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

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

The poop is that they may already be making plans for X-characters, in much the same way that they apparently charged headlong into Civil War before the Spidey deal had been finalized.

Honestly, in 2-4 years, I think the right X-adjacent ensemble storyline to adapt is going to be New Mutants / Alpha Flight style - what do you do when you’re just A superhero, not THE superhero?

I’d much prefer that over spending another dime on watching Wolverine or one of his GMO offspring get turned into pasta and then turn back into a person

I mean Warlock is a PERFECT way to step up the Groot game. Get H. Jon Benjamin and a vocoder and get it done.

Samantha Bee as Sasquatch

I'd crack up if we got an Alpha Flight movie. Just watch, someone is pitching a series to CBS All Access or some other online network right now

New Mutants is coming out this summer! (with Dark Phoenix... Again? in the fall)

And I think Warlock is in the New Mutants movie? Young me is very excited, old me is dubious.

i for one support this proposal

So when do @MarvelStudios want me @mindykaling @kumailn to get started on the MsMarvel screenplay ?

— Riz Ahmed (@rizmc) May 16, 2018

Riz! I am obsessed with this comic book, I’ve read them all. I love Kamala Khan. https://t.co/f3PevhfUzv

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) May 16, 2018

and i am not alone

I may have fainted. 😍 https://t.co/OJd8MuOt4R

— G. (@GWillowWilson) May 16, 2018

🧐 https://t.co/s90muO5aH5

— sana amanat (@MiniB622) May 16, 2018

Ugh, how about Kumail Nanjiani alone? Mindy Kaling is so tonally wrong.

yeah, what would mindy kaling have to bring to a funny and tender story about growing up as a young asian-american woman

Ms. Marvel was the first comics I've read in a decade or more and I was delighted to discover it's as wonderful as its rep.

yeah, what would mindy kaling have to bring to a funny and tender story about growing up as a young asian-american woman

Saw 98% of Deadpool 2 today (had to slip out a hair early). It's been a while since I saw a totally plotless movie, but there we go. Obviously wildly indulgent but also sort of surprisingly boring, which both add up to (generously) about 1/10 gags being amusing/funny, which I suppose was to be expected.

not MCU

but also... that's Deadpool! I thought it was worth it for the

character redacted

xpost I guess Deadpool is in Fox mutant MCU?

Fox's Marvel movies are not an MCU, how dare u

But he mentions Thanos!

nothing in Deadpool should be taken remotely seriously re:canon

It should be taken deadly seriously. Silently, but deadly.

Comedian Scott Adsit is a recurring character/SHIELD agent in the Deadpool comic, if this tells you anything.

but he died in Brubaker and Phillips' Criminal

http://www.kevhines.com/media/dead_adsit.JPG

haw!

Welp, it's official: X-Men & FF coming to the MCU.

(And yeah, that whole thing where one massive media company has become even more massive and all of the probably not-great implications of that, blah blah.)

Day three of the Ethan Hawke/LOGAN wars, as I wonder what we, as a society, have done to deserve this.

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) August 27, 2018

I had not heard of this - there’s a good article about it here:

http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/what-ethan-hawke-really-said-about-superhero-movies-was-lost-on-twitter.php

that doesn't really change the context or meaning of what he said though
not that i want to die on the hill of LOGAN (though it was great!) but yeah, it is weird to hear that coming from a guy who's done a lot of successful genre stuff

Guys. I'm clearly a huge fan and champion of good superhero movies. Huge. Unabashed. They are not great cinema.

logan was under the impression it was a great movie and it was not a good movie, not of any genre

dude claiming hawke was unwoke because superhero movies help people escape capitalism then namechecking wes anderson as a revered art cinema icon probably the peak of this

even before the 'then'

also great was people responding 'actually he didn't wear tights in logan'

Railing against superhero movies is like railing against oligarchy or bacon. The normies always win

(my own dense, hypocritical and not entirely serious take)

logan was under the impression it was a great movie and it was not a good movie, not of any genre

extremely otm

logan was not good, no, but i thought patrick stewart was fantastic in it, especially given what the script gave him to work with

^^ cosign - love him more than ever after watching