I didn’t appreciate it at first. It was on tv, i missed the start and thought it was too gritty and not a polished sci fi. But its grown on me the more times Ive seen it. Little things here and there through it.
I know what you mean but in my mind it reminded me of a Batman story I have. Lots of news snippets, opinion pieces etc. throughout the story.
We need a sequel i think but I’m not sure how much demand there is for it. The messaging is a little too close to home for many nowadays. I can hear screams of woke already.
It’s not awful awful, but it’s awful. They couldn’t even be bothered to sound check the “villain’s” voice to make sure it was in sync with the obvious dubbing. Couldn’t even take pleasure in seeing Sweeney on screen either seeing as they dressed up as some geeky teenager.
Sony struck their deal with Marvel for Spiderman at a time when no one else was really interested in comic book stuff so they managed to work in a provision that they’d retain exclusive film rights to SM and related characters as long as they remained active in releasing films.
Then Marvel studios kicked into production and wanted to reclaim the Spidey rights so Sony found themselves having to make films just for the sake of retaining their rights. That explains the entire Andrew Garfield series of films. Madame Web seems like its a film that comes out of the same situation - if they make a bad Spidey related film they retain the rights to SM and Disney has to pay them, a LOT, to include Spidey in any Marvel studio production.
Well there appear to be some reviews out there. Apparently they didn’t have any critics screenings, which is usually because a film is shite, although in this case it appears that they want to play into a narrative that the evil lefties are cancelling them.
Well, I think that’s the point. No critics have seen it. There are lots of glowing user reviews. A bit like unknown chinese branded white goods on Amazon.
When they don’t do critics screenings they do eventually get reviews. The hope is that word of mouth will outweigh duff reviews. It might genuinely be hilarious. I suspect it is just a marketing gimmick rather than them losing confidence in the product.
Walsh isn’t trying to convince anyone who isn’t already in agreement. He has an audience who will watch this and predictably think it is some brave insight. He doesnt just play to that with the content but, as you have pointed out, the positioning of it with a huge dose “help, I’m being repressed” shtick
Anyway w.r.t the likes of Marvel trying to make their B tier characters relevant, It won’t be done. These characters are B tier for a reason , no one except the comic fans know about them.
We’ve seen it with Shang-Chi , Eternals etc. Just because Guardians of the Galaxy as a series did do well doesn’t mean every other character can have a film which is successful in the long run.
Precisely. Marvel had to build its film studio with many of its B list characters precisely because their A list had already been acquired by other studios (X men, F4, Spidey). It was the success of the films that turned many of those characters into A list ones and the challenge they have now is more on creative side and fan exhaustion side rather than the IP per se, especially as with Disney’s acquisition of Fox they have gone a long way to reaquiring the full set of characters.
X-Men and Spider-man were always the main characters as far as Marvel were concerned. And the associated characters like Venom , Deadpool.
Even now in the MCU, I dare say that the definitive character is Spider-Man. Yes, RDJ has come back etc etc. But the definitive stories etc from where they take inspiration, all Spider-Man/X-Men
