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telltalesonline · 6 months
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40 Best Movie Series of All Time – Top Franchises to Binge
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Sometimes, you just want to binge a whole franchise with your friends, or do a marathon by yourself from beneath a big blanket. 
But with all the good movie series hitting our screens lately, from fantasy to action, thriller to superheroes, it can be difficult to make the right choice – especially in an era that loves sequels, prequels and spin-offs.
So, to make things easier for you, we’ve bundled up a list of the best movie series everyone has to watch in their lifetime. 
You only have to choose in what order you’re going to binge-watch them all….
1. Harry Potter
Films: 11 Time to Binge-Watch: 26h (inc. Fantastic Beasts trilogy)
Sit through eight magical movies and go on a spellbinding journey with Harry Potter. A young wizard is chosen to defeat Lord Voldemort, a dark lord who wants to rule the wizarding world, even if it means murdering wizards and muggles (a.k.a. regular people like you and I). You’ll meet fascinating creatures, evil and loveable characters, and a magnificent world you wished you lived in.
Once you’re done with the eight Harry Potter films, dive right into the Fantastic Beasts spin-offs. These popular movies have everything any film lover might want – magic, friendship, action, mystery, and much more. You’ll be begging your parents to go to Hogwarts by the end of it.
2. Superman
Films: 8 Time to Binge-Watch: 17h 
Just like any superhero, Superman has been embodied by many actors. From Christopher Reeve in the 80s, to Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel, there have been many famous adaptations for the big screen in the last century. There’s a total of eight Superman films (including Batman v Superman and Justice League), all promising a fun adventure watching the man in blue tights fly through the sky, fight off iconic supervillains, and save the day.
The caped vigilante is one of the greatest DC heroes on Earth, and his movies are some of the best on the planet (if you’re ignoring the worst movie sequel, Quest for Peace). So, if you’ve yet to tuck into the long legacy of Superman movies, now’s the right time.
3. Marvel Cinematic Universe
Films: 32 Hours to Binge-Watch: 60+h
These movies can be watched in any order, but try to stick to the correct MCU timeline if you truly want to understand what’s going on. Tuck into some Iron Man action, swing through New York with Spider-Man, or have a laugh with Ant-Man. This franchise is so addictive (and occasionally silly), you’ll be begging for more by the end…if there even is one (more MCU movies are on their way!).
The MCU isn’t exactly easy to summarize – there are over 30 movies to date! But if you like watching powerful superheroes get together to fight the bad guys, you’ll be satisfied. From the Earth-defending Avengers to the space-cruising Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel films have a lot of action to give, but also a lot of heart. The MCU might also be the best there is out there for visual entertainment!
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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My dad at my mum while she watches iron man: do you even know who that is?
me: that's Robert Downey Junior.
My mum, nodding and pointing a finger at the screen: you know what, I see a resemblance now that you mention it.
Me: becAUSE IT'S THE SAME. PERSON.
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buttsonthebeach · 4 years
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Quarantine Questionnaire
Tagged by several people but most recently by @john-cousland - thanks friend!!
I’m not going to tag anyone back just in case people are avoiding discussing/thinking about this right now <3 But feel free to do it and tag me!
Are you staying home from work/school?
Yes, I have been working from home since right around St. Patrick’s Day.
If you’re staying home, who’s there with you?
@chuckawalla aka Mr. Beach and our two roommates, our ferret, and our roomates’ cat.
Are you a homebody?
I am a bit of a homebody so this has been pretty nice, but at around 5 weeks in at this point I am beginning to feel a little stir crazy.
What movies have you watched recently?  What shows are you watching?
@chuckawalla and I are continuing our very slow chronological marathon of all the MCU movies (just Ant Man and the Wasp and Infinity War/Endgame left! We started in November with Captain America and Captain Marvel and let me tell you going from 1940 to 1990 was a trip haha). We’re also (re)watching Community and occasionally Westworld.
An event you were looking forward to that got cancelled?
We were supposed to go on a cabin trip with all of our friends to celebrate one of us turning 30 in early April, then on a wine tasting to celebrate someone else turning 30 in late April, and in early May we were supposed to do our first big Pokemon Go event, and our anniversary is in mid-May and at this point it looks like we can’t do much to celebrate... pretty bummed about all of those :(
What music are you listening to?
I bounce between Coldplay playlists, pop playlists, video game soundtracks... and Frozen II’s soundtrack. DO NOT SHAME ME
What are you reading?
I am sloooooooooooowly reading The Book Thief.
What are you doing for self-care?
I am going on lots of walks around our neighborhood, getting done a couple of house projects I’d procrastinated on, doing some yoga, taking naps... but the biggest thing is just not pushing myself to do 10000 things just because I am working from home. Early on in the quarantine I felt a lot of shame that I wasn’t working more on my novel or my fics or idk learning Ancient Greek or something. It took some reflection and nurturing to remind myself that my worth is not defined by those things at this time or at any time.
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tyrantisterror · 5 years
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Spinning off from my rambles last night, I’ve devised a plan for a four-day marathon of the MCU movies that is more sane than sitting in a theater with comic book nerds for three solid days, but still insane enough to be a gauntlet of sorts, the way trying to watch all three Lord of the Rings movies back to back is.
Day 1:
Iron Man
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Day 2:
Iron Man 3
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2
Day 3:
Ant-Man
Captain America: Civil War
Black Panther
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Day 4:
Dr. Strange
Thor: Ragnorok
Ant-Man & The Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Captain Marvel sadly doesn’t make the list because it won’t be on home release in time to do the marathon before Avengers: Endgame comes out.
Otherwise, I think it’s pretty solid.  You get the nostalgic trip back in time to when the series first started with day 1, see it grow up a bit and then get WEIRD during day 2, hit some of the highest peaks with day 3, and then build up to the big finish with day 4.  I also like that Thor just kind of disappears after day 1 only to show up in Ragnorok on Day 4 - I think that’ll be funny to experience, because a whole bunch of time has passed and it’s clear he’s had adventures but you can pretend you didn’t see any of them and thus imagine him having way more fun ones than he actually had.  Ant-Man also gets to bring some well needed levity on the last two days, which I like.  That’s Ant-Man’s purpose: the joy and the laughter.
Also once you see Endgame you add an epilogue day where you watch non-MCU superhero movies you like.  I’m gonna go with the following:
Epilogue Day:
Deadpool
Deadpool 2
The Lego Batman Movie
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
But feel free to create your own.
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shh-im-fangirling · 5 years
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My collections of tickets 😍
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The first MCU movie I saw at the movie theatre is "The Avengers" but I had watched the first four at home (I still wasn't a big fan of Marvel, what a fool young!me was 🤦🏻‍♀️)
As you can see I saw some of them at the movie theatre a couple of time (Spider-Man Homecoming 4 times... and Infinity War 3 times...) and then 78837323717 times each at home 🤩
I really don't know why I didn't go to see "Ant-Man"... shame on me...
The last one is the ticket for the "Marathon Avengers" where I'll watch "Infinity War" and right after "Endgame"... I'll die...
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empress-of-snark · 6 years
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(shout-out to @caseyblu for making this awesome header, btw!)
Iron Man (2008)
AKA: Everyone tries to tell Tony Stark what to do and he does the opposite.
(FYI, these reviews will all have spoilers, obviously, but only for the individual movies. If you haven’t seen the movie, don’t read! Unless you don’t care about spoilers.)
All in all, this was a pretty great start to the MCU and it definitely holds up over time. It starts off with a bang as we see Tony get kidnapped almost immediately, then flashes back to give us all the exposition, now that we’re interested. The movie is a bit exposition-heavy at times, but it balances out pretty well with the action and as the start of a big franchise, it’s understandable.
This is kind of old news, but this was such a great comeback for RDJ! He was definitely a casting risk, since his career was at a low point in 2008, but this role was practically made for him. I really can’t imagine anyone else playing Tony Stark. Also, starting off with Iron Man at all was also a risk—he wasn’t really a well-known superhero before this came out. But honestly, this is one of the strongest of the origin movies, at least in phase one, and I think a lot of that has to do with casting.
There are a lot of overused tropes present (the hero gets humbled by some event, the villain is someone the hero thought he could trust, etc.), but as my brother pointed out, given that it’s the first movie of the franchise, it kind of helped set up these tropes, at least in superhero movies.
Speaking of the villain, I think Obie works perfectly for this movie, and this movie alone. If it were a sequel, he would’ve felt a little underwhelming. Although, if Marvel had gone with their original plan of making Howard Stark the villain in the first movie and Obie had betrayed Tony in the second one, it would’ve packed much more of a punch. But I think Stark Sr. as the villain would’ve been a bit too dark for the start, so Obie was a good choice. Obviously I already knew that he was evil, so it’s hard to remember what it felt like to not see that coming, but it’s still a good plot twist. Jeff Bridges does a great job at playing the friendly uncle-like mentor before turning around and stabbing us all in the back.
(Also he looks so much like Thanos. Is that just me? Before I saw IW, I thought for a while that Bridges was playing Thanos, even though he was already in the MCU.)
Tony and Pepper have great chemistry, which is perfect for being MCU’s first big couple. You almost don’t notice that they clearly either used CGI or the old-fashioned apple box to make RDJ look taller than her (according to Google, they’re both 5’9”, but one website says Tony is 6’1” lol).
All in all, this was a really fun rewatch! I haven’t actually seen this one in a while and there’s a lot of things I forgot about. Really good start to the marathon, and to the franchise in general.
RANKINGS:      Hero: 9 arc reactors out of 10. Acting aside, Tony Stark is a great character, and the writers do a good job at fleshing him out in his first movie. It’s important that we see just how obnoxious he can be early on, but doubly important that we see his character development. Even at his most frustrating, he’s still likeable and easy to root for.           He’s such a great character, in fact, that Marvel re-used him in Dr. Strange! And Ant Man. And Thor, at least at first. Not hating on those movies, but I did say that Iron Man set up a bunch of familiar tropes, didn’t I?
     Villain: 8 boxes of scraps out of 10. Like I said, Obie works well in this movie, and only this movie. The way he harnesses Tony’s tech and upgrades it in a completely different direction is cool. While Tony makes his suit sleeker and more functional, Obie goes for the bigger, intimidating approach. Says a lot about their characters.
     Supporting characters: 8 unused War Machine suits out of 10. I’d say the three biggest supporting characters are Pepper, Rhodey, and Yinsen and for the most part, they’re well written and have a lot of impact on the plot. They’re not just filler characters. However, I feel bad saying this, but I don’t remember Rhodey actually doing much. Maybe it’s cause I’m more used to him having a bigger role in later movies (as Don Cheadle), but aside from him almost having Iron Man shot out of the sky, he wasn’t put to much use. But that does change in later movies.           Female characters: 6.5 Bechdels out of 10. This movie does not pass the Bechdel test, and Christine the reporter doesn’t serve much of a purpose except to establish Tony’s playboy status. However, Pepper is, as previously stated, a great character and actually helps bring down Obie in the end.
     Action scenes: 9.5 punches out of 10. There’s about four solid action/fight sequences in the movie, and each one is really satisfying, especially because each time, we see some new feature of the Iron Man suit. One of the parts I’ve always really liked is when Tony’s rescuing the villagers in Afghanistan and targets/shoots just the terrorists.
     Stan Lee: 4.5 cameos out of 5. Whether or not he was actually playing Hugh Hefner, or Tony was just mistaking him for Hugh Hefner, it’s a funny bit.
     Charisma: 9.5 points out of 10. This is just such a good movie, especially for Marvel’s first real attempt as its own studio. The pacing is good, the cast all has great chemistry, and it’s an overall homerun for the MCU.
In total: 55 out of 65, so about an 85%. It’s definitely the Bechdel test bringing it down, otherwise it would be much higher. The good news is, later Iron Man movies do a lot more with their female characters. Actual Rotten Tomatoes score was 94%.
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thomasedmund · 5 years
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Marvel Marathon
At this point in the MCU, one of the credits of Marvel Studios was the ability to put together some pretty esoteric source material and make a charming funny and above all accessible movie. Thor was generally considered a big achievement, and Guardians of the Galaxy managed to perform despite being relatively unknown even to many comic fans.
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Enter Ant Man.
I feel like if anything Marvel are good…
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theliterateape · 5 years
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Why The MCU Is a Crowning Achievement (and Why Endgame is So Cool)
By Don Hall
I remember learning to read from Marvel comic books.
The Fantastic Four. Spider-Man. The X-Men. The Avengers.
I learned my words from them. I started with the pictures and would ask my mom what the words meant and she’d patiently walk me through enough of them that my interpretive skills honed in on the stories of ordinary people gifted and cursed with enormous abilities doing their best to navigate their relationships while alternately saving the world over and over became the mantra of my upbringing.
First and foremost, my literary education from Marvel comics spawned a love for science fiction in general. I read Asimov’s Foundation trilogy in fifth grade. I didn’t understand whole sections of them but I read them nonetheless. By the time I was in sixth grade, Huxley’s Brave New World, Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan, and Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? sat on a shelf next to The Amazing Spider-Man #206 (Peter Parker Goes WILD!), The Avengers #181 (Still Only 35¢!!), and the King Size Special Fantastic Four (Twice as Many Pages! Twice as Many Thrills!).
When I was eight years old in 1974, my first black girlfriend and I bonded over our mutual love of Luke Cage. When I was nine, Mike Eddie (who was two years older and a bit of a juvenile delinquent) and I would go out to an abandoned housing project and kick in the drywall in reenact Wolverine vs. Hulk fights. He was a foot taller than I but I was always the Hulk.
The 1981 release of Fantastic Four #232 (“Back to Basics”) introduced John Byrne to the storyline and I lived through the trauma of Reed Richards and Susan Storm having a miscarriage, the Thing quitting the team and She-Hulk becoming his replacement. The formation of the West Coast Avengers. Vision marrying the Scarlet Witch. Jean Grey becoming the Dark Phoenix. The Giant-Sized crossover team ups with splash pages that were huge, epic and often included almost everyone battling things out on the same canvas.
Sometime around my sophomore year in high school, my boxes and boxes of comics (none in any kind of sale-able shape because I’d read each one so many times they all looked like they’d been, well, read a hundred times by a grubby, dirty kid) went into the basement. I was in high school and the social weight was just too important.
“Just because you have superpowers, that doesn’t mean your love life would be perfect. I don’t think superpowers automatically means there won’t be any personality problems, family problems, or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.” — Stan Lee
Sure, I read DC comics as well but they seemed sillier to me. Batman was cool but he was super rich and I had little in common with Bruce Wayne. Not like I did with Peter Parker. I enjoyed Superman but the existence of Krypto and Mister Mxyzptlk felt more comic and less book. That said, in 1978, when Christopher Reeve flew and saved the world by spinning time backward, I felt like the movie was made just for me. So much so that in 2006 when I saw the homage to Reeve and 1978 in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, I bawled like a baby as the credits and music started the film. Unlike almost everyone else on the planet, I loved and love Superman Returns.
More than Star Trek, more than Star Wars, it has been the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has been the filmic journey I’ve been waiting for since I started to use language. The many attempts at the Fantastic Four onscreen have been pretty much crap yet I still kind of loved them anyway. The first time I saw Hugh Jackman bar fighting as Logan in Singer’s X-Men movie, an electricity went up my spine and the hair on my neck stood up because here, finally, was a real life version of the character I had followed for decades.
For a moment, let’s look at the ridiculous improbability of Marvel’s achievement.
What became known as the Marvel Era (when the comics company went from being known as Atlas Comics to Marvel) began in 1961 with the launch of The Fantastic Four. A lot can be said (and has been) about Stan Lee but with his incredible sense of timing, he introduced superheroes designed for an adult audience rather than the silliness of earlier comics creations. His heroes were not gods or from outer space (at least not at first) — they were humans gifted with extraordinary powers who still squabbled, dealt with betrayal, the consequences of fame, paying bills, self-doubt, depression, alienation on societal levels. His heroes grappled with the assassination of Kennedy, with the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Marvel invented the ComiCon in 1975. They created their own Code when the Comics Code started restricting storylines about drug abuse and civil rights. The multiverse of crossovers was intense but by the middle of the 1990s, Marvel filed for bankruptcy. The industry was glutted and the Marvel Universe was too unwieldy. In 1998, with new money, the Marvel Entertainment Group was formed, pulled the company out of red ink, and cooperated with outside movie studios to create the Blade Trilogy, X-Men, and Raimi’s Spider-Man triptych. The first Marvel film was in 1944 with a fifteen-chapter serial featuring Captain America, and the company didn’t revisit the movies until 1986 with Howard the Duck. In 1989 and 1990 they gave us The Punisher and another shot at Captain America, both turds.
The cinematic attempts were spotty and infrequent and were, with a few exceptions, unremarkable.
Then came Iron Man. Kevin Feige saw the film and decided on the post-credits sequence introducing Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury and the most improbably huge series of cinematic dominos came into play.
“The Avengers films, ideally, in the grand plan are always big, giant linchpins. It’s like as it was in publishing, when each of the characters would go on their own adventures and then occasionally team up for a big, 12-issue mega-event. Then they would go back into their own comics, and be changed from whatever that event was. I envision the same thing occurring after this movie, because the Avengers roster is altered by the finale of this film.” — Kevin Feige
When 2012’s The Avengers finally arrived, it was as if I had been waiting my entire life for it.
Twenty-one movies. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk. Ant Man, Black Widow, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye. The Falcon, War Machine, Captain Marvel. The Black Panther, The Winter Soldier, Loki, The Guardians of the Galaxy. Spider-Man. A collective $18.6 billion in ticket sales. All one giant continuous storyline. All leading up to a singular massive crossover film.
There are some duds in the mix. The first two Thor films were lackluster but the decision to keep him in the MCU lead to Thor: Ragnarok, which is one of the best films in the twenty-one complete with a reference to the Planet Hulk storyline and suddenly making one of the least cool Marvel characters ever cool. Iron Man 2 is rough and Avengers: Age of Ultron is like watching the whole series struggle with how to set the stage for Endgame.
Sony finally allowed Marvel to include Spider-Man and Michael Keaton’s Vulture is amazing. Black Panther was not only a great movie but a jewel in a cultural shift in Hollywood. They had to go to Netflix to get Daredevil, Luke Cage, and The Punisher right but those shows are good. 
When I was a kid, I loved The Planet of the Apes series but the only way to watch Chuck Heston find himself on future Earth where apes could talk was on network TV with the infrequent marathons. My mom would set up a card table covered with a sheet in front of the 20-inch screen. I’d get a pillow, soda, and a bowl of candy and watch all night long.
With Marvel, I don’t need the card table or candy but I still feel like a wide-eyed kid when I boot up any part of the MCU.
I can’t wait for the final chapter.
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Doctor Strange
I’m going to be honest, Dr Strange feels like the greatest missed opportunity. Last time I talked about how realism and relatability is key to making action believable, especially when presenting a movie full of street level comic-book characters (hell I wrote a whole article on it on my other blog!). here though, this movie was the opportunity for the MCU to do something different, and for me, they missed the mark.
Now, there are quite a few things that I liked overall, I liked how Strange was a genuine asshole in the first half of the film (even more so than Tony Stark), I liked how the ending was less of a huge-scale battle between an army and our hero, and more of a smart payoff to a trick we saw earlier in the film used in an intelligent way, and Tilda Swinton is always a delight! But that is about it, what lets it down for me was the potential and how it wasn’t used.
 So, the trailers teased “amazing, out-of-this-world, never before seen” visuals that will leave you stunned. And I don’t want to sound like your classic ignorant-internet-troll (CIIT?), but the visuals really didn’t do much for me. I have seen very similar twisted cityscapes and bending hallways before, a little movie called Inception from 2010. I get how influential a genre movie that was but it has been done before. The only scene approaching uniqueness was when Tilda Swinton’s character first shows Strange the multi-verses, but it is not much different to what we have seen before in Ant-Man, when we first see the character go sub-atomic. I get that the movie is supposed to fit into a house-style, but I feel this was a real missed opportunity to cut loose.
 There are myriad examples of other great movies that have gone above and beyond in presenting unique imagery, Johnathan Glazer’s Under the Skin presented disquieting other-worlds that stuck with you long after the movie was over, Terry Gilliam’s movies created memorable scenes by taking unremarkable situations and twisting them around context and intentions, Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey took us to far off places by using radically different visual concepts, even the earlier MCU film Guardians of the Galaxy took many of those earlier sci-fi/fantasy visuals from Wars and Odyssey and infused them with the personality of the creators. Lessons from any of these previous examples would have elevated the visual presentation of Dr Strange.
*Spoilers for 2001: A Space Odyssey in this video…
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 And I think that is the missing ingredient here, personality. The director, Scott Derrickson, had directed a few low budget horror movies before moving straight on to Dr Strange, which leaves him directing a big-budget comic-book movie without a chance to develop a style of his own. Now similar can be said of James Gunn, but I feel that his earlier movies (Slither and Super, let’s not talk about Scooby Doo) are where he learned how to inject his movies with his personality, comfortably, before moving on to his big-budget comic-book movie. I feel that this is a larger problem in the film industry, just look at Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World or Gareth Edward’s Rogue One, but I don’t want to dwell too long on this as I am not (really) here to discuss what we see outside of the text.
Other than that, there isn’t much else I can say about this movie. It’s basically a bog-standard origin movie which the usual charismatic performances.
 The Super-Marvel-O-Score                In its own way, it represents a low point for the series and our run-through, Jen and I initially gave the movie a score of 77/100, I feel I would give it much less on second viewing. Maybe those visuals did stun us for a while there…
 Next Time                            So the point at the conception of this marathon (Marvel-thon), we were supposed to watch all of the MCU movies over 2 weeks on the run up to Christmas 2016, that were available at the time. Technically, this review series was supposed to end here with Doctor Strange. However, I feel this undertaking has massively improved my understanding of the MCU (and movies in general) and is too much fun to stop here, so why not just continue? I know you guys really appreciate my opinions by now!
 Stray Thoughts                                    
-          I didn’t go through everyone’s performance on this one (I am enjoying the concept of zeroing on one focus area of the movies to make up the bulk of my reviews), but everyone was fun enough, Swinton was affable and stoic, Cumberbatch was his asshole-y self, Mikkelson was unhinged, McAdams brought her own brand of kick-ass (but was easily used and disposed of by the story). The two MVP awards go to Benedict Wong and the always great, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
 -          Is it me, or was the magic cape a bit too violent when attacking Scott Adkins’s head?
 -          Sorry this one was more ranty and less positive than usual, to me the only kind of movie that is worse than a bad movie is an un-remarkable one.
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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the opening sequence of age of ultron is a masterpiece you can’t change my mind
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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“Because I’m with you till the end of the line”
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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So I’m finished with the first Avengers movie and I got this surge of nostalgia it’s the first MCU movie I saw 
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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VALKYRIE SMASH ME WITH YOUR GIANT GUN STRAP ON CHALLENGE
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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God I miss London
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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my dad: Okay it's time to go to sleep we gotta see captain America tomorrow, captain Not-America tomorrow, captain super America tomorrow, the whole American brigade
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amysantiagoisfone · 5 years
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the editing on iron man 3 sucks what the actual fuck is that fighting sequence with that fiery bitch there’s a take every second you blink
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