Ah well hype'll do that. I had no expectations until I heard it was coming out this week and it was supposed to be alright. It was fairly anti-America, pretty funny, and certainly didn't feel like most superhero movies. But I never cared about the characters nearly as much as GotG.
Also I liked Starro's design a lot.
in the end, only one surviving team member is American and she is literally called "a symbol of anti-Americanism"; I have no idea how they arrived at that interpretation
When you're writing scripts with an AI fed scripts from previous movies and viewer reaction scores for each scene...
That's hopeful then, I'm sure I'll watch it in a few years after it quietly pops up on some streaming service.
I kept hearing it was painting US imperialism in a good light. After watching it, I'd say it really doesn't do that. If anything it kinda goes out of its way to ask the audience to really question the whole US interventionism and 'peace making'. The end is still quite lib with the surviving squad using the 'truth' as a bargaining chip that never gets made public. There's certainly some shades of sympathy for Snowden and other whistle blowers, but the film certainly didn't care to make too full-throated of a statement on that.
I was actually surprised how much effort in the narrative was made to keep it from being chud-coddling cape shit. Not quite The Boys level of introspection, but definitely nodding in that direction imo.
