After Captain Marvel came out, people have been speculating that Fury was a Skrull retroactively going back to Age of Ultron because he said in Captain Marvel that he never eats toast that is cut diagonally.
( spoilers: [link] )
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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Tom Scola - Jul 08, 2019 8:46:35 am PDT #2988 of 4004
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Connie Neil - Jul 08, 2019 9:05:28 am PDT #2989 of 4004
brillig
Ooooh, or Fury didn't bounce back as quickly as it appeared in Winter Soldier, and he was off recuperating while Talos was covering for him. They've been trading off. And the weirdly soft-and-fuzzy Fury talking to Tony in the barn was the real Fury--though he still ate the diagonal sandwich.
askye - Jul 08, 2019 5:02:42 pm PDT #2990 of 4004
Thrive to spite them
We just saw this. I have to say I wasn't really expecting what happened. The pacing felt uneven but that I guess was from the fake outs going on with Mysterio. I hated the first tag ending , which I guess is the real ending, but I don't like Spider Man being threatened like that. Especially when Peter is such a ball of stress. I did like the illusion world and the way it was created. we just saw Spider Man in to the spider verse last week and the illusions moving around reminded me of the final fight and the worlds collapsing in on each other. I also felt bad for Flash. I guess either Fury was a Kree all the time or only this time but what about Hill? What is up with her?
Kalshane - Jul 14, 2019 11:26:05 am PDT #2991 of 4004
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Just back from Far From Home. I absolutely loved the scenes with Spider-man battling Mysterio's illusions. That was some absolute classic comic book Mysterio stuff and it looked absolutely fantastic.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. I knew Mysterio was going to end up a villain. Pretending to be a hero is his whole schtick. I did not expect the Multiverse to be a lie.
chrismg - Jul 16, 2019 5:47:37 am PDT #2992 of 4004
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Watching the latest Legion, it occurred to me that the design of the Time Demons and the effect they had on the narrative really had the vibe of what Bill S. was doing back in New Mutants.
Tom Scola - Jul 16, 2019 9:19:55 am PDT #2993 of 4004
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Jesse - Jul 16, 2019 9:58:07 am PDT #2994 of 4004
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
NICE
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2019 10:14:53 am PDT #2995 of 4004
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Awww YISS.
-t - Jul 16, 2019 7:43:08 pm PDT #2996 of 4004
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I am going to continue to think of the next Thor movie as "Thor 4: More Thor".
Have seen Far From Home, hooray! I really appreciate how it was totally a Spider-Man movie with that particular tone and Peter doing the Hero's Journey like whoa, but also was so solidly enmeshed with the Avengers. Really well done.
Vonnie K - Jul 20, 2019 4:54:41 pm PDT #2997 of 4004
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Cast announcement for Eternals out of SDCC: [link]
Don't know anything about Eternals, but the folks involved in it are some interesting off-the-left-field choices. Chloe Zhao is directing this -- I only know her as the director of The Rider, which is a quiet and lyrical docu-drama/western. Hard to imagine anything further from superhero franchise, honestly. It's got a terrific diverse cast led by Angelina Jolie. I'm particularly hyped to see Don Lee in the cast, who's a Korean actor also known as Ma Dong Seok, and who was so marvellous in Train to Busan.
There is also going to be a movie about an Asian Marvel hero (... did not know they had one!) called Shang-Chi, and goodness, Tony Leung is gonna be in it. TONY freakin' LEUNG!! Who cares what role he plays! [link]
That one is going to be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who did Short Term 12 (great, great film, with Brie Larson and Lakeith Stanfield and Rami Malek before they broke out, streaming on Amazon Prime, everyone go watch it right now).
So Marvel keeps giving reins to their smaller films to quirky indie directors with one or two acclaimed films under their belt, except they're clearly seeking out voices outside the usual white dude enclave. Gotta tip my hat to them for that.