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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-01 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 18:31:00 -0700
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On 5/2/2025 12:40 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 5/2/25 8:13 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> 
>> On 5/2/2025 7:12 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>  > >> What Did You Watch?
>>>
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> Thunderbolts* (theatrical) Latest movie set in the MCU.  Valentina 
>> Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) Assembles a Suicide Squad 
>> made up of villains and anti-heroes from past movies.  The team is 
>> made up of Black Widow's sister, Yelena Belova (Florence Puhh), Black 
>> Widow's father, Red Guardian (David Harbour), The Winter Soldier 
>> (Sebastian Stan), John Walker, who was briefly Captain America (Wyatt 
>> Russell), Ghost, who was an Ant-Man villain (Hannah John-Kamen), and 
>> Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), who was a Black Widow villain. Together 
>> they are the Suicide Squad, I mean Thunderbolts.  Oh, I almost forget, 
>> there was also Bob (Lewis Pullman).
> 
> You don't say whether you thought it was good!
> 
> This is the first MCU movie in a long time that I'm actually looking 
> forward to.
> 


As anim8rfsk mentioned, this is being promoted as the best MCU movie 
since Endgame.  My initially reaction was no, it's not. But now that I 
think about it, I'm not sure if I can name a better one.  I absolutely 
liked it.  I'd rate it at about "Black Widow" level good.  It's 
practically a Black Widow sequel seeing as how a good chunk of the 
Thunderbolts come from that movie.

I didn't really give a plot summary because the plot in and of itself 
might be considered a bit of a spoiler.  But the cast description does 
work as a pretty good summary of the plot.  Just don't forget "Bob."  :-)

I thought there were some chunks when it could have used a bit more 
action.  But that's just me.

Overall, it definitely held my interest and was enjoyable.  I liked an 
early scene when they were all fighting each other.  It was very well 
choreographed.

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It was also funny when Gur Guhaqreobygf orpbzr gur arj Niratref naq gur 
byq Niratref fhr gurz sbe pbclevtug vasevatrzrag.  Fb Erq Thneqvna 
punatrf gurve anzr sebz Niratref gb Niratrem jvgu n "m."

There was actually a lot of humor in this one, especially coming from 
Red Guardian.