It's Good, Except It Sucks

A movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

New! It was so good - and so unnervingly prescient - that all of the critics moaning about 'superhero fatigue' seem to have forgotten to mention it. Miriam Kent joins me for a chat about Daredevil: Born Again!

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[Tim Worthington @outonbluesix]

Out Today!

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Joanne Sheppard joins me for a chat about Deadpool And Wolverine, which starts as a profound discussion about rehabilitating less successful films but then just turns into a race to see who can get 'cancelled' first...

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[Tim Worthington @outonbluesix]

Why do we all love Loki? Or is that just what he *wants* us to think?

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Joanne joins me for a look at all three hours of Avengers: Endgame - and this time, there are two more characters she's never heard of to throw into the equation. Oh and Tilda Swinton Being Weird...

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

It's the only superhero movie that has genuinely had me looking at my watch - about twenty seconds in - and now James Cooray Smith has braved it too... is there *anything* we can salvage from the tangle of Madame Web?

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Here's a chat I had with Mic Wright about the to say the least roundly disliked 2015 attempt at a Fantastic Four movie, or as they had it 'Fant4stic'. Which it wasn't, but could we find *anything* positive to say about it? You might be surprised...

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[Tim Worthington @outonbluesix]

Al Kennedy joins me for a chat about the third and final series of What If...?. Well in this Multiverse anyway. What did we like, what didn't we like, how does it measure up to X-Men '97 and why are we so fixated on Sugar Puffs??

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Despite what the critics had to say, a LOT of fans of Eddie Brock and Venom packed out cinemas for Venom: The Last Dance. David Smith has never seen any of the other Venom movies, though... so how did he find it??

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

When you've made one movie with well-loved characters and not really got them right, what's the obvious move for the sequel? Turn their biggest enemy into a cloud, apparently. Here's me and Garry Abbott on Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer.

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[Tim Worthington @outonbluesix]

Gary Bainbridge joins me for a chat about Captain America: Brave New World. It's got unsubtle satire, a plot callback to a box office bomb and one very inconsistent character, and we loved it but aren't sure *why*...

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Thor: Ragnarok is absolutely *brilliant* and one of the best Marvel movies full stop, but did it set the bar so high that audience expectations are now unreasonably high because of it? It's a difficult question, but we had a go at answering it in this...

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever isn't an easy movie to discuss. It didn't quite do what it set out to do, but given the circumstances, do you really want to sound like you're criticising it? Well me and David Smith had a go. And mentioned cake a lot??

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 was certainly popular when it came out, but it's difficult to shake the feeling that - unlike the earlier two - it has sort of dropped off the radar a little since then. It's very good, but was it too much of a good thing?

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[Tim Worthington @outonbluesix]

Give or take the odd daywalking vampire hunter, X-Men was the movie that started it all... and they're on their way back! So how does that first movie hold up now? Garry Abbott joins me to find out...

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Absolutely loved Werewolf By Night and its inspired use of old-skool horror stylings and the sense that what you don't see is scarier than what you do so much that I watched it twice in a row, and here's a chat I had about it afterwards...

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. It's got its problems to say the least, and it's a *massive* comedown after the first two Ant-Man movies, but did it really deserve the kicking it got? Here's some thoughts on just that...

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[Tim Worthington @outonbluesix]

It was absolutely inescapably massive in 1989 - as was Prince's baffling theme single - but how does Tim Burton's Batman hold up now? I joined Still Any Good? to find out...

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[Looks Unfamiliar @looksunfamiliar]

Not so long ago, I tried to get a recommendations-based substack off the ground; it didn't really catch on, but here's my review of a Scarlet Witch collection published to tie in with Agatha All Along...

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[It's Good, Except It Sucks @goodexceptsucks]

Really did have an enormous amount of fun recording this chat about Avengers: Infinity War with Joanne, who had no idea who eighty percent plus of the characters were but did her best to keep up with Hot Cumberbatch and a sort of twig pillow thing.

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[Looks Unfamiliar @looksunfamiliar]

It may not have had Bat-Mite in it, but how does Tim Burton's Batman stand up now?

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