'Dirty Girls'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Just got back! I think I'm agreeing with the people saying it was good but not great; what we got was real nice, but it didn't quite cohere into a whole.
I'm also very pleased that Wanda turned out to EMPHATICALLY NOT be Yet Another Super-powered Mentally Unstable Waif. I'm not planning on holding my breath for the people who were yammering on and ON and ONNNNNNN about that to admit it, though.
I was very pleasantly surprised by how nuanced and likeable Wanda turned out to be.
I'm not planning on holding my breath for the people who were yammering on and ON and ONNNNNNN about that to admit it, though.
Pretty much everyone I know in fandom was pleasantly surprised that Wanda didn't turn out to be what we'd feared. So you won't turn blue in the face or anything if you hold it, 'cause we already did. So.
Okay, I've known you people for 15 years, so I think I can come out and ask the world's dumbest question, and you'll still love me. Is Steve Captain America? If so, who the hell is Bucky?
I have to leave for the Pig in 10 minutes, so I don't have time to answer your second question, but yes, Steve is Captain America.
Re: AoU -- I really was kind of pulled out of the story by Thor's infodump about the infinity stones. I know it needed to happen, because this movie had to set up a LOT for the MCU's long-term plan, but still. It was like the movie screeched to a halt, that happened, and then the movie started up again.
flea, have you seen both Captain America movies?
Bucky was Steve's best friend growing up, he looked after Steve when Steve was small and sickly, then went off to war. After Steve got turned into Captain America, he re-connected with Bucky in the war, and they served together in a special unit called the Howling Commandos. Bucky fell off a train to his apparent death on the mission before Steve crashed the plane and got frozen for many decades. Steve felt Bucky's loss deeply, and everything else is best revealed in the movies.
I haven't seen ANY of these movies. I don't go to movies. And I don't read comic books. Everything I know about this stuff I have learned from you guys. (Seriously, I think the last movie I saw in a theater was Frozen. And before that, the first New Muppet Movie.) (You still love me, though, right?)
And basically, Connie has told me all I need to know about Bucky. Who is clearly not a nickname for the Hulk or Thor or anything, so I am good.
Okay, I've known you people for 15 years, so I think I can come out and ask the world's dumbest question, and you'll still love me. Is Steve Captain America? If so, who the hell is Bucky?
I know Connie already answered, but when and if you see the movies, you will understand why I am laughing and laughing and laughing right now. If you have no intention of ever seeing it, I will spoil you so you may also laugh.
His comics origin is different (I actually prefer the MCU one for many reasons), not that that matters. So you could get a different answer depending on who is answering.
In fact, flea, to know why I am laughing, here, from the comics: [link]
this happens in the movie too, as it's an iconic scene