Before he can’t pick up the hammer, he’s throwing beer mugs around and treating humans like inconsequential bugs. Afterwards he’s suddenly incredibly caring and values the lives of humans above everything else. It’s kind of comically dramatic.

Wait, what? The first thor film has the most dramatic character development (by which I mean “the character fundamentally changes” of pretty much any movie in the Avengers franchise. Like the character from the first half of the movie bears almost no relation to the character in the second half other than that he can…

It was admittedly years ago, but I found the book a bit heavy handed. Like it didn’t feel like a work of fiction so much as “and what if they were men AND women! woah! did I just blow your mind?”

That seemed *entirely* in character for Quill. I quote that line all the time.

Neck and neck with Thor 2 for me, but yeah, not like they were *bad*, I just walked out of the movie going “eh, yeah, that was ok I guess”.

Agree. Also the deux ex machina through which he was defeated was...pretty confusing. Cave magic Jarvis something something.

Yeah, most of the marvel movies at least make attempts at character development, some more successfully than others. Like every Iron Man movie is about Tony Start learning not to be such a self-centered jerk who tries to do everything himself (though that gets a bit repetitive). The first Thor movie was kind of…

I think a lot of it is because of just the expense of keeping actors available.

“Bigger than that: it was about making five (mostly) independent films beforehand, introducing and developing the heroes and key macguffin and, yes, the villain, culminating in everyone coming together for an epic showdown.”

I like that if you put their first names together (either way really) you’ve got like a badass D&D character name, or maybe something from cheesy space opera.

These guys are so sincere it’s almost adorable. They are suggesting, without a trace of irony, that this is their first entry in their line of products for the ‘kitchen of tomorrow’. I mean look at this: http://www.mysmalt.com/blog/2016/1/7/smart-kitchen-yesterdays-dream-is-todays-reality

Post JFK. And yeah, he was always eccentric, but I remember thinking he had really started drinking his own koolaid.

Oh yes, absolutely different. I did not mean to imply it was the same. I like to think that the room would have also booed someone as actively destructive as DeVos.

This would be more interesting if we saw the corresponding question for the local NBA team. Also if we knew more about the sample (though I’m guessing it was “people on the internet who like clicking polls”).

If this speech/appearance were part of a debate of ideas where students could come and listen and respond to opposing viewpoints, I’d be totally in agreement. This was a graduation ceremony, where being invited to speak is something of an accolade and it’s expected to be someone the students respect, or at least don’t…

And then at the end Deadpool kills the animator?

Show us on the doll where Manu touched you.

As someone who has never been to Cincinnati, I like Cincinnati chili. Full disclosure: I’m a fat white guy. 

There’s nothing *wrong* with it, but that’s really the best I can say for it.

Agree, but it was also a work of sci fi that is more accessible to non sci-fi fans than many great sci fi books, and that’s not worth nothing.