
By all accounts, The Marvels ainβt bad. Okay, so itβs currently a commanding a 59 on Rotten Tomatoes which isnβt exactly glowing, but itβs better than other recent Marvel joints like Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Disney+ TV series Secret Invasion. Perhaps that has a little something to do with the video game inspirations director Nia DaCosta injected into the movie.
Speaking at a press junket with IGN, the American filmmaker cited Square Enixβs iconic CG movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children as one of the influences behind her latest flick. βIt's just an amazing, amazing movie, and has really great fight scenes and has a really great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters,β she said.
Advent Children didnβt attract particularly great reviews upon its release in 2005, but has gone on to establish cult status among Final Fantasy fans. And DaCosta, it seems, can count herself among those who consider the movie a classic. But itβs not the only video game media that inspired her, with PlayStation exclusives also playing a big role in shaping The Marvels.
Indeed, further in the interview, she explained that she didnβt want the superhero flick to look βtoo much like a video gameβ, but did draw on some of Sonyβs biggest franchises, like The Last of Us and Horizon Zero Dawn. βSo, for me, it was from the best kinds of games, the best sort of stories that you get, that sort of inspires me to play and I think inspires people to watch movies like this,β she explained.
Video games have been so heavily influenced by movies since their inception that itβs interesting to see the dynamic slowly start to work the other way now. As technology has advanced and interactive storytelling has become more complex, weβre beginning to see filmmakers turn their attention to platforms like PlayStation, and borrow ideas for their own medium.
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I feel sorry for anyone that still watches MCU movies these days and especially this one in particular.
Whoa whoa whoa, dont go pulling Final Fantasy into this garbage of a movie.
Regardless of quality I'm tired of the MCU. I stopped after Endgame. Same with Star Wars RoS, Disney's just pumping out too much stuff in a short space of time to build up their streaming service, which I refuse to pay for. Too many of them already.
I've heard comic book fatigue being compared to the decline of the Western 40 years ago but that isn't true: the Western was a steady decline. People were still watching John Wayne and Clint Eastwood just in smaller numbers. But Marvel and DC have fallen off a cliff and they did that purely on their own by putting out terrible product.
@Nepp67 Why is it so bad?
The wrong movie was named. We all know Spirits Within is the classic Final Fantasy movie π
@get2sammyb Oh, The Marvels isn't a bad film. Because there is a step below bad; a fate so terrible that all entertainment fears it.
That fate is called: ''I Just Do Not Care.''
π€¦π I'm I bailed why kill off iron man and cap they are the core of this ,the quality of producing and writing who you making it for? Where as the directors like whedon and the Russo brothers know their craft where are they . It took Lucas years before tightening his skills to bring out star wars. Just leave final fantasy alone ,a quality of story telling that marvel can't get close to anyway if you enjoy the marvels all the power to ya enjoy it.
If I was Sony I'd b fuming right now , yeh you take Insperation from our games ,it's not just one of the worst films it's one of the worst marvel films that some would say its comparable to secret invasion ,that's not the compliment this site thinks it is
@get2sammyb that's some high quality baiting right there π
Honestly pretty burned out with Marvel and my last movie was End Gameβ¦ I just canβt bring myself to watch more Marvel movies, ever.
@Nepp67 Have you even seen it? I saw it at a press screening yesterday and it was a lot of fun but thanks for the sympathy.
Lots of opinions on a movie thatβs being released today. I wonder if any of the people calling it garbage has actually seen it?
Not defending the movie, donβt even know if Iβm going. Captain Marvel for me was one of the best post-Endgame MCUs though, so I wonder why this new one already has so much backlash.
@Exerion76 Thanks, my bad. It was right before Endgame I see.
Let's call it one of the better MCU movies of the last couple of years then
The Marvels is a steaming pile of Disney turd as they continue take films to suit themselves rather than fans. Even the useless director moved onto another film before this one was finished.
@Exerion76 true, it was sandwiched between two highly anticipated MCU films, back when they were entertaining, which greatly inflated its profitability. This sequel has been sent out to die, which it deserves.
Disney doesn't make films for the fans, its makes films for themselves first and foremost. There's no other way to explain what they have done to all their content. They've now destroyed the MCU, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and others.
I am actually excited for this film, but I have a limited budget for watching films at the cinema. I can only watch one movie per month at most.
And I just watched Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour a couple of weeks ago, which I really loved.
Plus I really wanna watch Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and The Heron, which is coming out at the end of this month where I live.
Also, I missed out on most Marvel movies and shows since Hawkeye, so I would be lost on the lore, especially as I haven't seen the Ms. Marvel series yet. Nor have I seen Secret Invasion yet.
Never seen a single one of these movies lol
@Nepp67 rather have someone enjoying these movies than someone who finds enjoyment making comments like these. Got my eyes rolling out of my head.
I'll be going for streaming on this one though after quantumania and love & thunder.
Probably why it's reviewing so well.
@riceNpea how did they destroy indy lol
@Hydra_Spectre wouldn't bother with Secret Invasion fam.
"By all accounts, The Marvels ainβt bad."
This couldn't be more drastically at odds with everything I've read about the movie in multiple reviews. But we all know the motivation for pretending it's a winner.
@Cherip-the-Ripper they turned him into a failure, an old man who gets little respect from his students, who's son has been killed off (!) just to make the female lead the (unlikeable) star of an Indiana Jones film. Watch the film. I couldn't believe how bad it is. At least the Crystal Skull pretended to be an Indiana film. This one remade Indy to suit Disney's nonsense, much like they did with Star Wars.
Yeah, no, The Marvels is pretty bad. And I think we all knew it would be.
Maybe it's not as bad as Quantumania, but that's not saying much. I literally couldn't sit in the theater and watch the movie. I never walk out of movies, but there you go.
I donβt even like the look of it but some of the reactions to it seem to flirt dangerously close to the vitriol that was flung at the first one, which was at least an alright popcorn movie.
I lost all interest in MCU after Waititi absolutely ruined Planet Hulk. That was one of the best arcs Marvel comics had ever made.
@AndyKazama Yeah that one was bad it almost killed Squaresoft.
I think MCU's downfall was when they tried to unify everything(make everything a joke like Thor) The comics always had different writers and artists and it only ever came together at the big showdowns. They all had their own unique flairs in the beginning. Well at least they still have the yack multiverse reset option for reboots.
Just got the extended 4k uhd version of advent children and it was awesome π π π π
@Flaming_Kaiser I think I actually when to the cinemas to watch it π
@AndyKazama Ouch the movie wasn't even that horrible but when you say we will make a Final Fantasy movie nobody expects what they made. π
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