So I watched the movie today, opinions I've seen about it are either "really good" or "really bad", and now I think y'all are liars 'cause the movie is more on the boring side.
I didn't watch WandaVision, I only know of the plot holes the movie has with it from what I was told, but even without keeping it in mind, I don't think Wanda is interesting here, Olsen is a great actress and she does a really good job showing how unhinged and fucked in the head Wanda is, but the character itself is basically just a sentient, talking womb with an evil book, and it's weird how she only foccuses on finding counterparts for her kids, but not Pietro or Vision.
My theory is that the Wanda in the movie is not Wanda, but it's actually her womb that became sentient and humanoid somehow
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Wanda isn't the ony boring character, Strange is pretty whatever for the whole movie, and Chavez, uh, exists.
I'm not expecting super deep characterizations or whatever, but they all felt so one dimensional, basic, whatever.
Illuminati are comic accurate, by being some of the dumbest motherfuckers I've seen, with maybe Xavier being one of the smartest ones, since he tried to fight the seemingly invincible Wanda by going to her mind and trying to rescue the other Wanda, even then, he's still a dumbass because he could've done just that when she was fighting both Captains, and even if that could be considered too pragmatic, when he was on Wanda's mind, when he sensed the main Wanda approach, all he did was wait for her to kill him, didn't even try to fight her back.
Obviously the dumbest one is Reed, telling Wanda what Black Bolt does is questionable even if he doesn't know that Wanda could counter him, which fine, even a genius can make a silly mistake, but then he thinks it's a great idea to try to attack Wanda by himself, the same Wanda who was beating up a bunch of Ultrons and just killed Black Bolt lol.
To make Reed even worse, the acting from Krasinki felt, whatever, in every scene he looked like he was about to cry too.
Mordo is also a dumbass since he decided to kill main Strange, he decided to use a sword instead of a Sorcerer Supreme's seemingly infinite amount of spells, like ****, I've seen people complaining about how Spidey defeated Strange in Spidey Home 3, but this is even dumber lol.
The Captains were alright, I do find it questionable that Wanda seemed to find a way to turn off Captain Marvel's powers though, not sure she should be able to mess with an alternate power source without explanation, and this movie does at least say that there are different kinds of magic, and Maria's power is not magic, if magic has poorly defined limits, then Wanda's excuse of "What if muh kids get sick?" sounds even more questionable than it already is lol.
It's also weird that the movie makes it a point about how corrupting and dangerous Darkhold is, Wanda and two alternate Stranges become evil because of it, and then, main Strange gets it, and he's fine, which the very last scene makes it look like he was gonna get fucked by it afterwards, but then the post credits scene has him seemingly being fine.
Wanda all of a sudden knowing a spell to destroy all Darkholds is a colossal asspull by the way lol.
Wong is a waste of slot and I don't even know why he's in the movie, or why he's Sorcerer Supreme.
Strange's "You could control your power all along" speech to Chaves was also dumb, but I guess she needed some development at the end so she's not just a MacGuffin.
I did like the beginning, the music notes fight, and Strange having an actually smart plan by using his counterpart's corpse, and those spirits pissed off with with Strange for using a corpse were cool too, and again, Olsen's acting is great even if the character is bland, I hope her hands are fine after this, they must've been hurt after carrying the whole movie
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So yeah, I would normally say the movie is more on the boring side, but, it has the least amount of MCU's trademarked, groan inducing shitty quips, so that makes it the best one by default. 10/10.