“Thunderbolts*” is arguably the biggest Marvel surprise of many years and a hilarious team-up film that has never been seen since the “Guardians of the Galaxy” film, a mature film with a fierce emotional gut punch.
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Also, what’s very important about connecting different parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe together is the rare Marvel movie. Once Marvel’s pride and joy was a bug in the past few years, having an interconnected universe. The moment I started a Marvel TV show, the film got in the way to avoid mentioning not alienating audiences who don’t watch Disney+.
Still, “Thunderbolts*” is about characters from a variety of Marvel movies that are as popular as “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” and, like “Black Widow,” they come together to form a team. There are also references to the larger MCU, including television shows. This is like a reminder of when the new Captain America used his shield to kill a man in “Falcon and the Winter Soldier.”
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The film also features a blink of an updated Marvel movie and a reference to You-Miss-It. That’s right, we nod to “Captain America: Brave New World” and to both the President’s Red Hulk and the short shot of the damage caused by Harrison Ford’s infuriated President Thaddeus Ross.
Washington monuments are not enough
In the film’s first act, there is a short shot of Washington, DC, in the lead-up to Julia Louis Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine’s Congressional hearing. This shot contains several frames indicating that the Washington monument in the background is being repaired due to heavy damage. Of course, that damage occurred during the battle between Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackey) and the Red Hulk, the latter climbing by jumping on top of the monument and ripping it apart.
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“Thunderbolts*” shows the monument being repaired. This makes sense and is a normal, wise response to the destruction of important American monuments. Still, it raises some questions. First of all, why don’t you see the White House in the film for a while to see how it was destroyed by the Red Hulk? Most importantly, why is the Washington monument being repaired again? We saw the same monument being nearly destroyed by Peter Parker accidentally bringing a volatile energy core within the monument. Certainly, it was almost ten years since the era of the film within that film, but is it often the taxpayers intend to pay to repair the monument before the government decides it is sufficient and just resting?
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