Black Widow (Cate Shortland, July 9, 2021) Movie • Page 14

Oh you mean time on screen, it would be funny if she was just chilling on an iPad

 

seeing tonight

 

lower-mid level mcu for me. florence is as good as you heard, act 3 falls off a cliff, villain is debatably the worst they’ve had in some time. it’s a mostly worthwhile affair for anyone looking to pick back up with where marvel is/was headed. i might watch it again but i’m in no rush

 

I really liked it. It didn’t reinvent the wheel but definitely enjoyed my time. Florence is great and I’m excited to see where her character goes.

 

oh, and i got a black widow hat at the screening

 

Mid-tier for me. Pugh rules.

 

actually really enjoyed this

 

Yep enjoyed this about as much as I hoped / expected

 

Also gotta laugh at the thread being wrong about taskmaster

 

fine, i’ll eat my shoe

 

i will also do so while doubling down that they had this movie shelved for two years while there was immediate response to weisz and it would not surprise me at all if it was something edited in the last two years lol

 

To the surprise of approximately no one, Pugh is easily the standout

 

I was going to wonder outloud if there are doofuses online Big Mad about how the movie handled Taskmaster versus the comic version, but I'm not going down that rabbit hole today.

EDIT: No sooner than I post this, I head to Twitter, where Taskmaster is trending for exactly the reasons you'd expect.

 

Watched this today on Disney Plus and posted some thoughts on YouTube:

Overall, a decent MCU film but had it come out like 5 years ago I would have enjoyed it so much more. I loved what they were going for, but considering what we, as the audience already know about Natasha's story, I just couldn't get into it as much as I wanted to.

 

I really enjoyed this much more than I thought. Florence was amazing and really held her own in the film.

It didn’t feel like a typical MCU movie, felt more grounded in reality, until the inevitable final 1/4 of the film where it always turns into an insane battle.

I really liked the beginning and The American’s vibes it was giving off.

I would really enjoy a MCU movie where the final scene doesn’t have to be a big blow me up extravaganza. Not quite sure how that would work but that’s the only part of comic books movie that kind of lose it for me.

 

seeing this probably tomorrow, but does it end with a blue beam in the sky

 

I've been turning this over in my mind, and I guess to start I'm not sure if you mean you want a lower-stakes kind of final battle, which has been done before, or if you mean you don't want a final battle at all.

If it's the latter, then I'm kind of at a loss at how that would go myself. I think that's ultimately one of the limitations of the genre, and not the superhero genre, but the blockbuster genre. I feel like a big expensive action movie like this, most audiences are going to have certain expectations for the climax. Little hard to have a hero beat a villain without some kind of fight happening.

The closest example I can think to this is the end of Doctor Strange, which I felt was actually a really unique and clever way to defeat a villain without directly fighting them. It still involved a confrontation, but not a typical kind. That's not an opportunity that I think presents itself very often though.

 

I think this was the best thing Marvel has released since Endgame. Better than all of the Disney+ shows. I’d probably rank this somewhere in the top 10 mcu films.

 

The villain and his base is so 90’s bond haha

 

100%, the floating fortress made me laugh out loud. the more I think about it the more this clicks together nicely tho

 

Thoroughly enjoyed this one.

 

This is in the top 50% of MCU for me. I want to see more of Nat’s “family.”

 

I had very very low expectations for this and I thought it was great! Third act is obviously a mess and the cgi looked awful, but the rest of this was great!

side note: I kept getting distracted whenever they showed Young Nat because the actress looks so much like Milla Jovovich it was crazy... and apparently that was Milla Jovovich’s daughter!

 

I liked this way more than I thought I would