I regretfully must report that Swamp Thing just kinda blandly sucks.
Setting is great, monster effects are great, itās just, the story and character arcs are so uninteresting. Also cannot believe who they picked as the main villain.
There is one concept I like a lot - that the Swamp Thing can see and communicate with anyone who is taken by the swamp, so he has this kind of swamp purgatory he can visit to talk with vanquished foes.
turns out the Punisher does have a superpower and itās ripping stickers off in one piece while wearing gloves
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Ok so I have not seen the new spider-man movie but
They made a movie where the plot twist is that Mysterio is the real bad guy and made a bunch of illusions. Which isā¦not a twist. Thatās just Mysterio. I guessed the twist from the trailer. Because heās fucking Mysterio. The movie treats this as a plot twist, not the most expected outcome??
This is utterly baffling to me.
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It happens pretty early in the movie
I saw it more as a Harvey Dent dramatic irony type thing. The audience is definitely meant to be suspicious even if the characters arenāt.
remember: the audience for superhero movies has never read a single comic in their entire lives
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Gotcha. That makes more sense. Just all the websites reporting it are talking about it like itās somehow as big a deal as JK Simmons being back
So a failure of nerd press, not the film itself. Thatās good.
Yeah but I cannot believe they donāt do stuff like look at wikis for āpreviewsā of the movies.
And this isnāt some fan favorite but obscure jack Kirby story from the 70s, itās a pretty significant villain I knew about from a lot of media growing up.
Like people are oblivious but I find it hard to believe that Mysterio is too obscure.
I mean, people acted shocked by the snap, so.
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Nah homes. Even though geek culture has come to dominate popular culture, I think most geeks continue to overestimate the extent to which normal people care to remember these things. Most people have trouble even telling the banner heroes apart.
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You mean Bruce and David? I donāt blame them
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okay i will actually say some parts with mysterio are great. therexs a slow switch to him in a hollywood mocap suit and i think it reallys plays with how disappointed people always are when they see set photos nowdays and realize the ninja turtles will be 4 schlubby white guys and cgi monstrosities
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like they embraced how simultaneously weird, lame and cool mysterio can be all at once
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your heroes are even less real than when they were just in comic books
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the movie is not perfect, but for me that the one major surreal mysterio mind-fuck scene they managed to fit in was very moving. it was not only the type of thing i never expected to be possible in a movie back when i read comics, but i also felt like in that scene especially it was an even more perfect realization of the potential for mysterio to be an actually interesting villain, when the character often feels like kind of a joke
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Still watching this for some reason. Ep 7, Brilliant Disguise, is probably the best ep of the show so far, which means itās decent overall.
Swamp Thing goes into how āThe Greenā works, thereās some good drama with the villain, and the Floronic Man stuff is the only non-Thing plot thread Iām interested in at the moment.
There are so, so fucking many plotlines going on in Young Justice right now that there is absolutely zero chance half of these are gonna get resolved in the next six eps. Still find that a bit weird about this show.
Loving how Gar is getting a lot of screentime in these lastest few eps. Iāve always really liked Beast Boyās voice actor, and I think this is the first time heās ever gotten his own story arc. Iām absolutely 100% here for it.
Still love Halo a lot. I do wish they did the āHalo gets gruesomely mauled, twists back to normal shape, and goes back to the battle without batting an eyeā thing more, because it is so delightful and gently badass for character as sheepish as she.
I want to watch young justice but hard pass on another fucking streaming service. Itās not ever going to be available any other way aside from piracy is it