I actually thought they made Thanos too weak in IW in a lot of ways, aside from the opening where he beats down Hulk. His use of the stones he had at any given time was often pretty unimaginative given what they are capable of. [snip] In the comics he was literally unstoppable aside from his hubris. Whatever he…

Ah, thanks. In brief, just mulling them over...

1. Agreed.
2. @#$%. Yes. That was one of my biggest gripes with the movie. Like Quill couldn’t have let them take the gauntlet off and THEN kick his ass?
3. I was mixed on that, but point taken.
4. Interesting take. It did not bother me because I did not take it as…

Someone else commented that we’ve seen sling ring portals cut things in half, and I don’t see a reason other than a disinclination to brutality for Strange not to do that (I mean from an internal perspective, not from a “why didn’t the writers do it this way” perspective) and amputate the glove.

*And relative to what I think the Sorceror Supreme ought to be capable of (ok, he’s new to the job, which … sigh), a somewhat nerfed Strange at that.

I wouldn’t say [Captain Marvel] came across as the order of magnitude more powerful than anyone else that Feige and the writers described though.

I really liked Captain Marvel. I think she’s going to be more of an equalizer than a deus ex machina, if that distinction makes any difference. But the movie made sense of why she’s just showing up now. I also think Hulk will be important for equalizing things as well, power-wise as well as with his relationship with…

Fan here. I happened to really, really like Captain Marvel. It was awesome. I also have roughly a decade’s worth of investiture in a lot of these characters. The emotional beats still work for me from the last Avengers movie, and even though they are going to inevitably undo the deaths of half the universe, for the…

If misogyny were the reason for the backlash against Ghostbusters 2016 or Captain Marvel, why did the same men who don’t like these properties enjoy Wonder Woman?

True, but it’s not like it’s getting lampooned by critics far and wide.

While I don’t disagree with you, there’s a difference between being fired for a bad performance or deserving to be fired over a performance, and a legitimate difference in how Moore and Holofcener’s vision. The former would be harder to swallow considering how accomplished Julianne Moore is as an actress. The latter…

It sounds like hell. Imagine the dinner table conversation!

It’s easy to cast studio execs as clueless villains in a story like this, but you don’t have to work too hard to imagine why they might’ve been hesitant to throw a whole lot of money at a struggling movie star and an opening-credits designer to make a movie full of dick jokes and beheadings.

she told me that the whole family is pretty much forced to stay in the room and watch “because it’s a true story that they should know.”

Does anybody else get the feeling this is going to have a Chasing Amy type of ending?

I sort of feel like Jimmy and Gretchen are going to break up in conjunction with Edgar and Lindsay becoming a couple, flash forward to Edgar and Lindsay’s wedding at some point in the future where Jimmy and Gretchen will reconnect,…

I mean, isn’t it obvious?

I’m not sure how unique a take this is, but I thought it important or at least relevant to show in a historically accurate manner just what Jesus was said to have gone through. While I am not a practicing Christian now, it was far too easy as an adult to gloss over just what Jesus endured in the name of his faith. I…

I just don’t want another Ghostbusters on our hands, where we get annoying fanboys whining about how putting a woman in anything makes it bad.

Thanks! I’ll give it a listen. I had just kind of given up on the band after a while, so I’m more than happy to find out I was mistaken and that they have put out some solid releases.

Checked out the White Album, and...I liked it a lot! So, color me pleasantly surprised. Thanks again!

Thanks!

Even though I have been unimpressed by most of what I’ve heard since Pinkerton, I’m definitely open to new releases. I do not mean to be negative or a hater, the stuff I have heard overall just tended to not be my style. Which is fine, but I would love something that was, not necessarily striving to be their…