Yup. Nice.

ChopperByrne wrote:

Loki finale is good.

It was fun but also very vague. What actually happened?

b0r1s wrote:

Ms Marvel was just incredibly fun and loved the style of everything they did. Assume it will get a second season after this film.

I didn't watch it when it came out but I'm 3 episodes down and it is brilliant.

Take your own food!

It's a lot of money either way isn't it.

People were getting mad at £70 for Spiderman 2 (game) but it's clear what offers better value to me.

I cant remember where Elf lives, but Westfield Vue is £6.99 a ticket, somehow a quid cheaper than Preston.

I used Perks At Work to get 3 tickets for £20 though, might be worth seeing if you have something similar.

Went to see The Marvels with the family.

I genuinely don’t understand how any reviewer that gave positive reviews to previous Marvel fair is dumping on this one.

Whole family reckoned this was the best Marvel flick for a while (with the possible exception of Guardians 3). It’s undeniably silly, but as my daughter put it “Ragnarok silly, not Love and Thunder silly”.

It has many of the problems that Marvel movies tend to have (too much exposition- including bits for people who didn’t watch the TV shows, a Big Event at the end that ends up feeling less thrilling than what came before etc) but it has characters you actually want to spend time with, and a slightly infectious sense of joy. (Vellani nails the Peter Parker energy and channels it through wide eyed fan girl enthusiasm.)

I’d say it’s A tier rather than S tier, but that’s still a step up. Captain Marvel is likeable now, and Ms Marvel ought to be the future of the whole damn thing.

The pre and mid credit sequences are also the best they’ve done for a while.

Anyone who hates this stuff will find nothing to change their mind, but I’m really surprised by the sheer level of negative press this has got, which leaves me slightly suspicious that it’s partly down to a general “everyone’s bored of Marvel” zeitgeist and partly because the leads are a black woman, a Muslim, and a very heavily queer coded woman…

As predicted, my kids, especially Fiadh, loved The Marvels.

Not seen it but if it’s got enough of Ms Marvel in it then I’m gonna enjoy it.

Glad people are liking The Marvels - hearing it's a bit of a return to form.

I'm still getting Angry Joe recommended to me by YouTube and this morning was another rant waiting for me about how shit this film is along with thousands of fawning comments... These guys need to get a life.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Kinda interested to watch this now as it seems there’s a pretty solid positive consensus on here despite it tanking by every conceivable industry metric including audience appreciation scores.

Genuinely, I think it's the best post Endgame film.

A quick vibes based tier list, the main takeaway appears to be "be funny".

Yep, good summary. Loki still the best MCU TV for me by some way. All a load of old nonsense but good-quality, well-done escapism nonsense.

Annoyed I won't get to see marvels now as it sounds great fun. All the big cinema chains have sacked off parent and baby screenings since the pandemic. One has advice of just bring your baby to a quiet normal screening which was one of the maddest things I've read in a while.

Only cinema still doing them is a fairly arty independent that isn't showing marvels at all.

Frosty wrote:

I dunno it finished strongly but was disappointing week to week. First ep was great then it was 3 episodes of not very much with poorly explained stakes and no reason to care why they were doing anything. Why should I give a shit about the TVA? Ep 5 and 6 were good though, plot was still a load of nonsense but it at least had stakes and character moments to carry it through. The time travel and multiverse stuff makes no sense at all and needs to die. As soon as you question any of it it falls apart into a pile of spaghetti.

Agree.
The first season is a bit of a blur but iirc, it was very patchy as well. Episodes 2,3 and 4 of this did very little. And Loki as a character had become pretty bland. But I liked the concept of it, the way it looked, most of the characters, and the last couple of episodes were really strong.