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Saw the film today. Rock solid fun, probably in my top 4 Marvel flicks. Maybe top 5 if we count the Raimi films.

Just a solid, well built sci-fi superhero story, really. With strong feminist themes and a protag who I found surprisingly engaging considering that her comic incarnation's never really clicked with me.

Also she bodyslammed a space jet while shouting 'whoo!' 100/10 deserves every Oscar forever.
 
foamy said:
Well, I mean, Des and Troy slaughtered zombie Asgardians by the boatload, so maybe Earth's military tech isn't as far behind as the aesthetics might indicate.
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I mean, the Chitauri couldn't even stand up to Black Widow's 9mm, and that's something we can protect against with light body armor.
 
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I mean, the Chitauri couldn't even stand up to Black Widow's 9mm, and that's something we can protect against with light body armor.
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The Chitauri got their asses handed to them by a dude with a bow and arrow. Their foot soldiers are probably the least impressive fighting group in the entire MCU, up to and including the people who kidnapped Stark in Iron Man 1 :p

That's why I went with the Asgardian example, because they were overwhelming some actual combat beasts.
 
foamy said:
The Chitauri got their asses handed to them by a dude with a bow and arrow. Their foot soldiers are probably the least impressive fighting group in the entire MCU, up to and including the people who kidnapped Stark in Iron Man 1 :p
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The Chitauri seemed more like a raiding force than an invasion force. Sending them on a smash and grab to pick up an infinity stone or something seems like a lot more viable mission plan for them than trying to conquer anything.
 
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Flectarn said:
I was just assuming he was using the same custom rifle he had for Winter Soldier, which was described as firing soviet ammunition, but having no rifling so it couldn't be traced
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I believe that was supposed to be the sniper rifle that he used to wound Fury and perform some of his historical assassinations in Winter Soldier. Don't ask me what the hell kind of sniper weapon doesn't have rifling, possibly he fired some kind of fin-stabilized discarding-sabot. Or he was using an APS underwater rifle for some reason.

The gun he uses in Infinity War is the same one he picked up just before the climax of Civil War, rather than something left over from his Winter Soldier days.
 
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I mean, the Chitauri couldn't even stand up to Black Widow's 9mm, and that's something we can protect against with light body armor.
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I frankly would not be surprised if they operated under some form of "use less resources per troop" mentality due to them serving a guy who has a very interesting interp' of resource use.
 
foamy said:
Well, I mean, Des and Troy slaughtered zombie Asgardians by the boatload, so maybe Earth's military tech isn't as far behind as the aesthetics might indicate.
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Something that I always wondered about is the logistics of the various races. We rarely (if ever) see the super-tech / magi-tech weapons of the more advanced races run out of ammunition or break down. Contrast that with how humans have a limited supply. Have they just hit a point where their weapons are "good enough" and have unlimited ammo and just stopped advancing? Is it just that no one else has used anything as primitive as bullets in a very long time and thus their defenses are specialized for other things / less useful against purely physical projectiles?

It is just fun to speculate about.. as long as it is all done in good fun. ;)
 
Brie Larson directed a weird comedy back in 2017, Unicorn Store with her and Samuel Jackson as co-stars.



It's a thing.

It got premiered at various festivals back then and critical reception was mixed.

I assume that Netflix decided to ride the Captain Marvel wave and distribute the film.
 
Finally got my pregnant ass out there to see it, and it was pretty good. The use of 'I'm Just a Girl" gave me a big smile.

Despite the 90s references here and there, it being set in that decade didn't really seem to matter. I'm glad it wasn't one of those terribly done period pieces where they make every god awful cliche in the form of a pop-culture Mjolnir and launch it at your head. But they didn't capture the zeitgeist of the period either, like in the way that 'That 70s Show' and "Stanger Things' does. What was sad about this too, since it involved aliens, they totally could have tuned into that X-Files conspiracy shit. Still, it was a good movie despite the lost opportunity.
 
I got suggested a video in my recommendations that wasn't "The Captain Marvel/Disney conspiracy". That was nice.



Anyway, the author compares the backlash received by Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman, mentions the obvious reasons like Wonder Woman being central to the DC core heroes, Brie Larson being outspoken vs Gwl Gadot being very vanilla in front of the media. But she also mentions something else I find quite interesting.

For the more traditional part of the audience, Captain Marvel isn't a traditional representation of heroines, she's wearing a leather jacket and discreetly make up for a large part of the film, she has a female mentor and an asshole male superior officer, she has no male love interest in the film... whereas Wonder Woman is essentially a princess.

Anyway, I've been entertaining that thought for a while, so representations are safer and more comfortable for some part of the audience, Wonder Woman is one of them, Alita is another, it makes that part of the audience connect more easily with the heroine. Other representations are less so, I'm also thinking of how Rey's journey was structured and the lessons she learned into Last Jedi neither quite fit the mould people expect for more traditional narratives.

I'm not making any conclusions as to the overall reception of a film, but I find it a likely explanation for why some films receive more backlash and others less.
 
Nicholai said:
Something that I always wondered about is the logistics of the various races. We rarely (if ever) see the super-tech / magi-tech weapons of the more advanced races run out of ammunition or break down. Contrast that with how humans have a limited supply. Have they just hit a point where their weapons are "good enough" and have unlimited ammo and just stopped advancing? Is it just that no one else has used anything as primitive as bullets in a very long time and thus their defenses are specialized for other things / less useful against purely physical projectiles?

It is just fun to speculate about.. as long as it is all done in good fun. ;)
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My assumption has been that while the galactic powers have technology way beyond anything Earth can devise, for instance I doubt Stark could have held off the Accuser's bombardment squadron even with his latest suit and the entire Iron Legion playing support, this is concentrated more at the high end while the non super powered mooks are on more equal footing with their earth counterparts. Still superior, but not untouchable.
 
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Khaos said:
I got suggested a video in my recommendations that wasn't "The Captain Marvel/Disney conspiracy". That was nice.



Anyway, the author compares the backlash received by Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman, mentions the obvious reasons like Wonder Woman being central to the DC core heroes, Brie Larson being outspoken vs Gwl Gadot being very vanilla in front of the media. But she also mentions something else I find quite interesting.

For the more traditional part of the audience, Captain Marvel isn't a traditional representation of heroines, she's wearing a leather jacket and discreetly make up for a large part of the film, she has a female mentor and an asshole male superior officer, she has no male love interest in the film... whereas Wonder Woman is essentially a princess.

Anyway, I've been entertaining that thought for a while, so representations are safer and more comfortable for some part of the audience, Wonder Woman is one of them, Alita is another, it makes that part of the audience connect more easily with the heroine. Other representations are less so, I'm also thinking of how Rey's journey was structured and the lessons she learned into Last Jedi neither quite fit the mould people expect for more traditional narratives.

I'm not making any conclusions as to the overall reception of a film, but I find it a likely explanation for why some films receive more backlash and others less.
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I really don't think the people generating the outrage even watch the films they are bitching about though.
 
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