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

Oh right, that was $30. I mean, we paid it, still cheaper than three movie tickets and parking, even if we forgo snacks completely (which never happens).

Also, the Hawkeye trailer looks FANTASTIC and I am pretty sure they're showing Clint with a hearing aid in an early scene, which makes me inordinately happy as close fidelity to the Fraction/Aja run with MCU caveats is precisely what I wanted this show to be.

It just looked like a generic action trailer to me, but I guess that’s how they’re marketing it. Hoping the actual series will have some of the comics’ offbeat charm, and not just a dog and other plot elements (but again, Kate’s characterization looks really promising).

Not sure if it was discussed itt or elsewhere and I'm covering old ground, but I read a couple different articles that implied this series is going to lean really heavily on the Fraction/Aja run, so I'm hoping it's more than a few nods.

Yeah, that's what I've heard as well. My son started counting down from 45 last Friday, so according to him it's 39 days now... lol

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 9, 2021 3:50 PM

Your son needs to reset his countdown :(

"Disney Day", November 12th (which will be release date + 70 days)

—Jungle Cruise will become available for free on the service to subs

—the new Disney+ Original movie Home Sweet Home Alone, a reimagining of the popular holiday franchise will debut

–an all-new original series of shorts from Walt Disney Animation Studios called Olaf Presents, which sees Frozen’s snowman retelling several classic Disney tales as only he can.

—domestic Disney+ streaming debut of fan favorite shorts from Walt Disney Animation Studios including Frozen Fever, Oscar-winning shorts Feast and Paperman, Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse short, Get A Horse! and more. There’s also the animated short film Ciao Alberto from Pixar which features characters from their feature pic Luca.

–A new short from The Simpsons that pays tribute to Disney+’s marquee brands

— first five episodes from season 2 of The World According to Jeff Goldblum from National Geographic

—A special celebrating the origins and legacy of Star Wars’ legendary bounty hunter, Boba Fett

–A special celebrating the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Disney+ with an exciting look towards the future.

—Dopesick, an original series starring Michael Keaton, which will be released in international markets as part of the Star general entertainment content offering.

One of these things...

can't help but find it amusing that they're bringing the Simpsons back to its early '90s cash-in heyday with these blatant spots

The full voice work on nearly everyone (including Rachel House!) on this week's What If..? really made it, I thought - after the last two, it was great to see just a fun episode.

Love to pay tribute to marquee brands

Shang-Chi was a lot of fun, had way too much CGI lacquered over everything, and more karaoke jokes than I was expecting.

I really liked it, tony leung forever

Disney & ScarJo have settled.

What If...? took a turn and I'm 100% into it

Yeah that was my favorite episode yet, dug having more for Jeffrey Wright to do.

Thought it might have been the finale but there's one more next week

Couldn't tell if it was setting up a cliffhanger or not, esp how this episode was hinted at at the very end of the Thor one.

Transitive property fan glee in the Venom 2 credits with Tom Holland shown, along with JJJ/Simmons, ergo Venom is part of the MCU..

My kid loves the idea of all the Marvel stuff but isn't really into watching anything. He always wants detailed recaps of the What If...? episodes, keeps asking to see pictures of Ultron and Whiplash and Venom, is fascinated by the idea of antiheros, and makes me read from his 5 Minute Marvel Stories book every night.

Last night he asked me if Red Skull just has a red skull, or if his whole body is like a red skeleton, and searching for 'red skull without clothes' didn't really give him a satisfactory answer.

I was a little annoyed by the end of the Thor episode until I saw this week's, at which point I went "... OHHHHHHHHHHHH okay that's rad"

^^^ yes!

Also the AV Club reviews for this are somewhat unhinged

Boy you aren't kidding, made the mistake of reading the one from this week. The reviewer realllly doesn't like the show "cheating" with the "rules".

really excited for venom 2 on the basis of venom being the best and gayest modern superhero movie

is fascinated by the idea of antiheroes

My kid too (I think via Venom) — “is Deadpool an antihero?” (sees picture of DC guy Lobo) “is he an antihero?”

AV is right about the voice acting at least - only Cumberbatch and Jones this week (well, and Renner) didn't help.

tfw you have absolutely no defense

Disney & ScarJo have settled.

― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, October 1, 2021 4:19 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Shang-Chi was so much fun you guys

Jeffrey Wright is fantastic and the last episode was a lot of fun - first instance of Kirby dots in the MCU?

There’s something pleasingly Shatneresque about Wright’s voiceover work

that's usually how he sounds! he was similarly avuncular in Source Code

So apparently this season of What If..? was supposed to be 10 episodes long but ended up 9 because Covid and the missing episode would have explained how Gamora turns up in the finale

Yeah, definitely seemed from context that would've been an entire extra episode. Also, they ended up referencing almost every other episode in S1, except maybe the "Who Killed the Avengers?" ep - though maybe the Loki from that one showed up for a second?

Liked they all picked up after the respective ends of their episodes, like Thor fighting Ultron, Killmonger about to be apprehended, etc.

Funny how this was a better adaptation of the Age of Ultron series than the movie was (which only took the title m/l)

And - bittersweet, we got way more Chadwick Boseman in this series than I was expecting.

https://gizmodo.com/report-wandavisions-kathryn-hahn-is-getting-her-own-ag-1847817612

Really enjoyed that finale and how all the storylines dovetailed together - it was easily the best of the Disney+ finales so far. I don't watch many cartoons, but it seemed like the action sequences were really well designed and edited - a lot more involving and easy-to-follow than the movie fights.

There was a kind of joyful glibness (but with stakes!) that reminded me of Buffy, but minus the smarm

Yeah, definitely seemed from context that would've been an entire extra episode.

I wouldn't have minded seeing it, but on the other hand if they had to cut one I'm not surprised that they cut "What if this character did the thing that they'd explicitly been trying to do from their first appearance?"

I like that the last coda matched the first episode, Hayley Atwell was a gift to this show - as of course was Chris Hemsworth.

The missing episode is going to be part of Season 2 now and is set on Sakaar and will play as a comedy (like the Thor one)

That finale was good, I enjoyed it and while I know some get put off by the interconnectedness of the MCU, I do like the slow build to that without detracting from enjoying them as standalone episodes.

In other news, I <3 Kathryn Hahn and Agatha, but I'm not ready to start seeing spin-offs of spin-offs now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/q4xaj6/the_infinity_saga_50_hour_fanedit_final_update/

We got Warlock

As you guys know I often strike down false rumors, so… um…

Welcome to the Guardians family, Will Poulter. He’s an amazing actor and wonderful guy. See you in a couple weeks. #AdamWarlock #GotGVol3 https://t.co/RaNeGDIC0E

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 11, 2021

Tickets for Eternals also on sale

I decided yesterday that we'll have true progress when the hero of color can take down a white villain single handedly and not have to fight a blobmonster or a villain of similar color at the end of a movie

New Hawkeye trailer

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

It's me, the dude who is so unbelievably hyped for this

Me too. That looks super-fun.

have nothing but indifference/contempt for the mcu but i will see the hawkguy thing

Brad, have you ever read the Fraction/Aja Hawkeye run? It is, with no exaggeration, one of my favorite comic book storylines ever and is the only thing I've ever read that has made me care about Hawkeye as a character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN8Mh9M7lmk

It’s cool how they even use the lettering from the series (for the logo, etc.)

Also cool that Linda Cardellini is in the cast

(The “blaring Xmas music over chaos” thing still feels like a hella cliche to me, but I know it’s just a trailer)