Thunder Force

dreamers75 · 03-03-2021 9:01pm #1

Looks watchable.

ronano · 03-03-2021 10:40pm

Barely watchable, McCarthy has talent but she hasn't been funny in a film in a long time. It just looks and films like another mid tier Netflix non entity. Hopefully I'm wrong!

Agent Coulson · 03-03-2021 11:07pm

McCarthy isn't choosy she just makes any crap that is put in front of her that I think that is the issue I see.

Still can't blame anyone for making money and i'm guessing she is making a lot of it churning out drivel.

dreamers75 · 03-03-2021 11:57pm

I have yet to see a good Netflix movie, i dont think this will change that opinion.

JP Liz V1 · 04-03-2021 3:30am

Agent Coulson wrote: »

McCarthy isn't choosy she just makes any crap that is put in front of her that I think that is the issue I see.

Still can't blame anyone for making money and i'm guessing she is making a lot of it churning out drivel.

Spy is good

fritzelly · 04-03-2021 3:58am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Spy is good

Spy is very good and this new film looks like popcorn fun

Mark Hamill · 04-03-2021 8:55am

dreamers75 wrote: »

I have yet to see a good Netflix movie, i dont think this will change that opinion.

Okja, Always be my Maybe, The Half of It, The Old Guard and Project Power are all pretty good.
Space Sweepers is very good.
Klaus is the best Netflix movie.

There is no reason that this movie, Thunder Force, can't be entertaining. Melissa McCarthy can be very funny and Octavia Spencer is usually great too. But it's very easy for this kind of movie (schlubb gets power by accident and schlubbs through figuring out how to best use it) to fall into really lazy jokes. It doesn't help that McCarthy isn't adverse to doing "heavy person falls down" comedy. I will be waiting for reviews before I commit.

Mr Crispy · 04-03-2021 9:01am

To be fair to McCarthy, I imagine she's not getting the variety of scripts that her peers are being offered for that very reason. Still, I'd like to see her do more stuff without the hubby. They don't have to work together on every feckin film!

pixelburp · 04-03-2021 9:31am

McCarthy is still obviously working on the material she wants; look to "Can you Ever Forgive Me?", an excellent dramatic turn from her that must have been a passion project, or one adjacent to it. Hopefully its quiet reception didn't put her off stepping into further, similar work.

The problem here is not McCarthy: it's American Mainstream Hollywood Comedy. It has hit rock bottom in terms of creativity and tone; I don't know why, but it feels like comedic writing has dropped into a chasm in Hollywood. McCarthy is an excellent comedic actor and a generally likeable persona on-screen when the material is right, but it almost never is 'cos Hollywood Comedy is ridden with hacks now. Good comedy writers gravitate towards TV now, they don't touch Hollywood with a 10 foot bargepole.

As to the trailer? It's SO WEIRD. Weird in the sense that it felt like a promotion for something made before the MCU came along - heck, before the Bryan Singer X-Men movies got made. Again, to loop back to the issue of Hollywood writing, it's like the writer just went "superheroes are crazy, amirite?" and called it a day. Comes off achingly anachronistic.

Imagine if the makers of The Tick or Venture Bros. got to make a movie riffing on superheroes? Would never happen in a lifetime, unfortunately.

Agent Coulson · 04-03-2021 12:37pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Spy is good

Spy is great and she bounces of Statham brilliantly.

She has made about 20 movies in the last 10 years her hit rate is terrible for some who genuinely has great comedy timing and can act when it comes to her picking comedies she makes.