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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
@Jovian: I wouldn’t describe Ronan’s response as “confused curiosity”, especially since his second “What are you doing?” is one of fury. He’s been thrown completely off his game, and has no idea how to respond - after all, people don’t usually start dance when you’re about to kill them.
Oh God! Natural light!One of my favorite moments in the movie has to be the part where Rocket is weeping over the remains of Groot, and then Drax comes to sit beside him and...pets him. Even without any dialogue (if anything I think it's better without dialogue) the scene is amusing, adorable and touching all in one.
On my wave, passing oooooooonTaking Valkyrie to fight the murder god that had killed everyone she had ever known and loved doesn't seem like getting off easy
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe message there, if there is one, is that you don't have to be a heroic personality to do heroic things. You just have to be willing to step up and do the thing when the time comes. That's what Peter did when he saved Gamora after her pod got shot up, that's what the whole team did when they decided to stop Ronan.
On the subject of Age of Ultron: another MCU movie that only really holds together if you accept it at face value and don't think about it too hard. Why does Ultron decide that keeping the peace means murdering everyone? 'Cause that's what rogue AIs do, I guess? Don't worry about it, nevermind the fact that the entire movie rests on that foundation. The fight scenes (other than the first one where they stormed the Hydra base, which was excellent) were largely too long and didn't actually advance the plot at all. Ultron's pseudo-intellectual philosophizing was also a waste of screen time in a movie that was already too long. Had the same problem that Winter Soldier did in that "enemy with unknown capabilities == enemy with infinite capabilities", as Ultron somehow built like thousands of bodies in about three days. Deus Ex Helicarrier was ridiculous. And why the hell did Loki have an Infinity Stone inside his scepter? If he had a goddamn Infinity Stone the whole goddamn time, then why was he even messing around with the Tesseract or the chitauri? Age of Ultron also tried to do too much in general — there were too many plots, most of which didn't get the attention the deserved.
I could go on, but it's late, so I'll stop here for now. There were a bunch of things I did like about Age of Ultron, so I'll talk about that when I have a chance tomorrow. Ultimately I'd put Age of Ultron on the low end of "good", above Iron Man 3 but below The Avengers. For those keeping score, that puts my rankings thus far at (best) Guardians of the Galaxy, the first two Iron Mans, the first Captain America, the first Avengers, Age of Ultron (cutoff for "good movie"), Iron Man 3, Winter Soldier, (cutoff for "alright movie"), both Thors, The Incredible Hulk (worst).
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Well, it's a bit more than that. Peter's first inclination is to try (poorly) to mix altruism with profit: he does legitimately want to keep the galaxy out of jeopardy, so he proposes selling it to someone (presumably the Nova Corps) who wouldn't use it to harm anyone. And then running. Which is still highly selfish, but technically a proposal that would've been good for everybody except Ronan.
The big thing he learns by the second movie - since he's still doing the basic "do good for a profit" thing by the end - is to stop running and face things head on, but he doesn't really become less "good enough, but also amoral" by the end.
edited 23rd Apr '18 12:02:19 AM by KnownUnknown
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If you want yo annoy adric, just bring "Wanda is a criminal" agian every know and them for not reason at all, it works like a charm
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"Taking Valkyrie to fight the murder god that had killed everyone she had ever known and loved doesn't seem like getting off easy "
But helping the Grandmaster in his slave(oh sorry, no paying workers) sociaty is kinda a horrible thing if you ask me,and if you add times, Valkire was helping Odin in his imperalist phase, which add more....awfull implications.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Do you want her thrown in space jail? Space jail blew up. There is no space jail
Also she helps start an uprising against the Grandmaster and then helps overthrow Hela and then dedicates her life to helping some refugees
Forever liveblogging the AvengersFirst order of business: I checked the listings, and seems like Black Panther is still showing in my local theater until Wednesday. (Makes sense, given that Infinity War starts on Thursday.) I'm definitely planning to see it out-of-order rather than wait for it to hit streaming services or whatever. At this point I've seen every MCU movie up through Age of Ultron — anything after that that I should make sure to watch before seeing Black Panther? I'll probably end up watching Ant Man and Civil War before Wednesday anyway, so it's really a question of whether anything in Doctor Strange, GOTG 2, Spider-Man Homecoming, or Thor: Ragnarok is worth watching out-of-order instead of those two.
Of course, it's something of a spectrum. Gamora is most altruistic about it because she wants to prevent what happened to her own people from happening to other planets. Peter's probably next, because he does want to prevent genocide, but isn't above profiting off of it in the process. Drax mostly wants to kill Ronan, but wants to prevent genocide too, again because of his own experiences. Groot is hard to read but seems to have some sort of principled take on it, given that he agrees to help even before Rocket does. Rocket's definitely the most selfish of the group, but even he's not driven solely by self-interest, being unwilling to abandon his friends when it comes down to it (even though that would be the smart play).
But they didn’t do a great job of communicating that.
People had been theorizing that Loki's scepter was an infinity stone for a while before AOU
But no. It's not explicitly stated. You have to make inferences based on stuff like Thanos standing up as a seeming result of Ultron being defeated
And Loki's scepter is different from the Gungnir of Odin's
edited 23rd Apr '18 6:46:49 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

I wasn't referring to his grammar in the first paragraph though. I'd meant that his reasoning in there didn't make any sense. I should've made that clearer, my bad.
edited 22nd Apr '18 7:21:58 PM by AdricDePsycho
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