Tag: superheroes

  • Movie Pass Adventures: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

    stylized image of The Fantastic Four. They are blue silhouettes with white highlights, including their "4" chest symbols. The are surrounded by alternating red and white lines.
    The Fantastic four, mostly their heads, in line smiling toward the camera

    I’d bet that I would have enjoyed this movie much more if I hadn’t just seen Superman. They take different approaches to the same idea: making classic superhero stories work in a more modern way. I really thought I’d enjoy the FF’s retro-future Earth more than I did, but there’s too much style and not enough substance.

    I enjoyed it while I watched, but it isn’t lingering in my head.

    Today’s fake poster is based on a different “Superlative and a Number” team.

    A poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps mimicking the poster for The Magnificent Seven.
    This doesn’t look nearly as retro as the actual movie.
    Fediverse reactions

  • Movie Pass Adventures: Superman

    The back of Superman and Krypto sitting and looking at the Earth. The image is stylized: Superman and Krypto are red, blue, yellow, and white. The Earth is the same colors, but darker.
    Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and David Corenswet as Superman looking happily at each other in Superman.

    I’m a bit of a comic book nerd, so I don’t think I can accurately judge how normal humans will feel about this movie, but I freaking LOVED it. A charming, likable Superman in a movie that isn’t afraid to have fun? Count me in!

    I had a good idea for today’s poster, but I kind of whiffed the title logo. But it was fun to try and remember how to use Adobe Illustrator!

    A poster for Superman mimicking the poster for Super Fly.
    Fediverse reactions

  • Going to the Movies Trying to Avoid Nightmare Election Results Adventures: Venom: The Last Dance

    Eddie & Venom in Venom: The Last Dance

    I see most superhero movies because I’m a sucker for them. It doesn’t matter how much nonsense they have; my brain goes into low-power mode and I accept it all.

    But I something about the first two Venom movies made me skip them. After watching this one, I can say that was probably a pretty good idea. My brain just couldn’t downshift enough for this thing. It clearly wasn’t expecting to be taken seriously- Venom is constantly making jokes that would make your dad say “that’s a little corny, don’t you think?” – but the movie is so determined to use as many stale and dumb tropes that it forgets to find new dumb trope to keep people interested.

    But as far as I know, it contains the first use ever of Chekov’s Hyperacid. I guess that’s something.

  • Airplane Movie Adventures: The Marvels, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    I’m traveling, so no graphics for now.

    On the plane I rewatched The Marvels and thought “This movie’s not bad for a rewatch.” Then I watched Spider-Man : Across the Spider-Verse and thought “This movie is awesome and gets better every time I see it.” Even wearing lousy headphones and watching it on a tiny screen on the back of an airplane seat couldn’t make it bad.