Black Widow could have been great and relevant to today's world.
I think about this at least once a month, I don't know why because Black Widow is not the movie id redo if I had the chance in the MCU. The theme of the opening credits of Black Widow gave the impression we were going to get a story more compelling and interesting than what we were given.
Ignore the fact the movie should have come out before endgame, the theme of the opening credits were my favorite out of all MCU movies. It was powerful as it looked like the story would revolve around child trafficking as we saw young girls getting pushed into shipping containers. When I first was watching it in theaters, I was beyond excited that the MCU was was going to delve into a real world problem.
The movie should have been about Natasha hunting a cell of child trafficking for the Red Room leading her to the discovery of its location that was not an invisible flying CGI mess. There could have been flashbacks that unlocked supressed trauma she had forgotten from her childhood as she saved captured girls. Budapest should have been addressed as the time she met Clint while she was out on a Red Room mission and Hawkeye stopped her from carrying out an abduction and getting her out from the Red Rooms control.
Instead we got mind control pigs, a joke for Task Master, and the worst final battle sequence in the MCU.
That's my rant. Carry on with your day.
Ignore the fact the movie should have come out before endgame, the theme of the opening credits were my favorite out of all MCU movies. It was powerful as it looked like the story would revolve around child trafficking as we saw young girls getting pushed into shipping containers. When I first was watching it in theaters, I was beyond excited that the MCU was was going to delve into a real world problem.
The movie should have been about Natasha hunting a cell of child trafficking for the Red Room leading her to the discovery of its location that was not an invisible flying CGI mess. There could have been flashbacks that unlocked supressed trauma she had forgotten from her childhood as she saved captured girls. Budapest should have been addressed as the time she met Clint while she was out on a Red Room mission and Hawkeye stopped her from carrying out an abduction and getting her out from the Red Rooms control.
Instead we got mind control pigs, a joke for Task Master, and the worst final battle sequence in the MCU.
That's my rant. Carry on with your day.
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For my viewpoint, it filled itself with too many things that it just turned into a jumbled plot in the end. (The Red Room, the Widows themselves, the mind control, the family dynamic, Taskmaster, Ross)
When I sleep, I dream of what could have been.
A movie about the evils of human and sex trafficking is not Marvel brand.
And the movie was great.
That being said, Thunderbolts elevated the movie for me. I really like it a lot now, framing it as a prequel for Thunderbolts.
Plus the family and especially Yelena. I also enjoyed Taskmaster even though it was a miss. (I prefer the more comic accurate character too)
Solid film and story
But it was not the original end. Actors have mentioned it was completely changed during shooting and I wonder what the original was. Maybe more grounded? Of course it could also have been not very good which is why they changed it.
There are also parallels between him and High Evolutionary, with the difference that the former experimented on human women, and the latter experimented on animals.
The characters were, honestly, an amazing couple in the comics. And while I liked the idea of Widow and Banner making nice, it just doesn't quite fit as well. Considering how Bucky and her share so much, as far as their past, being used by shadow groups, and loss - it's a better fit.
But the fighting was meh. The third act was meh. Taskmaster was meh.