
Why You Ran Out of Whelms for … Thunderbolts*
Feeling whelmed by the MCU lately? Not overwhelmed, not underwhelmed… just… whelmed. Thunderbolts was meant to be the cure: a gritty, street-level story about tarnished heroes. We were promised steak, but we got another giant swirl of cinematic candy floss—all air and sugary spectacle, leaving you with nothing but ennui.
This film had the perfect ingredients for a grounded character study, but instead, it trips over the same creative fatigue that plagues the franchise. In this post, I analyse how a film with so much potential manages to squander absolutely all of it. Read More …