Board 8 > Han continues watching the MCU (digi)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Let's restrict the talking about MCU stuff Han hasn't seen yet. I'll say I agree with most of that except I would probably rank JJ S2 closer to DD S2.
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Corrik posted...

DD > JJ > LC 1st Half > DD 2 >>> JJ 2 >>> LC 2nd Half > Defenders >>>>>> IF

Wheres Punisher?
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Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik posted...

DD > JJ > LC 1st Half > DD 2 >>> JJ 2 >>> LC 2nd Half > Defenders >>>>>> IF

Wheres Punisher?

Never finished it.
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I've seen Daredevil 1 and half of Daredevil 2 until it got too boring to continue.
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Too boring HOW DARE YOU
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ClyTheCool posted...

Too boring HOW DARE YOU

The Netflix series are kinda not good due to being too long for the material.
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Ok, finished Agent Carter: S2. I'll put up my thoughts on it momentarily.
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Tag
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I was literally thinking a moment ago "man, where has prof been in these topics".

Agent Carter: Season 2

When comparing this season to the first, the main thought was on pacing. In S1, the stage is completely set from episode 1. You know the conflict is that Stark is being framed, and that Peggy has to go behind her department's backs to solve the conflict. Characters are introduced, and carried out. In that sense, it acts as a very clean read.

Season 2 is a little more amorphous. You're not sure what the deal is, because every episode adds more to the stakes. It keeps getting bigger and bigger until it gets to the point where the villain is the "backroom" council that control the country... and THEN the crazy person who takes control of them. This had some good and bad effects.

Good? It was more of a drama, whereas S1 was more of a mystery. This gave them room to develop thicker plotlines, hide more information until later, and make you question what was going to happen to characters. In this way, it was more enthralling at times.

Bad? Stakes just KEPT increasing. And at times, interest could wane because it was a little hard to stay focused and keep the pieces in mind. Also, made it a little less digestible than S1.

The villain... or should I say villains... were for the most part done rather well. You are given a few too many people to keep track of, but they do fall off, one by one. The main villain, Whitney Frost, was a bit player at first. If you don't know her name from the comics, then you would be surprised for her to become the main villain. First, she's just the wife who seems to be a partner of Chadwick in helping out with his crimes. Then it seems like she starts to go behind his back... but then you learn she was the brains in the first place, and then with her being infected she has dangerous powers but then goes evil... it's solid development, but kinda bounces around a bit. As an overall arc, her development, power, and defeat are well drawn and executed.

The other characters? Souza is solid, but his arc is just filled with too much filler. He left NY to get away from Peggy, then got engaged, then lost his engagement, then ended up successfully getting with Peggy after a weird love triangle. Too much forced drama. Disappointing that he lost his great fiancee who he fit well with because he was in love with Peggy, something that wasn't really developed onscreen.

Wilkes, as the other corner of the triangle... I really enjoyed at first. It seemed like he was hiding more, but it is a little odd that THE guy was the first one to spy Peggy in Isodyne. Then they started up a little romance and he appeared to die. Then he was found to be invisible... interesting series of events, but throughout his whole crisis, he has this weird sense of craziness. Eventually, his actions take him out of the running for Peggy's soulmate. But hey, he gets his happy ending anyway.

Dottie Underwood... kind of a campy character. The season started with her loose end from last season getting tied up, but then she got brought back out... and left as a loose end, again. Not particularly useful during the course of the show, except to move people around, but I suppose put in there because they thought people would like her character. She was ok.

Jack Thompson, I liked. Still annoying that he acted like Peggy wasn't hot shit, but he was pulled by the sway of power and politics, and managed to have a convincing personal conflict. In the end, he stuck with doing his job and being a good guy, despite making problems for everyone. THEN HE GOT SHOT AND THE SHOW DIDN'T HAVE A THIRD SEASON WHY

Overall, pacing was pretty good. The show ramped up and got better and better until hitting that 2/3's point... then it was just too long. S1 was 8 episodes which was perfect. S2 was 10, which was 1 or 2 too many. Up through episode 7 was really good, and then just... it got drawn out too much.
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Overall, I did really enjoy the show and I'm glad it was made. I'd be curious to see what would happen in a 3rd season, but that ship has sailed, so nothing to do but watch the One-Shot. Interestingly - Peggy and Jessica Jones both had 2 seasons of their own shows and Black Widow hasn't had her own movie? Shame.

Finally... I think S2 had higher highs, but too much campiness and silliness that took away. It was a little too long. S1 had some cheesy issues with the first handful of episodes, but they went away. S1 was a little more complete, and had a good classic Captain America villain. S2 had a classic Iron Man villain, but seemed to want to do too much.

And no S2 Stan Lee cameo? Shame.

TV Shows
Agent Carter: S1
Agent Carter: S2
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Oh, I skipped over Jarvis.

I loved Jarvis and thought he had great chemistry with Peggy. I liked his wife too. The end of S2 kinda pulled him in a lot of directions, but overall his character was amazing. Probably the character I'm most disappointed doesn't get additional screentime.
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God I hate Iron Man 2
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bumpo
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bumpo
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What's next? IM3?
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My Immortal posted...

What's next? IM3?

Thor

Ironman 3 isn't until after Avengers

One shots, actually
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#bump#
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Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

Oh, it's only 15 minutes.

Probably should've watched this before the TV series, since it came a few years before.

Here's Peggy, at the SSR, before she runs the place but not really. In this one-shot, she still gets dicked over for being a woman. Oh, and these guys are WAY worse than the ones in the TV show.

Good to see she still kicks ass though.

Pocket mirror to peak around corner is great, but a little dumb that she looks at herself in it afterward. Feels kinda against the whole "you're a woman so you can't do our man's job" thing.

Shooting a hole in a door and then tossing a smoke grenade through is pretty awesome though, and I kinda wish we saw more nonsense like that in the TV series.

Captain guy is still a dick after she does well, but young Howard Stark still is best Howard Stark.

"Tell Agent Carter she'll be joining me in running SHIELD".

So this one-shot takes place after the TV series, and I guess technically ends young Peggy's story.

Hahaha, Dum Dum Dugan in the post-credits scene.

It's interesting hearing the proto-version of the Agent Carter theme. Not nearly as fun as the later version. The ballad part is also a little weird.

Young Howard Stark is just the best.

The Consultant

Oh, this is only 3 minutes long.

"They're pinning that on Banner. Not the guy you wanna make angry." It's cool tying in Hulk to the MCU pre-Avengers though. And I guess this does solve the plot-hole. Not really much else to say about it.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer

And this one's 4 minutes. Oh Coulson, I guess you're not worth more than that.

When I watch Thor, is this One-Shot going to have a purpose? Just seemed like a little fun scene for Coulson to be in.

Only two more one-shots, but they're not next chronologically, so I GUESS it's time for Thor.
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Dang, that timing GTM xD
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

When I watch Thor, is this One-Shot going to have a purpose? Just seemed like a little fun scene for Coulson to be in.

No purpose. Just a fun scene.

Fun Fact: They were tasked to make two one-shots on a short budget, and they blew it all on A Funny Thing..., so thats why The Consultant is just a couple scenes of Coulson and Sitwell in a diner <_<
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Hahahaha that's hilarious.

I'm not going to rank the One-Shots but I think the order is pretty obvious anyway.
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Pocket mirror to peak around corner is great, but a little dumb that she looks at herself in it afterward. Feels kinda against the whole "you're a woman so you can't do our man's job" thing.

Does it? I don't see a reason she can't be a strong badass independent woman who also looks fabulous. It's because she's a woman she has the mirror in the first place, after all.

It's something the series touches on as well with her attempts at keeping up with fashion, but it's not at the forefront of anything.

Anyways, people try and fit the Agent Carter one shot in as canon but ultimately I don't think it really makes sense. It's better to just accept it as test footage that was made to try and hook a TV show. If the show hadn't been made you could probably take it as canon, but I think the show basically just overrides it. Trying to fit it into canon is like trying to fit the Deadpool CGI animated test footage that got leaked that led to the Deadpool movie into the Xmen movie canon. Which wouldn't really make sense since the highway scene was in the actual movie too.

As for A Funny Thing.... yeah, it's just for fun. It's just a fun little thing to colour things in between Coulson's appearances. In Iron Man 2, he was involved in what was going with Tony's poisoning, until he abruptly says "sorry, I gotta go, something more important came up, good luck and stuff" and leaves. He left because of something in Thor, and this short is literally just him driving from Tony's house to the thing in Thor he's going to go deal with.
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Yeah, I remember Coulson saying that and knew what it was by the time the post-credits scene rolled around.
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Thor

A lot to digest in the first couple minutes. Hey Natalie! Boring pre-Asgard stuff happens. There are humans. Yuck.

So once upon a time, the people of the world were under attack by White Walkers, until they were saved by the Asgardians. Spoilers for GoT, I guess. Still, some really dark combat scenes are a great way to start a movie and a reminder that I shouldn't watch movies in the morning when I have to deal with glares.

I already love Loki. He's just the quiet brother always hanging around, knowing every single thing Thor says is wrong. And Odin's Vault... I saw the Infinity Gauntlet! I wonder how they'll incorporate this into the later movies.

No idea what the White Walkers want to steal. It's not the Tesseract, is it?

Mad Thor flips tables. What a babby. Luckily, Loki is there, like the good pal he is. Oh, but he's telling Thor he's right to wage war on White Walkers. Already being the Trickster God. I see you, Loki.

Sif is a cutie. This group of warriors is pretty neat, I hope they get some good time in. I have a feeling Thor is going to be sent to Earth and that'll be the last we see of big guy, Sif, and two other boring guys. And probably the last we see of Loki :(

Thor has no idea how to run a stealth mission. Guy walks around with a big red cape. It's fun to see him and the warriors go to town on some White Walkers but it's pretty obvious where this is all going.

Now we get some "Thor in a strange world" movie. Is this the girl from Two Broke Girls? I saw that show once.

Mjolnir made a much bigger crater than Thor did. Oh man, and they're turning the crater into a fucking barbeque. This is great.

Stan Lee as the guy in the truck trying to pull the hammer. Not bad for a cameo!

Ohhh Loki is possessed. No wait, Loki is a White Walker. Man, I never saw this movie originally but I completely understand why everyone loves him so much. What a good dude. Gets told he was kidnapadopted by Odin and still loves him. Oh but he gets to be king now.

NOW Thor is good at stealth. I also feel like a good portion of the directing of this movie is "how much can we show off Chris Hemsworth's bod".

Oh and Clint is hear. I had no idea Hawkeye made his debut in this film. I guess that makes sense, since Scarjo got to premier in Iron Man 2.

The romance subplot is kinda lame.

"Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!"
"Heimdall might be watching!" "Heimdall requests you."

Ok, Loki's kinda being a dick now. Also, I can't help but notice he looks a lot like Data when he goes blue. Wait, no. Thrawn. Marvel is Disney. Star Wars is Disney.

Loki is Thrawn.

There's a little too much slow-mo in this film. Not as much as there was in Captain America, but it's unnecessary at times.

I'm having a little trouble understanding Loki's motivation. Like, he's clearly upset that he was never told the truth about his past, but that sort of trickery is right up his alley. Even in the end, he chooses to be Loki Odinson and kill his birth father. He even says he just wanted to make Odin proud.

I guess he planned to set himself up as the good son in the beginning, and just meant for Thor to be exiled and believe that Odin was dead, but when the Warriors went to Earth, that threw a wrench in the plans so he sent the Destroyer... which was really where he went wrong, I guess. Lying to Thor wasn't a good look, but having him killed was a step too far.

I suppose in the end, Loki said he did it all for Odin and Asgard. In this sense, he was the most well-developed villain in the MCU so far. But Red Skull was just a little bit better in terms of sheer villainry. Loki I guess was doomed by jealousy and lust for power and pride and probably a little mad due to finding out his true heritage. At least we'll never see Loki again, right?
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Still, some really dark combat scenes are a great way to start a movie

That was my big problem with the early parts of the movie. All the otherworldly action is so fucking dark I can barely see it

I know its meant to hide the CGI Ice Giants but still
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Very tasty post-credits scene too
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Post-credits scene was top notch. Loki finding his way to the Tesseract was great. But the significance didn't matter as much until you watch Captain America... kinda wish I saved it for now then, since that's when it got revealed to be the great power that it was.

So pretty much...

Iron Man takes the world into a new age of power.
Hulk, at the same time, does the same in terms of super-powered beings.
Iron Man 2 shows that the danger and power is spreading, and that perhaps one man can't do it all by himself (and introduces Black Widow).
Thor shows that there are other realms, and that "magic and science are the same". But also that Loki is kinda a bad dude (and introduces Hawkeye).
And then Captain America introduces the Tesseract, the first truly consequential Macguffin.

And this takes us all to the Avengers. I enjoyed Thor a lot, so I'll probably hop right into the Avengers today (already seen it, but due for a rewatch). Let's finish talking Thor first though.

Good action, great world building. Most of the characters, including side characters, were well-developed and heavily appreciated. I LOVED how they did Hawkeye... just a little taste of him... and he doesn't even do anything.

Coulson... the guy gets a LOT better in Avengers. But to this point, he's shown in every movie but Hulk... and Captain America? So he's basically the guy. It's nice seeing how SHIELD develops and everything. I hope they go a little bit more into how Howard and Peggy helped start SHIELD. Maybe in the TV series. That's going to be an adventure, when I get around to that.

I didn't really like the romance aspect of Thor. It felt cheap. Like, let's use Natalie Portman's star power, and write in a typical love story just cuz a hero needs a love story. It gives him a little bit more heroism to destroy the bridge in the end cutting her off. That said, Loki specifically told Heimdall there were other ways to travel the realms, so...

Overall, good movie. Probably just below Captain America, though depending on my mood, I could see it flip, but whereas Cap had pacing issues, Thor just had... explanation issues. IDK. Out of all the movies so far, this one feels the most like an episode of the MCU. Which is weird, because it's the most multi-versal of the movies so far. But I digress.

Movies
Iron Man
Captain America: The First Avenger
Thor
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2
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Jakyl25 posted...

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Still, some really dark combat scenes are a great way to start a movie

That was my big problem with the early parts of the movie. All the otherworldly action is so fucking dark I can barely see it

I know its meant to hide the CGI Ice Giants but still

Yeah, Game of Thrones does White Walkers a lot better, imo.

And yeah, the post-credits scene was great. Shows that Loki is still around, which is great for keeping him villainous without letting him become too sympathetic. And when you learn what the Tesseract is, it REALLY raises the stakes for Avengers.

Did the Tesseract appear in any film besides Captain America, to this point?
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No, Thor is the first appearance of it, outside of a sketch of it in Howard Starks notebook in Iron Man 2
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https://rempelmasters.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/iron-man-2-hypercube.jpg

Tony doesnt remark on it though
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That cube's pretty hyper!
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

And Odin's Vault... I saw the Infinity Gauntlet! I wonder how they'll incorporate this into the later movies.

lol
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I like first Thor movie, there's a lot of good stuff. Asgard and everything is cool, Odin is great, Loki is great, the frost giant stuff is cool. Thor is cool too which obviously is important for a movie called Thor that introduces Thor.

But... there's something missing with Thor. It's the development he undergoes. He begins the movie thirsty for revenge against the Frost Giants. He wants to go to war and make them pay and is gleeful in his wanton slaughter of them in the initial excursion to Jotunheim. By the end of the movie, he's become more humble and understanding of other races, and tells Loki "you can't kill an entire race!". Loki retorts with, "weren't you gonna do it with your bare hands at the start of the movie??" which is completely true. So ostensibly, Thor has gone through a change of character in this movie.

But when did this happen? There's a great throughline where Odin banishes him because he feels Thor isn't worthy of being his son or Asgardian royalty with his careless behaviour, so he strips of him of his power and sends him to earth, and places the famous seal upon Mjolnir "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." This leads to a *fantastic* moment when Thor breaks into the SHIELD tent base and grasps the hammer and discovers he's not worthy. That moment of realization that he's truly not worthy is excellent, and a great step in his path towards the end of the movie. Then it pays off at the end when he gets the hammer back.

But what did he do? He got drunk with Selvig? Hung out with horny Natalie Portman a little? Did this make him care about the other races more than he did before? I feel like there's just something missing here. He sacrifices himself to the Destroyer in the end, which is the moment that makes him worthy of the hammer again, but would he not have done that at the start of the movie?

I think realizing he wasn't worthy of the hammer really is a good step in him reevaluating his place and what kinds of things are worth fighting for, but it just doesn't feel like enough.

The human characters are meant to bridge that gap in his interactions with them, but maybe they were just too weak. Most people don't like Kat Dennings in Thor but I actually do.... and *still* I find the human component of this movie pretty weak.

I guess I'm just rambling at this point, but I'd say this is my biggest regret in the MCU - I feel like a bit more of a purposeful journey of Thor becoming worthy of the hammer would have made this a really great movie.

As it is, I still think it's a good movie. In the lower end of the MCU, but certainly not bad or even the level of mediocrity Iron Man 2 is. It's not like they just missed the mark completely and made a movie that misunderstood the character or something.
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The Avengers

I forgot that this movie opens with the Observer/Watcher whatever his name explaining that Loki is their ally, has the staff, and the chitauri are announced from the beginning. Pretty good stage setting.

There's the Thor scientist, being a puppet or something. And immediately they launch into the Tesseract opening a door. Just like it did with Red Skull... but backwards! And hello Loki. Come to be a jerk. His eyes are really blue in this film.

This is so OBVIOUSLY Joss Whedon the way Maria Hill is utilized in the beginning, followed by the Black Widow scene. "Put me on hold", then Coulson sits there listening to her kick some guys' asses. It's good though, and 5 minutes of her being in the movie, and I already feel like Avengers is treating Widow better than she was in Iron Man 2.

Congratulations! Your ED NORTON evolved into a MARK RUFFALO.

I like how Black Widow's eyes are watering a bit - she's legitimately afraid of the Hulk. It's awesome.

"War is won by soldiers". Cue switch to Captain America.

"You should've left it in the ocean". Cue switch to Iron Man in the ocean. "Phil!" "Uh, his first name is Agent". I absolutely love the chemistry between Pepper and Tony. Really helps drive the development that happened from Iron Mans 1 and 2 to here.

Coulson with Cap is the first time he has ever broken from his cold and professional demeanor. It's a little unnerving at this point, since he's always been above that.

Loki wasn't really this big of a jerk in Thor. And this Cap outfit is really blue.

Cap and Iron Man's first meeting sets the tone for their entire relationship, methinks. "Captain." "Stark."

Interesting how they hand-waved Thor showing up. "How much power did the Allfather have to conjure to get you here". But it's also cool how Thor, from the beginning, asks "Who controls you". He's got his eyes on the big guy from the beginning. Of course, I am referring to the big bad, Obadiah Stane.

I didn't realize how important the fight scene between Thor and Iron Man was. Really useful for putting Thor's power level in relative terms. A little weird that Cap's shield is strong enough to just block a Mjolnir blow, but whatever.

"He is my brother". "He killed 80 people in 2 days". "... He's adopted."

Also, love how giddy Cap gets when he recognizes a reference.

I like this first fight between Hulk and Thor. It's almost like foreshadowing for Thor 3 (I assume Hulk and Thor fight in that, based on the trailers).

Cap totally threw a guy off the helicarrier.
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CoolCly posted...

But when did this happen?
But what did he do?

I think the key thing was when Loki told him Odin was dead, and the peace required him staying on Earth. When he learned that the solution WAS in him not being there to fight... it forced him to start looking at things in different ways.

He then gets saved by Selvig, and does his best to do good on his promise to Natalie Portman. True, there could have been a bit more, but it seemed to me that the change happened when he realized that he WAS the problem that caused his father to die.

So basically, Loki set him on the path to becoming worthy of the hammer, but in doing so by lying, Loki secured himself unworthy. It felt pretty good to me.

I just REALLY wish Thor would have told Loki he would make a great king before he left. That sort of humility and love for Loki would have made the climax more pungent, and show Thor's development a little better, I think.
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Aww, Coulson got stabbed. I know they retcon his death, butI didn't realize how important the preceding movies were, in setting him up. This is a really sad moment.

I do find it kind of dumb that they didn't realize that Stark Tower would be the power source.

"If we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it". I feel like that line is way more important than I might realize.

The chitauri have a freaking space whale. It roars.

When Thor is talking to Loki, you can see his eyes flicker.

OMG Chief Souza is totally in the Avengers! He's a NYPD officer that Cap gives orders to!

First real Avengers moment with Cap giving orders is pretty great, but it made me realize that the best VR game ever would be being Hulk jumping around NYC beating on Chitauri.

Black Widow just has things that insert into alien backs so that she can control its arms.

Ugh, they destroyed the Grand Central Terminal.

I've never been so glad for someone to rip of a super hero's mask. Cap looks way better without it. Also, Hawkeye running out of arrows is pretty funny.

Hulk catching Iron Man to save him might be the cutest thing in this movie. "I don't know what [shawarma] is, but I want to try it."

Stan Lee cameo happens in the montage of newsreels. "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break!" Short and sweet. Excellent.

And of course, ending with only the A of the Avengers Tower remaining.

Post-credits scene 1: Thanos's first appearance. Niiiiiiiiice. This would whet peoples' appetites for almost a decade.

Post-credits scene 2: Everyone is so disinterested, but Banner and Thor seem to enjoy the food. Tony looks so annoyed with his choice, and since Chris Evans was growing a beard, he had to hide his face, which made him look super pissed.

Joss Whedon was a great pick for this film. I thought that the pacing done was brilliantly - introducing every character one by one, bringing them together slowly. The only particularly weird part was Thor just showing up, but eh. I also was a little annoyed that Black Widow figured out Loki's plan to set loose the Hulk, then joined everyone in the yelling match.

As many people have said before, Whedon managed to take a team film and make every member feel like they had a strong contribution to the movie. Well, Hawkeye got dicked over a bit, but that's alright. He had his chance to run out of arrows.

Who was the most useful in the attack on NY? Obviously Iron Man delivers the nuke, which was key, and Widow closed the gate, but what aside from that? I guess Thor, whose lightning strikes took out multiple dreadnoughts and tons. He also went to town with Hulk and helped take out another, and just beefed all over people. Then probably Tony next? He had the most mobility and probably one of the highest kill counts, just from being there from the beginning and flying around blasting everyone.

Then probably Hulk > Hawkeye, because he took out more of the space whales than Hawkeye did. Cap and Widow battle it out for last. Regardless, technically Tony delivered the nuke which killed everything, so...

Loki delivered, but it was interesting with him being the villain. An intentional choice, but having just watched Thor, it felt out of character for him to be so ruthless (perhaps there is a reason he acted that way). The sympathy he had earned had all but disappeared. Still, he was personally defeated so easily by the Hulk that it was rather lame.

Mark Ruffalo was a great recast. Fits the tone of the MCU a lot better than ED NORTON.

All of New York just got so fucked up. And the shawarma place still served. Dedication.
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I think it was the best one so far, but it feels a little dirty putting it this high without any super-key individual character development. I really enjoyed Iron Man, but it was maybe a little too slow with a lame villain to hold onto the top spot.

Movies
The Avengers
Iron Man
Captain America: The First Avenger
Thor
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2

My cat is sitting in my lap. He has blue eyes. DOES LOKI CONTROL HIM?!
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Every time a cat purposely knocks something breakable off of something, that's Loki.
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I also was freaking out that Ashley Johnson was BETH, the random blond chick. I'll need to look up her deleted scene.

SURPRISE ONE-SHOT

Marvel One-Shot: Item 47

This one is actually really cute.

"We can now do whatever we want" They proceed to make out.

Like, you guys didn't need to rob four banks to have sex.

"Do you know how to make coffee?" "... No."

I'd probably say more, but I've been writing about movies all day so I'm pretty spent.
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mnkboy907 posted...

Every time a cat purposely knocks something breakable off of something, that's Loki.

Ugh Loki, why did you want this empty root beer bottle on the ground?
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CoolCly posted...

Hung out with horny Natalie Portman a little?

Honestly, doing that could get someone to do a lot of things
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

I also was freaking out that Ashley Johnson was BETH, the random blond chick. I'll need to look up her deleted scene.

Its actually a pretty good scene about Cap adjusting to the present.

With a second Stan Lee cameo even
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If you, like me, were wondering where Rhodey was during the invasion, Marvel put out a tie-in comic showing him fighting Ten Rings terrorists in Asia at the time, and frustrated because there was no backup because of some situation in New York

He gets back just in time to eat shawarma
http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/iron-man-3-avengers-after-the-credits.jpg
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i like your write up of the avengers, really focuses on just the fun things you liked in the movie

Out of curiosity, what have you already seen that's yet to come? I know you've seen some Daredevil but is there anything else?
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Also, love how giddy Cap gets when he recognizes a reference.

https://imgur.com/XS5LK
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CoolCly posted...

i like your write up of the avengers, really focuses on just the fun things you liked in the movie

Out of curiosity, what have you already seen that's yet to come? I know you've seen some Daredevil but is there anything else?

Spiderman, Iron Man 3, both GotG.

I missed a LOT.
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Jakyl25 posted...

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I also was freaking out that Ashley Johnson was BETH, the random blond chick. I'll need to look up her deleted scene.

Its actually a pretty good scene about Cap adjusting to the present.

With a second Stan Lee cameo even

Yeah, I kind of hate that they deleted it. It adds a whole lot to the movie and builds more sympathy for Cap's character, rather than Fury just showing up at the gym. His intro ended up being pretty poor compared to, well, any of the others apart from Hawkeye.

Also all those shots of the waitress during the final battle, and the aftermath, make sense if that scene is in. It's a pity.

(I just rewatched Iron Man arriving in Germany and overriding the jet's PA. So great)
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ya were
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Iron Man arriving in Germany wasn't his intro tho.
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