Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-18 (Tuesday) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:44:49 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:44:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9d14a92d74d289b03720148489cca177"; logging-data="2224012"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/k5pSrbUMh35qjvpIZ79Sy" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:4/S8az0ScVoJJPxWkuDB5F1qpKU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3174 On 6/19/24 11:20 AM, shawn wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:39:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" > 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!). >> >> So, I watched: >> > >> 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.