olliemarch-72638 Reviews

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Has a title card ever bought on tears before?

[8/10 · 11 November 2022]

A touching tribute of a film to the late Chadwick Boseman. The film handled his death in a respectful way and the mantle has been passed on in a way that makes sense to the story.

The music was superb and as expected judging from the trailer. The visuals were much better than the original film, not just one big CGI mess.

But...in the places this film was one of the more boring MCU films I've seen in a while. It has a large run time and alot of it feels like it could have been cut which was a shame as it did have a really engaging story with the antagonist having some fair opinions.

This film in my opinion does hold the prize for the most goofy costume we've ever seen in an MCU film (though it may be comic book accurate, or just took me out a little bit).

Though the post credit scene did end the film on a really beautiful note.

RIP King, Wakanda forever.

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022)

Clone Wars but deeper and darker

[9/10 · 26 October 2022]

WOW. I really was going into this not expecting much, I'm sure most of us saw the short episode run times and were disappointed at first. But it really really works all together as complete, hour and 15 minute feature.

This show had everything, a much darker tone (imo one of the darkest we've seen in a while), together with great music, a few well placed cameos (my favourite in episode 5 and a very exciting voice cameo) and a fantastically written story, filling in a lot of gaps between especially the prequel trilogy.

My only gripe is that 1 of the arcs in my opinion could have been an AMAZING live action show or series. It's a story we've all wanted and I feel slightly disappointed we didn't get it in live action. Although animation is a completely valid form of story telling.

Dave please give us more!!

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Whose Show Is This? (2022) Season 1, Episode 9

So the whole show was a setup to a meta joke about how the MCU has gone down hill.

[1/10 · 13 October 2022]

I really really tried to like this show, I liked the first few episodes and like with most lost interest fairly quickly and really wasn't expecting much from the finale.....and I definitely didn't expect what we got.

Yeah the forth wall breaks were cool, but it really felt like they knew how bad the show was/would be perceived to make what made the finale funny, with them just taking the mick out of themselves. They literally admitted a lot of the shows are poor, and the CGI wasn't good. I just don't get how this is funny?

Well....at least marvel are self aware. Hopefully this means an upwards trajectory from now on.

Werewolf by Night (2022 TV Movie)

Just because it's edgy and indie doesn't make it good

[5/10 · 7 October 2022]

Really unsure about this one Marvel. It's definitely a completely different vibe to the rest of Marvels more recent projects but for me just felt off.

It throws us straight into the story with a brief narration on whats occurring, no connection to characters and most of them don't get any screen time. Feels like it would have been much better as a two part series.

Yeah sure the black and white effect is cool with the red glowing stone, but honestly the feels more of a gimmick that anything or for them to be able to turn up the gore without affecting the age rating too much.

I'm sure with the majority hate for most of marvels newest project (which I've enjoyed - bar She Hulk eps 2-7), this may be enjoyed a lot better by most.