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Captain America: Brave New World is trying twice as hard to be half as good (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Having read the spoilery review, I think I will enjoy it just fine. The main complaints seem to boil down to Marvel fatigue in my eyes.

I've never forgotten these are comic book movies, and carry over some of the issues that comics have.

I'm not saying they can't be better, I just don't expect all that much out of em. My expectations are for a good time and maybe a surprise or two.

Of the recent ones, Thor: Love & Thunder was easily the worst. It never decided on a tone, so kept veering from sorrowful to silly.

[–] otto@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I liked the silly parts.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are parts of it that I definitely like, don't get me wrong. It's just that sometimes I can take a step back and forget that it's about cancer, death, eternity, and killing all the gods in the name of revenge... because Zeus makes a bunch of dick jokes and some goats keep screaming.

Tone matters. I lost a decent amount of respect for Taika Waititi that he didn't realize he had a serious tonal conflict in his movie.

[–] otto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I think this is important to keep in mind. These movies are based off of comic books, which are both inherently silly, some of them terrible, and they’re doing the best they can with what they’ve got. Not every single one of these movies is gonna be an Oscar winner. The point is that they are fun above all else. For the most part, they are able to hit that target pretty well.

When you start taking all of this extremely seriously, especially people who get really bent out of shape about continuity (which I care about, but there’s only so much that can be done on that front when dealing with these comic books over the better part of a century), you gotta ask yourself why you’re watching these in the first place? If one tiny little detail is gonna trip you up and make you hate the movie, then I suggest you just skip it all together.