Final episode of Hawkeye gets a thumbs up. Mid-credits scene gets the hardest of thumbs down. Almost ruined the whole thing. 

Hawkeye related

I stopped watching Hawkeye when showed up, realised I had never watched Black Widow, so now I'm going to watch that then go back to Hawkeye so I know what's going on

Finished Hawkeye last night and overall it gets a thumbs up from me. I'm an easy shill for marvel but it just felt better paced than some of the other shows and I liked the smaller scale. 

Minor niggle - way too many tracksuit guys showing up in the end fight. Reminded me of that bit in daredevil season 2 where we see hundreds of Ninja climbing a building only for Daredevil and elektra to fight... 6, 7? It was still great fun seeing all the different arrows though.

Also while it was great seeing Kingpin show up, for some reason it annoyed me that he was mostly referred to as Kingpin, where as in Netflix he was more commonly known as Fisk. Its a silly thing I know

Thought the cast was good but surprised Echo is down for a show of her own as she came across as the lest charismatic. But I'm sure I'll give it a go.

Pugh is great as the new Black Widow. Her dead pan delivery with the accent is great. She was the highlight of this, so much so that I might give Black Widow movie another go.

So since the post infinity war era I think Marvel has done ok-ish. I feel its not going to be as easy to float all these narratives for the mainstream blockbuster crowd but I am enjoying it all. 

Black Widow - Dull, fell asleep. But maybe I was just too tired.
Shang Shi - Much better than expected
Loki - Good but felt half finished
Wandavision - Didn't quite live up to potential but it was ok
Falcon and Winter Soldier - Didn't really enjoy this one as much but I do like Mackey as the new Cap
Hawkeye - Nice and Solid - very much liked that it was more small scale

Havent seen Spidey 3 yet... avoiding the spoilers.

Florence Pugh is absolutely superb despite the fact that she’s channelling Jodie Comer’s Villanelle at all times.

Anyone can mention the name can’t they? It’s referenced in a previous Spider-Man too?

I thought Eternals was dull as dishwater. It’s pretty much the film I originally feared Thor or Guardians of the Galaxy might be. Too much pompous space/epic nonsense and not enough humanity.

I’ll have to pause it, tell the Boy to close his eyes, and forward it a little. Glad I did watch it before them, but I tend to do that on all MCU movies now.

Nothing beyond what you’d expect to see in a 9pm BBC drama. All carefully angled to hide any nips or arses.

Funkstain wrote:

Wow how explicit is it??

Not very, but boy is 8 and I think it's still a much for him, fine for my 11yo daughter though I reckon.

Im watching now and just got to the sexy stuff.
Any 8 year old worth their weight would have wondered off bored shitless by the 15 minutes or so prior.

I might not finish this. It is immensely dull.

Can't wait to have to watch it so their next 10 movies makes sense!

I put my review in the Movie Record thread but 'boring' is very much the word.

I just checked to see if there was any difference between the IMAX Enhanced and normal version being illegibly dark but they're both just as bad. I ended up having to watch it in a literally pitch dark room to be able to see it properly and that's on an OLED with theoretically infinite contrast - not sure how people that need a light on or don't have great contrast on their TV will get on.

Some interesting theories here on why so many movies are dark/sludgy/etc nowadays:

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge

(It includes a YouTube vid that’s particularly critical of ‘flat’ grading in Marvel films.)