promethia

Attention internet: over the course of the last two weeks I have mainlined all of the Marvel movies, Iron Man through Infinity War, as if they were one massive TV season. Why did I do this? Still unclear. But suffice it to say I had only seen a handful of them previously, some people were talking about them, and I have a distractible attention span and a worryingly masochistic streak when it comes to my entertainment choices. My thoughts are below the cut, but if you choose to read, I feel I should disclose a few things to you up front:

1) I do not like superheroes. And plotlines that can be resolved by punching things.

2) I love television and think movies are a stunted and inferior medium.

3) As a fan of several of the Marvel tv shows, chief among them Agents of SHIELD, I have a massive and eternal chip on my shoulder about the way Marvel forces its tv shows to play second fiddle to the movie juggernaut.

Those caveats in place, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie juggernaut as a whole. But if you live, sleep, and breathe the MCU and will be put out by anything less than effusive praise, move along, nothing to see here . . .

( Lengthy but shallow commentary. Oh god, so long. )