Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[make_it_so]

When the films were announced doesn't mean much when it's public knowledge that Endgame was being rewritten until the last minute, mostly because Infinity War left the series so that there was no way to do a satisfying sequel.

I disagree - I think a very satisfying and creative way to get a sequel done would be to make it where the remaining heroes try to get back to gauntlet to reverse what Thanos did, while the B-plot also being a kind of Thanos redemption arc (mirroring Thanos's arc in Infinity War). There might still be massive battles and fanboy eye candy, but ultimately the conflict resolution would come from the heroes not simply punching out the big bad - which incidentally one of the reasons I actually like Wonder Woman 84, in spite of all its flaws.

 

[glib]

I disagree - I think a very satisfying and creative way to get a sequel done would be to make it where the remaining heroes try to get back to gauntlet to reverse what Thanos did, while the B-plot also being a kind of Thanos redemption arc (mirroring Thanos's arc in Infinity War). There might still be massive battles and fanboy eye candy, but ultimately the conflict resolution would come from the heroes not simply punching out the big bad - which incidentally one of the reasons I actually like Wonder Woman 84, in spite of all its flaws.

My theory was that they should've made the infinity stones invincible. That way if Thanos tried to destroy them, he wouldn't be able to. Thus, he would have to hide them. Then, you could have an inter-weaving story of the different heroes working together to find the stones while Thanos tried to stop them.

It would work better than "Thanos gets killed, but theres another Thanos"

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I disagree - I think a very satisfying and creative way to get a sequel done would be to make it where the remaining heroes try to get back to gauntlet to reverse what Thanos did, while the B-plot also being a kind of Thanos redemption arc (mirroring Thanos's arc in Infinity War). There might still be massive battles and fanboy eye candy, but ultimately the conflict resolution would come from the heroes not simply punching out the big bad - which incidentally one of the reasons I actually like Wonder Woman 84, in spite of all its flaws.

What I would have liked to see in Endgame was the rise of the Cult of Thanos where its adherents develop an OCD desire to split everything into halves. After all, the Infinity Gauntlet made Thanos god and therefore people would try to make sense of what god did and decide that's how they should live their lives. Also, there is no reason for Thanos to destroy the Gauntlet afterwards, thus they wouldn't need a convoluted Time Heist and instead have a regular Heist.

 

[glib]

What I would have liked to see in Endgame was the rise of the Cult of Thanos where its adherents develop an OCD desire to split everything into halves. After all, the Infinity Gauntlet made Thanos god and therefore people would try to make sense of what god did and decide that's how they should live their lives. Also, there is no reason for Thanos to destroy the Gauntlet afterwards, thus they wouldn't need a convoluted Time Heist and instead have a regular Heist.

That's pretty awesome, I'd watch that. My theory just works from the idea that the audience has been watching a buildup to Thanos as the big villain for a decade. Therefore, his death should be cathartic to them. But it wasn't for me. When I saw Thor chop his head off, i knew the movie was screwed. What else could they do after that? They "won".

The whole plot goes into another dimension after that point to justify this terrible "subversion" of the classical killing of the big bad at the end.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Coming from a man whose whole life revolves around living in a house all the time.

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1386035933200400386?s=19

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Coming from a man whose whole life revolves around living in a house all the time.

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1386035933200400386?s=19

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It's not that in Europe there have already been several protests over lockdown restrictions and length in several countries because people are fed up with businesses closed and having their livelyhoods taken away from them because of the coof.

If only Bob knew what struggling was... And i mean real struggle and not "I cannot go to the cinema to watch garbage churned out by hollywood".

 

[TowinKarz]

It's not that in Europe there have already been several protests over lockdown restrictions and length in several countries because people are fed up with businesses closed and having their livelyhoods taken away from them because of the coof.

If only Bob knew what struggling was... And i mean real struggle and not "I cannot go to the cinema to watch garbage churned out by hollywood".

Also, Canada, the closest thing to Europe in North AMerica, that Bobby probably thinks we should emulate, if not be absorbed by?

Ontario's newest lockdown went over like a wet fart with people protesting in the streets and cops saying "Hello? Politicians? You didn't ask us if we'd enforce any of this shit before you decreed it was now a felony to play on the jungle gym and the police would stop anyone seen eating polish sausage in public and demand they explain themselves.. because we won't, Eh? "

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Spoiler: Powerlevel

I was in town earlier and went to this protest. I've also seen BLM protests and had a look round at them. Two things are worth noting:
• I saw more black people at this protest than at the white middle-class kneelathons in Islington
• this protest just seemed a lot more welcoming than any of the things for St George of Minneapolis.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Also, Canada, the closest thing to Europe in North AMerica, that Bobby probably thinks we should emulate, if not be absorbed by?

I would say most american lefties have such a boner for Canada because of the public healthcare, but i wouldn't know because i'm an Eurospic.
In the end no country should become like another. You're just trading your shit for someone else's shit in the end and you will not like any of those.

And if it's something proposed by Bob, it's most likely to be a terribly bad idea.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

Coming from a man whose whole life revolves around living in a house all the time.

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1386035933200400386?s=19

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MovieBlob isn't a snowflake. He's a whole damn snow pile.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

I would say most american lefties have such a boner for Canada because of the public healthcare, but i wouldn't know because i'm an Eurospic.
In the end no country should become like another. You're just trading your shit for someone else's shit in the end and you will not like any of those.

And if it's something proposed by Bob, it's most likely to be a terribly bad idea.

American lefties also looooove Europe, for the same reason. They're the type of people who, when abroad, will be annoying as hell and apologize to everybody about the president if he's Republican and telling everyone they come across that they're not like the other Americans when they're not pretending to be Canadian.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

They're the type of people who, when abroad, will be annoying as hell and apologize to everybody about the president if he's Republican and telling everyone they come across that they're not like the other Americans when they're not pretending to be Canadian.

I can attest to that. In my last job i got into contact with some Americans and Californians, when the nationality came up, they inmediately brought up Trump and how sorry they were that he got the presidency. As if i give a shit.

At least the more conservative people (usually older) were more understanding and chill when speaking, while lefties kept saying that America is horrible and Europe is great for not having student loans, guns and having universal healthcare.

 

[TowinKarz]

I would say most american lefties have such a boner for Canada because of the public healthcare, but i wouldn't know because i'm an Eurospic.
In the end no country should become like another. You're just trading your shit for someone else's shit in the end and you will not like any of those.

And if it's something proposed by Bob, it's most likely to be a terribly bad idea.

Canada has three things the American left has tried to accomplish/establish stateside for 40 years, but can't quite manage, so they just squint their eyes and dream that one day they'll get there and pine for the "utopic" ideal that has been realized in Leafland the way a hopeless basement dwelling loser tries to catch the eye of a girl way out of his league through hardcore online simping. Specifically:

1. National Healthcare
2. Successful destruction of what once was robust firearm culture, and criminalization of firearm usage to the point that even if you're being actively stabbed to death, you WILL face homicide charges if you shoot and kill your attacker. Using a gun makes you evil, end of story.
3. Heavily related to above, a cucked court system that spends more resources trying to prosecute you for "hate crimes" that never drew blood than actual violent crimes that left people injured and victimized because mugging is just the voice of the unheard or whatever pithy leftist justification for being victimized by someone with darker skin color than you is this week.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I just remembered this.

I think the villain of the Green Lantern movie hit too close to home for Bob.

He knows it's true that if he got super powers, he'd use them to hurt people he doesn't like.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I just remembered this.

I think the villain of the Green Lantern movie hit too close to home for Bob.

He knows it's true that if he got super powers, he'd use them to hurt people he doesn't like.

And be a giant mediocrity on top of having superpowers.

 

[Quixotic Man]

Bob doesn't live in a house.

He lives under a house.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Also, Canada, the closest thing to Europe in North AMerica, that Bobby probably thinks we should emulate, if not be absorbed by?

Ontario's newest lockdown went over like a wet fart with people protesting in the streets and cops saying "Hello? Politicians? You didn't ask us if we'd enforce any of this shit before you decreed it was now a felony to play on the jungle gym and the police would stop anyone seen eating polish sausage in public and demand they explain themselves.. because we won't, Eh? "

Some Canuks even went to the US border, held the Canadian flag upside down, and flashed SOS in morse code for three minutes.

(Tweet)

 

[Flexo]

Some Canuks even went to the US border, held the Canadian flag upside down, and flashed SOS in morse code for three minutes.
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Shame Trump's not around. I would have killed to see his presidential tweet on the matter.

 

[Xolanite]

Shame Trump's not around. I would have killed to see his presidential tweet on the matter.

“Liberate Canada!” - orange man, probably.

 

[Bolo]

You work it out, and it's pretty clear Infinity War/Endgame is actually the best you could ever reasonably hope for.

And again, I'm a DC bot. I got to watch Crisis on Infinite Earths adapted on TV by the CW. (I don't just feel your pain, I've exceeded it.) The worst is that even allowing for the budget & time limitations and the needs of adaption, they STILL screwed things up. (I will never forgive Batwoman.)

I agree. While I do think Thanos and his motioves are the weakest link in the Marvel movies, they can be easly overlooked, more so with the whole big fights showdowns and all that, and it is unrealistic to expect a 1 to 1 adaptaion from the comics to the movies in the same way anime does to the mangas (for the most part, till they run out of manga in case of the big series).

Closest thing we got was watchmen, and they couldn't even deliver on the giant octopus.

Still, I think it is a bit of shame how far the movies diverged from the comics, if there was any real love to bring comics to movies, there could have been a better way.

I just remembered this.

I think the villain of the Green Lantern movie hit too close to home for Bob.

He knows it's true that if he got super powers, he'd use them to hurt people he doesn't like.

That Green Lantern movie sucked, but not because we couldn't understand Hammond's motivation: shitty beta male loser, resentful of he doesn't have, angry at what others have, but without the willpower to achieve something on his own, quietly blaming everyone else for his misfortunes. And once this person gets a taste of power, it corrupts them in no time, such is their eagerness to resort violence against those who have "wronged him", a lot of the time out of petty jealousy.

There are a tons of characters like that. Fuck, Akira's Tetsuo is pretty much the epidome of this character.

This sort of characterization is pretty cut and dry, either Mr. Professional Moviecritic doesn't grasp the basics of writing, or seeing Hammond cutting too close to home to the fat, lonely, job ender, frustated speaker, he lashed out in a petty and resentfull rant that sorta proves the point of Hammond's character.