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I don't particularly favor him. I thought that the movie was just bad - overall. Bad flow, poorly-executed villain (though Ross was fine), and a jumbled mess of CGI. It left me wondering if it's even better than 2003's Hulk...

You're going to Hel for this.

When I opened the Secret Santa gift from exchange here. It got me into collecting/reading DC's The Golden Age TPBs, Elseworlds TPBs, and Neal Adams overall.

$50.

4.0 IMO.

9.0ish IMO.

6.0 IMO.

9.0ish IMO.

8.5 IMO.

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Some comments from pre-screening (not me): - Confirmed that all promo footage exists within the first 30 minutes. - Last 90 minutes or so are "mind blowing". - "Completely unexpected".

"I guarantee you that there is no way anybody can guess what's going to happen in this next one." - Robert Downey Jr.

The CGI for TIC is reminiscent of PS2 graphics. It's also about half romance movie. I guess if you want 1/3 of your comic book movies to be awkward romance scenes, then we do in fact look for different things. I was just letting you know my thoughts after the Phase 1 weekend.

No, I didn't.

Not a GoT guy, myself. All hands are on decks for Endgame...

Yes.

The Russo Bros intentionally deceive us at every opportunity. I'd guess that any Silver Surfer "casting" mention was further diversion... I don't even have any "expectations" for Endgame. I just hope I can enjoy it as much as Infinity War and it provides a satisfying close to Phases 1-3. I guess I'm expecting my "mind to be blown" as some of the actors and actresses have teased.

His agent wants all of his appearances billed as an A-Lister. Something of that category demands that he earns a minimum $20 million per film, regardless of whether it's a cameo for a few seconds. He's been in 3 films. RDJ earned $25 million for The Avengers. WB doesn't think that A-List superhero Superman deserves at least $20 million per film? I'm baffled by the thought.

Math is hard for some people. So is objective reference and subjective perspective. Oh well. Not anything that I need to read up on... @Logan510, FYI, The Incredible Hulk was way worse than I remember. On the opposite side of the coin, The First Avenger was much better than I remember. Cain't wait for next weekend's Phase 2 marathon...

They didn't highlight the "women keeping her down", though. In her little flashback Intelligence Control zap, it just showed some BS about her dad (or whoever) telling her she "shouldn't have been out there" (and we can only correctly assume that because the dad's motivation was keeping her in check because she's a girl and can't drive a go cart? What?) and too much other BS. I'm out to start my Phase 1 marathon. Everyone have fun talking about this mediocre movie without me for the next day or so.

She doesn't overcome Yon-Rogg at the same stage. She doesn't grow as a person and overcome him. She zaps her little power-controller and then beats him with "power". That's not character growth. That's power level growth. And she doesn't earn it. It's artificially staged power growth. Standing up from crashing a go cart is not character growth. Being harassed is not character growth. The growth that she maybe accrued happened off-screen, and that does nothing to actually show us character growth. We now have to assume, or be told, such. She literally overcame nothing but a plot device. She didn't grow pre-"Intelligence Control", nor post-"Intelligence Control". Nothing that we were shown. Edit: Also, you want to use Strange as a measuring stick? They tell the audience, and show us, that he has a photographic memory. He uses his astral form to study over months. Marvel also told us that he grew over the seemingly large amount of "time" he was in the Dark Dimension. We literally watch him grow from a scientist that doesn't believe s^&* into the Master of the Mystic Arts. There's a very obvious character arc to follow in that movie (a formula similar to Iron Man that they;ve regurgitated for most of their origin films).

Based on memory? Yes. I haven't seen it in 4 years, so my memory could be poor. I just remember being very unsatisfied with Abomination and the end. IIRC, they even said Abomination was still alive in captivity? He's never reappeared, though.

Lmfao! "Intelligent"? Wow. It's a mediocre popcorn flick that doesn't offer much, if anything, to actually think about. It's a good waste of 2 hours on a slow day. My Phase 1 marathon starts tonight, and I'll be wasting 2 hours on a worse movie - The Incredible Hulk. The other 5 movies will be tons of fun.

How is Carol a "mess of a human being"? She's literally bad at nothing. She struggles with nothing. Memory loss obviously isn't a hurdle if she thrived as a Kree for 6 years under the same condition. Once her full power is unleashed she's seemingly unstoppable. She doesn't struggle for a millisecond with "adapting" to her amount of power. She doesn't have a character arc. She's one being at one level doing one thing and then switches sides and becomes a more powerful being all in an instant. No arc to be spoken of. Just A to Z with no alphabet in between. And, as I've said, some of the writing was actually quite good. I don't understand how they wrote such a poor 3rd Act when I thought the first hour or so was mostly great.