Avengers: Infinity War

Hm, dunno. Can't he just be a big bad guy?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-why-the-avengers-are-thanos-supporting-characters-1823921364

Thanos is the hero

If this is at all like the comic, then I assume the movie will be a lot of Thanos consolidating his galactic/cosmic power, there will be cuts to Strange or Thor or whomever mumbling about a disturbance in the force of something, and that it will end with the cliffhanger of everyone dead. I mean, there is so little the previous movies have done with Thanos that they have a lot of ground to make up. Then again, I always thought Ultron was a great villain, but they turned him into a boring one-off in the last Avengers movie, so who knows.

yeah assume the r rating has to do with the murder of half of the universe's population

I believe the R rating is only a rumor at this point and I would be surprised if Disney let that happen.

It won't be rated R. I mean, the first one was almost R, too, but there is no way this movie is hitting theaters as an R.

I mean, you've gotta let the kids in if you expect to sell them Thanos bedsheets.

Exactly. Plus, cosmic violence is bloodless.

I always thought Ultron was a great villain, but they turned him into a boring one-off in the last Avengers movie, so who knows.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:29 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mentioned this somewhere (maybe upthread?) but after I started to notice that the MCU has a really bad habit of killing off most of their villains, I started to wonder if that wasn't perhaps an intentional opening to have Thanos rectify the situation...

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Coincidentally, in musing about where the MCU goes once the current phase is capped off, it seemed to me that delving into the monsterverse (Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, the Blade reboot that's been floated) is one entirely possible route. Maybe we'll get the Tim & Eric Meet Manphibian film that our generation so richly deserves.

the R rating tweet upthread was a joke. is there anybody seriously rumoring it will be R?

MCU villains that it was a mistake to kill off:
Red Skull
Killmonger
Ultron

MCU villains that they haven't killed that I want to see again:
Dormammu

Villains that they haven't killed that I don't want to see again:
Loki

So far their burn rate seems pretty ok. I can't blame them for wanting to make the MCU as big as possible and keeping the baddies fresh is a decent way to do it.

Loki eats it in the first 40 minutes, callin' it

the R rating tweet upthread was a joke. is there anybody seriously rumoring it will be R?

i've set my mind on nude thanos now goddammit and i'm gonna be real ticked off if i don't see the purple-headed monster's purple-headed monster

I believe I read somewhere that he's going to discover the existence of a seventh 'virility' gem. But where to put it?!?

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Thanos is a boring character. Starlin's comics are good because they have all of Marvel's crazy cosmic beings in them.

And Ant-Man is the shittiest silver age Marvel comic hands down. This thing is not that thing.

I loved the hell out of some ant-man in marvel comics presents in the early 90s

he’s a guy who can shrink and talk to ants, obviously the premise writes itself

What do they talk about?

basketball

Like, "what would it be like to be tall enough to play basketball?" And then Antman is all "well, let me show you!" And then he grows back to normal size but accidentally squishes them and is all "ah, man, sorry little guys!" But he's afraid to shrink back down, because they might be mad at him.

he talks _to_ them, they obviously can't talk back. they're ants! sheesh

alternatively they make clicking noises with their mandibles

he talks to them about how much he likes walking around inside his wife's vagina

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let the record show I was referring to the Ant-Man of the early 90s MCP, Scott Lang

lol sic

Joe Russo has confirmed to the Radio Times that The Leftovers and Fargo star Carrie Coon will be playing Proxima Midnight, the spear-wielding female member of Thanos’ Black Order.

whaaaaaaaat

.....well, I'm glad she's getting that Marvel money. Sounds like it's a one-off (or close to it).

Intersting. I had forgotten that the Black Order was going to be in this and that they'd yet to announce who was cast in the roles. I have a feeling there's still more surprises to come (hoping for at least some token representation from the TV world).

FYI, it's now been almost four years since they announced all of the MCU films through 2019, and as of this moment we still don't know anything about the plans beyond next year aside from GotG 3 and a Black Widow film. Let alone the revised title/general plot of the next Avengers film. I kinda love how tight a lid they're keeping on this thing.

Scoop: there will be a Black Panther sequel.

Now that BP and Wonder Woman have put paid to notions about the marketability of superheroes who aren't white dudes, I'd bet good money on a Ms. Marvel flick.

that'd be a hell of a marketing nightmare after the Captain Marvel movie

;)

I wouldn't be surprised if they made it some kinda buddy pic pseudo sequel to Captain Marvel.

Review embargo lifted, seen 2 reviews so far. Sounds like a big overstuffed sandwich -- mostly good flavors but stuff keeps falling out and it's a mess to consume.

So there's a Flavortown in the MCU is what you're saying

Thanos bringing the donkey sauce.

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hahahaha

some review tweet said that Thanos has moments of being a sympathetic character and I’m down for that

just want to dead half the universe for reasons

anybody check out the venom trailer? i thought it looked okay. i assume venom is the villain in the next spidey film?

No, confusingly enough, Venom (while Spidey-related) is wholly separate from the MCU.

Sony has several similarly-confusing related-but-unrelated movies in the pipeline so they can get maximum mileage out of their Spider-Man film rights.

I just had an idea based on the asgardians always coming back/reincarnating: the warriors three end up defeating thanos

I have basically zero predictions or specific wants from this thing beyond the weirdly specific desire for Nebula's role to be the same as in Infinity Gauntlet.

I think I'm going into blackout mode now. If I accidentally spoil shit for myself before I make it to the theater I'll be positively miffed.

I’m with you re: Nebula though. I want her to have that moment.

seeing this on friday - i suspect the ecstatic first impressions i've seen so far are overstated but still cautiously psyched, not least because it feels like marvel have managed to keep quite a bit about it under wraps

Because of my hearing damage, I can't see these movies at the cinema and have to wait till streaming. Avoiding spoilers gonna be hard.

Oof, that sucks.

Tickets for Saturday morning, which gives me just enough time to sneak in a viewing of Ragnarok and complete my month and a half long MCU rewatch (although I'll have to content myself with just memories of Wakanda).