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This.
I kinda like Jon Favreau as he quietly did his works with no hassles and the public accepted it.
(also Jungle Book is underrated, probably one of the most fun I had in recent years).
Just got back from Rise of Skywalker, and I really liked it. No spoilers, but I thought it tied things together well, and had some wonderful themes. It FELT like Star Wars, and I left the theater really happy.
Same.
Of course, there’s some meh... but overall, I had a laugh. Which is what I really wanted from SW tbf.
Avengers: Endgame (2019) dir. Anthony and Joe Russo
Funny thing is, they actually didn’t look or publicly act any more evil than the rest of SHIELD. Hell, Coulson was just salivating at the chance to torture an Asgardian.
I’m still pissed they decided to sacrifice Sitwell as one of the bad guy in winter soldier. Dude is one of the earliest named Latino character in MCU, and they did that to him. shesh.
Dr Stark - (2019)
Inspired by an unused Avengers: Infinity War concept art where Tony Stark and Stephen Strange exchange their Iron Man suit and Cloak of Levitation with one another. (Photoshop CS6 - Painter 12)
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fuck it
For someone who consistently talks trash about the Iron Man suits, Pepper sure did enjoy showing up in one to fight at the end of the movie. Hypocritical much?
So, Marvel just announced Phase 4, and guess what, they’re planning to do a What-If animated series sometimes in Summer of 2021.
After all the talks about how Tony is responsible for 99.999% of Marvel villains, meh, I’m dreading on what they gonna do with the what-if series while giving an excuse that they’ll able to exercise their ‘creativity’.
No thank you. I’ll stick with Tony as the Overlord in my own fanfic corner.
And... making Doctor Strange as horror films? meh. I don’t like horror films. I don’t like jump scare. It’s one of the mcu series that I’m planning to continue A.T (after Tony) but now, I’m not too sure. Will wait for the trailer instead.
Yikes.
That’s like two Spiderman films in a row where they’re trying to put the blame on their villain-origin on Tony.
Yikes.
Personally, I’m not going. But I still go if a friend asked me to go. But if just by myself? Nah
ever thought about writing a Wanda and Tony fix-it ? Nobody's seemed to ever tackle that dynamic before and I think it'd be cool to see what kin of friendship/understanding those two couldve formed. Also I think ur a vv capable writer for the task
I just don’t think MCU Wanda has anything to her that I’d want to write about - her motivations and actions are just……….it’s not much to build on ‘as is’. For a fix-it I would probably have her be more in line with her comics iteration (mutant, Romani, chaos magic) and would have her conflict with Tony be significantly more extensive - for instance, having proof that he approved the bomb sale (that she was given to manipulate her grudge) and having bad blood with Americans due to her heritage and worse dealings with the American government due to being a mutant. Maybe even have men who claim to be on Tony Stark’s payroll approach her about her and her brother being useful weapons. I think that would give her a lot more to work through upon actually encountering Tony and finding he doesn’t meet expectations (esp if Pietro starts to drift from their revenge plans) - the cognitive dissonance would give her great reason to have a stress meltdown and hyperfocus on destroying him. I’d probably still have Pietro die if I wanted Wanda to hold onto her hatred, tbh, I mean if I’m approaching this as a “fix-it” scenario implying I’m at least kinda following along with AoU canon despite the tweaks I’ve already listed. Losing Pietro physically coupled with feeling like she’d lost him mentally (fighting over whether or not Tony really needs to die, Pietro maybe realizing that him and Wanda had been lied to and trying to steer Wanda back into the light, but she’s already terrified she’s gone too far and can’t risk going back) makes her throw her everything against Tony…who flees from her. Or at least that’s how she sees it when he withdraws post-Sokovia. So she confronts him. She goes to his home and rages at him, throwing things, tearing reality apart, before she just…cries. And keeps crying. Because she KNOWS. Wanda KNOWS already that Tony isn’t what she wanted him to be. She KNOWS that there isn’t some grand villain in her life that will make it all make sense, that will make all the bad go away once they’re defeated, that will make her feel more at home in a foreign country, or will make her feel more powerful than the Americans that had stepped on her people and used them. And it’s horrible, knowing that. Because it means everything she did was for nothing. Tony tells her not to waste her life - he’s stilted and awkward and he doesn’t like her, so it doesn’t exactly come out well. She tells him that she hates him and flees. They don’t talk about it. But then she begins growing closer to Vision, somebody almost as ‘other’ as the mutants of the world that don’t accept her (being as public as she is, as unstable as she is, being bad PR or an Avenger - they won’t accept any of it). Vision is gifted with a similar kind of power that she is. He understands, in a way, the burden of it all without feeling the same kind of fear she does (because life isn’t a fairytale where you defeat the great evil and get to go home. Evil is in men’s hearts and it’s in her own). He gives her peace. And he calls Tony father. Easily. Lovingly. He says that Tony built the soul upon which his own blossomed. He says that Tony is a creator…a creator of the future. Wanda so badly wants there to be a future for people like her. She wants there to be a future in which people don’t hurt as badly. For there to be a future where she never hurts anyone again - where she’s stopped if she tries. And Vision tells her that’s what Tony wants, too. That he doesn’t want to ‘waste his life’ “Don’t waste your life.” Wanda realizes that Tony, awkward and stilted and not at all fond, had been giving her his personal creed. That he’d been given by someone, as it turns out, like her. Someone who had everyone reason to hate him. Someone who chose something other than giving in to evil, in the end, because there was already enough evil in the world. Someone who chose to give Tony a future. Which he was giving to her. It’s the start of something different than what she has with Vision. It isn’t peaceful. It’s chaotic. They hate each other still, one traumatized and one subject to mistreatment by men who look and often act exactly like the other for a lifetime. Tony has to learn that his masks make Wanda shut down. Wanda has to learn that Tony is afraid of an integral part of herself because she MADE him afraid. They both have to strip down their defences to actually get to know each other. But they do. And together they fight to protect mutants when the world come crashing down on them…and maybe discover the multiverse along the way.
This is all very good, and I agree there is so little ground to build a fix-it on. Another thing I think you’d honestly have to change (or show some HUGE remorse for from Wanda) is Johannesburg. Deliberately seeking out and using the Hulk that way?
Oh! What if, instead of changing sides because her new supervillian sugar daddy was gonna kill them too, while they were in Seoul they see something about recovery efforts in Johannesburg on TV. And they are showing a car that has been partially crushed under the rubble saying, “Whoever was in the front seats are a loss, but we can hear children crying in the back, so we are working out how to get to them without risking a collapse…” And Wanda just has a Villainous Blue Screen of Death realizing she has literally become what she hated.
Yea, I don’t think Wanda and Tony fix-it will work in canon, but in fanfic world, everything goes.
Though I was wondering it it can work as sorta crack fic? Ala, Meet-the-in-laws style. Vision is willing to drop everything when he found out Tony was missing, even when Wanda tries to convince him to stay. So perhaps there’s a proposal, and the wedding can only happen if the dad (aka Tony) agrees with it. Cue hijinks as Wanda trying to get Tony to agree.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
And I’m finally ok with admitting it.
Here we go.
I didn’t give a shit about Morgan Stark.
There.
I didn’t have any emotional connection to her. At all. There was a five year time jump and then there’s a child, who was literally put in as a catalyst for Tony’s angst over fixing everything vs. losing everything (after he’d already lost everything).
She was the catalyst for their wonky timey whimey bullshit, which the more you look at it, falls apart (and really honestly could have been mostly preserved if Cap had shown back up on the platform).
AND IT WASN’T NEEDED.
They already had that. One of the moral quandaries about reversing time is that you take away not only all the bad that happened, but all the good, EVERYWHERE. One that potentially, ALL the Avengers would have to wrestle with.
Tony Stark didn’t need a child to present that quandary. So they threw a kid in there, who none of us have an emotional attachment to on her own. We have an emotional attachment to her father, who, based on the fact that he made it up to Mark 85, and had his set-in-stone-I’m-not-gonna-help-mind changed by a picture of a kid who we do have an emotional attachment to WAS NOT HAPPY AND SETTLED AND MOVED ON TO HIS NEW LIFE
He wasn’t happy and resting in his new life. Pepper so much as says so when he tells her he could put a pin in FIXING THE UNIVERSE and go to bed. “But would you be able to rest?” He was never resting. A photo, and he fixed time travel overnight, and it’s heavily implied he’d been thinking of it before, he just didn’t have all the tools.
So they threw a kid in there, and honestly, all the emotional reactions we are having are not to her, but to her father. We got to see that Tony Stark could be a good father, the best father.
But now he doesn’t get to be. That’s all Morgan is there for. We don’t need to care about her for that, and realizing that makes everything feel all the more empty. The problems with reversing time could have been easily addressed without her, because how many other people also have a her? How many people killed themselves because they lost a her? How many hers were killed when other people around her were snapped? Does it all balance out?
I car far more about the Spider-child who was ripped out of existence and then had to watch his third father figure die. I care about an Assistant turned CEO turned lover turned wife whose worst fears came true. I care about a Best Friend who loved (and tolerated) his baby brother who couldn’t keep him from destroying himself. I care about a body guard who was more like a brother who couldn’t protect his charge one last time.
I care about Tony Stark, who went from the most selfish man-child in the world to the most selfless hero in the world, and sacrificed himself in over and over again to his goal (IM1, IM2, A1, IW, and now Endgame), who realized he wanted more, wanted to retire and live his life, who once again had to make the choice nobody else could have or would have. I care that we were shown explicitly he could be a good father but now never will be
That little girl was a plot-device, who wasn’t needed. They had an entire world for that, and now they have to cram an entire world 5 years ahead of time that has had its population double in minutes, and they have to do it in a fucking Spider-man movie.
There was never time for me to make an emotional connection to Morgan Stark, and because of that, I’m stuck worrying about everyone else I was able to make a connection to, and how fucked up it is for them.
That’s not a satisfying end.
This.
She’s cute, but that’s all.
Something has been haunting me since the first time I watched this scene. It’s kind of hard to tell here, but definitely on the big screen you can get a good look at Stephen Strange. He honestly looks dead behind the eyes. To me, it feels like he braced himself for this and is almost not letting himself feel grief at Tony’s funeral. In my opinion, it’s almost as if he’s telling himself he doesn’t have a right to grieve, he should just feel guilty.
To me, that’s also the face of someone who lost somebody close to them, somebody they loved, and that face is their attempt to not crack.
Either way I look at it, it’s horribly depressing and I can’t help but feel sorry for Stephen and what it must have taken to allow Tony to wield the gauntlet
i watched stephen like a hawk in this scene and i was actually startled by how fucking stone cold he was. even wong is showing more emotion than he is - which has never happened with this pair.
it’s hard to tell with ben’s high cheekbones, but the tightness of his mouth compared to usual makes it seem like he might even be clenching his jaw a bit. i’d have to study a high quality and slowed down gif.
and the more i thought about it, the more i came to this same conclusion that he is refusing to let himself feel grief. he probably doesn’t even feel like he should be there, let alone directly behind the “family.”
he’s probably replaying tony’s death in his head over and over again, reminding himself that yet again he is directly responsible for someone’s death. and not just any someone. tony stark, the world’s best defender, a husband and father, a man who spent over a decade suffering more than any mortal man has the right to. tony, who he fought beside over 14 million times, who he undoubtedly got to know as well as or even better than even rhodey does in all that time.
stephen is going to be fucking haunted by this for the rest of his life, and i am 1001% certain he will be blaming himself for years to come. (and they better fucking show how this affects him in ds2 goddammit)
God damnit poor Stephen.
The reasons why people have been shitting on Ragnarok have been posted and talked about over and over again. And it has ZERO to do with Taika Waititi’s skin color or ethnicity. Honestly, if people are still wondering why this movie is hated, yet refuse to look at the reasons, or continue to willfully ignore them, then they should just stop asking. I don’t know how Taika’s skin color and race even come into play here. He’s a person of color and ethnicity, so his movies should be exempt from all criticism, like his race and ethnicity are some kind of handicap or something? No. He made a movie, and people who make movies are going to be subject to criticism. And, he’s a smart man. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing.Has anybody ever read any of Taika’s interviews about Ragnarok? Listened to his Empire Magazine podcast? Seen any of his twitter posts? Seen anything he has said or posted about Loki or Ragnarok? Then you should know he doesn’t mince words, and isn’t at all secretive about his contempt for Loki. And no, he is not “joking”. Nobody who is “joking” goes out of their way to humiliate a character in a billion dollar movie. This is also what Chris Hemsworth wanted. Chris also isn’t at all secretive about his contempt for Loki, but he’s always quick to backpedal with a compliment to Tom Hiddleston, because if he didn’t, people might start to think he’s an asshole. It’s true, all of the characters in Ragnarok look goofy and ridiculous at some point. But Loki’s purpose in this movie was made to be the comedy prop. He is the main butt of every joke. Everything that happens to him, was especially thought out for the purpose of humiliating him. Taika openly said this. It was meant to be a “payback” for Loki and his story being too “overpowering”. In other words, this was Chris and Taika’s winning strategy to make Thor look better - by making Loki look bad. MCU Loki is not Norse myth Loki. MCU Loki is uniquely his own, he stands alone apart from the myth and the comics. Norse myth Loki doesn’t share MCU Loki’s tragic backstory. And Norse myth Loki was kind of treated like the punching bag of the gods, so, in that way, Ragnarok Loki is like that. He was reduced to 1, maybe 2, magic “tricks”, but one was used just for the sole purpose of Thor getting his all-important “gotcha!” moment. MCU Loki is dangerous. Clever, intelligent, always 10 steps ahead. He’s also a centuries old master of magic, but he is made so weak in Ragnarok. But that was their way to help Thor to shine - by ridiculing Loki. No, Ragnarok doesn’t take itself seriously. It doesn’t take ANYTHING seriously. The movie was scared to death of emotion. The scene of Asgard exploding, everybody watching, should have conveyed some kind of emotion. That right there should’ve been enough to bond Loki and Thor together. But it doesn’t. Instead we get that rock monster standing there saying his stupid jokes. This is why I also think Black Panther and Captain Marvel blew Ragnarok out of the water, because it allowed serious things to be serious, and didn’t have to trample on any of the characters to make the main one seem better. This isn’t a racism thing. I’m sorry, but nobody is making this up. Taika and Chris said and did these things. This is also why Thor didn’t get Loki back. Chris said he didn’t want him back. He wanted Korg. He is done with Loki, he is done sharing screen time with him, he is done talking about him, he is done being his brother. If you don’t believe this just read the interviews. And if you still choose to ignore it, at least don’t go around accusing people of racism because they hated the movie.
i think a lot of the CH stuff comes from jealousy. Thor was meant to be his big shining debut to hollywood, and it was, but it was an even bigger one for TH because of Loki. no one could have predicted that the fans would flock to loki like they did, but his story line was moving and resonated with people.
i think had the writers of thor took time and care with thor’s storyline in that film, ppl would have maybe responded differently, but they didn’t and he wasn’t given much depth in that first film. just a gf and losing his powers, which yes made him realize his errors and want to change his was but people liked loki because part of his story line of feeling invisible was human and ppl liked that. it also helped that he was good to look at.
i think that now loki still overshadows thor in many fans perspectives because the writers gave him intriguing story lines, but left nothing for their title character, which was their own fault. and i think CH instead of trying to make thor seem bigger and better by tearing down Loki should have gone to the writers and said “why is he getting all the good and human storylines, while mine either are about muscle, fighting or a dumb love interest.” i think had they spun the story so that Thor’s arc was more about growth, honour and even helping loki come to terms with things while at the same time having battles people would feel differently right now. i think if the two after avengers were able to team up there would be less animosity and perhaps a deeper love for thor.
TLDR: I love thor he is great, but jealousy and poor story writing for his character is now a bit of his down fall.
Yes to that. There were two great storylines in Thor 1 for both brothers, but Loki didn’t have to waste screentime dealing with a forced romantic subplot.
Thor had a whole journey to go through on Earth, and he was going through a whole lot of issues himself, but we never got to really see that or feel it with it, because literally from the moment he landed we were distracted by the forced romantic subplot. When he should have been grieving and processing and learning and growing, we saw him fucking flirting and joking. We never got to feel with him the whole extent of his new situation. There were scenes of pain, but they were interrupted by scenes that showed a mood and tone so different, they felt inconsistent with the rest of the portrayal. From crown heir of Asgard to banished disempowered unworthy son, to finding himself a girl and learning to make pancakes in UNDER 3 DAYS.
And when you give the romantic (non)relationship the same value and importance as Thor’s current predicament with his whole banishment thing and family issues, you undermine the importance of both. The audience might get the general impression that this guy doesn’t feel things very deeply, that his priorities are a fucking mess, and that there is nothing very moving or relatable (and so, nothing very interesting) about him. That he’s a cardboard cutout with big muscles and nothing else.
Meanwhile, Loki’s ENTIRE storyline was treated with the skill and dedication of two gifted Shakespearean actors and director(s) (just you wait XD.) His story was consistent, without distractions, and so compelling, his plight was tragic and moving, and it definitely doesn’t hurt that Tom Hiddleston can cry on cue and express like 17 different emotions in one single “TELL MEEEEE!!”
The film overall, although it had merits, wasn’t great. CA:TFA wasn’t perfect either, but it improves on repeated viewings when you factor in TWS. Everything that matters gains in depth and humanity.
Thor TDW didn’t do that for Thor 1. The story was poor, Earth and its people and most of all Jane had a disproportionate presence compared to Thor himself (without fleshing her out as a character either or strengthening her arc, so you just get an overblown romantic interest) and the villain was not great (that always weakens the hero, and the opposite is true: great villain, better heroes; just look at Avengers. They are ALL enhanced and become more interesting when they’re interacting with Loki.)
While Thor himself and his emotions had more coherence (he was sad), they failed him at very crucial moments (his mother’s death; failing to show any sort of rage or conflict about Loki…) and the whole thing was just hacked off and messed up in the cutting room.
And what did everyone remember? Thor’s scenes with Loki, which built on an ongoing theme since the first film, and so had more depth, nuance and gravitas from the get-go, AND were written and played masterfully by everyone involved.
It all came to life when Loki was around, because they Had A History, because Loki is a grey area and nobody knows which way he will go, and so he makes for a pretty interesting character to have around, especially when the plan depends on him. Of course that would turn out to be the best part, of the film, and everything after Loki died so tragically would drag, and any moment of humor or lightness feel wrong, and reflect badly on the overall impression the movie left the audience with. And then of course, to fuck it all up for Thor even more, they gave Loki the very last scene. Again, editing disaster. Poor, messed up storytelling, weak film.
There was one film in which Thor stole the show and became the heart and soul of the whole enterprise, the WOW and the GASP and the OOOh and AAAh and the SOB of a cast of dozens, and that was Infinity War.
In Infinity War, Thor is everything he can be. He feels deeply, and cares deeply, and he suffers and grieves and picks himself up and carries on; he has compassion and empathy, he connects with people, he inspires with his leadership. He is more A God than he ever was, with supercool powers and formidable strength and, ultimately, it’s his journey really what we follow from the beginning of the film to the end. There is more to it, but the most important arc, the one that stays, is Thor’s revenge for all he has lost.
That was a damn fine Thor film. One of my favorite things is reddit threads in which straight guys share their collective physical boners for That Thor (sexual orientation is a spectrum guys).
and I don’t know where I was going with this except that I fucking love Thor so much, and that I wish his fans hadn’t been screwed over again and again in the MCU. Thor isn’t boring, he isn’t cardboard, he was never dumb, he was never a brainless brute, he was always awesome, he always respected and cherished the women in his life, once he started on his own road of redemption he was always a champion of the weak and helpless. He has a heart as big as a house, and he was always my Thunder Boy, and he’s fucking awesome, and the films didn’t show us that.
Yes, guys, Thor fans had been screwed over way more than Loki fans. Loki may not have had His Own Movie, but he has had many chances to shine, and shine he has. Of course I wanted more content, I wanted ALL the content, but we’ve had way more than Marvel ever planned to give us, and Tom Hiddleston worked wonders with every screen second he’s been given, bless. I am vastly unsatisfied and hungry for more, but I am grateful.
But as a Thor fan?? Fucking hell, Marvel, fucking hell.
However, as a Thor fan, I’ve never felt more screwed over than I feel now. His character is currently in the hands of people who don’t fucking like him, who think he was dumb and boring, who don’t even fucking get how the goddamn Hammer works or what it’s all about, who militantly, obtusely refuse to empathise with him or understand him, who openly despise what he cares about, what he stands for, and (worse, much much worse,)
People who are repelled, by their own admission, by any sort of deep emotion, and are determined to make stories less interesting and moving because their first, last, and sole preoccupation is making people laugh. Who willfully and purposely throw in the trash scenes that come through as too emotional because, “bummer.” Who proudly state their intention to use every means to thin down and lighten and kick you out of the story, because they don’t care about it or the characters, and they don’t want you to relate with them either.
…
!!!!!!!!!
I mean. …Whaaaaaaa???
And try as I might, I simply cannot understand how long-time Thor fans who loved the previous Thor can applaud the ripping of Thor’s heart and call it growth.
“You guys want everything to be Shakespeare!” – Not really, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant Man and Spiderman are ok the way they are. But Thor? Yeah, I thought that was exactly what I was signing up for, and now I feel… extremely disappointed indeed.
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