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DNN has expected earnings call in the next few days and there is a boatload of 3/19 $2.5 calls purchased so it's possible it gets a gamma squeeze a bit after March 19th

But your timeline with DNN is hold long tbqh. If you don't wanna hold long get outta here.

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Dead cat bounce implies it's going back down

STONKS to the MOON.

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CCIV dipped because the market cap was misrepresented or something. Assume you're betting on growth rather than rebounding if you buy it

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Paratroopa1 posted...

Can we edit WandaVision into movie form and then rerank everything so I can put it at #1

I'm kidding about the reranking but not about the #1 thing

I'd probably rank WandaVision as a movie at #12 or #13 on this list

Which is much better than I was expecting going in so I mean that's great

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Stock Price

And yeah I mostly play options with it but it has a good dividend (which should improve to a great one) and I think $22-$24 is around the bottom and it should grow into the 30s within the next year

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Strong dip today in energy. Good day to get into BP for anyone who wants a nice dividend stock with 50-100% SP upside

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I don't know which one tit for tat has a higher density of jokes, because as I said Ragnarok is, at its heart, a comedy movie with Marvel coating on it. Which is fine for what it is.

But I can remember a lot more jokes or quippinesses done at inappropriate times in Ultron, and I can remember a lot more actual funny moments in Ragnarok. Ragnarok generally knew when to turn it off and be serious, that stupid rock guy at the ending aside. Ultron literally never turns it off. The villain himself is bantering nonstop. As said earlier in these topics a hydra guy makes a joke after being shot.

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If you hate Nolan Batman films TDKR would probably be your favorite because 1. It's nothing like the other two. 2. Batman gets his back broken

But if you hate Nolan Batman movies you're not worth discussing movies with anyway

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Can't even imagine what one would prefer about Ultron

Ragnarok pretty much beats it across the board. Better action, better story, more relevant to the franchise, better humor (by a long shot), better comedic TIMING (as in not making jokes at literally every possible moment).

Even if Hela being hammy hurts Ragnarok for you Ultron is a gawdawful villain who can't really be much better

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AT&T cuts stake in DirectTV by finding an interested buyer, DirectTV to be listed as its own stock I guess

Going to be awesome dumb luck if this ends up rocketing AT&T (I think it's a very smart move, DirectTV was dead weight and lowering debt is more useful)

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I'll get back into AVCTW if the price drops back down

AT&T calls cheaper

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Bought a bunch of AT&T calls, 4/16, $29c. Think earnings hype + this selloff falling off + stimulus boost should have it recover to $30+ by then.

I'll let you guys know how it goes. I look forward to making a boatload of money with another hundred billion dollar level company.

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Braid

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Decided to go with some in the money 3/19 FIZZ calls for my squeeze play. My thinking is good earnings could pop FIZZ regardless and because it's fairly in the money my downside isn't too high.

Then if short squeeze madness round 2 happens these puppies have upside of 3-5k each.

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Master Chief vs Tony Hawk

The next chapter in Chief's legendary set of 50/50 matches. A tear to my eye

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Lasa praising Age of Ultron makes Thor Ragnarok and GotG2 the ultimate babyfaces

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I have a single $30 call that expires 1/2023. Even if it goes to $0 it doesn't matter all that much.

I think this is MMers orchestrating fear combined with a plummeting market day causing double trouble. No real concern here. Stock should be up earnings were very good.

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Pocketed my 15k profit

Used 1k of that 15k to buy 80 3/5 28 calls

Galaxy brain

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7 bagger on BP

Urge to sell strong even though plan was always hold until March 3rd

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BP is listed on the NYSE bro

Also Li Auto posted profit. Moon will come. Surely

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That being said because all the shorted stocks are going up tempted to throw a small amount at Tootsie Roll 3/19 $40 calls in case it surges to $45 again. Seems like pretty high upside for the risk. We'll see what the options look like tomorrow morning

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Man I'm looking at the options action on GME and I can't help but think this is a huge hedge fund pump and dump designed to trap WSBers this time around. The calls and puts out there seem like they've been cornered too well, feels like that day RH banned trading. I dunno. Inorganic feels right for sure.

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Who's ready for some Chinese electric car action

Li Auto earnings tomorrow morning can hardly wait. They're gonna post a hairline profit I can feel it in my bones.

See you on the moon gentlemen.

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Yeah thanks Inviso

Not sure about Westerns but you know if I can find time to watch them all, maybe!

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Well I like the write-ups even if I disagree with the placement, and I do like that a movie within the "great movie, not just good" line managed to win, even if it was the last such movie on my list.

Like I can't really disagree with any of the beaming praise, and those who are a little negative on it seem to have the same issues with it as I do (the film being a bit bloated in terms of stuff going on) so yeah. I think I was just a bit more irked on the bad of the movie or a bit less positive on the good, but can't fundamentally disagree with the bad and the good pointed out.

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Master Chief beating Samus can we have this voterbase instead

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Yeah you reward Endgame for that if anything. Hey continuity awesome

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Generally agree with Ulti on this one.

Separate the art from the artist. Unless you're supporting the artist in a meaningful way. Like I wouldn't subscribe to a YouTuber that had types of allegations, but I'd watch a clip of some TV show involving a celeb on youtube, cause the latter isn't helping the artist

The only times where it tends to matter for me functionally is with stuff where the artist shines through to the art in an awkward way. Not metoo related but the most obvious example in life for me would be old Chris Benoit matches that involve chair shots or particularly nasty landings on his diving headbutt. That gets a little uncomfortable to watch when thinking the guy's brain matter had turned into a bowl of oatmeal by the time he killed himself

But like Charlie Rose got me too'd at some level and I'll watch his interviews every time no problem.

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Yeah I remember a feeling of mild disappointment by Ultron. At the time I thought it was more "well this wasn't as good as Avengers" but as time passes it's clearly a lot more than that, and as I said it's more glaring with rewatches

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Ultron's problem to me is 100% in his dialogue and general demeanor. I don't care if he can beat Hulk 1v1 or not. Loki can't beat Hulk 1v1 either and he was a completely credible enemy in Avengers.

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NlCE EAGLE.

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On first watch I probably wouldn't quite have rated it last, but Age of Ultron is the type of movie that is much worse with rewatches because it's more glaring that nothing of value or weight is actually happening when you've actually digested the film a bit. The first time you see it you just see explosions and banter and stuff and you're distracted.

Honestly I think it was Civil War that soured me on Age of Ultron more than Infinity War. You get passable introductions (in the sense that you can grasp what's up with the two characters to a point and not be lost going forward) to Vision and Scarlet Witch in it which is the only real plot relevant point to AoU.

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Oh no, definitely.

It's a conversation that involves 3 movies, two of which are Guardians movies

I'd call Winter Soldier the winner by a margin but I definitely at the very least respectfully disagree with people who would go with the Guardians movies instead

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Also lump me in with the group that's really happy they didn't tease a Cap/Black Widow ship in this movie.

I'm not saying it couldn't work at some point in the MCU (couldn't possibly be worse than Widow/Banner) but I think it'd distract from all the great action and seamless flow this one has.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

if you're just talking about original music, i can see that.

if you're including all music, both guardians movies easily have the best soundtracks, though.

Including GotG. Quill gets some character from his mother's jams but I'd call adding the flair to that bit of his character more expendable than Winter Soldier's ominous shrieking theme whenever he shows up.

Like they're good tunes and all but as far as enhancing the viewing experience? Eh. Rip the soundtrack out of both movies and I'm noticing it a lot more in Winter Soldier.

(And of course the GotG original tracks are completely forgettable but that goes without saying)

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I'm surprised only one write-up mentioned the music in the movie. I felt bad that I didn't actually give it props in my brief ass review-- this is probably the only MCU movie I feel is lifted by the soundtrack. The Avengers theme is cool and all but yeah, that Winter Soldier theme is just so good and really puts him over as a destroyer.

Anyway not a bad #1, though it's my lowest ranked member of my list (#6) that I'd consider a good winner. Gonna be funny being one of the lowest raters at #6 with those point totals!

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I feel like Gamora is more there to enhance other characters than be her own one

Whether she's a straight man for jokes, love interest for Quill, or feud target for Nebula.

Why is Gamora-- Drax nailed it.

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Kinda agree with you that Endgame makes Gamora a more appealing character and what she should've been in GotG

GotG3 Gamora should be pretty interesting

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Stifled posted

Batista showed more personality in this one movie than he did for YEARS in the wrestling ring. That should tell you all you need to know about how strong of an ensemble team this movie assembled.

Well I'd say GotG is Batista's only strong babyface performance at least.

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Huh I was sure that was a lock for #1. Feeling better about Winter Soldier pulling the upset as I feel like GotG would win the tiebreaker criteria against Winter Soldier, but Inifnity War wouldn't be a bad winner either. I'm pretty okay with the list now.

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Paratroopa1 posted...

I cannot imagine anything more dull than arguing about time travel logic

The way a story decides to use time travel is more important than the logistics of how it works

Well, I think it's more important but I don't think the logistics are unimportant. Logistics are very important to not make things feel lazy and not break immersion. So to me for Endgame to lay out a model of time travel that is internally consistent and plausible is commendable, even if it's far from the first fiction to have used that model.

Eddv posted...

My objection isnt the way they used time travel - its that the climax of a 23 movie series is that "oh yeah we can just time travel to erase the consequences of our actions, of course."

My objection is more that the way they did it was really boring. Like meddling with the timeline could have and should have had some bigger and worse consequences than Thanos trying to prevent it. I mean maybe it will down the line but to me the climax of the consequences of time shenanigans being "that guy who caused this problem to begin with you gotta beat him again cause he doesn't want you to undo his work" is just really dull.

Mr Crispy posted...

And glossing over any issues by saying putting back the stones afterward would keep new alternate universes from forming (instead of creating more alternate universes, so there would be a universe where they didn't take the stone, a universe after they took the stone, and a universe where they took the stone and put it back) and imply it would wave away anything they fucked up with time travel.

I think the implication is they screwed a lot up despite their attempts to not screw things up. Like let's ignore all the stuff that goes wrong in New York, and it's heavily hinted that there are more effects to come. Like the whole thing Mysterio was talking about in Far From Home about multiverses was probably not complete nonsense and spawned from them messing with the stones. And hell I'd say there's kind of a huge implication that Wandavision itself might be an alternate universe thing for a few reasons that I won't get into here for the sake of avoiding spoilers.

No Endgame doesn't tie everything up in a neat bow in every universe-- nor should it be expected to necessarily. The question is whether the explanation they gave to minimize the mucking up of time makes sense at a basic level and whether they followed through in a consistent way to me, and to me it did.

(Can I say again it's really weird that I feel pro endgame in this discussion being one of the lowest rankers)

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redrocket posted...

But then they and up creating multiple alternate timelines anyway and completely punt on addressing it at all

They don't address it cause it's outside the scope of the movie to resolve every splinter timeline. Dormammu showing up because they screwed with time too much was how I figured he might get in there but alas the plot wasn't ambitious enough for that.

But anyway imo in terms of internal consistency this is okay. In fact the only real positive I have for the movie is I like their explanation for time travel and how they implemented it worked given the rules they set

I can't imagine how low I'd rank the movie if I thought there were a ton of plot holes jeez

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"Strongest Avenger"

Thor saying it, then thought of Hulk

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Unbugged spearzon isn't going to affect game balance on the grand scale

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I mean there were definitely some slight misses beyond Taserface but I thought it was the funniest MCU film that isn't Thor Ragnarok. Definitely didn't think anything else was cringey

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Pretty sure Taserface was the only joke I totally hated in Guardians 2. Weird to read quite so many complaints about the humor.

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Yeah it's kinda funny I think Marvel movies are on the whole pretty good my overall top 5 super hero movies is probably like

1. The Dark Knight
2. Marvel's The Avengers
3. X-Men Days of Future Past
4. Batman Begins
5. Logan

Or something like that. Most of the ones I really really like aren't from the MCU.

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TotallyNotMI posted...

I like Hela a lot. I don't like the complete "fuck you" to everything and everyone in Asgard.

I do agree with this to an extent.

XIII's beef of making a joke of Asgard blowing up is my main problem with the movie (but it's just one scene-- I'm not gonna dock it too much for just that) and the only time I feel it really goes too far with not knowing when to turn it off. On the similar note Hela maybe dunked a bit too hard on Asgard too, but eh, I think they played off that well in later movies.

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Strong disagree. A villain that isn't super serious would ruin the movie for me. This is why she's a huge contrast from Rita Repulsa who is never a credible threat to begin with.

You need stakes somewhere. That's what she's there for. If she is done in a more boring way you basically get Ronan the Accuser who is such a nothing part of the appeal of GotG. If she is done in a less serious way you get Ultron again. She basically perfectly threads the needle between being serious and having charisma, something only Loki (who is cleanly ahead of Hela as a villain don't get me wrong) and at an extreme stretch Ego have been able to do in the MCU really. Obidiah, Thanos, Vulture, Killmonger and Alexander Pierce work well on the pure serious end but I don't think they fit the tone of Ragnarok well.

She reminds me more of a Chong Li from the Van Damme classic Bloodsport than a Rita Repulsa. Like yes, similarly to Ragnarok, the movie itself is ridiculous and Bolo overacts the hell out of what he's doing, but Chong Li straight up murders people and is not presented as a joke at any point.

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She hams it up but she doesn't do it in a very Rita Repulsa like way at all.

You can have a villain in a silly movie be played completely straight even if they have a layer of schlock on them because that's how the movie operates. That's what she is. And she does it great. Never feels like a joke villain at all.

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Rita Repulsa lol are you just picking a random female villain or what. No similarities there whatsoever.

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