It’s the best of 1-3 for sure.
Thats so fucking annoying, i actually hate going to the cinema because of the people who can’t shut the fuck up, yell or laugh during the movie. There’s always at least one person who thinks they need to “entertain” the rest of the audience with their shitty quips.
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To add to this.
And this….
Prequel Trilogy Specifically… I don’t mind saying Iconic Lines because Prequel Dialogue in itself is part of its D.N.A for the trilogy. The difference between Episode lll and the other two is simply we know how this one is gonna end and we’re here for the ride. It’s been like this since 2005. Just so happens during this ride George Lucas inadvertently created dialogue that’s part of the experience especially after the prequels got re-evaluated once the supplemental Clone Wars series released and sequel trilogy released.
Fair reminder Prequel hate was rampant for awhile, and as someone who has defended these movies through and through. I’m okay with the quotable lines, cause that’s where part of the love is.
I didn’t talk about my theater experience with Episode lll cause I romanticized this idea that I’d be seeing it with my father like how I did back when it released, but that never happened so I went alone. My experience went from I’m excited to see this, to I’m here I feel the rush of emotions during the fan fare before opening crawl, to oh shit I’m sitting next to someone who can’t shut the fuck up and will laugh at literally the smallest thing like R2D2 beeping and booping or General Grievous coughing or breaking down a plastic water bottle mid Mustafar Lightsaber Dual or just busting out your phone to take a picture of said iconic moment to post on your socials.
That was my 20th Anniversary experience. I’m half tempted to go see it again this upcoming Friday during a matinee alone in a theater, but I don’t know yet.
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My advice: do it.
It’s worth it, at least you can try and make things br better this time.
Thunderbolts*
While I haven’t necessarily though all recent Marvel flicks were that bad (I enjoyed both Captain America: Brave New World and Ant-Man: Quantumania well enough, for instance), I’ll sort of agree with the assessment of this film as Marvel being “back”.
I really liked it.
For one it doesn’t end with an insane amount of face-less CGI soldiers for the heroes to fight and the ending in general doesn’t feel as exhaustingly bloated as some other Marvel movies (even the better ones) do.
People have said that this is about mental health… and they’re right, it is, but on a super hero movie level of course. Don’t go in expecting something amazingly deep, but do go in expecting something a bit different from the normal fare.
Mental health is the theme, and it permeates the movie.
This is definitely the Florence Pugh / Lewis Pullman show. And that’s OK. They bring the kind of performances a movie like this needs. That being said it also made me appreciate US Agent more.
The action serves the movie and works. Maybe I could’ve done with one set piece that brought in an original idea. It’s mostly just well choreographed fighting.
All in all I really liked this, and it brings me hope for Fantastic Four: First Steps.
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Sinners. Wicked music, fun genre mashup. Spoilers, basic premise outline Two brothers return to their hometown to set up a barn juke club, and on opening night a group of vampires invade. I was surprised to find out that the movie was over two hours in length, I felt like it flew by. Will be seeing it again when I can.
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Yeah, so,
Thunderbolts*
with specific emphasis on the Asterisk, too!..
(Though in some parts of the USA you might find that changing soon, for some reason) 
Yes, while a whole lot of the marketing, trailers, and even the posters themselves make a point to show off the asterisk, it in and of itself doesn’t really play a part in the film. Like, no one writes down Thunderbolts and puts an asterisk over it. They kind of just disagree on forming a team with that name. But yes I liked the mystery behind why and its weird Marvel is seemingly abandoning it with a new marketing push not even a week after it’s out.
The film itself was great!
I thought it was really fun to see all these side-characters from different films and movies come together in their own starring ensemble film.
The humour is great, awkward at times, and the fun comes from seeing how they bicker or bounce off each others’ wild personalities.
Boy, US Agent/Walker is still such a jerk with a hair-pin trigger finger.
It also has a nice central theme of mental health and depression, even finding an interesting way to show off some of the characters’ internal struggles and pasts (though I wish we got more from the whole group than we did)
It was very touching, and I also appreciated the father-daughter moments between Yelena and Alexei when they occured. It’s only been a year since they last saw each other, but for us it’s been like… 4 years if you’re just counting the movies? 7 for Ghost. My god…
The action was fun. It was great not to have even someone with a super flying jetpack or magic high-tech that can stop or do anything.
Like, this movie’s action is literally just fitsicuffs and guns. Which feels fresh for Marvel!
I also really enjoyed the 3rd act confrontation, it does some weird camera stuff and cool scene changes that I always eat up. Not specifying due to spoilers.
Great performances all around, though some characters get the spotlight a whole lot more. Plus I was surprised by the “main villain” they have to stop in the film. I’m glad I didn’t watch any press material for this since that really would have given it away.
This film at the least feels like the MCU is back. It has nice connections to other properties that it doesn’t need to explain too hard or just leave viewers confused (at least from my parents’ reactions)
(Like, this connects to Cap 4 by mentioning the Red Hulk incident at the start, and at the very end, we see it connect to Fantastic 4 with their ship! Good bookends.
Meanwhile something like Cap 4 has major plot beats connects to Incredible Hulk from over 15 years earlier, and Eternals from 4 years ago… if ya havent seen a recap, catch up.)
So anyway, really enjoyable film. Good change of pace in the MCU, its as grounded a squad as you can get, it’s fun and it’s touching.
Ending thoughts
Spoilers spoilers for the final scene of the movie!
Yeah, this team will alwaya be known as Thunderbolts to me.
Like, they all still only punch and shoot and lift heavy things. Sure, the one guy can fly and do extra superhuman things, so long as he doesn’t let depression take over, but damn, they do not hold a candle to the original Avg squad… or whatever that other new squad FalCap is making…
Keep the name, and the movie title dangit!! It’s got a cute meaning behind it rather than corporate nostalgia…
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Thunderbolts was cool, I related maybe a bit too much to Bob. It was a good blending of an Avengers/Suicide Squad-esque formula with something a little more thoughtful and complicated. I know that we’re getting more Avengers™ in the near future, but I’d be perfectly fine if they just stuck with this. The team is likeable and they have good chemistry, I could easily see this being the new Guardians trilogy of the MCU. Though they need to build a bit on Ghost because I didn’t feel like they spent as much time getting the audience to connect with her, most of the other central cast had a good sense of tragic humanity to them that really enriched the story.
Good film, probably one of the better in the MCU.
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The Promised Land (2023), Stars Mads Mikkelsen in the role of an improvised Danish officer in the mid 1700. Who sets out to cultivate the barren moorland of Jutland, with the presmission of the Royal Danish court.
The film was wonderful, gripping, tense and full of hardship. The one thing that I had a hard time with was that it was in Danish, not due to me not speaking Danish. I do, I’m Danish after all. However in certain movies (many) it’s hard to hear what a Dane is saying, we mumble a lot. There was no options for Danish subtitles nor English, there was also a lot of Norwegian and German. It didn’t help.
I plan to watch it again, but hopefully I can find a place where I can view it with Danish subtitles.
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