Sentences with phrase «more superhero origin story»

There is no other correct answer for who should be getting the most votes, because what Harper has done over the past month or so is more superhero origin story than it is baseball.

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Even «Iron Man» (which stuck Robert Downey, Jr. in a cave for 45 minutes) was a superhero origin story with WAY more action.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

Like pretty much any superhero origin story, the setup was better than the payoff, which, like far too many movies about the origin of a superhero, pitted the newly formed hero against a generic villain with an even more generic plan, as if that's some kind of required challenge for these heroes to have to face each and every time — even if we're just getting to know them.

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

While this is yet another superhero origin story, Wonder Woman's conviction keeps its more common beats alive.

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

The first Deadpool was mostly very good, but veered perhaps a bit too close to the superhero conventions it was parodying by boiling the plot down to an archetypical hero origin story, except with more dick jokes.

This film is a superhero origin story and even though there is potential with these characters and this world to do many more stories, they really wanted to put everything into this movie without thinking about possible future films.

Additionally, the idea to tell the superhero origin story from the villain's point of view is pretty ingenious, particularly because his fall from grace is a lot more complex than the typical hero's tale.

More of a «coming of age» story than a superhero origin story per se, Black Panther is the most freestanding Marvel film since Iron Man.