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Scenario: A soft reboot of the DCU is happening and you're involved. You have the job of setting the overall power level of the DCU. This is important, because whatever you decide will be implemented for both comics and all other media. Writers will be bound to follow your instructions - there will ...

It's here in NZ and we saw it as a family last weekend. It was better than I expected. Be prepared for different background details and a slightly different characterization for Shang-Chi than in the comics, but it works. The characters are nuanced, and the 'bad guy' has a strong, understandable mot...

Also, could a Mod please look at the Spoiler tags in this thread? My second one regarding infantilising doesn't work and GuppyShark's one doesn't seem to work either.

Can you please post a link to that? I went looking on Amazon and couldn't find it at all.

I did see that the Ultimate Edition of BvS is available. I haven't seen it, but apparently it fills in plot holes and makes the movie more watchable. Has anyone seen it?

I've no interest at all in Zack Snyder's Justice League. The theatrical cut wasn't good but I will cut it a hell of a lot of slack for trying to be a positive adaption that fixed the flaws in Snyder's characterisation and adaption so the characters aren't grimdark asshole and mutually supportive an...

I don't think I want to watch the theatrical version ever again, except as a curiosity of how not to make a movie. Apart from the dodgy attempts at humour, some of the other offensive things about the Whedon cut are the way it both sanitises and infantilises the original story. Examples of sanitisin...

I'm a little surprised to be the first one posting about this. It's available on Sky here in NZ. I won't post spoilers yet, and I'll hide them if I do. My wife, daughters and I watched it yesterday afternoon, with breaks. We weren't sure what to expect, although we'd heard favourable reviews. Our ve...

So who would be a suitable wielder? This was one of the quandaries of the original IG saga. All of the main characters are flawed in some way. It might be better to focus on those who have the most desirable qualities and the fewest flaws. Dr Strange has the requisite cool head and sense of responsi...

Did anyone else think that Hulk used up all his screentime in Ragnarok and so had almost nothing left for IW? :lol: I'd have thought after getting his ass kicked so quickly by Thanos he'd be more eager for a rematch, since the longer a fight goes on the angrier (and stronger) he becomes. Does he, t...

Vision is supposed to be the culmination of Ultron's quest to create a perfect host body for himself and it was absolutely imperative he doesn't succeed in transferring his consciousnes to it. Here he gets stabbed in the back alley by some no name dipshit and then Black Widow and Captain America ha...

I think it's not that so much as, well, they're tools to be *used*, not passive power buffs (save maybe the Power). The power stone appears to passively buff the wielder (as it did with Ronan) but can also be utilised more actively, both as Thanos did and as the Celestials did, as shown by the Coll...

The Black Order needed to get in immediately to get the stone before it was destroyed. They sent the wheel-tanks in as soon as they could be disembarked, but those could not be deployed as quick as opening the pens for the Outriders and letting them run out. Same reason the allies sent in paratroop...

The fighting on Earth in Wakanda is awful. This was poorly thought out as you have an interstellar army resorting to sending melee monsters to fight against Wakanda infantry with spears. Even Asgard had turrets and aerial fighters but somehow the absurdly advanced Wakanda that would fit in with Sta...

Really? I couldn't tell the difference (clearly), though I did think the Skull looked a little different.

It looked to me like the gauntlet and his left arm and shoulder were burnt after "the snap". NeoGoomba wrote: ↑Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:42 am Was it just me, or did the gauntlet look wrecked after the fingersnap? And yeah, Thanos, while very well written, is extremely stubborn/foolish. His plan...

Some more notes on powers and abilities: Stormbreaker appears to be (and Brokk infers) more powerful than Mjolnir was. It has an axe head and a hammer head, and the power seems to reside in those because Brokk didn't have a handle ready and as far as I could tell, the handle Groot provided had no pa...

Yes, that was funny :D Some more thoughts on Thanos . . . Yes, his motivation of bringing 'balance' and his reasons for doing so made more sense (in his head anyway) and didn't require huge exposition or backstory. The CGI of Thanos was very well done, vastly better than what we saw with Steppenwolf...

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Hawkeye and Ant-Man have been benched for this movie - there is one line about them being away with their families.

Fury is trying to call Captain Marvel when he gets disintegrated.

Since it looks like I'm the first to see it . . . HUGE SPOILERS - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AGAIN Well, everything has been leading up to this. It's basically an all-out assault to get the infinity stones by Thanos right from the start with everyone else trying to stop him. It probably wouldn't have the ...

What/who the hell was that thing?

I'm betting that given my earlier (spoilered) comments it has something to do with Spoiler

I saw it last night and loved every second of it, even more than SW:TFA (which I had mixed feelings about the first time I saw it). However, getting beyond my initial reaction and considering it from other points of view, I can see why some people would be unhappy with it (I spent a lot of time writ...

Oh, hell. You go away for a bit and this happens. My deepest condolences, Lady Tevar. I think someone else already mentioned how lost they'd feel without their partner and having been married for 16 years I feel the same way. I can only imagine what you're going through. SirNitram was a guy with a v...

I guess I should have asked before listing all magic I could think of. Shannon, how much or how little are you planning to invoke the Arthurian Mythos here? Cause if it's a one-off, guy finds magic scabbard goes on to have unrelated adventures, that's fine. But if he's going to become embroiled in ...

Thanks, people. I meant to respond last night, but my internet connection had other ideas . . . So: Didn't Arthur in the legend also have a whole host of other magical weapons, armor and tools? I recall from QI that he had a magical spear at least, with its own name. I truly hadn't considered that. ...

Thanks guys, all good points and things that I was concerned about. I've been practicing kendo for over 12 years and have been lucky enough to work with some sensei who also have skills in kenjutsu. Interestingly, there are strikes that directly target the brachial and femoral arteries of someone in...