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No need to show Kingpin still alive - its pretty much certain he is
I was a little unclear about who was scared of whom though
Barton kept worrying that "the big guy" might be involved, and ep. 5 confirms that he meant Kingpin
Yet in the finale, it seems like Kingpin's more worried about Barton's involvement than vice versa (though it's understandable that he might not want the attention of even a single Avenger)
Maybe its just my preconceptions. For all his physical strength, Fisk and his entire gang would be curb-stomped by Rhodes in his armor. So I'd expect confrontations between Fisk and ANY Avenger, even Barton, to be more of a chess match than an MMA brawl. They need to gather evidence and nail Fisk dead to rights LEGALLY, or risk Fisk just playing the victim, invoking the Sokovia Accords and suing the Avengers into poverty.
The moment it becomes a street fight, it loses credibility. There's NO REASON Barton should try to take him on solo (Kate and the LARPers don't count) when Rhodey, Bucky and Sam are likely just a phone call away.
Particularly liked the elevator bit where they're supposedly fighting, yet Yelena gets outright offended when Kate slaps her.
I was OK with the recasting of "Morpheus" as a way to build mystery. We wonder why he is not Fishburne. Then later, we learn it's because sixty years have passed. So Yahya Abdul-Mateen is playing a substitute Morpheus created by ... whom?
I could NOT get behind recasting of Smith.
Apparently, the Wachowskis always planned to re-cast a new Morpheus, but were open to Hugo Weaving's return, as was Weaving himself. They just couldn't make their schedules line up.
Eleanor's not a super-hero. One would expect her "sophisticated computer systems" are still inferior to Yelena's spy-skills, since she IS a superhero.
I also agree that Kingpin's not dead. No way you go through all the effort to (A) secure D'Onofiro and (B) hide D'Onofrio's involvement just to kill off the character.
I'm not a comic fan any longer, but isn't Kingpin significant on the level with Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom? No way Feige EVER kills off a character at that level, at least not in a six-episode TV show.
I'd go with the "lost an eye" rationale. It's suitable payback for arranging the death of Echo/Maya's father.
Ah THAT's why Merv looked like that! This is his San Francisco iteration
BTW, re: "It used to be beautiful but ended 10 years ago." Folks have been saying that about SF since at least the 70s.
It's always been a pretty city from a distance, plagued with ugly stinkiness closer up. That's just SF. I still love the city, like I do NYC, though I'd never LIVE in either place, long term.
In this film, figure it's just the Analyst's shortcut for a Matrix that's sufficiently live-able yet imperfect enough to avoid rejection. The Architect made his version from scratch. NPH just copy-pasted San Francisco.
I took it as preparation - he figured he might get frisked, so he ditched his gun. He also might have to run, so he placed it near an exit but not in plain view.
To see how it might've played out in a John Woo film, check out this clip from "A Better Tomorrow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CaU1tNtoQ8
TLDR(eview video)? Chow Yun Fat's character places guns in planters along his escape route, so he doesn't have to reload as he retreats.
And I'm too lazy to look it up, but didn't John Wick do something similar in his second film?
Neither I think.
Pym-powers are arbitrary and inconsistent, primarily driven by whatever's either useful or funny
From "Ant-Man and the Wasp," though, seems like shrunken cars trap the occupants inside until the cars grow back to normal.
But the vehicle itself seems to protect the occupants, at least until they run out of shrunken air (which I assume is why the Ant-Man and Wasp suits need helmets)
We'll have to wait a few years to find out, but since MJ was still injured, I figured everyone knows about Spider-Man, and everything that happened still happened (Civil War through Endgame and Far From Home).
It's just that no one knows Spider-Man is Peter Parker any longer. Or rather, no one even knows Peter Parker as a person.
It's sad to the point of being cruel and sadistic to Holland's Peter Parker, but I've read a number of excited fan posts who like him isolated and under-equipped because those are Spider-Man's defining traits.
I.e., they're describing the entire trilogy as Spider-Man's origin story.
Owlwise is wiser than Renner's character was in this film
He couldn't forgive her for ... what, I guess having their daughter knowing she'd die? That it was inevitable, as all death is inevitable?
(note: I'm not condemning Renner's character for his very human feelings, BTW)
Looked like a shady apartment - maybe they didn't ask much by way of ID
We don't know how long it's been, either. Maybe he's had time to set up some phony ID papers
His pre-spell records appear to have been erased, since he's shown with a GED manual (so there must be no high school records for him)
Those points are all 100% valid, but I can also understand the heroes' point of view.
They see problems that need fixing, and they step into action (without ever considering whether they have the authority to do so).
That creates an underlying sentiment that "might makes right." Having saved half the universe, they seem to believe that they can do whatever they want, as long as their intentions are "pure." They act like the Accords have been discarded (when they're actually more necessary than ever with more and more enhanced beings running around).
(BTW, "Civil War" was TEN years ago ... remember the MCU is now five years ahead of us)
BUT, I don't think the MCU showrunners necessarily agree with the heroes' self-righteousness.
Interestingly, Zemo's been the voice of reason in this respect, and it's pretty clear to me that Feige & Co. recognize Zemo's position as legitimate, even if he's still a criminal.
One of the less attractive but nonetheless reasonable aspects of the MCU is the hero-worship Cap seems to attract
I doubt Rogers himself would approve, and Barton's reaction to "Rogers: the Musical" seems to support that sentiment
I'm sure none of the Avengers would've wanted Lady Liberty to be carrying that shield
oh RIIIIIGHT!
I forgot to mention Wonder Woman. Lynda Carter's was OK enough to become iconic (and land herself a role in "Wonder Woman '84"), so she and Hulk count as TV successes from that era.
But I suspect you're talking about the 1974 attempt starring Cathy Lee Crosby:
https://moviechat.org/tt0072419/Wonder-Woman
I wouldn't call it horrible per se ... it was a horrible Wonder Woman movie, but as a film about a 70s era secret agent with mild super powers, it was passable
Seemed near Christmas
The final shot had Spider-Man swinging over the Rockefeller Christmas tree
College admissions letters can start arriving late fall of senior year
In "Hawkeye," Yelena refers to the "new and improved statue of liberty," and it's in this film that we see the "improvement" (Cap's shield). Unlikely she'd want to see it busted on the ground
Seems a lot of the movies and shows are near-contemporaneous
no
FFH's references are all fully explained in NWH
No need to see it again
It wasn't animated, it was live. And it was horrible.
That era, superheroes were the stuff of TV at best. "Superman: The Motion Picture" was considered the outlier by the suits in Hollywood. So kids like me were subject to dismal, low-budget, half-assed efforts like that version of Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Captain America and (the one success) Hulk.
I was a kid, so anything superhero on TV was awesome to me. Plus, I liked magic AND wanted to be a neurosurgeon, so anything Doctor Strange SHOULD have been awesome to me. That I was underwhelmed is a huge indication of its horrible-ness.
But hey, reasonable minds can differ. Join the discussion:
https://moviechat.org/tt0077469/Dr-Strange
<blockquote>I honestly expected Ned and MJ to kiss at the end, like somehow forgetting about Pete caused them to date each other instead.</blockquote>
So did I, but the Band-Aid reveal was more poignant.
It's one thing to leave because Ned and MJ are a couple. It's another when Peter realizes they're safer without him, regardless of who they're dating.
Just occurred to me: if she's got the Band-Aid, then it's possible that she participated in everything we saw in the movie and remembers it all, EXCEPT for any relationship she'd had with Peter as Peter.
That'd mean she and Ned just recall helping Spider-Man throughout the film. Which would also mean that Ned really does have magical talent and knows it (or at least knows how a sling ring works).
Turns out it was mostly just a gag
<spoiler>Eddie and Venom were brought over to the MCU by Strange’s spell, even though it shouldn’t have applied to them.
But their only MCU appearance was in the mid-credits of “No Way Home,” where they’re getting briefed on the MCU by a hotel bartender.
They got sent back to the Sonyverse before they even left the resort.</spoiler>
It's sort of a let-down, but at least it lets us know, unambiguously, that the Sonyverse and MCU exist in different realities, but characters could potentially cross over.
Oh, almost forgot, <spoiler>Venom leaves a drop of black symbiote behind in the MCU</spoiler>
Presumably, who else would've taken her from her hospital room?
Seems likely the intent was the "reset" the MCU Spider-Man to his classic version, lost and alone with no support system
I saw that as their intent but I agree it's incredibly cruel
As for why they went so far, in-movie, I assumed the spell had to be that much stronger to close up all the multiverse leaks. It was no longer enough to erase "Peter Parker is Spider-Man" from everyone's memories. Strange had to go further to be sure that no one else leaked through. If no one even knows who Peter Parker is in the MCU universe, then there's nothing left to attract all the other "visitors."
None of which explains how Tom Hardy's Eddie and Bane got through, since neither of them seemed to know Spider-Man at all. But it was a fun credit-cookie.