Thread by @xenocryptsite

Saw "Black Widow". Thought it was...the usual MCU quality level?

Disney and MGM should have broken whatever FTC rules necessary to collude to avoid putting trailers for "Shang-Chi" and "Snake Eyes Origins" near each other because I think it will actively hurt both movies...

I guess that's not the same set?

But I am most hyped for "Reminiscence". Yes give me this fell-off-the-back-of-a-truck-Christopher-Nolan, (seemingly) dead wife and all.

Literally watching the trailer (I'd never heard of the movie) I was like, did Christopher Nolan's nephew make this or something? Then "from an un-named creator of Westworld".

Am I being unfair...no, that is what it looks like. Still want to see it though.

It's funny how the Marvel/MCU sliding timeline deals with Black Widow not being old enough to be a Soviet agent by now (mostly, by ignoring it).

David Harbour was in his teens when the USSR collapsed, yet plays Red Guardian, someone who was presumably at least in his 20s when fighting for the commies. I know, "super-slow-aging" etc.

The only real fixed points are Captain America has to be a WWII veteran and Magneto has to be a Holocaust survivor. Everything else can shift and has.

Also why does Black Widow fall under the "Sokovia Accords". Does she have any powers? I feel like the movie actually tries to suggest she does but whatever.

I liked the ridiculous "Smells Like Teen Spirit" cover over the opening credits and am mostly mad we didn't get closing credits, which is unusual for the MCU. Maybe because there's only one credit scene.

But I like the elaborate closing credit sequences, it's part of the whole production.

I guess IDK if they ever have both elaborate opening credits AND elaborate closing credits. But the "Black Widow" opening credits were obviously meant as opening credits...

Anyway again I thought "Black Widow" was only an ok movie. But considering the track record of prequels and midquels, maybe it should be graded on a curve.

Slight spoiler, but disassociating the Black Widows from any particular government (maybe inevitable from both timeline wonkiness and uh, corporate delicacies in an international market perhaps) makes it all feel a bit more juvenile and over-personalized.