has a 78% critic score and a 92% audience score, and it's probably not gonna get to $150m at the box office. If there were a sign needed by Hollywood that the superhero market is over-saturated, here it is.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Blue Beetle has a 78% critic score and a 92% audience score, and it's probably not gonna get to $150m at the box office. If there were a sign needed by Hollywood that the superhero market is over-saturated, here it is.
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It's Blue Beetle who probably ranks just ahead of the Wonder Twins and Booster Gold as the worst DC hero but maybe that's my opinion?🤔
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
It's Blue Beetle who probably ranks just ahead of the Wonder Twins and Booster Gold as the worst DC hero but maybe that's my opinion?🤔
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I think the character is fine. His lack of notoriety is a problem. But Ant-Man and Dr. Strange were successful and those were not big names when I was a kid collecting comics.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I think the character is fine. His lack of notoriety is a problem. But Ant-Man and Dr. Strange were successful and those were not big names when I was a kid collecting comics.
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But they were part of a bigger universe. When you watched those you were waiting to see how they were connected to the Avengers and the bigger storyline.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
But they were part of a bigger universe. When you watched those you were waiting to see how they were connected to the Avengers and the bigger storyline.
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Blue Beetle was Justice League when I was a kid. He died fighting Doomsday alongside Superman, IIRC. That might've been his biggest moment in history, as a character.
 
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