Marvel double feature weekend

[psocoptera]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at home, finally. They did such a good job with it, I really liked the choice to make it Shuri's movie (and Letitia Wright really carried it) and they made such good choices about how they used Boseman footage. And it just continues to blow me away how these movies have more depth and substance than anything else in the MCU, which, like, I don't need or expect every Marvel movie to do that, I like them when they're just fun too, but it's impressive to be reminded that they can.

Across the Spiderverse IN THE THEATER, which I haven't done since February 2020, but this was clearly the movie to make an exception for. (Plus the small theater at Fresh Pond is only 50 people max capacity, and wastewater rates look low right now.) And it was just astonishingly good! Like, every scene, they were just like, how can we make this striking? how can we make this excellent? how can we push this? A bit more behind the cut: really interesting with how they're engaging directly with genre expectations in this meta way. And I can't wait to see how they wrap it up. I (somehow) did not realize it was Part 1 and was going to end on a cliffhanger and may have actually screeched "what?!" in the theater. Gah! Wow!

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[glynhogen]

Spiderverse is so very good. (I went in knowing it was a "to be continued," plus another small fact or two that I personally wouldn't count as spoilers, so I did not have any anxiety about how they were going to wrap things up.)