I liked it, it was exactly what I expected it to be.
I did think the big bad’s power was terrifying. As scary as anything Marvel has put on the big screen. I saw that and just figured, y’all better start running and hope.
When the little girl that Red Guardian was saving to blasted into shadow right in front of him, I literally said “Oh shit.” ZakSon chastised me.
My child has a laugh-or-you’ll-cry response so the only sound in our theater was her cackling.
I had a bigger reaction to Red Guardian taking that concrete block to the noggin right before, I thought that was going to be a sacrifice play. Once the cute ass little girl got poofed I instantly thought “oh, they are all coming back”.
Yeah it was a brief shock but that was when I realized he wasn’t killing them.
To me Thunderbolts suffers the same problem as Brave New World: both movies seem to target the vibe of the best MCU film (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, wrongly think it’s something else) and miss. Part of it is missing the Hydra/Shield dynamic, part is failing to stick the landing both times.
Hilariously the official Avengers instagram now has a copyright symbol before Avengers.
That’s funny as hell. Great marketing move.
Got back from watching it today with my daughter. She’s not caught up on all the MCU so I had to give her a short briefing on the characters. She loved it. I didn’t like it quite as much as her but I liked it a lot.
Summary
The mid credit scene was a waste but the long end credit scene worked. I read today the scene was directed by the Russos on the set of Doomsday. It also confirms the entering from another dimension origin of the FF.