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Cold and tired and coughing and working, but only for a few more days. Toughing it out! Watching Olympics! Fencing and tennis and whatnot! Maybe rugby later? Ordering Tim Hortons! Three more days!
Saw Deadpool & Wolverine. Broadly enjoyed it, with some reservations, much like the first two DP movies. Thoughts and spoilers ensue!
It was fun! I had fun! There was lots of goofy shit (positive) and goofy shit (negative) and I had a good enough time to mostly overcome my misgivings going in re: never letting the FoX-Men go, ever, ever, oh my god it's been a quarter of a century can we please let go and move on PLEASE. Since that was clearly what it was actually all about! Finally, conclusively, moving on from these uneven comic book movies that we got before Marvel changed the game and everyone realized all those compromises didn't actually have to happen to get these characters onscreen. But also, people have been telling me 'this means we're moving on now!' for a full decade, and this was a movie based around nostalgia for characters that NEVER GO AWAY SO HOW CAN I MISS THEM, so a part of me remains skeptical and I still fervently wish we'd just never brought other movies into the multiverse at all, but that was a fight I lost years ago, anyway. Much like with No Way Home, it used the conceit in a way that made it mostly worth it in this one particular case, and how things progress going forward will definitely end up colouring how I feel about it all.
Although, messy ending aside, No Way Home was a much better movie, telling an actual story instead of consisting of an awkward, slapped-together plot clearly designed primarily to slot in whatever random cameos they could manage to get. But also, that's probably the most deserved way to say goodbye to the Fox era of Marvel movies, isn't it? Respectful, in its own stupid way.
Stray bits, since it was a movie made up of them:
And of course, no matter how much I've begged and pleaded for them to just leave these goddamn movies alone for long now, no matter how I will continue to if need be (I certainly haven't forgotten Kelsey Grammar at the end of The Marvels), because I am also peak millennial... yeah, fuckin' Good Riddance over the credits absolutely got me in my feelings THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING. And if this IS really, truly, finally the end, then yeah, the feelings were earned. The first X-Men was the reason I started reading comics as a kid! My life would be so different had these movies not existed and I very much want to regard them fondly and not like they're forever keeping me from getting a proper take on these characters! GOD, THEY WERE ALL SUCH BABIES.
So, yeah! Fun movie! Has it rekindled my passion for the MCU that flamed out a little amidst the last year's neglect? Not... really, no, but I'm a little more optimistic than I was? I just really hate the way they're basically bailing on the entire phase instead of just trying to do better? It's me, the person who has actually liked all of the movies they've put out to date, but knowing things eventually pay off is what made it so much fun to look forward to more of them and speculate? But god knows when we're seeing Shang-Chi (or Moon Knight, for that matter) again, and the Eternals are getting shoved down the memory hole, and now they're just fully replacing Kang with Doom and hitting the 'in case of emergency break glass' RDJ button, so it's just like... fuck me for actually enjoying what they were doing before, I guess? "You're entering at something of a low point" being the only movie we get this year has just really ground my excitement for the broader franchise into the dirt and it's proving tough to pick back up. Silly problems to have, and I've always been a proponent of it being fine and normal to just not be a fan of everything forever, but still. I guess 2025 will be the real test? Finally saw the Brave New World trailer, and it looks pretty cool, so SHRUG.
Maybe I will just listen to Like a Prayer on repeat instead of a podcast during my lunch break.
Okay, gymnastics time, bye! And... table tennis? lol summer olympics you're so lame
Saw Deadpool & Wolverine. Broadly enjoyed it, with some reservations, much like the first two DP movies. Thoughts and spoilers ensue!
It was fun! I had fun! There was lots of goofy shit (positive) and goofy shit (negative) and I had a good enough time to mostly overcome my misgivings going in re: never letting the FoX-Men go, ever, ever, oh my god it's been a quarter of a century can we please let go and move on PLEASE. Since that was clearly what it was actually all about! Finally, conclusively, moving on from these uneven comic book movies that we got before Marvel changed the game and everyone realized all those compromises didn't actually have to happen to get these characters onscreen. But also, people have been telling me 'this means we're moving on now!' for a full decade, and this was a movie based around nostalgia for characters that NEVER GO AWAY SO HOW CAN I MISS THEM, so a part of me remains skeptical and I still fervently wish we'd just never brought other movies into the multiverse at all, but that was a fight I lost years ago, anyway. Much like with No Way Home, it used the conceit in a way that made it mostly worth it in this one particular case, and how things progress going forward will definitely end up colouring how I feel about it all.
Although, messy ending aside, No Way Home was a much better movie, telling an actual story instead of consisting of an awkward, slapped-together plot clearly designed primarily to slot in whatever random cameos they could manage to get. But also, that's probably the most deserved way to say goodbye to the Fox era of Marvel movies, isn't it? Respectful, in its own stupid way.
Stray bits, since it was a movie made up of them:
- The Johnny swerve was very predictable (I'm sure we all said 'flame on!' along with him), but still very very good.
- It's a good thing the music was so loud, because the Channing reveal made me fully shout 'FUCK OFF' and cackle like a loon.
- We got Shatterstar back, but not Domino? Weak.
- Distracting CGI in some of the fights, but it's mostly fine. Fun factor wins out.
- Kinda wild that they fired Jonathan Majors just to immediately pull in the guy who (PROBABLY) deafened Halle Berry, but I still popped for the cameo, dude looked great, though the lack of any reference to Hannibal King makes me wonder if he and Ryan Reynolds were ever even in the same room for it. Also, the line about how there will only ever be one Blade feels kinda weird and ominous with how troubled that particular production has been? Felt like a threat.
- The AU Wolverine montage, that is the sort of cheap and easy fan service I am here for, not seeing fucking Elektra and Azazel again.
- Cassandra Nova ruled.
- that Mass Effect 3-ass ending, lol what the hell
- I still don't like Wolvie's costume, that now-stereotypical MCU armour look but in good colours this time simply is not it for me, but it looked better the longer the movie went on. Weird uncanny valley vibes once he had the cowl up; it looked cool as hell, but the white eyes are one of those comic tropes that don't really translate well to live-action.
- Fights were fun, all the CG blood looked dumb.
- lol at the FoX-Verse basically becoming a nice farm where all the characters from all the old movies can go and live in and play in forever~
And of course, no matter how much I've begged and pleaded for them to just leave these goddamn movies alone for long now, no matter how I will continue to if need be (I certainly haven't forgotten Kelsey Grammar at the end of The Marvels), because I am also peak millennial... yeah, fuckin' Good Riddance over the credits absolutely got me in my feelings THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING. And if this IS really, truly, finally the end, then yeah, the feelings were earned. The first X-Men was the reason I started reading comics as a kid! My life would be so different had these movies not existed and I very much want to regard them fondly and not like they're forever keeping me from getting a proper take on these characters! GOD, THEY WERE ALL SUCH BABIES.
So, yeah! Fun movie! Has it rekindled my passion for the MCU that flamed out a little amidst the last year's neglect? Not... really, no, but I'm a little more optimistic than I was? I just really hate the way they're basically bailing on the entire phase instead of just trying to do better? It's me, the person who has actually liked all of the movies they've put out to date, but knowing things eventually pay off is what made it so much fun to look forward to more of them and speculate? But god knows when we're seeing Shang-Chi (or Moon Knight, for that matter) again, and the Eternals are getting shoved down the memory hole, and now they're just fully replacing Kang with Doom and hitting the 'in case of emergency break glass' RDJ button, so it's just like... fuck me for actually enjoying what they were doing before, I guess? "You're entering at something of a low point" being the only movie we get this year has just really ground my excitement for the broader franchise into the dirt and it's proving tough to pick back up. Silly problems to have, and I've always been a proponent of it being fine and normal to just not be a fan of everything forever, but still. I guess 2025 will be the real test? Finally saw the Brave New World trailer, and it looks pretty cool, so SHRUG.
Maybe I will just listen to Like a Prayer on repeat instead of a podcast during my lunch break.
Okay, gymnastics time, bye! And... table tennis? lol summer olympics you're so lame
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"we're going to call out the unnecessary escalation and then still do it" see she-hulk actually chose to act on what she called out about the format, in this essay-
I think two needle drops too many, I was over the concept of needle drops by the end even though each one singularly worked. this is perhaps also inadvertently an analogy for superhero movies
honestly found the 'there'll never be another Blade' joke extra funny because they didn't know the joke they were actually making
they really did get me with the montage, though, even though I'm also in the 'let's have New X-Men. no, not like- well, sort of- you know' camp, like, hey, what a time. please don't make him do this until he's 90
in conclusion, genuinely alarmed at how attracted I am to cassandra nova
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DEADPOOL DANCING TO BYE BYE BYE IS THE SAME JOKE AS SHE-HULK TWERKING WITH MEGAN THEE STALLION AND THE DIFFERENCE IN RECEPTION IS SO FUCKING TELLING, IN THIS ESSAY-
honestly found the 'there'll never be another Blade' joke extra funny because they didn't know the joke they were actually making
also it was sticky fingaz erasure, I am almost halfway through this terrible show and I WILL have my voice heard
they really did get me with the montage, though, even though I'm also in the 'let's have New X-Men. no, not like- well, sort of- you know' camp, like, hey, what a time. please don't make him do this until he's 90
LET HIM SING AND DANCE AND EAT CARBS AGAIN, but seriously, a tactical bomb of sarcastic sincerity for people born in the '80s, I really wish this series was better at striking that balance of 'look, audience, we're toooootally in on the joke and that makes it good!' more consistently
but that simply would not be Foxy enough, RIP
in conclusion, genuinely alarmed at how attracted I am to cassandra nova
it's the real long nail beds, right
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yeah, that's really the thing. I certainly think this one did a way better job than the 'we think we invented fridging' from the last one, it was way more on a wavelength I agreed with, but nonetheless. Nicepool looking at the camera and saying The Proposal ISN'T significantly different to what you do and I can't tell if that was the joke!!
it's the real long nail beds, right
i don't know. i don't know. put your hands inside me cassie