I want all the Fox superhero movies to do great so Disney never ever ever never gets the rights to Spider-Man and the X-Men.
They've done good things with the MCU...
Good BORING things
I've only seen The Avengers and Captain America 2, and I wouldn't call either of them boring. In fact, both of them were a ton of fun and some of the best superhero movies around. Also there's nothing boring about the MCU as a concept; it was really quite daring before The Avengers came around and broke all the records it did.
It probably hurts that I have a friend who won't shut up about it.
Do you know that they're going to have the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers 2 YES I KNOW I KNOW I REALLY KNOW I KNOW MORE THAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN IN MY LIFE
I will say that Guardians of the Galaxy looks good.
Honestly the pandering crap that Sony is doing with Spider-Man is a lot worse; I mean, at least Marvel delegates its obscure characters to either one-note cameos or makes them important or interesting.
Honestly the pandering crap that Sony is doing with Spider-Man is a lot worse; I mean, at least Marvel delegates its obscure characters to either one-note cameos or important, interesting characters; in the reboot's case the characters are the focus and they're still uninteresting.
See it is making mistakes instead of the endless playing it safe, now and forever, that Marvel is doing.
Like, honestly I'm kind of baffled here because that's really backwards. The Amazing Spider-Man was quite possibly the safest movie ever made; a reboot of a tried-and-true franchise that was a rebooted franchise in an age where that is the thing to do in movies, whereas the MCU has been virtually defined by its risk-taking.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Well, I mean, very very little Superhero stuff really is risky; stuff like that will always turn a profit. But safe isn't really a valid criticism unless the calculated-ness becomes blatantly obvious in the finished product. This has never happened in either of the MCU movies I watched-and I have little reason to believe it happened in the others- but it was pretty much TASM in entirety. TASM didn't take risks; it was just plain badly written.
Of course, if I had to say anything, transplanting such a fundamentally good hero into a morally grey spy thriller is kind of risky, but there's no way Disney won't make money off these movies.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Thanks a lot, GMH, now Kexruct will have NO IDEA which lane to use!
Well, I mean, very very little Superhero stuff really is risky; stuff like that will always turn a profit. But safe isn't really a valid criticism unless the calculated-ness becomes blatantly obvious in the finished product. This has never happened in either of the MCU movies I watched-and I have little reason to believe it happened in the others- but it was pretty much TASM in entirety. TASM didn't take risks; it was just plain badly written.
I haven't seen it because I have no interest in it.
But TASM has an edgy spider-man and five billion villains one of whom, I am told, looks like a leprechaun.
This is all probably dumb, but it is at least a dumb I can be interested in, as opposed to Disney Marvel, which repels interest like a magnet.
My only hope is that Guardians of the Galaxy does well and I can maybe get to see some more obscure superheroes directed by more risky directors and the universe is saved from the forces of five billion more blockbusters that make the Star Wars Prequels look like high art.
Of course, if I had to say anything, transplanting such a fundamentally good hero into a morally grey spy thriller is kind of risky, but there's no way Disney won't make money off these movies.
Captain America is just there in Captain America 2. Replace him with a Solid Snake, it's the same movie.
Of course, if I had to say anything, transplanting such a fundamentally good hero into a morally grey spy thriller is kind of risky, but there's no way Disney won't make money off these movies.
Captain America is just there in Captain America 2. Replace him with a Solid Snake, it's the same movie.
Captain America's struggle to be the same paragon of boy scout goodness in 2014 as he was in WWII is literally the backbone of the movie.
Lepidocrocite is what happens when certain iron-containing substances rust underwater. Lepidocrocite is exactly four times as dense as water, and breaks off in scales.
I really don't understand what argument you're making here. You're just throwing out a bunch of weird reactions.
Am I really being that weird?
Like, people keep telling me I'm incomprehensible, and I don't want to be.
if it makes you feel better I have heard these same criticisms of Captain America 2 before.
Not that I've seen the movie myself, because I don't really watch movies for the most part.
You are sometimes hard to parse, such as when you go on long strings of mocking people who follow weird philosophies, largely because in those cases I lack the context necessary to really even know who you're making fun of.
From what I've seen and heard of TASM, the film's inherently poorly made. A plot that jumps all over the place, characters with poor motivations and relationships that develop off-screen.
I've seen Iron Man, most of Captain America 1 and The Avengers. I don't feel like they did anything particularly edgy (indeed, I feel like it's going to get safer as more and more money starts riding on this bandwagon), but at least they're competently made.
From what I've seen and heard of TASM, the film's inherently poorly made. A plot that jumps all over the place, characters with poor motivations and relationships that develop off-screen.
I've seen Iron Man, most of Captain America 1 and The Avengers. I don't feel like they did anything particularly edgy (indeed, I feel like it's going to get safer as more and more money starts riding on this bandwagon), but at least they're competently made.
Money wise, they're all safe but they definitely all had challenges. To paraphrase MovieBob, Iron Man 1's challenge was, well, getting people to care about Iron Man (hard to believe, I know), Captain America's was getting people into an old-fashioned black-and-white-morality action movie post-TDK, Thor was considered too weird, and The Avengers relied on all of those other things working.
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Do you know that they're going to have the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers 2 YES I KNOW I KNOW I REALLY KNOW I KNOW MORE THAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN IN MY LIFE
i now disapprove
he hasn't done anything horribly stupid lately and thus isn't funny anymore.
i thought that was stephen colbert's job!
/me puts up a sign that says ALL GEEKS USE LEFT LANE / NEXT 2PI KM
/me giggles uncontrollably in the middle of the roadway
This is all probably dumb, but it is at least a dumb I can be interested in, as opposed to Disney Marvel, which repels interest like a magnet.
Like, people keep telling me I'm incomprehensible, and I don't want to be.
Also I hope I am not being mean to you, because I like you and I don't want to be.
A robocrocodile would clearly have this for skin.
Not that I've seen the movie myself, because I don't really watch movies for the most part.
You are sometimes hard to parse, such as when you go on long strings of mocking people who follow weird philosophies, largely because in those cases I lack the context necessary to really even know who you're making fun of.
Mostly because it was weird and bewildering, but I enjoyed that.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
TASM was a completely artificial, hollow, heartless movie. Any stupidity was from an outright lack of quality as opposed to doofy earnestness.
He has one of the least interesting powers ever and he's a douche.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead