MCU Rewatch (#14) – Doctor Strange…UPDATED!

I never really liked Doctor Strange. I never actively disliked him. I just wasn’t into him. There was nothing about him that really interested me. That’s how I feel about this movie. Nothing in it really interested me. At its core, the movie is painfully similar to Iron Man: Arrogant guy faces life-threatening injury, is […]

MCU Rewatch (#13): Captain America – Civil War

OVERVIEW: Just as they did with The Winter Soldier, this is the Russos elevating the superhero genre. This is a morality play. A morality which is especially poignant today. It asks a very important question: what do we do when our dearest friends hold beliefs that we don’t agree with? Can we find a way […]

MCU Rewatch (#12) Ant-Man

In my re-review for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I said that movie proved you could do any kind of film against a superhero backdrop. Ant-Man is more proof of that theory. It’s a heist movie. A fun, light-hearted heist movie. With superpowers. And a lot of bugs. Of all the Marvel movies to this […]

Sorry for the delay…

I’m working on my Age of Ultron write-up. I’m just having a tough time cracking it. It’s coming. I promise. 🙂

MCU Rewatch (#11): Avengers Age of Ultron

I came into this rewatch expecting to walk away with an “ok” experience. Middle of the list fare. Not too bad. Not too good. That’s not what I got. I don’t want to say I hated it because (1) it’d be way too dramatic, (2) it’s got SOME redeeming qualities and (3) It’s a Marvel […]

MCU Rewatch (#10): Guardians of the Galaxy

Okay, what I said about the Russos in the last post was a bit extreme. They can’t direct EVERYTHING. James Gunn owns the cosmic Marvel Universe. When this came out, I expected to be disappointed. Y ’see, I was one of the few BIG Guardians of the Galaxy fans. Like, I was into the Guardians […]

MCU Rewatch (#9): Captain America – The Winter Soldier

Can the Russos make all the movies, please? I mean, these two just GET IT. CA-TWS is fantastic. Part political thriller, part superhero movie, this movie hits all my buttons. In all honesty, this is hard. I love the hell out of this movie. Every performance here in this movie is on point. Chris Evans […]

MCU Rewatch (#8): Thor The Dark World

It’s really not a bad film. It’s just that…after the previous seven, this movie commits a grievous sin: it’s boring. There’s a big story here, the filmmakers just don’t do the work, for whatever reason, to tell it in an engaging way. Jane Foster is the POV character for most of the film, but Jane […]

MCU Rewatch (#7): Iron Man 3

This movie doesn’t get the credit it deserves. It’s the best written of the Iron Man films. It’s got a complicated plot that really works. The dialog is really witty. There are a lot of really strong character moments in this one. In fact, I’d say this is the one that defined the Iron Man […]

MCU Rewatch (#6) The Avengers

A lot of this movie’s appeal comes from the novelty. This was the payoff to five previous movies. It had to be amazing. It had to be spectacular. And, for the most part, it was. But, as a whole, it’s just too darn Whedony. The characters are archetypes, not the well-crafted people we’d started to […]