The way Russia was portrayed in this was suitably weird, and I know Antonia wasn't actually a villain but we need to stop doing the disabled villain thing, Drakov actually saying doesn't she look terrible was so gross, something something I can excuse human trafficking but I draw the line at ableism I hope Florence Pugh actually gets to be in movies and not just Disney Plus that would suck what was weirder young David Harbour having Jeffrey Dahmer glasses and haircut or older David Harbour having Karl Marx knuckle tats the Nirvana cover killed me as much as ScarJo is problematic it sucks that Natasha didn't get a movie until after she died and there were 2 groot and ant man movies, as much as those ruled she was one of the most integral Avengers and never got her due also the opening was just to explain her not having a Russian accent right also loved how they were clearly trying to hide the fact that they're both 5'3" with camera angles
Box Office: Black Widow Collects $80 Million in Theaters, $60 Million on Disney Plus - Variety $30 million of the Disney rev was domestic so roughly $110 million domestic opening weekend.
Saw it last night. Pugh was great, and the best parts of the movie were when they were all performing as a family. But goddamn did it get distracting to me with how little this movie has a moment to breathe. It fee like like ever 7 minutes there is a algorithmically designed action sequence as they hop all over the globe, and there's never a sense of setting or development throughout.
I enjoyed this immensely. The actors were all phenomenal. Florence Pugh in particular just absolutely commanded the screen in a glorious way. Yeah, she has been amazing in a lot of movies in recent years, but this is the first time I've seen her in an action movie like this, and some actors - even very good ones - can get kinda lost in the shuffle in an action movie and end up looking stranded amidst all of the chaos. This was surprisingly funny in a way that felt organic to the story and not like they were just trying to jam a certain number of jokes and one-liners in every few minutes of runtime. The hand-to-hand fighting and the stunt-work in this just felt absolutely brutal and tactile in a way that gets lost in so many modern, CCI-assisted action movies. When Florence Pugh and Scarlet Johansson are fighting inside the apt in Budapest and Florence Pugh kicks her backwards into a doorway - I think I audibly moved out of my seat and let out a "holy fuck" on that one.
Joss has/helped written good screenplays with the cabin in the woods, the first Avengers, Toy Story, all which had decent humor. That’s all Scarlett was saying. She wasn’t defending him as a person lol Twitter needs to calm down geez Louise