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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

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#88201: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:22:32 PM

I mean, Marvel doesn't necessarily have to do anything here. There wasn't any reason to throw out a perfectly good script in the first place and, to my knowledge, nobody's suggested that they would.

By his own admission, Bautista's just making noise because he wants people to know that James Gunn is a good guy. He can't issue an ultimatum that he'll walk if they don't rehire Gunn because they aren't going to do that, so he's aiming for lower-hanging fruit to make a dramatic appeal without actually stepping on anyone's toes.

It's just bluster. I wouldn't worry about it. Odds are, Marvel's going to use the script anyway.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 6th 2018 at 6:26:19 AM

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#88202: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:35:53 PM

Marvel: Rian Johnson. Takevover.

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#88203: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:37:54 PM

I sense a terrible disturbance in the force,as though a million fans cried at once

and they wont stop

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88204: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:41:38 PM

Marvel: Rian Johnson. Takeover.

NO.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#88205: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:42:35 PM

[up][up]Good.cool

Edited by HandsomeRob on Aug 6th 2018 at 6:44:31 AM

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#88206: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:45:09 PM

Maybe he will subvert us with a less dvisive movie. :V

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88207: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:00:32 PM

I'd much rather have Taika Waititi as the director for GOTG 3, Thor 3 very much felt like both Thor 3 and GOTG 2.5.

But...if Kevin Feige decides that Johnson would be qualified to direct a MCU film, I wouldn't question it.

Then again, I'm just an audience, not a high ranking Disney employee or anything so my opinion doesn't really mean much anyway. XP

Edited by dRoy on Aug 6th 2018 at 10:36:21 PM

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#88208: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:37:13 PM

I'm still concern about how the James Gunn situation came about. It's like some guy just up and reposted something that James Gunn said over a decade ago. It has me concerned about how this guy was able to obtain such information from 10 years ago and whether or not he hacked the system to do so? This is all just thinking on my part, since I'm not really sure how the information became available like that.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88209: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:40:42 PM

Actually, it's just a side effect of SNS in general. If you say stupid things and don't erase them quickly enough, your posts will remain on internet and bite you in the ass.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#88210: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:41:17 PM

I see why Dave feels the way he does, but this doesn't matter nearly as much as he thinks he does. Disney would sooner replace every actor with replacements instead of caring.

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#88211: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:41:48 PM

It didn't take any hacking. Just a basic timestamp search on Twitter or scrolling down his feed for a really long time.

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#88212: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:43:25 PM

The people who do that are very pathetic & disturbed fucks.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88213: Aug 6th 2018 at 6:44:50 PM

[up] Or you know, someone bored.

Sir Alex Ferguson is once again proved right in that you should've be really careful on how you use Twitter. [lol]

Edited by dRoy on Aug 6th 2018 at 10:46:58 PM

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#88214: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:01:21 PM

If they actively called for a shooting and did not apologize when one nearly happened, we can rule out "really bored". Let's not muddle the narrative of what happened. It's already fully clear that this wasn't random nobodies stumbling over Gunn's old tweets, it was them deliberately being sought out as intentional discreditating.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88215: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:06:13 PM

And evidence for that is where, exactly?

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#88216: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:10:25 PM

...from the fact that they've been stirring shit up non-stop for a long time now? Like the time they spread the word that there was a child sex dungeon in the basement of a pizza parlor (which didn't even have a basement) being run by Hillary Clinton, loudly called for an armed response, and then some random whack job showed up at the pizza parlor with a gun to "free the children." And then they continued doing the exact same thing.

In a sane world these people would be arrested for a variety of things. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure publicly calling for an armed response is illegal in the same way that shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater is. But we do not live in a sane world.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88217: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:15:14 PM

And of course, the alt-right is involved with this once again.

Fun times.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#88218: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:19:16 PM

They got lucky. Gunn gave them the noose they used to hang them.

But it's still way more power than I like them having. This is why people still supporting him and making it clear this is not who he is anymore is important. Disney needs to not worry about re-hiring him. What they need to do is make it clear that they do not support these guys in anyway, and it was on their own prerogative that they fired Gunn.

Gunn needs to make it clear that he messed up, and Disney was well within their rights to fire him, and that they should not be harassed over it.

Basically, everyone needs to give these Alt-Right dudes the middle finger in every way possible.

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TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#88219: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:22:55 PM

Marvel: Rian Johnson. Takeover.

NO.

Well. I, for one, liked The Last Jedi.

Even if I can see how some don't exactly reciprocate to that opinion.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Aug 6th 2018 at 10:28:48 AM

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#88220: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:48:06 PM

I don't want to sound hostile, but, um...you are aware that the Last Jedi isn't the only film Rian Johnson has directed, right?

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#88221: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:52:57 PM

What else has he done actually?

Maybe it can give some insight into his style and his choices for TLJ as well.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88222: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:53:21 PM

I wasn't aware he directed some other big budgeted film that is part of a major franchise.

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#88223: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:58:46 PM

[up][up]Looper. Also the lesser-known but extremely great Brick. [nja]

Edited by Unsung on Aug 6th 2018 at 9:10:22 AM

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#88224: Aug 6th 2018 at 7:59:39 PM

The only one of his that I've seen is The Brothers Bloom, which I really enjoyed.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#88225: Aug 6th 2018 at 8:00:03 PM

[up][up]And what franchise is that part of?

Edited by dRoy on Aug 6th 2018 at 11:59:36 PM

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