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

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

No clowning allowed in this thread. I am very serious and I WILL not repeat myself. Is that understood?

VERY serious.

VERRRRRRY serious.

no one doesn't care as much or as loudly as Simon H

Certainly the latter.

(That's a joke, he's not loud, and lots of us don't care, but still post)

oh no, I care, insomuch as I would much prefer the MCU not exist

but I earnestly swear to leave you nerds alone for, let's say, 5 months.

Thank u for deferring our swirlies until it's a little warmer, sir.

Man, the MCU is by far the best franchise that exists at the moment. The one to take down is all that Star Wars bullshit.

Meanwhile in the DCEU

https://io9.gizmodo.com/warner-bros-wants-michael-bay-to-make-a-lobo-movie-1822852448

(Carry on.)

Frederik B otm.

im looking forward to Black Panther. i've had a good time w every Marvel movie so far, even the forgettable ones. it is good on them to have been able to maintain such a high level of quality across so many films.

other studios do not seem confident in their material, hence all the lamp-shading, all the hyping, all the fascistic consumer propaganda & iconography. we have the constant re-iteration of how important the iconography is. DC/SW films are about collecting action figures. Marvel movies are more in the vein of Big Trouble in Little China.

last Marvel film i saw was GOTG2 at a drive in (it rained through the bit where they were flying in spacepods, which was kind of cool actually) and it was so much fun. the first one is great too. i think the two GOTG movies are worth the entire mess of it and are so far the best of the bunch. GOTG1/2 probably better than any Star Wars since ROTJ.

I like it.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/kevin-feige-says-the-mcu-has-plans-for-kamala-khans-m-1825981826

I, too, like it.

First Phase Four non-sequel announced! And it's...uh, the Eternals?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvel-sets-black-list-writers-eternals-movie-1112084

Yeah there was word about that going around the other day, if not these screenwriter specifics. Presumption is that with the Inhumans having been botched they're switching over to this.

Just work out the X-Men ffs