do we need one?
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link
Dude
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
look i’ll happily participate with endless posts about dredd if u wanna start one
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
(as long as it’s called ‘URBAN HYMNS: a thread of karl urban appreciation’)
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
Oh hey so I slept on it way too long but I'm happy to report (halfway through the season thus far) that Cloak and Dagger is actually better than some of the Netflix shows. So, y'know, check it out.
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
'cloak and dagger: better than iron fist!' raves ilxor dot com poster old lunch
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Consistent, focused, compelling characters, well-acted, etc. It might actually help that there isn't a capital-v Villain per se (the big bads are a crooked cop and Roxxon, basically).
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
and no finn jones!
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
I thought season 2 of Iron Fist was much improved (I mean, how could it not be), but this is still at least maybe three times as good.
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
I watched the Cloak & Dagger pilot and was immediately put off by "Hey, attempted rape as a character motivation/plot point AGAIN" thing. I'm so sick of it. It's what made me not watch Bates Motel after seeing it happen to Vera Farmiga in the pilot.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Writers, there are other ways to push your female protagonists to their crisis points without raping them. See if you can think of some!
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Shang-Chi film announced. Figured he would eventually pop up among the Netflix crew but, uh, it sound like all them shits are being cancelled.
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Surprising choice but if they channel the Moench/Gulacy years I'm all for it. Presumably any Sax Rohmer characters would be renamed.
― WmC, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
I figure Avengers 4 will have a title announced any time now, so the promotion machine can get going. 1st trailer at xmas movies, etc.
― WmC, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
trailer is on Wednesday. There's a new Captain Marvel trailer tonight
― Number None, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
oh nice x2
― WmC, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
omg what exciting no-stakes fanservice merchandising tie-in will they reveal next
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
*checks stopwatch* you’re slowing down, shakey, must try harder
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to the Shakey origin story/training montage.
― WmC, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
Many shots of a trainer hustling his buns off while shakes stands on the sidelines rolling his eyes and then walks directly up to the trainer and emphatically rolls his eyes to make sure the gesture wasn't somehow overlooked.
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
irl lol
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
v glad no one knows who Lucrecia Martel is so she won't have to endure fanboy screeching over this
https://www.worldofreel.com/2018/12/director-lucrecia-martel-was-approached.html
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there’s so many laser lights… I find them horrible.
I don't know what she's talking about but otm
― jmm, Thursday, 13 December 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
She’s certainly right about the music as well
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 December 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
totally otm on the music, but afaik there's no special gender bias operating wrt marvel handling the action sequences. that's how they do things.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
is there any good writing anywhere on....what exactly that means, practically speaking
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
The 7th grader whose mom bought him white jeans and a black turtleneck, so he could look like Shang-Chi, is rejoicing at that movie announcement. Hope they've budgeted "Rhiannon" for the soundtrack.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
Brie Larson Says Views The Upcoming ‘Captain Marvel’ As “My Form Of Activism” https://t.co/JwZZDFZguq pic.twitter.com/2fqPpsmHEr— The Playlist 🎬 (@ThePlaylist) February 5, 2019
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
woke af 🔥
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
Two Namor omnibi announced in quick succession got my spidey sense tingling and sure enough, rumors are circulating that Marvel has the rights again and a film may be afoot.
At least part of the upcoming slate has to be dropping right after Endgame, as a multitude of projects are seemingly well underway with few/no official announcements beyond Spider-Man: Far From Home. Like I just read a thing that Dr. Strange 2 may be released next year, which has to mean that they've at least started filming.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Scott Derrickson tweeted and deleted a cover featuring Strange and Namor a little while back
― Number None, Monday, 8 April 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
For those keeping score...
Basically 100% confirmed:Black WidowEternalsShang-ChiDr. Strange 2Black Panther 2Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Rumors a-swirlin':Ghost RiderBladeNamor
Assumptions and wishful thinking but who knows how they intend to make it happen:FFX-Men
Feige (or someone) has also confirmed that they intend to keep minting money with more Deadpool films.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
I’d loooove for Doom to show up at the end of Avengers
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
Doom should be the Thanos of the next slate of films for sure
― Number None, Monday, 8 April 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
Sub-Mariner film could be great fun, as long as they remember to make him a dick.
― chap, Monday, 8 April 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
Rumors a-swirlin':Ghost Rider
JUSTICE FOR NEVELDINE/TAYLOR
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
Ghost Rider already appeared in Agents of SHIELD, would they be treating it as a separate continuity then, like DC does with it's TV series and movies?
― Tuomas, Monday, 8 April 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
That was muscle car Ghost Rider, movie would presumably be original motorcycle Ghost Rider (not horse Ghost Rider, cyber Ghost Rider, ex-ILX poster ghost rider, or other motorcycle Ghost Rider(s)). hth
― Vernon Locke, Monday, 8 April 2019 23:52 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, I guess I hadn't thought of that. IMO Ghost Rider has always been a rather boring character concept, but I the movie could be a bit more interesting if it featured Johnny Blaze and was a Captain Marvel style period piece set in the '70s, so it could be informed by the interests of that decade (trick motorcyclists, occultism, etc), just like first GR comic was.Having it set in a time period where there are (pretty much) no superheroes would also help alleviate the fact that Ghost Rider feels out of place in the fairly secular MCU (which was already evident in the Agents of SHIELD), as opposed to the comic book Marvel universe, where demons and deities lurk around every every corner.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 07:26 (five years ago) link
Feige continued, “that’s right my little piss pigs, sit in your mess and watch me make another billion dollars.” https://t.co/aeoHR1a01C— Lance St. Laurent (@LanceStLaurent) April 10, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/patient_ed/caring_for_your_urinary_foley_catheter-20241/foley-fig_1-en.png
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Is that how all the superheroes go so long stuck in their suits? Just sloshing around, waiting for a spare second to drain their leg?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
Stillsuits brah
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
Where does the Hulk poop? (A: Wherever he wants!)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
why not this one morbs
I will piss for the entire length of this movie, fuck to the Feige https://t.co/74ESXuKNby— K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) April 11, 2019
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
A question for the nerds: they went through great lengths to show how powerful these heroes are, and how even that was (for a while) no match for a villain like Thanos, who they built up over several movies. So, as they ramp up the next phase of movies, are they going to do it again? Tie everything together around a big villain? What other villains of that stature are there left for the Big Bad grooming? Dr. Doom? They've sort of gone through or repurposed a lot of them already, haven't they? Fantastic Four seems most ripe for material, but a reboot of that under the Disney umbrella also seems a long way away.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
spoilers
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Monday, 29 April 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
Oh, yeah, sort of, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
It will be very interesting to see what they will do next. The cinematic universe continues, surely it needs some kind of overarching threat if they want to keep matching their big hits of the last couple of years.
There's indeed some likely candidates from the Fantastic Four property. Apart from Doc Doom, planet-eating entity Galactus comes to mind, although they used a version of him in the second Fantastic Four movies.
Or Annihilus: ruler of the negative zone (some sort of alternate dimension parallel universe) who unleashed the destructive Annihilation Wave in Marvel's cosmic comics' major crossover Annihilation. That army might be too similar to Thanos' army though.
It'd be pretty cool if they will use the omnipotent Beyonder or the race of Beyonders, and will head towards some kind of Secret Wars event. There are two different comic book storylines to repurpose for this: the original all-out contest between heroes and villains on a newly created Battleworld and the 2015 apocalyptic clash of multiverses. Both comic book storylines heavily involve Doctor Doom.
― Valentijn, Monday, 29 April 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah - the introduction of the Skrulls in Captain Marvel also opens up the possibility of the Secret Invasion storyline, wherein Skrull impostors infiltrated the whole world (including every superhero team) to prepare for a worldwide takeover and as soon as it gets started nobody trusts each other anymore.
Another big baddie: Kang the Conqueror (see also: Immortus), but this guy's known for time-traveling and I'm not sure if that's a likely thing for future MCU movies.
― Valentijn, Monday, 29 April 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link