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Yes.

Just watched Wreck-It Ralph Breaks the Internet with the power of the internet (a leaked screener) at it's about what I expected. Similar to the first in a lot ways. Good in some aspects and worse in others. Too much commercialism with advertising real world sites instead of just making up their own which there are a few. I'm not sure I like their representation of the internet with block heads for the real people and "Inside Out" looking characters as representation of sites. For something about the internet, the plot is very straightforward with little deviation.

They have to get a steering wheel for Sugar Rush off e-bay since the arcade one broke. They mistakenly jack up the price so have to find a way to make money within 24 hours. Get advice from a pop-up to go to Sugar Rush 2.0 aka Slaughter Race and steal Shank's car. Foiled but get turned to making viral videos to make up the money. With the money issue solved and steering wheel bought, get into a forced conflict between Ralph and Vanellope that separates them again. Ralph does something stupid again, almost breaking the internet in the process and he and Vanellope make up forgiving the stupid thing that broke them apart.

The internet feels too constrained and I kind of wished they did more interaction with other make believe sites. There is a darknet but the most time you'll see is on slaughter race the game, the whole internet world and Buzzztube. Slaughter Race was the best world and where I had the most laughs in. Shank's was a pretty good character. Even if it was a copy of Sugar Rush but in GTA style, it had the most jokes in the entirety of movie. They did go to the Disney website which was lame and a way to gloat at what properties they had. I still groan at the Disney Princess line from the trailer here because it doesn't make sense with some of the girls present who don't fit the "rescued by a strong man" line. If they're going to do a Disney World Wreck-It Ralph for the next one, it's going to suck if this was the best they could do with them.

Buzzztube acts as a youtube alternative to get the money for the steering wheel and it's the reason for him to do stupid videos within an 8 hour time limit before his bid is void on e-bay. I guess they wasted 16 hours on Slaughter Race because I didn't see them try anything else but that to earn the money they need. It's successful but there is conflict between Ralph and Vanellope again. Even though Shank's was the one that turned Ralph to doing viral videos on buzzztube, he has some weird distrust with her for no reason other than the plot needed to.

After getting the steering wheel, he accidentally spies on Vanellope with a call that was muted and sees that Vanellope wants to stay in Slaughter Race because she wants to get away from the predicable life of Sugar Rush that she had for 6 years. Because Ralph is dumb and I guess he never learned anything in 6 years with Vanellope, he blames Shank's and goes to the darknet to get a virus to "harmlessly" glitch Slaughter Race so Vanellope will come back to her. A virus that clones insecurities and backfires on him since it cloned Vanellope's glitch ability and almost rebooted her out of slaughter race. He saves her but has to reveal that he was the one to unleash the virus and that forces her to separate from Ralph, and even to throw away the heart-shape necklace that he was wearing around his neck to break symbolically on the ground.

Of course, the hole that Ralph made unleashes the virus that was just in Slaughter Race and copies his 100% insecurities to make a virus. The Wreck-It Ralph virus wrecks the Internet and Ralph and Vanellope are forced to work together to lead the clones into the anti-virus, even though they had a bad breakup a few minutes ago. They don't make it to the anti-virus and Vanellope is willing to sacrifice her dream to stop the virus but Ralph has to learn his lesson of the day. He has to learn to not be clingy and such and willing to have a long distance relationship with Vanellope from now on. This resolution just fixes the virus because Disney and we get to see that they're living separate lives now: Penelope in Slaughter Race and Ralph actually mingling with other people instead of Penelope.

There was also a side-plot with Fix-It Felix and Sergeant Calhoun raising the abandoned Sugar Rush girls as their adoptive parents because their game was unplugged. It had a start and an end but no middle segment which was disappointing. Even if it wasn't central to the plot, it could have been amusing. There seemed to be less video game character cameos here. The notable ones were Sonic, Street Fighter Zangief and Chun Li and Tapper bartender. Sonic probably had the best lines about wifi and the ending scene.

Not enough real world implications. You get to see some with how disconnection works but you don't get the scope of how big the Wreck-It Ralph viral videos and the Virus come into play for those on the outside. With something major like the Wreck-It Ralph virus happening after the Wreck-It Ralph viral videos, you'd think there would be interviews with the original creator of the game and his take on the situation and the name Wreck-It Ralph trending. Why didn't the owner of the arcade question that he got a steering wheel to the game that broke not long ago? There was that disney-fied comment section that Ralph saw that got him sad once but it wasn't enough for me to give the impression that he truly explored what the internet was: It's good and bad sides. The only villain of the movie was himself.

There was a trailer scene that was missing from the movie but they played it at the end as a jab at movies not having everything in the trailer but it makes me mad that they couldn't find a way to integrate this into the movie. Very similar to the first with good and bad aspects. It's in the not bad category but it isn't that great when you look over it. Too not be too needy and allow people to change and/or friendship can last long distances is a good message but the story framework they used for it wasn't that good. The conflict was forced like how Ralph had to wreck Penelope's car in the first, this one wrecks her dream life in another game with a virus. They had a reason for going to the internet but really didn't do much with the source material inspirations they could use from it. It wasn't as underwhelming as what I saw with Incredibles 2. It lacked potential on its premise and will likely only be known as better emoji movie.

>>1043075

>Venom

Except that film had very mixed reception…?

For me though, Venom felt like a movie that I wasn't supposed to enjoy. There were certain aspects of the film that allowed me to ignore the cheesy villain, poor introduction, etc. I think the dynamic between Eddie and the Venom symbiote was probably the best aspect this film.

>>1043100

It made it's money back and then some so it's a pretty good success. Especially since everything Sony put out before it was constantly doing horribly.

It's a movie that very much has sprinkles of a good movie mixed in with a pretty poorly written story with characters that don't perfectly mesh. Somehow it is at the very least entertaining… when it's actually Eddie and Venom. So really only the second half of the movie.

>>1043075

where have you been that you're just now noticing this?

>>1043099

>forced interracial romance

He tried flirting with her at the beginning but that was the only sort of romantic gesture since he spends the rest of the movie being Nigger-Man and at the end they become friends IIRC. She's shown trying to contact him before the credits but nothing indicates that she got WEBBED.

>>1043109

I know it's subjective but I just really want higher standards for these cape movies if they're really taking over the cinema like they are. Thank you for being understanding at least.

>>1043113

Good point. The set up is there though. I'm wondering if it was originally planned but then they chickened out because they wanted to make the women power sequel.

>>1043101

Problem with Venom is that we never really see the Venom symbioite start to understand and like the human race and Earth. He says "I'll be sad to see it go" but really thats it.

The script was nearly there. Just needed another month or so to be ironed out.

>>1043075

Aquaman is objectively the best DC movie ever made, even if they did accidentally dump a huge ton of redpills

>hybrid mutt is secretly trained by treacherous jew vizier to take over the kingdom ruled very well by a blue eyed, blonde haired ubermensch

>Like European pottery

>>1044872

I wished they stuck to a consistent frame rate, the stop motion feel really took me out.

>>1044826

>ruled very well

He could barely take on the crab men. He was going to get them killed like Aquanog got everyone killed in Flashpoint.

>>1043104

>any interracial romance is okay

I'm truly grateful you discredited yourself in the beginning so I don't have to read the rest of the shit you posted. Every interracial romance between a nigger and a human in Western media has always been part of a political agenda. Do you genuinely think anyone would write that shit if they didn't want to push miscegenation?

Token fucking Gwen is just another instance of Marvel taking a big, fat shit on Peter for being white and popular, just like they've been doing for the past decade. They bring his first love back and then have her cuck him with a nigger nobody wants or likes, that only exists for the same reason Squirrel Girl and Captain Marvel keep getting relaunched.

>>1043773

>The script was nearly there

The first third of the movie, and large parts of the second third, are wasted on shit drama nobody cares about concerning characters nobody likes. They could have condensed his money and love troubles into a 15 minute segment and left more time to properly develop his relationship with Venom.

The action scenes are pure fucking garbage. The first car chase goes on for too long, there's no real feeling of weight to anything and they do that rage inducing thing modern movies like to do and shove dumb slapstick humor any chance they get, further eroding any tension the audience might feel.

Tom Hardy spends the movie fluctuating between a concussion and a seizure. He's either in humiliating situations or slurring his words while he drools out of his mouth. It's fucking disgusting to watch.

And on top of everything else they fail at illustrating the horror of the situation appropriately once Venom latches onto Eddie. I was expecting something along the lines of Prototype, not another misguided shitshow like Fantastic Four that has no idea what it wants to do or where it wants to go.

>>1044973

Blacks are homo sapiens, same as whites. If you're against race mixing that's fine but if you're going to be so retarded that you make them out to be a different species that's when I have to call you out

>>1043075

Modern movies are so garbage that mediocre ones look great

Spider-Verse was okay, not great, maybe peaking into 'Good' a couple times, but that's all.

That animation, though. That animation made me physically sick to my stomach at more than one point in the movie.

>>1043075

>Aquaman

>Low Quality?

You obviously haven't seen Aquaman. It is visually stunning & it was very entertaining.

>>1045079

>call you out

Kill yourself tumblr.

>>1043099

>spider-totem eating vampires

The what?

>>1045223

Don't ask. Just don't.

>>1043075

All 4 of those were pretty good.

>Bumblebee

Surprise good film

>Venom

Nowhere near as bad as expected

>Spiderverse

Overall good

>Aquaman

Blew past whatever expectation there was.

>>1045223

Dab Slot's god awful stories in Spiderverse as an excuse for why Spiderman gets anally raped and curb-stomped in every dimension .

>>1048303

Even worse.

>Are everyone's standards that low?

Yes, welcome to the lowest common denominator.

>>1048377

The fact they emphasize the shoes is dumb and manufactured "girl power" shit. Peni's robot in the comics works because it's what allows HER to be Sp//dr. Spiver-verse version is just a Baymax sort of clone where the robot just does everything while Peni is useless. Then finally the totem vampires are a terrible thing but they add a stake to the story. They're a threat that can actually overpower Spider-man. There's little danger when just facing an alternate villain any Spider-man has faced before.

>>1043099

>peter is jewish

Peter Parkerstein? What in the godamn

>>1048441

I somehow remembered it was a lot bigger. I haven't read this comic in a while, so I thought since it was Evangelion inspired, it'd be a big robot. My mistake.