Resident Robot-Loving Grandma

literally losing my mind over this tik tok sebastian shared on instagram

i’m dying that robert downey jr posted this on his official facebook 😂😂😂 

this antman deleted scene is so wholesome I cant believe I’ve never seen it?

like scott really said “I will use the antman suit to be illegal, as a treat” and went to boys night without telling the boys so they could be delighted by their luck? and luis saying, delighted, “I wish scotty was here”???? their little dancy dance? obsessed

thor’s character arc is basically ‘tony stark, if tony was actually a good person’.

please elaborate

they both start out as men with a lot of life experience but not necessarily the maturity that goes with it, who’ve been shielded by privilege and wealth, who have actively propagated their family’s legacy of blood-soaked imperialism and who are arrogant and self-important because of it. both believe their actions bring order, and more than that, they are the only people who can bring order because of their superior understanding of the context of conflict. they become heroes out of guilt over their actions. both of them are on journeys to reflect on how can a person with gifts of incredible intelligence/strength, born into immense privilege, use their power responsibly? 

so thor spends his movie appearances throwing himself into the hands of other people, and people he does not necessarily consider his equals. earth teaches him that he doesn’t know as much as he thought he did, that the universe and its people are more complex than he ever bothered to know, that even the people he’s known all his life have complex histories and inner lives that he never cared to see, assuming his superficial understanding of his own goodness was all that mattered. thor starts to understand how much power he has to hurt others - his father, his mixed race brother, all the planets of “”lesser beings”” caught in the cross-fire of his family’s conflict, and starts to see how his own actions play into a system of violence and chaos. 

the things tony learns in his movies? that he is the smartest person on earth. other people can appropriate his capacity for violence and power and direct it at places tony never intended. like himself. or at his fellow americans. tony learns that his actions have encouraged a system of violence and chaos and is mainly concerned that it’s outside of his sole control. he logically concludes that means he’s the only one smart and trustworthy enough to use his weaponry to protect people properly. he’ll just make himself the arbiter of righteousness, and that means whatever he thinks is right at the time is the best thing, even if it’s not the action he was championing six months ago. 

when thor’s eyes are opened, he starts grappling with how to handle his capacity to harm while being part of a royal family caught in a cycle of abuse, with a father he respects and loves who is also a petty, vicious racist imperialist. thor needs to go on a journey before he sees his place in the system clearly, but he’s actively committed to making it, and he realises that he cannot achieve anything as a lone ruler like his father expects. thor tackles his privilege by seeking out communities, teams, valuing the input of different people with different experiences. he pushes to understand and champion people who his dad considers primitive animals. he starts to understand the reason the nine realms are falling apart every few years is because asgard is a coloniser who keeps them dependent and weak. that no one can grow as long as asgard fights to keep itself on top. like tony, thor also drops in and blows things up to keep order in the nine realms, but thor is searching for how to undo the tyranny and destructive power he’s responsible for while not neglecting his other responsibility to use his power to protect others.

tony will not admit to his role in the cycle of violence and abuse and imperialism. tony wants to take responsibility, but only for being a hero. tony is afraid he will be condemned because of the violent system he is a part of. because he went through personal change and now he deserves to be considered a good person. which means if he decides to consolidate his power as a billionaire and become the ultimate judge of righteousness upon earth, that’s the action of a good person. because tony cares about everyone, and he can act on the world’s behalf because his privilege and wealth and intelligence make him the only one who’s smart enough to know best. 

ultron flat out tells us both of their deepest fears revolve around their own unchecked power. thor fears people will die because of it. tony is afraid they’ll die if he doesn’t have it. humility vs hilarious vanity.

which is why thor is the one who finally sees that his family’s legacy is nothing but a shiny gilded trash pile and must tear down the literal all-powerful embodiment of his ancestors’ imperalism because, unchecked, it will only grow stronger. he throws his lot in with people. with revolutionaries, freed slaves, common folk and forsaken warriors and his adopted brother. thor may still have some arrogance and superiority and can be an arsehole about it, but he also invites in people who aren’t necessarily nice to him, who disagree with him or dislike him, who keep openly challenging his ideas of how things should work. he’s constantly working at understanding his weaknesses and his place in a broken system and knows he needs to keep choosing to work with people, that collectively they will work to do better and achieve safety. he knows his own power, but he also believes unreservedly in the capability of other people and knows it’s necessary to trust them.

tony wants to keep gilding his trash. he wants the glitzy pr spin, he wants to pass responsibility for all the nasty things onto other people. like terrorists. or his company’s weapons division. or the UN. or the immaturity of fifteen year old boys. while also taking credit for single-handedly saving the world by passing responsibility for that onto an army of robot suits he created, instead of putting his trust in his teammates to do good without him. tony deludes himself into thinking he’s putting others first by saving them from taking on his burden of responsibility with ultron or the accords or his fancy iw suit, but all he’s showing is that the only person he believes in is himself. tony cares about the whole world, but that world always has himself at the centre, claiming the spotlight.

🎞 Hazel, part duex

"Thank you so much for calling Mr. Rogers" THE CAJONES ON THIS PERSON

No no no no no, vibranium was most recently assessed at $567K per ounce and the shield weighs 12 lb! And that's not even accounting for unique historic value! Please take the shield to Christie's and tell them to start the bidding at at least $100 million!!!

Thor: Protector of Lesbians

marvel (mcu) movies are weird because in the moment you enjoy them, but the more you think about them the worse they get

YEEEEEESSSSS. Just announced at D23.

Please, PLEASE, please get this in there somehow.

And please keep this dynamic going.

The Silence of Peggy Carter [by medium.com]

i know we all rag on MCU movies for being the most soulless pieces of garbage to grace theaters in the past few evers, but i think the music in those movies really doesnt get enough credit for being the least memorable or emotional music ever heard

every single piece sounds like placeholder music to give an idea of what someone might want for a scene but then they accidentally sent it off without ever actually getting a score composed

i do not know what this is supposed to mean

Frist off, that video was a damn revelation. But I have to wonder if Marvel’s spoilerphobia doesn’t also come in. Because I can’t believe that not a single Marvel executive has never thought “hey, where’s our Imperial March?” If nothing else, to be able to make shorter trailers that will get people talking (as any hint to the Imperial March in a 20sec SW trailer will do).

But if the conversation with the composer goes

“We need a theme tune for this character.” “Great! What can you tell me about their personality, role and narrative development?” “Nothing.”

The composer is probably going to murder you in your sleep.

My band has the Avengers theme as a pre-game piece and I could not for the life of me remember how it went without grabbing my book and looking at the music.

Character themes (technically known as leitmotifs) are so important to filmmaking because they help your audience form connections between characters, which helps them engage with the story better. A viewer watching, say, a Harry Potter movie, who has never read one of the books before, might still be able to predict Voldemort coming into the scene by recognizing his motif, even if they don’t consciously associate with him. In fact, Voldemort’s motif directly paints him as Harry’s greatest enemy; it’s melody is just Harry’s theme backwards and in minor.

Meanwhile, Marvel relies on well known songs to carry their largest scenes. Take Thor: Ragnarok. The large fight scene at the end is put over Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, and it’s the most memorable scene in the film. In fact, it’s the only scene I can picture directly. The rest? Disengaging and not memorable at all, because the music is meaningless background noise meant to just fill space instead of connecting us to the film.

Tl;dr: leitmotifs are really cool and Marvel’s refusal to use them probably lends a lot to why their movies are so disengaging.

Well... 🤷🏻‍♀️

RETIREMENT IS FOR BABIES ⚡️

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I’m so proud of you. You’ve come a long way since that day I found you by the lake. Can you keep your emotions in check long enough to take me on? Or will they get the better of you as always? I always told you you’ll be ready the day you’ll knock me down as yourself. This is that moment. This is that moment, Vers!

This quote is so fucking powerful, no wonder the f*ckbois hated this film. Can you imagine? Yon Rogg sees himself as a protagonist, whether he acknowledges his actions as good or bad is not that relevant. He wants this girl to be on his side. So he puts her down, and down, and down, until she thinks the only way her worth can be measured through him, through his approval. And he acts as her mentor, maybe genuinely wants her to succeed, but she’s never quite good enough by his standards, he sets the rules so that she can never quite win or measure up. Until one day, she realises that actually, his restrictions are an illusion. She doesn’t need them. She doesn’t need him to tell her how/who to be anymore. It’s a statement of ultimate independence.

yea my female characters form no meaningful relationships with one another or develop holistically but here’s a shot of them all at once so you know EXACTLY how many female characters im about to disrespect in this movie

#let the queen conquer gifset bait

I decided to add something.

IDK why but the concept of leaks in pop media is so funny to me. Someone just put it out there. Maybe it was on purpose. Maybe they got paid but also likely is theyre just kinda dumb I wanna leak something

Marvel confirmed that the snap didn’t affect any of the exhibits from Night at the Museum bc it was daytime and they weren’t alive so Mummy Rami Malek and wax Theodore Roosevelt are gonna stop Thanos

Not to question your power or undermine your authority, but it was daytime in Wakanda, in Africa. Time zones

Time zones haven’t existed since Thor Ragnarok. This is also a leak.

so i went to spiderverse again

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