[Marvel MCU, Loki]

a family name
[Marvel, Loki]

sylvania

the original Castlevanian Families

What did she mean by this?
[Marvel Loki spoilers ]

Going through old 90s VHS tapes and there was an ad for Steve Doocy’s old show, which looked like this

People hate on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but it’s easily one of my top ten Indiana Jones movies.

the virgin Killmonger and the Chadwick Boseman

megankoumori:

“Hooray for me! Babette of Gay Paree! Hooray for me! I’m captain now you zee!”

Honestly I’d rather have a subplot focusing on how she pulled this off than the pointless Greedy sequence.

One part of the Marvel formula that always works is the surprise cameo at the end setting up a future project.Black Widow has one of those.The movie itself is fine. It pretty much delivers what you’d want from a long-overdue solo film for Scarlett Johansson’s character. There’s lots of action which mostly works, but by the end it’s not grounded enough in any kind of reality, and you wonder how any human being could survive it. The greenscreen effects stand out at times in the finale, although most of the film looks great.It sets up a backstory we haven’t heard before, and shows us some of it. There’s a certain amount of grounded drama and comedy, and the film is at its best when depicting an unusual family. The threats that Natasha and company face are convincingly deadly, maybe too much so. The master spy is pushed to her limit when pursued by, say, an armored vehicle which is just leveling city blocks behind her. Taskmaster is a convincing, Terminator-style threat. David Harbour is funny as the Red Guardian, nearly stealing the show, although he leans into every old anti-Russian stereotype, as if this film was made in 1986.Florence Pugh gives a lot of heart to the film as Natasha’s “younger sister,” although the performances that Pugh and Rachel Weisz give are flattened out significantly by their Russian accents. In interviews, Johansson has said that Pugh’s Yelena character was originally scripted as a rival to Natasha, looking to take her place. I’m glad she was able to change that, since the family relationship is the heart of the film, and gives it a coherence even in short moments inbetween action scenes.Black Widow isn’t a game-changer for Marvel, and there’s not too much here which will have fans freaking out. But it finally gives the Black Widow her due in a solo project, and slots in nicely with what Marvel has been doing lately.