Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-18 (Tuesday)

On 6/19/24 11:20 AM, shawn wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:39:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

I have today (Juneteenth!) off, which means after work and errands
yesterday, I planned to kick back and watch some movies (which I also
intend to do today!).
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So, I watched:
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The Marvels (Disney+) - Actually, I didn't hate this.
    In fact, Stinky Cheese Larson is mostly tolerable in this one. (They
obviously made a concerted effort to tone her awfulness *way down*!)
    I think Arthur remarked that he liked the first part of the movie
better, where the three women keep switching places (upon using their
powers), and I agree that that was the best part of the film.
    The movie stars dragging and becoming less engaging probably right
after they visited the planet full of musical theater nerds.
    But, anyway, of the recent post-"Endgame" Marvel flicks, this one is
in the middle of the pack - it's not awful like "Ant-Man 3" or "Love and
Thunder" but neither is it good like GotG, Vol. 3. It's maybe roughly at
the level of "Black Widow".

 I thought BLACK WIDOW was a better movie than this one. Though that
may be because I liked the characters more than these characters.
(Though I do like Ms Marvel.)

To me they are comparable, though "Widow" ends on much more of a downer than this one.

    I was pleased as punch to see Hailee Steinfeld at the end, which
seems to be setting up a (Young?) Avengers flick with her and Ms. Marvel
- and yet, there is no "Young Avengers" flick in the pipeline?! [shrug]
    The mid-credits scene clearly seems to be setting up "Deadpool &
Wolverine". And this flick doesn't have a post-credits scene which I
though was interesting.
    P.S. The CGI Beast in this looks really bad, way worse than Beast
looked in the earlier "X-Men" flicks!!

 The enemy in this movie never did it for me. Sure the things she did
was bad but I never felt she was a proper villain.

I agree - she was the weakest part of the film by far.