All-purpose, running Geek thread (formerly Battlestar Galactica thread)

My wife hadn't seen Captain America: First Avenger, Thor or Black Panther and she was able to keep up with Infinity War. There was stuff she missed, but it didn't bother her much.

Of course, it is a better movie if you have seen everything leading up to it. For example, the look on the Guardians' faces when they hear Thanos devastated Xandar to get one of the stones means a lot more if you've seen the first Guardians of the Galaxy, but it's a moment that passes quickly. What do you really need from the first two Captain America movies? The scenes on Vormir really don't lose that much if you don't know about the Red Skull. Civil War might be a bit tough to understand without The Winter Soldier, but the former will tell you all you need to know about Bucky.

I don't think you are missing any that she needs to see. Does she even are about understanding most or all of the references in the movie?

 

Always check YouTube:

 

Good call.

 

New Spider-Man game out and -- WHOA! LOOK OUT! Hot take, comin' through!

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/they-turned-spider-man-into-a-damn-cop-and-it-sucks-1828944087

 

Henry Cavill Out as Superman Amid Warner Bros.' DC Universe Shake-Up (Exclusive)

 

Reddit is going ape shit over the new Spiderman game. It's looks ... fine. I don't have a PS4, so I don't know what the hype is all about.

Now, a game everyone should be excited about is the new Mario Party for Nintendo Switch. That game will destroy families.

 

First trailer for Captain Marvel. Aside from the younger Nick Fury looking a little odd, I like what I see.

 

No wonder Catwoman's all over him:

Bruce Wayne’s “Bat-Pole” Revealed in Batman: Damned

 

International trailer for Bumblebee. If nothing else, it looks a lot more like the Transformers from the '80s.

 

The first trailer for the next X-Men movie is out. I guess I missed that it was being called Dark Phoenix rather than just Phoenix. That certainly takes some mystery out of the plot. I like that they are focusing on the dark turn for Jean and Xavier being at least partially responsible. We saw some of that in The Last Stand, but it was mixed up with too much other crap and it was not done well.

 

Another god damn X-Men movie? Ugh.

 

This looks, I don't know, bad. Not Venom bad, but just underwhelming. There's no attachment to Jean to or any of the new members like Cyclops and company. They were in one movie, which was super bad, and felt like there was no development for them. I know this is 10 years later so at this point they'll be an integral part of the team, but to us viewers they are new and we don't know shit about them. Well, we comic book people know, but casual viewers maybe ? So to me this is a huge 'meh' which sucks because I love X-Men and this arc. Hellfire club already wasted in First Class, doubt Mastermind will be in this, and we didn't even get Phoenix first.

Now Bumblebee looks fun.

Captain Marvel teaser trailer was whatever, but the movie will pretty good. We all know it will be.