One of my high school room-mates was a 13th in unbroken line. There was unspoken pressure on him to plan to get married and have at least one boy to continue the tradition, but he was pretty relaxed about it.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
Marvel Universe: Infinite Chrises
Discussion of all Marvel Cinematic Universe related movies and TV shows, including, but not limited to, the Avengers, Captain America, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, etc., etc., etc. ad-infinitum.
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dcp - Dec 24, 2021 10:37:34 am PST #3635 of 4001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
aurelia - Jan 01, 2022 7:26:45 pm PST #3636 of 4001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I would like someone to edit a supercut of the trick arrows from Hawkeye with their equivalent angry birds sound effects.
askye - Jan 10, 2022 2:30:05 pm PST #3637 of 4001
Thrive to spite them
I am behind on Marvel movies. I attempted to watch Black Widow and that is .. not good. So much quick cutting and flashing lights and while I think that style works for what was going on in the beginning it doesn't work with my post concussion stuff.
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2022 9:13:07 am PST #3638 of 4001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
We watched Eternals last night, and I liked it, but there was too much movie in that movie (we paused it to get more pizza right at the beginning of the Hiroshima flashback, and I was sure that there was maybe 30 minutes left to go, and there was still an hour and 15 minutes to go). Really gorgeous movie, though.
Kingo reminded me that I *still* haven't watched The Big Sick. I need to do that.
DavidS - Jan 16, 2022 9:47:46 am PST #3639 of 4001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We watched Shang Chi the other night. I can see why everybody focused on the big bus fight because that was by far the most interesting and original part of the movie.
The rest of it was so ridiculously trope-y Matilda just kept calling out bits as they occurred: Harry Potter! Lord of the Rings! Miyazaki! Black Panther!
Can't complain about seeing Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung flashing their star power though.
Awkwafina is turning into the special sauce of Disney/Marvel studio. She's good at it!
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2022 9:54:04 am PST #3640 of 4001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Can't complain about seeing Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung flashing their star power though.
Right? Although I did also really like Simu Liu and Awkwafina, too.
dcp - Jan 16, 2022 10:33:06 am PST #3641 of 4001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
there was too much movie in that movie
Agreed.
I'm still a little freaked out that I watched it the same day that the Hunga Tonga/Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupted.
juliana - Jan 16, 2022 7:14:28 pm PST #3642 of 4001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
We started Eternals, and I got tired of the fighty fighty zappy zappy too quickly for any of the characters to interest me. I am just not interested in big setpiece fights any more.
We did enjoy Shang Chi- the characters got me interested almost immediately. I loved all of the actors, and they looked like they were enjoying themselves. (Also, it was fun to see all of the SF scenes.)
-t - Jan 17, 2022 8:28:04 pm PST #3643 of 4001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
there was too much movie in that movie
That was a lot. My hot take is I like the characters, not sure about the story. Real curious about Jon Snow’s complicated family history [heh, typecasting]
Jessica - Jan 18, 2022 1:33:45 pm PST #3644 of 4001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I would love to see a director's cut where it's just the scenes Chloe Zhao actually directed (so just the scenes were characters quietly talk about their feelings and none of the fight scenes I have to assume she handed off to one of the in-house Marvel 2nd-unit laser show directors).