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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
That Forbes article wasn't written by an employee, just an unpaid contributor who had not actually seen the movie and used a Reddit post as a source.
It was dumb as hell, obviously, but let's not make a mountain out of a molehill here.
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Didn't say it was I'm just saying there's nothing to blacklist. Forbes needs to clean up its own mess.
SLJ ages in reverse, I think. I always joke that he looked older in Coming to America - one of his first roles, decades ago - than he has for a long time.
Just finished Spider-Man Homecoming. It was good, but I think it tried to do too many things and as a result didn't quite follow through on any of them. Would have benefit from more focus on fewer plot threads.
I didn't much care for the general thing with Peter trying to use Spider-Man to win cool points. I mean, he's super insistent about not even telling Aunt May about his Spider-Manning, but he's going to swoop into a party as Spidey just because Flash is a dick? It's easy to rely on the "he's a teenager, teenagers make stupid decisions" rationale, but I've always found that unfair to teenagers. It's just not a satisfying answer to me.
I also thought they spent more time than necessary on the suit thing. It didn't really add anything to the story except give Spidey more toys to play with, and it would have been more satisfying if Peter had come up with those himself. (Okay, drones and the like are probably not something he can build, but the different web settings he can totally manage.)
I would have liked to see more of snarky Spidey and less of awkward Spidey. That's like basically his whole deal. Peter Parker is socially awkward and lacks confidence, but Spider-Man is witty and self-assured. Homecoming has some of that, but spends too much time on Peter trying out poses and stuff instead of actually being clever and confident.
I don't think they quite nailed the relationship between Peter, Tony, and Happy. They couldn't quite decide if Tony was annoyed at having to babysit, or looked at it as a chance to be a good father-figure (unlike his own dad). Peter gave them detailed reports, repeatedly asked for more responsibility, and they completely ignored him. They told him to stick with the little stuff and call them for the big stuff, but when he does call them, they blow him off. It's incredibly unfair to Peter and they never actually acknowledged that. The bit at the end with Tony offering Peter a spot in the Avengers and Peter turning it down also didn't flow very well. Why exactly did he turn it down? He didn't seem to believe he was in over his head, given how he managed to deal with Vulture on his own. He wasn't disillusioned with Tony and hadn't stopped hero-worshipping the Avengers. He hadn't decided that he needed a better normal life/superheroics balance and was going to focus more on school and socializing. The only hint they give is that he repeats part of Vulture's monologue about "the little guy", but it didn't really make a whole lot of sense in context. It mostly felt like the writers just wanted to keep him off the Avengers, either to keep the Avengers from getting even more crowded, or in order to make another Spider-Man movie still doing normal Spider-Man things in NYC.
Still, those are largely nitpicks, not major issues. The action was good, the villain was interesting and showed a new side of the MCU setting, which I liked a lot. It was a more low-key sort of story, a nice change from the world- or galactic-scale threats in most of the rest of the MCU recently. I liked that MJ was sort of a misfit herself in this version of Spider-Man, instead of the unattainable cool popular hot chick (and yes, I'm aware that she's not actually Mary-Jane Watson, but seriously, the "call me MJ" thing on the end cannot possibly be anything but an intentional nod). I enjoyed the parts where Spidey screws up and faceplants into a roof or something — it was a good shorthand for showing that he's still inexperienced, and they didn't overdo it by having it happen every time or do something cheesy like having him repeatedly screw up the same stunt and then have him do it successfully in the climax.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Double posting because apparently no one has anything to say about Spider-Man: Homecoming!
Thor: Ragnarok was the Thor we should have gotten from the start. It's about aliens who are also gods, who live in space but dress up like vikings. Instead of trying to take itself seriously, it just revels in the absurdity and lets the camp run wild. And it's glorious. The weird 80s-ish-ness was unexpected, but somehow worked? It's like they just kept the GOTG aesthetic, but it's Thor now. I can dig it.
The only thing that really sort of annoyed me was Hela wearing a skintight bondage suit and a weird spike-helmet thing instead of, you know, a reasonable suit of armor. The Valkyrie armor also had some Breast Plate shenanigans going on. I actually liked her outfit before that better.
What else is there to say? It was dumb, but it was fun. Good times.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.@ Sigilbreaker 26 and Ikedatakeshi
Would any of the two be fitting for appearances in Infinity War Part 2/Avengers 4, now that Disney bought out the film division of the company that owns the film rights to the franchises they respectively fall under?
Well, Magus is basically Adam Warlock's evil side, and Adam himself wouldn't appear until GOTG 3, which is set for 2020, after Avengers 4(2019), plus Magus gaining the gauntlet happens after the original Infinity Gauntlet event. Also, that event was the one named Infinity War. As for Galactus, I don't know.
edited 28th Apr '18 7:25:54 PM by Ikedatakeshi
The Elders collected the stones to power a Galactus killing ray because they were angry he was older than they were
Forever liveblogging the AvengersBy the way, I've seen Infinity War technically yesterday and...
...well, if you've been following the spoiler thread, I think you'll see how it worked out for me.
Been watching "Marvel Week" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Kimmel's usual sign-off phrase, "Apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time for him", has a new added layer of humor to it, given that Matt Damon actually was in one of the Marvel films recently (a cameo in Thor: Ragnorak).
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!Just back from watching Infinity War. This movie is fucking amazing.
(disclaimer: the below joke is not even close to a real spoiler, it is fake and for humorous purposes)
I can't believe Thanos was a Skrull the whole time! You'd think the chin would've made it obvious...

if Disney didn't show it to critics first it would have a negative effect,the opinions of critics are what get people to watch the movies after all
And yes Forbes have ensured Disney won't ever contact them again,they're probably black listed
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