11-27-2021, 05:54 PM
I was amused but I can see where Greg has issues. It was more entertaining than Black Widow for me (which is surprising because I love ScarJo as Nat) but not nearly as good as Shang Chi.
It drowns in its inclusive liberal wokeness. Being an inclusive lib woke P.o.C., I did revel in that. It's always refreshing to see that out of Hollywood, although I watch so much foreign cinema that it doesn't have the same impact. At the same time, re: Greg's comment on too much exposition - it almost felt like we needed one more go at it where every character told us their pronoun. It tried not to focus on that, but in doing that, it became the focus.
I'll commend Zhao for trying to break out of the MCU box, even though she fails to do so. If she were able to break free, this would've been a better film. It's daring to attempt to create a whole new universe when the MCUniverse already has a multiverse, and I was perplexed by the DC and Star Wars references. The Ikaris /Clark Kent comment was really confusing. Which universe were we in again? I don't know anything about these characters, unlike most of the MCU, although granted, I didn't know the Guardians of the Galaxy characters and they were more interesting. It failed to balance its humor and action well, which is critical to the MCU formula.
I liked Gemma's performance a lot. I liked Kumail too, and I'm not that into him. I'll credit that to Karun (Greg is right about him). I kept wanting Gilgamesh to be Benedict Wong and Druid to be Ezra Miller. Or maybe Ezra should've been the deaf Flash. Kit was annoying but he was annoying in GoT. Don't care for him. Salma and Angelina, those ladies seemed to barely squeeze into their super suits.
I wanted the Deviants to be more deviant, more lovecraftian. They just looked like typical mythical beasts, only skinless.
I feel like I got my $6.50 worth of distraction out of it but don't particularly D00M recommend it. I feel I've done my duty to support it as an inclusive lib woke P.o.C.
It did have sword fights, a Bollywood number, and tentacles. Or maybe they were tendrils. Tentacles have to have sucker cups, right? So tendrils then.
It drowns in its inclusive liberal wokeness. Being an inclusive lib woke P.o.C., I did revel in that. It's always refreshing to see that out of Hollywood, although I watch so much foreign cinema that it doesn't have the same impact. At the same time, re: Greg's comment on too much exposition - it almost felt like we needed one more go at it where every character told us their pronoun. It tried not to focus on that, but in doing that, it became the focus.
I'll commend Zhao for trying to break out of the MCU box, even though she fails to do so. If she were able to break free, this would've been a better film. It's daring to attempt to create a whole new universe when the MCUniverse already has a multiverse, and I was perplexed by the DC and Star Wars references. The Ikaris /Clark Kent comment was really confusing. Which universe were we in again? I don't know anything about these characters, unlike most of the MCU, although granted, I didn't know the Guardians of the Galaxy characters and they were more interesting. It failed to balance its humor and action well, which is critical to the MCU formula.
I liked Gemma's performance a lot. I liked Kumail too, and I'm not that into him. I'll credit that to Karun (Greg is right about him). I kept wanting Gilgamesh to be Benedict Wong and Druid to be Ezra Miller. Or maybe Ezra should've been the deaf Flash. Kit was annoying but he was annoying in GoT. Don't care for him. Salma and Angelina, those ladies seemed to barely squeeze into their super suits.
I wanted the Deviants to be more deviant, more lovecraftian. They just looked like typical mythical beasts, only skinless.
I feel like I got my $6.50 worth of distraction out of it but don't particularly D00M recommend it. I feel I've done my duty to support it as an inclusive lib woke P.o.C.
It did have sword fights, a Bollywood number, and tentacles. Or maybe they were tendrils. Tentacles have to have sucker cups, right? So tendrils then.
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