“No, it’s not a political statement, we’re just honoring the memory of, uh, some cops who died 3 and a half years ago? Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

I very much want a sticker of this to slap over the decals I see on cars.

They didn’t.

Something I thought the movie didn’t make super clear was: how much *did* Carol remember about her old life? We see her remembering the accident, but I wasn’t sure if that was a snap-into-place moment with her remembering everything else up til then, or if the rest of it was still just bits and pieces. Kinda made it…

Not that we should be looking to straight white guys for representation, but we’re still angry at him for having an affair, huh?

We’re not buying that x-planation.

For me, the thing was I was unsure for most of the movie whether the audience was supposed to know it was Bucky. In Winter Soldier during the Hydra reveal there’s a quick shot of a newspaper clip heavily implying Bucky was involved, and remembering that I just kept thinking “WE already know it’s Bucky... right?”

This is right up there with Dark Knight as one of my favorite comic book movies, and this final battle is one of the big reasons. I particularly like the reversal that sets it up - you think they’re going into a big battle against a bunch of other Winter Soldiers, but then the movie pulls the rug out from under you…

Hard disagree. A good alternate thesis for this article would be how much it was a counter-point to Man of Steel, with its city-destroying collateral-damage-ignoring final battle. Cap specifically says something to the effect of “we need to save these people to prove we’re better than Ultron says”.

But then, I was born yesterday.

I rewatched Avengers 1 and 2 yesterday, and even if it doesn’t quite reach the heights of 1, Ultron is still one of my favs. There are a lot of plot points that are glossed over too quickly, like the creation of Vision, and I wish we’d gotten to see a Director’s Cut that fleshed out those things better. But there are…

As the lone Trek fan who still loves the Abrams-verse, my hope of hopes is the Red Angel has something to do with Red Matter and comes from the Kelvin timeline, and Spock is being driven mad by visions of Vulcan’s destruction. I mean, it’ll never happen, but if they used all this to get Disco out of the Prime universe…

It’s weird how Sarek convinces Burnham to take Spock to Section 31 by being all “you have a troubled Starfleet history and risk a court martial otherwise”, and then like 5 minutes later she just goes on the run with him anyway.

Girlf and I have been watching “Windy City Rehab” and have taken to calling it “Boobs & Bevers”, because her cleavage seems to be a main character on that show, and her work-husband-whose-name-I-don’t-know looks like Bevers from Broad City.

I love Age of Ultron - top 5 MCU for me. It’s overstuffed, and doesn’t have the same distinct character arcs as Avengers 1, but it’s an ambitious blast beginning-to-end. Civil War is still my favorite, and I think the Russos do both a better job of balancing complex multi-character plots, and direct better action, but…

Also isn’t this kind of exactly what we see in Avengers aboard the Helicarrier, when everyone’s standing in the lab around the scepter and their argument starts to really heat up seemingly because of it? It seems like this fits into that - Thanos wasn’t controlling him explicitly, but the scepter/mind stone did…

It would be better if Apple would stop chasing thinness and leave room for things like bigger battery and a headphone jack. But also, like, how hard is it to just leave the dongle connected to whatever pair of headphones you’re used to using? I know there are a million use cases where it’s not that simple, but having…

I’m super confused by these headlines about this being his first tour since the allegations, or maybe I’ve gone insane, because he definitely had a tour this fall.

On the one hand, she is great and what she’s saying is great and it’s great that she’s saying it. But on the other hand, she is like the most beautiful woman in the world and pretty much perfectly matches that “ideal” body type she derides.