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1 hour ago, Bosco685 said:

There are a couple of points that may yet put Aquaman 2 at an advantage over the next Star Wars movie.

There's a sentence I'd never imagined reading.

2 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

That's because you were pooping on Jennifer Lawrence's non-blue features. #Blueist

Fox Announces X-Men Day With Gorgeous Dark Phoenix Poster

Thank you sir!

Did I miss something? Why is today "X-Men Day"?

Didn't like this episode at all, mainly because of reasons already stated.

A couple major points for me:

• The super-accurate ballista that got 3 shots on a flying dragon from a moving boat before couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from stationary platforms while prepared, waiting, and expecting the dragon attack. This same dragon was then able to take out EVERY SINGLE ONE of them (on boats and atop the castle walls) without so much as getting nicked.
• Varys, who has survived many rulers prior, suddenly gets careless and allows himself to be caught? A man of many words had none at the end for Daenerys - not even a warning of not turning into that which you're trying to defeat?
• The vaunted Golden Company as nothing more than Dragonfire fodder?
• The city surrenders and Daenerys basically says "F' it" and begins wholesale slaughter? Why not go right for the Red Keep and Cesei? I could understand burning the keep down with Cersei in it, but what was the point of flying around and burning unimportant parts of the city? Cersei might be trying to escape, but let's burn down shantytown and the marketplace instead?

I noticed that there were never any shots of Daenerys once she starts burning everything. I'm guessing even Emilia Clark couldn't sell this "madness" that suddenly came over Daenerys.

On 5/9/2019 at 9:02 AM, Bosco685 said:

New poster.

Jennifer Lawrence won't even wear blue-face in the posters now.

On ‎1‎/‎9‎/‎2019 at 10:57 PM, spidermanbeyond said:

 

 

Plenty of examples in even just the forum search, but here's one.

3 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

Let's take a look at the original statement, and what his intent was for making this. Though the article headline was also meant to spark discussion and attention, as there was a higher topic.

IndieWire: James Cameron Hopes for ‘Avengers’ Fatigue: ‘There Are Other Stories To Tell’ In Sci-Fi

In my opinion in reading the piece, his concern was the Sci-Fi genre (something he has substantially contributed to) was being dominated now by expectations of franchise-based superhero films. Is he lying?

I don't understand that to mean that he's concerned about franchise-based superhero films, just superhero films in general. The trend seems to be everyone and their brother wants to make/produce/star in a "superhero" type movie because they see MCU = $$$. This may be having the effect that other sci-fi / fantasy type movies are NOT being made. So, instead of the next Interstellar, The Martian, or Arrival, we're getting The Suicide Squad.

32 minutes ago, I like pie said:

2 hours ago, awakeintheashes said:

Yeah, the aim was a bit perfect, but the weapon isn't really that new. It was created pretty early on last season, IIRC

Relatively speaking,  it's new. What moving targets were they practicing on? It doesn't bother me too much but it got a big eye roll.

This bothered me, and the fact that they seemed to be able to speed re-load after firing.

12 minutes ago, TwoPiece said:

Infinity War, you mean.

"At random. Dispassionate, fair, to rich and poor alike."

I thought that was in reference to the lotto on his home planet of Titan?

4 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

Oh, I get it. Fox has dropped the ball a few times with this franchise. So to trust them to wrap it up strong before Disney kicks in is a shoot.

But I am crossing my fingers they finally committed to going out at least good, if not great. It would be a cool win if it surprised us it was much stronger than assumed.

As a life-long X-Men fan and someone with reservations about this movie, I too, would be pleasantly surprised if this turns out to be a good movie and would then go see it.

At this point, I don't have enough faith that it will be and so will rely on feedback from others before deciding on whether or not to pony up the cash to see it in the theater.

4 hours ago, Mayor006 said:

I'm not sure how many of the casual fans will really even care, but I can't say for sure that all of those kids are supposed to be Peter's friends from 5 years ago. Just the one and maybe he had dusted as well. Re-integrating half the population into a society that probably moved on should be a HUGE issue, but I'm not sure it promotes the Marvel story-line so how much they address it will just have to be seen.

It was never really specified that it was an even 50% across all possible population groupings. It could be as simple as the entirety of Peter's neighborhood / community was snapped out. Maybe whole cities got snapped while others were left with minimal or no people disappearing. It could have just been luck of the draw (or lack thereof). For example, only 2 (Rocket & Nebula) of the remaining 6 (SL, Groot, Mantis, Drax) GOTG survived the snap. 

51 minutes ago, maloney414 said:

Old Cap was perfect.  "House of M" ending.  Also, they never said when he goes back to her, so could be after all Peggy's important events in the timeline.  Also, when he visits her in Avengers there are pictures of her kids, but NO pictures of her "husband."  

 

Saw this from a comment in the NY Times interview Bosco linked earlier

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QUESTION: Steve Rogers and Tony Stark go back to 1970 where Steve sees old flame Peggy Carter’s office desk with a big framed picture of him. But we know from previous movies that after WWII she married and had kids. It seems quite odd that a married woman in 1970 would have a photo of another man (not her husband) on her office desk for all to see. Does this suggest that mid-movie Steve caught a glimpse of the past Peggy that had already married end-of-movie Steve after HE went back?

Sounds plausible.

4 minutes ago, zhamlau said:

When the other little girl with a knife single handedly killed the giant. Basically they just hold them close, but don’t kill them and allow their free hands to murder them. It’s just...lazy writing and really calls into question how inept the night king and his champions (toughest fighters) really are. This was just one of many issues I had with the basic reasoning and decision making of both sides in this battle.

I don't see any sort of intelligence built into the Night King's army (other than, maybe the Generals). The rest is just your typical undead horde. Stop. Go. Kill.

1 hour ago, awakeintheashes said:

I'm almost certain it's someone from the same house. I mean, who else is immune to dragon fire besides Targaryens?

I don't think it even has to be that elaborate.

The NK seems to also be the personification of cold/frost. I equate it to taking a flame thrower to an iceberg - some damage surface damage may occur, but it still remains, on the whole, unharmed.

Add "magic" via Children of the Forrest and . . . . voilà'.

Or maybe it's just the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect 

9 minutes ago, Pete Marino said:

Same, I sat for the 1st half going "this is dumb, I can't see what's going on!!"

I turned the brightness way up on my TV and that made it tolerable.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who did this.

I thought maybe my eyes were giving out on me 

5 minutes ago, TwoPiece said:

What the Red Skull noted to Thanos in Infinity War was the following: "The Stone demands a sacrifice. In order to take the Stone, you must lose that which you love. The Soul... for a soul." 

If we want to get pedantic and parse words:

"The Stone demands a sacrifice" - Natasha sacrificed herself

"In order to take the Stone, you must lose that which you love." Clint certainly loved Natasha

"The Soul ... for a soul." Natasha's soul was the price paid for the Soul stone to come into being.

Clint was able to take it afterwards because of the love and loss he felt from Natasha sacrificing herself. 

Just saw it and loved it! Will definitely be seeing it again.

Just saw the movie and loved it. A fitting end to a great series of movies. Definitely going again to give it another watch. 

As for Cap, I tend to agree with the thought that he went back to live the life with Peggy that neither of them were able to have before.

As for the shield, didn't he lose/drop one after Civil War, (or was it Winter Soldier)? Maybe everyone just assumed it was lost, but this Steve Rogers went and scooped it up and saved it for this exact moment?

They're getting better and better with the whole de-aging thing.

2 hours ago, Catwomancomics said:

Yes, but that first episode really didn't give fans much.  All the scenes were brief and felt rushed in order to show where everyone was at.  This week we got all the conversations that episode one should've had. 

My thoughts exactly. (and nary a dragon to be found the entire episode)

Watched the Finale last night (DVR). I thought the musical piece in this episode was VERY well done, on par, if not better than Under Pressure, and much better than the one a few weeks ago.
 

I look forward to seeing how the next season carries on.

Really glad they picked this up & can't wait for it to start.

I was hoping for something a bit . . .more.

With this being the premiere and 1 of only 6 episodes this season, it was a little underwhelming for me. I understand they had to do some exposition, but it felt like a 1 hour logistics meeting with an intermission for the comedy short - 'Jon Snow's Wild Ride'. Instead of 20 brief clips of interaction/reunion amongst all the cast members, I'd have preferred fewer, but more in-depth conversations. For example - Sansa and Tyrion; The Hound & Arya; or Varys and Tyrion discussing the fate of Littlefinger; etc.

I also didn't believe that Sam would get that upset that his father (and brother) had died. This was a man that had ridiculed him basically from birth and forcefully sent him away to the Wall (Join or Die). When Sam & Gilly (and little Sam) returned to his home, it's not like his father had changed or had regretted sending him away nor was he happy that he returned and actually continued to berate him during dinner. I thought that Sam taking the sword was him becoming his own man (he deemed himself worthy of it) and no longer allowing his father to affect him (whether alive or dead). I just wasn't buying the grief (anger?) that he was showing during his conversation with Jon in the crypt.

It felt like they were trying to stuff a little too much into this episode and make sure everyone got some camera time when some of the extraneous scenes (Bronn & the whores) could have been removed without having any affect on the overall story.

So with all the talk about King of Comedy, I went and watched it and can definitely see the comparison. I'm guessing the delusions will probably take on a darker tone in this one.

Edit - It was a great movie, btw. De Niro was great as was Lewis. Even Sandra Bernhard was better than I expected.