I've watched it in different theaters, I didn't have any problem with the lighting. Though the movie's color grading was intentionally muted, I thought everything was perceivable.
yeah, it was ugly as fuck.
i was being hyperbolic (mostly). still hated the way 99% of scenes were lit.
I understand where you're coming from but from a thematic point of view, I thought the muted colors were in line with the film's subject matter (the Void, depression, loneliness, etc.)
yeah, i got that but thought it was an elementary choice. the interior darkness motifs would have been served much better (imo) if there was actually some goddamn light & vibrancy to contrast it w/. that inner struggle leaking out & spilling over into the world would’ve had more impact if it was extinguishing the light from a hopeful world. instead, it was an ugly & miserable color palette from start to finish when they could’ve easily told a better visual story imo
Just back from watching it. While Thunderbolts* doesn't scale the dizzy heights of the MCU's elite product - Winter Soldier, Civil War and Infinity War - it's easily the best thing Marvel have put out since No Way Home.
Which, sadly, is to damn it with faint praise.
Pugh is the MVP, but the rest of the cast is never less than solid. Russell, Harbour and Pullman - acting for three since he plays Bob, Sentry and the Void - are all excellent. And it's good to see Bucky and(Junior Varsity)Captain America portrayed as legit bad-asses again, rather than struggling with 100-pound ginger midgets.
Pugh does most of the emotional heavy lifting, with her flashbacks to the Red Room showing just how brutal the training Black Widows had to go through was. Pugh is an excellent actress and makes Yelena's pain and guilt believable. While he's mostly comic relief, Harbour does get to share an intense scene where Alexi reassures Yelena that she is more than the sum of her mistakes and sins.
Louis-Dreyfus is fine as Val. My only complaint is that Norman Osborn should have been leading the Thunderbolts, as he did during Dark Reign. But of course Marvel/Sony screwed the pooch on that one.
While there is some trademark Marvel Snark, the writers and director should be applauded for not trying to make the characters spout Tony Stark-style zingers every five minutes.
The action scenes are very good. The standout for me being the fight with the Sentry, which proves that weight classes exist for a reason. The deadliest assassins and super-soldiers in the world pose no threat to the god-like Sentry, who solos the entire team without breaking a sweat.
The Void is genuinely creepy, and his signature Hiroshima Shadow move is the most inventive visual effect I've seen in an MCU film for quite some time.
I agree with @Dragonlordxxxxx : 8/10 from me.
Though she is the lead of the film, I liked that they showed that Yelena was no match for Walker who almost killed her several times.
Yeah, the humor was very on point and didn't detract from the seriousness and stakes of the story when it mattered.
I loved that they incorporated Winter Soldier's knife-switching move when he attacked Sentry.
Yep, that was a nice, creepy touch basing it on the imprints of people from the Hiroshima atomic bomb. For a short time, Thunderbolts* became a horror film.
I bumped it up to 8.5 on my second viewing.
I like their wordplay with "god".
Though she is the lead of the film, I liked that they showed that Yelena was no match for Walker who almost killed her several times.
Yeah, the humor was very on point and didn't detract from the seriousness and stakes of the story when it mattered.
I loved that they incorporated Winter Soldier's knife-switching move when he attacked Sentry.
I loved that scene where Bucky was the only one left standing against Sentry and they played that inspiration music giving the audience false hope that he stood a chance against Sentry. And even though we know in our heads that Bucky can't do anything to Sentry, there was a tiny part of us that was rooting for something miraculous to happen.
Yep, that was a nice, creepy touch basing it on the imprints of people from the Hiroshima atomic bomb. For a short time, Thunderbolts* became a horror film.
The creepiness also reminded me of the 2010 horror film Vanishing on 7th Street where people get swallowed in the darkness.
I bumped it up to 8.5 on my second viewing.
