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LeSamourai said:
We have tickets for the whole family we bought a few days ago, but we may be rethinking taking the kids at first. My daughter (13 years old) in particular has a love/hate relationship with horror-adjacent stuff and may want to wait to watch it at home.
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It's definitely a pretty hard PG-13. I can imagine it might be a bit scary for smaller kids. Of course, everyone's standards are different (I love horror, so nothing in it bothered me at all), but it is fairly intense for a mainstream superhero movie.
 
Tomorrow is my birthday and I haven't been to a movie in a theater in years now, so I'm making my wife take me to Dim Sum and then a double header of Everything Everywhere All At Once followed by Dr. Strange as my birthday present. I'm really excited to see these two on the big screen.
 
Hemotep said:
Tomorrow is my birthday and I haven't been to a movie in a theater in years now, so I'm making my wife take me to Dim Sum and then a double header of Everything Everywhere All At Once followed by Dr. Strange as my birthday present. I'm really excited to see these two on the big screen.
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It was years between theater visits for me....Covid reasons, but it was even long before that. I used to go all the time, but then it was easier not to. Movies just didn't seem to be worth the $$ to go see them.

The first one I saw "post-covid" was 5cream - and it was great being back in a theater. I go to mid-afternoon matinees on a week day, as I hate people, so it wasn't busy at all.
 
LeeVing said:
It was years between theater visits for me....Covid reasons, but it was even long before that. I used to go all the time, but then it was easier not to. Movies just didn't seem to be worth the $$ to go see them.

The first one I saw "post-covid" was 5cream - and it was great being back in a theater. I go to mid-afternoon matinees on a week day, as I hate people, so it wasn't busy at all.
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That's the best time to go. I too dislike people. It's why I don't love going to concerts that often anymore.
 
nolalady said:
Hubs and I are going through the Marvel movies starting with Phase 1. We are half-way through and I'm not sure if I can hang with these movies. There's a ton of fighting and explosions that happen all the time, sometimes spontaneously. It gets overwhelming. Iron Man wasn't too bad, but Iron Man 2 really lost me.
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My wife and I watched all of the Marvel movies during the pandemic because we hadn't seen many of them. I will say that Iron Man 2 is not a good film. Overall though I'm a fan of the MCU as a whole.
 
nolalady said:
Hubs and I are going through the Marvel movies starting with Phase 1. We are half-way through and I'm not sure if I can hang with these movies. There's a ton of fighting and explosions that happen all the time, sometimes spontaneously. It gets overwhelming. Iron Man wasn't too bad, but Iron Man 2 really lost me.
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Iron Man 2 and 3 were stinkers in my opinion. Hang in there and Phase 2 and 3 get way better. Some of the Capt. America stuff is blah as well but it links a lot of the stories together. In the end, each of the movies had something to give to make the Endgame stuff make sense. Some more than others.
 
nolalady said:
Hubs and I are going through the Marvel movies starting with Phase 1. We are half-way through and I'm not sure if I can hang with these movies. There's a ton of fighting and explosions that happen all the time, sometimes spontaneously. It gets overwhelming. Iron Man wasn't too bad, but Iron Man 2 really lost me.
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Godspeed. I surprisingly enjoyed the Capt. America stuff, but the real fun begins with Guardians and cosmic Marvel mid-Phase 2.
 
Bohnjaggs said:
My wife and I watched all of the Marvel movies during the pandemic because we hadn't seen many of them. I will say that Iron Man 2 is not a good film. Overall though I'm a fan of the MCU as a whole.
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folsom_lives said:
Iron Man 2 and 3 were stinkers in my opinion. Hang in there and Phase 2 and 3 get way better. Some of the Capt. America stuff is blah as well but it links a lot of the stories together. In the end, each of the movies had something to give to make the Endgame stuff make sense. Some more than others.
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EvanBenner said:
Godspeed. I surprisingly enjoyed the Capt. America stuff, but the real fun begins with Guardians and cosmic Marvel mid-Phase 2.
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The hubs is serious about tackling the Marvel universe so I'm going along whether I like it or not. I have seen Guardians and I like that one. I'm glad to hear that Iron Man 2 is not a particularly good one and they do get better. I'll hang on, but expect some bitching after I watch Iron Man 3.
 
nolalady said:
The hubs is serious about tackling the Marvel universe so I'm going along whether I like it or not. I have seen Guardians and I like that one. I'm glad to hear that Iron Man 2 is not a particularly good one and they do get better. I'll hang on, but expect some bitching after I watch Iron Man 3.
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Hhabelt said:
I...like Iron Man 2. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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I see; share a wild, indefensible opinion in an effort to make my opinion sound wild and indefensible. 😜

Iron Man 2’s interesting because the MCU machine wasn’t quite locked in and the turnaround after Iron Man 1 was so quick. There are a bunch of improvisations and digressions, and odd touches which they just had no time to question or dull down. There are a lot of interesting zigs and zags before the House Style gets locked in.
 
nolalady said:
The hubs is serious about tackling the Marvel universe so I'm going along whether I like it or not. I have seen Guardians and I like that one. I'm glad to hear that Iron Man 2 is not a particularly good one and they do get better. I'll hang on, but expect some bitching after I watch Iron Man 3.
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To me, Guardians is when the MCU got good. Before that, Phase 1 and pre-Guardians Phase 2 was mostly "serious" with a pinch of Downey sarcasm, but Guardians and then Ant Man signaled the more jokey, self-aware version of the MCU, which makes all the explosions and fighting tolerable.
 
nolalady said:
The hubs is serious about tackling the Marvel universe so I'm going along whether I like it or not. I have seen Guardians and I like that one. I'm glad to hear that Iron Man 2 is not a particularly good one and they do get better. I'll hang on, but expect some bitching after I watch Iron Man 3.
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I enjoy most, if not all of the Marvel films as kinda escapist fun. For me only Black Panther is a stand alone “good film” outside of the whole universe hullabaloo…

Dr Strange on the other hand is a steaming sack of shit. So bad.
 
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Bull Shannon said:
I see; share a wild, indefensible opinion in an effort to make my opinion sound wild and indefensible. 😜

Iron Man 2’s interesting because the MCU machine wasn’t quite locked in and the turnaround after Iron Man 1 was so quick. There are a bunch of improvisations and digressions, and odd touches which they just had no time to question or dull down. There are a lot of interesting zigs and zags before the House Style gets locked in.
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Ben Fucking Kingsley.
 
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