Author Topic: Marvel's Movie/TV Universe SPOILERS (Read 296678 times)

Zantera · « **Reply #1435 on:** May 23, 2014, 05:24:38 PM »

I think the bubble can burst in terms of smaller movies like Ant-Man (because few outside of comic book readers knows who he is), but I think movies like Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Avengers and X-Men will always bring in the dope.

Jaffa · « **Reply #1436 on:** May 23, 2014, 09:08:03 PM »

Quote from: bosk1 on May 23, 2014, 04:05:59 PM

Yes, but a film nobody cares about that is about a "hero" nobody has ever even heard of, so...so what?

I know a lot of people who were very excited about the movie because they love the character.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1437 on:** May 24, 2014, 04:10:15 AM »

Quote from: bosk1 on May 23, 2014, 04:05:59 PM

Yes, but a film nobody cares about that is about a "hero" nobody has ever even heard of, so...so what?

Not sure where you are getting that it is a hero nobody has ever even heard of.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1438 on:** May 24, 2014, 05:05:07 AM »

I have complete faith in Marvel/Feige. In 2007, Iron Man was considered a 'fringe' character they were taking a pretty big risk on.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1439 on:** May 24, 2014, 05:42:13 AM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on May 24, 2014, 05:05:07 AM

I have complete faith in Marvel/Feige.

I do, too, until proven otherwise. This Edgar Wright thing is the first real chink in their armor. Hopefully they can recover.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1440 on:** May 24, 2014, 06:44:34 AM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on May 24, 2014, 05:42:13 AM

Quote from: jingle.boy on May 24, 2014, 05:05:07 AM
I have complete faith in Marvel/Feige.
I do, too, until proven otherwise. This Edgar Wright thing is the first real chink in their armor. Hopefully they can recover.

Pun excepted.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1441 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:08:16 AM »

Take it however you want.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1442 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:13:54 AM »

I think everybody loves Edgar Wright's movies so of course they'll make a mountain out of a ant hill but this stuff happens all the time. Marvel has had a great run of directors except for the Hulk movie and I have confidence in a replacement.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1443 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:17:00 AM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on May 24, 2014, 07:13:54 AM

I think everybody loves Edgar Wright's movies so of course they'll make a mountain out of a ant hill but this stuff happens all the time. Marvel has had a great run of directors except for the Hulk movie and I have confidence in a replacement.

I do too. I just hate that he has devoted this much time to the Ant-Man film (since 2006, before there WAS a Marvel Cinematic Universe) and now that it is crunch time, he is gone. Apparently, the powers-that-be handed him one too many notes to change in the script. Which is kind of stupid, since they have had 8 years to make all of the changes they want.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1444 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:25:37 AM »

I agree, Let the guy with a track record to make his film.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1445 on:** May 24, 2014, 08:08:42 AM »

BTW, Joss Whedon is apparently on Wright's side in whatever the struggle was.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=100685

Kotowboy · « **Reply #1446 on:** May 24, 2014, 08:17:55 AM »

Because apparently nobody cares about Ant Man.

Zook · « **Reply #1447 on:** May 24, 2014, 10:39:58 AM »

I don't.

Jaffa · « **Reply #1448 on:** May 24, 2014, 06:51:49 PM »

I don't have any particular attachment to Ant Man, but the fact that they're making an Ant Man movie gives me hope that other less popular characters might get movies of their own.

theseoafs · « **Reply #1449 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:18:51 PM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on May 24, 2014, 04:10:15 AM

Quote from: bosk1 on May 23, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Yes, but a film nobody cares about that is about a "hero" nobody has ever even heard of, so...so what?
Not sure where you are getting that it is a hero nobody has ever even heard of.

Didn't bosk complain like 10 pages back that Marvel were "shoe-horning" Ant Man into the Avengers?

It'll be fine. The movie isn't going to take in an obscene amount of money (probably), but I don't think anyone's expecting it to. It'll probably perform similarly to Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm excited for it anyway.

Lucien · « **Reply #1450 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:54:00 PM »

I think Guardians of the Galaxy could be amazing.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #1451 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:55:10 PM »

I'm not particularly bothered by Marvel films. I was only interested in Ant Man because of Wright directing.

But this is the Marvel Universe thread.

It was news about a Marvel Universe film.

I posted it.

End of.

I shall now go in threads about things I don't care about and go "so what ?" in each of them as per Bosks lead.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1452 on:** July 16, 2014, 10:33:03 AM »

First look at Ultron:

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1453 on:** July 16, 2014, 10:50:17 AM »

Hot damn.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1454 on:** July 16, 2014, 10:58:28 AM »

Not sure what an "ultron" is, but that guy looks cool.

Zantera · « **Reply #1455 on:** July 16, 2014, 11:12:39 AM »

Ultron is the main baddie in Avengers 2.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1456 on:** July 16, 2014, 12:14:14 PM »

And one of the greatest villains of the Avengers in the comics.

BlackInk · « **Reply #1457 on:** July 16, 2014, 02:57:58 PM »

I know next to nothing about Ultron from the comics, but that design is really cool.

soundgarden · « **Reply #1458 on:** July 17, 2014, 09:23:33 AM »

Thor will now be a woman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvupcWV_VZ8

(Just FYI; Thor had switched genders multiple times in Norse mythology; so this isn't random.)

I like the change; I also like that a major female superhero will have powers traditionally seen as masculine.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1459 on:** July 17, 2014, 09:27:54 AM »

Best I can tell, that has nothing to do with the Marvel movie universe.

soundgarden · « **Reply #1460 on:** July 17, 2014, 09:48:34 AM »

MetalJunkie · « **Reply #1461 on:** July 18, 2014, 01:44:00 PM »

I bet Mjolnir makes a mean clothing iron.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1462 on:** July 18, 2014, 01:47:32 PM »

Quote from: MetalJunkie on July 18, 2014, 01:44:00 PM

I bet Mjolnir makes a mean clothing iron.

Or tenderizes the fuck out of a chicken breast.

MetalJunkie · « **Reply #1463 on:** July 18, 2014, 01:50:13 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on July 18, 2014, 01:47:32 PM

Quote from: MetalJunkie on July 18, 2014, 01:44:00 PM
I bet Mjolnir makes a mean clothing iron.

Or tenderizes the fuck out of a chicken breast.

Haha. It's funny because Thor has breasts.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1464 on:** July 18, 2014, 02:25:20 PM »

If they really let this chick be Thor for awhile, it might be cool.

But if "real" Thor is still running around the Marvel Universe, kicking ass, like that lame crap from the 90s when a different guy took over for Captain America, so Cap became the U.S.Agent...that will suck, just a PR stunt.

Zook · « **Reply #1465 on:** July 18, 2014, 03:19:51 PM »

This gender and racial swapping is getting kind of silly now. Are they doing it just to change things up or because they're afraid of being called racist or sexist? It's not like they don't have plenty of female and non white characters. It doesn't bother me as I'm not a comic reader, but I do think the change to The Human Torch for the Fantastic Four reboot is pretty dumb.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1466 on:** July 18, 2014, 05:15:23 PM »

I think it's really dumb, actually. Not that different groups shouldn't be represented, but it is dumb to change an existing character rather than just create a new one.

Dimitrius · « **Reply #1467 on:** July 18, 2014, 09:26:27 PM »

I don't mind, it wouldn't be the first time someone else is Thor/has Thor's powers.

Let's not forget that Thor's powers aren't embedded to him, but to Mjolnir and whoever holds Mjolnir is essentially Thor at the moment.

@Hef: I believe they'll also have an "unworthy" Thor running around. $:-\$

Zook · « **Reply #1468 on:** July 18, 2014, 10:28:50 PM »

So will she be Thor or Thoria or Thora or Thorina or Thoriqua?

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #1469 on:** July 18, 2014, 10:53:17 PM »

Quote from: Zook on July 18, 2014, 10:28:50 PM

So will she be Thor or Thoria or Thora or Thorina or Thoriqua?

Just Thor.

Just thinking about it, this pretty par for the course with regards to comics. Characters regularly die, come back to life, were never actually dead, were clones, fake their deaths, break their backs or are rebooted into alternate timelines or histories or whatever so I don't find this too out of the ordinary and giving female readers another character to latch onto is probably the least worst reason for a reboot. Hey, Starbuck worked fine as a woman after all. The problem is, this new Thor will probably be just like every other female comic book character in existence; huge, gravity defying rack, tiny waist the size of a twizzler, and chainmail bikini. Whatever good motives or story reasons they may have for the change, I don't entirely trust comic book writers to not pander to the sexual fantasies of their endlessly horny twelve-year old readerbase.

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Author Topic: Marvel's Movie/TV Universe *SPOILERS* (Read 296678 times)

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