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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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Using 3D to fuck with our heads (in a good way) by showing just how bizarre and misdirecting Alien Geometries and Eldritch Locations can be to our feeble human senses.
edited 30th Jul '16 6:56:15 AM by nervmeister
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I didn't see anything saying Thanos' arc is wrapped up in one film. They said the two Avengers films are distinct standalone movies that follow the same story arc, which is something the Russos have been saying for a while.
It had been mentioned that they disliked the Part I and Part II subtitle because it gave the implication that it was one long movie spread over multiple parts, which is becoming an increasingly criticized creative decision in film.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is the #8 highest grossing film of all time.
But that doesn't really matter because it's irrelevant. Nobody's talking about splitting one movie into two. What we're talking about is having more than one movie in which Thanos is the villain.
In much the same way that The Avengers was not "Thor, Part II".
edited 30th Jul '16 8:18:00 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub....which would make an interesting plot for the next film, actually. All the Avengers die in battle against Thanos and now the New Avengers have to be assembled. The movie ends with the Infinity Gauntlet resurrecting the original Avengers, although perhaps some decide to retire afterwards.
edited 30th Jul '16 8:41:49 AM by alliterator
And the MCU isn't?
I can see it just fine.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They still made a lot of money by other films' standards. Even the MCU's failures made the kind of money that other films aspire to for their successes. They just look like they didn't make a lot of money by comparison to all the films that keep topping the charts.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Point is, this isn't the first time I've heard the speculation about "Will this be the movie that fixes Hollywood?" and it won't be the last.
No movie will ever fix Hollywood. The only thing that's going to fix Hollywood is getting better people into decision-making positions in Hollywood.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub....that was supposed to go in the diversity thread. Although it is about an MCU film. It was a response to suggestions that Black Panther's success will prove to Hollywood that minority-led films can make a profit and thus dispel the myth keeping minority actors back.
edited 30th Jul '16 10:03:57 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.My general thought is that the best way to do Infinity War would be to end the first movie with Earth (and whatever Infinity gems are there) being saved from Thanos through enormous sacrifice.
However near the end of the movie it's revealed that Thanos hadn't taken the time to gather his full strength as he was operating on bad intel (he only knows that the Avengers imploded, not that Team Cap is only a phone call away) and under the assumption that Earth wouldn't get any advanced warning, which they got.
This means that Thanos is coming back in a few years and the Avengers will have no way to stop them, and they know it. It will then be the events of Ant-Man and The Wasp and Captain Marvel that make winning the battle to come not conclusively impossible.
I have a feeling Ant-Man and the Wasp will be largely separate from whatever is happening with Infinity War. Captain Marvel I'm not as sure on.
In general, there was a belief back when it was Part I and Part II that all films released between them would be Infinity War tie-ins, but I don't see it happening.
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I think the main story of Ant-Man and The Wasp's main story will likely be mainly a continuation of Ant-Man. But I could easily see a situation where, in the course of the movie's events, they make some incidental discovery that gives them a tiny ray of hope when it comes to beating Thanos when he returns.
With Captain Marvel it doesn't actually matter if the plot of that movie is specifically tied to Infinity War at all as long as it chronologically falls between the two movies. Depending on how they portray her powerset, the addition of such a powerful superhero in itself would have a big impact on whether or not they can beat Thanos.
Scott has a habit of jumping into crazy situations on only the vaguest knowledge of what he's about to do and a promise that he's being asked to do the right thing.
He agreed to become Ant-Man in the first place before Hank had told him anything about the job he was signing on to do, and even after that he only ever had the Pyms' word that Cross was evil, same as him only having a small bit of information about evil assassins when signing on with Cap.
edited 30th Jul '16 8:08:39 PM by KnownUnknown

It would be interesting, though, if they went Avengers: Infinity War and then Avengers: Disassembled.