@jordyepp you are not wrong, accent, bad acting, shooting irritated me too.
But!
F. EVERYTHING
KINGPIN IS BACK
@hamadam :laughing:. To be fair, I’m also a massive fan of the Daredevil show :wink:. It’s to the show’s credit that it gets people so excited.
@jordyep Agree with everything besides Russian accent. I mean her actual Russian is godawful. Trust me, it's on point. Even words choice mostly works.
"Bros" on the other hand are pretty unforgivable.
@jordyep I agree with your points. MCU movies would win Oscars if they shot their films with more thought and wrote their stories with less fear to go to darker places.
@jordyep I thought her accent was really good. One of my favourite things about her character is the accent and line deliver
Review by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2021-12-15T10:20:37Z
Recently, I read this interview with Kevin Feige where he said that the Academy Awards have a bias against Marvel movies.
If you ever wonder why that is, look no further than the first 20 minutes of this episode.
You get this long 10 minute scene between Pugh and Steinfeld which hits a lot of important emotional beats for the plot, and the writing is actually not too bad.
Sure you have Pugh doing that awful Russian accent again, and Hailee Steinfeld’s making weird faces as if she’s Kate McKinnon in an SNL skit, but that’s besides the point.
Look specifically at how they shoot it.
Besides the bland looking apartment, you cannot shoot such an important and lengthy scene doing nothing besides shots and reverse shots and then expect to get an Oscar (or in this case Emmy) for it.
It is literally the laziest and most uninspired way to approach a scene like that.
So, what do they do to mask the poor filmmaking and weak story choices (because let’s face it, Marvel has once again put out something with a messy and unfocussed plot)?
Just take a quick look at some of the other comments, and you’ll get the idea.
It’s like they’re dangling a ball in front of a cat, and it’s kinda embarrassing to see how effective that is.