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Did 'The Marvels' Deserve The Hate It Got? — CultureSlate (www.cultureslate.com)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I think the movie was on par with other Marvel movies at the time. A lot of misogynists got to hide behind the fact that it wasn’t a great movie, but the fact that this film regularly gets called the “worst” when it was preceded by Eternals (a dry, over-serious slog); Love and Thunder (a disjointed comedy(?) with poor writing); Wakanda Forever (I actually couldn’t tell you what this one was about it was so forgettable); and Quantumania (the failed launch of Kang that was a CGI nightmare) is absurd to me.

All of the movies I mentioned are fun if you take them for what they are, and The Marvels was a basic “superheroes fight bad guy from their past” story with a fun twist.

I think it also got pushback because it was the first film which explicitly had required reading (Wandavision and Ms Marvel), but this is the MCU. Every movie these days is linked to some other product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Eternals was the only marvel movie I straight up stopped watching, about 40 or so min in. I haven't seen the Marvels but not sure how it could be worse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Eternal was a bit of a slog but I ended up happy I watched it, connected to the characters, and willing to see a sequel.

Marvels was entertaining at times but an unmemorable movie that I was mainly happy to not pay theater prices for

A lot of it was the characters.

  • Kamala was a fantastic character in Ms Marvel and the highlight of this movie as far as it goes but somewhat a dead end for her. Bummer.
  • Monica still isn’t developed as a character. I want to like her but she’s still a nothing that barely makes sidekick material
  • I’ve never liked the Carol character in Marvel. I don’t know if it’s poor writing or disconnected acting but definitely the weak part
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It doesn't help that Carol is pure Mary Sue and therefore boring. Kamala is why I expect Marvel's to be better than Eternals

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