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Monster Hunter (2020)
Let a fan make the movie next time!
You can summarize what's wrong with this movie in one word: Tone.
Monster Hunter is first and foremost a colorful and joyful game. In the game's overall story, massive communities of hunters all over the world thrive on the monster hunting profession. When they go on a hunt, they live for the excitement it gives them. They'd gladly rush a monster head-on because that's just what their culture is all about. When it comes down to it, Monster Hunter is supposed to be a somewhat light-hearted but exciting joyride.
The movie treats it like it's a dead world with people struggling to survive, dying left and right, depressed and on edge. Almost as if it's some kind of apocalyptic future. How can you call it a Monster Hunter movie if you can't even get the tone right? It's the most important ingredient of any movie adaptation. It is very obvious that Paul W. S. Anderson had no idea what he was making a movie about.
Out of all the things that bothered me, that's probably what ties all of its problems together. It was written, directed, and performed like it was just another Resident Evil movie.
The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021)
Insulting!
Once more, David Silverman proves he's not a human being. They saw something popular (In this case, Loki) and assumed that if they simply shoved a bunch of Simpsons characters into their costumes, it would automatically be popular as well.
The humor is not funny. The jokes are not clever. The writers have clearly never seen one of the MCU movies, or didn't care enough to make a worthwhile parody. If the creators of this project had any respect for themselves, they would've been able to make a full-length episode with clever jokes and references that put a smile on your face, instead of a 3-minute short with an extremely dated form of comedy and references that don't even make sense.
It is an insult. Not only to fans of Marvel, but also to its creators, and everyone who worked hard on the cinematic adaptations. The Simpsons have long been a tired, old, and exhausted franchise, and this proves it once again.