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MCU films are the same movie repeated endlessly for the most part. I gave up before the big Thanos set pieces—at about the time of either Black Panther or Captain Marvel, whichever came last—and I genuinely can't recall which remembered scene or dialogue snippet came from which movie. (And increasingly I can't even remember scenes or dialogue).
One that gets a lot of my friends angry with me: The best Star Trek was the original series. The second-best was Enterprise. The rest aren't Star Trek.
Forrest Gump is not a movie about a kind-hearted, if slow, man whose perseverance and innocence allow him to succeed despite his limitations. It is instead a pretty damning portrayal of the "American Dream" showing that being lucky and being in the right place at the right time is far more important to success than is hard work or aptitude.
Thelma & Louise is not a feminist road movie and definitively not a bold statement about female friendship, liberation, and resistance against male oppression. It is instead a bleak view of how dominating patriarchy crushes every attempt to rebel against it to the point of self-destruction. The "triumphant" finale is not a liberating act of empowerment but the inevitable despairing outcome of those who would dare tackle the injustices of the partriarchal world order.
Omg, yes about Forrest Gump! That story is as feel good/uplifting as news stories about people living in a city that left potholes unfilled for so long that a literal child starts risking their safety and filling in the ones in their community and then the mayor commends them on doing the thing that the city should have done... (Yes, it's a real story, and yes, the news tried to make it sound like a heart-warming tale.)
The MCU films are at their worst when they're trying to be funny. James Gunn is the only one who managed to pull it off well, and even then it felt out of place.
Also Thunderbolts is a solid "meh" at best. It felt like an extended tv show, not a movie. It ended once it finally got interesting.
Rising Tide was right
I don't get it. There's like two movies and three TV series called Rising Tide or The Rising Tide and ... I don't see any way "was right" could apply to any of them?
The group who wanted to take SHIELD down in the first season of Agents of SHIELD, which was around that bit in the MCU when it turned out that SHIELD was absolutely infested with Nazis
Ah. I didn't get past three episodes of that show so had no idea that existed.