If anyone wants to go see a good Punisher movie, check out The Purge: Anarchy. Frank Grillo (Crossbones!) is basically Frank Castle, against a city full of criminals.
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2017 looks to be a very intriguing year, this far out.
I'm fascinated by the premise that they have these dates up on the wall and are waiting to see what will fit where, depending on various factors we'll never know.
I wonder how Wolverine 3 is going to work after DoFP.
I'm pretty sure that Wolverine 2 couldn't have happened since Jean never died.
Wolverine 2 happened because old Japanese guy was dying and asked Logan to come visit him with the plan to steal his healing factor. While some things would be different (especially regarding adamantium), it's likely most of the events still happened.
I saw DoFP only because all of my friends were going. I'm glad I did, because it was a good movie, but I never would have gone to see it on my own. The X-Men movies are just too Wolverine focused for my taste. I would love to see an X-Men movie in line with the comics that had no Wolverine (First Class was a HUGE disappointment for me, since the First Class comics were so awesome).
I've gone to pretty much every big superhero movie since 2011 and the only ones I was flat-out disappointed with were Green Lantern (so boring) and Man of Steel (for obvious reasons). I felt the Amazing Spider-man films were tolerable, I liked the Wolverine and I loved Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
Sadly, I'm going to break the streak with the Fantastic Four movie (unless I hear amazing things from reviews) and I'll probably skip Batman v Superman: Please give us Avengers Money, though it's looking like maybe it'll be enjoyable as a train wreck?
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I saw the first Ghost Rider movie and was mildly impressed and enjoyed myself, and so many years later I'm still at a loss to explain why I liked it.
I hated Green Lanter. I felt that the original Spider Man 3 movie was complete and utter trash and the Amazing movies are only 'okay' and just mostly disapointments. And I've felt Iron Man 2 and both Thor movies were weak.
I really enjoyed Avengers, both Cap movies, Iron Man 1 & 3, Wolverine, First Class, and Days of Future Past. I'm also a dissenter who really liked Man of Steel showing the young and inexperienced version of Superman.
I dug Man of Steel at the time because I felt it was the only way that they were going to get a generation of people who were almost unware of Superman to care about him again, and that although it fucked up his character a bit, it left enough room for him to become what he should be.
That said, in the interim I've heard things from people that have made me regret liking the film. Last week I talked to a dude who was saying that they got Superman's "Badassness" down, because "No one is as Bad-Ass as Superman."
I think that mindset explains the 90s revival we've seen over the last few years in print. People wanted it, got it, and then realized very slowly how terrible it was to begin with. I'm imagining if the DC films all decide to go down that path, the same thing will happen, and then the suits will throw their hands up in confusion and frustration the way they initially did with Green Lantern.
MoS had a lot of interesting ideas that could have worked and there were a lot of things that were good depending on how the audience interpreted it. However, if you think about the movie, it falls apart pretty quickly.
The whole young and inexperienced thing didn't work at all if you looked at his actions. The problem is that it comes off much more as apathy rather than inexperience. There's nothing wrong with showing Superman getting his ass kicked or failing to stop the bad guys from causing destruction but not having him show any empathy or compassion towards people in the aftermath of the destruction was bad. They could have easily showed Superman cleaning up the debris and saving people after the Smallville battle. They should have also cut that scene where Superman and Lois kiss in the middle of a demolished Metropolis.
I dug Man of Steel at the time because I felt it was the only way that they were going to get a generation of people who were almost unware of Superman to care about him again, and that although it fucked up his character a bit, it left enough room for him to become what he should be.
He was thirty-three years old! How is that "young"??
New and inexperienced at superheroing.
He spent most of his life traveling, and kept running into disasters that only he could save people from.
If he's inexperienced, it's only because he didn't do jack/shit to practice something he knew, for a fact, he would be called on to do.
Katie Power was a better superhero before she was in first grade.
Superman was experienced with averting natural disasters, which is another thing entirely to fighting super-villains that started off as professional soldiers.
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Reminder that Clark was super fucking proud of himself at the end of MoS.
there are so many things, big and small, that just don't make sense about man of steel. Okay, so the kryptonians have got outer space colonies? ...That were all abandoned because, why, exactly? So it's safe to assume that kryptonians have ships that can break krypton's gravity, right? So they could have drawn up some plans to evacuate. But they don't, just because Jor-El says it's too late?
I mean, sure it doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the comics that Jor-El is the only scientist in a super-advanced sciencey utopia that realizes the planet is going to 'splode, but man of steel took that and somehow managed to make it make even less sense.
Okay so Zod wants to turn earth into new krypton, right? That makes a lot of sense, if the kryptonians live on earth they've all got superpowers and shit and they'll pretty much be safe from any kind of threat, right? If new krypton starts to blow up, everybody will be fine, because they can just fly away. Except no, Zod doesn't want new kryptonians to deal with acclimating to their super-senses. Except, when Zod acclimates to his super-senses so that he can safely battle Superman, the whole process consists of him taking off his helmet. And that's it. It takes five seconds.
So there's a third MCU film in 2018 now. For those who are losing count, there's 2 in 2015, 2 in 2016, 3 in 2017, 3 in 2018 and 1 in 2019 that have been announced so far. If 2019 is Avengers 3, then we're looking at a 10 movie phase 3!
It's a nitpick, but I don't think that bat-symbol makes sense. It makes sense artistically as a stylization of the angular one that we know in DKR, it's weird as a first choice. Like bats don't tend to be mostly rectangular.
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I'm fascinated by the premise that they have these dates up on the wall and are waiting to see what will fit where, depending on various factors we'll never know.
Yeah I don't really think Cap2 and GotG will scratch similar itches.
There's a broad assumption that the people who like X-Men like Iron Man, Spider-Man, all the mans.
The ironic bit is the people who actually do go to all the comic book movies are the ones incapable of 'comic movie fatigue.'
Sadly, I'm going to break the streak with the Fantastic Four movie (unless I hear amazing things from reviews) and I'll probably skip Batman v Superman: Please give us Avengers Money, though it's looking like maybe it'll be enjoyable as a train wreck?
I really enjoyed Avengers, both Cap movies, Iron Man 1 & 3, Wolverine, First Class, and Days of Future Past. I'm also a dissenter who really liked Man of Steel showing the young and inexperienced version of Superman.
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New and inexperienced at superheroing.
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Considering his actions resulted in the deaths of countless people, yeah sure lets go for inexperienced.
He spent most of his life traveling, and kept running into disasters that only he could save people from.
If he's inexperienced, it's only because he didn't do jack/shit to practice something he knew, for a fact, he would be called on to do.
Katie Power was a better superhero before she was in first grade.
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That said, in the interim I've heard things from people that have made me regret liking the film. Last week I talked to a dude who was saying that they got Superman's "Badassness" down, because "No one is as Bad-Ass as Superman."
I think that mindset explains the 90s revival we've seen over the last few years in print. People wanted it, got it, and then realized very slowly how terrible it was to begin with. I'm imagining if the DC films all decide to go down that path, the same thing will happen, and then the suits will throw their hands up in confusion and frustration the way they initially did with Green Lantern.
The whole young and inexperienced thing didn't work at all if you looked at his actions. The problem is that it comes off much more as apathy rather than inexperience. There's nothing wrong with showing Superman getting his ass kicked or failing to stop the bad guys from causing destruction but not having him show any empathy or compassion towards people in the aftermath of the destruction was bad. They could have easily showed Superman cleaning up the debris and saving people after the Smallville battle. They should have also cut that scene where Superman and Lois kiss in the middle of a demolished Metropolis.
Superman was experienced with averting natural disasters, which is another thing entirely to fighting super-villains that started off as professional soldiers.
I mean, sure it doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the comics that Jor-El is the only scientist in a super-advanced sciencey utopia that realizes the planet is going to 'splode, but man of steel took that and somehow managed to make it make even less sense.
Ant-Man, y'all
I do not like that Batman look.
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Looks like there's at least four more posters coming, which sounds about right for the roster.
Iron Man, Cap, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye
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