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Morbius (2022)
Sony, if you really care...
Sony, if you truly care about Spiderman and all his related characters, it's time to give in. Sell the rights to the characters to Disney/Marvel Studios and let them have full creative control. With each passing film, it has become abundantly clear that Sony cannot make a good comic book movie anymore without the direction of Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios. The only good thing to come out of Sony with Spiderman was Into the Spiderverse. But with that exception, they haven't handled the ip well since the mid 2000s. I hope this movie flops, so that Sony has no choice but to cave and finally give Feige and co full creative control of Spiderman and his related mythos. Leto has now arguably been in both the worst DC movie, and Marvel movie ever made.
Black Widow (2021)
Disappointing
When Black Widow was first announced, and the first trailer dropped, I had hopes that this film could be Winter Soldier esq. Maybe not as masterful as Winter Soldier, but the vibe of it, and that it would have top 12 MCU movie potential. However, that was definitely not the case. It's called "Black Widow" and meant to be a send off for Scar Jo as Nat, but it instead feels more so like an introduction for Florence as Yelena (who was the bright spot of this movie for me along with Red Guardian to a lesser extent). The battles I found underwhelming for the most part, the pacing was inconsistent, and the plot wasn't all that great to me.
Finally, the biggest catastrophe of this movie, "Taskmaster". I put quotations because I refuse to believe this is THE Taskmaster, and that it's simply some person under the name since they mentioned "Taskmaster protocol". It's not even the fact they gender swapped Taskmaster (although I'm not the biggest fan of that either, especially after finding out the stunt double was a man so what was the point?) but I find "Taskmaster" very poorly written. The abilities didn't even come naturally, it was more so driven by technology via the visor/chip as opposed to photographic reflexes. With how different the character felt, they would've been better off just making an original character as opposed to changing so much of his core characteristics in source material. I'm going to hold out hope this is another Mandarin situation where they introduce a REAL Taskmaster down the road.
All in all, very average Marvel movie, and honestly probably a bit below average. I'd put it in my bottom 5 MCU movies.
Loki (2021)
Spoke too soon
For those of you dropping bad reviews just for the troll of it because of a slower episode, how about you go and watch Episode 4 and come back and drop another review. Episode 4 of Loki was the best episode of any of the Disney+ shows with so many twists and turns being revealed by the minute. 10/10 for Episode 4, I'd give the series itself so far a 9/10.