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I saw it a week or two ago, and it left me a bit cold. The ending was telegraphed from the second scene, and all. But the real problem for me was that the Marvel universe has been a bit of a super-powers arms race for a while, probably since Captain Marvel, which was a good movie IMO, but leaned on introducing yet another "most powerful avenger". I liked them better in the early days, when an ordinary human with good aim could fit into the team, and none of them could come anywhere close to destroying all possible universes if they threw a tantrum. The banter/dialog was better back then, too. I don't remember any dialog from Strange 2 at all. Probably means that I should watch it again :-)

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Even as a kid it gave me the proverbials when comics et al went into multiverses and time travel as it meant they'd run out of storylines and then it just gets too lazy, messy and a pita to keep up with. Kill superman a million times and you still have a trillion more you can use. The marvel stuff isn't too bad - nice, light and fluffy popcorn but i've reached a point where the kids are old enough to go see them themselves, i can save the dosh for something else and stream it (they are up to something like 30 movies plus all the tv series). Used to drive the kids mad when i referred to Thor as Snore. Waititi definitely saved that character. There's a bit in Boy where the titular character is desultorily walking along the road and he picks up a rock and puts it on the top edge of a roadside reflector hoping to catapult it into space and it doesn't even fling back and the disappointment is palpable. Waititi is a bloody genius for those little things. The Boys though . . . . hoo boy.

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Yeah CGI and Marvel are fun . But for non CGI summer movie Top Gun 2 was fantastic . Cruise calls it a love letter to aviation. Indeed

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Oh yeah I do want to see this, even though I've never watched the original.

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It stands on its own but the original was a must for us 80s kids. Plus the Tomcats were awesome . Even just sitting on the deck with ordinance dripping off of them they looked badass

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If you want more multiverse madness and it's still playing in your neck of the woods make all efforts to see Everything Everywhere All At Once. One of the most jaw-droppingly original, funny, absurd, and moving films I've seen in a long time.

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