Hawkeye Review

The conflict between the two protagonists in Hawkeye are that Hawkeye is an experienced Avenger and government agent, and Kate Bishop is green. Kate is also an Avengers fangirl and a fangirl of Hawkeye, and he doesn;t get the obesession behind why. Also eleanor Bishop says that rich people and young people think they are invincible and thinks that Kate Bishop is going to get herself hurt, while Kate thinks that she must protect her mother after lsoing her father. This conflict would make the relationship more memorabkle if Kate actually did get in a life-or-death situation where she was cvery close to dying. In the end her mother turns out to be corrupt and it dilutes what could have been a great conflict.

Did we really need the introduction scene to episode four? Besides the fact that Yelena gor snapped, we don’t treally need thei s scene. It gdragged on. Also another scene Ylena in that episode dragged on: the scene with her in Kate’s house. She was unfunny and annoying and the scene just kept dragging on. It was the only time where the series got boring. How the writers could handle them differently is by shortiening them, or having Yelena say that she got turned to dust and then she came back and people said that five eyears have passed. There is no reason for us to see it. The time alloted to these scenes should have been given to other things, such as showing Clint’s past before joining S.H.I.E.L.D. Other things that they could’ve alloted this time to: character development for Clint, more into who murdered Armand, perhaps Kate talking with the polce.

The introduction was a good setup for Kate Bishop and a realistic way to show theat the Avengers fighting and the property damage that comes with it are real things and are not vaccums and cause deaths to real people. That said the father needed better responses when Kate asked him what he was going to do.

There are no memorable moments so far between Hawkeye and the Tracksuit Mafia. I don’t thank the Tracksuit Mafia are effective. They are just there so they can get the series started. In the first episode, they are trying to steal a watch while they say that everything else is secondary. Out of tall the things that were available in the auction, I would have stolen the sword. It’s dope as fuck and looks cool, plus it would go for a lot fo money on the internet. They reason for thwhy they want to steal the watch is not yet revealed. They don’t some threatening. Hawkeeye and Hawkeye’s wife refrred to them as idiots. In fact, they come off as manchildren. Then we see the Kingpin of all people lead the Tracksuit Magia, and it’s very jarring to see the contrast between them.

The origin story for Kate makes no sense. She saw Hawkeye save her life from the Chitauri, and she decides that she wants a bow and arrow. What if she saw Black Widow? Would she want her bracelts,? What if she saw The Hulk? Would she want gamma radiation?

Hawkeye is well known as Clint Barton, but Ronin is a secret. Nobody knows who Ronin is yet. The Tracksuits suspect Kate Bishop of being Ronin, despite not seeing her without the suit on. Then again she did say that her name was on the ringer.

Overall Hawkeye is up there with Loki as the best MCU Disney+ show.

Spider-Man: No Way Home Review

This version of Spider-Man is a completely useless toolbox who makes everything worse.

It would have been better if maybe he dealt with something that wasn’t 100% caused by him being an idiot?

Peter whines all the time.

None of his supporting cast is interesting. And now he wastes the time of more interesting characters (Doctor Strange, the Spider-Man villains, the Spider-Men, etc.).

Spider-Man’s main role is being inadequate not just in terms of being a superhero but dealing with life.

There is a lot of incompetent clownery in this movie. Have we hit rock bottom yet? For example, Peter asks Doctor Strange to come up with a spell to make people forget that he’s Spider-Man instead of dealing with that shit like a man. Peter turns on Doctor Strange’s plan to bring back all the villains back to their home worlds because they would die despite the fact that he was okay with letting Mysterio die. The Peter Tingle comes back in this film, although it is mentioned less.

This film continues the previous two’s theme of “Peter is still a complete joke at being a superhero, and if he was hit with a meteorite the MCU would be better for it.” I’ve never seen a movie committed to its theme as this one.

It takes the setup of the post credits scene from Far From Home where Mysterio reveals Spider-Man’s secret identity to the world and completely wastes it. They take the lamest possible execution of the consequences.

There are some bright spots in this movie. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield are more engaging than Tom Holland as Spider-Man. The villains, as characters, are more engaging as well.

The attempts to “cure” the villains ring untrue. Tom Holland’s Spider-Man had no qualms about letting Mysterio die. Also it comes off as bullshit. Having the MCU be the universe that has the means to cure them while their home universes do not comes off as a deus ex machina. It would be more interesting if they remained uncured.

The editing sucks. Some moments of wasted time include the beginning after Spider-Man sees J. Jonah Jameson reveals his secret identity, Aunt May’s side romance with Happy, the scene with Wong, the fight between Doctor Strange and Spider-Man and the conversation that Peter has with Aunt May before the Doctor Strange fight.

Peter Parker is a raging storm of stupidity that infects everyone around him. Other victims include Doctor Strange, his classmates and teachers, Aunt May, and whoever signed off on this movie.

The plot hinges on Peter deciding that he wants the world to forget that he’s Spider-Man instead of dealing with the consequences of that shit like a man. Everything that happens because of that (the botched spell, the villains coming back, the Spider-Men coming in, etc.) basically means that the movie has no stakes or tension in it because everything depends on Peter being an idiot. In other words, this is an idiot plot.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the worst MCU movie ever made, the worst Spider-Man movie ever made, and the worst superhero movie I have ever seen. It might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen, next to Rebuild of Evangelion (the first two; I haven’t seen the last two) and Beautiful Creatures.

“You saw it in the comics; he constantly talks.” said Kevin Feige in an interview with Deadline. “In Civil War he goes up against Falcon and at one point Falcon says, ‘I don’t know if you’ve been in a fight before, but there’s usually not this much talking.’ That’s Spider-Man to us.” I understand the sentiment, but Spider-Man is constantly unffunny in Civil War. “He was young, that hew was relateable, he was me, he was vulnerable. And he was insecure in a way that fed the humor. He was a kid,” said Joseph Russo in a Deadline interview. I understand the sentiment that they were trying to do with Spider-Man in Civil War, but he was.