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For the times I want to give a “review” to an older game. Or just when I want to destroy my childhood nostalgia.

MCU Rewatch – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 feels like the most unnecessary MCU movie

This movie might be the one in this entire franchise that the largest gulf between my expectation of it, and what I ended up feeling about it when I finally saw it. I adored the first Guardians of the Galaxy, just read my post about it when I saw it again last year. It’s still one of my favourite movies in the entire franchise. Which is why the sequel was such a let down for me when we eventually got it.

Before you get angry with me, if you want to see the archive of this review series so far, then just click this link. Or you can just continue and read me being cynical about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

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MCU Rewatch – How Doctor Strange expands the lore to create longevity

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For a long time, I just viewed Doctor Strange as a soft reboot of the original Iron Man movie. I mean, they follow very similar story beats utilising very similar character archetypes. But upon rewatching it for the purposes of this post, I was actually really shocked at how much the movie expands on the established lore of the MCU and the implications is has going forward.

Magic has been a contentious subject in the MCU before now, the closest the franchise has gotten to having it has been with Thor. But even in those two movies, their “magic” is always treated like some kind of higher science that us mortals simply can’t comprehend. And in all honesty, this approach makes both of the standalone Thor movies a lot weaker as a result. They seem to holding themselves back.

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MCU Rewatch: Captain America: Civil War still might be the best movie in the franchise

This is part of an ongoing series, to see all of my reviews up until this one, look no further than this little link.

When it came to approaching Captain America: Civil War again, I did so with some amount of apprehension. For a long time, I regarded it as my favourite movie in the entire MCU. Coming back to it made me worry whether I’d still feel the same way about it after not seeing it for so long, and then if I’d be able to properly convey my feelings either way. Sat here, after having seen it again, I feel pretty confident in saying that Captain America: Civil War continues to be one of the very best movies in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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