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Madame Web
Weirdly enough, this has been one of the movies that I missed during the hiatus on this site that I’ve been most wanting to watch for a long time now. There’s just something about a universally disliked movie that scratches that itch and makes me curious about whether it’s actually bad, or if it’s just mediocre, or if it’s decent with some serious issues. And more often than not, I tend to like most movies that people think were bad. I enjoyed Morbius for the most part, so I was very curious to see where I landed on this movie. Outside of the general vibe, I kept myself pretty much in the dark about what the movie was actually about. I have vague memories of Madame Web appearing in the 90’s Spider-Man cartoon but I don’t really remember anything specific. I even forgot that she was blind until Cassie gets blinded at the end of the movie. I also kind of remember hearing about how the three Spider-Women don’t ever actually get any real scenes as their Spider-personas. But this movie really was a complete mess. It never really made sense as to why this was a story that needed to be told, as someone with zero Spider-verse comics knowledge there was very little for me to grasp onto for any of these future personas outside of Madame Web herself, the villain is ridiculously over-powered yet completely incompetent when it comes to anything involving Cassie, and no one has anything resembling a three dimensional personality.
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Is Marvel’s strategy a bad thing for superhero films?
The other day I came across an article whose argument was basically that the Avengers have ruined the Hollywood concept of a superhero movie. Essentially, the fact that all of the lead up movies to the Avengers were all connected-yet-separate and then there’s this big movie that tied them all together which became a huge thing. And now it’s happening everywhere. DC is doing it by bringing in Batman, Wonder Woman, and who knows who else in the second Man of Steel movie, Sony is doing it with Spider-man with two more sequels in the works and they just announced that their two spin off movies are about Venom and the Sinister Six. Even Fox is getting on board with The Wolverine teasing Days of Future Past which connects the First Class franchise to the first trilogy and have already announced Age of Apocalypse in 2016, not to mention the fact that they’re also supposedly tying the Fantastic Four into that universe somehow. The question is basically asking if the days of the stand-alone superhero movie are gone and these movies are becoming more like comic books, only a part of a much bigger whole that will only end when the money stops. Not only that, but it’s becoming the only model, and that’s a bad thing. Personally, I think it’s a good thing and for more reasons than just getting more superhero movies, which I’m all for too.
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Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights 