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Interesting re Iron Man, Ant Man, etc. I always thought the MCU works well primarily for the Avengers and these previously lesser known characters, probably because they aren't so "super".
Other comic adaptations may be better served as standalone. e.g. I don't see anything that was gained by DC rushing to copy the Marvel formula. I'd much rather have seen the Man Of Steel series continue like Nolan's Batman films rather than the stupid retconning to try and fit Batman into that storyline.
Similarly can't see what would be gained by throwing the x-men into the MCU and making everyone seem even less "super".
Rocky V doesn't deserve some of the hate it gets but no, the end of Rocky Balboa is in another ballpark compared to V.
I get emotional every time I watch Rocky and co making their way out of the ring without giving a toss how the judges have scored the fight - which doesn't matter because he's already "won" by going the distance, a poetic call back to the very first film.
Then when he turns back to wave his final farewell to the crowd I must confess that I need to bite down hard on my lip (a bit like when watching Wrath of Khan 😂) to avoid the tears rolling.
Compare that with watching that sub Don King cartoon character and the weird "get up... cause Mickey loves you" crap to wrap up the series? No thanks...
Why the need for all these excuse answers?
Hawkeye knew the plan all along was to reverse the snap and bring everyone back.
Therefore he buys a new phone before they set off and leaves it with a message to call him asap on their kitchen table. He then creates a new contact with this phone's number and her name on his own phone.
And that's it... No need for any elaborate daftness.
I love the comedy end credits. And it ruined nothing for me. I was absolutely aware the whole time watching the movie that these guys were not, in reality, being hunted down by an alien creature.
They did have another son, Jerry.
But he didn't work out so good so they kept him in a cage behind the big rock in the basement and never spoke of him. Different times...
Interesting. And yes, you are correct in that "no choice in the matter" comment. But that was really what I was getting at - say some nutcase with a gun is going to pull it on the next passerby, who happens to be you. Either he does it and kills you or just maybe a fly - at that very instance - lands on his nose putting him off and you survive, walking past unaware of anything. Two divergent universes exist, as per the many words interpretation, yet in one you are dead with "no choice in the matter".
[quote]It's possible that the Avengers of every timeline could also experience such a victory by mirroring those actions[/quote]
I'm not really too sure what you mean here. As far as I'm aware these various "timelines" Strange sees are the results of these divergences. e.g. The Avengers on any timeline where Strange refuses Thanos the time stone are dead. There is no branched path left open to them on which they can win.
Another way of considering this fascinating conundrum is - Why should we feel any sense of accomplishment for this particular group of Avengers at the end?
Sure, this particular instance has defeated Thanos but millions of other versions of these same people coming from the same common route (i.e. the point Strange looks at all possible futures) have died. So what was really "won"?
The Harry Potter boy at the end.
If there's a time jump we can expect big things from this boy and his broomstick.
It is in this film, he even said it - he was off having a little of that good life...
It's not Back to the Future, his original timeline still exists, so he doesn't have fix anything or worry about any alternate universe versions of anybody. And why should he? The universe he's in only exists because of him so basically he can treat it like an souped up holideck until he bails back to his own universe... That is if you go with the Director's explanation.
I think we'd like to think that in order to watch our anti-hero bow out in style, perhaps revealing so with a cheeky wink to the camera in a slightly revised version of that final scene he had with Ollie. But no.
I had thought the same thing initially, given the unnecessary exposition of how he'd orchestrated the photo during the inquiry. But given the subsequent shenanigans in trying to discredit one of the judges / the inquiry it seems unlikely.
I was wondering if the actual "tragedy" for Malcolm was that his whole claim that it was his work was just empty grandstanding - trying to send a message to Miller - and that came back to bite him when they acquired the full picture. Might not be the actual case but I think it works better for his character and the quality of the show than believing he'd be as daft as to leave incriminating evidence on full show at the EXACT same time as setting someone else up with "incriminating" evidence on full show...
If you accept the alternate universe proposition then why not just play house?
There could effectively be an infinite number of parallel universes so why give two hoots as to how the lifes of anyone plays out in this particular branch? Just dance away with Peggy for 50 years or whatever and ignore whatever else is going on...
Oh, but only don't have any kids or make any lasting connections with any other single human being in this particular universe because you'll be jumping back out of it - once you've played out your entire life - so you can hand your shield over to some dude you knew from 50 years ago just because that would make sense...
Good call on TWINE. It's weird that they made that first, it's one of the few pre-Craig Bond's I really don't like - the overbearing M storyline and muted Robert Carlyle villain really were signs of what was to come - so it's kind of odd they had that before having one stab at a real Bond film.
Onatopp is a great example of a classic Bond villain. Dr Kaufman is probably the only other from the Brosnan era and maybe the last ever? e.g. Robert Carlyle was totally wasted in his role.
Don't recall any from the Craig films, although I've only seen them up to Skyfall once so maybe there was in Spectre. But I guess this is another example where the Craig "Bond" films fail and don't live up to the Bond formula.
For me the series ended with Die Another Day.
Gets a bad rep but take out the infamous unfortunate cgi choices - invisible car, surfing - and this isn't far off being a classic Bond. The first half especially is excellent and I love how they worked in the TMWTGG book opening with brainwashed Bond. Every time I see this I just wish they'd worked in the Icelandic villain's layer for the film's ending rather than the giant laser. Would have worked a lot better...
However it did serve as the entry point for Purvis and Wade which is why I considered this the film the series died with.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
OHMSS:-
Bond : "Unusually small for a Nymphalis polychloros."
M : "I wasn't aware that your expertise included lepidoptery."
Brilliant. Makes me laugh every time.
Man with the Golden Gun:-
M: "What do you know about a man called Scaramanga, 007?"
Bond: "Scaramanga?". Pauses for a second as if he know nothing before, "Oh yes..." and going off on a full in-depth bio of the guy 😆
And that's just a couple of examples of the brilliance and fun that was at play within the formula of Bond Movies, and in particular the meeting M scene.
You could look forward to being wowed with the stunt at the beginning, a classic song, the M scene, a crazy villain hellbent on taking over the world with some fantastical scheme, fun henchmen who were actually characters, the beautiful women, villain's layer, etc.
Why they decided to to chase becoming sub-Borne rather than being Bond is anyone's guess but I don't think we'll ever see a real Bond film released ever again. And I don't buy the "time's change" argument either. Time changed several times from the sixties through to the nineties but they largely managed to retain what a Bond film was supposed to be throughout that time period. I blame Barbara Broccoli and the clowns Purvis and Wade who should never have been allowed anywhere near the franchise.
The formula should be celebrated and adhered to. The fun was seeing the creativity they could come up with within the framework (like the examples) I gave.
Very odd.
It'd be like if Chris Pratt just suddenly stopped appearing in any films whatsoever today.
And Chris Pratt would certainly be cast if they remade Three Men And A Baby today... Unless of course that would be considered sexist now and the remake required an all female cast.
John Candy
That was pretty much his condition for getting involved wasn't it?
It's pretty funny though because this "hero" would have caused all kinds of heartache / problems by insisting on the five year gap for the returnees. e.g. 15/16 year old young couples - one now a paedo in those relationships; marriages wrecked where one partner now remarried; returnees finding partners / family commited suicide post-snap without them; the initial planetary-wide food crisis, lack of jobs, etc...
Thanks Tony 🤔
I agree with this other than the stones not needing to be returned. I mean, yes, I think that's actually technically correct in terms of multiverse theory (The Ancient One's universe exists with the timestone before Banner taking it creates a branch were it's gone) but her dialogue (though wrong) was explicit that that her universe would be knackered with it gone - which it would. Cap bringing it back there just creates yet another universe where it does exist again but that's not the path the Ancient One who chats to Bruce would be on.
That aside, I'm still not sure about them going down the multiverse route because the logical conclusion is that we're not really seeing an ending with any stakes where they've defeated the odds, we're just being shown the particular instance where they did...