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A coven of all-female diverse force sensitive Dark Side user space witches (plus some non-binary / transgender women actors) led by two lovers, she who 'created' the force sensitive female twins and she who 'carried' them, have a Dark Side ritual where they inject one of the two twins with power from 'The Thread' (what the witches call The Force) after the child willingly submits to the ritual. It's like a Dark Side baptism. They chant "the power of one, the power of two, the power of many" while doing it. After holding their ritual with the first twin, the Jedi interrupt the meeting like a CPS sting operation and take the force sensitive twins away to be tested and trained as Jedi. One of the two twins defects to the Jedi (she didn't have the ritual done to her like her sister). The Dark Side baptized twin sister gets angry at the defection and starts a fire outside her Jedi-defecting sister's room while locking her in to burn to death. The Jedi-defector escapes only to see all her coven mothers and sisters lying dead in the middle of the burning citidel. Master Sol, a Jedi, rescues her from the fires. There is a definite motive underlying here too. This all is done to shatter what Lucas created about The Force. The Force, according to Lucas, is balanced by moving toward the Light side, not by balancing an equal amount of Light and Dark side in the galaxy far, far away. This show doesn't even follow that logic though. Instead it frames the Jedi and the Light side of the Force as the oppressor class to yet another misunderstood group of Disney villainesses who use the Dark Side...for good...or at least out of necessity to survive. They lack the privilege to use the Light side, you see. Its morality is broken, and it will lead to everything the Jedi did in the original six films by Lucas was actually evil and needed to be dismantled and reconstructed. The Skywalker prophecy was a deception because there were in fact "chosen ones" before Anakin and Luke that should've brought balance to the Force. The Jedi also are being framed as patriarchal, aggressive, hostile, and violent while the Witches are Matriarchal, defensive, benign, and oppressed. The Jedi will murder anyone who crosses them in order to increase and maintain power in the Galaxy all while proclaiming to follow the Light and the will of the Force. And using the Dark Side isn't evil, just a matter of perspective... This is not Star Wars. This breaks Star Wars. You would not tear down these fundamentals by accident or incompetence. This is an intentional dismantling of everything that Lucas made in order to redefine the Force according to a new moral code and value system. Is it possible we will see Rey Palpatine-Skywalker restore the New Jedi Order according to the New Force's (The Thread) morals, rules, and values because Lucas' Force along with his Jedi Order were in fact the actual problem in the Galaxy? You decide. I already have. This is not Star Wars, and I don't intend to support this anymore. I just don't see it succeeding like Lucas' storytelling, characters, and universe.

Sweet Baby, Inc. destroys the gaming industry one more game at a time with their BlackRock and Vanguard ESG funding. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is riddled with contempt for the traditional superhero. All of this culminates with the most disrespectful end for Kevin Conroy’s Arkham Batman. Broken gameplay, terrible edgy Tumblr characters, lame dialogue, and completely uninspired. AVOID or REFUND.

Sam Wilson/Cap and Bucky/Winter Soldier are good. Zemo also is fine. The preachiness in the show got tiresome. It gets 1 star from me though because of the terrible villain--Karli. How does a teenage/twenty-something girl defeat a team of combat veteran super soldiers and soldiers with the most advanced technology America can buy even one time? let alone multiple times. Lame! Justifying or empathizing with the Flagsmashers' cause especially after they commit terrorist acts and murder innocent people also was silly. I was uninvested in the stories...only the characters who returned from Phase 1-3 films.

The Worst MCU film ever...Go watch Dune instead if you want to support a good film with a diverse cast of characters. This film is pretentious and pandering in the highest degree. It is so focused on a Hollywood pipedream that they forgot to write an interesting story. It is overloaded with characters, who while they are diverse and inclusive, cannot manage to get the audience to connect with any of their stories on a personal level. In its bloated attempt to represent everyone, it effectively represents nobody. This film is shallow, and the humor is hallow. Its exposition is more tell than show and will have the average watcher bored to tears. The movie length is the "Eternal" part of this film and basically sidesteps everything Jack Kirby created. Its only connection to the comics is the names of the title and the characters. Also, the villains create zero suspense or stakes, and its third act collapses into a very bad CGI monster battle. Godzilla versus Kong will make more money than this film at the worldwide box office...but please don't blame the pandemic for this...blame inexperienced Hollywood writers and directors who are not fans of the original source material and out of their league plus out-of-touch producers for ruining another story in Phase 4 of the MCU, which could have been done well if only they had the right people making this film and not hired a committee and used corporate marketing formulas to Frankenstein it together. Feige sold out Jack Kirby's legacy to pander to the Twittermob with this one. Finally, expect the MCU to keep going in One Direction downward for longer than it should.

Simu Liu, the Beta Male Brie Larson...Shang-Chi is another bad and boring addition to Marvel's weakest Phase in the MCU (Phase 4). It made less money at the worldwide box office than Godzilla versus Kong in the same "pandemic era." The lead actor is boring in the film and pretentious outside the film...mocking fans, berating any constructive or genuine criticism, and spouting a bunch of foolishness on his social media that may get him canceled in the near future by one of the many angry Twittermobs. He basically is the male Brie Larson of the MCU. What could have been an action-packed, fun, exciting Kung Fu film in the MCU collapsed into a lame CGI-fest in the third act--think of the Dragon Ball Z or Avatar films that bombed at the box office. Once again, we had an overpaced origin story...watching Shang-Chi go from being an insecure valet, to getting kicked in the balls by his sister while shirtless in a cage fight with her...despite him being the "Master of Kung Fu," only then to "saving the universe" in the third act...all in his first film...while also confronting his feelings and emotional issues with his father. He learns how to use the Ten Rings in a matter of minutes without any learning curve, which is ridiculous, and duels an evil dragon with his own good dragon. The rings aren't even the Mandarin's rings from the comics, but rather ten mystical bracelets. The supporting cast is forgettable, and the jokes are dryer than cracker-juice. Even Michelle Yeoh's star power is wasted and forgotten--most people don't even know she's in this film, which is a shame as she has helped pave the way for these lead and supporting actors and actresses in the film. The supporting actress Awkwafina feels outdated already, even though she just seems to be breaking onto the film scene as "Marvel's Katy." There is very bad chemistry between Shang-Chi and Marvel's Katy...what could've been a romance with a different, more competent actor/actress pairing and writer was more of the "friend-zone" at best. You definitely don't root for these two to fall in love and wonder if they even would. No chemistry, no tension...fully neutered...or possibly closeted (for now) to pander to a Chinese audience whose government wouldn't show the film in spite of pandering to them. Finally, Shang-Chi's sister is the real master of Kung Fu because she managed to become a better fighter than him, start an entire fight club in another country, all by watching him train and fight with Kung Fu masters while the patriarchy in her culture prevented her from studying martial arts with her brother. She learned her fighting skills all on her own...in the shadows at night-time...welcome to the "M-She-U"...again...

This show is so bad. I can hardly stay awake while watching it. MCU Phase 4 is sub-par quality to Phases 1-3. The MCU needs to bring in its better known characters like the X-Men and Fantastic Four rather than Z-list unknowns and woke/feminist social commentary.

Tom Hiddleston doesn't star in his own show, which is a shame because he is a beloved MCU actor and plays a beloved character. Owen Wilson was great when he was on screen but didn't have much of a part. This should have been a buddy cop show with LoKi and Owen Wilson's character. Instead, we got female LoKi's (Sylvie) sob story which was awful and boring. The plot revolved around sitting and talking about feelings. This show totally ruined the LoKi character that came into this alternate timeline. He never felt remorse or sympathy before he came to the TVA, but he watches his fate on a TVA screen and suddenly feels remorse? He just said so what to genocide a few days prior in his character's timeline and arrival at the TVA. Why would he turn into an empathetic person in just a few days? Silly. The supporting cast was abysmal. LoKi was neutered by stronger, smarter, more competent females. The writing and directing pitiful. And LoKi was the butt of so many jokes and got punched in the private too many times. The Kang reveal also was an actual clown act.

This film is bad and shows how much Marvel didn't care about Black Widow's character or ScarJo's legacy in the MCU. It was an afterthought and apology tour from the producers after Endgame...and a bad one at that. It is ironic that it ended with ScarJo suing the company and settling for what little profits the film made. Another failed film in the Phase 4 of the "M-She-U." We should've gotten Hawkeye and Black Widow's story about what happened in Budapest. Not the fake family drama and female oppression story. ScarJo is still objectified in this film despite her renouncing her previous objectifications in her younger years as an actress. Florence Pugh is good with what she was given in a bad script and worse story. The other supporting cast are wasted and inconsistent characters that just push a choppy narrative and plot along. The villain is boring and lame...he is basically a Russian version of Harvey Weinstein. The third act ScarJo and her other family blow up the Red Room patriarchy in the sky and fight a female Taskmaster, who was played by a male stunt actor. It is more ridiculous than it sounds.

This film is the best Marvel movie of the year (2021) by a long shot, and one of the top MCU films so far, which is saying something for sure. Not only is it exciting and action-packed, but it hits the emotional chords in all the right places. Every member of this cast stepped up and delivered in this film compared to previous ones. You’ll laugh, you’ll gasp, you’ll cheer, and you’ll cry. If you’re not smiling when you leave, then I don’t know what to say. Even the most casual Spider-Man fan will enjoy this film. A person who doesn’t normally like superheroes will enjoy this film. It has that “movie magic” that will make you feel like a little kid again. Finally, while I could nitpick a few minor things, I won’t because it is deserving of the time you will take to watch it. Go see it in the theaters…preferably an IMAX. The complete nonsense Marvel has been giving us in previous MCU Phase 4 films and Disney+ shows is completely exposed by the quality of this film. Phase 4 should make fun films like this one that leaves fans excited. Instead of character driven narratives, with high stakes, good villains, and an exciting story, we’ve been getting agenda driven narratives, low stakes, lame villains, awful dialogue, and boring stories. Black Widow, Shang-Chi, and Eternals are completely overshadowed when compared to films like Spider-Man: No Way Home. It is so obvious that Sony knows how to reward fans and keep them interested in a series rather than Disney continually destroying the legacy of multiple beloved franchises to push an agenda based upon woke messaging. The box office, critical reception, and fan rating to this film all demonstrate that what Disney Marvel has been delivering in the MCU Phase 4 previously has been a severe downgrade and complete failure. This movie however is a success. The saddest part is that this film is the outlier in the MCU. While I understand that this is a Sony film, Disney will refuse to produce films that continue to do what Sony’s most recent Spider-Man film did. It’s not a “change of direction” for the MCU Phase 4, but the event to draw in previously alienated fans, so that Disney can continue to fund future films that make its preferred woke content in the MCU. Let’s hope the Sony-verse continues to deliver until Disney has no choice but to shift its agenda to this style of film-making instead. It’s a long shot, but the future success of the MCU depends on its movies succeeding—at the box office, with the fans, and even critically. We still can get quality movies, but folks that make them need to take the hint. THIS is what fans want…not the agenda-driven downgrade. You can no longer make the excuse that your MCU films didn’t make money because of a pandemic because this was released during a surge of COVID-19, and people still showed up in massive numbers to see this film. When movies suck, people don’t show. When they rock, they’ll risk catching COVID-19 to see it and escape for a little while…

This film will receive very mixed reviews. Some folks with love it and say it's the best ever, one of the best, or good. I'm in the good camp. Others will walk away perplexed, confused, disturbed or disappointed. A few folks will hate this movie. It has a very whacky vision where the Guardians operate in an imaginative but disturbing part of the Marvel Universe. The team has good chemistry in this film and James Gunn really tries to pull at the audience's heart strings. You should go in very open-minded and ready for anything to happen. Chris Pratt was my favorite part of the film, but all the characters have a moment where they shine or are fun.