Hey, everyone who wants another shot to the feels?
Damned allergies.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Marvel Universe: Infinite Chrises
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EpicTangent - May 07, 2018 2:01:12 pm PDT #2219 of 4009
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Connie Neil - May 07, 2018 7:38:18 pm PDT #2220 of 4009
brillig
Just bought a ticket to see IW again on Thursday. Now I can catch the stuff I missed.
Steph L. - May 08, 2018 5:00:04 pm PDT #2221 of 4009
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Dang, Black Panther is already available on digital platforms, and the Blu-Ray on the 15th.
Jon B. - May 08, 2018 6:36:24 pm PDT #2222 of 4009
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yep!
When's the fundraiser?
Connie Neil - May 08, 2018 7:18:54 pm PDT #2223 of 4009
brillig
I'm going to need to revamp my DVD storage.
DCJensen - May 08, 2018 10:06:16 pm PDT #2224 of 4009
All is well that ends in pizza.
Watched IW today.
Andi has decided that she is done with Marvel.
As I love her, I'm going to wait for a while to make my case of staying with them.
P.M. Marc - May 08, 2018 10:11:25 pm PDT #2225 of 4009
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I watched it today, too! And it moved up another notch in my MCU rankings, surprisingly.
Jesse - May 09, 2018 5:37:17 am PDT #2226 of 4009
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When's the fundraiser?
Thursday the 24th, in town somewhere (I forget).
sj - May 12, 2018 5:49:50 pm PDT #2227 of 4009
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I finally saw Infinity War today and Teppy's reaction was sort of mine too
I went in totally braced forTony and Steve (ahahahaha, "I am Groot." "I am Steve Rogers.") to die, and since they didn't, I kind of don't know how to react.
I don't think I really liked the movie tbh, but yet I feel like I need to see it again. It was so completely different from what I was expecting that I'm not sure I took it all in. Overall, too much fighting and not enough snappy dialogue for my taste. Or what Laura said:
Also, if Laura had been in chargeinstead of 90% battles and 10% witty banter and personality interactions there would have been 90% witty banter and personality interactions and 10% battles.
"All of that for a little drop of blood" is going to be important, isn't it?
The movie never followed up on the factthat Doctor Strange did see one future where they won. So...by giving Thanos the Time Stone, was Doctor Strange just playing a long game to lead to that outcome? Obviously the outcome would be in the next Avengers movie, called "Avengers 4: We Got Your Continuity Right Here."
Teppy, I think that is going to be very important in the next movie, and I think he was trying to tell Tony that right before he disappeared.
"Why was she up there this whole time?"
Best line!
Steph L. - May 13, 2018 4:38:42 am PDT #2228 of 4009
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I saw Infinity War again last night, partly because when I saw it the first time I was loopy as hell on migraine meds. And I have to say, seeing it with a clear head, the deaths hit me a LOT harder this time. Especially Gamora and Groot (for Groot, mostly because of Rocket's reaction -- I still occasionally can't believe how the MCU got me to care so damn much about a CGI racoon).
And one thing that didn't really hit me the first time around was that all the original Avengers (except Hawkeye, since he wasn't there, duh) survived because, narratively, they had to lose. Like, I genuinely didn't understand that until I saw it again last night. (Conclusion: don't see movies when tripping balls on migraine meds.)
One thing that I think the movie hammered WAY too hard was trying to get us to sympathize with Thanos (or, at the very least, to see his pain at killing his daughter), and I am just not on board for that. And I'm trying to figure out the difference between the way Infinity War pushed me to sympathize with Thanos and the way I walked out of Black Panther thinking damn, his methods were wrong, but Killmonger had a damn point, and wow, was his arc heartbreaking. I never felt like Black Panther was pushing me to sympathize with Killmonger. It was really clear he was not a good guy, but I still had some complicated feels for the dude. I don't know if that was Ryan Coogler's intent, but it worked. And yet, I feel like the Russos pushed it too damn hard in Infinity War.