1. North America: Fall 2019 2. Western Europe: Fall 2019 + Winter 2020 3. Asia Pacific: Fall 2019 through Fall 2020 4. Latin America: Fall 2020

I’m not sure! It might have been during or after RDJ’s first contract renegotiations when it wasn’t obvious if he was returning.

And both WS and IM3 take place in literal days.

Yeah, the fact that people routinely ignore the last bit of dialogue in the movie annoys me a lot. Even Pepper, in IM3, is not actually angry about Iron Man - she’s angry about obsessively creating suits.

By the early 2000s, more people in the business thought Namor was a good deal than people thought the Avengers were. I mean, they added Wolverine and Spidey to the comics line-up aroudn that time. They weren’t ‘A-list’.

In terms of that measure, yes, there’s a lot of MCU movies I like more or find better and more interesting, but the ‘random movie in the background I end up watching’ metric it’s Avengers, IM1, GotG.

The last 45 minutes of Avengers are pure, pure viewer satisfaction. Even stuff like Loki asking for a drink at the end. The timing is perfect.

The X-Men had a succesful cartoon in the 90s. They were a lot more A-list than the Avengers were. Like, it took me until AoU to realize Dexter’s Lab was parodying them levels of B-list.

Yeah, people back then criticized the cowl, but the costume didn’t bother too many people. The WS suit is cool, but it’s not really a Captain America suit, so my favorite is the AoU/CW/IW one (specially because I enjoy picturing him painting it black BECAUSE HE’S EDGY now).

Exactly! He’s earnestness, but not corny. My fave Cap, really.

I know.

What I love about Waid’s Cap is how he balances his earnestness with the rest of him.

It’s still pretty conservative because it assumes the reason most countries are struggling is lack of resources or lack of tech to exploit those resources instead of other countries’ appropriating those resources.

Ant-Man is another one of those that, in hindsight, makes sense. Peyton Reed was always good with very silly, very high-concept comedies about mockable stuff that should not work and yet...

My PF’s because of structural problems with my feet. It took me like two years to realize most people don’t take an hour to get out of bed because it hurts that much to walk, ha.

IM1 is both mildly critical AND jingoistic.

(Apparently, this is all laid out in Guardians Of The Galaxy, fellow MCU simpletons.)

At the end of Captain America: TFA, Howard fishes the Tesseract out of the sea. It’s what he uses to develop the arc reactor. Presumably, he gives it to the government.

... I’m deeply, deeply annoyed by people who, 20 movies in, seem to have realized the marvel movies are pro-US military. All of them are mildly critical but with some really stupid moments thrown in.

Magical realism has been done well in Latin American cinema before. It has characters, it’s visually evocative... It shouldn’t be so hard. I mean, they managed to adapt Zama after all.