Marvel Cinematic Universe Thread - Dr. Strangelove - Film, Television and Music

Well, it's not "necessary" in terms of what happens in the plot of Black Panther itself (it's pretty self contained), but the world building done in Black Panther sets the scene and context for a lot of the characters, technology, features, etc that will be featured in the Wakandan scenes during Infinity War, so you might be lost on the significance of why certain technology or weapons work the way they do. So, for that alone, I would recommend getting it in if you can, but you won't be completely lost either if you can't.

I hadn't watched blank panther, but I'd seen Civil war and it seemed fine? Nothing was too confusing around that stuff. (don't hate me but I actually missed a few movies before watching infinity war)

This sucks. I have not seen Black Panther yet and there's no way to watch it right now.

It’s good to see it before you see Infinity War, but after having seen both, I don’t think that it’s absolutely necessary.

i feel super exhausted after infinity war

I've just gotta last until Saturday. But until then, I can't risk Twitter or Facebook. Even YouTube has me wary; I watched Winter Soldier again last night and had to keep my eyes on the keyboard while searching for the Putlocker, lest something show up in autocomplete. I'm not even playing anything on Steam. I remember when Force Awakens came out, I saw that on the Saturday of opening week. Literally the next day, I was playing some TF2 and got put in a server with a player named "HAN SOLO IS KILLED BY HIS SON KYLO REN". I laughed my ass off, but I knew I made the right decision in going off the grid in the days before the premiere, that woulda been DEVASTATING.

Good call, as people are recording shaky cam footage and uploading it onto YouTube and Reddit. Best to keep on avoiding those sites until you see the movie.

Saturday at the latest too. If I can't see it opening night due to assignments, I'm damn sure I'm going to see it 2nd or 3rd day.

Almost read a couple of spoilers on a damn wrestling subreddit lol. I guess I'll be avoiding social media entirely until I see it tomorrow.

This is the first movie where I'd be super pissed if someone had spoiled it for me so I wish you luck in avoiding all of them!

Well it wasn't as good it could be imo, but I guess that's what we get when they make a movie in two parts. Post credit scene hyped me a little.

holly shit scrollin down this pages is like playing frogger with cursor to avoid spoilers. May 3, i'm cummin

All my friends showing spoilers in their social media are assholes

compared to the previous avenger moves, would you say it's a lot better?

I wouldn't say it's a LOT better, but it's definitely better than Age of Ultron. The cliffhanger ending reminded me of the desolation of Smaug, where you just want to know what's gonna happen next, but you kinda of already know, the movie didn't have any tension for me, I mean you know with absolute certainty that everything that happened is going to be reverted.

I hadn't seen trailers or screenshots or aaanything beforehand and also didn't know it was in two parts so I watched the whole movie expecting them to eventually solve it all and stop Thanos

Just saw Infinity War. I want Proxima Midnight to step on me.

Just saw it. It's really good and really unexpected. I was SHOCKED when Red Skull showed up. When Thanos stabbed Tony everyone was like "oh well, finally the moment everyone expected" and then he doesn't die. I think my biggest problem was Vision, he literally does nothing the entire time

Bucky and not Cap was surprise, but other than that it was by the numbers... but done right by the numbers. Most movies that attempt this format end up as a complete clusterfuck (chronicles of riddick, justice league) though this time, that thankfully, mercifully, doesn't happen. Thanos is given his due and allowed to foster his presence almost fully (frankly the movie could have used about 5 minutes of establishing his aim with him directly, not the aftermath, not the his crusade, but literally watching Titan turn into a nightmare wasteland over his ojbection and leting him sift through the ashes before making his decision. You know the cast by this point, you know the bants and snarks will be on point, and all of that is delivered methodically with enough room for good stuff to come. Still the movie verges on frenetic a couple of times and the absolutely ludicrous amount of money they spent on FX is almost wasted by the speed with which they throw shit into and off screen in wipes and cuts. Luckily when the shit does hit the fan, this method stops and we get long sweeping cuts of exposition-by-action so we can see exactly why Thanos is the real deal on the marvel threat-o-meter. A bit messy, but still a definite win on the books. Because it's just the first half, you can't really say where it'll land on the roster of awesome, but it's lightyears ahead of the Age of Ultron by any measure.

I'm so fucking happy they did the snap.

I loved it, tho honestly I felt like the ending took a lot away from it. The moment starlord, black panther, and spiderman all ate shit I realized 'oh ok so all these deaths are meaningless because everyone's gonna come back somehow at the conclusion of the next one, including probably all those earlier deaths'. I felt like it meant something when Locki and Heimdall died, and it certainly meant something when Gamora died, but now that I've realized that in typical comic book fashion the deaths don't mean shit, I just found myself not really caring anymore. Like people in the theater were freaking out as people crumbled to dust and all i had was a profound moment of 'eh'. Maybe that's just me tho. everything else was great fun tho and I'm looking forward to the next one. but god damn somebody better actually stay dead in the next one when the dust settles (heh)

I am expecting that everyone who lived (the original Avengers team) will need to sacrifice themselves in 4 to save all the people who were dusted by Thanos. I'd say those who were physically murdered like Loki are staying dead.

As I said earlier, I can see the pre-Snap deaths being permanent, but I do totally agree that the Snap deaths being restricted to the new characters that are so very obviously returning really diluted the potential impact.

seen people call infinity war america's end of evangelion. lol

That's what worriest me the most.

I felt like most of the humor worked. Dax was the only one that actually made me cringe

Saw it a couple of hours ago and I loved it. So fucking glad they actually did the snap, and Thanos had a better reason than "I have a boner for Death" here So is it safe to assume that everyone who "died" to the snap is just stuck in the soul gem while every other death is most likely permanent?

That's how Marvel works though, and it's why Disney's "30 year plan" with this and Star Wars are both going to fail sooner than they think. This has been a thing even in the comics, and every time they hire someone to permanently change things like they did with Grant Morrison and the X-Men, they retcon it all out anyway and go back to the same tired OH NOES THE END BUT NOT "annual" formula.

The Hulk was so lame

fg