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after 25 years of these movies, i am cynical about them, i am bitter about them. if i'm pretentious, well, why not, i'll be that to. the movie's going to make over a billion dollars, so my review clearly isn't getting in the way of people enjoying it. after 25 years of superhero cultural dominance, i think a serious critique of those films is necessary, and sometimes that requires being mean, both to the producers of that product and the consumers of it. if that makes me an asshole, i understand. but i don't want to be dishonest about what the film made me think about and feel, and the film did make me feel bitter and cynical, which i otherwise try not to be. i'm sorry if the review upset you, but i wrote it more out of an exhaustion with this being a dominant cultural trend for almost my entire life, and i think that the film is successful enough financially and critically to survive my meager opinion. you don't have to be sorry at all, though, i'm glad you yourself were honest in saying what you felt; i hope you're doing well and have an excellent rest of the year.

@@comradeyui9323 Thanks for your thorough reply! I get what you mean and where you are coming from. I myself am pretty tired of marvel movies, actually. I didn't really have a problem with your opinion on the movie itself, and as you said, noone in Marvel or Disney is going to go hungry because of it! It's just that one of my pet peeves is when people berate others for enjoying "childish" stuff as if there was something inherently wrong or harmful about that, you know? I guess as I was reading your review it started feeling less like a critique of the movie itself, and more like an attack towards the people that enjoyed it. I said sorry because I was upset from interactions I had had during the day that don't have anything to do with you and I ended up having to vent on your youtube channel lmao. It didn't seem right to go the extra mile just to tell you what I thought of your opinion on a movie I haven't even watched, so I felt like apologizing haha. I really liked the part where you compare collector items being encased in little tombs or something like that. Sorry I can't remember the actual words you used but it was a great analogy!

@@Solidlauti normally i don't act like that either, i don't like the reference to infantilism because there can be good superhero movies (like the crow or the shadow or batman returns), but i think why i resorted to it in this case is that the film is so full of inside-baseball knowledge on unmade x-men films and all this ephemera that it made me reflect on my own passion for these films circa 2015-2018, and how it felt like deadpool & wolverine was designed to appease a more immature version of myself (although it's not like i'm perfect now or anything). to answer your question earlier, i had to disable comments because i was getting harassed by dozens of people every time a review of mine would get mildly popular, and at some point i just got sick of it and made it so only mutuals can comment. if you want, i can follow you back so you can comment regularly as before, just post your LB here and i'll add you.

​@@comradeyui9323 when you put it in terms of numbers, and the fact that it's been dominant for most of my life too, that just broke something in me 😭 i was practically raised on these movies when that just needn't have been the case if not for unbounded corporate greed. ah well there's still a lot of life left

yes i will! i want to do all his films

thank you!!! i'm glad you enjoyed <3

The boat race looked particularly awesome in vivid. Clean, not a lot of noise. Actually bright since it’s shot in the day.

i enjoy the noisy look of the film, but i would not be opposed to an optional alternate color grading of the film! i think there are many movies from the 2010s (like the raid) which could benefit massively from a less washed out grading to make them not look so blue/greyscale

@@comradeyui9323 When I saw that deep black underwater shot at the beginning for the first time, it was such an awesome use of the cameras limitations with the shadows and highlights. One thing I like about Mann’s digital stuff is he doesn’t try to work around them like Fincher did with Benjamin Button, he really goes for it. Fincher’s movie looks great, but it just feels like every digital camera that would come out afterwards. Have you checked out End of Watch? They used a si-2k nano. A bit cleaner, but sort of has that digital grungy look I wish more movies used. Might be up your alley if you liked Miami Vice.

i'll get it on bluray next month and do just that!

@@comradeyui9323 awesome! I’ll probably have the new box set by then too. I’ve only seen it on dvd

sorry about that, i'll try to upload more often, it's hard to coordinate with people sometimes but i'll do my best to give you guys more!

Tjekiller .

thank you gary! pat is a real nice fellow, i'm glad to hear we work together well!