Some Guy TT posted:

endgame features a brief scene wherein chris evans steve rogers uses the alternate dimension time travel bullshit to go back to when he was frozen in a glacier and hook up with peggy they have a long happy married life together as can be seen when rogers returns as an old man so theres no longer any need for him to play a role hes obviously gotten sick of save the world anymore because hes a good boy and deserves his reward

the ontological implications of this if you read the scene any way beyond the superficial are horrifying the obvious interpretation is that steve rogers usurped his own past identity under false pretenses to gently caress peggy the more charitable reading that steve rogers gave informed consent to peggy by explaining the actual situation is just too bizarre to contemplate since were expected to believe both that peggy is totally cool with leaving the steve rogers as she knew him in the ice to gently caress the future trunks version instead and also that she had no interest in using his knowledge of future events to prevent catastrophe

note that in either interpretation steve rogers himself does not seem to give a poo poo about what happens to anyone aside from himself and peggy the whole situation illustrates the super fickle ethics of endgame where the characters knowingly gently caress with events in alternate universes while giving no thought to the potential consequences for the people in those alternate universes because they dont seem to think of them as actual people with their own motivations and lives that persist beyond the existence of their own

supposedly wandavision and the next couple marvel movies are going to resolve this somehow most likely by transforming all the hosed with universes into a single closed loop although im not clear what any of this has to do with that recap i read that said the latest episode of wandavision was like the crucible except the accused really is a witch and she murders all the accusers with magic with the accusers themselves also being witches but to more broadly answer the original question this entire thought experiment comes to you courtesy of supermechagodzilla the poster whose gimmick is taking dumb movie plots to their extremely logical and stupid conclusions and the cined mods decided that this time he went too far

uber_stoat posted:

https://twitter.com/JordanRasko/status/1365984455098175495?s=20

DesertIslandHermit posted:

There are seriously 4 loving Marvel movies to come out this year. And then 4 more the next year. It's unbearable.

I am looking forward to Thor 4 and Guardians 3 but I'm tapping out after.

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1389715446199328769

Serf posted:

https://twitter.com/vashikoo/status/1452419678639300608

Casey Finnigan posted:

idk I was like 6 years old in the 90s. I had always heard it told that Seattle grunge overtook classic rock and changed the landscape of music, or whatever.

the only songs I can distinctly remember hearing on the radio in the 90s were Killing Me Softly, I Believe I Can Fly, Mambo No. 5, Livin La Vida Loca, and the Every Breath You Take song that P. Diddy wrote about biggie smalls.

Communist Thoughts posted:

hes meant to look like bob dylan imo

DesertIslandHermit posted:

Isn’t he a really lovely dad?

Serf posted:

i was getting hyped for verhoeven making a new american movie and someone busted in with "yeah but hollow man was bad because it had the villain rape someone!" and its like, what an extremely stupid kind of criticism. the invisible psychopath violates people's privacy and then their bodies, imagine that! and verhoeven literally quit making american movies for decades over how much he didn't like hollow man, i think the guy can decide when to come back

Farm Frenzy posted:

theflyingexecutive posted:

so the bit is this white guy and his Japanese wife (who doesn't speak English) open a sushi restaurant. he talks to her in very slow, loud, racist-accented English and she talks in very fast Japanese. the first scene with them leaves some ambiguity as to how much he can understand her but the next time he shows up, he has a new Japanese wife who doesn't speak English and admits he has no idea what she's saying. the protagonists don't critique or call him out for what he's doing, but the husband isn't portrayed as sympathetic either. it's made pretty clear that the wife is the competent one actually running the place, food and business wise, so the joke isn't exclusively the husband's accent like Mickey Rooney, it's more their weird dynamic as a couple and how uncontroversial his behavior was for the valley in the 70s

it's also two scenes total out of the whole film, one of the many vignetted stories

sexpig by night posted:

https://twitter.com/lysatronix/status/1470804346480726016

Some Guy TT posted:

does anyone else think call me by your name is kind of weird and creepy looking back its basically indiana jones romancing whatshername from the first indiana jones movies but its the actual story instead of just backstory also its supposed to be romantic and also the parents think its kind of hot and are totally into it and also the aids crisis is going on so loving the grad student might have literally been a death sentence for the kid

Mantis42 posted:

Faye Valentine took the dog pill

https://twitter.com/hecku_back/status/1471430886671400960?s=20

A Buttery Pastry posted:

The movie was invented by the French, including movies with special effects.

KomradeX posted:

Even as a kid into my teens reading Harry Potter iit bothered me that he ever actually got good at doing magic, who somehow floated by using basic poo poo

LGD posted:

eh, that's an overgeneralization that doesn't even hold true for the cited examples - Goku generally needs to pump iron to get swole, but he's just as much an alien god blessed with absurd genetic gifts as Superman, and most iterations of Batman have him achieving his status quo through absurd amounts of training/planning/prep work

while the focus on hard work is absolutely a trope that's emphasized more in shonen, I think what you're talking about comes down more to typical story structure - is the fantasy centered on power level progression, or do they take place in an established status quo? if something is too strong for Goku he'll train and achieve the next level of SSJ or learn how do the fusion dance or whatever, while Superman doesn't generally "level up" so if he can't solve a problem with his pre-established gifts he needs to resort to strategy/trickery/etc. (which, given the level of writing involved very frequently does mean "dumb technicality")