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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-18 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:44:49 -0700
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On 6/19/24 11:20 AM, shawn wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:39:12 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> 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.