Last movie you watched......

Watched Black Panther the other night and I'd say it's a top 4 MCU movie (Iron Man, Avengers, Civil War). Excellent acting and CGI and it had a lot of heart for a superhero movie.

My biggest quibble is that, like Spider-Man: Homecoming, they put too much power into the suit and not enough into the man. We never see Black Panther's powers used without the suit on. Also, the suit was too powerful. He was essentially impervious to any danger except from Killmonger (who had an equally powerful suit). Spider-Man and Black Panther's suits make them a little too much like Iron Man for my taste.

 

Watched the original Superman movie last night with my daughter, who is 10. She loved it. It’s really tightly plotted. The thing just moves. She said that Gene Hackman reminded her of the bad guy from Lemony Snicket, the Neil Patrick Harris character.

 

T'Challa is without the suit and the power from the heart-shaped herb for the challenge with M'Baku and later with Killmonger. That is when we get to see the man fight without the suit. Even in the final fight, the suits cancel each other out and the battle is decided by skill.

The same is true of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Most of the biggest fights in the movie happen after Stark takes the suit away. I'm including the final two confrontations with the Vulture, the one in the warehouse and the one that starts on Stark's plane and ends after the crash. He doesn't have the powered suit for any of it.

 

Right. But he isn't WITH the power and WITHOUT the suit at all. There's no sense of what his power actually is. He does have one big jump without the suit during the casino scene, but other than that, it's all the suit.

 

True, but we still see the man's abilities without the suit. You are right that we don't really see the extent of his powers with the herb but without the suit, but I don't mind that.

Spider-Man was different. We see quite a bit of Peter with his powers, but without Stark's suit, over the last third of the movie.

 

Fair point on Parker, but I really despise the Iron Man-ification of Spider-Man's suit.

 

I thought it was fine for Infinity War, but I'd like to see him back to something more like his old-school costume in the comics for the Homecoming sequel.

 

Ah, crap. I was hoping it wouldn't return for Infinity War, which I hope to see very soon.

 

My apologies for the spoiler, but in my defense, that is in the trailers.

As an old-school Spider-Man fan, I absolutely see your point. I believe this discussion has come up on the board before. Apparently, one reason they did it in Homecoming was to give Peter someone to talk to while his in costume, specifically the AI. In the comics, he is often just talking to himself.

Of course, they have had him in powered suits in the comics as well. He wore an "Iron Spider" costume that Stark gave him for a while and more recently a more tech-based costume that he made for himself. He always seems to come back to the classic outfit, which I think is why some find the movie costume so jarring.

 

No worries. I'm pretty spoiler-phobic (I haven't actually watched any of the Infinity Wars trailers after the first teaser), but I had no issue with you saying that. Yeah, I hated that they thought he needed to be talking to the AI.

 

I do not know how you could be avoiding spoilers this long. Hell, I already stumbled onto a Deadpool 2 spoiler by accident and that doesn't even open until Friday. I always see the MCU stuff opening weekend because it's so damn difficult to avoid spoilers.

 

Not too hard. I avoid the geek thread, avoid articles on news sites about it, I flip the channel if I see the Marvel logo or some reference to the movies. Only a few of my friends are into these kind of movies and they know I hate spoilers so they don't mention them to me, nor do they post them on FB (at least not without a spoiler tag).

I try to go in with as much of a blank slate as possible, particularly for films I know I'm going to see anyway. I'll watch one or two trailers and then I don't want to see anymore because they give away too much.