I think people are saying the cancer plotline didn’t have enough time because the movie didn’t really show her being that sick. With stage 4 and on chemo, she should have been way thinner, BALD, and not so peppy. The film should have done a better job contrasting her being deathly ill as Jane vs full of pep and…

Not discussing your liking of the movie (glad you had fun), but I strongly disagree on the concept that grandiose cosmic stuff has to be silly just because a mainstream industry with its wooden standards made *one* sloggy movie - a sloggyness that had more to do with the lack of basic dramatic writing in its script tha…

5. Swingin’ production values. Like, even Portman’s face looked pretty weird in some shots as Mighty Thor. I don’t remember TDW or Ragnarok lookin’ this fake. Also, shots were mostly random (hallo, basics of cinematic language?)

6. Useless characters (srsly, who is Valkyrie and why is she in the story - and mind you I…

The Gorr decapitation shenanigans was to partly show why he kidnapped the kids (beyond drawing in Thor but there were many people he could have taken that would have accomplished the same thing).

The Dark World featured Jane and Darcy joking with each other. Particularly when it came to romance, but I also vaguely remember them doing it at the final battle with teleporting shenanigans. But also, the first 2 movies never gave Jane a chance to do much beyond dumping info.

As one who feels the same about Thor as you, I saw “L&T” on premiere day and fucking loved it. Maybe not as good as I thought “Ragnarök” was, but as a summer popcorn/action movie it’s really really good, I thought. YMMV!

I know you did not read the comics, but not sure if you have seen anything with comic book Gorr at all. If they stuck closer to the look of comic book Gorr, we would have gotten basically a Voldemort look-alike. They altered his look a bit (mostly by letting Bale keep his nose), but the spirit of the character was the…

“Less than the sum of its parts” is the way I’d describe it. Some fun characters, some interesting ideas, an interesting villain, even a decent Act III - but it doesn’t amount to a solid movie put together.

When they do Secret Wars they are gonna reboot the MCU, so odds are they will try to bring in as many fan favorites as possible for one final send-off.

Ragnarok was a “joke” movie that many found refreshing & funny compared to the seriousness of the others. What happens when you try to retell the same joke over & over again no matter how you tweak & repackage it? Instead of aging well it just becomes tiresome & annoying. This kind of formula only works ONCE & it’s…

Considering Herc is played by lovable grump Brett Goldstein, I’m guessing he’d be the “straight man”

I think it should be pointed out that Evans tweeted “Sam Wilson is Captain America,” NOT “Anthony Mackie is Captain America.”

I could definitely see either of them coming back for a cameo (and a fat stack of cash), but I think both RDJ and Evans would decline anything more than a cameo, no matter how much money is thrown at them. (But never say never.)

That’s that patented AVClub lazy writing.  An editor may have caught those but sadly there are no editors in California 

Seems pretty likely that Marvel will do Secret Wars at some point and I’m sure they’ll try to entice RDJ and Evans both back with stacks of cash for that.

That was back before the MCU was such a big deal (only Iron Man 2).

OH, SNAP!

Thank god they fired all the old writers so we could finally have content like...this.

Usually I don’t appreciate the snark around here but I totally understand why you would be attacking a website that was “floating a lot of odd language in its coverage” or being “weirdly reticent” to acknowledge something obvious.

I will refer to him strictly as Captain Falcon and nobody can stop me