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

Logan was actually way better than I expected. Enjoyed it more than any of the marvel movies I've seen.

Kind of like the Unforgiven of superhero movies (not completely, but that general kind of vibe is there)

not MCU! but yeah, i liked it.

I know it's not MCU, but there's no "Rolling X-Men Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)" thread and I didn't feel like starting a new thread just for this.

Anyway, yeah, this was good. Actually felt like there was something at stake, unlike the Marvel movies, where I never really cared that much how things actually turned out.

can't even believe u guys are talking about Logan in the MCU thread, like saying Kickers Inc. took place on earth-616, so embarrassed for u right now

is there a Logan thread? search is down and I couldn't find one by googling

I did search for one earlier but couldn't find one either. That's why I decided to ruin this thread.

I think it was being discussed in the "which of these franchises are you looking forward to least" thread.

MCU docket for this year = Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Spiderman: Homecoming, and Thor: Ragnarok?

maybe bump the The Wolverine thread?

Hard for me to remember them all at this point, but I think Logan might be the best comic book movie yet. At the very least, it really captures what I remember from reading a lot of those X-Men Comics as a kid, the violence, the desperation, the apocalyptic dread.

Haven't been compelled to see the previous Wolverine joints but y'all are swaying me.

I hated this movie

way too long, reveled in its violence while trying to convey Its Toll, half-asses the dystopia stuff *and* the western angle, lazy expository dialogue, monotonous fight scenes, general unearned air of self-seriousnessness

What with all the dystopic possible futures from the comics, is the Old Man Logan future a possible one or the canon future? I don't know why it matters to me, other than as a kid, I remember the Days of Future Past was THE future, and the X-Men tension was trying to change it while events (Rachel Summers, Ahab, Nimrod) kept occurring to bring it about.

Xpost Huh. Hated?

I thought all the things you complained about were done just about right. It's a small scale, insular end of the a road movie.As for the violence? Come on.

xxpost There have been approximately 3,962 depictions of possible Marvel Universe futures since Days of Future Past happened.

And that's if you mean the movie!

It's a small scale, insular end of the a road movie.

it also half assed being "small scale" by never fucking ending

WTF are you talking about, it ended exactly when it should have ended.

I really thought the climax was going to be at the house, little did I know we had another 40 minutes ft. the worst child actors ever still to go (the main girl was v good tho)

Yeah, the kids were not alright. But Jackman, and Stewart were career best.

Is this possibly the first kid actors you've seen, Simon?

the last wolverine movie was really great too. haven't seen Logan yet, very much want to.

the last wolverine movie was terrible idk what you saw

I'm talking about the Wolverine and not XMen Origins: Wolverine.

I know. it was awful and set a very low bar but credit where credit is due imho this is the first Mangold joint that actually hits what it's aiming for

i thought The Wolverine was pretty serviceable, maybe even good! Logan is definitely better though

So Sony are working on Venom and Black Cat & Silver Sable movies

they just won't learn will they

Ha, such bottom of the barrel characters - except venom I guess, but how on earth is he going to carry a movie?

way too long, reveled in its violence while trying to convey Its Toll, half-asses the dystopia stuff *and* the western angle, lazy expository dialogue, monotonous fight scenes, general unearned air of self-seriousnessness

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 18:37 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

100%

The reviews that state that "this isn't just a great superhero movie, it's a great movie" or w/e are totally incorrect.

Even for a superhero movie, this was shit.

I wouldn't call this a great movie, but it was very good for a superhero movie I thought. I actually had some sort of emotional attachment to the characters, which doesn't really happen with superhero movies typically.

have we already pedantically told y'all to take it to the dang Wolverine thread because the X-Men stuff is emphatically NOT part of the MCU I mean come on

can we get a ruling on just wtf the sony spiderverse is for now? is it temporarily in the MCU until they spin off these movies with characters nobody cares about mentioned upthread?

pretty sure marvel studios' plan is to use spider-man as much as possible in their movies and otherwise just point and laugh at sony's ever-more-desperate attempts to pull together aunt may vs willie lumpkin or whatever

it's the only laugh they can get considering Fox will those movie rights forevuh

I don't know if I saw it anywhere on the board but they just announced this week that the long-delayed and cancelled and uncancelled Venom movie will totally and for sure be released next year. Which is never gonna happen, but I admire the chutzpah.

My guess is that Sony will still keep feebly flushing money down the toilet developing projects for all of the tertiary Spidey-related characters they have rights to and that will never actually become anything ever until they finally make the logical step of selling the film rights back to Marvel for a spine-telescopingly enormous mountain of money.

Amy Pascal will probably get a cut of it as part of her most excellent golden parachute she got because of the hacking fiasco

i still wonder what deal with the devil she made to make that happen

I think she got hooked up because someone had to go down because of the hacking, in spite of the fact that she made the studio a fuckton of money. So the golden parachute was her going away present.

Do Fox get to make movie merchandise, or is that all run by Marvel?

Doctor Strange is a very good looking nothing-burger of a movie

Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer was the most memorable character, I think. Certainly the only one I actually sort of cared about, and they didn't even bother to put her in any peril other than having an astral punch-up sort of knock some things around. They somehow got Mads Mikkelsen to be a terrible, boring villain who strides so purposefully everywhere he goes it's like an inside joke we're not in on.

So I guess this week they confirmed that the long-mentioned Cloak & Dagger has been picked up for a 10-episode series (on ABC Family Freeform) alongside a 10-episode order for New Warriors (featuring Squirrel Girl) AND there's also apparently a Runaways series in development at Hulu. While I hope they aren't diluting the brand too much, this is a direction I support wholeheartedly.

When are we getting an animated Power Pack show on Disney XD

If it was stylized to look like Bogdanove's art, I'd be down 1000%.

It's spelled 'Brigman'

Also this is dope news

Although Marvel seems to be widening the relational gulf between their movies and their TV projects, I guess this would still be the place to post the Cloak & Dagger trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5hrFVQiGyk

It's a little weird that Dabney Coleman is seemingly uninvolved, but I'll take it nonetheless.

BREAKING: 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney, sources say. https://t.co/JRf6Ly3hs6

— CNBC (@CNBC) November 6, 2017

oh I guess Bloomberg are saying the deal is dead now