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Post by Sephiroth on Jun 27, 2023 8:01:29 GMT -5
She and her husband are on vacation. Found themselves stuck in on a rainy day with poor connection, so with nothing else to do they watched Avengers Infinity War out of sheer curiosity. And I’m amused as hell by how utterly confused she is. She knows Iron Man, Captain America, and most of the others big names but had no idea who all the rest are. Having watched the MCU from day one, you forget just how convoluted it is. Best of all, her husband is wrapped up in it and wants to watch Endgame, so I told mother how it involves time travel, meaning alternate versions of the characters from the past or future. She groaned “oh great.”
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Post by Renslayer on Jun 27, 2023 8:05:26 GMT -5
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Post by ERON on Jun 27, 2023 21:33:57 GMT -5
The first MCU movie my dad saw was Captain America: Civil War, and outside of Cap, Iron Man, and Spider-Man, he didn't know who any of the other characters were, so he just started making up names for them all -- "That's Bird Man, and that's Tornado Girl..."
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 28, 2023 12:27:11 GMT -5
Sounds like when we went to see New Mutants in a theater. Yes we are 2 of the maybe 100 that saw it in a theater.
Glad it was just us in the screening room,cause half the film was spent explaining to her what the hell was going on.
And this is a lady who has a pull list at her local comic shop. Just she never read any of VOl1 of New Mutants that wasn't from the Liefeld era.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jun 28, 2023 12:53:13 GMT -5
Sounds like when we went to see New Mutants in a theater. Yes we are 2 of the maybe 100 that saw it in a theater. Glad it was just us in the screening room,cause half the film was spent explaining to her what the hell was going on. And this is a lady who has a pull list at her local comic shop. Just she never read any of VOl1 of New Mutants that wasn't from the Liefeld era. He has this lifelong habit of starting with the “what about such and such? What happened to do and so?” during movies. So I can just imagine what it was like for my mom to have him pestering her about characters she knows nothing about. On top of that, he gets worked up over some movies with sad endings; watching Turner and Hooch he kept insisting the dig didn’t actually die at the end. So being my smartass self I texted him the next morning “Mister Stark, I don’t want to go!” |
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Post by bob on Jun 29, 2023 8:46:59 GMT -5
if you jump into something like Infinity War which out having seeing all the other movies leading up to it you're going to be lost as all hell
I tried to explain everything leading up to Avengers: End Game to him after right we decide to see it before and on our to on the way to the theater
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Post by dirtyoldman on Jun 29, 2023 11:15:23 GMT -5
It's going to get to the point where it will take a new fan a lifetime to catch up with it all. Probably need another pandemic and lockdown
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Post by edgestar on Jun 29, 2023 12:55:03 GMT -5
My mom didn't watch Infinity War.
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 29, 2023 14:29:49 GMT -5
The next big crossover film should have a prologue from Luis explaining everything thats happened since.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 29, 2023 14:38:09 GMT -5
I feel like you could miss some movies and not be too lost - I hadn't seen Dr. Strange at the time of Endgame, not entirely sure I'd yet seen Black Panther, and I still haven't seen the Ant-Man movies and I didn't really have trouble following it - but I imagine missing a lot of them would probably completely do you in on trying to make sense of it.
Which probably isn't a great sign for the fact the only movie since Endgame I've seen is No Way Home.
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Jun 29, 2023 20:34:48 GMT -5
My mom didn't watch Infinity War. My mom DID watch Black Panther.. (when ABC aired after Chadwick Boseman died) |
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Post by mo on Jun 29, 2023 20:41:27 GMT -5
My dad’s not a comic book or comic book movie guy but he loves the Guardians movies. We went to see Love and Thunder because he saw they were gonna be in it, he was very disappointed lol.
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Post by schma on Jun 29, 2023 20:54:57 GMT -5
I think Infinity War/Endgame are the peak of needing to know backstory. Even with upcoming phases it's likely you won't reach that level of complexity. Yes Loki introduced the multiverse, yes Quantumania introduced Kang. However, I think when we get to Avengers Kang Dynasty, there will probably be some quick exposition. Infinity War/Endgame were building on 15 years of intricately planned movies. It's unlikely we will see something that ambitious again.
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