Catharsis Of The Arses - Avengers: Endgame (2019)
That's right, kids: I'm going to get emotional and psychological about a superhero film. Welcome to my Friday evening.
AKA Nobody Move, Nobody Get Boiled - Jessica Jones, Season 2
When you, as a man, watch the second season of Jessica Jones, a TV series about a female superhero, a show that makes a point of utilising female directors, of getting released on International Women's Day...do you have any right or authority to comment?
Just Us & Injustice
My darling husband decided he'd be nice to me and buy me a copy of Injustice 2 for no other reason than he thought I'd enjoy it (if only he'd stop playing Friday The 13th for long enough for me to get a go on it.)You see kids, part of the fun of Netherrealm games is going through every single character and checking out their stats and playability, their moves (and how devastating they are) and how impressive they look.
What, just me?
Oh.
Who Ranges The Power Rangers? - Power Rangers (2017)
It's been a long time since I've watched anything Power Rangers (but perhaps not as long as some people.) As a child, I watched the first incarnation of the show because it was full of superheroes, villains and mechs (I didn't fully know what mechs were at the time.) The show played with all my creative senses in ways I didn't understand at the time: my desire to have more of this world lead me to write about it, I suppose a childish version of fan-fiction. (I did the same for the X-Men cartoon and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.) These stories all taught me how to tell stories; what was my narrative aesthetic and what I liked (or hated) about characters and action.
Holy Lego Bricks, Batman - The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Everyone has their own favourite take on the Batman character (and they will talk a lot about why their favourite is the 'right' one, ignoring every other Batman presented before them.) So it's quite rewarding to watch a film that brings the best of every Batman together, clicking the pieces into one functional and enjoyable whole.
Just like Lego really.
Well...that was an easy segue.
We Are Legi(x)n - Legion, Season 1
I'm now two whole episodes into Legion on FX and I'm sure I'm not the only person to come to something of a revelation: this may be the most X-Men thing to ever X-Men. Ever.
It's not a terribly big secret, but I guess it sort of is: I haven't noticed the word "mutant" being used (yet...it's due in the third episode if I'm to believe the trailer) but it's probably starting to become obvious that the series is thinly connected to the X-Men universe. At this moment in time, main character David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) is the only characters to have a direct relative in the world of comic-books, but it's a pretty explicit connection.
That One Kids TV Show You Barely Remember
Over the last few months, I've noticed little things coming back. Whether it's my brain firing synapses that haven't been touched in a very long time or if it's that things from the past are becoming cool once more, I'm not entirely sure.
RETRO IS IN, I declare to nobody in particular.
Civil War & Peace - Captain America: Civil War (2016)
It takes a special type of film to pit multiple superheroes against each other, to put good guys up against other good guys and see what happens.
Captain America: Civil War isn't even the only such film out this quarter. (Okay, so depending on where and when your quarter starts and finishes, maybe it's not the same quarter, but this film came out around six weeks after Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.)
From The Cave To The Heavens - Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
Yeah, I saw Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. At this stage, a lot of people have seen it.
And a lot of people didn't like it.
No, I'm holding my punches there: a lot of people hated it, and have been spewing such horrible, affected vitriol in the general directions of this film that its making me question their fucking sanity. Because it's a film about fictional characters, and if you care that much about these characters and how they have been 'ruined' by this movie, then you don't really understand much about fiction or these characters.
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