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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier – Ep 1 Review | Spoiler FREE
This review will be spoiler-free and will not go into any detail about plot or story points.
As soon as one exciting Marvel show ends, we’re treated to another as The Falcon and The Winter Soldier soars onto our screens. The two shows are completely different, but it looks like TFATWS is shaping up to be another great show.
I’m not going to divulge any details about the plot or the story as I’d like to try and keep this as spoiler-free as possible so that you can go into the show blind so some of this might seem a bit vague. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has that MCU feel that the first few episodes of WandaVision didn’t but at the same time there’s more worldbuilding going on and it does feel much more intimate and personal than lots of the films and yet it still has lots of ties and references to the wider MCU. It manages to feel familiar, but it also expands into new territory as we’re seeing a different side to these heroes. We’ve seen them in end-of-the-world situations before but no we’re seeing what their families are like or what it’s like for them when they’re not out there saving the world.
The show opens with an extraordinary action set piece that just feels bright and exciting and entertaining. It does feel like a lot of the other MCU action scenes, but it also does feel a bit more gritty- well as gritty as a show about a guy in a flying bird suit can get. This immediately throws you right into the show and gets you fully on board and makes you feel like it was only yesterday that we saw The Winter Soldier or Civil War for the first time.
But as well as the action scenes, the show is character focused and spends a lot of time with our two main characters and seeing how they’re adapting to a post-Avengers: Endgame world. But the show also focusses on how Sam and Bucky, as well as the rest of the world, are reacting to a world without Captain America. At the end of Endgame we saw Cap hand his shield to Sam and now we see what happens to the world, and what happens to America, now that they no longer have a national hero and we get to see everyone’s response to this and it’s really fascinating and it’s exciting to see where the show goes next with this.
Much like WandaVision the show ends with something big drawing you in and making you even more excited for next week and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has definitely set itself up well for the coming weeks and I can’t wait to see where it goes next. The episode ends with something really big that looks set to shake things up for the rest of the series and quite possibly for the rest of the MCU.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier premieres on Disney+ on Friday March 19.
Comic Book Movies
The Flash | Official Trailer
Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release Date:
June 16, 2023
Director:
Andy Muschietti
Cast:
Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon
Plot Summary:
Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.
Comic Book Movies
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | New Trailer
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own – a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release Date:
May 5, 2023
Director:
James Gunn
Cast:
Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista
Plot Summary:
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own – a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
James Gunn’s DCU lineup has been revealed. Gunn says his new direction for the DCU will be an eight to ten year process of films and animation, that will all tie in together. Even using the same voice actors for animation in the live-action versions of the characters.
“One of our strategies is that we take our diamond characters — Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman– and we use that to help prop up other characters that people don’t know. Like what happened with the Guardians (of the Galaxy) in some way. Like taking teams like The Authority, which is I know is just as spectacular idea for a film that is completely different take on superheroes. Because it’s really connected to Superman. It’s about to use those well-known properties to help lead into lesser known properties.”
“We’re going to promise that everything from our first project forward is going to be unified. But we’ve gotten very lucky for the next four projects. I will say here that Flash is probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made.”
Creature Commandos — will be an animated tv series: “Animation will lead into live action and back into animation. It’s a way to tell stories that are gigantic and huge without spending $50M an episode.” Says Gunn.
Waller — Will be an HBO Max Live-Action Series
Suicide Squad, Viola Davis [Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures]
Lanterns — HBO Max live action series. “Our vision for this is True Detective. It’s terrestrial-based, it’s got two of our favorite Green Lanterns –Hal Jordan and John
Stewart…it plays a really big role in the main story that we’re telling across our film and Television. This is a very important show for us.”
The Authority — “There’s great wildstorm characters that were popular for a long-time and we’re incorporating them into the DCU,”
Paradise Lost — HBO Max live action series. “It’s going to be a Games of Thrones-ish story about Themyscira, the home of the Amazons and the birthplace of Wonder Woman. This drama is really about the political intrigue behind the society of all women. How did that come about? What’s the beautiful truths and the ugly truths behind all of that and what’s the scheming like between all the power players in that society?” The series will take place before the birth of Diana
The Brave and the Bold — This story will be Gunn’s Batman outside of Matt Reeves story. “who is a little son of a bitch assassin, murderer who Batman takes on, who is Batman’s actual son that he doesn’t know exists for the first 8-10 years of his life….it’s a strange father and son story about the two of them and based on Grant Morrison’s run of the Batman.”
Booster Gold — HBO Max TV series is about a loser from the future, who uses future technology to come back to today, and pretend to be a superhero. “Imposter syndrome as a superhero,”
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow “In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl. She’s much more hardcore, she’s not exactly the Supergirl we’re use to seeing.”
Swamp Thing: — Will be a dark horror take on the character, that will tie in to the rest of the DCU
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