...See and I feel that for me personally this made this film less engaging- because the MCU is a shared universe there is going to be a mix between letting a film standalone and relying on audiences prior knowledge. (I think this film went to far in the relying on prior knowledge to do the emotional lifting.)

The problem with that is there is literally no development of the Vision/ Wanda relationship- we are told they have been together since Civil War 2 years ago, get the scene of them at the begining...and that’s supposed to be enough for us to care about them as a couple.

Sorry not a troll, someones that’s actually seen the film and felt it was only kinda solid.

See I’m not asking for fanservice character interaction moments (they have those)- I’m talking about characters actually interacting, having different points of view- dicussing what is happening, making plans and progressing the plot. Because when you don’t have those it feels like the film is jumping from preplanned…

I feel thats a result of Joss Whedon leaving the films- cause he would’ve wrote that scene and maybe his intent for a hypothetical Avengers 3 would’ve been to do a version of Thanos motivation closer to the comics...then when the Russo brothers came on board they felt the motivation didn’t work.

Having watched the film its not really about expecting the specific personal stakes of Civil War- it is more just a desire to have some personal stakes to help ground all the huge spectacle.

Marvel have already stated repeatedly that Avengers 3 & 4 are two seperate films. (So this film shouldn’t really be treated as part one of a two part film.)

And the comment was asking if this film would work better as a two part film (so all the events that happen in A3 taking part over two films rather than one.)
And I…

HUGE SPOILERS-

In a word, yes.

The thing is Marvel having pushing the idea that this and the next film are not two parts of one film, but two distinct films, so it really shouldn’t rely on the next film to make it work better as a whole.

I’d agree with you abit more if Marvel hadn’t gone to the effort of saying this one and the next film are two seperate films and not a two parter.

The thing is this movie does have too many characters- most of them show up, say a couple of lines, then remain in the background and any emotional arcs basically reliant on the audiences knowledge of the other films to do the work.

Not really with Live and Let Die- they have a couple of moments that come from the book, but the entire smuggling gold for the Russians subplot is removed and Mr Big is given a double identity for some reason.

Could you expand on that abit- about why you think Lazenby is closer to the novel Bond?
(Cause to me he always seemed to be too green, wheras Bond in the novel was always a veteran.)

The thing is that one of the big reasons Connery had checked out by that point was because he felt the films weren’t offering him much of an oppurtunity to act- he basically just said a quip and used a gadget to solve everything.

I play abit of harmonica so it is the type of thing that is really noticeable to me! (Things like the phrasing and how clean the note are- the later harmonic parts just don’t match up with what Dylan was playing in the song.)

You can also tell because the Watchmen version is 2 mins longer than Dylan’s and has two…

Was going to post this- seriously a list about favourite opening credit sequence in film and not a single Bond film on the list! (Especially given the Bond films are some of those very rare films at this point that still treat an opening cerdits sequence as its own distinct sequence, and tries to give it a bit of…

One thing that actually bothers me about the Watchmen opening credits (as a Dylan fan) is that in order to make the song long enough for their opening titles they created a new harmonica solo....that clearly was recorded later and isn’t Bob Dylan on harmonica!
(Like the harmonica playing in that extra break sounds…

Internationally Black Panther is closing in on Last Jedi’s final gross, and has already made more than Rogue One...so I’d be shocked if Solo makes more than Black Panther internationally as that would make it the highest grossing Star Wars film besides Force Awakens.

As great as Jonathan Pryce looks in this, I’m still sad that due to John Hurt’s passing we missed out on him in the lead role.