I thought I would write a super quick blurb about this and be done with it, but when I started looking into it I found something a bit more interesting:
This all started with King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
I liked that documentary quite a bit, though not as much as the critics and indie buzz. But I never would've guessed its documentarian, Seth Gordon, would go on to direct Four Christmases, Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief, and Baywatch.…
A couple of years ago, I found out that there was fast becoming a whole sub-genre of movies like Groundhog Day. I mean, really, there are no movies like Groundhog Day, which stands unique and supreme on the broken necks of all competitors. But I mean to say that there is a burgeoning sub-market of time loop films.
As surprised as I was to find that out, I was more surprised when just a few years later, I found that…
Wait, was I asleep? Did we already make a smash movie about Venus and Serena Williams? No? Then why are we telling THEIR story through the lens of 'the man who made the women'??? We should be focusing on the QUEENS, not the "King". Have we not learned anything these past few years?!
2-Minute Review (Spoiler-Free):
Firstly, all the talk about how you might need to watch 35 movies across 2 decades or whatever to see this is overblown. There are MCU films that are so tied to the greater goings-on in those other films that it feels as if you're fundamentally missing something if you're not up on several of the recent ones. You could argue that the previous Spider-Man film was like that, working as much as an epilogue to Avengers:…
