Ryan of the 365 Movies Hates A.I.

Thor: Ragnarok was an acid cosmic road trip extravaganza and it was a blast. Now I want the next Thor to flip the script again.

As to broadening my horizons, I’ve seen almost 3,000 movies. My horizons are not at issue here.

I don’t want them all to be like Cap 1. You’re not getting me. I want them to each be their own individual thing, rather than a big mass of house style designed to cross over. I want stuff as unique as Spider-Man: Life Story, which can’t happen if they all have to be part of some big plan.

Note that I speak of only the films. The shows are a bit more varied.

Eh. Other than FF, which was excellent, I thought that visually and stylistically this year was pretty homogenous. I enjoyed TB well enough, but it was definitely Marvel Suicide Squad with little to distinguish it visually. What I want is stuff like Cap 1, which was a straight up pulp homage.

What if you play AS a case, and the detective has to solve you?

It’s hard to believe this is supposed to depict a real place.

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Story: 90

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: 100
Rental Family: 90
Wicked: For Good: 70
The Accountant 2: 59

The Running Man: 80
Die My Love: 60
Nuremberg: 75
Bugonia: 60

Frankenstein: 100
A House of Dynamite: 90
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere: 84
One Battle After Another: 88

Thunderbolts: 80
Paddington in Peru: 84
The Thursday Murder Club: 50
Caught Stealing: 82

Sketch: 100
Fantastic Four: First Steps: 92
Superman: 90
Materialists: 90

That was a damn fine whodunit, and even managed to be a rare movie that handles religious belief with respect while being neither preachy nor condemning. Josh O’Connor is the standout, but every last cast member brings their A game. Bonus points for using a great Tom Waits song. 10/10.

The Phoenician Scheme: 90
Friendship: 55
Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning: 70
The Legend of Ochi: 88

Sinners: 100
Drop: 60
A Minecraft Movie: 65
The Friend: 100

An ongoing thread of every movie I've seen from 2025, and my rating out of 100 for each.

Death of a Unicorn: 77
Mickey 17: 68
Black Bag: 100
Dog Man: 90

I do give Disney credit for the more appealing parts of the shared universe concept on film. It’s just that at some point it became one-size-fits-all, not unlike the way everything in comics has to lead into an “event” book. What I want is individualistic movies not subject to the next crossover.

My favorite movie for every year of the 1930s:

1930: Animal Crackers
1931: City Lights
1932: Scarface
1933: Duck Soup
1934: The Thin Man
1935: Captain Blood
1936: Modern Times
1937: Make Way For Tomorrow
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: The Four Feathers

I’m unfamiliar with that meaning. In this case, I mean that Marvel is not a little guy that needs a hero.

And btw, First Steps is in my personal top five of 2025 and I own a stupidly huge hardcover of the first 20 issues of FF. I simply recognize that not everything Marvel does is worth praise.

Marvel is not that anymore. Marvel is now the most powerful comic brand on planet earth, and they don’t need fans to play white knight for them.

As to the rest, I in fact refer to the people who found my post about Doomsday and went on ranting attacks. I do differentiate them from more sane fans.

The funny thing about tonight’s brouhaha with MCU fanboys is that, on the same night I posted against Doomsday, I posted in favor of the MCU Spider-Men. Such nuances don’t matter to fanboys, though. You either worship every bit of the thing they serve, or you are the enemy.

Being loyal to any big corporation makes you a sucker. Just because you like Marvel doesn’t mean you have to defend everything they touch, not does it require you to go on the attack against anyone who criticizes them.

Fair. The reality is I think he’s just a raging fanboy, and if he engaged us in good faith, we would do the same. But since he didn’t, I decided to have some fun with him.

Yet here you are, rage-posting me.

What about the “well, you’re wrong and I’m right and I don’t have to explain why” ditch?

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Rewatch to be continued. Off to see Knives Out.

MCU:

First Avenger: pulp comic right out of the Golden Age, complete with reproducing the famous Cap #1 cover.

Ragnarok: acid cosmic road trip

FF: retro-futurism with an intense focus on family dynamics

Outside the MCU, many. The Nolan Batmen and Raimi SM each felt like that person’s work.

Love the first shot of the valley, where he looks back at the snowstorm and is all like hey wtaf

Fantastic Four is one of my 2025 top five movies to date. But by all means, do keep trying.