I quite literally just got home from seeing the film! Like Audrey, I can also quote chapter and verse from the Marvel Lore Bible. I’m a good mix of someone who can enjoy (and obsess over) both high-brow, sophisticated film, and blockbusters of the Marvel and Star Wars variety. I definitely agree that the messages and metaphors were sometimes a bit on the nose, I think the film is also exactly what we need right now. In a culture that continues to brush over mental health, loneliness, and anything that is even the slightest bit uncomfortable to talk about, I’m okay with being explicit and on the nose in media right now. I loved the film, and I think it really does capture the mixture of A24 and MCU that they were going for. This was definitely a step in the right direction for the MCU. I don’t think it’ll ever reach the same level of fame and love that it did during the Infinity Saga, but I do think these new, differently-styled films like Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four might just give us Marvel lovers a resurgence and wake us up from this Marvel fatigue.
I quite literally just got home from seeing the film! Like Audrey, I can also quote chapter and verse from the Marvel Lore Bible. I’m a good mix of someone who can enjoy (and obsess over) both high-brow, sophisticated film, and blockbusters of the Marvel and Star Wars variety. I definitely agree that the messages and metaphors were sometimes a bit on the nose, I think the film is also exactly what we need right now. In a culture that continues to brush over mental health, loneliness, and anything that is even the slightest bit uncomfortable to talk about, I’m okay with being explicit and on the nose in media right now. I loved the film, and I think it really does capture the mixture of A24 and MCU that they were going for. This was definitely a step in the right direction for the MCU. I don’t think it’ll ever reach the same level of fame and love that it did during the Infinity Saga, but I do think these new, differently-styled films like Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four might just give us Marvel lovers a resurgence and wake us up from this Marvel fatigue.