Avengers: Infinity War

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).

these have started piling up to where the thing blocking me from going to new ones isn't so much "superhero fatigue" as feeling like i'm too behind. still haven't seen winter soldier or guardians of the galaxy, which everyone seems to rate, and netflix keeps trying to get me to watch the sequels to each and it's like uggghhh i'm so behind and that makes it feel like work.

I wasn't very enthused about another Avengers movie, but I've got the day off Friday and I've got to do something, right?

i dunno how you can be unenthused about a movie where star-lord has a moustache ffs

I feel you, Dr. C. I think we're reaching a point where the bigger event movies of the MCU are no longer going to be for casual fans (Civil War was the first one that definitely felt like that to me). Thankfully, you should still be able to enjoy the smaller scale films without feeling like you're working on your doctoral thesis on casinos.

i still suspect that this movie and its mysteriously-unnamed sequel are gonna be a reset-button of some sort for the mcu, where the subsequent films will be smaller or at least more self-contained for a while, because they're dragging a hell of a lot of backstory baggage along with them at this point

Neither Adam Warlock nor Mistress Death are in this, apparently? :/

Warlock will be along shortly. I assumed in the next GotG fillum (since his arrival was presaged in the last installment).

I was thinking that most of the recent movies had been pretty self-contained but then my gf recently watched Spider-Man (nb, she has now seen literally every MCU thing aside from Ragnarok) and was thrown by the Civil War flashbacks at the beginning. 'Wait, when does this movie take place? What were they all doing on that airstrip again?'

I'm still going with my theory that someone uses the gauntlet at the end of the movie and half the roles are recast and none of the characters seem to notice

and introducing: zack efron as teen tony

that seems more plausible than my "robert pattinson was always tony stark" theory

it's built into the premise of the movie that at least some of the cast are going to die, at least temporarily - if marvel are gonna recast the roles, as they inevitably will at some point, now's the time to do it

I think the great travesty is that this is all happening pre-merger so we don't get Doom

"The Gauntlet has the power to bring them back, but only in younger and more bankable form."