Black Widow
I’m so behind on my TV/movie reviews, but let’s do the Marvel movie first.
First of all, it’s about damn time. Scarlett Johansson has had this coming for far too long. At least she gets to leave the MCU with her own film.
Things I liked:
FLORENCE PUGH! If she’s truly going to be sticking around for at least a couple of movies, I’m all in. The vest discussion! The pose mocking! Involuntary hysterectomy! (Not funny when you think about it, but she really sold that scene.) Her pain at the family dinner table. There’s so much that I love about her character.
She also reminds me of another actress, but I can’t for the life of me come up with who it is. Maybe a cross of Sabrina Carpenter and Hayden Pannetierre?
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Always great to see Rachel Weisz. I swear they didn’t need any kind of de-aging technology in the flashback sequence.
We finally find out what happened in Budapest. (Pesht.)
Some really nice action scenes.
The genuine emotion at the beginning of the post-credits sequence. Yelena’s pain felt real.
Things I didn’t like:
Not the biggest fan of Red Guardian. I get him talking w/ a Russian accent, but the broken grammar makes no sense when he was speaking perfect English at the start of the film.
Poor pig!
I liked seeing Taskmaster mimic Avenger fighting styles, but the silent Terminator nature was lame, as was the way the final battle ended.
The generic Marvel big explosion ending.
Two scenes in and I’m a huge non-fan of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character. Her quippy, irreverent attitude should fit right into the MCU, but it really rubs me the wrong way.
Widow deserves a better final scene. The one here was pretty blah. And for all the talk about shifting away from Widow’s sexualization in her earlier movies, there are an awful lot of Johannson butt shots in this film, including our final look at her.
Final analysis: I’m really glad they made this movie, I just wish it wasn’t her last. Let’s see where it falls in the list:
Avengers: Endgame
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Ant Man/Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Captain America: First Avenger
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Thor 3
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Black Widow
Captain Marvel
Ant-Man
Iron Man 1
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 2
Doctor Strange
Guardians 1
Guardians 2
Thor
Hulk
Thor 2
Regret watching: No
Would watch again: Yes
Would buy on DVD: Yes
Rating: Pretty good
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