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For the record, she's playing Shalla-Bal, a character who has literally existed since the very first Silver Surfer comic. and who was empowered by Galactacus as a second Silver Surfer in the Earth X comic series.

The thing is, at the time of Iron Man, RDJ was seriously damaged goods as an actor; everyone knew he was immensely talented, but he also had a massively well-known history of chronic substance abuse issues, and had not done any really big roles since his last stint in rehab. He wasn't as...

As I understand it, the drama was that Howard was paid $4.5 million for the first Iron Man film, with contract options for two more movies, and was supposed to get $8 million for the second. Instead, the studio said the contract options were non binding and they were only willing to pay him $1...

It's not even that. It's supposed to be a "petty thief trying to turn his life around and do better for his kid's sake", only he . . . just doesn't actually do anything that's actually better. The "villain" is the rightful owner of the shrink tech and had every right to create and use the...

With the original Ant-Man movie, my dislike of the movie ends up being rooted in the fact that there is literally no reason to side with Ant-Man other than him being the protagonist. The "villain" is completely in the right, the "hero" is completely in the wrong, there isn't even any heroic...

I felt that all the Ant-Man movies were mediocre at best and really did not have any "spark of fun" at all. Quantumania simply double-jumps the shark that Ant-Man jumped from the beginning.

Cute. Erskine quite explicitly says that the serum amplifies all of the user's traits, for good and for bad, and reminds Steve that he has to actively keep himself in check, to stay good. And let me make this clear: I agree that Steve mostly succeeds in doing that. He's not a villain at any...

Bully is not quite the right word, but Steve Rogers does have an enormous character flaw that is magnified as Captain America. He cares about doing what he thinks is right, to the point where he believes that absolutely anything he does in the pursuit of that is justified. Consider what...

And my argument is that no, he *doesn't* have sufficient evidence. He *wants* to believe that the HYDRA mind control is a "curable" issue and that the innocent Bucky inside the Winter Soldier can be rescued, but that was what he *wanted* to believe based on Bucky hesitating to finish him off at...

Well, if nothing else -- if being mind-whammied by HYDRA means Bucky isn't responsible for his own direct actions, doesn't being mind-whammied by Wanda *with the specific, malicious intent of making him overreact* similarly mean Tony isn't responsible for the Ultron incident, especially since he...

That's exactly the point I'm trying to make, yes. It literally does not matter in the slightest how objectionable the terms of the Accords may be. Sovereign nations are sovereign nations and have absolute authority to both individually and collectively tell the Avengers to fuck off. It's not...

Given how dangerous the Winter Soldier is known to be, "shoot on sight" is absolutely legitimate use of force. He's literally had years to turn himself in peacefully if he had any desire to do so. Honestly, the correct solution to this situation would have been a Reaper drone leveling the block.

Like seriously, if it was *anyone* but Bucky, Steve would *absolutely* insist that they have to turn themselves in to the authorities, not raise a hand against the police, and prove their innocence in court afterwards, and he would *absolutely* condemn anyone who went on the run because that's a...

If you're going to give Cap and Black Widow credit for that, you have to give Tony credit too. He was literally the *first one* to say that they'd have to make the sacrifice because there weren't other options on the table. It's standard behavior for an antihero or an edgy dark hero. It's very...

To be fair he didn't do it for funsies, but he was *absolutely* aiding and abetting a most wanted international terrorist. Steve's involvement in that fight was really weird -- he was trying to prevent Bucky from *outright killing* any of the GSG-9, but he was *also* trying to help Bucky escape...

Ehhh. None of the Avengers were even aware the Helicarrier was functional, so Steve's insisting that they HAVE TO find another option really came off to me as petty self-righteousness. What, like if he berates Tony hard enough he'll just *magically* come up with a better alternative that he was...

On the other hand, Stark is also literally the only Avenger who has *ever* shown the slightest care about 1) collateral damage, 2) actually compensating innocent bystanders for the damage the Avengers, 3) common sense. (Remember, with Ultron about to drop the city and *no options*, Captain...

IMO, the big problem with the whole Winter Soldier and Civil War plotline is that it directly showed Steve placing his friendship with Bucky above all other loyalties while *not* allowing anyone else to call him on it outside of the Steve/Tony conflict. Like, even before the Accords are on the...

The Black Cauldron wasn't just a flop, it was a catastrophic box office bomb that nearly killed Disney's entire animated unit.

Bluntly, live action remakes of Disney's worst flops is *not* a bet any sane studio executive would make.