Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 4: Tripping Balls (Spoilers)

[Guadaloopy 10954]

If you are on the fence about seeing this in theaters, the scenes with Brie Larson in the white sleeveless sports top are worth catching on a big screen.  

[CooterBrown 18001]

Just got out of the Marvels. Felt like a Made for TV movie. There are some noticeable continuity errors due to so many scenes being cut. I did fall asleep a couple of times. Those new seats at the Village Alamo are too comfy and recline a bit too far.

[Buzzrock 14901]

21 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

If you are on the fence about seeing this in theaters, the scenes with Brie Larson in the white sleeveless sports top are worth catching on a big screen.  

Say what you want about her but she has a fantastic rack. Best thing about Kong Skull Island (another mediocre action movie with Brie Larson and Sam Jackson). 

[Js1 85258]

[WBT 20559]

38 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Say what you want about her but she has a fantastic rack. Best thing about Kong Skull Island

[mdmost 42997]

Well I count this as a positive

 

[Mitch Cumsteen 18547]

On 11/19/2023 at 8:40 PM, Buzzrock said:

Say what you want about her but she has a fantastic rack. Best thing about Kong Skull Island (another mediocre action movie with Brie Larson and Sam Jackson). 

[LCHorn 2612]

I just finished Loki season 2-loved it. 
 

I know they spared no expense on the production but the whole thing was top notch.  

[UT_OB1 2213]

On 11/19/2023 at 8:40 PM, Buzzrock said:

Say what you want about her but she has a fantastic rack. Best thing about Kong Skull Island (another mediocre action movie with Brie Larson and Sam Jackson). 

We actually just started a monsterverse watch. I’d never seen any since black Jack Kong. Kids really enjoyed them, especially Kong. They also thought we were starting a marvel movie. 

[Bookman 4638]

The Marvels may be the worst MCU movie yet. It's at least in the conversation. 

[utee94 15797]

On 12/2/2023 at 6:09 AM, Bookman said:

The Marvels may be the worst MCU movie yet. It's at least in the conversation. 

I thought it was pretty fun and at least 3X  better than Eternals.

[UT_OB1 2213]

19 minutes ago, utee94 said:

I thought it was pretty fun and at least 3X  better than Eternals.

Agree. I also liked it more than Thor 4. 

[Js1 85258]

1 hour ago, utee94 said:

I thought it was pretty fun and at least 3X  better than Eternals.

“Better than Eternals” is a bar about the depth of the Marianas Trench lol

[ajax 2600]

The Eternals made me feel like we actually are living in a simulation and the master program is playing a practical joke on all of us.

[mdmost 42997]

The only cool thing about the Eternals was the ending where the giant head appears in the sky. 

[Js1 85258]

Just now, mdmost said:

The only cool thing about the Eternals was the ending where the giant head appears in the sky. 

And is never mentioned again. 

 

though allegedly will come back into play later. 

[Scary Stranger 1714]

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

The only cool thing about the Eternals was the ending where the giant head appears in the sky. 

[mdmost 42997]

Hard to argue this point. Ant-Man 3 might've been the true beginning of the end. I still maintain it's that you just simply cannot top Endgame now. I think we'll see some decent attempts and there will be enjoyable content like Deadpool 3. 

 

[LCHorn 2612]

On 12/4/2023 at 10:16 PM, BeardIP said:

Yea Eternals is the worst of them all.

I actually did a rewatch a few months back and it was better than I remembered it.  I appreciated that Chao tried to do something different within the framework of the Marvel method.  
 

For me, Ant Man 3 takes the prize for worst.  And it’s not terrible as a film, but it’s a bad Ant Man film and as a sequel to the first two.  

[Parliament 14227]

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Hard to argue this point. Ant-Man 3 might've been the true beginning of the end. I still maintain it's that you just simply cannot top Endgame now. I think we'll see some decent attempts and there will be enjoyable content like Deadpool 3. 

DB3 is gonna print money.  It'll deconstruct all the post-EG tropes.  Add in a comedic depiction of Wolverine, and the fact it's the only Marvel movie of 2024 and there you go.

[atomheartbevo 89618]

Jonathan Majors is done as Kang - lot of text messages submitted to the court.

Marvel is workshopping how to handle it.  This might be The Way.

[Doc Sam Beckett 5792]

On 12/8/2023 at 3:29 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Jonathan Majors is done as Kang - lot of text messages submitted to the court.

Marvel is workshopping how to handle it.  This might be The Way.

They just have to replace him with another actor, right? Too much potential with the Kang storyline and they're too far into it. I think the audience would be fine with a switch in this case 

[atomheartbevo 89618]

43 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

They just have to replace him with another actor, right? Too much potential with the Kang storyline and they're too far into it. I think the audience would be fine with a switch in this case 

Maybe Terrence Howard?

[Parliament 14227]

So...just hear me out...

[kevwun 15758]

18 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

They just have to replace him with another actor, right? Too much potential with the Kang storyline and they're too far into it. I think the audience would be fine with a switch in this case 

It's a messy story that's too confusing.  They would be better off coming up with something else.  When you play out a shitty story over multiple movies, you end up with things like the last Star Wars trilogy.  They are being given an out and need to take it.

Edited December 11, 2023 by kevwun

[BrazilHorn 6586]

On 12/10/2023 at 8:37 PM, Doc Sam Beckett said:

They just have to replace him with another actor, right? Too much potential with the Kang storyline and they're too far into it. I think the audience would be fine with a switch in this case 

Katfid - “What switch?, That’s not the same guy??”

[CooterBrown 18001]

17 hours ago, kevwun said:

It's a messy story that's too confusing.  

It's not just confusing but the multiverse renders all events inconsequential.  No one cares if a character dies since there's just another variant to be pulled from another universe.  Kang can be defeated by ants but here's another infinite number of Kangs waiting in the wings. Who cares.

Maybe the one story that could've been good would've been a Multiverse version of Civil War. Have the bizzarro Avengers from another universe attempting to defeat our Avengers because they breached the multiverse.  That would've probably sucked too. 

Edited December 12, 2023 by CooterBrown

[mdmost 42997]

Dr Doom just needs to show up and kill all the Kangs in one scene. Problem solved. 

[utee94 15797]

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

It's not just confusing but the multiverse renders all events inconsequential.  No one cares if a character dies since there's just another variant to be pulled from another universe.  Kang can be defeated by ants but here's another infinite number of Kangs waiting in the wings. Who cares.

Maybe the one story that could've been good would've been a Multiverse version of Civil War. Have the bizzarro Avengers from another universe attempting to defeat our Avengers because they breached the multiverse.  That would've probably sucked too. 

Yeah the multiverse itself is the problem for me.  It plays differently in movies, than it ever did in the comic books.

I really just don't care about individual characters because there's an infinite number of replacements for them.  Sure, some of them might only be 2D or might be pigs, but there's still plenty of them out there.

 

[ajax 2600]

On 12/8/2023 at 9:43 AM, LCHorn said:

I actually did a rewatch a few months back and it was better than I remembered it.  I appreciated that Chao tried to do something different within the framework of the Marvel method.  

*Zhao

There are rumors that production on Eternals was a nightmare and she burned a lot of bridges. If the rumors are to be believed Zhao will likely never work with Disney again. But who knows what the truth is.

For me, Thor Love and Thunder was when I was out. That movie made me feel vicarious embarrassment for Disney.

[LCHorn 2612]

5 minutes ago, ajax said:

*Zhao

There are rumors that production on Eternals was a nightmare and she burned a lot of bridges. If the rumors are to be believed Zhao will likely never work with Disney again. But who knows what the truth is.

For me, Thor Love and Thunder was when I was out. That movie made me feel vicarious embarrassment for Disney.

Thanks for the correction.  
 

I don’t think Marvel would be likely to go down that road again, either.  These productions are years in the making and I’m sure they were feeling invulnerable after End Game.  
 

It’s also telling they haven’t tried to use any of those characters elsewhere, God knows there‘s a ton of them.  
 

I thought Love and Thunder was too discordant (Waititi lost the balance) and as a result the comedy didn’t mesh with the pathos.  I thought it was satisfactory if too cute and appreciated, too, just the attempt to do something a little more personal to the filmmaker’s vision even if it didn’t wholly work.  That said, I can’t bring myself to rewatch it. 
 

I am very interested to see where they go from here because I don’t think the most common complaints (“they keep making the same movie” and “you have to have watched 30 movies and 5 TV shows to know what’s going on”) are valid.  What I see is a production company intentionally trying to diversify and expand the kind of stories they want to tell and the market is punishing them for it.*
 

*also, they have been fucked by Disney+

[ajax 2600]

51 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Waititi lost the balance

Yeah, it's interesting that of the two big name directors who had more autonomy (Waititi and Gunn) it was Waititi who went off the deep end of silliness. And I loved Jojo Rabbit. Gunn stuck to his fundamentals and delivered a fantastic Guardians 3.

Waititi needs a babysitter and he can make a great movie.

[Doc Sam Beckett 5792]

On 12/11/2023 at 1:05 PM, kevwun said:

It's a messy story that's too confusing.  They would be better off coming up with something else.  When you play out a shitty story over multiple movies, you end up with things like the last Star Wars trilogy.  They are being given an out and need to take it.

Yeah, actually agree with you and others who have voiced the same in this thread. Started thinking about it, and quantumania, multiverse of madness, and most productions that deals heavily with Kang are terrible. Even Loki, which I loved, was filled with a lot of Jagsfansgif moments. 

[kevwun 15758]

That's a really good point.  Loki season 2 was really good and it was still confusing as fuck at times.  Time travel + the multiverse means you have to take notes to follow what the hell is happening.  It's when I decided others were right that the multiverse just isn't gonna work.

Edited December 12, 2023 by kevwun

[crash_davis 23096]

I used to be a huge Marvel fan boy. Then their products just became shit. I didn't finish She Hulk. Never finished Marvel girl or whatever that series was. Unfortunately watched every stupid fucking episode of Nick Fury shit. Haven't watched any of the Loki 2. No desire to watch The Marvels. This whole multiverse thing has lost me. 

At this point, I'm going to heed my lesson learned from GoT. I am not watching anymore Marvel shit until the entire thing is resolved and read the reviews to see if going back to watch shit is worth my time. Life's too short to watch shitty TV.

[atomheartbevo 89618]

So apparently the driver said the accuser was the aggressor, and there is surveillance video of Majors running away from her over quite a few blocks (somebody said it was 6-7).

 

[kevwun 15758]

That looked like a dude running away in terror.

[atomheartbevo 89618]

1 hour ago, kevwun said:

That looked like a dude running away in terror.

Imagine: You're a famous black man who has a white woman attacking you.

 

On a side note, she ran pretty well in heels, wonder if she has any college eligibility left, asking for a friend.

[ballrific 215]

Imagine: You're a famous black man who has a white woman attacking you.

 
On a side note, she ran pretty well in heels, wonder if she has any college eligibility left, asking for a friend.

I thought the same, should have been more separation or he’s slow

[kevwun 15758]

I imagine being completely insane is good for shaving a few extra tenths off your 40 time.

Edited December 14, 2023 by kevwun

[ajax 2600]

16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

So apparently the driver said the accuser was the aggressor, and there is surveillance video of Majors running away from her over quite a few blocks (somebody said it was 6-7).

 

Barry Sanders? More like prime Leon O'Neal.

[Js1 85258]

Dude is all muscles, no speed.

[atomheartbevo 89618]

Rumors about Spidey 4

Spoiler

 

 

[atomheartbevo 89618]

Fantastic thread about the 1970s Spider-Man show.  No CGI, no blue-screen/green-screen.  

 

[BERT 4358]

On 12/14/2023 at 12:34 PM, Js1 said:

Dude is all muscles, no speed.

So what started all that shit? Sorry i never read what he was accused of

[mdmost 42997]

So Dr Doom it is

 

[atomheartbevo 89618]

11 minutes ago, mdmost said:

So Dr Doom it is

 

They have a lot of people they can choose to play him, from Mads Mikkelson to Michael Fassbender.

Or...

[rantanamo 143]

As predicted no one will read the story and just the headline.  

[mdmost 42997]

I mean he faces up to a year in prison. What exactly do you think we're missing? That he was not guilty on the other charges? Sure he could get no jail time at all but the damage is done. 

Edited December 18, 2023 by mdmost

[freyguy 4259]

58 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

They have a lot of people they can choose to play him, from Mads Mikkelson to Michael Fassbender.

Or...

I think it's supposed to be Javier Bardem.  Although I heard he may end up being Galactus.  Who knows....