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https://twitter.com/JimmyJoeYam/status/1508504400301600769

Hoo boy.

Anyways, excited for Moon Knight this week! Looking forward to seeing how Marvel manages a heavily psychological character like that.

I think it was Will spinning his wheels and manufacturing the outrage as he processed Jada's own reaction. I think, in that sense, it's not wholly legitimate. Part of me thinks the anger from his seat afterwards was also made of some level of fear and embarrassment having done what he did. So maybe I'm just arguing another side of the same thing as Yoblazer.

Chris Rock doesn't tense for the slap.

It's not complicated, though you might miss some of the context via, of all things, Iron Fist.

Lopen posted...

Well Will Smith was definitely fake there, but not because it was a planned stunt.

I agree with Lopen on this. He laughed, saw Jada, then changed his reaction entirely.

Absolutely not a stunt. Absolutely not.

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Yeah, didn't want you to lose via sleep!

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Why even ask

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Way more "no" than "yes", seems legit.

Personally, I don't care how many weeks it runs!

Skip for me

Then don't click a topic called spoilers or the spoiler tags within it.

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I've been following along with this, hoping your cat would pull through. This sounds like about as good of news as you could possibly hope for after what happened.

Jakyl25 posted...

What would Batman do?

Batman was literally only there because one of those kids is the son of Sal Maroni, and he was just hoping they would book it so he could string the lad up by the ankles and interrogate him for information about Maroni's location.

You're more inclined to judge how their stories work according to people on Youtube.

Leonhart4 posted...

And I hold the perhaps more unpopular opinion that he was great in both...!

The writing in IM3 wasn't great (and it's a little par-for-the-course in Shang-Chi), but I think that Kingsley had excellent comedic timing in both!

Lopen posted...

I think any movie that is junk for the first 40 minutes and explained entirely with offscreen stuff is bad and only the hubris of the MCU tie in let the movie have the audacity to try it is the point.

Make it COMPLETELY disconnected from the MCU and it probably starts a lot better.

Wasn't it already explained to you that it is explained at the beginning and you were lying?

Leonhart4 posted...

Who's playing Hooch

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/7/AAUHRBAADC47.jpg

I can't remember who made the "Have you ever seen a lion" account, so I can't apply proper kudos

I feel like Turner and Hooch really requires someone with the chops and charm of a Tom Hanks to carry it.

I would never block you! As much as I sometime give you grief, you have really insightful analyses sometimes. And I appreciate someone like you challenging my opinion. My first encounter with you was just a bad first step, and I was pretty defensive of Gauntlet Crew back in the day. It's certainly not how I feel now.

But Truffaut's Law will never not be a little funny to me.

Despite the lie, I do want to share my probably poorly explained comic book approach to the movies again.

Lopen, you didn't even finish the movie. And not that it stops your complete misunderstanding of the top of the movie apparently from being valid, but it certainly invalidates my need to think your position has any more merit than Joe Blow on the street because no one explained the Civil War in Lincoln for the casual observer. And believe you me, there are hundreds of countries filled with people who don't know shit about the American Civil War. The history of the MCU is equally as ingrained to the nature of the MCU as American history is to Lincoln. Or a more niche discussion would be this - El Camino REQUIRES viewership of Breaking Bad.

You continue to equate the Sokovia Accords to things like Dr. Strange. You're right that knowing who Doctor Strange isn't required in No Way Home. But that's not a fair equivocation. Because Dr. Strange isn't complex in any presentation, and you witness who he is by virtue of the film. A better relationship is El Camino piggybacking off of Breaking Bad without explanation. The intent is not to cater to an audience of Lopens, but an audience of hardcore fans of the products which came before. Again, this is a comic book universe.

Sure, you could say, "That's not the target audience," but you're also not the target audience. The target audience of X-Men #117 is not a new reader. It's the reader of X-Men #116, 115, 114. Earlier, you made some cockamamie argument about how a TV show should enjoyable to a new viewer, no matter what, and I disagree completely. Their are different modes of television presentation, and Game of Thrones Season 3 might demonstrate strong fundamentals, but it certainly doesn't hold your hand in explanation of what came before. It asks its viewers to be attentive in the content that came before.

I think ultimately, my argument about Black Widow that I was trying to make is that as time has gone on, Black Widow, like every MCU movie, doesn't stand on its own anymore BECAUSE it's like reading and issue of a comic book. For me, I can't get as worked up about. This happened to me with Stars Wars Episode IX once Mandalorian and Boba Fett began, because it just feels like one piece in a larger sea of a greater property - and as such, its impact becomes less and less. I think that goes both ways, in that rewatching Episode IV recently, I was shocked at how much less it meant in terms of what I loved about it - I just knew it was a piece of one thing movie forward. I've started to think of Star Wars as "Star Wars", and all of its various individual pieces don't carry the same emotional attachment anymore, much like in a comic book universe. I just don't care about Amazing Fantasy #15. I care about Spider-Man. What's interesting is that you start to paint your own picture of a character of the years, and the bad Spider-Man stories you just excise from your mind, the more you have. Clone Saga, One More Day, anything that was drawn by Todd McFarlane (because the writing was never good).

Anyways, I'll just drop this steaming pile of shit here and move on, and I'll let Lasa lambast me for it because I've got some work to do.

OMG, it's literally at the beginning? He's been fucking lying the entire time? That's amazing.

UltimaterializerX posted...

The MCU stopped caring about first time viewers a long time ago. I feel this is a poor point to bring up at all.

Yeah, this was my entire point in the first place. It stopped being about being a series of films and it moved into being a comic book universe with an editor-in-chief over top a collection of creators. And that doesn't excuse bad movies being bad, but it does explain why clueing in viewers doesn't necessarily matter anymore. I get that it matters to some people, but the idea of serialization is about catering to committed viewers. That's not a sin but a simple chose of medium. It's the comic book without staples.

LiquidOshawott posted...

Honestly, I liked the premise and the concept and the actors involved but I felt the plot towards the end was kinda lame twist wise

I assume it gets resolved by season 2 but I couldnt get into it as quickly as the other two

I thought the behavior of the leads became so decidedly un-Loki-ish to the point of unbelievability in that final act, but I might be in the minority on that.

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