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The first laugh I got out the film was the sight of Weasel sinking underwater.
The disgusted reactions of people toward the friendly rat were also amusing.
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Some of the jokes and sight gags were fine, but the more scatological ones (“if this beach was covered in dicks”, etc.) felt forced and made me wonder how old James Gunn was.
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'Fear Street Part Two: 1978' was my favourite, too.
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[quote]I almost thought you were trolling when you complained about the Music, because based on what I've read that is the one thing that seems to be universally agreed on is great!
almost every single review or reaction I read comments on the soundtrack and music being great.[/quote]
Critics aren’t obligated to calibrate their expectations in such a way that every movie gets a good grade - that’s more or less the opposite of their job. They’re supposed to bring a wide-ranging knowledge of the art form and a distinct perspective.
Likewise, an individual viewer’s enjoyment or non-enjoyment of a movie is independent of critical reception. There’s no objective standard of “good” and “bad” in art, which allows for vast differences in reaction and enjoyment of any particular work. That’s part of the joy. This fixation on things being reviewed in a certain way makes it seem like reviews determine quality, which simply isn’t true.
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I agree that things like June being recaptured and escaping yet again, her surviving an airstrike, and later being given unsupervised access to a pregnant Serena Joy, were ridiculous. The show went too far with her character’s plot armour - it made it impossible to suspend disbelief.
It also made the structure of Gilead confusing by suddenly moving Commander Lawrence, Aunt Lydia, and Nick into prominent positions of power. However, some of this seems to be due to the show setting up it’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s recent sequel novel, ‘The Testaments’.
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I own the old gold foil cover edition of that trade :)
The character's story continued, after a fashion, in Kurt Busiek's 'Power Company' and Marc Andreyko's 'Manhunter', which are both worth tracking down.
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Milana's character was fun. I had never seen her in anything else previously.
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From what I gather, 'Hawkeye' on Disney+ will be about him handing his mantle over to a younger hero, just like 'Black Widow'.
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One of the purposes of Taskmaster was to demonstrate that Dreykov was a monster who controlled women - this didn't just extend to the victims of human trafficking, but also to his own critically-injured daughter. Instead of saving her life, he turned her into into his unwilling killing machine. She was the ultimate expression of his evil. These are themes that fit in with the other films directed by Cate Shortland.
Taskmaster's other purpose was so Natasha could finally shed the final remnants of her assassin-era guilt (which she anguished over in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron') and transition into a true superhero. Not only did she make peace with Yelena and her "family" of Soviet agents, as well as completely destroy the Red Room program and free all of those girls, she was even able to absolve herself of the child murder she thought she had committed ("collateral damage") in order to escape Dreykov. When we see Natasha at the end of the film, she even looks like a new woman, one who eventually becomes the leader of Earth's remaining superheroes during the "Blip".
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I think Val is recruiting the equivalent of the team from the 'Dark Avengers' storyline in the comic book - a gang of morally dubious, government-controlled heroes that fit the basic archetypes of the Avengers. She already has Yelena and U.S.Agent. They are clearly setting up Thunderbolt Ross to transform into Red Hulk after that sudden revelation that he's battling an illness. They might have Taskmaster. Sylvie may end up on Earth. There is also Vision 2.0 floating around.
Meanwhile, you have the Young Avengers being seeded in Disney+, and the existence of Zemo would imply that the Thunderbolts aren't too far away.
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The accents were all cartoonishly bad, but Marvel films have never strived for realism. If they had wanted authenticity, there are plenty of great Russian actors they could have hired.
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In the comics, Julia Louis Dreyfus’ character, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, is basically a shady secret agent who has worked for S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, Leviathan, the Skrulls, etc.
It hasn’t been revealed who she’s working for in the MCU or why she wants Barton dead, but she’s obviously manipulating Yelena to get it done.
If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say they are planting the seeds for a ‘Dark Reign’ storyline, with Valentina forming a new Avengers team made up of U.S.Agent, Yelena, Taskmaster, Red Hulk, Sylvie, Vision 2.0, etc.
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As well as ‘Thor’, I really enjoyed Simonson’s ‘X-Factor’ and ‘Manhunter’. He’s a very talented guy.
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Thor became Throg, Frog of Thunder, due to a curse, in a story written and illustrated by Walter Simonson in the 1980s. When Thor transformed back, he ended up gifting a portion of his power to a regular frog to continue protecting a bunch of other frogs living in a park from rats. The story only lasted for one issue and was basically just an excuse for Simonson to have fun drawing a frog wearing a helmet.
I’m sure the character is still in use, but I haven’t been a comic book-reader for years.
The Thor comics (and the characters) are a lot weirder and deeper than the films or Disney+ series, which are tailored to appeal to a much broader audience.
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1. Kid Loki said he killed the Thor of that world.
2. The little creature is Throg, a frog with Thor’s powers. It’s just another Easter Egg from the comic books, like the Thanos helicopter and the costume of “Classic Loki”. Perhaps he’s from the same dimension as Crocodile Loki in this series.
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It’s a thriller about identity.
Is Luce a budding radical, hiding extremist views behind a veneer of smiling success and a promising future? Or is he just a victim of expectations and profiling, of the way his community can see him only in binary terms, either as someone who’s overcome his past as a child soldier to become an “example of why America works” or as a kind of ticking time bomb of inevitable violence?
I really enjoyed it.
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I was entertained enough to give part two a chance when it comes out this week. But I think that the ‘Fear Street’ trilogy is going to be blown away by Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Christopher Pike’s ‘The Midnight Club’, which is also coming out on Netflix.
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To show that he had returned to his family and was ready to re-enter mundane suburban life by taking out the garbage.
Considering the reluctance of world leading nations when it comes to accepting small amounts of immigrants from warn-torn countries in real life, the arrival of 500,000 people would be considered more than a “blip”… particularly when you take into account that they have enough future knowledge to manipulate politics, share markets, technological advancement and so on.
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It would cause a population spike, “Grays Sports Almanac” situations, etc, etc.
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