It’s not often that the end of a third film in a franchise serves as the hero origin story. I think No Way Home will become more appreciated for that as time goes on because Holland’s Spidey truly did lack motivation. Now he has it.

That’s how I had to finish it too. At least there was some hand-holding at the end. The movie felt like a ‘reunion show’ and I kept expecting one of the characters to break into a little song & dance and then they’d all laugh about how Neo couldn’t fly anymore.

9.5 out of 10?!? Please share with me whatever drugs you’re talking. It was an ABYSMAL movie.

While I agree with the complaints, I did like Homecoming as a movie, if not as a “Spider-Man” origin story. It worked better as that, even if I truly did not love what it did to Peter as a character, and how it positioned him into the universe, I had more issues with Far From Home on those grounds; it felt more…

My biggest issue with Hawkeye is the same as WandaVision: You introduced this darkside to a superhero and pretended like it'd have consequences. In the end it's all forgiven or worse, just forgotten, because you're a Marvel character.

It wouldn’t affect the Clint-Kate story, but Clint’s main through line for this series was coming to terms with his past. What he did as Ronin (Echo), the trauma of being a hired killer (Kate), and his role in Natasha’s death (Yelena). Removing Yelena would mean that he couldn’t get emotional resolution for that.

The moment where Clint and Kate realise they have no idea what’s going to happen to the shrunken Tracksuits was beautifully played. And then the owl was the cherry on top.

This episode also gave us the MCU’s all-time “Where the hell are the cops?” scenes.

Clint telling Kate, “You’re my partner,” wasn’t earned. That’s something that would have made sense when he was recruiting Natasha in Budapest, but Kate is a sidekick, not an equal. Plus, they’ve been so hot and cold, it seems a bit out of character that he would choose to team up with a fan wannabe (albeit an expert…

I want to Rant so bad....But its Christmas.

Daredevil is certainly a show with flaws, but it’s worth watching at least the first season just for D’Onofrio. It’s a majestic performance: frightening, repulsive, and yet also understandable and even sympathetic in a way. He’s like a cross between an emotionally stunted child bully and the hero/villain Shakespearian…

The parts with Yelena and Clint were great. The end with Clint’s family was good. The Avengers musical was funny. The rest was very disappointing. I’m tempted to call it a disaster. Instead of Die Hard, we got Die Hard 5.

I thought the series started great but ended really flat. Yelena is an entertaining character, but you could pull the entire Black Widow subplot and not lose anything from the Clint-Kate story. I also think bringing back Kingpin was mishandled. The show spent so much time trying to create a surprise reveal for the…

very complicated feelings about this one overall!

It was less of Kate holding her own and more Yelena just not having any interest in fighting, and Kate not being her objective. Kate was more of a slight annoyance on the way to do the thing.

I have been doing a Saul rewatch, and listened to an episode of The Ringer podcast where they interviewed Tony Dalton re Bad Choice Road.

All of these franchises had flaws. Raimi’s ends with a lackluster 3rd film. Webb got the tone wrong and often failed to entertain. And Watts never got to give Peter a proper origin and worked in a universe where the classic characters in the Spider-Man universe all got reinvented.

At one point in Spaceballs, the characters watch themselves on a VHS tape of the movie they are currently making so they know where to go next.

“I give this film the grade of JavaScript.”

Let's not get carried away by the urban legend that anything happened in the matrix revolutions.