theCapraAegagrus

6.5 IMO.

4.5 IMO.

7.0 range as is.

6.5 IMO.

25 Haha reactions to this post. A CGC Forum record?

I wonder if all of the silhouettes were teases for what's to come, rather than just winks and nods to what could be.

Ouch... A scathingly honest statement.

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If true this would be awful.

I personally would not hate to say it, but to each their own. It's clear that they were grooming Spider-Man to 'replace' the hole left by Iron Man's departure. Tom Holland is a fantastic ambassador for the Marvel Studios brand.

Let me put my Flash suit on.

A spine-chilling quote. I agree that the end feels somewhat out of place. I understood the way it tied-into the story, but never got how the black hole/tesseract was created and placed by humanity? I would think that I missed something if I hadn't seen it multiple times.

Ohhhhhhhhhh. Fair enough.

I was trying to think of a different scene from Se7en earlier. The cod piece vs hooker hit a bell, but I don't often think of scenes from Se7en; The whole movie itself is one of my favorites. I personally close-to-hate the dance-off in GotG. The movie is so fantastic, but that part of the finale just cuts all of the tension and makes Ronan look like a complete and utter fool with no conviction.

I'm wondering how Wonder Woman and Aquaman didn't get ruined by WB. Not that they don't have issues (primarily the whirlwind of CGI 3rd Acts), but they didn't seem to suffer from the studio's wrath. I'm guessing that SHAZAM was spared since it wasn't closely-tied to the others.

IIRC, there were some insane fight scenes in Old Boy that blow them away, too. Shang-Chi has a memorable scene for me, though: When they're fighting on the outside of his sister's building and he needs to save Katy(?), he doesn't waste any time fighting. He methodically avoids all of the martial arts being thrown his way to accomplish the 1 goal of saving his friend. That's great writing/directing IMO.

I actually typed this out, but deleted it because I didn't want to get too long-winded since it's not an MCU thread. I was disappointed by this aspect and the fact that they used exposition for Professor Hulk's transformation. The Writers vs Directors thing has always bothered me, too, because the Russo's explanation makes 'logical' sense in the story that was told. To me, it seems like the writers wanted to explain that Steve always had a 'happy ending' in the same universe, maybe wanting to bookend Phase 3 by claiming that the multiverse had not been opened yet. If we ignore any fan-fic explanation and go strictly by the movie, it's not possible for 2 Steve Rogers to exist in the 199999 universe (the one we witnessed from Iron Man thru Far From Home). I know that there are many people (including Kav, I think) that despise time travel stories because of how silly and convoluted it can be, but I thought that the in-movie explanation was actually done very well. You can't change what has existed and been perceived; Only create a new branch reality that begins where you changed history. The Loki show also corroborates Endgame's pseudoscience.

I would bet that The Marvels doesn't make half of the Infinity War post-credit movie.

Good question. Probably somewhere around 85-90 on a 100-point scale. It's boring at points, and some of the attempted 'humor' is annoying. The once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event will always be memorable. I would agree that Infinity War is peak MCU. That one will stand the test of time.

6 times in theaters. That's how pretty much everyone reads my username.

A non-comic book one:

I will say that if the movie was original I would likely finish it to see if it's only the first 5 minutes that are a waste of time; Kind of how I would likely give a TV series' pilot my time to see if the rest is worth watching. The same goes for runs of comics. The first 5 minutes is not the full narrative, and neither is the pilot of a show, or a first issue. I know a handful of people who watched Breaking Bad's pilot and did not continue, despite it being one of the 5 best TV shows that I have ever seen. I do not discredit their perception. What does not help this movie is that after I shared my quick "0/5" review (after telling them that it's on HBO Max), every single person that I know responded that they either agreed or that it's the same thing they heard from others. After the 5 minutes that I watched, I was either going to turn it off or tune it out. Either way, it was not going to earn anything more than I have given it, because the first 5 minutes were truly that awful. If you cannot understand that, I cannot make it any more clear or simple than that. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I gave Endgame a 98/100 when it released because it captivated my attention for the entire 3 hours. In retrospect, it's truly not that great of a movie, but I will leave it on the TV anytime it's playing; It earns that attention despite not being too strong a story in the end.

From the Marvel side:

I will start with the obvious:

I better get a raise this year rather than a bonus check.