Marvel Cinematic Universe Thread - Dr. Strangelove - Film, Television and Music

[QUOTE=AaronM202;52977570][t]https://cdn.movieweb.com/img.news/NEf8gSeCamCFij_1_3.jpg[/t] This looks like it would have been perfectly fine.[/QUOTE] That still makes me sad it was only a tease and never actually implemented.

[QUOTE=AaronM202;52976582]Even the comics can get a little dumb about it. Oh the Sentry just ripped a guy in half complete with gushing blood and visible entrails? Better make sure kids dont see Wolverine say "fuck" on that same page.[/QUOTE] I liked the way Days of Future Past bypasses that by having some fucking brutal deaths be shown but it's all okay because they're in their mutant forms and thus don't bleed or anything.

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Namor's rights continues to be the fucking weirdest.

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;52978010][IMG]https://i.redd.it/fi8s9gl0tw301.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Wait, Doc Octopus has to be licensed separately?

:snip: WB may be fucking up their DC films, but damn, they were smart to pick up all the rights to all the DC characters

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;52978178]:snip: WB may be fucking up their DC films, but damn, they were smart to pick up all the rights to all the DC characters[/QUOTE] I feel theres some measure of irony in that, considering DC is essentially a hodgepodge of different companies and comic books that were accumulated together over the years forming a Frankensteins Monster of an IP while Marvel was more or less always one company with a majority of its top characters being made by the same 3 people.

found out today that loki ISNT played by jared leto. oops

Finished Punisher. So good. I really hope [sp] Jigsaw is a long term villain throughout the series. Do you guys think he'll be in S2 or do you think Nicky Cavella will be the main guy next? [/sp]

[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52980652]Finished Punisher. So good. I really hope [sp] Jigsaw is a long term villain throughout the series. Do you guys think he'll be in S2 or do you think Nicky Cavella will be the main guy next? [/sp][/QUOTE] Hopefully he shows up in some capacity. I believe the showrunner said he wanted to do [sp]Barracuda or Kathryn O'Brien[/sp] but who knows. Also who knows when we'll get the second season because the way they do the Netflix shows is that we're gonna have to get Iron Fist season 2 before this unfortunately, eh.

I wanted a buddy cop heroes for hire show. I dont think that will ever happen :(

[QUOTE=Ridge;52974815]Yeah, Vulture was a pretty sympathetic villain.[/QUOTE] Honestly If I didn't have prior knowledge of characters and film techniques, I would've thought Vulture was an anti-hero, Stark was a sociopath and Spidey was a well meaning idiot getting manipulated. Couldn't believe a multi-million film could put up such a strong criticism of capitalism with superheroes. I guess if you're right-leaning you might see Stark as some awful globalist liberal, but Vulture's still your guy,[sp] doing all the things you're supposed to for that american dream. Bonus points for robin hood,fighting big corperate goverment, guns,working in manufacturing, being a family man, caring for your staff, trying diplomacy, and being a right'n honourable guy. [/sp] (Probably not/really minor spoilers) Bit odd that their shit's 10 times cooler than the Alien stuff we saw in the first avengers film, but that's just icing on the cake. Unless you're adamantly pro-gun ban/legislation,[sp]or a racist![/sp] the vulture is really swell. [SP] I wasn't convinced the "gravity gun" murder was an accident, but other than that he kills nobody. Spider man was always the aggressor[/sp] Really liked his suit too. Don't think I'd enjoy the comic versions of the vulture anywhere near as much as Keaton. The guy's a fuckin anti hero, an ace one at that.

I think spidey's biggest qualms was that he was manufacturing and selling some obscenely powerful weapons. If he was making refrigerators or some shit with that alien tech I'm pretty sure he could care less

I think that's more down to powerfist [sp]the first[/sp] not getting the right buyers because he's a moron, and techy not putting the right safety functions on. Every time shit went [sp] full cutting beam was the fault of spidey (at least with the boat, not sure about the ATMs) [/sp]

I guess that's fair. I agree with your sentiment though, vulture had some decent depth as a villain.

Also was anyone else kinda disappointed in MCU Rawlins? [sp] In the MAX comics he's this hedonist nut job who's fuckery spans the world and is pretty damn badass. In the show he's a generic bald guy who only shines in his last ep, completely overshadowed by Russo. Kinda wish they just used a completely new guy to fill in that role. [/sp]

He was pretty underdeveloped, but putting time on him would have taken time from the Madani storyline and they weren't going have an all male centric punisher in the current zeitgeist. What they probably should have done was a Rawlins only episode right before the southern complex episodes and revealed Jigsaw's depth of involvement with him then at the end of the episode, but hindsight is 20/20 and all things considered they did a damn fine job given characters and time frame.

It's so weird how they decided to have Madani around as a pretty obvious substitute for Kathryn while simultaneously only keeping Rawlins' name and scrapping everything else about the character.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;52982023]It's so weird how they decided to have Madani around as a pretty obvious substitute for Kathryn while simultaneously only keeping Rawlins' name and scrapping everything else about the character.[/QUOTE] There was one scene in the entire series [sp]when he got real creepy and fucking weird during the torture scene[/sp] that was like the comic version.

What really annoyed me about the Punisher series was [sp]Micro/Lieberman's fucking neck beard[/sp].

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52982347]What really annoyed me about the Punisher series was [sp]Micro/Lieberman's fucking neck beard[/sp].[/QUOTE] I kinda liked it.

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52982347]What really annoyed me about the Punisher series was [sp]Micro/Lieberman's fucking neck beard[/sp].[/QUOTE] the real villain of the piece

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52982347]What really annoyed me about the Punisher series was [sp]Micro/Lieberman's fucking neck beard[/sp].[/QUOTE] Was kind of living up to the stereotype a bit :v:

I actually liked Agent orange. Him and fridgebomb where the only characters that had dimension/didn't have their entire character projected with neon fucking signs (other than Frank'n micro). Everyone else was just incredibly cliche or wore hearts on sleeves. Madani was a difficult to believe cliche, her predecessor had a solid villain voice, her sidekick might as well've [sp]worn a red shirt[/sp], Billy was a question of "when" not "if" and, [sp]because greed was far too reasonable, they had him abuse his mother so you absolutely know he's a bad dude[/sp]. The maso officer was just fucking silly. I think Frank's character was compelling enough that the rest of the shit's overshadowed. Micro was mostly alright, Orange gets points for being a believable villain. Fridgebomb was the only actual character that I wasn't able to read, and I enjoyed following his journey trying to work the puzzle out. Oh yeah, Hot wife felt a bit too much for micro and Best-black-cripple-medic-friend might as well've had a halo. I don't know if this stuff was comic accurate, but it's the biggest problem I had with the season.

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52982347]What really annoyed me about the Punisher series was [sp]Micro/Lieberman's fucking neck beard[/sp].[/QUOTE] Like a [i]MOOSE[/i], Frank.

I was just thinking about how I'd praise the Punisher here for its sincerity and then I remembered that scene where Madani [sp]finds out that Frank castle, a high-profile, vigilante mass shooter, who is thought to be dead, and personally exposed her to a conspiracy of the highest level over which he also murdered her boss, is very likely alive and her reaction is "I knew it" then she goes "we gotta find him" and they quip about how he's not on Facebook and Tinder[/sp] The main Frank plot is gold but fuck, this homeland security stuff really drags the show down. It's soulless padding for the season's running time. I kinda wish Madani was just a lone investigator, this whole structure of Generic Officer Men™ gives off a vibe like a CSI-esque procedural show.

Homeland Security was pretty unbearable the entire way through.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52982773]Was kind of living up to the stereotype a bit :v:[/QUOTE]Nerd stereotype?

The Madani stuff was crap and it felt very... Mandatory? The rest of the film was white males. An unrealistic west-asian female ultimate-badass empowered in the white-boys club of american secret services is absolutely neccessary. It's like a producer forced it in. If you're going to hit that many boxes you're just writing shit and you seem like an idiot for being "progressive". Be tasteful with the agenda you push. The actor wasn't all that great either. Bullshit that she didn't [sp]die given the gunshot, might as well have not shot her[/sp] Throw me a Ma Gnucci, or a baracudda, or don't start with billy russoe, but Madani was not interesting at all by virtue of trying to be[I] being the most interesting woman in the world[/I] Maybe punisher shouldn't touch progressive politics. Felt like a horror movie that [I]punishes[/I] characters for moral shortcomings half the time. That's a pretty conservative shtick. I don't think i've conveyed my point well, but I just didn't find her believable because they were trying so hard to make her a mary sue underdog.

[url]http://comicbook.com/marvel/2017/12/16/kevin-feige-avengers-infinity-war-first-five-minutes/[/url] So, that intro that was either a popular theory or a leak confirmed? Am I late? [sp]where everybody gets fucking killed by Thanos, but Dr. Strange rewinds time and the whole movie is Avengers and the world preparing to fight Thanos[/sp]