The Cinematic Review-verse

Gamora starts off as a lethal weapon. Photo courtesy of Reddit. Then Gamora fooled around and fell in love with Star-Lord. Photo courtesy of Fandom. I enjoy Volume 1 of the  Guardians of the Galaxy films. It's like Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the case of combining action on the job with comic and dramatic elements. Gamora is like Black Widow in that she seems to be a bewitching lethal weapon at first, but she has more human elements than meets the eye.  Nebula got tortured into becoming a cybernetic warrior. Photo courtesy of Comic Basics. By the end of GOTG Vol. 2, she got warrior skills, and a true sister. Photo courtesy of The Mary Sue. The same goes for her sister Nebula and her teammate Rocket Raccoon, in that they both just want to be loved and act all psychotic and macho because no one wants to give them that love, until Peter Quill dances in like Kevin Bacon to stop the bigots with polls up their butts. At first, Rocket Raccoon lived for how much this was gonna hurt. Photo c...

Photo courtesy of MGM. Last night, I saw  Bottoms . There were few enjoyable moments, emphasis on  few , but with all due respect, it just  reminded me of more tired high school drama that I don’t want people to see.  For starters, two high school lesbians, played by Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri, start a fight club just to  hook up with cheerleaders. Havana Rose Liu’s character of Isabel said to Ayo Edebiri’s character of Josie  that she didn’t have to go along with this just to start a relationship with her, and Liu was right. The  whole idea that just because parts of high school don’t think you’re popular and you have to lie and go  to extreme lengths to prove them wrong is not a good message to send to people today.  Mostly because I’m not a fan of hot-tempered vulgar language amongst kids today, fictional or  otherwise, I didn’t find it all very enjoyable. One part I did was when Hazel, played by Ruby Cruz, stuck it  to the m...