Author: Jonathan Campbell

Movie Review / Movies / Text
· by · Nov 1, 2016

Doctor Strange (2016): Fun, but forgettable

Considering their earlier efforts to downplay or explain away any and all “supernatural” characters and occurrences in the MCU as simply “aliens” or “really advanced science”, I do get the impression that Marvel made this movie less because they wanted to than because the fans wanted them to.
Movie Review / Movies / Text
· by · Feb 16, 2016

Deadpool (2016): A love story

“Wade Wilson might be a rude, violent borderline sociopath with a potty-mouth who drops more F-bombs in the first 20 minutes of this movie than all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Fox-Marvel movies combined, but he isn’t (completely) lying when he calls this film ‘a love story’”
Agonizer / Text
· by · Sep 16, 2015

My first con

“I forced myself to go knowing that I might regret going, but I’d regret not going, too, and the latter was preferable to the former.”
Movie Review / Movies / Text
· by · Jul 23, 2015

Ant-Man (2015)

“If you imagine the Marvel franchise as the movie equivalent of a TV series, then this is sort of like ending the season on a standalone episode after a big climatic two-parter, starring a character you’ve never heard of, in a story that means almost nothing to the larger plot.”

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