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On 30/06/2021 at 00:24, tristy said:
Me, personally? I'm fine if it goes "full Marvel", because I'm watching a Marvel movie. I'm not expecting Coppola-level stuff here.
I don't think "full Marvel" is necessarily an arbiter of the film's quality, just that the final act of a lot of Marvel films tend to end up exactly the same way - a big CGI fight scene with two people either throwing different coloured energy blobs at each other or fighting on top of a giant flying fortress, and it feels perfunctory. They're superhero movies, so they're always going to climax with a big action set piece, but they don't need to feel so generic.
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Considering he's meant to be a trickster god, Loki comes off dumb as fuck in this.
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On 09/06/2021 at 19:45, Kaney said:
I love Loki as a character in the MCU but I'm not sure how I feel about that first episode. Incredibly nitpicky/nerdy whinings, but I think a lot of the lore it's hit out with sort of really undermines whats already happened.
It was said so many times that Thanos, with a full Infinity Gauntlet is the most powerful being in the universe and the stakes were thusly raised for Infinity War/Endgame. If there's an agency powerful enough to immediately and effortlessly render Loki powerless, and they use Infinity Stones as paperweights, what's really to worry about?
It also makes it seem weird that you could have the likes of the Ancient One, or the Asgardians themselves, or Thanos etc all not knowing about the existence of this substantially powerful group. Why should the Ancient One, protector of the literal time stone, be bothered if Hulk takes it to fight Thanos when there's an entire agency dedicated to preventing any shenanigans?
I also really dislike the notion that nobody has any free will but I'm guessing if there's a second Loki variant that's causing havoc in the timelines it sort of shows that people can make their own choices? I trust it'll be explained at some point and Owen Wilson was great so I'll still watch anyway.
I tend to agree here, and I also have the opposite problem, which compounds on it:
SpoilerThe TVA enforce a single sacred timeline, which is something that's been decided in advance by space lizards. This isn't just to account for time-travel shenanigans, as the Avengers were able to go into back in time and fuck everything up and it was still "supposed" to happen, but a thing as simple as someone being late for work - with no external multiverse/magic/time-travel influence, it just happens that in their timeline they were late for work when the Time Keepers didn't want them to be - that gets reset and pruned out of existence and no-one will ever even know. Everything is important and controlled.
So... nothing that happens actually matters, because if it's not "supposed" to happen, it'll be undone and the "right" thing will happen, rendering all of the movies and TV shows completely pointless because an external influence is there making sure it was always going to turn out the same way, forcibly if necessary, no matter what any of our heroes did - or do going forward.
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1 minute ago, Bobfoc said:
I quite like this Portuguese song. It reminds me of a nineties song, but I can't think what it is.
I Believe I Can Fly? That's what came to my mind.
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It's a bit of a weird reason though, given the signature Marvel move is a cameo after the plot has been completely resolved. He wouldn't need to save the day any more than Nick Fury did in Iron Man.
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27 minutes ago, Hellraiser said:Spoiler
I assumed from this that they just thought she was snapped because she was in hiding. Otherwise it sort of implies that she's built this life as a high-end black market art dealer with deep ties in the international criminal underworld in the six months since she got back.
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So Steve and Natasha waltzed back in to the States after openly committing treason, but Sharon couldn't after secretly helping them out? And then for five years she never thought to ask them for help? And now she somehow thinks Falcon can get her a pardon? The guy who just broke a war criminal out of prison for basically no reason; although tough to hold that against him when it seems like Zemo could have walked out at any time, since all it took was a minor scuffle which I guess has never happened in this maximum security prison before, and he... phased through the glass in his cell?
That's before you even get into why Sam was pretending to be somebody completely irrelevant to the plan - because all black guys look the same I guess - except the barman clearly suspected something, or why else would he be staring him down until he drank that shot, which I guess proved he was the real guy even though he has a different face, but good thing Sam did get in so he could blow their cover after the dealer forced him to answer his phone on speaker because... the real Smiling Tiger (who, again, she didn't know) would never receive a phone call?
The show wasn't great before, but this episode turned a corner into aggressively stupid.
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I don't care for this at all. 😕
The "witty banter" between Sam and Bucky is really forced, and their dynamic makes no sense, they're just being crowbarred into this buddy cop thing. In fact, almost nothing that happens in the show makes sense: it's like they know the basic things they want to happen, and then it's just super lazy writing just to get from Point A to Point B.
The action scenes are good, and it seems like it's trying to make some points about white privilege and American imperialism somewhere in there, but the whole thing is just... bad. Real disappointed in this one.
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I've never bought into Wanda and Vision's relationship because the entire thing happened off-screen, for no apparent reason except that they're together in the comics. The attempts at pathos fell flat for me because none of it's been earned.
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1 hour ago, Tigerstyle said:
He can use dem stones in his shiny mitten but Wanda and CapM are living embodiments of the stones power innit.
Quicksilver could kill Thanos by running into him really fast confirmed.
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1 hour ago, arwrestling said:
I don't think it's a retcon... it's always been part of the story that they were the only two to survive the experiments... now we have a better idea why. They are superpowered, in a way (and even that was left up in the air... are they superpowered naturally or were they chosen BY the Infinity Stones / Universe to be these powered beings ... we now know she is The Scarlet Witch... what that means or entails is yet to be determined...
SpoilerIt literally is a retcon, though. There was never any question of why the Stone gave them superpowers; the Stones just do that (see: Carol Danvers), and Ultron stated explicitly his belief that the reason they were the only two who survived Strucker's experiment is because of the trauma they'd gone through and their pure focus on what Tony Stark had done to them and will to take revenge - which to my mind has much more poetry to it then Wanda just being a mystical whosit. And I don't believe for a second that any of this was in mind when the Age of Ultron script was being written.
I didn't say anything about "superpower lore doesn't sit well with me...", I just don't vibe with how it's presented in the comics. It's fine, and I get why people like it, it's just not my speed. The MCU was for a long time very thrifty with its superpower lore and they tried to draw from a lot of the same sources and tie it together (the serums, the Stones, SHIELD). I think it's too easy and loses something if the world is just completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots.
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This might have been a little too much for me. I can't really read Marvel comics, because the constant retcons and contradicting lore, plus the matter-of-fact "superpowers and magic are just everywhere, deal with it" setting doesn't really work for me.
SpoilerThis "Scarlet Witch" reveal specifically reminds me of a bit in Spider-Man comics where it turned out the spider that bit him didn't give him powers because it was radioactive, it was a magic spider that gave him powers because he's the latest in a long line of "spider totems" or some such bullshit. I always liked the Infinity Stones as the main catalyst for superpowers in the MCU, and I think this retcon cheapens Wanda's backstory a little bit.
The MCU was built up so carefully for a long time, and I think it's in danger of disappearing up its own ass.
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He was only a touring member of Harvey Danger, Peep Show is fine.
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31 minutes ago, RPS said:
you know he would suck as a boyfriend.
Isn't that what you want?
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I thought Joker was pretty poorly made. The dialogue was really cheesy and on-the-nose, and all the stuff that happened to him was way too over-the-top, and it didn't ramp up or build to a "breaking point", it just seemed to happen randomly until the film had been on long enough that, okay, it's time to become The Joker now. I feel like there's a version of this movie that could be really good - the movie that the trailer made it look like - but this wasn't it.
It doesn't work as a Joker origin story on any level either, because the whole "clowns" thing was crow-barred in so they could have an excuse for him to wear the costume, and moreover, by the time the film ends, there's no way I can imagine this guy being a criminal mastermind, running a gang, or surviving on his own for a month.
Joaquin Phoenix was doing a great job with what he was given, but the character made no sense - it vacillated between bitter cynicism and childish naivete so rapidly and with no explanation that it felt like two different drafts had been mixed up and stapled together. It's just a bad movie that will get overrated because it's a different take on a comic book property, but being different doesn't mean it's good.
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12 hours ago, Rey Cloudy said:
Someone explain to me what she said? I'm guessing it's to do with what she said about a month ago right?
She basically said that she doesn't like when she's in spaces with all cis women and they go around explaining their preferred pronouns, because it just makes her feel like she's not passing and they're only doing it because she's there.
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He walks into a bar and the barman asks "Why the long face?"
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I can't imagine Disney letting Feige spend two movies building up a property all to hand it to another studio, that's basically throwing money away.
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2 hours ago, Lint said:
This makes no sense to me. Rorschach was shown to be a pretty conservative hero. I have no doubt, in the modern times, he would've been very Blue Lives Matter. So to have others take on his image and be anti-cop is stupid
Rorschach was a vigilante and the cops hated him - add into his arrest before he died and it totally makes sense his fanboys would be anti-cop.
That said, there's no way I'm watching this, since Damon Lindolf's response to Alan Moore not wanting anything to do with the project was literally, "Fuck you, I'm doing it anyway." It's a creatively and morally bankrupt endeavour.
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That might speak more to the bubble you're in. I still find there's songs that permeate the mainstream as much as ever. This summer it's "Old Town Road", for example, before that it was the new Ariana Grande, couple years ago it was "Despacito", etc. There's always going to be songs or artists that for a point in time are everywhere and you can't get away from.
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On 26/06/2019 at 12:56, RPS said:
The average person knows none of those songs but definitely knows I'm So Excited.
I know Fire, Slow Hand, and Jump, but didn't realise they were Pointer Sisters songs, for what that's worth. I'm pretty sure that's only because Fire was on Glee, Slow Hand was on one of those TV adverts for compilation albums that played relentlessly when I was younger, and Jump because of the Girls Aloud cover. But then I likely only know I'm So Excited because it was on the Crunchie ads so who knows. I wouldn't exactly bank on it lasting forever though. It's already a nostalgia thing and it'll get supplanted by new nostalgia. Our lifetime, maybe. Beyond that? Not likely.
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I know, it was just a bit forced.
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15 minutes ago, Arjen Robben said:
I'd love to know how the Night's Watch being a top drawer punishment for Jon was sold to Grey Worm.
It's been the traditional alternative punishment to people facing the death penalty for hundreds of years in Westeros and Grey Worm doesn't know Jon and has no reason to imagine he'd like it?
Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie Thread
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Posted · Edited by Daniel Bryan
Just watched Black Widow. Florence Pugh stole the show, unsurprisingly, and actually managed to lend some emotional weight to otherwise hollow scenes - she's very good. But overall it was weightless.
I get that it's a Marvel movie and they're all trying to do the quippy thing - and it struck a nice balance for the first 40 minutes or so - but once David Harbour came in, the jokey dialogue started to make me uneasy, especially when it's about forced hysterectomies or all the people Natasha must have murdered, and
the whole "quirky family" concept felt really off too, because Rachel Weisz is, when they meet her, still actively working for these people, kidnapping and torturing girls and designing them so they can be forced to stop breathing, and it's all treated as a joke, or like it doesn't even matter compared to hurt feelings and family drama. She also turns on them way too easy and it's never really explored or explained why.
The retconning of Natasha's backstory and general vagueness of the villain bugged me:
Natasha's backstory has never really been explicit, but you have to assume she's a few years older than Scarlett Johannsson, and was KGB as a child. It's implied in Avengers that at one point she was a mercenary, presumably after the collapse of the Soviet Union ("I have a very specific skillset. I didn't care who I used it for, or on." ), but here she isn't taken to the Red Room until after the Cold War ended, and goes straight from working for Russia(?) to SHIELD. It makes her a little less interesting, as does "Drakov's daughter" turning out to be just a bit of collateral damage she feels particularly guilty about, rather than, along with the hospital fire and whatever happened in Sao Paolo, something specifically bad that she did.
Which brings up another thing, who is Draykov working for? Is it Russia? Is he just out doing this on his own? How? To what end? Has he just been sitting up in his sky fortress mwahaha-ing to himself this whole time? The whole Widows thing struck me as them just copy and pasting the Winter Soldiers concept from Civil War so they'd have a plot without having to put too much thought into it.
On the whole it seemed like they weren't really interested in exploring Natasha's character or doing anything with her - just wanted to put her name on the poster and get a "Black Widow movie" out there. It started promising, and those first 30/40 minutes where they're basically doing The Americans and then the bit where it's just Natasha and Yelena are solid, but then it just became your bog-standard Marvel movie. Not disappointing, because you know what you're getting into, but still feels like a missed opportunity to do something interesting.