So, I haven't seen Endgame yet - but I feel like some of the spoilers I've seen indicate to me that Marvel is increasingly playing with introducing more blatant identity politics into the MCU. 

I just can't get very excited about the path Disney/Marvel is taking the MCU. 
3.5 hours for a Super Hero movie seems real ambitious, too. 
Anyone seen it? Without spoilers... what do you think? 

Like in this room, you would talk about a movie you liked. Or didn't like. Like, Captain Marvel sucked a male member. 


Then you would click POST message, then click Goto next room. 

Fri May 10 2019 12:05:05 MST from ParanoidDelusions

So, I haven't seen Endgame yet - but I feel like some of the spoilers I've seen indicate to me that Marvel is increasingly playing with introducing more blatant identity politics into the MCU. 

I just can't get very excited about the path Disney/Marvel is taking the MCU. 
3.5 hours for a Super Hero movie seems real ambitious, too. 
Anyone seen it? Without spoilers... what do you think? 

 

 

If you've been watching the MCU and you like it, Endgame is totally worth seeing in the theatre.  I was worried because of Captain Marvel but she's not a problem.  There is one scene where they blatantly show off all the female characters charging in together and you can practically see the "THE FUTURE IS FEMALE" tagline under it but that's like 3 seconds of the whole damn movie and it's not anything said, so it doesn't really ruin it.

Current MCU Top 5 (Personal ranking obviously):

1. Infinity War

2. Endgame

3. Doctor Strange

4. Guardians of the Galaxy

5. Ant Man

The SJW Left has made me so hyper-sensitive that even a little scene like that is likely to just ruin the whole fucking thing for me... because I just immediately go, "Oh, you virtue-singal-ing bastards." 
With that said, I'm going to go see it tomorrow afternoon... so, MOSTLY I've avoided spoilers... and hopefully I can get over myself long enough to enjoy it in spite of the "Force is Female" bullshit creeping its way into the MCU. 

They server beer at the Alamo theaters... and burgers... so ... who knows... Maybe I'll be able to get through. 

No major spoilers: 

It was WAY better than Black Panther - with no 45 minute sleep inducing lull in the middle - but it had plenty of moments of ham-fisted virtue signaling, like Captain America holding a Fight Club style therapy group where a gay guy talks about his first date since the snap and how they both cried... 

Parts were predictable if you know how the Marvel Comics Multiverse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe works... I called several things before I ever saw it. 

And they've clearly signaled that the future is going to ratchet the SJW messaging up to Star Wars levels and beyond, repeating the same mistakes that have made the comics industry tank over the last 10 years. 

I'm sure that when they do that and it fails, they're going to blame the racist, toxic white male incel fanbase - but that is cool, because what is coming isn't for me - so I don't intend to support it. 

Glad they wrapped it up with a fairly decent landing. It could have been way better - but it could have been WAAAAAY worse.

Very little Carol Danvers - which was a little bit too much of her... but better than a LOT of her. 

I'm calling it now. Daenerys is going to kill John Snow, for good this time, because he is a threat to the throne. One of them has to go.

And that will put Arya into action, and she will kill the mad queen.

I think there is a good chance Sansa Stark is going to end up being Queen of the 7 kingdoms.

John has already proven he doesn't have the leadership to be the King of Westeros. He might have made a good King in the North. 

Sansa, through her experience with Littlefinger, Joffery, and Ramsey Bolton, as well as her time in Casterly Rock and the Red Keep, and her similarity to her mother in nature and temperament... 

Is probably the Stark that should sit on the throne.

Again, spoiler warning.

The only thing that took me out of the movie was the girl power scene. Men work together just fine. Men work with women just fine. But when you really need to save the world, men better not help with the final charge! Guuuurl powerrrrr! 

I'll probably see it again, but I don't think it's as rewatchable as Infinity War was. When Thor meets Starlord, man... that's gold.

Minor spoilers:

Captain America hosting a survivor's group where the guy starts talking about his first date since the snap, and how he and the guy he was dating both cried... 

The all-girl charge, I audibly groaned at that scene. 

And Fat-Thor - but the dismantling of Thor has been going on since Ragnarok, so that wasn't unexpected. 

And any scene with Captain Bitchface - although it was great how she showed up, flew through the ship of Thanos all powerful, and instantly got smacked out of the scene like the annoying fucking gnat she is. 

Thu May 16 2019 08:05:55 MST from ParanoidDelusions Subject: Re: Endgame (SPOILERS!)

Minor spoilers:

Captain America hosting a survivor's group where the guy starts talking about his first date since the snap, and how he and the guy he was dating both cried... 

The all-girl charge, I audibly groaned at that scene. 

And Fat-Thor - but the dismantling of Thor has been going on since Ragnarok, so that wasn't unexpected. 

And any scene with Captain Bitchface - although it was great how she showed up, flew through the ship of Thanos all powerful, and instantly got smacked out of the scene like the annoying fucking gnat she is. 

 

I feel like there are enough upward heroic arcs that a fat Thor, who has PLENTY to be crushed about, is an acceptable counter. Iron Man is the last and first hero, complete with Biblical negotiations, cynical accusations, try-try-again mentality, trauma that he completely overcame, and Christ-type expenditure of literal ultimate power to save all mankind. Having Thor whose entire planet was eradicated get a little depressed until the literal Divine Feminine inspires him with Positive Chaos (in this case the unknown upside potential of the future) is impossible without a valley to match his peaks. And it was hilarious.
If it weren't for the other Super Feminism in the MCU I wouldn't even take your point seriously enough to argue it. Thor couldn't be an acceptable central hero, but he's a great side man imo.

The problem is that the symbolic message and reason for doing this to Thor in particular is patently obvious and a clear manifestation of the goals and agendas of cultural Marxism - which is why it isn't safe to indulge it, even if it works on a comedic level and as part of the story-arc. 

They chose the golden-haired, white God to castrate and turn into a clown on purpose. If they had done the same thing to Black Panther for as blatantly racist of a motivation - people would be justifiably outraged. 

This is what "straight white male privilege" looks like in society today. 

https://twitter.com/dcolbert/status/1124580972991664128

I'll take that into consideration. I'm still one of those passive racists who doesn't see color, lol. In Del Paso Heights (before we moved to Tahoe Park), my brother and I were the only white kids whose parents weren't in jail. Being white was not a factor except which racial slur I was called when it was time for a stranger to address me. So I don't really think about it. I guess also Nordic-ness isn't on my radar, but I do know that white supremacists tend to refer to that subrace as the Pure Blood, so I can put that together.

Yup.  Here is the thing... I think that non-Caucasians are more likely to think that Caucasians consider Northern European archetypes as the ideal manifestation of Whiteness. I guess white people kid around about it... the toe-headed, pink cheeked, icy-blue-eyed ideal of human creation. But the choice to make Thor comic relief was a conscious one with a very intentional subconscious message to get across. He is the embodiment of White Masculine Perfectness. He is a substitute for Hercules or Davinci's David. There is a reason Valkyrie was black, in Ragnarok too. If it had been done the other way, people would have been outraged about the cultural appropriation. Valkyries should be blonde haired, blue eyed, and statuesque. Not a short, cocky black woman with a lower class British accent. None of these choices are made casually. 

Cultural appropriation is hilarious.

According to the SJWs - the fact that insults roll off of us like water on a duck's back is *because* of our white privilege. The fact that we're not butthurt when they stereotype us is offensive to them. 

Imagine an 8th grade English teacher has a class read the Lord of the Rings until the first half of the last book, then has her class write the last half. They take an entire school year to do it, and they end up with 5 more chapters. 

"Then Saruman hugged Sauron, but stabbed him in the side while hugging him, because Saruman had decided Sauron was actually a bad person. Then the orcs threw Saruman in prison - but the hobbits and elves and dwarves and men bargained for Saruman's freedom, and made Frodo the King Under the Mountain. 

The end.

So, the newest Star Wars trilogy - it helps if you think of it like a Tribute Band. 

It is trying real hard to be exactly like the original, but it isn't as good, and has nothing original to offer. If you can reconcile yourself with that, it can be entertaining. 

But it shouldn't be full price. It should be watched in a country fairgrounds as the free show with admission. 

Disney/JJ Abrahms/Kathleen Kennedy/Rian Johnson Star Wars is a band named "Sounds like Teen Spirit." 

Wed May 22 2019 12:36:58 MST from ParanoidDelusions

So, the newest Star Wars trilogy - it helps if you think of it like a Tribute Band. 

It is trying real hard to be exactly like the original, but it isn't as good, and has nothing original to offer. If you can reconcile yourself with that, it can be entertaining. 

But it shouldn't be full price. It should be watched in a country fairgrounds as the free show with admission. 

That's exactly what has happened and will happen. I bought the Star Wars trilogy three or four times--VHS, DVD, BluRay, some even to stream for convenience. I only bought the prequels once on DVD. I have only streamed Episode 7 twice and 8 once. Once is the same number of times I streamed the Adam Sandler movie The Ridiculous 6. Because it's trash. I watch it to keep up on the canon, nothing more. I don't expect a good experience. I don't expect it to be rewatchable and CERTAINLY don't expect it to be timeless or in multiple Top 20 Movies of All Time lists like Episode V. Do I even write the new episodes with Roman numerals? I do not.