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Once more into the cinema, dear friends, once more: * Captain America continues to be awesome. * He don’t need no steenkin’ parachute, although why the vibranium ain’t glowing is a mystery. * Ah, multitasking. Always room for a banter thread. * And this is why concealed mission objectives are a bad
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Straight on with it: * Well, they don’t look much like pre-stellar ignition creatures, but we’ll roll with it. (Anyway, wouldn’t they be Hot Ones in that case, not Cold Ones?) * …using a K does not make words extra-special. Just ask the Krell, the K’kree, the Kazon…
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Don’t really have to say anything at this point, do I? * Nice “you know who I am” badge. * Ooh, nanoficus. * Less cool: exploding ficus. * JARVIS continues to be best house brain. * Your R&D process really looks unnecessarily painful. * See, now folks like this asshole is why the
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Again, you know how this works… * Ooh, monologue-ing. That’s a good sign. * Well, someone forgot the first rule of mucking about with poorly understood paleotech artifacts, didn’t they? * Mind-zapping scepters work much better, I feel, when they don’t change your eye color. * Free from freedom? Well, someone
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You know how this works at this point… * Ooh, glowy cube. Wonder if it’s an actual tesseract inside? * Yeah, you can see where Tony got it from. * And this, gentlesophs, is what we call estxijir. * Ooh, we like her. * The culture that makes a point of the importance of
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Y’all know how this goes by this point in the series, so let’s get right into it… * I love the smell of science in the evening. * Ooh, Asgard is shiny! And flat! When did they start filming in our neck of the woods? (Seriously, feels familiar.) * Oh, that’
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Wow, our watching cycle is short these days. Maybe I’ll start dribbling these out, oh, once a month or so, so they don’t eat the blog. Once again, I live-blog in-culture: * Oh, yeah. Tony’s entrance to the Expo is exactly how they do it in Mer Covales.
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So, remember this? Well, now that our long-delayed rewatch of the MCU is restarted, we’ll be getting the rest of them, starting with The Incredible Hulk. What do our merry protagonists think of this, the hurling of popcorn at the screen to yells of “Gamma rays do not work
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So here’s a question I was asked recently: In the vein of questions about media, let’s throw at the Eldrae the 70mm IMAX versions of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe (note, entirely cinematic, nothing from TV) with enough cultural footnotes to understand the context. Assuming all movies are