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It's Thursday, it's November, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness,
right here on Dora Reads!
Film Trailers
The marketing machine for Marvel's The Eternals is up and sprinting.
So I figured I'd just show you my fave of the recent trailers - a clip where
The Eternals go to retrieve one of their number from his job as a leading
Bollywood actor.
Enjoy!
Warning: very mild flashing images
OK *deep breaths* - the new Morbius trailer. Whew.
Michael Morbius has been one of my favourite Spider-Man villains (the other
being Venom, ofc,) since I was a kid watching Spidey cartoons.
Morbius is the quintessential tortured, sympathetic, villain - in an attempt
to save his own life, he accidentally turns himself into a living vampire (not
to be confused with the various types of other vampire faffing around Marvel
comics.)
He doesn't want to hurt people - that was never the intention. But now there's
something in him that wants nothing more than to kill, to drink blood in order
to sustain himself. And that conflict is tearing him apart.
I loved the first trailer for this film.
This trailer? It was OK.
But it wasn't everything I'd hoped for (maybe because they were so busy
cramming references in - which, I love a good Spidey reference, but they don't
have to be in the trailer, Sony.)
I think Jared Leto, problematic though he is, is a good actor, and can
potentially get to the heart of Morbius - but I am concerned, not least
because of the potential for Ableism in some of the framing here.
Some of it came across like, 'yeah, but he looked gross before and now he has
abs!' and... I'm hoping this is just a trailer thing, Sony, because
it's not a good look (socially/representaionally speaking - aesthetically it's
still Jared Leto with abs.)
Still, I'm cautiously optimistic for the final film.
We got Clint being the closest to comics!Clint we've seen in the MCU so far.
We got Christmas. We got Kate Bishop being awesome. We got Lucky the pizza
dog!!!
*Sighs happily* So. Awesome.
Warning: major flashing images, general violence, injury
And to end on even more shameless self-promo (sorry!) you can
catch up on all of my Dora Reads blogposts from October, including the
superhero-related ones,
with my monthly wrap-up post here
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