Venom: How Important actually is the source material

For all the talk I’ve done about movie and television adaptations of video games and comic books needing to show some kind of reverence to their source material, the Sony line of Spider-Man spinoff movies are in a unique position where they really can’t be as true to the source material as they need to be.

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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: 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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