You what?
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I like nonsense.
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I guess that explains my confusion!
(I thought that was probably it but reckoned a missed word might change everything)
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Multiverse of MADNESS !!!
âAye in this universe they sell pizza in dough ball formâ
Marvel execs: âWeâve done it again ladsâ
money fight ensues
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Multiverse of Madness will be looked back on as one the bangers I reckon. One of the few MCUs which is happy to accept that the whole premise is super daft.
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he makes himself a cape out of ghouls, five stars, no notes
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Yeah I think DC has always struggled because their most popular IP has always been their grittiest guy, and the second you go âBUT MULTIVERSEâ it fucks that attempt at seriousness,
Whereas big and bouncy marvel can fully lean in.
I wonder what the hell The Flash will look like
This is also the reason Aquaman was a banger
Just have never worked up the courage to watch it after seeing some sequences on the screen of a passenger in front on an aeroplane. It looked like it was filmed comically sped up or something. Dunno if I could take something that looked that silly.
Also applies to Thor ânâ Roses too then. Christ.
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Aqua man is class tbqfh
Indiana Jones meets Star Wars meets The Little Mermaid meets Conan
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it is shit
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Is Spider-Man: No Way Home not on Disney Plus because of the deal with Sony? Iâm sitting here a-waitingâŚ
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Think so, the other ones took an age to come on.
Itâs on now tv/sky atm if youâve got that
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Yeah, Sony arenât giving it to D+ for a long time yet Iâd think.
According to
itâs only on a Now/Sky sub, yes (unless you rent obviously).
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Iâve been signed off work sick for a week or so and not capable of doing much other than slouching on the sofa under a fog of painkillers, so I spent some time catching up on a few of the Phase 4 films that I hadnât seen over the last few days. Which is most of them. Havenât bothered with Black Widow (doesnât move the story along) or Eternals (Iâm already in pain, cheers), and these are my takes:
Shang Chi
Great fun, appealing characters, slightly different origin story, and the side characters are reasonably well written. Nice to see some martial arts choreography and therefore some actual fluid fight scenes in Marvel movies for once rather than just two super strong people punching each other through walls or whatever. Last act is your standard Marvel Colour-coded Laser affair, but at least the design of the mythical creatures was different and reasonably culturally appropriate.
Spider-Man NWH
Yeah, this was spot-on. Obviously played on the fact that cinematic Spider-Man has been a major part of our cultural lives for 20 years, but did it really well. Struck just the right balance between emotional heft and the comedy of the situation. The scenes between all the villains/all the Spider-Men were very entertaining and it set up the future for Spider-Man being alone and working without the same kind of support for the future. Could be good.
Dr Strange
Sam Raimi doing some Sam Raimi camera stuff was fun. Surprised by how much of a âhorrorâ it was. The Illuminati bit was good. Bruce Campbell cameo, also fun, but just give the man a proper role FFS. Pretty much everything else⌠awful.
Wandaâs whole arc just seems horribly misogynistic. Basically âsilly emotional woman canât process her grief so goes about destroying and killing in order to get her âkidsâ back.â I understand that of all the characters in the MCU sheâs sacrificed the most, but it remains pretty insulting in comparison to the way in which all the other characters appear to be shouldering the burden. And especially after Wanda Vision takes an entire series to work through ostensibly the same set of emotions only to return to the exact same thing except now sheâs explicitly evil and willing to murder in brutal ways to get what she wants. Not cool, man.
Cumberbatchâs American accent continues to be one of the worst things Iâve ever heard, and he doesnât have the charisma to pull off the same trick that RDJ managed with Tony Stark, where theyâre a prick but you enjoy hanging out with them anyway. Go away Dr Strange, nobody likes you.
Th4r
Christ. What fresh hell was this? Canât think of a more disjointed, tonal mess of a film. Most of the time it wants to be a comedy, but then every so often they remember that thereâs actually a very serious storyline going on for one of the main characters and have to pivot back to it at whiplash inducing pace. Plus itâs like Gore has somehow been helicoptered in from a completely different thing entirely.
Worst thing was that 90% of the jokes fell completely flat. If youâre going to be a comedy at least put some effort in to the jokes. Genuinely cringed at several moments (e.g. the portable speaker, the god of Buns/Bao). I like Taika Waititi but this was so, so lazy.
At least there was the occasional bit of flair in the direction, like when they were in the shadow realm on the tiny planet. That looked cool.
Ratings
Shang Chi - 8/10
Spider-Man - 9/10
Dr Strange - 4/10
Th4r - 2/10
Seems like Iâve timed it so that Wakanda Foreverâs on D+ from today. Will try to watch that as well over the next day or so if I can.
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Absolutely spot on with everything there
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Watched both Infinity War and Endgame at the weekend with my daughter finally.
List of MCU films she still hasn't seen
The Incredible Hulk
Thor
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Shang-Chi
Eternals
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
What struck me most was how it didnât really seem like Visionâs death should have led to this. WandaVision is the more reasonable choice but still I donât really know they truly managed to explain away her zombie-ing an entire town without really knowing, very much a âconvenient form of mental distress that feeds into a good thrillerâ.
But yeah, the treatment of Wanda isnât good. I really enjoyed the film, though. Felt markedly different from the others.
We loved Thor L&T at the cinema, but I think a lot of films are different when you see them with a child whoâs just enjoying it at a level you canât any more. Still, not really a patch on Ragnarok, even with The Might Thor in play, but I enjoyed it more than NWHâs shameless Star Wars Episode IX shenanigans (plus, you know, the misogynistic unnecessary killing of Aunt May).
Would actually say you should watch Black Widow if you enjoyed Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Itâs a lighter film than that mostly but itâs good fun in the same way Shang-Chi is for having no real external baggage. I guess you watched Hawkeye already but it feeds into that (and also TFATWS I suppose) a bit. Sadly Ray Winstone is truly giving one of the worst performances of his life but when I watched it again knowing that I really got into how truly bad it was and enjoyed!
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This is the thing. As far as I recall thereâs absolutely nothing that really justifies it in her previous character development other than sheâs a woman and therefore must be emotionally incapable of processing this issue so either a) loses control of her powers or b) will do terrible things in order to have children.
Will maybe watch Black Widow at some point but it just doesnât feel necessary at all 