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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It'd be funny if it turned out to be true though, but he doesn't have the credibility to say something like that.
One Strip! One Strip!Weaving made different statements about the Transformers experience. It's a bit odd. I like him as an actor, and V For Vendetta remains one of my favorite movies. I oddly wish he liked the roles and experiences more.
I'm not likely to take Michael Bay's side on anything. I'm really dissatisfied with his take on Transformers, I didn't even bother with Ninja Turtles, and the new Bay-ghazi film just seems like something I won't even want to hear about.
Apparently, Disney Africa did an event and showed off some Doctor Strange concepts and movie stills.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI can accept that, it's just funny to me. Some would kill for that sort of role, and the person that gets it doesn't particularly care for it.
edited 4th Aug '15 5:57:15 AM by Soble
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Disney's Africa Branch I would assume.
There's also a quote going around about how the movie hews closer to a horror film, but I don't know who to attribute that to. Not surprising considering the director.
edited 4th Aug '15 6:36:46 AM by edvedd
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It's a super-boring role to play. The Red Skull is not a very compelling character. There is very little depth or complexity to the role. There never is with literal Nazis; playing a Nazi is like playing a zombie. You're evil because of course you're evil, you're a f*cking Nazi, you don't need characterization.
Alexander Pearce was a complicated character. There was a vision behind him that could be understood. He seemed to believe wholeheartedly in the rightness of his cause, that he was building a better world. He died with conviction still painted on his face.
The Red Skull, on the other hand, is not only a Nazi, he's a Nazi so evil that he actually betrays the other Nazis because he doesn't think Hitler goes far enough. He's a Super-Nazi. He's evil because of course he's evil, he's a Super-Nazi. Even the explanation the film provides for why he's so evil is that mind-altering drugs have made him super-evil. That's not a character, it's a cardboard caricature for Captain America to punch until it falls down.
I can completely understand Weaving's reluctance to return. He got the shit end of the characterization stick. His character amounted to being evil and cackling until he loses a fight.
edited 4th Aug '15 8:22:20 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.there are times where you can make a completely insane and abominable person really fascinating and interesting, like Patrick bateman from American Psycho or Johann Liebert from Monster.
but even when i first saw it i felt like hugo weaving was kinda phoning it in as red skull.
in that sense it's better for everyone that weaving not come back.
edited 4th Aug '15 8:43:31 AM by wehrmacht
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I suppose that's a problem with a bunch of Cap's rogues gallery.
he started out punching Nazis and never really moved past that. Sure, he punches a greater variety of people nowadays, but he'll always be intrinsically tied to punching Nazis, so whoever he fights is going to be wrong because would Captain America punch someone who wasn't as bad as a Nazi?
I mean, one of the Avengers' enemies is literally Hitler
, so okay maybe.
What's funny is how quickly public opinion turned against Mc Carthyism and suddenly they had to ignore/retcon them.
if we're just talking about fascists, you can make one a compelling character even if they are a complete asshole, like captain vidal from Pan's Labyrinth who has all those issues with his father and being afraid of his own mortality to the point where he sees his son as essentially a continuation of himself. it doesn't make him any less of an awful person, but it does mean that he's not simply a cartoonishly evil villain.
edited 4th Aug '15 9:00:35 AM by wehrmacht
Exactly. Contrary to popular belief, it's possible to be a Complete Monster while still being fundamentally human. Well, sort of. While I agree with that general sentiment, I don't know if Vidal is a great example of that. His movements and mannerisms in the film are, like everything else, born out of Expressionism; exaggerations of reality to make a point They're stiff, orderly, and machine like; heck, when he's shaving in the mirror, the breath from his nose sometimes looks like steam, like from something out of a machine, and then there's that pocket watch...
Vidal is meant to be portrayed more as a cold unfeeling machine than a man, so no, I don't think he's the best example for a Complete Monster that can still be seen as human, because he's more of a machine than anything else.
edited 4th Aug '15 9:09:52 AM by kkhohoho
In any case, I think that MCU did a great job with Cap by focussing more on how other people react to him than necessarily on him - he is the moral stand-up guy from the get go, and the first movie is mostly about everyone else having to recognize the fact. I actually think that the concept of the Red Skull in this movie is very interesting, because he essentially wants what Steve has, being the perfect human being, but he can never be what he is, because his personality is too flawed. Sadly Weaving didn't really do a good job to sell the concept. When I look at the script I see this great mixture of a character who on the one hand believes himself to be superior to everyone else, but is on the other hand very insecure because he doesn't look superior anymore and overcompensates by trying to destroy anything around him. I think the problem is that Weaving did see the role as just another Nazi when in fact he should have looked at it as a male version of The Evil Queen who is jealous of Snow White.
In my liveblog of early Avengers comics I commented that Cap's first appearance kind of has the meta reading that Cap can work outside his WWII origin when he's realizing there's still a place for him in the world.
And then the next issue they give him a Nazi to punch.
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Until there's evidence to the contrary, I'm more than ok believing that.
Michael Bay needs to be careful what he says, cause we all know how much credibility he has among the fans.
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