Enjoyable film. Best Marvel in years, not a super high standard to beat but pickings are slim. It actually felt like a solid film, cohesive plot and writing wasn’t so cringe as to be unenjoyable.
It was overlong, and spiraled out at the end. The slow ship destruction/huggy ending was unnecessary, and maybe the whole film could have ended an hour earlier. It was not ruined by this, however.
It was quite gory and a bit gritty so that was…
Easy, fun, sharp and unproblematic. Infinitely enjoyable for players and DMs. One of the first times in my life where I wouldn't mind a sequel.
I walked out of the cinema after my first watch, and thought, "Wow. This is really it. This is the worst film I have ever seen."
On second viewing, I have decided it is not the worst film I have ever seen, but it is close.
I like Star Wars as mildly and blindly, and with as much fake nostalgia for an era I wasn't alive for, as any other other corporately saturated Gen Z kid. But this franchise has…
The painful, frantic stillness behind every image and behind each face is this film's greatest strength. It's message is, if anything a bit heavy handed (yeah sexism this blatant is obviously bad, the quiet kind is what kills) but its imagery and its pain and its treatment of tradition is impeccable and gives this rhythm to the film that doesn't mess with the pace, something so many try and get wrong. It's ability to keep each shot so still, each movement, and yet feel so frenetic was incredible. I cried as Nanny stood in the waves and pushed. How powerful was she!
