Hey there, No-Prize Winners and Merry Marvel Marchers! This week’s entry in “Tops and Bottoms” [pause for Mike to stop giggling for some reason] is the biggest earner of 2018 and it’s the penultimate Avengers movie of Marvel’s Phase 3, Ephesians 7, Jackson 5, or whatever it was and it made a barge-load of ducats when it came out, and why wouldn’t it? I mean, you’ve got Doc Bruce Banner it, and while as the Hulk he may be un-glamor-rays, still he’s apparently loveable! You’ve got Captain America throwing his mighty shield! And what happens to those who chose to oppose his shield? Why, they must surely yield! And here’s Tony Stark who may make you feel he’s a cool exec with a heart of steel, as Iron Man, with jets ablaze, he fights and smites with repulsor rays! He does! I have it on the best authority! Plus, you’ll behold in breathless wonder the God of Thunder, Mighty Thor (that’s a deeper). There’s even some guy in this movie who does whatever a spider can! And so many other superheroes who were never lucky enough to get their own 60’s theme songs, poor devils. Black Panther needs a theme song, dammit! So how does this box office juggernaut (wait, he’s in another franchise, right? Maybe two?) hold up after the better part of a decade? Give a listen to Mulching Max Levine and Macerating Mike Luce to find out! Expeliarmus! I mean, Excelsior!
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This is a little obscure now but the 2012 film Chronicle by first-time director Josh Trank is a superhero film that went in the direction I was looking for. The premise is as unrealistic as most superhero films but the consequences of three teens, one of them with serious issues, give the film a layer of believability lacking in big-budget films. The effects are good and sparinging used and I liked the smaller scale of it and thinking about what might actually happen if some random people, especially kids, were to get superpowers.
I thought “Chronicle” was really cool and and unique! I thought the various characters’ reactions to these sudden powers were pretty believable. Thanks, Vince!