…Yeah, Marvel’s MOON KNIGHT looks pretty messed up. I mean this in a complimentary way; it’s the kind of you-never-know-what-will-happen-next messed up that makes for engrossing television. Pure Hell on the hero, though.
Also: the show is mercifully avoiding trying to make us wonder whether this is all going on in the guy’s mind. I used to sleepwalk, myself. But in all the times I did, I never woke up in… ah, never mind. Spoilers.
Directed by Sam Raimi, if that wasn’t immediately obvious in the first twenty seconds.
I know, I know. You’re shocked, too: “When Netflix’s Daredevil series premiered in 2015, it presented a much darker and more grounded version of the character. In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, actor Charlie Cox said he doesn’t think a new series would have to retain that same mature tone.” …Which is good, because if he wants to star in a hypothetical Daredevil show that’s on Disney+ and not Hulu… well, there are gonna be expectations.
I’m not actually upset about this. I have adolescent kids now, you know? I’m reasonably certain that when I turn on Disney+ to watch some MCU stuff with the kids there won’t be anything too embarrassing on*. I kind of treasure the certainty, really.
Moe Lane
*And if they want something less tame, they can learn to sneak downstairs in the middle of the night, just like I did at their age. Only with an infinitely better selection of stuff to watch. These kids today! They just don’t know how good they got it…
I’m not gonna lie. I haven’t seen THE ETERNALS yet. …I don’t know why, either. I’d say it’s because of the book, but I went to see SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME twice, didn’t I?
But apparently it could have been worse.
Now, just as a reminder about DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS, and this is pretty important: Sam Raimi film. Just reminding you, that’s all.
#commissionearned
Say what you like about how many Thors there are on that poster: the goats are pretty cool.
No, really. I was worried that Kate Bishop would be this already perfect superheroine in every possible way, Clint Barton would be this washed-up old guy who nobody remembers, and him ‘helping’ her would be the only way he could rekindle his heroism. That is… pretty much not what is happening, so far*. Instead, we’re getting a fairly demented, but so far entertaining, Christmas story. I am down for this.
Continue reading Just watched the first episode of HAWKEYE (It’s good!).SHE-HULK doesn’t actually look half bad.
And you can take that any way you like.
My attention… has been acquired.
GeekTyrant detected a Die Hard vibe: I can see that, but there’s also a Lethal Weapon theme going on here, because Hawkeye is visibly deciding that he’s getting Too Old For This Sh*t. I also give points for there being a Broadway musical about Captain America in the MCU, because of course there would be one. They missed a bet there, though, in not getting Chris Evans to play the actor playing Cap in the musical. Farce is its own justification.
Moe Lane
PS: Kate Bishop apparently isn’t coming into this already being perfect in every way, which is nice. “Cocky 22 year old hotshot who still needs seasoning” is a perfectly cromulent archetype for a superheroine.
…before they yoinked that sucker. It definitely looks real, if extremely unfinished*. Dr. Strange, Peter Parker being upset about how everybody knows who he is now, the two collide — the dialogue is not from previous movies, and neither were the scenes that I saw. My children have already shown an interest in a Spider-Man marathon this week; which is good, because we were going to have one anyway…
*Which may be why they haven’t released a trailer yet. The CGI didn’t look finished. Mind you, the video quality was uber-crappy.
