Avengers: Infinity War

Yeah, I'd say Adam Warlock is a lock for GOTG3

I took every shot from behind-the-scenes featurettes where Dr. Strange is in front of a greenscreen, and edited him into a waterpark. pic.twitter.com/kiD8JTZLgH

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) May 15, 2018

Howard The Duck has the Soul stone obvs.

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they hope to dichotomize the titan
a divided enemy is an easier foe to deal with
but thanos refuses to surrender his individuality

thanos isnt the hero this universe wanted

but he might just be the one it needed

good message for the snowflakes seduced by the quippily sardonic egomaniac billionaire or all american muscle head ex armed-forces or the yoga dude who claims to have a magic answer to everything

thanos '22 imo

his goal is admirable, his methods suspect, his resolve... unshakeable

the yoga dude lol

"oh i used be a surgeon, had it all, had a moment of clarity on a trip to nepawl, have u been to nepawl awh u must the yak butter is to die for hry wanna see a trick?"

the fuck basis is this for a superhero

i think u'll find he's not a superhero he's the sorceror supreme actually

Wong's a better character

well, yeah

is wong now sorceror supreme pro tempore or does he need a confirmation hearing?

I finally saw this yesterday. I pretty much loved every second of it.

I have no idea how anyone sharing scenes with the Guardians kept their shit together enough to get enough editable footage because had I been on that set, I would have been breaking like a mofo and been fired.

So many people in these movies are great but special shout-outs to Danai Gurira, Tom Holland, and Dave Bautista.

yeah bautista is consistently a highlight and man does this movie make me want a whole thor/rocket/drax road movie

^ Would watch.

Also I think Veg is OTM above about how Starlord seems off in this one - I'd suggest that the real minute-to-minute way in which the film works or doesn't depends a lot on how they get the previous films' senses of humour to work with or against each other - and if you don't get Peter Quill's to be funny, he just looks like a dick.

2018: bautista is consistently a highlight

Lots of media reporting that there's a 30 minute extended "Thanos Cut" coming but not true apparently

No, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Is Not Getting A Thanos Cut https://t.co/vvaQUs9b7H pic.twitter.com/n0SXzlG8FO

— Heroic Hollywood (@heroichollywood) July 3, 2018

surely a thanos cut would be 50% shorter

Marvel has never released extended cuts have they?

they usually don't even have that many outtakes on their home releases

lmao this is great: https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-subreddit-dedicated-to-thanos-is-preparing-to-ban-hal-1827346665

I finally watched this. It kind of came off as a big-budget freshman trolley-problem essay? Everybody gets a chance to either kill someone personally or else half the universe will die, and they all choose the latter while the audience facepalms.

Wanda has to choose between saving half the universe or saving her robot bf. Then Quill has to choose between saving half the universe or saving Gamora. Then Gamora has to choose between saving half the universe or saving her robot sister. Then Cumberbatch has to choose between saving half the universe or saving Tony. Did I forget one. Maybe it's better if you've read the books first.

I mean Dr strange knows the outcome but otherwise good points

With Quill it’s more avenging? Which he doesn’t anyway.

- Wanda knows Thanos can't kill half the people in the universe until he gets the Stone from Vision's head. So it makes sense that, while Thanos isn't there yet, she would absolutely everything to try destroy the Stone without killing Vision while there's still time. Then, when they run out of time, she does kill Vision and destroy the Stone. Which would've worked without Thanos's "turn back time" trick, which she couldn't have known about.

- As I mentioned upthread, there are some hints that Gamora revealing the location of the Soul Stone was a part of bigger plan by her to defeat Thanos; either she provided him with a credible forgery, or her soul was transported inside the Stone, where she can control it. The sequel will show whether this theory is true.

- As Darraghmac points out, Strange looked at all the parallel timelines and saw one where they defeated Thanos, and apparently the only the chance to do that was to let Thanos get the Stones and kill everyone, Strange included. So he didn't need to make the choice at all, just let everything roll.

- With Quill, there's really no excuse. But I guess it's in line how the GotG movies depict him as a bit boneheaded and easily angered.

Really, the stupidest choice in the movie is when Thor gets the big ol' Thanos-killing axe, surprise attacks him, and doesn't hit him in the head. If he'd just thought, "how can I make sure he dies before he can use the Stones", th e good guys would've won fair and square.

People seem to miss the fact this *is* the one plan that works, per Dr. Strange’s comments. It sounds like resignation in the face of failure when he says “there was no other way” at the end, but I am assuming it means the only way they win in the long term is to let Thanos win temporarily.

Quill getting angry and foiling their attempt to grab the gauntlet was always going to happen

when Thor gets the big ol' Thanos-killing axe

my memory of this is a bit fuzzy, but is it ever explained why thor needs a new weapon, since his whole arc in ragnarok led to the realisation that his power was in him rather than in mjolnir

Bc the British lady crushed it

Something about Mjolnir serving as a focus for the power within him. Or just like, you know how awesome you feel while wielding a giant hammer or axe? Feeling awesome can help you win at all kinds of things in life. Or so I'm given to understand.

Bc the British lady crushed it

FP'd you for racism

Something about Mjolnir serving as a focus for the power within him

but he unleashes a giant, plot-hinging lightning storm at the end of ragnarok without mjolnir and it is metal as fuck!

agreed that wielding a giant edged weapon makes you feel awesome, but on the other hand it is the reason that i find it hard to hold down a permanent job because apparently double-headed axes are 'inappropriate for the office environment'

Bc the British lady crushed it

she's asgardian u ignoramus

(Plus also Australian irl, as I was recently shocked to learn?)

little-known fact: australians can be elegant sometimes

Thor, not taking the obvious headshot, doing the thing that villains usually do at the end of movies. MAKES YA THINK

what, dying?

can't believe the chick out of Paradise Road and Oscar & Lucinda and Thank God He Met Lizzie and Little Fish who is also head of the Sydney Theatre Company turned out to be Australian

you all remember Thank God He Met Lizzie, right

Can't believe I wasn't able to infer the obvious conclusion from all of those things I didn't know until thirty seconds ago. Puttin' on muh dunce cap!

I think the explanation is simply that Thanos is so tough, that Thor's innate power alone can't kill him, he needs a magical weapon to enhance it. True, his lightnings did do some mighty damage to Hela, but Infinity War begins with Thor having already lost to Thanos, so presumably he tried the lightning and it wasn't enough.

yeah, i s'pose that's fair enough - just seems a bit clunky storytelling-wise to have him lose his power, regain it in spectacular fashion, and then immediately have to go back to relying on weapons again

altho i guess infinity war was being written before or parallel to ragnarok so there's probably just a dull procedural reason behind it more than anything else

you could have just inferred it from her being Australian tbf

Not all of us have immediate and unfettered access to all of the knowledge in the universe, my friend.

sic does have custody of all six infinity stones tbf

I assumed as much.

It's a real struggle finding underpants that fit.

No one made you paste them on and around your no-no zone.

Blanchett usually plays English characters or does an English accent, no? So it's not unreasonable to assume she's from England. Has she ever done an Australian accent in her Hollywood roles?