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

Logan's only the fourth most successful X-Men film though, with Deadpool on the top - I'm totally behind a Profane Age.

New Mutants looks badass aside from the change to Cecilia Reyes

The difficulty, made even harder by Logan being so well received, is to stop Logan being like Watchmen/DKR/B:Year1/Longbow Hunters and ushering in the Dark Age of comics movies.

The Dark Knight came out a decade ago!

I was uncertain about New Mutants until I read that it's apparently adapting the Demon Bear storyline and now I'm like 'yes, please'. Plus a lot of the casting seems really solid.

the demon bear part is what makes me most worried tbh - the risk of creating a horrendously stereotypical portrayal of native americans seems v high

Hopefully the film will feature the characters of Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander and set your mind at ease.

They did at least cast a Native American actress as Dani Moonstar. That's a promising sign.

Some of you might remember a screenwriter explaining why one of his blockbuster films was so awful. He said when the budget gets so high, there tends to be a demand for some apocalyptic threat. That's a big part of the problem.
They should lower the stakes, surely it can be fun without massive destruction and disasters?

Spider-Man Homecoming was perhaps my favourite MCU film to date, and the climax of that only involved one large thing falling out of the sky. Heading in the right direction.

Civil War was good in this respect as well- the whole movie was predicated on fallout from the previous flick’s apocalyptic crisis.

the low-key climax of iron man 3, where tony uses his suit's repulsor beam to gently blast a trapped kitten from a tree, was a real turning point in this regard

xpost Yeah, Civil War was like an extended fight on a runway. I think they might've like fucked up the surrounding grass a bit but the landscaping crew was able to turn it around in an afternoon.

Looking forward to the Avengers' cumulative four-hour strongly-worded debate with Thanos. He's gonna be sweating all over his notecards by the end.

There'll be two movies of build-up to the confrontation with Thanos and all the Avengers are shitting themselves, then Hulk's going to give him a little punch and he'll fall over straight away and Tony Stark will be like "Haha, that was easy!" and Cap'll be "Yeah, we should've got that out the way ages ago!" and they'll go to the pub.

Thanos learns the hard way via his first direct violent encounter that he's a hemophiliac.

'No, no, seriously, guys, hold up. I think I need to go to the hospital.'

In the case of Wolverine I think it's hard to avoid violence. It was insulting to children in the 90s cartoon for him to keep attacking people only for him to miss each time, unless he was cutting their weapons, vehicles or robots. Children do think about the dangerous things their entertainment is only allowed to flirt with.
I don't see them doing a screen Wolverine where he never tries to cut anyone.

I don't see them doing a screen Wolverine where he never tries to cut anyone.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, November 8, 2017

THE WOLVERINE is pretty hilariously bloodless

"Ant-man" was praised for being "low stakes," with no apocalyptic ending. It was also, as they say in the biz, "utterly forgettable." RedLetter dudes noted that new Thor would have been great as just an alien space gladiator film.

Ant-Man was great and did well, what more would you want from it? Also a character that the mainstream public is generally totally unaware of.
Agreed that Ragnarok didn't need the high stakes at all to be fun

new Thor would have been great as just an alien space gladiator film.

Oh yeah, whacky Kirby space bits were much better than dull old Asgard.

I thought the handful of Ant-Man in Civil War was better than all of Ant-Man the movie, which really suffered from the villain problem.

it felt like they really wanted to make a Planet Hulk movie but were hedging their bets (or couldn't cos of the rights snafu with Universal)

do they license Hulk?

I believe Universal still own the distribution (but not production) rights to any solo Hulk movie

Don't know how this news passed us by: Marvel is finally giving Black Widow her own movie. I guess since Wonder Woman proved that (gasp) superhero movies starring women aren't necessarily box office poison?

"Box Office Poison!" would make a good promo blurb for it

... by the writer of Olaf’s Frozen Adventure.

meantime there's Red Sparrow

The Captain Marvel movie is really more interesting imo

Also a bigger risk - the Black Widow movie has felt like a no-brainer for a while

I mean

Quirky indie actress in the lead
Quirky indie director duo
Weird IP that most people have only heard of because of a totally (ok they’re both women) different character with the same name
Set in the 1990s (before the Avengers Initiative)
Samuel Jackson cameo (with both eyes intact)

Captain Marvel is going to be weird

Oh and also Ben Mendelsohn might be playing a skrull

They still need to introduce Adam Warlock, right? Having teased his arrival a couple of times? I wonder how confusing that will be, given Vision's introduction was pretty confusing. Or maybe Warlock will have nothing to do with this movie version Infinity War? Since I doubt movie Thanos will be wooing Death.

I'd lay even money that Warlock will have made an appearance by the time the third GotG movie rolls around.

I wanna know when Moondragon and Quasar are gonna show up (although they've complicated things with the former by turning Drax into an alien).

Since I doubt movie Thanos will be wooing Death.

adam warlock’s birth pod shows up in the mid-credits sequence in gotg2 - i suspect he might show up deus ex machine style in infinity war

hella horny 4 hela

Frankly shocked that a shot of Adam Warlock's birth pod slipped by the censors.

"Let's celebrate us!"

https://d23.com/celebrate-10-years-of-the-mcu-with-this-class-photo-of-more-than-80-marvel-actors-and-filmmakers/?share_token=b215372b7f

https://cdn.d23.com/cdn2015/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/780w-463h_020818_MCU-10-year-anniversary-1.jpg

A mission of that scale would require a lot of very special people, but luckily for Marvel, they have a whole team of Super Heroes with them. Those who assembled included Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pratt, Chadwick Boseman, Brie Larson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Holland, Sean Gunn, Hannah John-Kamen, Zoe Saldana, Angela Bassett, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kurt Russell, Danai Gurira, William Hurt, Karen Gillan, Emily VanCamp, Tessa Thompson, Don Cheadle, Dave Bautista, Michael Peña, Anthony Mackie, Evangeline Lilly, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Frank Grillo, Letitia Wright, Laurence Fishburne, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Stan, Ty Simpkins, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Benedict Wong, Michael Rooker, Vin Diesel, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jeff Goldblum. Whew! If any super villain had decided to cause trouble right then in Atlanta, they would have been in big trouble.

Joining the super team of Marvel actors were filmmakers from the past 10 years of the MCU, including Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Stan Lee, Scott Derrickson, Trinh Tran, Alan Taylor, Brad Winderbaum, Louis Letterier, Jon Watts, Sarah Finn, James Gunn, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Joss Whedon, David Grant, Mitchell Bell, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Jeffrey Ford, Peyton Reed, Jonathan Schwartz, Stephen Broussard, Ryan Coogler, Jeremy Latcham, Nate Moore, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Taika Waititi, Erik Carroll, Ryan Meinerding, and Craig Kyle.

"And Edgar Wright! Wait hang on."

Full high res version here

https://cdn.d23.com/cdn2015/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/MCU_Class_Photo_w5.0_Webres.jpg

Quirky indie actress in the lead

she's a conventionally hot Best Actress winner whose last movie was Kong: Skull Island

Quirky indie director duo

most of their directors come from TV. no one cares.

Weird IP that most people have only heard of because of a totally (ok they’re both women) different character with the same name

Ant-Man was a weirder proposition - again, no one cares. Plus, "fun" music cue potential

Set in the 1990s (before the Avengers Initiative)

they've done this before

Samuel Jackson cameo (with both eyes intact)

no one cares as long as they get their fanboy jollies

Captain Marvel is going to be weird

no

Take your fisking to the appropriate thread please

Co-starring Simon H. as Buzzkill!

Buzzkill? Wet Blanket? I think they're both up for grabs.

woops, the music cue remark was meant for the period setting bit. anyway, have fun yall

Pssh, can't even kill a buzz properly.

I tease because I love, but you don't see us charging into a thread about some Norwegian experimental film about people eating bread and rolling our eyes about the fact that the bread isn't even pre-sliced and yeah right, like anyone would eat bread without a heaping dollop of Jif.

I normally wouldn't bother cause fuck the blockbuster-industrial complex but Tombot's claims were too blatantly wrong to just let em sit there

Yeah I don’t get it. Please remove “or dud” if no clowning is allowed on these threads

Anyway re that big ol photo, this is the buddy movie I want now:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVipsLkVoAEcf2B.jpg:large