Joelle Monique

And I just felt like...

Our female characters were kind of stuck.

They were given some interesting starting places and then nowhere to go with that.

And all of their challenges felt superficial.

There's a human element of fear that is essential to noir.

Of like, I don't know what's going to happen.

I'm scared for my life.

I'm scared for my compatriots.

I'm scared.

I'm scared for my country.

Like you need that level of fear running throughout and it's got to be clear for every character.

You're just missing the fear.

And so all of that like suspense and grittiness and build that you love when you're watching a noir is just gone.

It's difficult.

I, again, had fun moments watching it.

There are certain scenes that work.

There's some good fight stuff that happens where I was like, oh, that's kind of impressive.

I thought, oh my gosh, the spider noir costume is great.

brand it's good so good and we know we've seen some bad costumes yeah in our time watching the superhero stuff so i was like pleasantly impressed i feel like people came i just wish ah man i really wish we had tightened up on like the noir centric element and maybe that's our fault maybe as noir lovers and filmmakers we shouldn't have been anticipating that from like a spider-man thing but i think coming off of the spider-verse movies and the quality that was there

I think we're all kind of hoping for that same kind of emotional resonance here.