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Thundercracker posted:I know it's in trope with MCU's everythin is batshit, but nothing mundane changes but at this point I'm kinda surprised there's no version of the Earth Defense Force. Like any aliens can just come and go as they please. That's meant to be S.W.O.R.D., but the MCU version is a bit different. We might see more info with Secret Invasion coming up
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FlamingLiberal posted:For some reason I thought that Thanos killed the Collector in Infinity War before the Snap I thought that, too, but it was always ambiguous. He disappears when Thanos changes reality back to the burning Collectors home, and the "fake Collector" waves right before he vanishes, which I always took to mean Thanos had already killed him. But I guess this means he just tossed him aside or threw him in a different cage somewhere. Which, I mean, good, because I like him. He's a fun, chaotic third party to revisit every once in a while. Parkingtigers posted:And it's doubly odd because I've been led to believe that in places like LA that barely get a winter that Xmas isn't even that big a deal. Christmas is massive in every part of the US. If there was ever a "War on Christmas", Christmas won long ago.
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thrawn527 posted:I thought that, too, but it was always ambiguous. He disappears when Thanos changes reality back to the burning Collectors home, and the "fake Collector" waves right before he vanishes, which I always took to mean Thanos had already killed him. But I guess this means he just tossed him aside or threw him in a different cage somewhere. Which, I mean, good, because I like him. He's a fun, chaotic third party to revisit every once in a while. I dig that Benacio Del Toro is this in multiple movie franchises.
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thrawn527 posted:Christmas is massive in every part of the US. If there was ever a "War on Christmas", Christmas won long ago. I kind of want a movie about an actual war on/for Christmas now. Not a movie like Violent Night about Santa kicking rear end in one specific place, but an entire movie about people waging an actual war across multiple battlefields in various nations over the course of months or even years over Christmas, with Santa Claus, Jack Frost, the Snowman etc. as leaders against whatever bogeyman is anti-Christmas. I love picturing them in military variations of their normal look giving grand speeches to the troops, planning out tactical operations in bunkers or tents filled with maps as they consider the lives of the men under them etc. It's so wonderfully silly.
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tsob posted:I kind of want a movie about an actual war on/for Christmas now. Not a movie like Violent Night about Santa kicking rear end in one specific place, but an entire movie about people waging an actual war across multiple battlefields in various nations over the course of months or even years over Christmas, with Santa Claus, Jack Frost, the Snowman etc. as leaders against whatever bogeyman is anti-Christmas. I love picturing them in military variations of their normal look giving grand speeches to the troops, planning out tactical operations in bunkers or tents filled with maps as they consider the lives of the men under them etc. It's so wonderfully silly. I made a photoshop phriday like a decade ago that was basically this: https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/war-christmas-literal/1/
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TIP posted:I made a photoshop phriday like a decade ago that was basically this: Well that's amazing. edit: I mean, just homerun after homerun.
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thrawn527 posted:Christmas is massive in every part of the US. If there was ever a "War on Christmas", Christmas won long ago. The War on Christmas has always been a distraction from the War By Christmas to conquer the whole of the calendar year and subsume all other holidays into itself. Halloween is fallen! On to Labor Day!
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Gotta say, after seeing this, it'd be nice to see Diwali celebrated by Ms. Marvel and her family or Hanukkah with the Moon Knight gang (provided it's less serious, more comical crazy of the comics). It doesn't ALWAYS have to be Christmas, Disney.
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tsob posted:I kind of want a movie about an actual war on/for Christmas now. Not a movie like Violent Night about Santa kicking rear end in one specific place, but an entire movie about people waging an actual war across multiple battlefields in various nations over the course of months or even years over Christmas, with Santa Claus, Jack Frost, the Snowman etc. as leaders against whatever bogeyman is anti-Christmas. I love picturing them in military variations of their normal look giving grand speeches to the troops, planning out tactical operations in bunkers or tents filled with maps as they consider the lives of the men under them etc. It's so wonderfully silly. Pan Dulce posted:Gotta say, after seeing this, it'd be nice to see Diwali celebrated by Ms. Marvel and her family or Hanukkah with the Moon Knight gang (provided it's less serious, more comical crazy of the comics). It doesn't ALWAYS have to be Christmas, Disney. It's probably not exactly what you want, but you guys might want to check out Rise of the Guardians from back in 2012
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thrawn527 posted:I thought that, too, but it was always ambiguous. He disappears when Thanos changes reality back to the burning Collectors home, and the "fake Collector" waves right before he vanishes, which I always took to mean Thanos had already killed him. But I guess this means he just tossed him aside or threw him in a different cage somewhere. Which, I mean, good, because I like him. He's a fun, chaotic third party to revisit every once in a while. The Collector seems like the kind of guy to have been smart enough to just hand Thanos his stone and leave instead of trying to fight.
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Pan Dulce posted:Gotta say, after seeing this, it'd be nice to see Diwali celebrated by Ms. Marvel and her family or Hanukkah with the Moon Knight gang (provided it's less serious, more comical crazy of the comics). It doesn't ALWAYS have to be Christmas, Disney. Ms Marvel's Muslim, so it'd most likely be Eid. 
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Didn't they have an episode where they were celebrating Eid?
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Marsupial Ape posted:Can’t they just have a nice 3 day weekend at Six Flags? That's more of a Summerween thing. Man I wish that was a real thing. I'd definity want to see a more general MCU Xmas special. Also have it be more like a musical variety show, it's not like half the cast can sing. It could be some plan of the Beyonder or something.
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twistedmentat posted:I'd definity want to see a more general MCU Xmas special. Also have it be more like a musical variety show, it's not like half the cast can sing. It could be some plan of the Beyonder or something. MOJO WORLD PROUDLY PRESENTS:
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It was a little strange that Kraglin was clearly Sean Gunn and Peter was clearly not Chris Pratt
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live with fruit posted:It was a little strange that Kraglin was clearly Sean Gunn and Peter was clearly not Chris Pratt I have no idea how old anyone is supposed to be, but i got the vibe that Kraglin was still adult but younger in those scenes (and star lord is pretty clearly still just a kid). Good song choices through the whole special, although they broke out of their usual time period - was definitely surprised to hear a very obscure Smashing Pumpkins song prominently featured.
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“You just got these instruments?” might be Chris Pratt’s career best delivery if not for “I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says here you could have network connectivity problems.”
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Inkspot posted:“You just got these instruments?” might be Chris Pratt’s career best delivery if not for “I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says here you could have network connectivity problems.” He will never top that for the rest of his career. And he came up with it!
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MokBa posted:He will never top that for the rest of his career. And he came up with it! Its always funny hearing Mike Schur talk about that moment because it enrages him as a writer that the funniest joke of maybe the series was an ad lib.
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enki42 posted:I have no idea how old anyone is supposed to be, but i got the vibe that Kraglin was still adult but younger in those scenes (and star lord is pretty clearly still just a kid). He was aged down to Kirk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELS3OQUqVOE
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"Sean was reduced in size to his younger self" is a pretty solid older brother dig
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Rarity posted:Chris Pratt is not a 14 year old boy It was animated. I'm sure Disney can afford an animator who could figure it out.
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They barely convinced Chris Pratt to show up and deliver monotone line readings. Getting him to pretend to be his younger self - and not even appear on screen - would've taken a miracle.
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live with fruit posted:It was animated. I'm sure Disney can afford an animator who could figure it out.
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Why would they hire a child actor to play child Star Lord when they could have just filmed Chris Pratt and shrunk him? Is it because Disney is too poor??
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I absolutely will not go to bat for Chris Pratt on anything else but him getting grief for being downtrodden in a Christmas special where his character is downtrodden is extremely loving weird. Like there's plenty to dunk on him about but having a flat affect when he's playing someone depressed at Christmas ain't it. That's just what that poo poo looks like. Soul Glo fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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enki42 posted:they broke out of their usual time period - was definitely surprised to hear a very obscure Smashing Pumpkins song prominently featured. Peter got a Zune at the end of GotG 2, he's hooked in up to the 00s now
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The Zune was a good gag for something set in 2014 and for someone who hasn't been back to Earth yet. In a special set at least 10 years later, and having actually visited his home planet (for an unspecified amount of time) the GameBoy was a pretty lame gift that doesn't work beyond lol he's stuck in the past.
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Do they ever mention why quill never goes back to earth to visit his dad or other family members that are probably still around since his moms death
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Tiberius Christ posted:Do they ever mention why quill never goes back to earth to visit his dad or other family members that are probably still around since his moms death Granddad you mean? So I don't remember where I read this and I could be entirely wrong here, but I seem to remember James Gunn saying something like Peter for various (perhaps PTSD-related) reasons hates Earth. When he was stuck on Earth at the end of Endgame he couldn't wait to get off. He finds it repulsive, sort of like how I find Florida
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Parkingtigers posted:The Zune was a good gag for something set in 2014 and for someone who hasn't been back to Earth yet. In a special set at least 10 years later, and having actually visited his home planet (for an unspecified amount of time) the GameBoy was a pretty lame gift that doesn't work beyond lol he's stuck in the past. Two of my younger friends recently got married and between the two of them I’m pretty sure they have the largest privately owned collection of vintage GameBoys in Kentucky. Kids loving love that old poo poo and I don’t get it even though it was technically made for me.
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If you translate Groot's language into English it's actually nonstop kvetching about Gameboy framerate issues and just wanting to emulate with a Raspberry Pi instead so he can use a mouse like The Root Liege (pbut] intended.
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stev posted:They barely convinced Chris Pratt to show up and deliver monotone line readings. Getting him to pretend to be his younger self - and not even appear on screen - would've taken a miracle. This was filmed along with Guardians 3 so it wasn't like they had to call him in from other stuff. I don't think his acting was bad at all so these takes are weird.
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I wish I still had my old Gameboy, it would be incredible if someone gave me one for Christmas now
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I thought the holiday special sucked and it was very weirdly shot with lots of lingering, awkward silent scenes and not enough dialogue, and the dialogue that was there fell flat at every moment. I got the distinct impression Pratt and Bautista didn't want to be there at all
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Bautista has already stated he wants out, and GotG3 will be his last film. But yeah, Pratt seemed like he was one foot out the door filming this. I suspect the next film will be his last too.
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