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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Black Panther Box Office Passes ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to Land at #9 on All-Time List[1]
Why would Danny even need to be a Hero for Hire? He's independently wealthy.
...I've honestly never thought about that until just now.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.In that case why not just do the Heroes for Hire jobs themselves as charity work?
Unless he, like, only takes jobs from wealthy clients who can afford to splurge on a personal hero and then donates that money to charity, but it still feels like there's a lot of unnecessary middlemen in there.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Well originally, Danny didn't have his company in the comics right?
Not sure why'd he'd do it now, but maybe the charity thing would have something to do with it.
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Pretty much. For me personally BP is far, far away from being the best MCU movie. But there is actually little to criticise about it, it's mostly just a little bit too predictable in places and the pacing is a little bit off. But the story works and the themes are strong. Wonder Woman on the other hand pretty much imploded in the third act. I would have been over the moon if it had been on one level with BP.
BP is easily among the best MCU movies, hands-down the most original MCU movie, and is only slightly better than WW in that it fails its beginning instead of its ending. It's not spotless but it is several degrees of magnitude more entertaining than the rehashed formula we got for the better of 10 years before that.
The lack of Academy Awards wouldn't be shocking - while very good, neither BP nor WW are on par with the last AAA movie that swept technical oscars, Mad Max Fury Road. For BP, it probably also comes from the fact that it has very few practical effects and was almost entirely made in a green room.
Ultimately it will also boil down to the opposition it is facing. You have the various AAA movies that can either tank of be surprisingly great - among them Ready Player One, and no matter the overall quality Spielberg tends to make visually adequate movies - and you also have the bunch of "Festival de Cannes" movies with lower budgets or fame but who can make up for it by having insane photography or visual originality - movies like No Country for Old Men.
edited 7th Mar '18 4:43:10 AM by Julep
Disagreed with the Edgar Wright thing, enjoyed the rest of the video
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe Edgar Wright thing is REALLY annoying me at this point. We don't know if he had delivered a good movie or not. Marvel waited years for him to make this movie, while he keep delaying the movie for other projects and then he went and left in the last minute. And on top of this, nearly everything which is popular about Ant-man is stuff Reed, Rudd or the writing staff added. Meanwhile Wright would have killed off the Wasp for good and had no interest whatsoever in Hope. I mean, there have been cases in which I heard what was originally planned for a movie and thought "yeah, this sounds way more interesting that what they ended up doing and it would have fixed X problem I have with the movie". But Ant-man isn't one of those, if anything it sounds like the movie would have been much worse.
So, yeah, I am GLAD that he didn't make the movie in the end. Not every crazy movie maker is necessarily a good pick for a project.
edited 7th Mar '18 4:44:28 AM by Swanpride

I imagine that's literally Luke making a commercial for Heroes For Hire, hence the "get paid!" as well as his whole demeanor.