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- Dec 17, 2019
Not having seen the movie because lolMCU, all I really have to work with is Drinker's review because I haven't watched anyone else's (but I'm pretty sure other reviewers I follow will give similar takes):View attachment 2334497
Bob... knows that he would be put first on the wall, right? I can't think of anyone better who symbolizes a leech.
I do find it hilarious how Bob's simping for this movie when by all but the most dickriding accounts, it's fairly mediocre even by Marvel standards. The plot is threadbare and nonsensical, the tone is all over the place because we can't actually have things get too serious, and the characters are one-dimensional, a literal joke, or actually pretty fucked up yet we're supposed to root for them anyway. And the "twist" that Taskmaster is actually the bad guy's daughter is so obvious in retrospect that I'm surprised I didn't guess it before, after all the other examples of this same exact trope of "imposing masked character is actually a girl" in recent years.
And when it specifically comes to these two characters, it sounds like emotional manipulation like only Marvel can pull off. Red Guardian is the comic relief, which was pretty obvious from the trailers, but apparently he doesn't even do much more than that, and it doesn't help that said "jokes" end up screwing up the tone. As Drinker put it, "Isn't it funny how the only two male characters in this film are either portrayed as weak and pathetic or dumb and comical? Just something to think about." And Melina is an evil character complicit in the bad guy's crimes for decades, literally torturing animals to come up with the shit that he uses to keep the Black Widows under his control, but apparently everyone just lets her off the hook in the end because she's really sorry I guess. When you consider that one of the writers from WandaVision worked on this too, that at least explains the dubious morality better.
Bob: Disney isn't going to hire you no matter how much praise you heap on their turds. You're an embarrassment.