Beauty vs Beast: Pre Endgame

Jason Adams from MNPP here with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" -- a little movie called Avengers: Endgame will be hitting a couple of screens this weekend (we count Thursday nights are "the weekend" now in blockbuster world) with the blunt force of a megaton bomb; this time next week it'll be nothing but breathless box office masticating and eulogies for the fallen. So today, in the ever so brief calm before that oblivion, let's look back at last year's Infinity War appetizer and face down the great big goof heard round the galaxy -- that time Peter Quill aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) let his emotions get the best of him and let Thanos (Josh Brolin) live to snap another day... 

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Comments

[Sawyer]

Star-Lord/Chris Pratt's shtick has gotten increasingly dull since GOTG 1. Plus Thanos is right.

[Suzanne]

I want Thanos to kill them all so Marvel can just die already.

[BVR]

Ditto what Suzanne said. And fuck Star-Lord

[Ben]

I am a Star-Lord defender. Who among us wouldn't want revenge if you could not longer sleep with Zoe Saldana?

[Volvagia]

Sawyer: Hi, anyone who thinks Thanos is right is a nearly irredeemable jackass. Wanting Thanos to win because they're tired with the genre or Marvel Studios' take on the genre (as much as I'm definitely not in the former camp, I'm getting there in terms of the latter camp) is, at least, not psychotically amoral.

[beyaccount]

Volvagia - Are you okay?

[Tom G.]

Just like Jennifer Lawrence ran circles around him in Passengers, Brolin literally ran galaxies around him.

[Volvagia]

beyaccount: Yeah, just "Thanos is right" is just one of those "I am so tired" opinions.

[Tommy Marx]

One of my pet peaves: Not only do Thursdays now count as the weekend for box office reciepts, but it went from Thursday at midnight (which I could see, since that would actually make it Friday morning) to Thursday at 7 PM and somehow Thursday is not reported as a day unto itself. It's rolled into Friday.

With that said, I'm one of those contrary people who still loves Chris Pratt. His days on Everwood and Parks and Recreation have afforded him a lot of good will with me even if lately he seems to really be living up to his last name.

[PoliVamp]

Star-Lord. And Volvagia is correct: Anyone who says 'Thanos was right' is a jackass.

[kris01]

“Why not just double the resources?” “......*snaps fingers*”

[Kl]

I'll second that Suzanne

[Jaragon]

Instead of watching this I would rather see "Shazam" again

[Jaragon]

But yeah Star Lord all the way!

[Volvagia]

Sorry, rereading my comments I took it too far. I am planning my own blog so that my comments don’t get overlong and super tangential as I am wont to do. I see derailing comment sections is not in the spirit of things.

[Kirk]

Volvagia, for true self contemplation and a desire to grow as a commenter and a person, Condragulations you are the winner of this week’s challenge.

[Atyh]

good read,, i like this

[rasya]

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