Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase 4 & Beyond (and a chance to change your vote)

I am amused by his performance I was not clear!

a part of my soul died when steven ordered the well done steak

yeah wish they had released the whole show, this was a fun opener, Isaac's lame "laterz gatorz" was such a lonely, Nathan barley-esque catchphrase and that well done steak scene was pretty sad and tragic, a man melting, in his bizarre world. Enjoyed pharoah hawke scenes, he's up for this mystic guru schtick. Don't know anything about this character so have no clue where this is going. kinda wish they didn't use an identikit venom voice for his alternate persona, was a bit distracting.

I thought the Khonshu voice was an… interesting choice. I did crack up when I saw in the credits that it’s F. Murray Abraham

i have a dumb queztion - is the statue he sat & talked to meant to be someone recognizable? or is it just Random Statue of a Guy Gesturing

The street performer?

He's a character from the comics but no-one you'd recognise from the MCU

ok thx - i wasnt thinking MCU so much as general popular culture

Frenchie "Duchamp's" number was in the cell phone, so I am sure he will show up at some point.

I got to wonder if at some point 'Jake Lockely' will show up.

Dr. Strange tickets on sale and one last trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLTYw1s4e-8

Also looking ahead to the Echo series, a snippet via io9:

According to costumer Stacey Caballero’s resume on her personal website, both Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will return for the Echo spinoff series at Disney+.

Ooh looking fwd to that one.

Meanwhile, Moon Knight continues to be good, loved ep 2. Oscar Isaac has excellent comic timing.

Absolutely, especially with himself

loving it - ep2 had some v funny moments

also enjoying Hawke in this too, he’s v good imo

Digging MK too. Is there a villain in Dr Strange MoM?

The teasers show Mordo and Gargantos (tentacle monster). Scarlet Witch could go either way, and they might be hiding a main villain like Nightmare until release.

There also appears to be at least one evil Dr. Strange

yeah evil Strange merging with all the dark spirits was the scariest part of the trailer

About right

/2 Also: Moon Knight is part of a genre that depicts ancient pantheons not as distant beings with unknowable goals but as collections of petty slap-fighting assholes, which is FAR more mythically accurate. I mean Zeus is not Liam Neeson. Zeus is weekend Andy Dick.

— HatIsWithCriminalDefendants (@Popehat) April 8, 2022

Okay so Moon Knight continues to be awesome.

Haha, yes. I was thinking it was beginning to get a bit more standard Marvel and then that last 15 minutes was fantastic

Once you start hearing Stath lets Flats in Oscar Issac's 'British' accent, you cant ever unhear it.

7mins into Ep2, when he talks to the statue is a good example.

This show rules so hard

Loved the end

:D

everyone stop what you’re doing and listen: Michael Benjamin Hernandez – Oscar Isaac’s irl brother who was the Marc/Steven double on set – had a fake #MoonKnight character name, MORK SPHINCTER https://t.co/8RSYejLcZ9 pic.twitter.com/kFTZtrkdDc

— Rachel Paige (@rachmeetsworld) April 20, 2022

Hahaha perfect

the double is his brother with a prosthetic nose?!

this is a twist I did not see coming. ironically, one of the first things to pop in my head this morning was that, while watching this week's episode, I never thought about how they pulled off the scene where they're both there, I just nodded and thought "yup, there's two of that guy"

same here, until I saw that tweet. And also now delighted to inform that his brother’s twitter handle is @BroDameron lol

I just assumed it was like Orphan Black & they got somebody to body double him to get the placement right and it was then both him plus editing. Like help him.by having a person there to play off etc.

They’re very “I am acting!” but I love the little switcheroos when Isaac swaps between personalities in the same camera take

Otherwise this show is such an odd mix of the unusual and the perfunctory, but it’s certainly v. watchable and well-acted, so I can’t complain, and the show is fantastical enough that it just about lampshades its ignorant exoticisation of mental health disorders

man this episode kinda wrecked me
goddamn i love this show

Yeah just finished it. Hell of a thing. Next week will be something else I suspect.

Finale next week isn't it? Wonder if they'll go the usually Marvel big battle route or try something different

That was a terrific episode, but heavy as fuck.

I’ll defer to others on this but an interesting perspective: https://decider.com/2022/04/27/moon-knight-episode-5-jewish-representation/

wondering if the Gael Garcia Bernal Werewolf by Night Halloween special will crossover with this as they had initial comics crossovers

I every so often remember 70s me dreaming of marvel movies and being dumbfounded this actually exists- at varying levels of skill and art and fandom but .. huh

There's another view on the matter in Roz's link here:

🧵on Marc Spector's Jewishness in the #MoonKnight show

there will be spoilers.

cw: family trauma, physically/emotionally abusive parent

— Marc Spector's kippah 🌹 (@MissDiedra) April 28, 2022

This show rules

Thought Moon Knight ended well enough, on the one hand another Great Big Fight, on the other Layla next-levelled and then of course there's the various endings...especially the last one.

And I was waiting until it ended to fully note this -- solely and aside from the mention of ancestral planes in the previous episode, the purple cast of 'bad' magic and a couple of deep background bits like an ad for the Global Repatriation Council, absolutely no direct reference to the MCU in general at all throughout all this. Seriously couldn't think of a thing! It's as self-contained as the MCU has ever gotten.

Anyway bring on Ms Marvel oh and some film that comes out later today that I'm seeing mid-afternoon.

Was going to ask for a spoiler re: whether a certain character appeared, but Googled and got a better answer than I'd hoped. Continued MCU rewards!

OI only signed a one season contract, so tying MK too much into the MCU probably wouldn't be smart just yet

I started watching MK, my first Disney+ marvel miniseries, just because I thought it might be a self-contained story, unlike all of the other ones.

I hate to sound like a broken record but… this show rules

xps

Moon Knight almost had two crossovers with the MCU, but showrunner Mohamed Diab has explained why they were cut from the show. https://t.co/w7j5fcwUVW pic.twitter.com/pD0a86BRiQ

— IGN (@IGN) May 5, 2022

Yeah, full io9 interview here with a lot of info:

https://gizmodo.com/marvel-moon-knight-disney-finale-producer-interview-1848882606

Anyway, I have seen the Dr. Strange and it is strange! And mad! Thanks you're a great crowd.

No spoilers: I liked how there were definite old school pulpy and 70s horror vibes at play throughout, even through to the end credits. It's a good mid-range MCU entry and I mean that positively. Having seen Spider-Man: No Way Home doesn't hurt and it definitely helps if you've seen WandaVision though I suppose you could manage. Yes there are cameos, etc. etc.

The only other thing I'll add: the best person had the absolute best last word.

can you tell me anything about the Sam Raimi of it all … is he buried in the Marvelness or thriving?

seems all crap

I was hoping they’d go full shill, time the end with Thor movie, and the GOD KILLER character would pop up and just waste half the Egyptian dynasty

xpost -- Oh there is Raiminess as mentioned. And some of the gore is truly hliarious gore. It's unmistakably an MCU film but again, just enough going on to be off-center from it.

I’ve got absolutely no impulse or need to see Marvel movies in the theater now. Just, give me something pulpy that pops on the big screen, or something that feels like a good innovative film. I guess if I really just want to see a movie it’s fine, but I’m kind of just out