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Okay, cool. I thought so. In Ireland folks normally drink it cold.

When I was in Australia and New Zealand, it was served room temperature. Me, I'm a Yank. I have to have my beer cold.

I loved the Aussies and Kiwis, but it was nice to get back to the states and have an ice cold beer.
 
Heh yeah I don't think I have ever had a warm beer. If I have, it was after so many cold ones that I didn't notice.

The last time we went to Ireland, I wanted to have a pint in every county we visited but I didn't because we were far more active with hiking and such than chilling in pubs. I did have a few at Sean's Bar in Athlone at least. And a Beamish.
 
Sad news. Robert Redford passed away today at age 89.

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Robert Redford, ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘All the President’s Men’ Icon, Dies at 89

Robert Redford, the screen legend known for films like 'All the President's Men' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' has died. He was 89.
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He will always be remembered for his memorable acting roles in such landmark films as The Sting and All The President's Men. He was also a great director, as well. He won the academy award for directing Ordinary People in 1980. But perhaps his greatest legacy in the world of cinema was founding the Sundance Film Festival. For that many consider Robert Redford to be the patron saint of American Independent films.

And for us of course, he played the role of Alexander Pierce in The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame. He was brilliant in that. It was so cool to see him share the screen with Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

The Sting has long been a favorite of mine. I believe I shall watch that today, and maybe make it a double feature with Out of Africa. Rest in peace, Mr. Redford. Your legacy will live on forever.
 
To further aggravate @SDcomics (;) 😅) , I will make this hot take - Thanos wanting to impress Death by killing half the universe in the comics was a stupid plan and motivation - Death is immortal. She's going to get everyone eventually. Maybe she isn't in a rush? And isn't this like giving your crush the heaviest workday ever? Or is it like she is getting a sugar high from it all happening at once, but then after that she gets half as much as normal forever? The natural expansion of life results in a natural expansion of death over time. "Hey babe, I'm going to buy you a $100,000 dinner today! Down side is after this for eternity we have to eat off of the value menu."
 
Well, that's fine if that's how you see it. All I can say is I sure am glad you're not writing comics and movies because it sounds like you'd really suck at it.
 
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All this Thanos talk. I want to tap all the old heads here on something.

I'm more an X-Men and Spider-Man fan than a Marvel fan, if that makes sense. I like some Avengers characters solo, but rarely read it, certainly pre Ultimates (I know, I know).

So with that context, I was wondering if Thanos was, in hindsight, the correct choice for an ultimate end game threat for The Avengers. The one comic story I do know with him is, of course, the Gauntlet. And it made for a good decade.

But if you are a comic fan, an Avengers fan, was Thanos as exciting and "mandatory" as Magneto or Goblin in their franchises? Or do any of you lament Ultron or Kang or yearn for Korvac?

Or was Thanos the "correct" pick, as a nerd. And should he have had his Thanoscopter?
 
SDcomics said:
Well, that's fine if that's how you see it. All I can say is I sure am glad you're not writing comics and movies because it sounds like you'd really suck at it.
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Mostly joking of course about it being terrible, but depictions of Death generally fall under "Hey, its your time" not "Hey, can you guys die faster" as Death's goal/interest. All I am saying is, was Thanos thinking this would be the best gift ever, and to Death it was more like getting a new vacuum cleaner when she really wanted a vacation? Thanos could have had no one die for a year so she had time off to relax a bit...maybe take a vacation...
 
SDcomics said:
Use the gems to create more food and water. Create more planets for people to live on. He had the power to do that.
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I've heard this a lot, but I don't think it holds up based on the movies. When Thanos uses the Reality Stone to mask Knowhere and fuggup Drax and Mantis, those effects immediately end after he leaves. Either there's a range limit or a concentration requirement, but they're not permanent.

His plan is stupid for a few reasons, but that's not one of them.


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"to challenge them is to court death", which causes him to smile. So they started down that road of Death being a motivating factor.
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Meh. It was a cute node for the readers who knew, but it doesn't have to be taken so literally to think that was their original plan.

Speaking generally (not to fac directly), I think it's long past time that people stop asking for superhero movies to just do the stories we've already read. Like, I enjoy a good fanpitch, where people talk about how they would have done a certain movie or franchise, but as soon as they say something to the effect of "I'd introduce Ant-Man earlier so he can make Ultron like in the comics" I check out.

As long as you get the basic characterizations right (and I mean basic), I'm more interested in seeing a new story than I am in a re-enactment of 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' or whatever.
 
SDcomics said:
He won the academy award for directing Ordinary People in 1980
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And started the trend of Scorsese losing best director to actors who direct.
SDcomics said:
Out of Africa
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This always reminds me of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch with the video store clerk who claimed to have not only appeared in Out Of Africa, but to also say the titular line. "Man, I can't wait to get out of Africa!"
 
Fletch said:
Meh. It was a cute node for the readers who knew, but it doesn't have to be taken so literally to think that was their original plan.

Speaking generally (not to fac directly), I think it's long past time that people stop asking for superhero movies to just do the stories we've already read.
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I'm not in the camp of it needs to be adaptation and never have been, for what its worth. What I have liked about the MCU is they have taken the frame of their best stories and modified them - they are their own thing. Honestly, I even liked the Dark Phoenix plot in X-Men 3 as being a really good story within that set of films - who cares if it wasn't Phoenix killing asparagus people and fighting alien superheroes on the moon.

I was just pointing out that they did, slyly, plant the seed that Thanos might be death-obsessed, then never returned to it. I was fine with that, but understand why those who wanted that aspect were disappointed it wasn't picked up on (and I think they could have). I just think it is too late to do so now.
 
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