Headcanon question- what's the first movie everyone picked for movie night when it was their turn?
Officially, movie night started as part of “let’s show Steve what he missed” but with more fumbling awkwardness of people who do not make friends easily. Which meant that for the most part, they avoided war movies, depressing movies, and anything with Nazis.
Bruce accidentally created movie night, with “The Princess Bride.”
Darcy and Jane (mostly Darcy) had shown Thor “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” He loved it, and wanted to show it to everyone else. Only Tony fought him on it. Tony lost.
Tony wanted to show the original Star Trek tv show. He was voted down (”It’s not a movie, Stark”), and went with Star Wars instead, because well, it was going to happen eventually, he might as well show the RIGHT version.
Steve had seen “The Maltese Falcon,” but Natasha hadn’t. She thought it only polite to take him up on his recommendation.
Clint did not get the ‘no goddamn NAZIS’ memo, and cued up “Raiders of the Lost Ark” before Natasha could get him in a sleeper hold. Steve said it was fine, even though he seemed to recognize the warehouse at the end. No one asked any more questions.
Coulson went with “The Rocketeer,” a throwback to the serials that Steve would’ve known. Tony was banned from making a rocket pack. He made one anyway.
Steve himself asked for Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times.” It lead to a Chaplin retrospective, and from there, to Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers.
And after that, it had become a habit.
