Coulson Watches You While You Sleep

[BrotherMan]

I was really plotzed by the credits teasers and I forgot a thing.

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I thought the first sequence that was Mysterio vs Spider-Man was outstanding. On par with the reality bending that happened in Doctor Strange and that Thanos v Strange fight.

And speaking of credit teasers: HOLY SHIRTBALLS, BATMAN. JK SIMMONS IS STILL JJJ. Now nerds are really going to try and tie all the Spiders-Man together which is the only detraction. BUT LOOK. JK SIMMONS PLAYING THE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY. You know, besides all the roles he plays.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Ensign Steve]

I watched Captain Marvel this weekend. I liked it a lot, especially the 90s look and sound, plus Annette Bening.

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I totally get the complaints about how over-powered she ended up. When she won the day by punching out an entire space armada, I was like come on. It was silly and fun and ridiculous and over the top in the moment, and I couldn't help but be like "hell yeah, girl! You fuckin punch out that space armada!" But then afterward, you're left with the typical over-powered superhero problem, which is that you have to hide them away or otherwise incapacitate them during the other in-universe stories or else shit is too one-sided. I've seen Endgame, so I've already seen the whole "she's busy doing other stuff until exactly when we need her in the final battle" move. It didn't even matter that I didn't know anything about her, it was like, "oh her thing is she's ridiculously powerful and guaranteed to win? That's why we haven't seen her before now. Got it."

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I really loved the shape-shifters, and anything to do with them impersonating someone else. "Like we did in Havana" was such an awesome spy-movie move, twice.

I liked how because women weren't allowed to fly in combat, they were consigned to work as test pilots, which is why they got to fly the coolest, most advanced tech in the fleet.

I'm ambivalent about the retcon on how Fury lost his eye. Part of me thinks it's cute, and the other part of me is like, come on guys. If we're not going to take this seriously, why even bother having an MCU?

[BrotherMan]

In re: Fury

YES THANK YOU.