Heart of the City by Steenz for June 11, 2012

Eat beforehand. $11 saved.

He’s only seen the movie 15 times, cut him some slack.

The fact that movie theaters today need to have commercials on the screen… says a lot about the movie business today, and none of it is good.

Never try to smuggle a cup of extra hot coffee into a movie house. Remember Kramer?

“I can’t wait for the next instalment, perhaps with more Skrulls, Yes Fitz it is a Skrull according to Hollywood insiders.”

Your “Hollywood insiders” are wrong.THAt’sNOSkrull.

I live next to a major military base.

The US military will pay for service members to relocate between bases… provided that their personal effects weigh less than a certain amount; the service member must make up the difference out of their own pocket if the weight is greater.

Because of this, you can get some great deals on used movies if you start visiting the garage sales.

The going rate for used DVDs is $1 – $2 apiece; it’s a little more if you still want it in the plastic..

Yes, I know what Skrulls are. I won’t explicitly say who it WAS for fear of spoiling, but it was someone more closely associated with the Avengers than to the Fantastic Four, and someone (an individual) who will make a much more compelling movie villain than an army of Skrulls. Again, the giveaway is in the Other’s line, and the figure’s smile in response.

Alien invasions make poor supervillains, because collectively they have little personality; the focus of the Avengers in the current movie is on Loki (a compelling individual), and not on his alien lackeys. The figure in the teaser scene is likewise a compelling INDIVIDUAL supervillain, and more than a worthy adversary for the entire team. If you knew who it was, you’d forget all this nonsense about Skrulls.

Since the “No Life” factor of caring about a 50 year-old BBC cult TV show is roughly equivalent to that of caring about a comic book that’s been publishing continuously for 50 years, I’d call it a wash. There’s overlap, but fans of neither “Avengers” are in a position to throw stones at the other.

Besides, in 1998 they made a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster of the BBC “Avengers” with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, and it made about twenty bucks at the box office, so you’ve had your chance.

I don’t know — I like going to the movies. There are still dollar theaters out there, some of them really nice, and the experience of a movie on the big screen, with a big digital audio system, is just not the same thing as watching it in your living room. (Unless you have the mother of all living rooms, anyway.).And as for seeing a movie on a tablet, or a smartphone? Please! I scoff in your general direction. That’s like having a stick of gum instead of a feast.

I saw “The Avengers” in I-Max 3D. $17 and worth every cent. It would look ridiculous in a living room, even with an oversized TV.

“And why can’t the leader of the Skrull invasion be like Loki in that area?”

For one thing, that setup would read like a repetition from this movie.

The only reason people are thinking “Skrull” in the first place is the bumpy chin. But Skrulls are not the only bumpy-chinned beings in the Marvel Universe.That Hideous Alien? No Odious Skrull.

Fritzoid is correct. It was not a Skrull. The clue, as he said, was the fact that he smiled in response to the comment, “To challenge them is to court Death.”If you want to know who it was, click here

The Skrulls are a race of alien shape-shifters who have attempted to conquer Earth multiple times in the Fantastic Four comic book over the past 50 years.

“Fritz I am sorry .I forgot to turn my "Tounge in Cheek " app on . It may have seemed like I was throwing stones in a glass house but I was just reminded of how hot diana rigg and honor blackman were !"

No worries. Did you ever see the episode of Ricky Gervais’ “Extras” with Daniel Radcliffe and Diana Rigg? (You can see the relevant bits on YouTube.)

“I mere quote the sites who use the trem Hollywood insiders to show Fitz that I am not the only one who says that the person shown at the end was a Skrull, as he thinks it is someone else but is afraid to say who he thinks it is, just in case he is proven wrong.”

Now that the name has been spoken, I’ll show you where I’d committed myself:“THA t’s NOS krull.”“T(hat) H(ideous) A(lien?) N(o) O(dious) S(krull)”

Again, the giveaway is in the Other’s line “To challenge them is to court Death.” Literally. Thanos is in love with Death, wants to woo her, wants to be her consort. Thanos doesn’t want to conquer humanity, he wants to kill them, and present them to Death like a box of chocolates. The line that gets a smile has no meaning if the smiler is not Thanos. If the smiler is Thanos, the line is fraught with meaning.

Thanos is a Big Bad. He destroys galaxies. And he has a bumpy chin. Put Skrulls out of your mind, even Super Skrull (who is not a leader of the Skrulls, merely a robot creation of them).

I don’t doubt that you are far from the only one who thinks the figure in the teaser scene was a Skrull, but until and unless I hear Joss Whedon say either “It is a Skrull” or “It is not Thanos,” I maintain that all of you are wrong. He is the only “Hollywood insider” whose opinions on the subject matter to me.

This feels like a recycled strip, but I’m not sure.