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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

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#108476: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:46:29 AM

he was j o k i n g

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#108477: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:47:49 AM

Yeah, it's kind of extrapolating a lot from a friggin' tweet.

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#108478: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:51:06 AM

O.K, does anybody on this earth actually know what entitled actually means?

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#108479: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:52:31 AM

Nobody on this Earth knows,try one of the other planets

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#108480: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:53:34 AM

#Drax is funny as hell! Hes also The Destroyer which is terrifying as hell. His wife and daughter were murdered! He mourns them and craves revenge!! NO! No movie there at all. I literally would step out of this fucking role to see that movie! Which most likely would get it made.

Yeah, this doesn't really scream "entitled". He's just cracking a joke.

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#108481: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:55:18 AM

if only he knew how to pothole to Joking Mode!

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#108482: Aug 31st 2019 at 8:56:44 AM

Eh, I'm not so sure about that. However, as everyone seems to think I'm wrong on the matter, I will drop it.

Let's move on to another question:

Do you think Guardians 3 was meant to lead into The Eternals? Maybe when the whole Gunn thing went down, they had to change some things around, and now it'll be Eternals, Thor, Doctor Strange, etc. that will lead into the cosmic side of things? Guardians 3 would just be another sequel at that point

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#108483: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:03:17 AM

I like the part in the follow-up tweet where he notes that if they did recast him, they'd probably hire a white guy named Chris.

I feel that.

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#108484: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:07:29 AM

Subtly throwing Pratt under the bus with that one, no? Not that I have a problem with that, he is the least of the 4 Chrises

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#108485: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:08:05 AM

he was joking

again

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#108486: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:08:56 AM

[up][up]Or Chris is a random name for a white dude. Seriously, you are jumping all over the place. It’s coming off as though you have a grudge against him.

Edited by fredhot16 on Aug 31st 2019 at 9:10:55 AM

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#108488: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:15:47 AM

Or more like there are at least 3 Chrises in the MCU right now, or at least were. Doesn't it make sense it would be the one he's been working with?

And, given that everyone is all over the "he was just joking" idea, was it not obvious that mine was a joke as well?

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#108489: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:17:07 AM

Or maybe the joke is that there's a lot of white people named Chris in the MCU, given that that's been a relatively popular in-joke among MCU fans for years now.

I'm not sure where the assumption that he's specifically taking a potshot at one of them comes from.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 31st 2019 at 9:18:57 AM

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#108490: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:17:37 AM

Thank you. That was precisely my point

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alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#108491: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:18:25 AM

There are four white Chrises involved in superhero films: Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, and Chris Pine. SNL even did an entire bit with it:

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#108492: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:18:33 AM

[up][up]No. No, it does not, especially if it’s a joke. Chris is not an uncommon name, especially for a white dude.

And considering your previous posts, forgive me if I do not give you the benefit of the doubt.

Edited by fredhot16 on Aug 31st 2019 at 9:19:08 AM

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#108493: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:24:46 AM

Chris is not an uncommon name, especially for a white dude.
How many white dudes named Chris have played superhero or superhero-adjacent characters? I can only think of five. (Yes, I just remembered Chris O'Donnell.)

I mean, the fact that it's common is kind of the point of the joke.

Edited by alliterator on Aug 31st 2019 at 9:25:07 AM

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#108494: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:35:55 AM

The Great Hollywood Chris-Off was a thing for this exact reason.

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#108495: Aug 31st 2019 at 10:04:32 AM

Maybe not everyone here is wasting their time caring too much about a celebrity's tweet? Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

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#108496: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:21:21 AM

You know if would be funny if Adam Warlock appears as a cocoon again,though you wonder if it's become something of a running gag at this point

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#108498: Aug 31st 2019 at 1:10:36 PM

Of the upcoming movies, Eternals might be the one I'm most interested in/most hesitant about. It sounds awesome, a whole team of gods with a very interesting cast and a huge scale. On the other hand, I'm unfortunately getting some hard Inhumans vibes from the whole production.

On the other other hand, I was one of the people most excited when Inhumans was announced as a movie, and one of the people most disappointed when it was changed to an awful tv show. I just don't want to be burned again.

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#108499: Aug 31st 2019 at 1:19:33 PM

I'm interested to see what comes of Eternals. I recently watched director Chloé Zhao's prior movie The Rider and it was stunningly down to earth and realistic so I'm curious what a film where she's allowed to go as fantastical as can be will look like.

Good article on "The Rider".

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#108500: Aug 31st 2019 at 3:12:22 PM

Well, Blade is just way too far away for me to get excited about it, so the one I'm most excited for in the meantime is Shang-Chi, pure martial arts goodness is my jam and something the MCU was really missing.

Just the bootleg Oldboy-hallway fight scene from Daredevil already left everyone slack jawed, imagine what a crew with an actual budget behind it could do.

Second place is probably Doctor Strange, horror is Derrickson's usual playground so I wanna see what he can do now that the origin story is out of the way.


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