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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
In the comics, the Avengers have several treaties with various countries, including the U.S. If they had a treaty with Sokovia, they would be perfectly within their rights to go in to fight Hydra.
Of course, this can also backfire, such as in the comics when a country refuses to let the Avengers in.
So apparently Marvel's CEO is an asswipe.
Good to know.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."I can't fault him for being cautious with a business as big as this, but as the article points out, he should consider that those movies flopped because they were awful, not because they were led by women. From what I've gathered (although Internet word of mouth is highly unreliable), a Black Widow movie would sell like hotcakes.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.I'm not surprised but I am disappoint.
And now to pretend that matters.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOh, good, the "Female-driven movies don't sell" rhetoric. God knows we need more of that.
Now I get to decide whether to pretend that never happened, or tell my BFF who absolutely loves all things Marvel about it and break her heart forever. Thanks for that, Mr. Perlmutter, you rotten bastard.
edited 4th May '15 3:32:10 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Didn't Lucy make a bunch of money?
Also the Hunger Games, which the article does mention yeah.
Lie. Lie until the lie is true.
edited 4th May '15 3:33:24 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI personally didn't see it because the 'we only use 10% of our brain' thing makes me irrationally irritated
edited 4th May '15 3:36:51 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersFar from wanting to defend Marvel...but that Mail is really out of context. Reading it alone it can just as well mean that he is listing those examples in order to point out that those movies were really bad to begin with.
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Honestly, DC has NO excuse that they didn't make a Wonder Woman movies years ago. Marvel at least used to have the excuse that all their truly marketable females are Mutants. Now that they have built up Black Widow this excuse is gone, though.
edited 4th May '15 3:45:12 PM by Swanpride
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Lucy was a box office smash last summer.
I think a lot of that had to do with false trailers though, not properly detailing what the plot was. Trailers gave the impression Scarlett's character was a woman who had been experimented on, as opposed to being about just some poor schmuck caught up in some drug scheme.
Warner Bros. made a similar statement a couple years ago about not doing any more female centric films, and then of course there was Disney's announcement about not doing any more fairy tale films after Tangled, because The princess and the Frog underperformed (only for Tangled, and Frozen to be box office hits, just to knock Disney off their high horse).
edited 4th May '15 3:47:24 PM by Brandon
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!"Unless the Avengers decide to publicly volunteer their involvement with Ultron's design - and I do mean "their" involvement, as 1/3 of the organization was involved in creating Ultron - they have no reason to hold this against the Avengers. "
Yeah, that is not gonning to happen, like....ever, just think about it "oh yeah, this guys right here thing skynet was the best thing ever and try to do their own version using a mysthical rock who control the mind..."...yeah, there is not way to explain that without sound stupid as hell
"If you say so. It just felt like the Avengers were casually tearing right through his army and Ultron himself? Zapped a little, knocked away and then ragdolled offscreen by Hulk and then offed by Scarlet Witch"
a little bit, between his frigthing nature and his tony esque-personality it dosent convey to much of a threat itself, hell in the end he kill quicksilver using the avenger plane!
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I think everyone already knows that Ike Perlmutter is kind of a douchebag. And super stingy, too (I believe there were stories about the first Iron Man movie's launch party only having potato chips.)
It's a good thing, then, that Perlmutter isn't in charge of the MCU. That's Kevin Feige. Perlmutter has input (and could probably shut down production if he really wanted to), but I think Disney executives have probably as much power as he does. And we are getting a female superhero movie...in 2018.
edited 4th May '15 3:50:21 PM by alliterator
I really really really really hope that the Captain Marvel movie is good.
And also that the Wonder Woman movie is good.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSo, its Hell's Kitchen in the writing room?
Hell's Writing Room?
I still don't like the idea. I think they just need to get someone to sit down and give Wonder Woman an identity outside of 'Female Counterpart of Superman/Batman' as I keep hearing her described. People talk about Superman and Batman's moralities, but never Wonder Woman's. She's just 'the chick'.
Speaking of the Unfortunate Implications entry under Lucy, I have to ask, while the cab driver incident is pretty damn offensive, are random Tumblr posts really considered that much of a step up from the unsourced entries made by tropers here? It's something I've noticed a lot since the UF purge. We may as well link to some random schmoe's Reddit/4Chan/Twitter post on the subject since they carry almost as much weight. For all we know, an editor might be linking to their own social media account or cherrypicking the one or two people who agree with them on a social media site to make it seem more legit. I'm sure there's actual media articles on the subject that could've been cited instead.
edited 4th May '15 4:11:05 PM by AlleyOop

One question this film left me wondering was:
Who did the Avengers answer to and under what authority did they go after Hydra?
In the first film, SHIELD could more or less protect the Avengers from any legal ramifications of their actions. Heck, SHIELD could loosely say all of the heroes were working for them even in their own films sweeping under the rug any possible negative consequences to them. But SHIELD was disbanded before the start of this film.
So under whose authority, even on paper, did the Avengers go after Strucker? Surely someone would have issue with an American private citizen, no matter how rich, bringing an American soldier, several spies, and the Hulk of all beings on to foreign soil. Let alone with the damage done to South Korea and South Africa. Even with Tony's connections to get into countries surely it would have required a bit more for a team of private citizens to operate like the Avengers did.