firstly, ugh smallville.

secondly, completely different landscape re superhero movies which went through a revitalization but seem, to me at least, to be entering a period of hardcore genre stagnation.
A generalization but you know. 

yeah i've been reading daredevil is easily better than all the other superhero tv series', which haven't been too bad 

at what episode does daredevil start being good? first one was pretty cringy. 

I'm at episode 10 and it hasn't started being good yet. :)
It's watchable as background noise while working, but it's still full of all the beaten-to-death superhero tropes we've already seen a hundred times, accompanied by cliche characters and mediocre dialogs.
I'm managing to watch it despite hating superheroes, so I guess maybe it's good for people who are into this "genre". 

"hating superheroes"

Why would you ever start watching a show about super heroes if you hate the genre? It would be like me turning on a sportsball tournament. Why would I do that to myself? 

Many of my friends and colleagues have been pestering me to watch it, saying I would like it despite my dislike of the genre.
That and I always find it useful to have some shows like this as background noise while working at home, if they are too good I can't get any work done. :) 

The fighting is pretty good for TV stuff, definitely above average in that department (not something I care so much about, but it's worth mentioning probably). 

Fighting is good, the rest isn't. 

Speaking of superheroes.... Age of Ultron, anyone seen it yet?

I thought it was good. I always thought Ultron wasn't the next best villain to run with, and he still wasn't, he was also far too human and cliched. A supervillain robot A.I. making one liners, wtf? Why does he even have a human voice, and all buffed up on robotic steriods? Vision was good though, Scarlett Witch got better.

Some others seem to be going on about there being too much humour, which is odd, the first movie and Guardians of the Galaxy were chocca with far more humour than this. 

the best action movies don't try to make you worry that people you know aren't going to die might die, they make you worry if they're going to succeed in their mission, and wonder how they'll pull it off.

That was the appeal of Die Hard, and it's also the appeal of Indiana Jones. 

Daredevil : Agree with Bal, it's pretty meh. Watching it because I've watched just about everything else on netflix :P

Man of Steel (rewatch) : You know, after forgetting about this film and all the dialogue surrounding it and then coming back and rewatching it, I enjoyed it a lot. The intro is weak, sure. They blaze through the origin story at lightning speed and it feels rushed. But once it kicks off its really fun to watch.

The ending did feel like a bit of a meh way to seperate superman from the people he wants to protect in order to get some artificial human peril in there.

Good, not great.

Interstellar : Need to rewatch this but I enjoyed it overall. I felt there are aspects of the journey through space that needed more time to sizzle and some parts felt rushed.

The final act was a bit of a bitter pill to swallow. Certainly an interesting concept but felt very cheesy in comparison to the fairly "hard science" approach the rest of the film takes.

Cool to see the sound design reflect the fact that sound cannot travel in vacuum. 

Interstellar was a great movie, but had many holes -- but all movies do and you have to provide some of your own suspension of disbelief.

These needed "enhanced suspension of disbelief":

1) Falling in a black hole is "human friendly experience".

2) Society is falling apart, yet they can cryo-freeze people.

3) Planet close to black hole, gravity so strong warps time (7 years in an hour), but a mere rocket can power away from it.

I didn't like the cliche ending, but most movies actually rely on an improbable closing act and often begin with one too.

I try to not judge movies by the ending, but by the journey and the picture it painted. 

...Sleepy's previous defence of Interstellar.

Apart from point 2) which I think is answerable by looking at modern society. Ecological disasters + terrorism + peak oil + all that other shit vs. smart watches + processing power of phones + CERN + VR etc etc. Basically humankind has some very weird diversities and imbalances of technological capabilities vs. societial security. 

I haven't seen the film but for 1), the current science implies someone crossing the event horizon of a black hole wouldn't necessarily experience anything dramatic as it happens. 

depends on the size of the hole....
Muhahaha 

http://www.armoton.com/farside/pic/017-blackhole.gif 

http://i.imgur.com/9yjcZEg.gif 

From the reviews coming in now, ya'll might wanna book a trip to see Mad Max... 

Saw the trailer and it looked like the entire movie was an action-packed dirt road race. There was nothing to suggest they ever stop the car and get out. Maybe they do and it was just a terrible trailer. 

Finally saw this and, wow, definitely an experience I'll remember.

I sort of don't understand how people manage to be surprised and disappointed by the final act. Yes, it's emotiony gooey and not hard scifi, but that really applies to the whole movie, not just the end, which I thought was signposted in letters about 100 feet high. 

I'm not sure how anyone can miss that it is a story about humans and humanity in a sci-fi setting/context, given that was made explicit from the very start.

I thought the very end was great, and pretty moving if you got the vibe of what it was like for her. 

Pretty great scifi film, definitely recommended; great performances especially from the guy who played the CEO; also nice cinematography. Kind of reminded me of "Under the Skin." 

No occult aspects.
Linearly told.
No Cary Fukunaga.
Boring as shit looking setting.
Looks like a police procedural all around.

I'll still watch but I'll be perpetually angry about it. 

Colin Farrell. Fuck that guy and his "acting". 

Wow, finally a nice sci-fi thriller, really liked this one.