Barbarian for sure. I’m glad to be lied to periodically.

You’re Next

I just asked what they’d been doing. What value do they have before they’re built off of years later? You say they aren’t shallow or meaningless but it sounds like they’re in a holding pattern, maybe indefinitely.

Where did I imply that there aren’t recurring themes or character beats? And what have they been doing for the last 4 years if “similar driving forces” haven’t materialized in any meaningful way yet?

Can you give me an example of the sort of thing I’m missing out on if I saw Eternals but didn’t see Black Widow?

No need to be defensive. To say that a person needs to be paying special attention to the continuity of this very long series of movies or they “won’t get anything out of them” is to say that there is something complicated about the way they tell their stories. It also isn’t an argument against the notion that they’re shallow.

Complicated plotting doesn’t preclude something from being shallow.

This is a post from 2011.