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Date:
5/2/2018 1:20:26 PM
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RE: Atomic Blonde and The Great Wall
I have a solid opinion on Marvel movies that mainly holds true. Every single one of them is a B+. Never better. Never worse. And that's rating them for what they set out to be, which is mindless popcorn comic book movies. B+ always.
I think most critics feel this way too, but the problem with sites like Rotten Tomatoes is that the score accumulates Fresh ratings vs Rotten ratings, and in order to be considered Fresh a critic has to essentially view the film as a C+ or better. So a 90% score just means 90% of critics thought the movie was slightly above average (at worst).
I'll commend them for their ambition and world building though. I thought Infinity War was a bit boring and tedious but afterwards I thought about how I just witnessed an accumulative 10 years of universe building and 20+ heroes/main characters jammed into a single movie, each with a meticulously crafted background and story from their previous films and then realized how exhausting it was for me to grind fresh coffee in the morning compared to the effort and time this took. And it was only a SLIGHT mess instead of the complete disaster it should have been. It was also no worse than the best DC movie so they've earned their "every movie is a B+" status in my mind.
With the Great Wall movie, it was similar in the sense that it was a film with a tired mold meant to generate as much profit from the Chinese box-office as possible, but it was a lot lazier. I assume. I refuse to actually watch it to find out. Maybe it was a masterpiece.
