Like an entire season of your favorite comic book soap opera scrambled into 2 hours and 19 minutes, forgiveness as a superpower and selflessness as a nonnegotiable lesson when coming of age. Sam Raimi the man who can animate drying paint, that there isn’t a drop of irony in the whole thing is both a comforting escape and sad reminder that these just don’t look like they used to. Mary Jane Watson you are literally stronger than the marines.
Reviews tagged ‘cbm’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Madame Web 2024
I’ve endured worse than staring at Dakota Johnson for 2 hours but she, and miss Madame Web who is actually a pretty cool hero, deserve a tiny bit better than this botched specimen. The end is so catastrophically bad I nearly had to watch through my fingers. Also I’m laughing because part of this is kind of Dune Messiah coded, iykyk
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The Marvels 2023
Half spunk, half schlock. Nia DaCosta is innocent and Iman Vellani is the cutest person to ever exist. I think we should just make movies about the Flerkens now. The FCU.
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Blue Beetle 2023
Idk, you know the deal. Onward we trek through the world of enjoying certain things about these assembly line superhero movies, but wondering if the recurring flaws are something to be fixed or something to get used to… Blue Beetle is far from the bottom of the barrel though. The first act is supremely rough, but once he gets his powers it not only brings some fun with the action, but reaches a level of genuine spirit and soul at…
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The Flash 2023
There’s so much to pick apart about The Flash after its years of production chaos and the very foundation of DC shifting underneath it, so I’ve resolved to just rate based off of my level of entertainment, minus some for the pretty despicable cameo show at the end. I think I would rate it higher if it didn’t feel like Frankenstein’s movie - there’s something truly good held in the second act of this where the focus is on Barry…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023
I adore how weird this is, and there’s a long take to No Sleep till Brooklyn that’s one of my favorite things I’ve seen this year. It wraps up everyone’s story in a really satisfying way, and is as visually interesting as these things get. I think the Gunn shtick has lost a bit of its novelty though, like everything he does here we’ve seen in the other movies in a different font (save for Rocket’s backstory which I thought…
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023
Better than Quantumania and Black Adam but not as good as the first film - it helps that they’ve laid the groundwork with this very likable family because they got sloppy in other ways. The humor is worse, it’s lit like shit, the villains are a huge missed opportunity and the second act is a mess. They rely almost exclusively on people being stupid to push this plot forward - I’m getting progressively more annoyed with how childish Billy acts as…
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Shazam! 2019
Don’t much care what’s wrong with this movie, I think it’s super cute. One of the only standard/formulaic comic book movies of the last several years that actually manages to have heart and doesn’t try to be something it’s not. Also why do we not discuss how great the Seven Deadly Sins look? Horror directors + CBMs💙💙💙
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
I love this movie unfortunately! There are several Marvel films that have allowed their directors to shine but this is the most shocking diversion in tone that there has ever been, and I get such gleeful delight from watching Raimi boss it up inside the MCU formula. The scene of Strange dreamwalking in his own corpse is unreal. Every time I watch I notice more parallels to Raimi's own films, and also take more to the script, that I agree is messy, but at least it actually has arcs and believes in something. And it believes that Pizza Poppa always gets paid bitch
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Ant-Man and the Wasp 2018
In a shocking turn of events, I might think this is the best Ant-Man movie. Perfectly formulaic and fun, and refreshing after Quantumania because it manages to move the overall universe forward without losing sight of the main characters (they also really whiffed not having the Luis bit in the third one). Definitely has the best ant-stuff.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023
One of those movies that is so overstuffed, frantically paced and unemotional that you feel like you didn’t even watch it #NotMyAntMan