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[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

I'm still pissed that the McGuffin in that movie was basic-ass time travel, when they had the way cooler McGuffin of the Quantum Realm they could have explored.

To make matters even worse, it's seeming like the real reason they did the time travel BS was so they could start the multiverse BS, so they had a justification to continue pumping out garbage content.

[-] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Completely agree! Though time travel wasn't a MacGuffin, it was just a plot contrivance. A Macguffin is an interchangeable irrelavent object used to drive the motivation for the plot. The "tesseract" in Avengers, or the "Philosopher/Sorcerer's Stone" in Harry Potter for example.

Sorry to be pedantic, I fully agree with your actual point, and just thought you might want to know.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Lol thank you, I genuinely appreciate the pedantry

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

It's also just a bad time travel movie because the purpose of it was to be appeal to self-contained nostalgia. Like, "hey, remember all these OTHER movies you saw that built up to this one? Well, they're going to revisit these in minor, superficial ways at the very end of our huge event." Yeah, dog, I don't care about those movies anymore and they weren't very entertaining to begin with. Just get to the ball numbing action violence.

[-] sederx@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'm so sick of time travel

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