"Captain Marvel"

Before we begin, if you wish to see what I wrote on my other blog, Before I Go See It, you may do so at the following links below.

Before I Go See It: Captain Marvel
Before I Go See It: Captain Marvel Super Bowl Trailer

Now, on to the main event.

A FUCKING CAT CLAWED OUT FURY'S EYE??!!!

Sorry, let me rephrase that.

A FUCKING FLERKEN CLAWED OUT FURY'S EYE??!!!

Rising warrior, Vers, is about to prove herself with a mission to rescue a Kree spy when they are ambushed by the band of Skrulls, shapeshifting aliens that have been keeping the viewers on the edge since Hydra took over S.H.I.E.L.D.
She gets captured, and the Kree are tapping into her memories that are buried deep until she uses her the photon blasters in her hands to break out and get away from her captors. Unfortunately, her blasting about caused her to crash land on Earth, in a Blockbuster Video. From there, she contacts her crew and awaits their signal.
The next morning, Agent Nick Fury and Agent Phil Coulson arrive to pick up Vers when Skrulls attack. One even takes the form of Coulson, until Fury causes a car accident and kills the Skrull...and nearly losing his trademark eye.
Then the movie takes a trip down Buddy Cop Lane by having Vers and Fury team up and find the whereabouts of Dr. Lawson, a woman locked up in Vers' memories. And that's not the only thing locked up in her memories. She begins to remember that she once had a life before she was part of the Kree. She was always torn down by boys and men. They don't want her to win at racing go-carts, pool, karaoke, or making it into the Air Force.
Fury and Vers find that Maria Rambeau is the last person to see Lawson alive. They visit Rambeau and discover that Vers knows her and her daughter. But they aren't the only ones. A few members of the Skrulls have come to persuade Vers to join their cause. It turns out the Skrulls are a refugee species that the Kree are trying to eliminate. Not only did Vers know Dr. Lawson, but she helped her on a test that would set off a chain of events that involves them crashing. Lawson is actually a Kree scientist that was aiding the Skrulls. Her project was to create a lightspeed technology to aid in their journey for a new home. When they crashed, Yon-Rogg, who was her mentor, killed Lawson and was about to kill Vers, but Vers shot the engine to destroy it and absorbed the energy core inside it in the most Hulk-ifying way. So Yon-Rogg took her to train her.
In the ultimate battle, we discover that Lawson's secret lab was hovering in space, the Tesseract is what gave Vers her power, and a stowaway cat, named Goose, is actually a dangerous Flerken that can shoot tentacles out of his mouth. And for the first time ever, a hero actually let the enemy live. No, Loki does not count; he let himself go. But instead of locking Yon-Rogg, Vers, now called Carol, sends him to the Kree with a message that she will be coming for them. Carol gives Fury his pager back, since she took it from him in the beginning because he called back up, and said to use it in emergencies only.
I want to apologize for my anger towards her, wondering where she was when the world was dissolving. She was helping the Skrulls find a home.
I feel this was very bad planning by Marvel. Carol has made an appearance in the Endgame trailers; we know she's gonna be in the movie. And when she shows up in the mid-credits scene, it's like "Well, duh!"
It was cool seeing Coulson back in action after what I saw at the end of season five of S.H.I.E.L.D. It makes sense how Fury and Coulson ticked in the early days of the MCU. They worked together. And when Fury "died", he made Coulson the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. But I think something doesn't add up. Coulson's a rookie agent in this movie, set in 1995. In episode whatever the hell, of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson and Agent May were in charge of the infant Daisy to put her in an orphanage in 1989. The show and the movies failed to mention how it takes to move up a level in S.H.I.E.L.D.
I don't know whether to be excited or annoyed that the Avengers Initiative was named after Carol's callsign. It's like, "Oh, cool, the Avengers are named after Captain Marvel," while at the same time, it's like, "Really? The Avengers are named after Captain Marvel?" Then it kind of doesn't make sense. The first Captain America movie is called The First Avenger. He's never called that in the movie, so what gives?
Speaking of Captain America, a classmate of my sister thinks that this movie was sexist to underprivileged boys. <Sighs><Sits down, like I'm old> Steve Rogers is an underprivileged boy. The skinny kid from Brooklyn enlisted to the U. S. Army five times, and every time he gets turned down. Then he's given the opportunity to take part in a secret experiment that gave him his powers.
I heard that Steve doesn't like Carol, and I see why. She's him, only better. Remember, his best power is that he could never get drunk. Carol's best power? We don't f*cking know! Legend says she can time travel and go binary, which sounds like she turns into a cyborg. My point is that it was long overdue for a girl-led movie. The main leads in the solo movies are Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, and Black Panther, all males. Even the Guardians of the Galaxy is led by a male, even though the girl one is the most badass of the bunch.
The whole theme of the movie is "Discover what makes her a hero". Every time she falls over, gets pushed down, crashes, every time she goes down, she gets back up. That's what makes her a hero. She's strong. She's intelligent. She doesn't have to prove Jude Law anything. That is what makes her a hero.

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Released On: March 8, 2019
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 7.2/10

Videos
Screen Junkies - Which Avenger Should Be a Skrull? MOVIE FIGHTS (First twenty minutes is all you need.)
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How It Should Have Ended - How Captain Marvel Should Have Ended

"Logan"

I'm going to make some enemies with this one.
I will admit that this movie was different from what we've seen with the character of Logan. But if you take everything off the fact that everyone got what they wanted, Wolverine yelling profanity, bloodily killing people in the way that Wolverine knows how to, you still get yet another sh*tty Wolverine movie.
In the distant future, which I guess we're now looking at three very different timelines from the first X-Men Trilogy to the reboot/sequel trilogy to the Wolverine trilogy, Logan is losing his powers, mutants are all but extinct, and he's a dad. Logan encounters a little girl with her own set of Wolverine powers to match, and she needs his help to safely cross the Canadian border. Logan halls Charles Xavier along as he is also dying. He is having seizures that could potentially kill anyone within, let's say, a half mile radius. So we get a generic running across the country movie as the bad guy, who created Laura the mutant girl, wants her back so that she can be destroyed. Apparently, the age of mutants is ending with not a single one being born in 25 years. Instead, they are being created in the lab the same way Wolverine has, and all of them are being broken out of the facility to a sanctuary in a place called Eden in Canada.
Along the way, they encounter the guy from ER and they accidentally get him killed because of the generosity he offers. Charles also gets killed in the process and Logan is left with a little mute girl. Who turns out to not be so mute after all. But she can lift him into a car, drive him to a medical facility, and even drive him out to the outpost where the other mutants are waiting to be gathered before making the trek across the border.
In the final showdown, Logan gets plunged into a tree by a mutant that's his own match and perhaps his own clone. As he lays dying, he is almost joyous that he now understands what dying feels like. And Laura buries him just minutes from Logan's home country. We never really get to know if they made it to Eden or not. We don't even know if Eden is even real. We're just left at Logan's burial site where Laurel has taken the cross and turn it on a side to where it makes an X instead.
I was not at all sad when Logan died because you guys are burned me out on that. It was everywhere for the last 2 years. I know Wolverine dies. Logan dies. Hugh Jackman has hung up the claws for the last time. So what? Who cares? And by the way, Logan was not the star of this movie; Laura was. She kicked more ass in her limited amount of screen time than Hugh Jackman ever did in 17 years of playing the role. She should have her own movie. I hope you guys are working on that maybe you should call it Laura.
Also, I thought the Johnny Cash song was weirdly placed. I know the trailer featured a Johnny Cash song, but that song was "Hurt." That mafe sense for the tone. Here, we're still getting used to the fact that Logan is dead, and now we're bopping to "When the Man Comes Around." To rub some salt into the wound, maybe you try "Cry, Cry, Cry."

Everybody knows where you go when the Wolv'rine's dead

Seeing him there will be a kick in the head

Hugh Jackman's done, now he's saying "bye, bye, bye"

When he turns around and walks away, you'll cry, cry, cry

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.1/10

Awards
Academy Awards

• Best Adapted Screenplay Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green - Nominated

Saturn Awards

• Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
• Best Actor Hugh Jackman - Nominated
• Best Supporting Actor Patrick Stewart - Winner
• Best Performance by a Young Actor Dafne Keen - Nominated
• Best Writing Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green - Nominated
• Best Editing - Michael McCusker & Dirk Westervelt - Nominated

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Videos
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"Ant-Man and the Wasp"

Like a Mad Libs page, the plot line is back with new details. Once again everyone hates Scott and the only person in his corner is his daughter. Based on the success of Scott’s return from the quantum realm, this movie turns into Saving Ms. Janet where Hank and Hope build a quantum tunnel to retrieve Janet.

Meanwhile, Scott is on house arrest, and the reason everyone hates him is because he went to Berlin to fight Captain America, and he got caught violating the Sokovia Accords. Did you know Michael Douglas didn’t know about that? Because he didn’t go see Civil War, he was confused when he read the script for this movie as to why he was mad at Scott. Don’t worry, Michael, I’m sure a lot of people forgot about Civil War. I know I did. But this also proves a point to my mother. She wasn’t interested in watching them in order. If you don’t do your homework, you end up getting lost.

I got off track, sorry. Scott is just days away from being relieved of house arrest when he has a strange dream about Janet, Hope’s mother, and Hank’s wife. He calls them to sort of chat about it and he gets whisked away on another adventure with the Pyms. Hope was on the verge to secure the remaining part they need when their dealer, with the worst Southern accent I ever heard, tries to blow their cover, Hope transforms and shows off the Wasp for the first time. Then a mysterious figure shows up and attempts to get the part. Scott joins in but fails to get the part. The figure also commandeers the lab, that Hank previously shrunk, and disappeared. Not sure what to do next, they visit an old friend of Hank’s, Ben Foster. He suggested using a quantum tracking to find the lab. Doing so, Hank, Hope, and Scott find the lab but get captured in a Scooby-Doo episode as Ben and the mysterious figure, the Ghost, tried to take the lab from them and using it to extract the quantum rays to help heal the Ghost. She was caught up in an experimental accident and her molecules were ripped apart and stitched back together, but no one can touch her. Ben took her in once S.H.I.E.L.D., who tested on her, went under and searched for a cure.

With the help of some ants, Scott, Hope, and Hank escape with the lab, and they get to work. But their adventure gets cut short when the terrible Southern gentleman is after them after they have drugged Scott’s friends, who told where they were. Then they chase them in hot pursuit through San Francisco as cars constantly shrink and grow to blow cars away. Meanwhile, Hank travels to retrieve Janet, which is possible thanks to Janet herself. While Scott was subatomic, Janet linked with him, and she took over his body to fix Hank’s math to pinpoint her location. They come back out and the Ghost is healed and Scott is free from house arrest and everything is fine and dandy.

I don’t know if you would call this a good sequel, but I think it was a better, more fun follow up to the first one in some instances. Scott’s friends are a lot more fun as they struggle to start a security business while Scott can’t leave the house. Their stupid antics, like Michael Peña telling his version of the movie, helped slow down the bad guys long enough to help fix everything.

The shrinking lab raised a number of questions for me. With it being shaken around like that, it makes you wonder if anything is tied down. Their entire workplace could be destroyed the second Hank picked it up.

Hank used the aroma sensory bullsh*t to control the ants in the first movie. Now he just yells at them and they hardly get anything done. That makes your technology look like crap because you are drunk on it and just being mean to anyone who isn’t you.

I’m really glad Hope dumped the Amelié look and went for the Lara Croft look. It really bugged me the whole time in the first Ant-Man. She and Scott finally kiss in this one, but like the rest of the love interests in this universe, the romance is forced and rushed. I really don’t care anymore.

Overall, I really think this was a decent film and a decent break from what we just saw in the last movie…until it decided to hit us with that again. Way to kick us in the nuts, Marvel. In the end credits scene, Scott is collecting quantum rays in a capsule and was waiting to be pulled out when, unbeknownst to him, Hope, Janet, and Hank all dissolve into dust. Which makes you think. Why weren’t the events from Infinity War the biggest things on television right now? Instead we get Gi-ant Man treading through the San Francisco Bay. Do you suppose Scott missed the Snap because he was subatomic? With everyone suddenly gone, I want to know. Did Luis, T.I. or the Russian guy dissolve too? Bobby Cannavale? Or…Oh, God…Marvel?

Killing Peter is one thing. But I draw the line at little girls with more attitude than all the women in the MCU combined. Shame on you!
But also it makes you think who else is gone, that we don't see. We never saw Valkyrie, Korg, or Meek in Infinity War. Did they die too? If so, by the hand of Thanos' children or Thanos' himself? Is Pepper dead? Jane Foster? I know we never see her anymore, but I can't help but wonder. Aunt May? Ned? MJ? Senator Ross? Liv Tyler? Ty Burrell? Dr. Selvig? One Broke Girl? Peggy's niece?
What if there is irony in Fury trying to contact Captain Marvel only to have her dead too?

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Released On: July 6, 2018
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily, Michael Douglas, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Peyton Reed

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88% Certified Fresh

IMDb Score: 7.2/10

Videos

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"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Season 5

I experienced quite a few emotions throughout this season. I was definitely shocked at the start of the season, but at the same time, I was feeling annoyed that they would go to space, like what else is new. Of course, space is next.
But then the show took it further by placing the team in the future where Earth had been obliterated, and the last of humanity is enslaved by the Kree on a former S.H.I.E.L.D. base, dubbed the Lighthouse because it was an actual lighthouse.
Coulson, May, Daisy, Simmons, Mack, and Yo-Yo are thrust into a cryptic prophecy where S.H.I.E.L.D. would travel from the past and save humanity. But it doesn't come easy. The Kree are ever watching, and the disgruntled humans are down with killing each other for basic necessities. But a select few were willing to help fulfill the prophecy, which includes Tess, a trawler pilot, Flint, a young Inhuman with a passion for helping people, and Deke, A Han Solo-like character that eventually comes around.
Now, you're wondering where's Fitz? Fitz gets captured by General Hale and taken for questioning. Apparently, two minutes before Hale takes Fitz, the entire team gets frozen by some neuralyzer thing and aliens take the team, except for Fitz. Fitz spent six months searching for them while at the same time was sending hateful letters to a British magazine about a soccer team. Six months later, a strange man shows up and claims he's Fitz's lawyer. Surprise, its Hunter! The angry letters were meant to capture Hunter's attention to rescue him. Unfortunately, Hunter was in Bangladesh. Together they encounter the alien that took Coulson and Company, and they lock Fitz in a cryogenic freezer where he will travel to the future the long way.
Simmons has been taken by the Kree to be one of their personal servants because of her set of skills and her flawless complexion. Daisy is hiding throughout the halls, and the rest are chained to a disgruntled rock crusher. Slowly together, they build their plan to save humanity and get back to the present. Once Fitz shows up, in the most epic way, the plan picks up momentum. They were able to defeat the Kree and get their descendants on a trawler where they will venture out to find a place to reestablish the human race.
They get back to the present and now they have to figure out how to prevent the Earth from destruction. It turns out General Hale is in part to blame for setting things in motion. She was wanting Coulson and Company because the Confederacy want Coulson...and some gravitonium. She also captures General Talbot, who was shot last season by the Daisy LMD, and break him during the time S.H.I.E.L.D. was gone. Hale has a daughter, who specializes in martial arts and scary-ass knife discs. These are so sharp that they slice off both of Yo-Yo's arms when she pushed Mack out of the way.
Hale has other plans though; she wants out of the Confederacy. The young daughter wants to rule the world with the lackey von Strucker kid from two seasons ago at her side. She goes into a chamber, very similar to the one that gave Captain America superhero steroids, and starts to get injected with the gravitonium. Unfortunately, she screams painfully, because the people, sucked into the gravitonium, were screaming in her head. She gets out having only eight percent of the gravitonium. While struggling with her new strength, she kills von Strucker. Fearing that the daughter is the known Destroyer of Worlds, Yo-Yo kills her. But the threat of the world's destruction is still very real.
When soldiers of the Confederacy invades the lighthouse, a broken Talbot steps into the machine and absorbs all the gravitonium and defeats the soldiers. But now he's a power-hungry psychopath. He believes he's saving the world, especially for his son. Talbot travels to the ship where the Confederacy is stationed and takes over the ship. He kills Hale, and he kidnaps Robin, a young Inhuman with the power to see the future. But that is another challenge; the future comes to her in fragments and not in order. So it took some doing before she reveals the location of the untapped gravitonium, which lies under the streets of Chicago.
Finally, in an epic battle that everyone feared it would lead the end of Earth, Daisy, nearly consumed by Talbot's new power, takes the serum, that was meant for Coulson, and pushes Talbot into the sky where he suffocated in the vacuum of space.
The underlying B story is that Coulson is dying. In Season 4, he was consumed with the Ghost Rider, and that his deal with him was to let him live a mortal man and burn out the GH-325 serum that was keeping him alive. The serum was to save him, even though Yo-Yo kept saying that her future self said that they needed to let Coulson die. I started this whole adventure in Iron Man where I absolutely hated his guts. He was annoying in that movie. He was funny but still annoying in Iron Man 2. He was awful to Jane Foster in Thor. Then he was being arrogant to get Loki to stick 'em up, in The Avengers, and he gets stabbed in the chest. I wasn't sad at all when he died...the first time. When he returns in this show, we watch him go from a by-the-book S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with compassion to a director with almost no rules, and then to an agent again who is now dying. I've actually grown to care for him. He accepts that he was ready to die. Every episode in the second half of this season, I was on the edge of my seat with the possibility of "this is it." He wanted to name Daisy as the director, but she doesn't want it. In fact, when she WAS in charge, she was more about making sure she doesn't destroy the world rather than trying to save the world. Instead, she nominated Mack to be the director, which Coulson agrees. The last thing we see is Coulson standing on the beaches of Tahiti with May, trying to rebuild a romance that was obviously forced. I'm sorry, but they had a chance a long f*cking time ago. It's too late now.
Instead, I'm more interested in the relationship between Fitz and Simmons. Their storyline improved significantly this season. I was annoyed at first that they were once again separated. Then when Fitz shows up in the future as a dashing bounty hunter with the TV-14 mouth of Deadpool, there's the most b*tching marriage proposal during a rescue mission since Disney's Robin Hood. It's better you see it here rather than I explain it to you.  Then the marriage; there is nothing in this world that can top this. A surprise to us is when Deke went shopping for the dress and the rings, he believes the ring he picks for Simmons resembled the one his mother wore, which belonged to her mother. Turns out that Deke is their grandchild.
Which, now this fantasy comes to an ass-grinding halt. First off, the earth cracked with a 12.8 earthquake. I found that hard to believe, then I read this and it's entirely possible. But should the earth crack, shouldn't the majority of the pieces fly off into space? There should be nothing left.
Deke says there is a multiverse of the events that is Season 5; Coulson and the Gang are being thrust into the future to save the future and then back to the past to save the present only to fail again and again. They succeed this time, but it makes me wonder if the worst is yet to come. Will the earth be destroyed anyway? Fitz came back to the present with the rest of the group, and he dies saving Robin. But they know he's also out there in space taking the long way to the future. How do we know he's still there? Well, Deke hasn't disappeared yet, so there's hope.
The season ended after the event of Infinity War, and to help support Deke's multiverse theory, it appears this show is no longer in sync with the movies. There was mention of an attack in New York, but that was pretty much it. I was kind of hoping when May and Coulson are on the beach of Tahiti, they would dissolve into dust from the Snap. Or at least one of them. Then there's a decision on who would it be. If it were, it would be ironic because she is there with him so they can spend their last moments together before he dies, but then she dies. But if it were Coulson, it would hit May harder because she never got to spend time with him. But since they didn't, Deke may be right about the multiverse thing. Maybe the next two seasons is the endgame where they'd be repeating Season 5 again, but the long way around.
There is one more thing I forgot to discuss. In the original timeline, May takes care of Robin after Robin's mother dies. When old Robin gets killed the show tugs our heartstrings when it's revealed that May cared for Robin. May always wanted a child and the Bahrain incident ruined for her. Then she finally has a chance to be the mother she always wanted to be, and it hurt when Robin dies. But then the illusion is broken when May goes back in and Robin is nine years old again. Then it becomes weird because Robin's real mother is still alive, and now we don't know where they're going next since Robin's mother is still alive at the end of the season. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Aired: December 1, 2017 – May 18, 2018
Rating: TV-14
Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley
Directors: Jesse Bochco, David Solomon, Kevin Hooks, Stan Brooks, Clark Gregg, Brad Turner, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Garry A. Brown, Eric Laneuville, Kate Woods, Kevin Tancharoen, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jennifer Lynch, Cherie Gierhart, Jed Whedon
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
IMDb Score: 8.8/10 (Average)

Awards
Saturn Awards

• Best Superhero Television Series - Nominated

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"X-Men: Apocalypse"

Let's acknowledge the fact that a young Scott Summers performed the Bird Box challenge before it was cool. And it's a good idea that Bryan Singer made Days of Future Past, rewriting the X-Men franchise because otherwise, we are f*cked. However, it is confusing anyway with everything we know about them. Mystique is suddenly a good guy, Logan is here for no reason, Magneto is working in a steel mill.
An ancient mutant has resurfaced feeling "betrayed" because humans are running the world. He digs up a section of Age of Ultron and decides to wipe humanity off the face of the planet, which brings me back to the Inhumans debacle, in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hive, in the form of Grant Ward, wants to wipe off the humanity from the face of the planet Mutants and Inhumans are one and the same.
Mystique, starting off trafficking mutants winds up on Professor X's doorstep asking for help. Alex Summers takes his brother to the school to recruit him. Magneto's family is unfairly killed. Jean Grey unfurled everything in a way we've never seen before and saved the day.
Quicksilver f*cking kills it in this franchise. He's is probably the best thing to happen in this franchise, which makes it weird when he exists in another universe. He's also called Peter Maximoff in that one. It was a cute mention that he hints his mother knowing a guy who could bend metal. How does he know?
Apocalypse could have been the greatest villain Marvel ever created if it weren't for the fact that he tried to kill every mutant's hero in the broad daylight. Why does he feel betrayed because mutants are being overrun? People are just getting used to the fact that mutants exist in the last ten movie years, apparently, and now there's this mutant god that demands everyone to bow down or die.
And you know, Professor, you wonder why everyone hates you and your kind? Maybe it's because you call yourselves mutants. Mutation is often resembling a bad thing. Can you think of another name to call yourselves? I know the Avengers was taken as well as the Defenders. There are obviously more than four fantastic superheroes. I'm stuck here, but I hope you know what I'm talking about.
It was weird seeing Angel in this timeline since he is technically ten years old, and Storm is a bad guy. Why is that? Oh, oh, it's so we can cram the original characters in somehow. And if Beast is Charles' right-hand man, what happened that we didn't know he existed until the worse movie.
Then there's Jean Grey. In the first trilogy, her power was bottled up to the point that she kills Professor X and Logan had to kill her to save her and humanity. In the final act, Charles calls out to her to unfurl and unleash. Something tells me that since this after Days of Future Past in the past line, Logan may have told Charles to not close off Jean's mind. Because of that, she saves the world, and she is more confident in herself that she could control her power that she once feared.
One more thing about Magneto. Every time, it becomes harder and harder to not root for him. He has a plausible motive, hating humans and all. But he lacks thinking it through in wanting to kill them all, believing all humans are against mutants. To be fair, we haven't seen a human portrayed to have supported mutants. Then they kill his family in front of him. Oh my God. At this point, I support Magneto. Kill all humans.

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Released On: May 27, 2016
Rating: PG-13
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner
Director: Bryan Singer
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 48%
IMDb Score: 7.0/10

Awards
Saturn Awards

• Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
• Best Director Bryan Singer - Nominated
• Best Make-Up Charles Cotter, Rita Ciccozzi & Rosalina Da Silva - Nominated

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"Avengers: Infinity War"

It’s finally here. The biggest motion picture in the history of, well, ever. Well, maybe with the exception of Endgame. When Joss Whedon stepped away from the Avengers line, the Russo Brothers stepped in to give us one hell of a ride. I mean, I quite applaud at this one. Despite being 2½ hours, this movie covers some f*cking ground.

The movie opens on the Asgardian refugee ship, Statesmen, being attacked by Thanos and his Dwight Schrute minion. When Loki refuses to give up the Tesseract, Thanos presses the Power Stone, which he stole from Xander, against Thor’s temple. Squeamish, Loki gives in and hands over the Tesseract. Thanos crushes it, releasing the stone inside, and places it on his gauntlet. Thanos orders his “children” to locate the final two Infinity Stones on Earth, which Loki offers to be a guide. I guess from having enough of Loki, Thanos crushes him and tosses him aside. Before all this though, Heimdall conjured up enough black magic to send an injured Hulk to Earth before getting killed. Then Thanos leaves Thor alive for some reason and destroys the ship.

Hulk crashes into Dr. Strange’s sanctum, in New York, just as he and Wong were arguing about getting a sandwich. Bruce, now changed back, travels with Strange and Wong to warn Tony about Thanos. Now, do you remember, Tony half-assed proposed to Pepper? Because now Tony is dreaming about children (wink, wink). But even the discussion of what to do gets cut short when two of Thanos’ goons park their flying doughnut on Bleeker Street. With intent to retrieve the Time Stone from Strange, they engage. Tony flashes his latest suit that has technology similar to Black Panther’s suit though not hidden in a necklace; it’s the ridiculous thing in his chest, which I thought he removed in Iron Man 3. Yeah, I know, it was back in Age of Ultron and Civil War; I’m a little late, sorry. Peter Parker’s spidey senses suddenly work, and he skips a trip to MoMA, driven by Otto Stan Lee, to join the fight. Meanwhile, Bruce is having trouble engaging the Hulk, resulting in a campy Two-Face battle. As Strange becomes captured, Peter attempts to retrieve him but gets caught up in the Star Trek beam pulling Strange up into the ship. Tony follows them with an updated suit for Peter.

The Guardians of the Galaxy finally make their way into the MCU, after two commercial breaks, and answers the Asgardian distress call. They reach what was left of the ship and rescue Thor, somehow alive and floating in space. Thor commandeers a pod, against Star-Lord’s orders, and takes Rocket and Groot with him to Nidavellir to construct a new hammer. Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis travel to Knowhere to apprehend the Reality Stone before Thanos does. Unfortunately, Thanos already had. He takes Gamora prisoner fooling Star-Lord in the process with the bubble gun.

Scarlet Witch and Vision hide out in Stockholm but the Mind Stone in Vision’s head becomes the Harry Potter scar and torments Vis every time Thanos gets a new stone. Two more goons arrive to take it, but Captain Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson save Scarlet and Vis. All five return to the Avengers headquarters and discuss how to get rid of the Mind Stone. Bruce, already there, suggests taking Vision to Wakanda to extract it. They arrive to begin the procedure just as Thanos’ army begins formation.

While held prisoner, Gamora struggles to keep strong while Thanos tortures Nebula in order to get the location of the Soul Stone out of Gamora. Also squeamish, Gamora gives in. She and Thanos travel to Vormir to retrieve the Soul Stone, which is guarded by…HOLY SH*T!…the Red Skull! I’ll get back to that. In order to get the stone, a soul must be exchanged; a soul Thanos cared for most…which is Gamora, surprise, surprise.

The flying doughnut carrying Tony, Peter, and Dr. Strange crashes on the ruins of Titan where they encounter Star-Lord, Mantis, Drax in a pissing match about what to do when Thanos arrives, which isn’t long because Thanos shows his purple face. After an epic showdown, they almost shut down Thanos and had the gauntlet taken off, but stupid Star-Lord punched Thanos in the face in anger over the death of Gamora. The epic showdown continues to a point where Dr. Strange offers to give up the Time Stone in exchange for their lives. Thanos agrees and then leaves.

Thor, Groot, and Rocket reach Nidavellir and are greeted by Eitri, who looks like Peter Dinklage ate one of those Super Mario mushrooms that make you grow. Thanos had visited Nidavellir for the creation of the gauntlet and killed all the dwarves except Eitri, leaving his hands melded together with metal. Together, they all work to forge Thor’s new hammer, Stormbreaker. This is the first time Groot got off his twiggy butt and helped as he sacrifices his arm for Stormbreaker’s handle. How, you may ask, was he able to lift Thor’s hammer? Groot has the gentlest soul in the universe. He is balanced. One minute he’s plugging three guys with his thorny finger, and the next he is growing flowers out of his hand for little girls. There, end of discussion.

Thanos joins the fight in Wakanda, where it was already in full swing. T’Challa’s sister, Shuri, worked diligently to remove the Mind Stone from Vision’s head, but the fight had moved indoors forcing her to end the surgery. Wanda/Scarlet Witch was there to blow the stone to hell once removed, and now she joins the fight to decimate Thanos’ children with their own wheelie thingies. Vision joins her as they travel into the wooded area, alongside Dr. Banner, still having trouble hulking, in the Hulkbuster suit, and Captain America. By this time, Thor, Groot, and Rocket have traveled to Earth as well to join the fight. In a final attempt, Wanda kills Vision to destroy the stone, but Thanos, using the Time Stone, reverses the action and kills Vision himself by ripping the stone out. Then Thor throws his new hammer at Thanos and actually gets him…in the chest. Even Thanos’ admitted he should have aimed at the head. Then the ill-fated Snap.

One by one, Bucky Barnes, Falcon, T’Challa, M’Baku, a number of Wakandans, Wanda, Groot, Mantis, Star-Lord, Drax, Dr. Strange, Peter Parker, all of them dissolved into dust. Thanos’ was after the stones because he believed the universe needed saving by wiping out half the population in a mercy kill. And he had done it. That was it.

The post credit scene had Nick Fury and Agent Maria Hill (surprised I actually said her name?) discussing Tony’s disappearance when a car jumped out in front of them. They checked to see if the driver was okay only to find the car empty. A helicopter above them crashed into a building like in the pilot episode of Revolution. People were dissolving on the street; Maria too. Nicky reached for a homemade PDA before dissolving himself. Luckily his message was sent and a red and teal star flashed on the screen. It was a signal to Captain Marvel.

I’m glad a woman is getting her own movie. That should have happened a long time ago with Black Widow. But I’m just mad right now that she hasn’t shown up at all. Like, where were you? On your phone playing Fortnite? Groot put down his video game to help. The world is dissolving and you’re not here to stop it. It’s said that she is the most powerful character ever created. If that is so, is one of her powers Not Giving a Sh*t Unless Called Upon? We’ll have to wait and see with her own movie.

Back to the Red Skull. I’m also bringing up Loki on this too. At the end of The First Avenger, the Tesseract burned the Red Skull to nothing and dropped into a square-shaped hole in the floor of the plane, that it made, and dropped into the ocean. Obviously, it can’t be touched with human-like hands. Since then, it’s been carried in a case and picked up by tongs. When Loki presents the Tesseract to Thanos, he doesn’t get burned up. Neither does Thanos when he crushes the Tesseract to extract the stone from inside. In the first Guardians, the Power Stone could kill you by touching it. So any of them can kill you. Why could Thanos touch the Stones like it’s nothing when he places them on the gauntlet? When Star-Lord touched it, all kinds of sh*t exploded out of it.

This series is really undermining what the Infinity Stones really are. All their powers seem really vague. The only ones with real powers are the Time and Reality Stones. We’ve really seen those two at work, changing time and altering realities. The rest are kind of the same: move sh*t, shove sh*t, blow sh*t up. They are not very exciting. Then together, they are the ultimate killing machine, like the Deathly Hallows. Watch, we’re going to find out that Vision is the Chosen One or something because he sacrificed himself to save others. Thanos is going to be all “Vision…is DEAD!” and his children are going to laugh, and then Banner is going to saying something heartfelt and then Hulk snaps out of it and he will destroy Thanos’ children as Thanos and Vision fight with their stones until Thanos dissolves into dust.
Thanos was this character whom we barely get to know as moviegoers, and now he's finally here. He fulfills what he was meant to be, but in the end, he is another terrible villain with a terrible motive. We don't know why he is really mercy killing. Why is killing the universe the only way to save it? I can only think of Thanos' family being killed in war or famine. Rise to power is one thing. Killing the universe for no damn reason is another.

Now about Loki. Is he really dead? Is Thanos confident enough to ensure that Loki is dead? We’ve seen Loki die twice, and he came back both times. When Thanos says that Loki calls his failure experience, Loki says he calls experience "experience." He’s a master of trickery. Why would he be stupid enough to pledge he allegiance to Thanos and immediately try to kill him? He knows better than to be on that ship like that. He is probably hiding with Chiwetel Ejiofor and he will present himself when the time comes. Yeah, sure, he was there at the end of Ragnarok, but maybe when Thanos attacked, he jumped ship and left a version of himself in his place.
The HISHE review proved a point too. At one point, Dr. Strange fast forwarded to 14,000,025 different possibilities of defeating Thanos and came up with only one victory. When Strange gave up the Stone, I was a little ticked that he was so willing despite saying he would do everything to protect it. but Daniel Baxter mentioned the loyalty and how everyone is considerate of each other, like Captain Rogers telling Vision that they don't trade lives. What if the only possible way to defeat Thanos was to give up the Stone?
When Thor was rescued, he returned to his arrogant self that we saw in, well, literally every Thor movie. He was being all ungrateful for being saved, he took the Guardians' pod against orders, and called Rocket a rabbit. Has he not seen a raccoon before? I know he landed in the New Mexico desert in his first movie, but he's got to have seen a picture a raccoon. Also, I think this was just to have a pissing match over which Chris was the best. Also, I just discovered ScreenCrush and their crash course video on the MCU. It refreshes my memory that Thor had the lightning power all along. Why does Thor need a f*cking hammer if he has the power? Sure he probably can't summon the Bifrost with his fists, but all he has to do to defeat anyone is to punch the ground.

Now, I didn’t cry, but I did get choked up a bit when Peter bit the dust, sorry, because of my stupid theory. Why would Tony care that much about Peter? I’m sure he’s sad that everyone is dying around him, but he took it especially hard when Peter died. Come on, throw me a bone. They have got to be related somehow. Also, this has nothing to do with the Avengers, but is any movie older than 30 "really old" to Peter? In Civil War, he references the "really old movie" The Empire Strikes Back to take down Gi-ant Man. In this movie, he references the "really old movie" Alien to take out Dwight Schrute.
Overall, this was a definite hit. It really changed how everyone saw this franchise going. It makes you wonder if all those silly films before it were to distract us from the magnitude of this movie. I wonder at the very beginning, was this always the plan? Was it meant to build up to this moment? Or did someone, going through the Avengers comics, find this and thought this would be cool to see on screen?

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Released On: April 27, 2018
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Chadwick Boseman, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Gwyneth Paltrow, Karen Gillan, Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, Idris Elba, Danai Gurira, Pom Klementief, Peter Dinklage, Winston Duke, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Tom Vaughan-Lowler
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.5/10

Awards
Academy Awards

• Best Visual Effects Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port & Dan Sudick - Nominated

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"Deadpool"

I'm breaking the rules with this entry because I've seen this movie too many times to nitpick and hate. Who am I kidding? You can't hate this movie. Anyone who does needs to jam a lit sparkler up their *elephant trumpet* and do sit-ups. But I'm doing this because I don't want to disrupt the flow of the X-Men line.
The titular hero opens up his movie with a taxicab ride that stops on an overpass where he drops into one of the best opening action sequences everyone put to film. It's so awesome that it calls the attention of the only two X-Men agents the studio could afford: Colossus, who speaks with a Russian accent for some reason, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, the coolest name ever. They arrive just as Deadpool was taunting a man named Francis, a regular British bad guy who is responsible for his disfigurement. Colossus lets Deadpool smack him around a bit, resulting in Deadpool breaking both his hands and a foot. To avoid getting taken to the professor (McAvoy or Stewart? These timelines are really confusing.), Deadpool cuts off his hand and falls into a passing garbage truck below.
In the midst of all this, we are treated to three flashbacks involving how Wade Wilson went from Mercenary for hire to Vanessa's b*tch to getting terminal cancer to going into a "Super Soldier" program to becoming Deadpool to rooming with Al, an old, blind lady. While Wade is recuperating, he treats us with the most adorable and entertaining banter in a couple Marvel ever created. Al is comically putting together IKEA furniture, despite being blind, and giving Wade advice that looks aren't everything even though Wade says the exact opposite. All Wade wants is to look like Ryan Reynolds and rekindle his relationship with Vanessa.
But Francis formally known as Ajax decides to play dirty by getting Vanessa involved. Wade is forced to push up his plans and save the woman of dreams. Because it's a Marvel movie, he succeeds and Vanessa is okay with his f*cked up face.
I do have some questions now that I've seen the other X-Men movies. Why does Colossus have a Russian accent? When we see him in the other movies, he wasn't some 'roided out WWE wrestler with adamantium(?) for skin. He was a buff 17-year-old that could carry the universe's deepest TV under one arm. I used to have one just like that, by the way. Jeremy, from CinemaSins, pointed this out first, but why aren't there extras walking around the school? There were plenty of them in the four movies before. There were even children under ten. I'm confused about how anyone really gets their powers.
I don't mean to beat this dead horse again, but Jean Grey says mutation happens during puberty under stress. What about that kid that could change the television channel by blinking? He's got to be at least eight. I know in some cases puberty can start that young, but what was his stress? His older brother kept taking the remote to watch something else? Wade gets his powers by getting superhero steroids injected into him before undergoing stress, from flogging to waterboarding to chilling in an ice bath to being put in an airlock chamber that finally triggers his healing powers. If Wade can heal, why couldn't he heal from the stress regiment? I guess it wouldn't make a very good revenge story if he walked away unscathed.
When Deadpool kills Agent Smith, he pushes the camera away to hide what he does to him. In a country that glorifies violence to the point that it's in our children's movies, what could be so bad that it can't be in an R-rated movie? Dismemberment? Seen it. Cutting off his head? You can see that on TV. Break his fingers? That's in The Prestige, rated PG-13. Rip his still beating heart out of his chest so he can see how black it is before he dies? Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the reason the PG-13 rating exists.
I think it's cute that Deadpool thinks he's so special that he's aware of his surroundings, like breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging he's in a movie. He's not the first to do it though, nor is Ferris Bueller, whom he parodies in the end. Woody Allen did it first, as far as I know, in Annie Hall. Then Christian Slater did it in Kuffs. Before getting kicked out of the Hollywood Elite, Kevin Spacey did it for years on House of Cards. However, this movie managed to spark a movement in all filmmaking where even commercials are aware that they are commercials. While it's fun to see a movie making fun of itself, I really would like to return to a time when movies were a fantasy. Even movies that don't include magic are fantastical. We escape to these stories to forget our real-world problems. I don't want a movie to remind me of my problems.

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Released On: February 12, 2016
Rating: R
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T. J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic
Director: Tim Miller
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.0/10

Awards
Golden Globe Awards

• Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - Nominated
• Best Actor Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Ryan Reynolds - Nominated

Saturn Awards

• Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
• Best Actor in a Film Ryan Reynolds - Winner
• Best Film Screenplay Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick - Nominated

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