Media thoughts from someone pseudo trained to have them
Y’know I, like many an MCU enjoyer, have been told that Tony Stark makes his villains and honestly I don’t completely buy it. This one’s mostly Howard’s fault. The Pitch, if like me 2010 feels like hundreds of years ago instead of fifteen: as if the US government and military would be chill with one…
It’s a strange thing being a sequel, especially when you can’t acknowledge it completely. You gotta build upon the ideas set up in the first film while also striding your own new and different path but recognizable in a way that the audience understands how you got from A to B. The Incredible Hulk is…
Look, it took me a minute, but I got there. If we had to psychoanalyze my delay, I’d probably chop it up to me fearing I bit off more than I could chew. But that’s hardly a new development, I do that a lot, hell this whole blog is more than I can chew but…
There’s that common wisdom that we are shaped as artists and critics by the media that we consume when we’re young. It’s why George Lucas and the rest of that OG blockbuster generation have an obsession with the 50s, or why I make more sense when you learn all my favorite characters can be plotted…
I think at the end of the day, I feel bad for Agents of SHIELD. A show that was partially spawned into existence because the fans got so attached to a minor, pseudo joke, background character killed in the first Avengers movie that they filled out petition after petition to bring him back. Because this…