Marvel makes consistently great movies because they are a Comic Book company making movies, not a movie company making comic book movies.
They arent embarrassed by the subject matter, they're proud of it. They love it. They dont question whether or not the population at large will "get it" they question why no one else has shown the population at large why comic book heroes are cool.
They know the power of adventure and that people don't always want something dark and broody.
Its the biggest reason they need to get the rights to Fantastic 4 back. So once they're done with the Avengers story (phases) they can "reboot" the MCU on the backs of the FF.
And put the fantastic back in fantastic four. They are supposed to be high sci-fi adventure thats fun and exciting and teaches us about family.
plus they'd fit with Spider-Man well (who i swear will be the next MCU "Tony Stark" for the next decade of MCU movies)
Family eh?
Okay, so hear me out. The next Fast and The Furious movie has them go to space (which, let's face it, was going to happen anyway) and then they get powers.
Characters are already there and they don't een have to change the initials of the franchise.
Marvel makes consistently great movies because they are a Comic Book company making movies, not a movie company making comic book movies.
They arent embarrassed by the subject matter, they're proud of it. They love it. They dont question whether or not the population at large will "get it" they question why no one else has shown the population at large why comic book heroes are cool.
They know the power of adventure and that people don't always want something dark and broody.
Its the biggest reason they need to get the rights to Fantastic 4 back. So once they're done with the Avengers story (phases) they can "reboot" the MCU on the backs of the FF.
And put the fantastic back in fantastic four. They are supposed to be high sci-fi adventure thats fun and exciting and teaches us about family.
plus they'd fit with Spider-Man well (who i swear will be the next MCU "Tony Stark" for the next decade of MCU movies)
Family eh?
Okay, so hear me out. The next Fast and The Furious movie has them go to space (which, let's face it, was going to happen anyway) and then they get powers.
Characters are already there and they don't een have to change the initials of the franchise.
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They've already introduced time travel. If they want to do a reboot, they can just do a Days of Future Past.
Please no, keep that out of the movies. It's bad enough when the comics do it. Just start up the new universe and forget the other one - it'll save the audience a head ache.
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While Guardians has been out for a while, we should probably not get too lax with spoilers in here, out of respect to those where it just came out, or who have fallen a bit behind.
I'm so behind I haven't even seen Dr. Strange yet.
While Guardians has been out for a while, we should probably not get too lax with spoilers in here, out of respect to those where it just came out, or who have fallen a bit behind.
I'm so behind I haven't even seen Dr. Strange yet.
Rectify that soon sir. Structure wise it's a retread of Iron Man and The First Avenger, but it's very well executed, The Cumberbatch is great (although his American "accent" is definitely uneven at times) as are Tilda Swinton and Rachel McAdams, and the visuals are mouth-droppingly awesome for the big set-pieces.
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While Guardians has been out for a while, we should probably not get too lax with spoilers in here, out of respect to those where it just came out, or who have fallen a bit behind.
I'm so behind I haven't even seen Dr. Strange yet.
Rectify that soon sir. Structure wise it's a retread of Iron Man and The First Avenger, but it's very well executed, The Cumberbatch is great (although his American "accent" is definitely uneven at times) as are Tilda Swinton and Rachel McAdams, and the visuals are mouth-droppingly awesome for the big set-pieces.
It's supposed to hit Netflix at the end of the month, so I'll be ready for it!
Not sure when I'll see GOTG2. I actually didn't like the first one as much as a lot of people. My wife liked it a lot less than I did, so she isn't very enthusiastic about seeing the second one. I still want to see it, though.
I think that, for me, the humor just fell flat a lot of the time in GotG.
My wife and I are also the kind of people who disliked Darcy in the Thor movies, so take that how you will.
I couldn't stand Darcy in the Thor movies. Found her to be quite annoying.
That said GotG is hilarious (to me) and the second one is even funnier, although maybe a bit too try hard sometimes. I still loved it. 8.5/10 for me.
You have to appreciate weird silliness to enjoy GotG.
The comics take it to the next level.
I randomly picked one up a while back and it involved Venom, Thing, and Shadowcat (who are members now apparently) getting a magic potion from Venom's homeworld that I guess will make him a good guy. And that wasn't the weird part.
Rocket was still Rocket, at least, and carried it IMO. "How do I know Earth sucks? Because half of you idiots are from there and now you're all out here. With me. And I ain't no picnic."
You have to appreciate weird silliness to enjoy GotG.
The comics take it to the next level.
I randomly picked one up a while back and it involved Venom, Thing, and Shadowcat (who are members now apparently) getting a magic potion from Venom's homeworld that I guess will make him a good guy. And that wasn't the weird part.
Rocket was still Rocket, at least, and carried it IMO. "How do I know Earth sucks? Because half of you idiots are from there and now you're all out here. With me. And I ain't no picnic."
Venom's suit is from space and both the X-Men and Fantastic Four are old hands at space missions. Also, Venom was already a good guy here (Flash Thompson, Peter Parker's frenemy is wearing the symbiote here), they were going to the Symbiote planet where it turned out the Symbiotes were good things and Spider-Man's was the equivalent of a junkyard pitbull made mean by circumstances. They made it better.
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Bendis Guardians bounces between ok to horrible.
Get the original run up to Thanos Imperative. That run was awesome.
I think that, for me, the humor just fell flat a lot of the time in GotG.
My wife and I are also the kind of people who disliked Darcy in the Thor movies, so take that how you will.
I couldn't stand Darcy in the Thor movies. Found her to be quite annoying.
That said GotG is hilarious (to me) and the second one is even funnier, although maybe a bit too try hard sometimes. I still loved it. 8.5/10 for me.
You have to appreciate weird silliness to enjoy GotG.
The comics take it to the next level.
I randomly picked one up a while back and it involved Venom, Thing, and Shadowcat (who are members now apparently) getting a magic potion from Venom's homeworld that I guess will make him a good guy. And that wasn't the weird part.
Rocket was still Rocket, at least, and carried it IMO. "How do I know Earth sucks? Because half of you idiots are from there and now you're all out here. With me. And I ain't no picnic."
Venom's suit is from space and both the X-Men and Fantastic Four are old hands at space missions. Also, Venom was already a good guy here (Flash Thompson, Peter Parker's frenemy is wearing the symbiote here), they were going to the Symbiote planet where it turned out the Symbiotes were good things and Spider-Man's was the equivalent of a junkyard pitbull made mean by circumstances. They made it better.
I'm a fan of that concept for Venom, though not how the comics apparently handled it. If I was in charge of a complete Spiderman reboot, I'd make it so that the symbiote was a blank slate that was depending on Peter to teach it morality, but Peter fucked up its mind by not actually having much of a rational sense of morality for the symbiote to learn from, finishing it up by blaming the symbiote for what were ultimately his own flaws and casting it aside.
I don't know his state when it actually happened, but that reboot would make him not-Peter pretty much.
We're already talking about a guy who initially saw nothing wrong with sitting back and watching other people be harmed until it ended up personally affecting him.
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And that would be pre-origin Peter Parker, not the Peter who had been Spider-Man for years.
I don't know his state when it actually happened, but that reboot would make him not-Peter pretty much.
We're already talking about a guy who initially saw nothing wrong with sitting back and watching other people be harmed until it ended up personally affecting him.
That seems like an awfully strange read of the character. We're talking about Peter Parker right?
jothki's talking about the one incident with letting the robber get away.
which, given how that turned out... and that the lesson he learned from it is pretty much his catchphrase...
(I mean, I guess you can say "someone who'd think that in the first place might have all sorts of other kinds of lurking awful", but Iiiii don't think that necessarily follows?)
jothki's talking about the one incident with letting the robber get away.
which, given how that turned out... and that the lesson he learned from it is pretty much his catchphrase...
(I mean, I guess you can say "someone who'd think that in the first place might have all sorts of other kinds of lurking awful", but Iiiii don't think that necessarily follows?)
Yea i was just making sure.
But that is leaving out a BIG part of that story. Peter wasnt just all "shiiiiiit i dont give a f!"
He let the robber get away because the robber was stealing from the promoter who promised to pay Peter and then didn't. So in Peters mind (at that moment) the promoter was getting what he deserved. (karma in a sense)
But then POW the Uncle Ben thing happened and Peter got a swift lesson that injustice anywhere, anytime cannot be allowed to fester because it will always have far reaching consequences. This is the biggest part of his story.
Thats why, as a character, he is always biting off more than he can chew. Why he elevates responsibility of being Spider-Man over the responsibility of being Peter Parker.
Marvel makes consistently great movies because they are a Comic Book company making movies, not a movie company making comic book movies.
They arent embarrassed by the subject matter, they're proud of it. They love it. They dont question whether or not the population at large will "get it" they question why no one else has shown the population at large why comic book heroes are cool.
They know the power of adventure and that people don't always want something dark and broody.
Its the biggest reason they need to get the rights to Fantastic 4 back. So once they're done with the Avengers story (phases) they can "reboot" the MCU on the backs of the FF.
And put the fantastic back in fantastic four. They are supposed to be high sci-fi adventure thats fun and exciting and teaches us about family.
plus they'd fit with Spider-Man well (who i swear will be the next MCU "Tony Stark" for the next decade of MCU movies)
Family eh?
Okay, so hear me out. The next Fast and The Furious movie has them go to space (which, let's face it, was going to happen anyway) and then they get powers.
Characters are already there and they don't een have to change the initials of the franchise.
First, I love this because Dwayne Johnson needs to be in the MCU. His presence in DC is a tragic crime against good taste and needs to be remedied.
So you have to figure out who plays Ben Grimm there, and that really comes down to whose version of "It's clobbering time" is better: Vin Diesel or The Rock?
And as hard as it is to say The Rock isn't the best fit to literally play a dude made of rocks, I think his version would be a little too showman and a little short on malice. Diesel gets the nod.
The Rock plays Doom, because of his extensive experience speaking in the third person.
But there is no Reed Richards because nobody in The Fast and the Furious movies is allowed to transition into a Super Genius role.
Sony is doing a really sad, dumb thing. Creating a movie universe based solely around the Spider-Man IP... that none of the Spider-Man movies they release will be a part of, because THEY'LL be in the MCU. Let that sink in.
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"Sony's Marvel Universe." So... MCU, not MCU? I'm confused by terminology. I know the article refers to MCU Spidey, but Sony doesn't seem so clear.
Sony plans to latch on to Marvel like a tic, confusing regular moviegoers with a divergent, but somehow connected cinematic universe.
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Oh man. What are the odds that right now Tom Hardy thinks he's gonna be Venom in the MCU. Because I can just picture some Sony casting director drawing in some tasty stars with dat MCU adjacent glow. "Spin off of Tom Holland's Spider-man!" "Ah so I'll be fighting that guy huh?" "...yeah! I meanhemightnotbeinit, but sure!"
Is spider-man even gonna be in these films, or is it just spidey-adjacent characters? It seems weird to have holland play the same character in films with potentially incongruous plots, but maybe Sony are having marvel secretly write the whole thing anyway
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Marvel makes consistently great movies because they are a Comic Book company making movies, not a movie company making comic book movies.
They arent embarrassed by the subject matter, they're proud of it. They love it. They dont question whether or not the population at large will "get it" they question why no one else has shown the population at large why comic book heroes are cool.
They know the power of adventure and that people don't always want something dark and broody.
Its the biggest reason they need to get the rights to Fantastic 4 back. So once they're done with the Avengers story (phases) they can "reboot" the MCU on the backs of the FF.
And put the fantastic back in fantastic four. They are supposed to be high sci-fi adventure thats fun and exciting and teaches us about family.
plus they'd fit with Spider-Man well (who i swear will be the next MCU "Tony Stark" for the next decade of MCU movies)
Family eh?
Okay, so hear me out. The next Fast and The Furious movie has them go to space (which, let's face it, was going to happen anyway) and then they get powers.
Characters are already there and they don't een have to change the initials of the franchise.
First, I love this because Dwayne Johnson needs to be in the MCU. His presence in DC is a tragic crime against good taste and needs to be remedied.
So you have to figure out who plays Ben Grimm there, and that really comes down to whose version of "It's clobbering time" is better: Vin Diesel or The Rock?
And as hard as it is to say The Rock isn't the best fit to literally play a dude made of rocks, I think his version would be a little too showman and a little short on malice. Diesel gets the nod.
The Rock plays Doom, because of his extensive experience speaking in the third person.
But there is no Reed Richards because nobody in The Fast and the Furious movies is allowed to transition into a Super Genius role.
The Rock suits Grimm, there's absolutely no way he can sell himself as a mad scientist/genius.
edit: Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell and Nathalie Emmanelle did in F & F.
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Family eh?
Okay, so hear me out. The next Fast and The Furious movie has them go to space (which, let's face it, was going to happen anyway) and then they get powers.
Characters are already there and they don't een have to change the initials of the franchise.
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Initial Reaction: I hate this idea
Secondary Reaction: ...I hate that I love this idea
Please no, keep that out of the movies. It's bad enough when the comics do it. Just start up the new universe and forget the other one - it'll save the audience a head ache.
I'm so behind I haven't even seen Dr. Strange yet.
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Rectify that soon sir. Structure wise it's a retread of Iron Man and The First Avenger, but it's very well executed, The Cumberbatch is great (although his American "accent" is definitely uneven at times) as are Tilda Swinton and Rachel McAdams, and the visuals are mouth-droppingly awesome for the big set-pieces.
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It's supposed to hit Netflix at the end of the month, so I'll be ready for it!
Not sure when I'll see GOTG2. I actually didn't like the first one as much as a lot of people. My wife liked it a lot less than I did, so she isn't very enthusiastic about seeing the second one. I still want to see it, though.
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My wife and I are also the kind of people who disliked Darcy in the Thor movies, so take that how you will.
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I couldn't stand Darcy in the Thor movies. Found her to be quite annoying.
That said GotG is hilarious (to me) and the second one is even funnier, although maybe a bit too try hard sometimes. I still loved it. 8.5/10 for me.
The comics take it to the next level.
I randomly picked one up a while back and it involved Venom, Thing, and Shadowcat (who are members now apparently) getting a magic potion from Venom's homeworld that I guess will make him a good guy. And that wasn't the weird part.
Rocket was still Rocket, at least, and carried it IMO. "How do I know Earth sucks? Because half of you idiots are from there and now you're all out here. With me. And I ain't no picnic."
Venom's suit is from space and both the X-Men and Fantastic Four are old hands at space missions. Also, Venom was already a good guy here (Flash Thompson, Peter Parker's frenemy is wearing the symbiote here), they were going to the Symbiote planet where it turned out the Symbiotes were good things and Spider-Man's was the equivalent of a junkyard pitbull made mean by circumstances. They made it better.
Get the original run up to Thanos Imperative. That run was awesome.
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I'm a fan of that concept for Venom, though not how the comics apparently handled it. If I was in charge of a complete Spiderman reboot, I'd make it so that the symbiote was a blank slate that was depending on Peter to teach it morality, but Peter fucked up its mind by not actually having much of a rational sense of morality for the symbiote to learn from, finishing it up by blaming the symbiote for what were ultimately his own flaws and casting it aside.
I would say it's the same stuff, but not as good. The first one was an absolute delight.
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We're already talking about a guy who initially saw nothing wrong with sitting back and watching other people be harmed until it ended up personally affecting him.
That seems like an awfully strange read of the character. We're talking about Peter Parker right?
which, given how that turned out... and that the lesson he learned from it is pretty much his catchphrase...
(I mean, I guess you can say "someone who'd think that in the first place might have all sorts of other kinds of lurking awful", but Iiiii don't think that necessarily follows?)
Yea i was just making sure.
But that is leaving out a BIG part of that story. Peter wasnt just all "shiiiiiit i dont give a f!"
He let the robber get away because the robber was stealing from the promoter who promised to pay Peter and then didn't. So in Peters mind (at that moment) the promoter was getting what he deserved. (karma in a sense)
But then POW the Uncle Ben thing happened and Peter got a swift lesson that injustice anywhere, anytime cannot be allowed to fester because it will always have far reaching consequences. This is the biggest part of his story.
Thats why, as a character, he is always biting off more than he can chew. Why he elevates responsibility of being Spider-Man over the responsibility of being Peter Parker.
First, I love this because Dwayne Johnson needs to be in the MCU. His presence in DC is a tragic crime against good taste and needs to be remedied.
So you have to figure out who plays Ben Grimm there, and that really comes down to whose version of "It's clobbering time" is better: Vin Diesel or The Rock?
And as hard as it is to say The Rock isn't the best fit to literally play a dude made of rocks, I think his version would be a little too showman and a little short on malice. Diesel gets the nod.
The Rock plays Doom, because of his extensive experience speaking in the third person.
But there is no Reed Richards because nobody in The Fast and the Furious movies is allowed to transition into a Super Genius role.
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*ahem*
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/19/tom-hardy-spider-man-spin-off-venom
Sony plans to latch on to Marvel like a tic, confusing regular moviegoers with a divergent, but somehow connected cinematic universe.
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He starts his stint in the Guardians of the Galaxy with an interplanetary wrestling federation.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
I think we would all like to forget that embarrassing career low
From Grimm's tenture on the Guardians of the Galaxy
https://comicstore.marvel.com/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Tales-of-the-Cosmos/digital-comic/42233
The Rock suits Grimm, there's absolutely no way he can sell himself as a mad scientist/genius.
edit: Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell and Nathalie Emmanelle did in F & F.
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