Hello everyone, welcome to Slash Film Daily for Thursday, June 17, 2021.

On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news.

My name is Ben Pearson, I'm the senior writer for Slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slash Film Writer, White Train Bowie.

Hey everyone.

All right, H.T.

So you're going to join us real quick in the beginning and then Chris and I are going to round

out the rest of this episode.

But I wanted to have you on because you've actually had the chance to see Black Widow.

You are part of the early buzz and you actually wrote an article rounding up all of the early reactions to this

film.

So before you get into everybody else's reaction, what did you think about this new movie from Marvel Studios?

It was a serviceable Marvel movie with some really great bruising action scenes and a great ensemble cast, but mostly

Florence Pugh being the standout character as Yelena and performance in the movie but it was all right.

My first reaction as after I watched it was this should have been a Disney Plus show,

because it has kind of all the makings of it,

of building out the world that Natasha Romanov came from and the family from which she came from that kind of weird twisted family and I felt like it's it was trying so hard to be the born identity and ended up being born legacy in a way that

Sheres a lot more similarities to plot-wise as well. There's a whole plot that is very very similar to the Kemm storyline in Born Legacy, but yeah, it's just a it feels like a movie that came too little too late because it takes place during the events or after the events of

Captain America Civil War and before Avengers infinity war and it feels like the you know we know where black widow goes and what happens to her that

just kind of he's like what what is the point of all of this that's what I was

going to ask you is like the you know as you mentioned the she dies in

Avengers end game everybody should know that at this point so I don't feel bad about

spoiling that for anybody but so yeah I was gonna that was my question like do you think this this movie justified itself?

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