Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-01 (Thursday)

On 5/2/2025 12:40 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/2/25 8:13 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
 

On 5/2/2025 7:12 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

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Thunderbolts* (theatrical) Latest movie set in the MCU.  Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) Assembles a Suicide Squad made up of villains and anti-heroes from past movies.  The team is made up of Black Widow's sister, Yelena Belova (Florence Puhh), Black Widow's father, Red Guardian (David Harbour), The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), John Walker, who was briefly Captain America (Wyatt Russell), Ghost, who was an Ant-Man villain (Hannah John-Kamen), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), who was a Black Widow villain. Together they are the Suicide Squad, I mean Thunderbolts.  Oh, I almost forget, there was also Bob (Lewis Pullman).

 You don't say whether you thought it was good!
 This is the first MCU movie in a long time that I'm actually looking forward to.
 

As anim8rfsk mentioned, this is being promoted as the best MCU movie since Endgame.  My initially reaction was no, it's not. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure if I can name a better one.  I absolutely liked it.  I'd rate it at about "Black Widow" level good.  It's practically a Black Widow sequel seeing as how a good chunk of the Thunderbolts come from that movie.
I didn't really give a plot summary because the plot in and of itself might be considered a bit of a spoiler.  But the cast description does work as a pretty good summary of the plot.  Just don't forget "Bob."  :-)
I thought there were some chunks when it could have used a bit more action.  But that's just me.
Overall, it definitely held my interest and was enjoyable.  I liked an early scene when they were all fighting each other.  It was very well choreographed.
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There was actually a lot of humor in this one, especially coming from Red Guardian.