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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I know Wolverine's older, it struck me because I'd easily have thought of Wolverine as the more damaged of the two in lieu of experience, but when I thought about it, no matter how much life might have Johnny Cash'd him, Wolverine keeps on living.
Castle just went off the deep-end and never really seemed to recover. People write college papers and Youtube essays on the man's psychology. Nobody does that for Wolverine because all of the pain in the world is just a Tuesday to him.
Edited by Soble on Mar 8th 2019 at 8:40:25 AM
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!After Captain Marvel i kinda worry about End Game. I think introduce Captain Marvel at this point is a mistake for 3 reason:
1. This is Captain American last movie so i think we should focus more in the characters we have spend so much time with and give him a good send out.
2. Captain Marvel was introduced too late into the game. The other characters at least show up in more than 1 movie for the audience to get familiar with that character.
3. The final point is the combination of the 2 above: If the plot focus or emphasize too much on Captain Marvel, it both feel like Duex Machina (super powerful character show up out of nowhere and is the missing piece to fix everything) and disrespect for the established characters.
So i just hope they not focus too much of the plot on Captain Marvel in End Game. Still think they should introduce her later, after End Game have over.
E.T technically is a Isekai movieJust got back from seeing Captain Marvel. I'm not sure it'd make it into my top 5 MCU movies, but it certainly makes it into the top 10. I'd give it around a 4 out of 5, barring a couple of nitpicks.
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller listWatched the flyey shootey nineties movie. I enjoyed it a lot. Brie's Carol had me hooked from her first scenes, and every scene with Maria made me want to cry. I would compare it to The First Avenger in that the characters are very compelling but the third act action feels kinda generic. Still, would gladly watch it again.
I thought the movie was really fun, and I'd also like the join the cacophony of voices in agreement that I really liked the way they handled the Skrulls and the Kree/Skrull War. But maybe that's just because I'm sick of stories of massive conflict where both sides are raging bastards and just shades of grey(or black, honestly).
So I've seen this brought up given the film had US Military involvement, but what do people think of the whole Backed by the Pentagon thing, given there is obviously plenty of criticism that it just glorifies the military and helps promote US Imperialism? And what about in the context of this film and the MCU as a whole?
Power of Thor!There's just a single scene that's shot like an Air Force commercial, and it's already in the trailers. After that, there's a brief jab at the USAF for taking too long to let women become pilots, Carol isn't ever stated to have taken part in any combat on American behalf, and the story is ultimately anti-imperial.
On a different topic: Brie was right about the lack of diversity at publicity events
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Edited by Tuckerscreator on Mar 8th 2019 at 11:18:37 AM
But even then, I’ve seen that being used as a valid excuse to call it as bad as the worst military partnerships. While I think there is a lot of validity to not being Backed by the Pentagon, I think there’s degrees to it before it just becomes gross. For instance, I wouldn’t call the US Evac in the third Jurassic Park comparable to the recruitment advertising for Independence Day 2.
Power of Thor!
There will be one, most likely next year. Just do the math, the Black Widow movie is the only one which is far enough in production to be ready for a 2020 release.
Btw, is there a reason why you are running down the talking points of the Anti-SJW "Captain Marvel will suck" crowd? Don't expect anyone here to turn against Captain Marvel on behalf of Black Widow. We can have both and we will get both. And we will celebrate Black Widow too if the movie is good.
Edited by Swanpride on Mar 9th 2019 at 1:08:09 AM
I never say Captain Marvel will suck, i only show concern about the of possibility End Game plot development and how captain Marvel might affect it. I also didn't told anyone here to turn against Captain Marvel, i only ask why didn't we have a Black Widow movie sooner? Isn't she a major character in MCU?
E.T technically is a Isekai movie
You are currently running down all the usual talking points I am familiar with from the various Anti-SJW videos. I am just waiting for you mentioning Alita Battle Angle.
But, to answer you question, the reason is Ike Perlmutter. During the early days of the MCU, Perlmutter even blocked a female villain in Ironman 3 because he felt that the toy wouldn't sell well. After the success of The Avengers and the continued success of the MCU in general, Kevin Feige had enough "leverage" so to speak to make and agreement with Perlmutter: He got to do Black Panther and Captain Marvel, and in return Perlmutter would get the Inhumans movie he wanted.
But then Perlmutter made a huge fuss during the production of Civil War (he actually wanted to take Ironman out of the movie, if you can belief it), so Kevin Feige went to Disney and they moved Marvel Studio completely away from Perlmutter's control. Inhuman was quietly removed from the movie schedule (and then turned up on TV, since there Perlmutter still had a say), but otherwise Feige decided to stick to what was promised. But he also put his writers on a Black Widow movie. Which is currently in the making and will most likely be released next year.
I honestly don't care about a Black Widow movie because I feel like it'd bring nothing new to the table. We already had spy thriller with Winter Soldier, I don't feel like Black Widow could do much to set itself apart from the other movies. Still, if it comes out and is good, then cool. I just wish people would stop complaining about they'd rather have Black Widow instead of Captain Marvel, as if these two movies were mutually exclusive. Same goes for Alita Battle Angel; why force opposition between the two when you can have both?
Edited by Theokal3 on Mar 9th 2019 at 11:10:48 AM
Interesting. I glad that they are making a Black Widow movie. I also kinda glad that there wasn't an Inhuman movie. I always dislike the Inhuman, they always seem to be kinda snobby, i especially dislike them after Xmen vs Inhuman. I even dislike them more since i heard somewhere Marvel push the Inhuman since they can't get the right the X-men back.
E.T technically is a Isekai movieTo me it depends on what they do with Black Widow. If it is set in the past, I most likely won't care. But if it is set now, I am interested. If the movie is Skrull related, I am even more interested. If they throw in Maria Hill, Sharon Carter aso into the mix, I will be there in the first week to see it.
This is literally the first I've ever heard of using a Black Widow movie as an angle of attack against Captain Marvel. Is this actually a thing?
Normally when "Why no Black Widow movie?" comes up, it's an angle of attack against the ~20 White Guy Movies in the franchise.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 9th 2019 at 5:56:05 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The reasoning is: Why introduce a new character now? If Marvel wanted to introduce a female character, why not use the established one? Black Widow deserves it more than Captain Marvel, so you should hate Captain Marvel.
Another angle is: They shouldn't have used Carol Danvers, the TRUE Captain Marvel isn't white.
Mind you, this comes from people who would have lost their sh... if Marvel had actually done that and would have accused them of "erasing" Carol Danvers.
The point is that the whole argument comes from a very dishonest place. Those people aren't really concerned about Black Widow or other versions of Captain Marvel, they only care about having some angle to attack this movie.

Re: Rotten Tomatoes:
My understanding is that they didn't allow reviews of movies before they're released. What they had was an "anticipation score" to gauge how excited people are for the movie, and which wouldn't be figured into its post-release fresh/rotten rating.