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Since Thor and now Captain America came out this year, I wanted to get what Tropers thought of the concept and execution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general. Personally I love the idea and wonder why this idea hasn't been seriously tried before. It sorta seems to me like the DCAU in movie form (And well, ummm, with Marvel), and really 'gets' the comic book feel of a shared universe while not being completely alienating.

Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
yellowturtle from Nowhere Important Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#53827: Mar 24th 2016 at 7:51:06 PM

[up][up] There are just couple of people missing...

Crow: There's a plot?
comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#53829: Mar 24th 2016 at 8:29:25 PM

The whole listing names by a cheesy narrator voice thing seems off.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#53830: Mar 24th 2016 at 8:39:02 PM

They've done that for just about every team movie they've released.

edited 24th Mar '16 8:39:17 PM by comicwriter

higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#53832: Mar 24th 2016 at 8:40:53 PM

A friend of mine alerted me to something they saw in the new international footage.

Is Hawkeye wearing what seems to be hearing aids? Is Clint's deafness finally canon in the MCU?

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#53833: Mar 24th 2016 at 8:42:40 PM

It's probably just a comm piece.

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#53834: Mar 24th 2016 at 8:44:27 PM

Heh, it it's great knowing cheesy stuff like that is still being made.

[up][up]It'd be interesting to see if Clint becomes (partially?) deaf in this film.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#53835: Mar 24th 2016 at 8:57:47 PM

It'd be better if they did it in an old timey 30's movie narrator voice.

yellowturtle from Nowhere Important Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#53836: Mar 25th 2016 at 6:40:42 AM

It could work with just theme music too.

edited 25th Mar '16 6:40:56 AM by yellowturtle

Crow: There's a plot?
comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#53837: Mar 25th 2016 at 8:46:03 AM

There are just couple of people missing...

Who is missing?

edited 25th Mar '16 8:46:20 AM by comicwriter

123tbones Since: Aug, 2015
#53838: Mar 25th 2016 at 9:29:57 AM

Seeing how Bv S is getting weak word, I thought I remind you of what Snyder said about Ant-Man: http://caligularib.tumblr.com/post/141607979515

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#53839: Mar 25th 2016 at 9:32:56 AM

Batman and Superman are definitely more "iconic" than Ant-Man in the sense that they've had a much longer broad pop culture presence but that doesn't mean anything when it comes to making a decent movie, as Marvel has shown many times before. And all it takes is one movie to make a character iconic, as we've seen with Iron Man.

edited 25th Mar '16 9:40:30 AM by wehrmacht

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#53840: Mar 25th 2016 at 9:45:06 AM

Oh, right...I admit, I am kind of satisfied about that. Those words really rubbed me the wrong way because the iconic status of a character is always based on the quality of the work put into it.

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#53841: Mar 25th 2016 at 9:56:02 AM

I mean, I don't think Ant-Man is a super great movie or anything, but it was certainly more enjoyable to watch than Bv S was, as much as I hate saying that.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#53842: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:03:02 AM

[up] Ant-man has it's own issues, most of them the result of a director change in he last minute...but if you consider that we had one director who had to take over the work of someone else and then had to make a movie in an incredible short time in order to meet the deadline, and another one who had three years to realize his vision, than it is frankly puzzling that the former movie is so much better overall.

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#53843: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:05:14 AM

One is a comedy the other is a drama.

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#53844: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:06:29 AM

That's sad because the drama in Ant-Man, while nothing special, works better than Bv S's.

This is probably a conversation better suited for either of the Bv S threads tho.

edited 25th Mar '16 10:08:36 AM by wehrmacht

yellowturtle from Nowhere Important Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#53845: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:08:06 AM

@comicwriter, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and I guess if I wanted to count Spider-Man. Not from the footage, but from the narration.

Crow: There's a plot?
LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#53847: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:15:37 AM

We should all be lucky Ultron didn't want to bone Wanda like he did in the Ultimate comics.

Theokal3 Since: Jan, 2012
#53848: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:21:14 AM

[up][up].... That's actually kinda creepy.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#53849: Mar 25th 2016 at 10:25:40 AM

I just realized but in Age of Ultron, we had 3 heroes that have boned Scarlet Witch in the comics and one villain that wanted to bone her.

Vision, Captain America, Quicksilver and Ultron

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor

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