they'll taper off, then fifteen years later someone will try to add a movie in the same chronology and it'll flop, after which they'll badly reboot it
― mh, Saturday, 17 March 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Rise of the Starks
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 March 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
It just occurred to me yesterday that there's only been two major cast changes in the decade that the MCU has existed, and even those happened very early on. This thing has been surprisingly well planned out. I'm sure they have another decade roughly sketched out, although I'm somewhat at a loss in terms of guessing how that will play out.
My current prediction is that, if Skrulls are a big enough deal in the Captain Marvel movie, the unnamed Avengers movie might be a take on Secret Invasion. Which could make for another big shake-up of the status quo. I think we'll probably see an expansion of the cosmic and magic stuff, as well. Beyond that, who knows. She-Hulk, maybe? Ms. Marvel?
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 17 March 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
Who besides Rhodes?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 17 March 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
Norton > Ruffalo
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 17 March 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
that Hulk was such a nothing of a movie
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
oh yeah. Ruffalo was a big improvement. Cheadle is kind of a non-entity in these. Too bad they didn't keep Howard.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 17 March 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
I kinda like the Hulk flick. It's the MCU's b-movie. And it's better than Ang Lee's gamma-irradiated turkey.
(I'm trying to talk the gf into rewatching all seventeen(!!!) of the MCU movies that are on blu-ray with me before the new one drops next month. I can give a more up-to-date review when/if that actually happens.)
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
I’ve been calling this “Avengers: Infinity Fuck” in my head ever since it was first announced years ago, I just wanted to mention that
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
And it's better than Ang Lee's gamma-irradiated turkey.
this is incorrect
― Simon H., Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
The Ang Lee one is very bad.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
i like the Ang
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 March 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
Yeah me too
― rb (soda), Saturday, 17 March 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
I liked Bana as Banner but that's as far as I would go. The split screen stuff was terrible.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 18 March 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised that Lee's literary adaptations don't use flipping pages as scene transitions. You know, like a book!
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Sunday, 18 March 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
the Hulk movies are so bad that it feels like there's been three or four of them, from a "shit I will avoid watching in favor of [sports / lawyer movies] if that's all that's on [cable / the airplane seatback]" perspective. One or the other seems like it keeps popping up and who can tell if it's Bana or Norton? Ultimately, who cares? There is no good 3-act arc in Bruce Banner's existence. It is an eternal violent struggle with rage and the absurd, unwillingly waged by one of the smartest men alive, and the latter always loses. Does not translate to popcorn movie. Does not need a archvillain.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be against Tim Blake Nelson returning to be one of the pillars of The Intelligencia in round 2 / phase 3 / whatever.
I feel like Victor Von won't get his proper due until there is a titular origin film about Doctor Doom (as implied, I think, in Sparkle Motion's "Bad Wakanda" comment above) and the other prerequisite being that some brilliant character design genius can translate his look onto the screen without looking like a nickel-plated luchadore mask or either throwing out the baby with the bathwater and just giving him a metal face.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 March 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
Ironically the Corman production of FF was the most faithful to Doom’s costume out of the 4 attempts so far.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 18 March 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
There is no good 3-act arc in Bruce Banner's existence. It is an eternal violent struggle with rage and the absurd, unwillingly waged by one of the smartest men alive, and the latter always loses. not a fan of PAD's run?
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Sunday, 18 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
(overall otm point tho)
By coincidence I watched the most recent Fantastic Four movie yesterday - in theory I liked the idea of Doom the Redditor, but iirc they pulled back on that, as befits a movie which is a collision of bad ideas and likable actors (and Miles Teller)
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 18 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
I caught the first 15 minutes of the Silver Surfer one not long ago and was kind of impressed how well they captured the tone of the FF- it was incredibly goofy but no less so than any mid-80s stretch of the comics.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 18 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
Yeah no those are good.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 March 2018 11:43 (six years ago) link
Hm, dunno. Can't he just be a big bad guy?
https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-why-the-avengers-are-thanos-supporting-characters-1823921364
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Thanos is the hero
― mh, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
If this is at all like the comic, then I assume the movie will be a lot of Thanos consolidating his galactic/cosmic power, there will be cuts to Strange or Thor or whomever mumbling about a disturbance in the force of something, and that it will end with the cliffhanger of everyone dead. I mean, there is so little the previous movies have done with Thanos that they have a lot of ground to make up. Then again, I always thought Ultron was a great villain, but they turned him into a boring one-off in the last Avengers movie, so who knows.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
yeah assume the r rating has to do with the murder of half of the universe's population
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
I believe the R rating is only a rumor at this point and I would be surprised if Disney let that happen.
― The Secret Ingrediant is Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
It won't be rated R. I mean, the first one was almost R, too, but there is no way this movie is hitting theaters as an R.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
I mean, you've gotta let the kids in if you expect to sell them Thanos bedsheets.
― The Secret Ingrediant is Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
Exactly. Plus, cosmic violence is bloodless.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
I always thought Ultron was a great villain, but they turned him into a boring one-off in the last Avengers movie, so who knows.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:29 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mentioned this somewhere (maybe upthread?) but after I started to notice that the MCU has a really bad habit of killing off most of their villains, I started to wonder if that wasn't perhaps an intentional opening to have Thanos rectify the situation...
― The Secret Ingrediant is Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
https://mindreels.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/eps59_abbottcostellofrankenstein.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Coincidentally, in musing about where the MCU goes once the current phase is capped off, it seemed to me that delving into the monsterverse (Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, the Blade reboot that's been floated) is one entirely possible route. Maybe we'll get the Tim & Eric Meet Manphibian film that our generation so richly deserves.
― The Secret Ingrediant is Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
the R rating tweet upthread was a joke. is there anybody seriously rumoring it will be R?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
MCU villains that it was a mistake to kill off: Red SkullKillmongerUltron
MCU villains that they haven't killed that I want to see again:Dormammu
Villains that they haven't killed that I don't want to see again:Loki
So far their burn rate seems pretty ok. I can't blame them for wanting to make the MCU as big as possible and keeping the baddies fresh is a decent way to do it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
Loki eats it in the first 40 minutes, callin' it
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
i've set my mind on nude thanos now goddammit and i'm gonna be real ticked off if i don't see the purple-headed monster's purple-headed monster
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
I believe I read somewhere that he's going to discover the existence of a seventh 'virility' gem. But where to put it?!?
― The Secret Ingrediant is Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
https://steemitimages.com/DQmdK9AuFKQxt79KzSKTYiHCHQJ4QgC2JuAWz2XQAvC32W3/infinity.jpg
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Thanos is a boring character. Starlin's comics are good because they have all of Marvel's crazy cosmic beings in them.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
And Ant-Man is the shittiest silver age Marvel comic hands down. This thing is not that thing.
― The Secret Ingrediant is Love (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
I loved the hell out of some ant-man in marvel comics presents in the early 90she’s a guy who can shrink and talk to ants, obviously the premise writes itself
― mh, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
What do they talk about?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 March 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
basketball
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 March 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
Like, "what would it be like to be tall enough to play basketball?" And then Antman is all "well, let me show you!" And then he grows back to normal size but accidentally squishes them and is all "ah, man, sorry little guys!" But he's afraid to shrink back down, because they might be mad at him.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 March 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
he talks _to_ them, they obviously can't talk back. they're ants! sheesh
― mh, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
alternatively they make clicking noises with their mandibles
he talks to them about how much he likes walking around inside his wife's vagina
http://www.maragos.org/avengers71.jpg
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
let the record show I was referring to the Ant-Man of the early 90s MCP, Scott Lang
― mh, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
lol sic
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link