Welcome to another uninformative movie review where there are (most definitely, without a shadow of a doubt) going to be spoilers. So get ready for this ride on this invisible space ship and leggo... What else can I say? At this point you've probably heard numerous praise for the movie and... they were right! The movie was brilliant, greatly enjoyable and meme-tastic. I actually watched it twice on the cinema. It's now one of my favourite Marvel cinematic universe films, for sure but one thing perplexes me: How old is Chadswick Boseman again? So you're telling me that this guy is 40 years old? In this shot too, which was filmed just about 2 years ago? What? (Technology is getting too advanced these days, trust No One ;) don't you have anything useful to say? Okay, okay, amazement aside, I actually have some thoughts regarding Michael B. Jordan's character, Erik Killmonger-- whose most heinous crime are not the causes of the scars all over his body, but the sight of them that did this to a fan. First of all, even though he is the villain and sure, he did some hateful stuff but he's a pitiful villain. His dad died when he was really young. His family, uncle (T'challa's father), basically abandoned him despite being aware of his existence. And, he was denied access to his own country (Wakanda). But then again, where's the drama and what would the story be like if none of those misfortunate events happened, right? Secondly, the manner of his death irked me. Instead of "turning over a new leaf" or "dying vengefully", as is often the fate of many villains in superhero stories, he died consciously by his choice-- and the hero did not forcefully save him. It irked me. And, his death was melancholically peaceful. By the end, he had come to terms with himself and his past-- an admirable thing which makes him a lovable villain-- but then he dies. It's anticlimactic. It's disappointing. But, I think that cinematically and from a writing point-of-view, it was the best ending for the story. After the first time I watched the movie, I had serious questions regarding Wakanda's economical and geographical specifications, namely:
I may not have any answers for those questions but I liked this video by Film Theory which cleared out some of my doubts about the realistic state of the Wakandan economy.
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I've been wanting to catch-up on both the Marvel and the DC cinematic universes for a while... a long while now. Before watching the movie, there was one thing (person) that I thought of: Bucky Barnes. I had no idea who he was other than the fact that he is the Winter Soldier and Tumblr's favourite broody superhero(?) For one thing, though, Tumblr LOVES shipping him and Captain America together. And so with all that mentioned, I watched the movie expectantly because Captain America is my second favourite Marvel hero after Iron Man. In terms of ratings, I would rate the movie an 7.5/10. The story was easy to follow. I believe that the ending laid out a smooth transition into the next movies in the Marvel cinematic universe. And, most importantly, I liked the fact that the characters actually got scratched, bled, and became greasy due which SHOULD be the case considering the action that they get into. (I'm looking at you, Superman and female lead from the 3rd Transformers movie whose white dress and blowout hair remained as perfect as ever despite everything that happens.) However, I have been asking one thing ever since watching the movie... is that all there was to Bucky Barnes? Seriously, after getting hyped by Tumblr about this hero who looked like he just jumped out of an MCR video, he appeared in like, 4 scenes in the movie. To add, his only lines (excluding the ones in Captain America's flashback) could be summarised to "I remember him", a few grunts, and a few groans. Seriously?
Despite my disappointment, I do kind-of get Bucky's lack of exposure in the movie though. Instead of the movie being about the Winter Soldier, it was instead just an introduction for a future problem (the corruption inside S.H.I.E,L.D caused by Hydra) and a chance for later character development(?) for Captain America through Bucky? I have no idea. I honestly haven't watched most of the movies that succeeded this one. Overall, as I said, it was a pretty good movie. Other than that, I have nothing else to say, so, byeee! . . . . . P.S. If you've noticed, this review had not been quite like the previous ones I did. Well, the truth is that, I thought about this area of my blog again and having thought that since I don't really have a large following yet nor credibility for doing reviews, it may be useless and too time-consuming to do reviews in the style that many others are already doing. And so, I thought that instead of trying to do what everybody else has already been doing, I'll just do a little bit of a commentary-style review where I lend readers some of my personal thoughts regarding the movie I just watched. Having said that, sometimes reviews could be as short as this one but that's okay because I decided that I'd only write about the points about each movie that particularly grabbed my attention, no matter how silly they are. As with the rest of the blog, I don't really know how this direction is going to take me from here but I hope that you enjoy my content, nonetheless. Thank you for reading! |
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