Seth & the Film Scene

“You may be Captain America, but you’re not Steve Rogers.” Do you remember Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk from seventeen years ago? Do you remember Chloé Zhao’s empty, dreary Eternals from 2021 that got immediately upstaged by Marvel’s  second-biggest hit ever a month later? Did you happen to catch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+ when the service first came out after COVID? Well, Marvel Studios is really banking on the fact that you care about, let alone watched, two of its least commercially and critically successful films and one of its early streaming miniseries for you to even begin to invest in, or even follow, its latest convoluted and misguided poor excuse for a movie. Don’t let the “Captain America” in the title fool you: Julius Onah’s excruciating Brave New World is a far cry from the heart-filled, Chris Evens-led films of the 2020s. What was once one of the most reliable sub-brands of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s arsenal of interconnected s...