Day: April 27, 2018

This is the beginning of my Cowboy Pete review:

Ten years after the launching of the Marvel movie universe with the astoundingly successful (obvious in retrospect but shocking at the time) box office performance of Iron Man, Marvel has now finally come through on the teaser that they situated at the end of the first Avengers film. Thanos has been lurking around in films ever since, not really doing much of anything except for showing up in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie and just sitting there making threats, none of which he carried out.

Well, that all ends with the latest Avengers film: technically the third but really the fourth since Captain America: Civil War was actually an Avengers movie in all but title. Infinity War gives us the movie version of a story that fans of comics in general and Jim Starlin in particular know all too well: Thanos, the mad god of Titan, wants to destroy half of all lives in the universe. And the Avengers want to make sure that doesn’t happen.

What follows is a blink-and-you-miss it two hours and forty minutes that brings together every dámņëd character in the history of Marvel cinema, with the exceptions of Hawkeye and Ant-Man. Which is fine because a guy shooting arrows and a guy who shrinks or transforms into a lumbering giant wasn’t really going to make that much of a difference in the outcome.

And things happen. Oh boy, do things happen.

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So Trump must be feeling pretty spiffy this morning. The GOP-controlled Senate released their findings that claimed there was no evidence of collusion with Russia.

This was a document with reasoning so flawed that they stated Trump’s endeavors to set up a backchannel to the Russian government was proof there was no collusion in the first place. How, they “reasoned,” could they have been colluding with Russians before the election when they were colluding with the Russians AFTER the election? Yes, I know that makes no sense. What made far more sense was the Democrats who stated that the GOP’s opinions “have been crafted to advance a political narrative that exonerates the President, downplays Russia’s preference and support for then-candidate Trump, explains away repeated contacts by Trump associates with Russia-aligned actors, and seeks to shift suspicion towards President Trump’s political opponents and the prior administration.”

And we’re left sitting there thinking, “Of course they did. They’re the GOP. It’s all about holding on to power and blaming Hillary and Obama for everything (which naturally they did in this report.). On “The Tonight Show” they had a guy with a microphone on the street asking people if they thought Hillary Clinton should be impeached and bunches of likely Trump fans said yes, absolutely, we should definitely impeach a woman who holds no political office.

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