At least Tim C. is cast here in a movie that’s a good fit for quirky actor. As opposed to his casting as Maud’dib in the Dune flicks—that was the misfire casting of all role castings—completely blew suspension of disbelief out of the water.

I think part of the reason personally I’m not so in favor of all this is that I imagine Wonka at this age as far more normal, his wonderful goofiness and strangeness coming from time and career, not from birth. So. I dunno. Maybe I’m old.

I find this take fairly odd, given that the early shows, like Wandavision, Loki S1, and What if? were excellent while being overseen by Feige, and the later Netflix shows (pretty much everything after S1 of each show) that had showrunners... were terrible. It’s pretty obvious that this is not just a Feige…

The job of a reviewer is to watch something before the general public and express their opinions on it.

Joss didn’t run AoS, he just wrote and directed the pilot. The showrunners were his brother and sister-in-law.

Yeesh. Someone’s a bit touchy...

Ms. Marvel was OK

The fact that they didn’t ever try to have a unified vision or pre-plan anything at all is wild to me. You can’t plan everything out - sometimes chemistry works differently once you actually get to set, things might not work as well when actually acted out, actors have thoughts, external factors can get in the way,…

Holy smokes, if Kevin Feige (producer of Thor: Love and Thunder) scrapped the first go-around, it must have been wretched.

To be fair, plenty of the TV shows have worked fine.

This is putting a lot of “faith” in the guy who has been putting out the bad shows. No one can actually say whether Feige’s decisions are right or wrong on Daredevil Born Again (other than those who screened those episodes.) But, what CAN be said is Marvel needs to explain away why it is spending more money on…

Film theory talked about this on their youtube channel. Disney is spending way too much money on these shows/movies and overall fatiguing their audience with too much content. And when you have failure after failure and thinking throwing more money is going to change things, then you have a problem

I think a lot of it is related to filler. So much of Hawkeye and Moon Knight felt like meaningless time wasting that it really pulled down the character writing and action sequences which in both cases were quite good.

For anyone preparing to read the comment section on this article, let me give you a preview of half the comments:

They’re boring, middling, and mostly look really bad? Or is it their approach of quantity over quality? 

Split the difference

They’ve realised stretching out one episode’s worth of story out over an entire season, and padding it out with moody staring and constructed miscommunication, is a bad thing? They are going back to one story per episode, and getting it moving along at a nice clip again?

So did the working title of Marvels happen to be Marvel’s Green Lanterns?

A great nation does great things and this is one of them.

I remember when I was a kid, maybe 30 years ago, when I was fantasizing that we would one day be able to bring back stuff from other planets or whatnot.

Now in 2023, I’ll see it live from the internet, from the comfort of my couch. That’s crazy.