I last summarized my opinions of the Marvel Movies back in early 2020. From there through the end of 2021, six different Marvel movies came out, 4 in the MCU and 2 otherwise. As we have seen, I have seen none of them. The closest I've gotten to a Marvel movie since then is a rewatching of The AvengersOf course, now I've got access to a ton of ( Read more... )

Well, if part 1 was mostly haiku about poetry and part 2 was haiku about rock & roll, this third and final part of my review of the 218+ haiku I wrote in 2018 is mostly about space, with some radio and movies and social commentary thrown in as an aside ( Read more... )

For the last several years I've warmed up for my cinema year in review with my Marvel Movie yearly review. The summary for 2019 will be brief, as so far as I know there were only four Marvel movies released, of which I saw the three MCU movies and skipped the other. Given the sheer volume of movies being released and the purchase of Fox by Disney, ( Read more... )

There were six Marvel movies in the twelve months since I last updated this list, compared to seven in the the 21 months in the prior increment, and eight in the increment before that. I only saw five of them, but somehow those five kept the quality level reasonably high. I keep waiting for the wheels to come completely off, but so far not yet ( Read more... )

I've seen all seven Marvel films that have come out since my May 2016 summary. This in of itself is a little surprising. There are very few franchises where I've made it a point to see everything in the theater, and none with as many movies as Marvel has generated. I'm always convinced that one day some movie will implode and take down the whole ( Read more... )

It's been more than two years since I last updated my Marvel Movie Summary, wherein I rate every Marvel movie I have seen, both in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and outside it, starting with Blade in 1998, as it is the film that in my opinion kickstarted the current comic book movie boom. It's been on my potential topics list since late in ( Read more... )

Well, it's been another full year so it's time for another Marvel Movie Summary. This year had three entrants:

Iron Man 3 - Iron Man was a lot of fun. Iron Man 2 was dull any time the camera left Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man 3 brings the series back. The Extremis storyline was reasonably well adapted, but the real winner here is that the movie ( Read more... )

The clear preference from last week (based on four votes!) was for me to talk about movies, so I will do so. I'll start by updating my Marvel Movie summary based on the three Marvel films I saw in 2012. This included two new films, The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man, and one older film, The Punisher, that I caught on Netflix while visiting ( Read more... )

Back in 2009 I ranked all the Marvel Movies I'd seen. There have been several since then, so it's time to update the list. Helpfully, last summer Rotten Tomatoes did a comprehensive summary of all the Marvel Movies. For the purposes of this list I'm only going to consider movies from 1998 through today whose primary character is part of the Marvel ( Read more... )

( Not spoilers in my book, but you are not me. )