Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this skin, but, since it's using the Overwatch 1 (or currently Overwatch Classic) design as a base, I was curious to see how it would look if it was the Overwatch 2 (or... currently just Overwatch) design instead.
After Tony sees Peter's photo in Endgame and invents time travel, he remembers Harley, he realizes that even if the mission is a success, he might not make it and the world is gonna need another Iron Man, so he invents something that's gonna help with that.
Cuts to the funeral, Harley is there, after it's all over and he wants to go home, Pepper stops him and says Tony wanted him to have this and gives him a slim USB. Harley puts it into the computer at his lab and inside he finds the blueprints of an armor as well as every information he needs to get it to work properly. After a montage of trial and error, he builds the armor, takes in on a test ride and comes up with the name Iron Lad.
In this timeline Riri Williams doesn't get out of the elevator and she is knocked unconscious by the gas and is considered missing.
Iron Lad's first mission is figuring out the case of missing people and then he has other adventures where he fights Ezekiel Stane and later even Mandarin and stuff.
After watching the trailers, I thought it's gonna be a movie with a different vibe than M3GAN and... it was, other than the killer robot trope, the tone is different, the characters have different personalities than the ones from M3GAN and overall, it's not that similar, however, I couldn't help but notice that some scenes or plot points are similar, maybe more than they should be, but at the same time, they are done... better, honestly?
For example, both M3GAN and Sara dance and sing, but for M3GAN, that's just a part of her programming and she showcases it, while Sara has the whole scene where she does it for the first time and it fits and feels less random (not that it was all that random and unexpected in M3GAN, but it feels a bit more natural here, with a better flow).
Not to mention the more mature and yet similar themes and messages, just like M3GAN was about how AI can influence kids, SOULM8TE is about AI influencing adults or seemingly solving their problems (and I like that it's a nice evolution).
That got me thinking, I wonder if SOULM8TE is an attempt at a remake, while still letting the M3GAN movies be made (after all, the third film is not off the table). The first film was a horror and it made M3GAN iconic, the second film went full action and while it was pretty good on its own, it's not comparable to the first one and it disappointed everyone who wanted M3GAN to become a long running horror franchise, the third film (if it happens) can put the franchise back on the horror track, but for now, I think they decided to play it safe and in case of SOULM8TE they simply decided "let's do the first M3GAN film again" but without straight up remaking it.
I mean, come on, people got genuinely mad about it, thinking it's bad just because of the wacky humor and the cast, with so many people analyzing everything the film "fails" at...
and I find it really funny, because I bet those people put more thought into it, than the writers of the movie, in a bad way.
The movie, was nothing more than a film made purely for enjoyment, it's very clear from the start and it's later reinforced with scenes like Malgosha dancing and having a typical generic backstory just so she has a backstory.
It is a turn your brain off film, where you follow the story that's there just so the film has a story and you laugh at the jokes and comedic scenes and there's nothing wrong with that, the film wasn't made to tell a compelling story, to change the world of cinema, it was made simply as a way to have a good time while watching it, some could say that the Minecraft brand "deserved better" but if Mojang was okay with that and this is what the director wanted to make, then I don't see a problem.
I find it kinda cringe how serious some people were about the film, dissecting every scene it had, while the movie isn't even taking itself seriously.