Tony and Cap arguing is just the modern GOP in a nutshell, but with a universe built around justifying them as Good.
have you ever read a comic with captain america in it
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See the post I was replying to.
Also yes. I am specifically talking about movie Rogers, to note.
ah ok
Just saw it, didnāt like it.
Iāve at least liked all Marvel movies Iāve seen up to this point; Iām a fan. I was upset by the end of Infinity War even though I can say I liked it as a film.
This, though.
The entire theatre audience laughed at a Thor who had a body that looked like mine. And it was clear the movie meant for them to laugh at it.
I know a lot of previous movieās accomplishments were undone by Infinity War (Xandar is decimated, the Asgardians are nearly culled, etc) but this movie basically reverses all of Thorās character growth from the end of Ragnarok; not even Rogers wielding Mjolnir can undo that.
And of course they sacrificed yet another woman for the fucking soul stone, not even the all-women team-up in the final battle can undo that.
I am just so fucking upset.
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It was okay. I feel some level of closure, and Iām sort of ready for this movie epoch to end. I need more standalone films please
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i have fully come around on people thinking fat-suit thor is bad, it is definitely bad and unnecessary. but i still kind of think Endgame does a better job of moving forward with the character after IW basically shat all over the ending of Ragnarok in the first five minutes. even though the way they depict his ālow pointā was executed really poorly, where he ends up at the end of the movie is really meaningful in relation to what came before imo.
i think finally facing the weight of his failure and concluding that, after getting closure with his mom, he is truly able to walk away from being king, and realizes that not following in his fatherās footsteps is a good thing. everything up to this point has taught him that the odinson family is like cosmically dysfunctional, and even though thor isnāt as bad as any of them at the moment, i think he realizes that it is actually probably for the best if he isnāt king.
so when he walks away he isnāt doing it out of angst or because he is ignoring his fate, but because he genuinely believes that asgard is better in valkyrieās hands, and in general away from his fucked up family. i think that is pretty cool and demonstrates a weird amount of maturity, even though it was played for laughs. like, in the past his conflict has always been about feeling this duty to fulfill his role in his family and his desire to fuck off and go on adventures. this is exactly what valkyrie was going through in Ragnarok, and she had chosen the latter. but once her mind was changed, she was instantly committed to the cause and never looked back.
but thor was never to just commit like that. it was failing completely that made him realize that he didnāt really have to, that the world would still continue to exist even if he didnāt accept his fate, and that just because you are ādestinedā to rule doesnāt mean youāre the best person for the job.
weirdly i think that is also part of why he was so happy to see captain america wielding mjolnir - being āworthyā is cool, but itās also a ton of pressure. and itās comforting to be reminded that that isnāt all on you.
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i am extremely here for Mysterioās āiām from an alternate universeā schtick to be revealed as a pathetic con, and mysterio is just a pathological liar in over his head. i wonder if that is a misdirect though, after iron man 3 i donāt know if they would pull another gag in the same family
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Mysterio? More like Known Quantity-o.
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i kind of hope they run with it cuz i think these movies have done that shtick a lot better
something i just realized about Endgame that, as a fan of these movies, is extremely stupid is that somehow literally snapping your fingers becomes the way you do things with the infinity gauntlet. itās not a metaphor, itās literally snapping your fingers. all three of them do it. itās the visual equivalent of when characters are referred to by their comic book names for the first time as though itās normal even though it has never previously been established in the MCU that Clint is supposed to be called āHawkeyeā, etc
maybe they just saw thanos do it first and assumed thatās how it works
send me my no-prize, stan
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i hope at the very least if mysterio is from an alternate earth that he turns out to be a villain hiding out
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mcu immediately jumping off of endgame into more cosmic weirdness is exactly what I want and sooner than I expected. gimme the forbidden āgood fantastic four movieā
also that trailer seems to be playing up peter as the New MCU Lead, which is a weird risky move to make when holland isnāt exactly the most charismatic actor
unrelated to the trailer but I always appreciated that Feige and co. understood that we all know Spidey well enough that we could skip over his origin and just have a-kid-who-got-fucked-up-on-spider-bites show up out of nowhere in the middle of someone elseās movie
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it makes sense to build around Holland: he appeals to the teenage crowd (not like I know any teenagers, but Iām pretty sure) and has vaguely RDJ-like mannerisms. and heās only 23 which gives them a good real-time 10 year āSpider-boy becomes Spider-Manā arc to play with through Phase 4.
the other option they have to build a new story around is Capt Marvel and well, that dog doesnāt hunt in terms of bankable charisma IMO. but theyāll try, oh theyāll try.
I havenāt seen the standalone tom holland spiderman movie but in the avengers stuff he seems, like, consistently too puppydog stupid to even have grad student vibes
the kid they cast in the playstation game was better
well heās a high school student so he prolly shouldnāt have grad student vibes
they really donāt spend much time on the āheās a tech geniusā aspect of the character though. he made the web shooters but itās just been Stark giving him his suits + he likes retro macs
Spiderman: Homecoming was easily one of the best MCU films though, and a ton of that comes down to how great Holland is at being a likable dork without making me want to punch him.
Itās kinda weird to center the MCU around him, but eh, I can think of worse choices.
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i like holland spiderman, i think heās my second favorite char. also i was afraid they were gonna kill off all the three-movie characters, iām glad thor got a pass
it is completely unbelievable to me that they thought fat suit gag with additional gags throughout was a cool thing to do in 2019 and i also canāt believe that i havenāt seen the movie being viciously roasted for it
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