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

Going big on the music there

looks like a cross between two story arcs that they've teased (Rocket's past, Adam Warlock) and who knows, might work?

I feel like Gunn's attention is kind of split between projects and hopefully Pratt gets third or fourth screentime in this one

outside of MCU, if you have a chance to play the Guardians video game, I'd recommend it. kind of a rail-style adventure game that's competently executed across the board, with no real curveballs but a thought-out plot and funny Adam Warlock speeches in full alliteration mode and ridiculous Infinity saga trappings (that darn Magus!)

oh, and the fact they land on what looks like earth with critters, probably the High Evolutionary?

Didn't Gunn say he had this all scripted before Disney canned (and rehired) him? Hopefully that means he had it pretty well mapped out. Though in interviews I think he said this was more of a struggle than the other ones, but perhaps that's the subject matter and end of an era weighing on him.

wow, "In the Meantime" now as old as "Come and Get Your Love" was when Vol. 1 came out

yeah high evolutionary sounds about right.
why does everything accelerate into dark grim gritty, this shit should be vaguely amusing and do nothing more than that.

Pratt can't be funny anymore?

wow, "In the Meantime" now as old as "Come and Get Your Love" was when Vol. 1 came out

Until you realise that 41 years is longer than 27 years and geoffrey was being funny

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lol I can do the math. it’s still gonna have me fucked yo for days!

aaand fu autocorrect. yo.

well anyways good for royston langdon and now that spacehog has received the dramatic half-time nostalgia movie trailer treatment I guess I am old now, hello everyone see you at the rec center hope there is bread pudding today

new board: i love bingo

And one last trailer for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WfTEZJnv_8

I am extremely hyped for this

KAAAAANG

I love the juxtaposition of Michelle Pfeiffer's extreme gravitas and the classic goofy purple/green Kang costume

(37 seconds in) What is with everyone in the Marvel universe having headgear that can instantly retract behind the back of their heads via button-push, by becoming digital particles no less, and yet these particles become armor helmets filled with mechanical parts and computer systems... and yet Iron Man is the only character that wields this universal techno-magic as his "power"? There oughta be whole armies that can instantaneously materialize weapons and tanks and armor if everyone's got one of these frickin helmets!!

Anyway I know it's just so the character in the action movie drama adventure can show their acting faces unobstructed for the audience's sake, but it might be the most disproportionately impressive technology that half of all the star characters seem to have at this point so I find it kind of funny from an in-universe standpoint.

I kinda don’t care about the MCU at this point - the blush has left the rose, the thrill is gone, and there’s too much to stay on top of - but I am HYPED for this one.

(I’m kinda looking forward to Guardians 3, too)

i signed off after Black Widow, though I'm keeping an eye on the teevee stuff and will watch loki when it's back

Yeah if anything Loki is the series to watch before this comes out.

phase 5 “surviving avengers not happy and want to change things back to how things were but instead make it worse and realize you can’t change the past” trope is getting a little tired at this point

i assume there's gonna be an "old man" universe that connects with logan before too long

Deadpool 3 is just sitting there...

Trailer breakdown for those who desire it

https://gizmodo.com/ant-man-and-wasp-quantumania-marvel-trailer-breakdown-1849969494

This thread I guess is as good as any to hope for the best for Jeremy Renner. That accident sounds terrible. Two surgeries for blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries so far, likely lots of physical therapy to go (and that's the best case scenario).

Doubtlessly he’s getting A+ care but damn sounds like it was potentially not survivable, so he was lucky.

Kinda related, watched Black Widow last night, first MCU I hadn’t seen, shockingly solid movie with more palpably intense action than i would have expected, which inevitably gave way to the almost-parodic inclusion of “sky fortress slowly plunging to earth” climax which seems to be the deal in every other of these flicks. It was sort of refreshing nonetheless, nice send off for SJ’s character, Pugh is fantastic and elevated the movie whenever she was in it from solid to very good, vv funny and as noted vv charismatic. Harbour was having fun, Weisz was good though I kinda felt like her character was inconsistent to a degree, Winstone was fine for what the role demanded (not much), he was kind of properly gross for the disgusting villain. I wish the film had sort of maintained the action style of the early portions, less of that bludgeoning MCU house style of the third act and more McQuarrie-era Mission: Impossible car chase close quarters fight scenes. But it went big scale and diminished at the end a bit.

Would have been interesting to see how it landed in the alternate world of non-COVID (where it would have been about six weeks after No Time to Die).

Is there a DCU thread?

Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! #DCStudios #DCU @DCComics pic.twitter.com/8XNDNLUEPq

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 31, 2023

This is what guy being promoted to management and doing on-tone management voice sounds like, damn

It’s like I’m at work here! I don’t hate any of this and I’d be ok assigned to one of these teams

xpost There is indeed such a thread

James Gunn's DCU: Embracing the Morrisonverse

Watching Multiverse of Madness right now… this one ain’t no Black Widow.

it’s good when it almost goes full Raimi imo

Whoa - an uneXpected appearance in this one scene

ooh just wait

Oh man, this sure does go full Raimi, lol! Fun stuff

Yeah it's a treat for sure.

the chekov’s gun in DSitMoM is pretty funny

Kind of a Multiverse of MacGuffins aspect to the plot, but yeah very clever/satisfying once it gets beyond that.

Still in a Marvel mood, I have now put on Love & Thunder. Opening scene very sad!

That one was a swing and a whoosh. I liked the final few scenes… wish the rest of the movie had measured up to them.

Yeah the Thor movie was a dud.

I watched Multiverse of Madness not too long ago and I generally recall enjoying it, but the details have completely evaporated from my mind.

I’m a fan of the “source material,” and I see they paid Jason Aaron as a “consultant” (whatever that means)… maybe they should’ve hired him to actually write the screenplay (does that ever happen)?

The tone didn’t work, the jokes weren’t funny, the plot wasn’t engaging, you didn’t feel the gravity of Jane’s situation, it felt like nothing was at stake… (the special effects on the tiny planet were cool).

I think Ragnarok benefitted from a 'shoot the moon' exuberance, it was a reboot that made sense. Tonally Love and Thunder landed weird, like it was a good villain for a different movie.

I maintain that Love & Thunder was basically a riff on The Princess Bride where Korg=Peter Falk but that they didn't do enough to make the 'story told by unreliable goofball narrator' tone clear and that it was an unsuccessful experiment that would've worked better as a D+ series than as a tentpole film in the franchise.

I am cool with GNR, but the amount of GNR content was bizarre!

Meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqcncLPi9zw

that seems pretty superfluous, even as a childhood fan of the Evolutionary Wars