Once again, I come out of a superhero movie wondering who pays for all the tech???? Like, who's SHIELD's prime contractor for quinjets and helicarriers? Who's the sub? When did they take over Teddy Roosevelt island, anyway? It's a bit conspicuous for a super-sekkrit HQ (remember when Pepper hadn't heard of SHIELD in Iron Man?), and the locals always know when something hinky is up (cf, NRO in Chantilly
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Sam, God love him, is clearly going to end up being the designated sane person in this group. (It was Natasha before, but a) she isn't that sane and b) she abdicated.)
Once again, I come out of a superhero movie wondering who pays for all the tech???? Like, who's SHIELD's prime contractor for quinjets and helicarriers? Who's the sub? When did they take over Teddy Roosevelt island, anyway? It's a bit conspicuous for a super-sekkrit HQ (remember when Pepper hadn't heard of SHIELD in Iron Man?), and the locals always know when something hinky is up (cf, NRO in Chantilly).
We had a whole conversation on the way out about recruiting standards. Like, does everyone working on the helicarriers have to be Level 10? Even the janitors? That's an awful lot of people to keep quiet. Or does Level 10 turn into And Then They Were Never Seen Again? 'Cause people are going to stop applying in that case.
The notion of any U.S. government security agency putting itself, voluntarily, under foreign influence is ... maybe an artifact of comic books
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I am beginning to realize that the whole reason Bucky wasn't wearing a motorcycle helmet when deployed was that they wanted him to be difficult to recognize, but they wanted his flowing locks to flow freely in the angsty wind. There are forms of absurdity which are annoying, but there are also forms which are just, they're delightful in their insistent reality-free seriousness.
I think Natasha's hair -- specifically, the part and how flat it was around the top of her face -- made her look vaguely wall-eyed. Some kind of optical illusion, because I think the actor is not; just a weird, stretchy force-field around her face that seemed to pull it in opposite horizontal directions.
I swear I have no other comments about hair in the movie.
It's my understanding that Stan actually asked about the hair thing and was told "yeah, we just did that in the comics because we thought it looked cool." So at least they're straight-up!
("Ex-Agents of SHIELD?" "Freelance Agents?" "Look They Never Repossessed the Plane So We Just Kept Pretending We Were Agents, Except Now We Have to Hold Bake Sales to Buy Bombs?")This makes me very interested in this week's AofS
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I'm just so happy that Steve got to keep his goodness intact and that his goodness saved his life. I was so scared they were going to ruin him when they said this was going to go dark. I don't think I could handle that.
Right? Why would you want to do that to Steve? That's what Batman is for! Leave poor Steve alone.
There was an article a few days ago - very successful on its own terms, I suspect, since a lot of people have clicked on it in order to disagree - saying that Captain America is boring and would be more interesting if he were more of a jackass with retrograde social views. No thank you very much.
saying that Captain America is boring and would be more interesting if he were more of a jackass with retrograde social views.
Thank you, person who completely misses the point of Captain America, for making the point about Captain America.
Wherefore this idea that goodness is boring? Augh. It makes me cross. Just try to write about goodness. You'll find pretty quick that it's not at all boring. Making people or characters jackasses because they're "more interesting" is the lazy-thinker's cop-out, imho.
Okay, sorry. I get stroppish about that.
*clings to Steve* Carry on, Cap. You just set your jaw and carry on.
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OMG yes. Every planner I ever worked with at the Corps or NPS is having a heart attack during this movie...
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Once again, I come out of a superhero movie wondering who pays for all the tech???? Like, who's SHIELD's prime contractor for quinjets and helicarriers? Who's the sub? When did they take over Teddy Roosevelt island, anyway? It's a bit conspicuous for a super-sekkrit HQ (remember when Pepper hadn't heard of SHIELD in Iron Man?), and the locals always know when something hinky is up (cf, NRO in Chantilly).
We had a whole conversation on the way out about recruiting standards. Like, does everyone working on the helicarriers have to be Level 10? Even the janitors? That's an awful lot of people to keep quiet. Or does Level 10 turn into And Then They Were Never Seen Again? 'Cause people are going to stop applying in that case.
The notion of any U.S. government security agency putting itself, voluntarily, under foreign influence is ... maybe an artifact of comic books ( ... )
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I think Natasha's hair -- specifically, the part and how flat it was around the top of her face -- made her look vaguely wall-eyed. Some kind of optical illusion, because I think the actor is not; just a weird, stretchy force-field around her face that seemed to pull it in opposite horizontal directions.
I swear I have no other comments about hair in the movie.
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Right? Why would you want to do that to Steve? That's what Batman is for! Leave poor Steve alone.
There was an article a few days ago - very successful on its own terms, I suspect, since a lot of people have clicked on it in order to disagree - saying that Captain America is boring and would be more interesting if he were more of a jackass with retrograde social views. No thank you very much.
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Thank you, person who completely misses the point of Captain America, for making the point about Captain America.
Wherefore this idea that goodness is boring? Augh. It makes me cross. Just try to write about goodness. You'll find pretty quick that it's not at all boring. Making people or characters jackasses because they're "more interesting" is the lazy-thinker's cop-out, imho.
Okay, sorry. I get stroppish about that.
*clings to Steve* Carry on, Cap. You just set your jaw and carry on.
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