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escritoireazul: (cursed great danger)
Saw it, not sure I'll have a post for it until I get to see it again, and I haven't settled on whether I should watch it again in the theater now or wait until I finish my very slow marathon and watch it in its appropriate place at the end.

Friend of mine did the full series marathon in the cinema leading up to Endgame. His posting about it made my week and brought a whole bunch of us together who haven't talked much since grad school, so that was fun, everyone bonding over this shared experience that we were actually living vicariously in the first place!

J's brother, J2, would have loved the hell out of this movie. He died in 2013, shortly after Thor: The Dark World, and there have been a ton of movies he would have loved that have made me sad to think about (Winter Soldier! Ragnarok! Black Panther! Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp! Probably Ultron, too, because of the different things he liked that I didn't), but he would have adored Endgame, and I have an ache in my heart over the fact that I never got to share this with him. I rarely talk to J about it because he hasn't really processed J2's death (or my mom's death the year before), but when we talked briefly after I got home, before I went to do some work until midnight and he went to sleep, the first thing I told him was how much J2 would have loved it.

He would have, and I'm sad that he missed all the ways this universe expanded.

I really enjoyed Endgame, am satisfied with how this phase ended, and look forward to the future.




Awhile back I said J's family and my family take turns being the most stressful. 2018 was definitely the year for his family, but my family took the torch back for 2019. We've had some massive illnesses, death in the extended family, pets having to be put down (not my beloved Cuddle Monster), and lots and lots of other losses. We're all exhausted, and it's only April. (Also: how the hell is it April, it feels like it should still be January?!) But Sister has a big trip in May, and I have a big trip shortly after with Dad and J, and life continues.
escritoireazul: (jurassic park monsters)
Previously in this long time marathon: I apparently did not write about rewatching Captain America, Agent Carter, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man 2.

I am sick right now, sore throat and exhaustion and all, so what better time than to rewatch Thor? I had zero interest in the movie until I saw a gif set on Tumblr that included Sif and then I was 100% into giving it a try.

And then I fell in love with it.

Thor )

The Thor trilogy is one of my favorite parts of the MCU, mostly because Thor is one of my favorite characters and I love the science fiction meets fantasy weight of them. Overall, not as good as the Iron Man trilogy, but Thor as a whole has a stronger character arc across the MCU. This is by far one of the most beautiful movies of the MCU, too.
escritoireazul: (pitch black strength)
I just realized I should have held off on watching Iron Man until this released, but oh well! I saw it last night and I want to see it again sometime soon, so I doubt there will be any in-depth comments below, but non-spoilery response: There are plenty of things to criticize, but I loved it.

Captain Marvel spoilers )
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This is an actual rewatch as a part of my MCU rewatch. (Previously: Agent Carter and Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk.) For a long, long time, the Iron Man trilogy was my favorite of the solo movies, and I love it to this day. Yes, including Iron Man 2, which I know a lot of people hate.

Iron Man 2 )
escritoireazul: (jurassic park monsters)
My MCU (re)watch continues! This time with The Incredible Hulk, one of the parts I'm watching for the first time. I'm a little torn on this one; I love Banner and the Hulk (in part because the Hulk is a great metaphor for bipolar), and I've enjoyed some of Norton's work, but I love the hell out of Ruffalo's version and I don't know how this is going to work for me.

Spoilers for The Incredible Hulk, of course, but also brief talk of Ragnarok and Infinity War. (And this turned into slightly more stream of conscious live blogging than I intended.)

The Incredible Hulk )
escritoireazul: (lost boys star is lost)
I'm working my way chronologically through the MCU (some things are a rewatch, some for the first time), and today I finished the last two episodes of Agent Carter, the Agent Carter short at the end of Iron Man 3, and Iron Man. I have some thoughts. Spoilers for both things, and for Avengers: Civil War.

MCU thoughts )

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