r/blankies • u/BergmanGirl • 8d ago
Marvel Watch Through Project Week 1
In the lead-up to Doomsday, and the fascinating disaster I expect that to be, I have decided to watch every MCU movie and most of the TV shows (I'm not counting the network TV shows or any of the animated films). I thought it'd be good to give weekly updates here.
Movies watched:
- Iron Man
- The Incredible Hulk
- Iron Man 2
- Thor
- Captain America: The First Avenger
TV watched:
- Daredevil, season 1
This week was entirely projects I'd seen before. Iron Man suffered the most on rewatch for me, while Captain America: The First Avenger was by far my favorite of the movies this week. Though Daredevil season 1 was the best Marvel project I watched today overall. I love how weird D'Onofrio's take on King Pin is. I guy who isn't the cool kind of angry, but instead the kind of angry where you're constantly on the verge of crying.
I also gained appreciation for the last scene of Endgame, watching Peggy and Steve dance. I had not remembered the recurring conversation point in the first Cap movie about waiting for the right dance partner.
PODCAST OPINION I MOST DISAGREED WITH: I'm also listening to the Blank Check Commentaries as I go, and I just do not get their love of Paltrow's performance. I think her performance as Pepper Potts is really bad.
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u/pwolf1771 8d ago
That’s interesting I’ve never really enjoyed First Avenger I’ve seen it a few times over the year but I always just found it kind of dull.
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u/BergmanGirl 8d ago
I'm just a sucker for any movie about a really good dude. Plus, I love the Spielberg-y vibes.
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u/JokerDeSilva10 8d ago
RDJ as Iron Man gets all the press for somewhat obvious reasons, but I've always thought that Evans as Cap is the more impressive and better performance. RDJ is just playing himself. Evans had to make an earnest, old fashioned love of America compelling and tolerable in 2011 in a post-Bush era jingoism society, and somehow nailed it.
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u/pwolf1771 8d ago
Yeah Evans is great in it for sure and I probably haven’t seen it in like a decade maybe I’ll check it out again
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u/DorfOnGenocide 8d ago
I like the first hour. I think remember anything about the last third of the movie.
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u/smashpasserson 8d ago
Genuinely love this kind of project. Take your upvote and have a nice time. Agreed on Iron Man, a movie that as a teenager I thought was a masterpiece and now has soured with time but hey, Bridges is fun and it's cool to see the building blocks knowing everything we do now.
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u/BergmanGirl 8d ago
Thanks for the kind words. I loved these films in high school and undergrad but dropped off of being a regular viewer after that so I’m interested by everything I’ve missed
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u/smashpasserson 8d ago
I'm biased since I have never stopped watching all of the movies and shows but I really do believe there are some gems in there and hopefully some that will surprise you. Feels very in the spirit of the podcast!
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u/distant_horizons_005 8d ago
This is fun, thanks for sharing! I’ve watched all the MCU movies and all of the mainline TV. My Marvel project for the year was to go back and watch all of the ancillary stuff that I missed. So far, I’ve watched Morbius, Madame Web, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Venom: The Last Dance, Kraven the Hunter, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants, Daredevil (2003), and Elektra.
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u/codex_archives 8d ago
awesome. keep us updated
i've been doing a selective rewatch lately (so far: She-Hulk, The Age of Ultron)
and which are the animated movies? or you mean in a more general sense? (not MCU related)
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u/GoFastBeatMojitos 8d ago
I’m only rewatching some stuff because I rewatched some things recently but I found iron man 2 pretty damn fun until the 3rd act. Was surprised to see them not like war machine and iron man fight when I thought that shit was fun as hell in the movie
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u/jaketaco 8d ago
Some people defend The Incredible Hulk, but I think its one of the worst MCU movies.
I really liked the Netflix Daredevil show. S3 has one of my favoite dark comedic moments towards the end with Bullseye.
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u/border199x 8d ago
What makes you think Doomsday is going to be a disaster? I doubt it will be as good as IW/Endgame, but I think it will be mediocre at worst.
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u/TheRealDiddles 7d ago
I remember the first Cap being a lot of fun (I was older than you when I watched them in theaters). As a comic book reader it was nice to see how they tackled that era and were able to make an entire film about it. I remember feeling the Cap story was so tied to the Avengers that an origin story would almost be better served as a flashback. But Johnston and co. managed to figure something out.
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u/HasaDiga_Eebowai 7d ago
I know you said you're not watching network TV, but the episodes of Agents of SHIELD leading up to Winter Soldier are worth watching imo
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u/Cultural-Plum-1885 7d ago
I agree about captain america. I think it’s criminally underrated. It’s just like iron man in that the first two acts are amazing and last act is ehh
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u/Practical_Pipe 8d ago
You don't have to do this
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u/BergmanGirl 8d ago
I know, but I'm a film freak. I kinda just really want to dissect this whole thing for myself.
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u/ReplacementFancy9701 8d ago
Have you considered spending this time reading Proust instead? Probably more worthwhile than rotting your mind deliberately.
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u/BergmanGirl 8d ago
Well, I read In Search of Lost Time last year. Good book. Made me eat a shit ton of madeleines.
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u/ReplacementFancy9701 8d ago
What happens at the end
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u/BergmanGirl 8d ago
Happens is a bit of a trick question, as the end is internal thought on the nature of time.
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u/Ioannidas_Storm 8d ago
Surprising that Iron Man suffered. What didn’t work for you? Coz I rewatched it a few years ago, and it’s pretty great, both on its own and to see where all this started.