Hobie, the Spider-Punk, struck an especially delicate balance as a corporate franchise character whose actions and motivations all made sense coming from an anarchist punk. …No, thinking back, I’ll say that the writers did work to make Miles and Gwen a bit more individual and lived-in than that analogy suggests and the plethora of Spiderpeople (and Spider-Cat!) was full of both fun visual gags and delightful characters. Main characters are appealing, I mean it’s Spider-Man, when you buy a Snickers bar you expect it to taste how a Snickers bar does and you like it. Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse: Thrillingly inventive visuals, an absolute can’t-miss movie in spite of having imho (imho!!!) not much to say and insisting on saying it anyway. In a better world, a very different political movement would have adopted the slogan, Deplorable Lives Matter. There’s a kind of disrespectability politics here, or “participatory democracy is for jackasses too!”, and I loved that, as a jackass. (Spoilers for that thing where Yo-Yo tried to tip off the Washington Post, I guess.) Their only allies are sketchy people: sometimes brave people, in one case a very smart person, but people who have never “beaten the odds” or even risen to the occasion. But Tyrone‘s world seemed so much bigger–and it’s important that our heroes don’t use elite institutional power at any point. That show has some striking similarities with Tyrone in everything from specific cultural references to broad themes: is success different from liberation, if you join ’em does that mean you’ve beaten ’em, etc. Is it saying something, not just mouthing Twitter-revolutionary platitudes but trying to say something raw and real? Yes.Īnd it’s interesting, too… I watched some screeners for an upcoming series, which I can’t review yet. Like okay, is it fully thought-through? It is not. This movie isn’t as surreal and individual as, say, Sorry to Bother You–it’s a commercial product–but it doesn’t feel sanded-down. We will then contact you with the appropriate action.There are a couple hard-hitting plot twists for me, the most powerful one is the one about personal guilt, when they figure out how the cloners are picking who to clone.
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