I'm only disagreeing with this because Venezuela's been starving for years and they don't care enough to riot.
You know, I think DC, Disney and Marvel would have more success if they focused less on the super-heroics(CGI, special effects) and gave us more variety on the stories and characters in their movies.
I read somebody's account online of trying to follow the Ant-Man movies without following any of the other MCU offerings, and having it be a jumbled mess of an experience. I completely agree that trying to make movies which rely on seeing a dozen or so other offerings to fully understand (maybe 3-5 to mostly understand) makes for an exhausting experience. I'm mostly just sick of movies which end with a setup for not only a sequel/trilogy, but a bunch of different spinoffs and a cinematic universe (eg, King Arthur, The Mummy) and it's like, Christ almighty I don't want to deal with this.
Speaking from an accelerationist point of view, when the shortages come, there will be pictures contrasting empty supermarket shelves with the rich, famous, and politicians glutting themselves. Bob and company will step up to defend them, of course, but most Americans will be hungry, furious, and armed to the teeth.
The friend that I saw the first Ant-Man with hadn't seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron beforehand so they were very confused at the Falcon cameo who I explained was "the cheapest Avenger".
I'm hoping that the Cinematic Universe bubble bursts soon, and studios start focusing more on standalone movies.
Ironically, when the Marvel movies first started out in Phase 1/Early Phase 2, you really didn't need to have seen any of the others in order to "get" what was going on. The cameos were nice little bonus Easter eggs for people who had seen the other films.
Honestly, I'm even okay with sequels/trilogies! Something like what Sonic the Hedgehog is doing, where they tease a sequel with Tails. That's okay by me. But I do not, absolutely do not want, to watch a dozen or so unrelated movies to find out why Sonic the Hedgehog is suddenly driving forklifts with Kiryu Kazuma in the sequel.
I collected Comic books since I was a kid in the 80s. Mostly Marvel Comics.
It's probably a combination. We've seen him showing off his terrible cooking before, it's likely his weight loss is because he's making himself sick.
I saw Avengers with a girl who hadn't seen any of the other movies and she had no issues with following it.
If only we had known how bad it was gonna getfftopic:, but I actually discovered Bob's brother Chris's Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/thechippa?lang=en
Beyond some retweets of and responses to Blobbo, he comes off as a normal enough guy, compared to how emotionally/mentally unstable Matey Potatey is.
His twitter photo's hilarious, showing that Chris at the very least, is married and has a kid, something Boob will never achieve.
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I’m worried to what they do to the toilet.
You see that wood floor above? Take a good look at that bad rabbit.
Because that wood floor is frequently violated by these motherfuckers below:
New or not, that wood has experienced more horror and shame than any kiwi. And, being wood, it will carry that horror, shame and stench on through the decades.
Yeah, I kind of noticed that. It's almost like now the movies and streaming series only exist to promote and create hype for the next movie or streaming series.
If only Jay Bauman inadvertently created a meme about that very phenomenon.
Imagine Bob's house getting ransacked during this. Would people be horrified by the sights and smells, or excited someone had that big a stash of Mountain Dew still?
I have no idea what he's even getting at. Reading it, and especially out loud, makes it almost seem like a pretty decent AI composed this, like sub 10 level Tay AI. It seems like he's trying to take a swipe at Americans? But Capcom is a Japanese company and they're the one kept increasing the roid level of all the male characters for a game that was always Japanese focused. The character designs are either impossibly built muscle men, ex. Kenshiro of Fist of the North Star or anyone from DBZ, or wispy, girly men that have more zippers and superfluous pieces on their clothes than hairs on their head, ex. Monster Hunter or the Final Fantasy series from 10 on. That's not including the LITERAL THOUSANDS OF DESIGNS IN BETWEEN OR BEYOND EITHER EXTREME.At a certain point Ryu became Japanese character-designers looking at how Americans re-interpreted what was initially the "default domestic good guy" for the roster as a raging karate muscle-monster and going "Well HELLO THERE, repressed self esteem - how you doin'..."
I respectfully disagree and say the main reason that Venezuela, and in a more broader sense the rest of the world, hasn't broken into full out riots is that, unlike the US, they are not armed. That's why I believe there's such a big push to remove those pesky weapons and why Bob is all for everyone besides him to be disarmed. I encourage all fellow Bobologists to not be a Bob. Get yourself strapped and become somewhat proficient with your fire arm. Even if Bob is telling the truth about owning guns he also claims that he only goes about once a year to the range which is pathetic. Oh and don't be like this old Ralph or the other Ralph and throw away that right by fighting with the law.
That's one of the other decent things that's getting lost, the idea of having characters and concepts introduced in a film being understood by watching that film alone instead of all the supplementary material. We didn't need an introductory movie for Hawkeye for his appearance in the original Thor to be noteworthy. Audience's aren't so stupid that they need to start at square one of a character's story to relate to them, sometimes, perhaps, they can just appear in the movie and carry their role through the gravitas brought to the role by the script/acting/directing.
