Mike Flanagan"s Madame Web Review Is The Funniest Part Of Marvel"s Weirdest Release In Years

Summary

• Mike Flanagan's review of Madame Web on Letterboxd mimics an iconic AMC ad campaign, showing his disappointment with the film.
• Flanagan's tags on the post reveal his true criticisms of Madame Web, touching on issues like akward exposition and overly convenient set pieces.
• Despite not explicitly stating his thoughts in the body of the review, Flanagan's clever tags give insight into his negative view of the movie.

There have been a lot of negative fan reviews of Madame Web following the Sony and Marvel film's release, but none stand out quite so much as one by filmmaker Mike Flanagan. Flanagan, best known for directing horror films like Hush and creating Netflix series like Midnight Mass, shared his thoughts on Madame Web in a brief review. Strangely, the entire body of the review is a reference to AMC's infamous ad campaign starring Nicole Kidman. However, the tags on the review tell the real story of Flanagan's thoughts on the movie.
Flangan's review can be found on Letterboxd. The main body of the post, a word-for-word recreation of AMC's ad, may not give Flanagan's thoughts on the film but is indicative of the amount of effort he believes Madame Web deserves from him. Flanagan's full post can be read below:

We come to this place… for magic. We come to the theater to laugh, to cry, to care. Because we need that, all of us: that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim, and we go somewhere we've never been before; not just entertained, but somehow reborn.... together. Dazzling images, on a huge silver screen. Sound that I can feel. Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Our heroes feel like the best part of us, and stories feel perfect and powerful. Because here... They are.

Much more telling than this gag are Flanagan's tags on the post, which include exposition to cats, convenient explosives, ADR, terrible nurses, and others alluding to some of the movie's biggest flaws. It says a lot about Madame Web that all it takes is a few words in the tags section for those who saw the movie to immediately know what issues Flanagan is critiquing.
For comparison, the AMC ad can be viewed below:
Related Madame Web Report Reveals A Last-Minute Reason The Marvel Movie's Box Office Was So Low Madame Web has broken negative records for Sony's Spider-Man Universe, and a new report has revealed that a last-minute issue impacted its box office. Source: Letterboxd


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