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This thread is getting surreal as hell, I guess SMg coming in here broke people's brains? This was a fun movie but it is crazy to me how hard people will go to defend the Marvel corporate brand's honor
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It makes a lot of sense that goons better identify and sympathize with the printer carrying villian over the one poorly handling their grief.
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CheesyDog posted:Yes I remember the time Edward Snowden defeated the Nazis and then the alien invasion and then the AI uprising This post is funny because it inadvertently also points out that at one point the MCU revealed the US government was run by Nazis who were more Nazi than regular Nazis, and everyone just forgot about it. Edward Snowden literally revealed to his country that the government was doing constant, warrantless privacy violations on them and a not insignificant portion of the public still agrees with the government that he's a traitor and a bad guy. Hollismason posted:It's almost like Thanos is insane. Literally nobody criticizing Thanos as a villain is saying that he's sane. What we are saying is that "the villain is bad because he is bad" is poor writing.
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Guy A. Person posted:This thread is getting surreal as hell, I guess SMg coming in here broke people's brains? I mean, you'll defend DC's flicks with just as much ferocity. You like what you like. 
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May 2, 2018 02:19
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CelticPredator posted:I mean, you'll defend DC's flicks with just as much ferocity. To be fair, at least Teen Titans Go! To the Movies looks like it might actually be worth seeing.
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May 2, 2018 02:23
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Thanos objective makes sense because its something a crazy person would think. The biggest give away is Mantis when she's reading his emotions flat out says that he's distraught , upset, etc.. he's not just saying that poo poo. He genuinely is sad and upset at wht he did I think the problem people have is that Thanos is portrayed as a villain motivated by emotion and actually love. That's upsetting but thats kind of true. Love makes people kind of nuts and irrational.
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Panfilo posted:Did the other people on his planet have hosed up ballsack chins or is it just him? The shot of Titan had other purple Skinned citizens but they were too far to confirm the presence of scrotum Jaws. In the comics, Thanos is an aberration. The rest of his race look like humans, then this purple ugly kid is born and everyone is like "ew" and put off by him.
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May 2, 2018 02:25
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CelticPredator posted:I mean, you'll defend DC's flicks with just as much ferocity. You like what you like. I mean, I like to think I will usually hold out for "this movie sucked poo poo and nothing made sense" style poo poo posts and ignore the smaller and generally correct complaints about the DC movies. E.g. I have agreed with you in the past that BvS theatrical had rushed, sloppy editing that gave the film a loose feel. And while I liked Eisenberg's Luthor, I don't hold it against people who don't It's crazy seeing people being told to gently caress off and be hit with super aggressive sarcasm because they thought Thanos' motivation was weird and a bit dumb. It was weird and a bit dumb.
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Pirate Jet posted:
I don't know a single person who's emotionally affected by Edward Snowden. No one cares about him. Probably the same way no one cares about Captain America. A teenage kid isn't going to lie awake at night freaking out about Cap being a war criminal.
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Thanos is a pretty good intimidating punchy fighty guy, but all his motivation and backstory was dull as dishwater.
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Thano's goal isn't to like rule the universe. He's not trying to further his own ambitions and that's always interesting with a villain.
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Imagine if a garden variety SovCit or other insane libertarian or, like, Kim or Trump got the infinity gauntlet. Lmao that a totally mad villain is necessarily a bad motivator
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why do you guys keep calling Thanos a "printer-carrier" He never holds a single Inkjet in that movie. I am dead serious, I don't understand.
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CelticPredator posted:I don't know a single person who's emotionally affected by Edward Snowden. No one cares about him. Probably the same way no one cares about Captain America. A teenage kid isn't going to lie awake at night freaking out about Cap being a war criminal. You are intentionally missing the point at this stage. Before I made that metaphor, I hadn't personally thought about Snowden in like, I dunno, weeks. I am not arguing that people stress out about Snowden every day, I am arguing that showing a video of him to kick off a class would be really weird and awkward, and would almost certainly piss off a few parents who would complain about it loud enough to unnerve the school's administration, or even wind up on the news.
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May 2, 2018 02:30
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CelticPredator posted:It's really not that crazy. In fact, it's pretty common on the internet. That's true, and I realize I am fighting the tide with a broom in this case
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Elizabeth Mills posted:why do you guys keep calling Thanos a "printer-carrier" They are breathlessly trying to own other people on the internet for being huge nerds and "defending Marvel" by obliquely referencing something that only happened in a comic book 25 years ago and doesn't actually happen in the movie at all 
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May 2, 2018 02:32
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Elizabeth Mills posted:why do you guys keep calling Thanos a "printer-carrier" lol I didn't notice this It's a super old SA reference about a goon who carried a girl's printer home then got upset that she didn't want to bang him (upset online, I'm sure he didn't actually proposition her)
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May 2, 2018 02:33
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Gym coaches, a group of people known for both political awareness and making sure their lesson materials are updated
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Elizabeth Mills posted:why do you guys keep calling Thanos a "printer-carrier"
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Pirate Jet posted:I am arguing that showing a video of him to kick off a class would be really weird and awkward, and would almost certainly piss off a few parents who would complain about it loud enough to unnerve the school's administration, or even wind up on the news. Probably would yeah! I'm sure there's some tape somewhere made for public schools with like...Bill Cosby or something in it. Or like showing your kids A Bug's Life in class when the villain of the film is a pedophile rapist. But some teachers don't really care enough to look for an alternative.
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The first incel lore
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Hollismason posted:Thor being a dumb dude bro with a heart of gold is like the best characterization of him. Closer to the actual myth than giving him any hint of intelligence, though mythical Thor is basically Goku with how much he just wants to fight everything. Mythical Thor is Chaotic Neutral Goku.
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Guys, the band room has a poster of Miles Davis and I think he may have USED ILLEGAL DRUGS
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Mordiceius posted:Closer to the actual myth than giving him any hint of intelligence, though mythical Thor is basically Goku with how much he just wants to fight everything. I hope that Hemsworth isn't going anywhere soon.
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May 2, 2018 02:40
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CheesyDog posted:ILLEGAL DRUGS 
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The Bloop posted:The motivations of a literal alien intelligence (who is considered and labeled Mad by his own people) are unsatisfyingly alien to me. lol this movie wasn’t made for aliens
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CelticPredator posted:Most of those kids couldn't give a poo poo about him. The whole point is no one really pays much attention to these people in the same way most people don't care much about war and politics other than a simple "Oh you hear this happened?" "Yeah, boy I tell ya, that's bad/good, anyway gimme that beer." Lots of people care about war and politics, what sort of insane take is this.
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Hollismason posted:I hope that Hemsworth isn't going anywhere soon. Thank god for Waititi figuring out what to do with his character, he has too much charisma to waste on the previous Thor schtick
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May 2, 2018 02:42
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I talked about Stark's nightmare earlier, where all the heroes are dead but him and there's no one left to defend the world, but given the ending, I think it seems implied he was off base- the real nightmare is the heroes outlive the world they try to defend. Hell, Thor is already in that position.
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While I have mixed feelings in general about the movie, I thought the disintegration scene was actually really well handled. Like yes, of course it's all going to be reversed in Avengers 4, but leaving that aside, I really like the way that it was somehow really restrained. There was very little music (if any?) music to attempt emotional manipulation, and most of the reactions were subdued, just a blank horror at the occurrences. This breaks with Spider-Man's death, but even there it somehow does not dip into the maudlin. This restraint, and the audience's familiarity with the characters, combine to create a scene that had a lot of emotional resonance for me, that I don't think would be present if it was our heroes screaming to the heavens while sad music plays.
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CheesyDog posted:Guys, the band room has a poster of Miles Davis and I think he may have USED ILLEGAL DRUGS I can't believe I have to explain to you that using drugs is less severe of a crime than literal treason, but here we are. This is also all one big distraction from my original point - the MCU specifically avoids implementing continuity because it doesn't know how to deal with consequences.
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Pirate Jet posted:I can't believe I have to explain to you that using drugs is less severe of a crime than literal treason, but here we are. Nobody gonna care that the guy who saved the world three times wouldn't fill out some paperwork
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Meinberg posted:While I have mixed feelings in general about the movie, I thought the disintegration scene was actually really well handled. Like yes, of course it's all going to be reversed in Avengers 4, but leaving that aside, I really like the way that it was somehow really restrained. There was very little music (if any?) music to attempt emotional manipulation, and most of the reactions were subdued, just a blank horror at the occurrences. This breaks with Spider-Man's death, but even there it somehow does not dip into the maudlin. This restraint, and the audience's familiarity with the characters, combine to create a scene that had a lot of emotional resonance for me, that I don't think would be present if it was our heroes screaming to the heavens while sad music plays.
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Venuz Patrol posted:lol this movie wasn’t made for aliens 
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Guy A. Person posted:Thank god for Waititi figuring out what to do with his character, he has too much charisma to waste on the previous Thor schtick Apparently a lot of Thor is Chris Hemsworth's creation as he added a lot of his own interpretation to the character. My favorite being in Thor 2 when he hangs his hammer on the coat rack, that was a complete improv by Hemsworth. And we all know a lot of Thor 3 was improv'd as well, hopfeully because Waititi saw the true talent in Hemsworth.
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CheesyDog posted:Nobody gonna care that the guy who saved the world three times wouldn't fill out some paperwork Yea, if there’s one thing you can say about the modern world it’s that it’s not insanely polarized and devoted to dividing itself into warring factions over literally anything.
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Pirate Jet posted:Burress literally opens the video with "I guess this guy is a war criminal now." People would absolutely care that a massive public figure was suddenly labeled an enemy of the state. You completely ignored my metaphor: Imagine if a class opened with a video of Edward Snowden. Especially if these were children or teenagers, who have parents who can do the complaining for them, there is a 100% chance there would be outrage over it. that analogy doesn't even really articulate how big a deal it is since snowden became a public figure after the leaks — it's like if audie murphy were immortal and still a national symbol (with his own museum!) but suddenly started supporting isis
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