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Morbius (2022)
What's everyone's deal? This is an okay movie
Pretty much what I said here, I don't have a lot to say here. Morbius is pretty similar to the Venom movies (which would make sense as it's made by the same company), they're movies that you go into knowing they're kinda bad but you like them anyway.
The first half of the movie I ended up really enjoying. My only complaints are what you would probably call nitpicking. I'm not a huge fan of how everything looks smokey, at first I thought this was Morbius's perspective with his echo/hearing, but then everything was smokey. Also this seems to completely copy Venom in the way where Morbius becomes a anti-hero, instead of a bad guy. Isn't Morbius supposed to be a villain? Is everyone gonna become a anti-hero?
I was enjoying it until Milo (Matt Smith) becomes the antagonist, then it just kinda became stupid.
But it isn't nearly as horrible as people are making it out to be. Y'all are dramatic lol.
The Batman (2022)
Finally, a great definitive live action Batman
I'm probably in the minority here but I've never been satisfied with most of the live action Batman actors we've gotten. Michael Keaton is okay but he's too short and he kills people, Christian Bale I like but eh, and Ben Affleck is also great but once again he kills people which feels off.
Now Robert Pattinson's Batman is a bit different. You have to go into it with an open mind as this universe is very different than anything we've seen so far, but in my personal opinion they do it wonderfully. I like how this is a younger and a much darker Batman, a broken Batman. He's bitter due to losing his parents and it shows when he takes it out on criminals, yet at the same time we also see pieces that makes Batman.. Batman. Something very different is we see that this Batman likely built his outfit and all his gadgets himself, still advanced, but you can see how it all was probably modified from already existing things, his outfit and the batmobile being the biggest examples. I particularly love how the boy how lost his father is focused on. This is what makes Batman Batman. A Batman who isn't just bitter but cares, one who wants to change Gotham, one who's empathic.
The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian (2022)
Where's Boba?
I really don't understand how this has such a high rating. This is just a episode of The Mandalorian, that's it. The entire time I'm just left wondering, okay when's Boba gonna show up? This is his show but yet he's never in this episode. There was some really cool callbacks to the prequels and that I really liked. The story is okay, but meh. On it's own it's nothing special. It's not bad, but it's not anything amazing either. All the other episodes are way better, yes, even the one with the "power ranger" biker gang that everyone rags on so much, I actually enjoyed that one.
Halloween Kills (2021)
Holy crap, so good
Going into this I didn't really have high hopes. I'm a huge horror fan and particularly slasher movies, but Halloween for me has always been eh... it just seems so repetitive, you know? Michael just always comes back, so I was expecting it to be the usual boring stuff. But I was actually so pleasantly surprised. The flashbacks to the 70s were so good and so beautifully shot. All I can really say is go see it, it's honestly probably either my favorite or second favorite out of the entire Halloween franchise. Michael is also extremely brutal in this one. He reminded me a lot of how Jason Voorhees acts.
What If...?: What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath? (2021)
Writers don't understand the multiverse, but still a good episode
As someone who has the multiverse theory as pretty much my favorite thing ever, I feel like I have a lot to say about this episode, this series, and series dealing with this topic in general.
So the multiverse goes that whatever did happen in our universe, didn't happen in another, or something that didn't happen in our universe did happen in another. This makes it so anything and everything can and does happen somewhere. As soon as a choice is made or something does/doesn't happen, another universe is created.
So let's take what's happened in the last couple episodes for example. Ultron as the new Thanos discovers the multiverse and so goes from universe to universe, wiping galaxies and planets of life, destroying them. It would stand to reason that every time he did this then, another universe would be created. One where he didn't show up and destroy everything, making his mission kinda pointless. Pretty much every time we see a movie or a show deal with alternate universes we get a plot like this where the entire multiverse is endangered. However with what I just said, that wouldn't be possible. This causes me to think the writers really don't understand the topic at hand. In reality this should be not much more than The Watcher usually does. He doesn't actually have to do anything, just sit back and watch as usual.
That being said, if you ignore that and just take it for what it is I think it's a quite enjoyable episodes, probably one of the best ones of the series so far. Seeing Captain Carter, the bad Doctor Strange, and everyone else is a nice throwback and I like that. Though putting Doctor Strange back into that purple pocket dimension feels a bit cruel lol.
Star Wars: Visions (2021)
This is everything I've wanted Star Wars to be
Finally, the Star Wars saga of learning you actually have the force and learning to be a Jedi and the Skywalker saga is cool and all, but honestly it's gotten pretty old. So long I've just wanted different stories just taking place in the Star Wars universe. Jedis and Sith should be more like a cult not a ton of people know about, I wanna see the other aspects and potential for storytelling we can do, and sadly we don't really see much of that. The only other time I can really think of is The Mandalorian.
Star Wars Visions does this perfectly. They also often take plot elements from Star Wars that we all know and love and flip them in a completely new way. Like in one episode where instead of Darth Vader being a terrifying Dark Lord of the Sith, they're actually two people. Twin brother and Sister made by the Dark Side by a cult in order to serve the Dark Side. That's something I never would have thought of by myself or thought I needed but it's honestly so cool. All this actually makes me pretty giddy.
Making Star Wars animes sounds like such a weird concept that wouldn't work, but somehow it just does. I feel like a couple people at Disney were just like "Hey Bobby, the fanbase is divided and a bunch of people hate the sequels, what do the kids like nowadays?" "Oh, all the nerdy kids love anime!" and then they popped this out hoping it would be cool and hip. And normally this is the part where I'd say it sucks... but it actually doesn't. Somehow it just works and it's amazing. With every episode I actually think what if we did have a Star Wars anime series, or even multiple based on a single one of these stories, and then the same thing happens again for the other episodes. It's honestly super weird to be seeing this, I feel like I'm watching a show from another universe. It just leaves you wanting more and more. It's honestly just so good.