Minions. While the story was obvious, it is pretty hilarious.

I was drunk last night and pretty excited to discuss the movie too, apologies to those who read spoilers accidentally on my account

It's okay, you didn't give away all of the explosions.

Civil War last night, probably on par with Guardians of the Galaxy for me.

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If you like getting pissed off at outrageously racist *******s, look no further. This is a well made documentary about neo nazis taking over a small town in North Dakota to make it a base of sorts. Great soundtrack too.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Very first time seeing it and I'm 34 frikkin years old. Doing my best to fill in the gaping chasms of my childhood.

Then watch Batman: The Animated Series. And if you already have, go back and do it again.

I put together a server called "RetroBox" with 100 complete series from the 80s and early 90s for my Saturday morning cereal-in-bed viewing. Looks like it's time to make that 101.

I'm interested in really well-written and cerebral cartoons. Going to revisit The Maxx and Aeon Flux in case they have any potential, but I'd welcome additional suggestions.

The Joker is played by Mark "Skywalker" Hamill BTW. Just to blow your mind a tad.

Hopefully gonna watch Hunt for Red October today.

So I finally saw Civil War today

Is it just me or was Scarlet Witch better in this than she was in Age of Ultron? Or did they just make more badass use of her powers?

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Linny and I stopped by that place on a drive back home from Palm Springs. Unfortunately they now have chicken wire covering his open mouth from the inside.

Great stuff! My big dream is to trek out to Portmeirion where The Prisoner was filmed.

Nah, I think you're right. With that being said, Age of Ultron is probably my least favourite film from the MCU so maybe I'm a little biased there.

**** you, that movie was totally underrated. Maybe it wasn't as focused as the first Avengers, but it had a far superior villain, actually delved into the characters, and didn't have one of those Final Fantasy boss fights at the end where the villain (the Chitauri) just kind of shows up out of nowhere whereas before the heroes had been fighting a completely different enemy (Loki).

Age of Ultron > 1st Avengers

Okay so you're wrong but you've convinced me to re-watch both the Avengers films tonight so thanks.

Nah, you just need to read The Ultimates volume 1 to understand that The Avengers was just a 2nd-rate version of a better story. Granted, The Ultimates is also superior to Age of Ultron, but reading The Ultimates really shows how the movie flubbed the Chitauri.

I judge movies for how good they are, not for how they measure up to comic books. If it were the other way around, Spider-Man 1 & 2 wouldn't be so fantastic, but it is, and Sam Raimi is a genius.

About this point, it seems impossible for there to be a bad MCU film.

When you see just how awesome the Chitauri invasion was, and how well integrated it was into the story of The Ultimates, then you can't help but feel that the final battle of The Avengers was lazy writing. But I thought The Avengers was overrated even before I read The Ultimates, so...

But seriously, read The Ultimates. It just might be the best Avengers story ever written, and quite possibly can't be topped simply due to the alternate universe, deconstructionist nature of the comic. It's like the Avengers meets Watchmen. Ant-Man puts his wife into the hospital in a domestic squabble, Thor may or may not be a mental patient, the Hulk repeatedly attempts to rape or eat multiple people, Iron Man is still an alcoholic, and Captain America is a cheap, white knighting relic of the 40s. And best of all, it literally predicted Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.


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And Spider-Man 1 & 2 are also overrated. They were great for their time, and I LOVED them as a kid, but now that comic book movies have "evolved", they're relics. Fun relics, but they just don't hold up anymore. Even Amazing Spider-Man 1, as ****ing flawed as it is, might actually be better. James Garfield is certainly superior to Tobey MaGuire at the very least.

Well I'm not holding out the most hope for Thor: Ragnarok given the last Thor films abysmal quality.

Dark World wasn't the best MCU film by any stretch of the imagination, but it was still head-and-ass better than the first Thor movie. It's also the only MCU movie to actually use the movie interpretation of Loki in a way that didn't feel forced. And that was pretty big as far as I'm concerned.

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Okay now you're REALLY wrong. I never quite understood why Tobey McGuire got so much slack for that role, I still think he was pretty convincing all things considered. Regardless, Homecoming should kick some major ass despite the horrible name choice/logo they used when they revealed it.

Speaking of Marvel movies, is there any love out there for Blade?

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MaGuire would have been fine(ish) if he'd actually done anything with the part, or at least if the writing had gone anywhere with Peter Parker's character. But he was never anything more than a two-dimensional geek stereotype. Garfield's Parker may have been poorly written, but at least the actor brought the character to life. I also give Garfield extra credit cause he seems to be just a plain better actor than MaGuire, which lends credence to my belief that he did a better job at understanding the character regardless of writing woes.

And no matter what caveat you can apply to the writing of the Peter Parker character, Garfield was far and away the better quipper. He just was Spider-Man. At all times I believed that this was the guy who was spouting all the cocky, corny one-liners from the comics. And that means a ****-ton.

Of course. Everyone loves Blade. Even if only as a mindless action movie and showcase for Wesly Snipe one-liners, everyone loves Blade.

I'm actually rewatching Age of Ultron as we type, and I must say, even if I don't end up liking it as much as I did the first time, it seems as solid a waypoint between the previous and next movies as The Avengers was, or Captain America: Civil War seems to be. If there's one thing Marvel knows how to do well, even with its lesser movies, it's how to bridge the gap to the next big ****ing hit, and for comic books, that's almost half the battle.

I'm currently watching it as well, and it's making me miss Hulk & Thor a lot more than I thought I did.

MARVEL GIVE US WORLD WAR HULK ALREADY.

You're a tasteless ****. James Spader's Ultron is one of the best characters in all of comic book movies, and yet you insist on being a dumb, useless child molester?

Yes, and thank you.

OMG. I'm just watching the bit after the very first Ultron confrontation, when Iron Man and Captain America are first at odds, and Iron Man is all like, all that alien **** is going to **** on us, and Cap is like, "So we'll lose, together", and it just gives me a Captain America boner. I know it's dumb and cheesy, but it's everything that superheroes should be.

I never thought I'd be a Cap fan, but here I am, with a bunch of unread Captain America comics on my computer that I fully intend to read. I could give a **** about my country, but my country's superhero has my full allegiance.

This we can agree on. I really never thought I would be all that crazy about him after seeing The First Avenger, but his character just keeps getting better and better to the point I was 110% team Cap for Civil War.

He's everything that Superman SHOULD be, but without the contrived conviction, and with a far more interesting storyline of being a fish out of water. Who cares if some guy who's been raised as a Kansas American for his entire life turns out to be an alien? But some guy who spent the first two to three decades of his life in the first half of the 20th century all of a sudden finding himself in modern times? That's fascinating character study.

I also remember reading some Avengers comics a little while back where they talked about the "Captain America affect". There's just something about the man that makes you want to be better. Chris Evans as Captain America is cheesy, but he really does do that. He makes me want to be a better person, even if his example is unrealistic. There is a power to that that can't be realized with the hilarious but cynical worldview of Iron Man. There's just something magical about Cap. Something that can't truly be deconstructed no matter how hard Alan Moore or Mark Millar tries. Something that's rooted deep inside every human being. I suppose it's that most basic instinct of altruism. That's Cap.

For sure, and I think while at times a patriotic American superhero might come off as cheesy or lame on the surface, it just works so well with his character. He really is the type of hero you aspire to be as a child when you're running around, playing by yourself. It only helps that Chris Evans is a total hunk, and sells it so well.

That scene in Age of Ultron when he's chopping wood at three times the speed of Tony Stark with half as much effort, he's like, the 80's Hulk Hogan of Marvel.

As of the past few days, I've acquired quite a few films on my computer (not so legally might I add ;))

Son Of Saul
The Tree of Life
The Lobster
Dogtooth
Animal Kingdom (seen it before, fantastic film)
Un Prophete
Enemy
Baadassss!
Love & Mercy
Mean Streets
Mother (Madeo)
Requiem For. A Dream
Steve Jobs
The Raid 2 (seen it already)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Under The Skin
Holy Motors

Which one should I watch first