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

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

eh, i just think pitting shitty mainstream movies against "great art" films is a foolish, close-minded position to take the older i get. those Marvel dollars were never gonna fund another Agnes Varda film, know what i mean?

yeah this is 2 different things. It's a false argument. I can enjoy a lot of different kinds of art at a lot of different levels. I appreciate the attempt to make the Marvel stuff as high quality as they do. It makes them much more fun to watch.

agreed

However, there is less commercial room than ever for adult-targeted films -- nowhere near as arty as Varda's -- while the pajamas-wearing bodybuilder shit dominates every year's b.o. Sorry, not "same as it ever was."

weird to hear that coming from a guy who's done a lot of successful genre stuff

Perhaps, but at least that Valerian thing was weird enough to be not especially successful.

The mortal enemy you'll want to direct your ire to goes by the name of Kevin Feige, Morbs. Once that dude moves on to other projects or retires to whatever island he buys, you will see a gaggle of clueless also-rans bumblefuck their way toward the slow dissolution of the superhero genre's steely grip on the box office. Like, they'll still rake in the dough but more on the level of the previous century's offerings (adjusted for inflation, natch).

morbs must have some elaborate pajamas is what i’m taking away from this thread

However, there is less commercial room than ever for adult-targeted films

this is a fair and reasonable point.

lol no it's not

yeah don't see that at all as someone who has gorged on as many theatrical films as possible during this Year of Moviepass (RIP)
there's less middle of the road crap that ISN'T superheroes... well, actually even that's not true

idk I get that less "adult targeted films" get made by the big studios because the superhero stuff is where the money is. it doesn't seem so off the mark. but i hardly ever go see anything that isn't the stuff of which the Dr. appears to disapprove. end of my discussion is there's room in this viewer's brain for a lot of different kinds of movies that do all kinds of different things to it, and comparing them doesn't tell you much about them

blame HBO and Netflix...
blame THE SOPRANOS, BREAKING BAD and, i dunno, RECTIFIED...
blame the new consumption models that let smaller features (like eh, let's say CAPTAIN FANTASTIC) to actually find distribution and audiences outside of the art houses...

popcorn halls are for popcorn pictures. I for one do not mourn the absence of RABBIT HOLE from my recliner-equipped multiplex, and to imagine that if Marvel would simply stop making movies that people of all ages enjoy the floodgates would open for quality grownup storytelling ignores the evidence of dunno fkn WILD HOGS or TRANSFORMERS 6 or whatever.

a fair and reasonable point

However, there is less commercial room than ever for adult-targeted films

this is a fair and reasonable point.

lol no it's not

Yes and no. Films are cheaper to make than ever, and the barrier to make a film and get it thrown into, say, Netflix US listings is much lower than older forms of mass distribution. But it's absolutely, 100% true that the "middle budget" films (of the type Alexander Payne, PT Anderson, Todd Haynes etc) are getting funded less and less. There may have been a slight uptick recently due to the influx of streaming production cash but we're definitely a far cry from the era when "adult-minded" dramas routinely populated the top 10/20/30 grossers of a particular year.

"ethan hawke/logan wars"??????? film twitter is hell

tbf all twitter is a garbage sewer