Welcome to the main discussion thread for the Marvel Cinematic Universe! This pinned post is here to establish some basic guidelines. All of the Media Forum rules
still apply.
- This thread is for talking about the live-action films, TV shows, animated works, and related content that use the Marvel brand, currently owned by Disney.
- While mild digressions are okay, discussion of the comic books should go in this thread
. Extended digressions may be thumped as off-topic.
- Spoilers for new releases should not be discussed without spoiler tagging for at least two weeks. Rather, each title should have a dedicated thread where that sort of conversation is held. We can mention new releases in a general sense, but please be courteous to people who don't want to be spoiled.
If you're posting tagged spoilers, make sure that the film or series is clearly identified outside the spoiler tagging. People need to know what will be spoiled before they choose to read the post.
Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
While refusing to do so can make for some downright amazing last words.
In his dying moments, the author Voltaire was asked by a priest to renounce Satan before he passes. He retorted with, "Now is not the time for making enemies."
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I disagree about Hammer (I feel like the amount of effort that went into making him ineffectual both neutered him as an antagonist and lessened the weight of Vanko's Eviler than Thou toward him as well), and I don't really see Fake Mandarin as a minion (the minion/dragon I think of from that movie is Savin, who is extremely flat) - and even so Slattery's only one of three in that movie.
I wasn't counting the tv shows because they don't typically show the same problems in the same ways as the films.
I admit Zola is another exception, though. As, arguably, is Raza.
edited 12th Jun '15 10:24:46 AM by KnownUnknown
I'm hoping that Mordo is not just some comic relief villain to make Strange look good like Hammer was to Stark. I was talking with someone else about the guy since I'm not all too familiar with Dr. Strange and apparently Mordo in the comics has a rather pathetic track record as a villain being mostly an advance man for bigger bads and an ineffective one at that. At one point he actually hired a sniper to take Strange out because his magic alone couldn't do the job.
Well, Chiwetel Ejiofor isn't really known for his comedic roles, not like Sam Rockwell. Ejiofor is known for his dramatic roles and for his great role in playing the villainous-yet-sympathetic Operative in Serenity.
Well, rumor is that Sony and Marvel are in conflict about the main actor for Spider-man. Too early to be angry about anything, but I hope it won't be Holland. Nothing against him, but just looking at him I predict that he will be a little bit stocky in a few years. Plus...wrong hands (yeah, still obsessing about that).
I can see Mordo being very Operative-esque. You know, praising Strange even as he fights against him.
It will all probably be rife with, you know, Ho Yay.
Even the enemies Strange borrow are usually grand.
◊
Mordo is such a pawn to higher powers that it isn't even funny most of the time.
◊
edited 12th Jun '15 2:10:46 PM by LordofLore
Regarding America's Next Top Spider-Man:
And neither of them is Asa Butterfield...
A few years older isn't that bad compared to most Dawson Casting choices. Garfield was around 28 or 29 when the first Amazing Spider-Man was released.
![]()
Garfield was in his twenties when he was cast as Spidey, right? So these two apparent frontrunners for Spidey right now are both 19, which isn't too far off from being in your twenties. Besides, I thought that Marvel was looking actors that were a bit younger than just 19.
edited 12th Jun '15 8:33:34 PM by higherbrainpattern
It's...closer to be thirty than it is to being twenty, though. I mean, tacking "something" onto it doesn't really work when it ranges from "twenty-one" to "twenty-nine." Especially when now they want to cast someone in their teens.
What I'm saying is: nineteen is younger than twenty-seven, especially when you have three movies coming out in, like, ten years.
edited 12th Jun '15 8:34:50 PM by alliterator

Like Giant-Man?
edited 12th Jun '15 7:19:32 AM by TenebrousGaze