Come anticipate CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR with me

Surely you meant to say "Academy Award Winning Actress Marisa Tomei".

i would go to town on her messy platter

jesus christ does every one of these movies have to pose some sort of huge existential threat to humanity?

kinda how superheroes work, tho hoping for this one to be more internal-facing instead of NYC getting whack-a-moled again

not really, why can't it be like a guy in a big mouse costume threatening to rob the first municipal bank?

Spidey looks like Japanese Spider Man

Better than Turkish Spider-Man...

The three Iron Man movies and Ant-Man didn't have existential threats to humanity, just some corrupt arms dealers. Neither did Guardians of the Galaxy, technically, though I guess existential threat to another planet than Earth isn't really that different?

the norton hulk movie didn't either.

Nor did the first Thor movie.

So, "every one of these movies" = 5 of the 12 movies released so far.

Still, a failure to heed the wise words of Nigel Kneale:

"I didn't want to go on repeating because Professor Quatermass had already saved the world from ultimate destruction three times, and that seemed to me to be quite enough."

Constant threat escalation has been probably the main narrative problem in Marvel's comics for the past decade or so. It's hard to maintain a range of tones when you're always all BLACK BLACK BLACKER EVEN BLACKER NOW IF THAT'S POSSIBLE. I'm hoping that Secret Wars has lanced that boil for a while and that Infinity War will do likewise for the MCU. I assume that most of the individual character movies in the ramp-up will feature fewer world-demolishing threats.

afaict from the trailers there's no existential threat to humanity in this very picture right here. it's about ~friendship~ man.

I was going to say that this movie appears to be about the fallout of living through escalating existential threats to humanity rather being about a threat in and of itself but it seemed like everyone involved was really enjoying the conversation

Constant threat escalation has been probably the main narrative problem in Marvel's comics for the past decade or so

^^^^

surely DC's guilty of this too?

who is doing spidey's voice there?

xpost Yes, DC is definitely guilty of that, too, but I'd argue that their main narrative problem is not knowing what the fuck they're doing.

Spidey's voice is presumably Tom Holland, no?

151 minutes

that's a lot of civil war

I am assured _____ ____ appears as an actual villain

I'm going to be sorely disappointed if they don't manage to sneak in at least one instance of Cap accusing Stark of feeding the rich while he buries the poor, or Hawkeye exclaiming, "Ain't that fresh."

Yeah, I read about _____ ____. Wish I hadn't. I just need to stop reading the nerd press altogether.

I'm glad there might be another act not spoiled by the trailers, at least

right you are about holland
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/exclusive-bernthal-holland-teamed-marvel-auditions-article-1.2560381

I love how Thor just fucks off once in a while. He's like Superman with no real affinity for earth and a home planet to return to.

he's fond of midgard but let's be real, there's more important shit sometimes

or Hawkeye exclaiming, "Ain't that fresh."

What's so civil about war, anyway?

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theyre not kissing, boooooo

I was going to say that this movie appears to be about the fallout of living through escalating existential threats to humanity rather being about a threat in and of itself but it seemed like everyone involved was really enjoying the conversation
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maybe i missed something, but didn’t the trailer begin with the heroes watching footage of the mass destruction of several major cities? or was that from an earlier film? i don’t know, they all kind of run together for me.

i feel like we should blame all of this on roland emmerich, are you guys cool with that?

maybe i missed something, but didn’t the trailer begin with the heroes watching footage of the mass destruction of several major cities? or was that from an earlier film?

Yes, they are watching clips from Avengers, Avengers 2, and Captain America 2. I'm not sure why you need to make such sweeping statements if you haven't even seen these films?

i have seen them, unfortunately. after awhile all the footage of cities being destroyed kind of runs together.

the recent marvel movies i missed have been ant-man, x men - days of future past, the last two spider-man reboots, and deadpool (you couldn't pay me to see the latter)

btw only one of those is a "marvel" movie

ok fanboy

i know what you mean but jeez

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Dr. Amatorbius

Morbs is funny tho

This seems to be the plot for winter soldier all over again.

I'd categorise eg Sam Rockwell building thousands of crazed iron man suits as a reasonable threat to humanity, particularly if it happens while the right music plays and superheroes frown enough in panning shots.

Preview screening reviews are glowing. Lots of "best MCU movie yet"-level praise.

Ppl said winter soldier was great, I found it v forgettable. Plus this seems to be the same movie.

That said, I caught second avengers movie long after the hype and thought it far better than I'd read

Winter Soldier feels as if everyone had a good time making it. So kinda the opposite of BvS.

winter soldier is my favorite MCU film by a fair stretch, so if this is like that, omfg

considering all of the fan hype suggesting Snyder had reinvigorated the superhero genre with BvS after previews, I'm gonna wait until there's some critic appraisal.

still tho i think this will be dope

After a dozen films and a few tv shows, I think the MCU brain trust has a good handle on what parts of the print history are ripe for mining and which aren't (and fighting in the ranks is part of Marvel DNA going back to FF#1), whereas the DCCU brain trust (if there actually is one) is split between "run away from 75 years of rich Hero's Journey iconography" and "roll d20 to determine Batman's next move."