Rolling Marvel Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)

it's not the first time a genre's been inescapable at the box office

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_films_1950%E2%80%9354

who knows maybe in the 2020s the "singing superhero" movie will become a thing

I will be first in line for a Dazzler movie

xpost -- Well then, no WONDER they cast Downey.

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_liaarlupC91qgzg6eo1_500.gif

Lila Cheney cameo in GOTG2 sets up the musical onslaught

btw "Musical Onslaught" is the Big Bad of these movies

just scrolling down "1950" in that wiki link puts all this crap into context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt52nJWik4A

I'm a little bit worried but I'm glad I'm not a true cineaste because this would drive me nuts. Superheroes have dominated comics for a very long time and the grip has been loosening slowly, maybe only to fasten stronger on films and videogames.

My favourite non-reprint superhero thing Marvel did in the last four decades is Marvel Vs Capcom 1-2. Doubt they'll ever top that insane fun.

whatever

I will be first in line for a Dazzler movie

posts you know are DJP before you even see the sig

This commentary is rightfully classic in videogame fandom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA

xpost have there been any genuinely excellent superhero games other than the capcom series (starting with Children of the Atom I guess)...

maybe Arkham?

dave axelrod is on that spider man album!

pringles

The Punisher scrolling beatemup is kind of a classic. Some of the PlayStation 2 Spiderman games were very well received. Hulk: Ultimate Destruction gave players the full power they craved but some say it got boring quickly.

It did, but it was still pretty solid, like you the Spider-Man (2) game you mentioned
Arkham series really is the tops though

Comix Zone wasn't based on any real comic but it's great.

the marvel lego and ultimate alliances franchises are well liked and puzzlequest is satan
but yeah, arkham

Pretty sure I read something about how Marvel plans to step up the QC on their movie tie-in videogames so that they're games that people actually enjoy playing rather than wholly perfunctory pieces of crap.

I'm kind of surprised by how excited I am at the prospect of a Captain Marvel movie.

WB has been pretty lucky with both Rocksteady (Arkham series) and Netherrealm (Injustice: Gods Among Us), which btw is wonderful fan service that's actually a pretty good video game
I think since they've already done this with Marvel Studios and films, they should invest in their own developers like WB has

thing about that slurry of westerns is the context of a lot more studio movies, espesh the Bs which were torrential and cheap and make up most of that list; the major studios were not spending entire GDPs on terrifyingly marginal investments in horses.

http://postimg.org/image/61l5d7n2x/

whoops forget it

I'm kind of surprised by how excited I am at the prospect of a Captain Marvel movie.

― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:31 PM (57 minutes ago)

Ditto, CM and Black Panther are the two I'm most excited about now.

loving that captain marvel comes out a year before the delayed shazam now

remember when ppl itt were discussing whether or not tony and pepper were in a romantic relationship

that was funny

sucks global warming's gonna take us all before we get to see black panther or cpt marvel

promises, promises

so t'challa's gonna be costume in civil war and it sounds like he's gonna be taking spidey's place

apparently there was a "sketch" w/rdj and evans fighting and chadbo (taking credit for that now do not forget) caught in the middle and feige said that it was meant to "signify" what happens in the movie, which is good news bc yay black panther and also it'd be so ridiculous if they managed to cram spidey into this universe

seems a little soon for civil war but w/e it will probably be some riff on the theme

As long as I don't have to watch Agents of SHIELD for any of this to make sense, I'm down with whatever.

welp, i woulda thought this was fan built until the crowd goes nuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv2NRpG76Pg

a teaser trailer for a movie four years away from playing in theatres has got to be some kind of record, right?

and with the movie that precedes it in the series not yet having reached cinemas itself!

Yeah, I think even LOTR / The Phantom Menace were only one or two years behind. But didn't look as fan-made of course.

Who the fuck cheers at the cinema? And cheering a fucking trailer for a film years away!!!!!! Gross.

It was at that rollout event right? That makes a bit more sense

enthusiasm is fucking revolting. scum.

damn right

I wonder if Marvel are even a little bit glad that they don't own the rights to all the characters - an imposed limit on the cinematic universe might make the whole thing more managable?

the current marvel CEO definitely doesn't see a silver lining - they're killing off the fantastic four in the books and chris claremont says they won't create any more x-men characters because the cinematic rights immediately go to fox (tangentially, i'm curious how sony's rights are defined for the "spideyverse" - are characters introduced in spider-man comics inherently theirs? is that why they're plausibly prepping Black Cat?). with movies making so much more than the comics, this guy sees them as giving money away.

look at what marvel is doing with daredevil (initially a fox film property) on netflix - if they got the rights back to spidey or the x-men, they don't necessarily have to have them shaking hands with iron man. at least not right away.

where fox feels the urge to clutter the remainder of this decade with spidey ephemera, marvel could let the franchise take a nap til 2021 and still make hay.

gah sony i mean

Is there anything to stop Fox creating their own mutant characters for the X-Men movies?

they're definitely free to change qualities (i.e. the line-up in First Class), but with so many mutants at their disposal i don't know why they'd bother inventing one with no name recognition whatsoever

where is Dazzler movie

they could get LiLo for pennies

judging by the two quicksilvers, i'm guessing most of these rights agreements name a few specific characters and then "anybody else primarily associated with these titles." so while wolverine probably can't dance through an avengers movie, quicksilver can as long as they call him a "miracle" instead of a "mutant" and he never refers to his dear ol' daddy magneto