For all the praise that Marvel Studios has deservedly earned over the years, many comic book movie fans don’t give D.C Studios enough flowers. Especially, not lately-which is also fair, given the hit-or-miss performance of D.C. movies (i.e., during the Zack Snyder era)., But like the box office-smashing comic book movie of the same name, it’s a brand new day. Six episodes … [Read more...]
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Ranking The MCU Spider-Man Movies
After watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day for the second time a few weeks ago, I got to thinking. 🤔 I got to thinking that it’s time for another one of my lists. Now that we have four, live action Spider-Man movies produced by Marvel Studios, the time is right to rank them (in ascending order). 4. No Way Home Before you lose your spider senses, you should know that I … [Read more...]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Vs. Avengers: Doomsday, Part Deux
The answer to the title of this post is quite simple and emphatic. I’ll take Spider-Man: Brand New Day all day, every day over Avengers: Doomsday. I know. I know. I haven’t seen either but below 👇 are the two main reasons I feel the way I do. Reason #1 The fourth installment of the MCU’s Spider-Man franchise is a self-constrained story, following the trials and … [Read more...]
Spider-Man 4: For The First Time
I just realized that Tom Holland’s MCU Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the first, live action Spider-Man franchise to get four films. Tony Maguire’s Sony franchise was very good but it dropped off significantly by the third movie, and ended shortly thereafter. Andrew Garfield‘s Sony iteration only got two films, and both received very mixed-to-mediocre reviews. Which … [Read more...]
My Brief, Spoiler-Free Mandalorian & Grogu Reaction
Firstly, I kind of enjoyed Mandalorian & Grogu. As a self-proclaimed “Baby Yoda” Stan and fan of Pedro Pascal/Djin Darin, I am all in on this content. And, I mean, who doesn’t love how Pascal kills it in these paternal roles—The Mandalorian, The Last of Us and The Fantastic Four? As expected, the child/parent chemistry is on full display here. Secondly, I kinda didn’t … [Read more...]