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Are you hyped about an upcoming Disney release? Planning a trip to the World (or Land!)? Maybe you...
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Captain America: The Captain
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When Steve Rogers refuses to become a government operative, he is stripped of his uniform, title and...
Kang The Conqueror #2
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A young, rebellious and idealistic Kang finds himself in Ancient Egypt, where an older version of...
Star Wars, Volume 2: Operation Starlight
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Commander Ellian Zahra has been tasked by the terrifying Darth Vader with the job of tracking down...
Kang the conqueror #4
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Unstoppable force meets immovable object as Nathaniel Richards' mission to change his timeline slams...
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
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Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher,...
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated She-Hulk: Attorney at Law in TV
Jul 21, 2023
Thunderbolts* (2025)
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2025 MCU film, in which after finding themselves ensnared in a death-trap, a rag-tag group of...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Black Panther (2018) in Movies
Feb 25, 2018
I like T'Challa as a main character and I love some of the strong female characters in this film. His sister especially is fantastic and brings some welcome humour too. This isn't your typical Marvel film, and feels like it has more meaning and depth, although this means the humour side is a little lacking. Its also good not to have this bogged down with other characters from the universe.
My problems were that it felt like it dragged a bit and I was almost getting bored. The CGI is very patchy in places to the point it gets distracting and despite some good characters, I feel a lot of others are very under developed, like Forest Whitaker and Daniel Kaluuya. Martin Freeman's character could have been removed from the film entirely with no impact. Also I felt Erik was a bit of a weak villain and Andy Serkis was much more better placed and would have brought a bit more character.
All in all its a good and different origin story, but not one of my favourites.
David McK (3623 KP) rated The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human in Books
Jan 28, 2019
Now I've read it, I have to say: I wasn't really that impressed by this. Written pre Joss-Whedon's Avengers movie (and even pre the Marvel Cinematic Universe), I found pretty much all of the characters within to be unlikeable and uninteresting: while you can get away with the former, the latter, however, is a major flaw (IMO) in any story.
I don't know whether that's because I associate the characters more with their big-screen counter-parts than with how they are presented here (both of which, incidentally, are designed to show how the team comes together), with Hank Pym, in particular, coming across as a bit of a jerk while Betty Ross (Bruce Banner's girlfriend) also comes across as, well, just not that pleasant at all.
On the plus side, I did like the (somewhat meta) panels where they were all discussing who would play themselves in the Hollywood adaptation ...
I also noticed that, unlike their movie counterparts, they are able to use the term 'mutants': a term which, I believe, Marvel are unable to use on the big (or small) screen as it is licensed to Fox instead .