mlk18

Typical Hollywood. Come out with a show with a semi-unique and interesting premise, cast a few good actors, write some good stories, and make a really good show worth watching. Then between seasons they have their normal "how can we ruin it" meeting. This time they decided to basically ignore everything good about season 1 and add in a bunch of weird characters, bizarre stories, strange artsy junk, ignore everything that made the first season good, and reinvent the show as hot garbage. I gave season 1 a solid 6 starts, but I could have gone 7. I generously gave season 2 a weak 2 stars, and should have gone 1. I will be surprised if there's a season 3 and if there is, I won't be watching it.

8.1 IMDB rating? What? How? This movie is not horrible but it's not great either and falls way short of anything even close to 8.1. Slow moving at times, completely incoherent at times, with a main theme that took a long time to manifest. Felt like they made a movie and part way through thought "Nah, that's not working, let's change directions and make it a horror film!". I am well aware we all have our own opinions, but these review/rating sites also come with a responsibility to produce an honest review for those who are deciding whether or not they want to see a movie. Wait for this one to stream on a service you are already paying for.

So right now Madame Web is sitting at a 3.8 IMDB rating while The Marvels sits at a 5.6. Both are diverse female lead superhero movies with pretty high budgets and lots of marketing. Madame Web was an okay movie, pretty much what I expected from the trailer and knowing Sony was in charge of making it. Was it a blockbuster thrill ride? Nope. But nothing about this movie made it worthy of a sub 5.0 rating, outside of it being part of the same boring nothing new, nothing amazing, and nothing unexpected world that Hollywood has become. It was good enough to keep me watching and not wish I was somewhere else, like The Marvels did. The Marvels was messy, discombobulated, boring crap-fest that was full of tired old tropes and gimmicks that Marvel somehow still thinks are entertaining. The acting was actually as bad in the writing, and that's saying something. The Marvels was not worthy of a 3.6 let alone a 5.6. All this just goes to show how the average person is willing to embrace mediocrity and celebrate the unexceptional as long as enough people on social media tell them how to think one way or the other. It seems Disney had more money to pay influencers than Sony did. If only these ratings could be about the quality of the movie rather than the marketing. As they say, opinions are like...