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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

AyyItsMidnight Look, just be decent to one another ok? Since: Oct, 2018
Look, just be decent to one another ok?
#111701: Oct 22nd 2019 at 9:16:53 PM

Toby Jones is also the Gelfling librarian from Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (which I may or may not be currently shilling out of a desire for more people to give it a watch). That show also had Awkafina as the Skeksis Collector, which uh, knowing the context, maybe isn't something you (or at least I) would quite expect her to be playing.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#111702: Oct 23rd 2019 at 3:13:06 AM

The Dark Crystal puppets scare me

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AyyItsMidnight Look, just be decent to one another ok? Since: Oct, 2018
Look, just be decent to one another ok?
#111703: Oct 23rd 2019 at 3:18:48 AM

mmmmmMMMMMMMmmmmmmm!~

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#111704: Oct 23rd 2019 at 4:28:37 AM

[up]genuinely surprised the Chamberlain hasn't become a meme. To be honest I watched the og dark crystal with my brother and found it reeeally boring EXCEPT for him.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Oct 23rd 2019 at 7:28:49 AM

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#111705: Oct 23rd 2019 at 5:34:24 AM

New Dark Crystal is pretty good, actually.

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Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#111706: Oct 23rd 2019 at 10:58:51 AM

Pedro Almodóvar, and legions of A03 fans, demand we see superheroes f***.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:00:33 AM

123tbones Since: Aug, 2015
#111707: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:10:21 AM

When he says he wants to see superheroes f***, does he mean f*** other superheroes or just f*** in general because I know Tony Stark has at least done it once.

EDIT: Damn it, forgot Drax. He is probably the horniest character in the MCU.

Edited by 123tbones on Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:17:11 AM

Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
#111708: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:11:26 AM

[up][up]So what’s keeping them from being cinema is sex?

Well, Ok then. Guess we need to see some man and women having sex in big budget films, then they’ll be cinema!

Edited by Beatman1 on Oct 23rd 2019 at 2:11:40 PM

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#111709: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:18:12 AM

Your asking for superhero porn

be careful what you wish for!

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#111710: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:21:40 AM

Okay we already we have that.

There's a porn parody of everything.

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#111712: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:26:03 AM

Hulk Never Smash.

...at least until Ragnarok, when he met a woman he could smash as Hulk.

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123tbones Since: Aug, 2015
#111713: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:27:30 AM

The only porn parody I know of from the MCU is Gnardians of the Galaxy (thank you Cinema Snob and Wood Rocket).

fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#111714: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:27:54 AM

The hell is a "Gnardian"?

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#111715: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:28:41 AM

A cursed word by the sound of it.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#111716: Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:58:56 AM

So, Bob Iger got involved, evidently.

Which frankly doesn't seem wise, especially since now he's dragged Ryan Coogler's name into it.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 23rd 2019 at 11:59:55 AM

Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
#111717: Oct 23rd 2019 at 12:01:40 PM

[up]He really should have just kept quiet and it would have blown over. Now every director with a bone to pick will be taking their anger out on Coolger.

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#111718: Oct 23rd 2019 at 12:05:17 PM

Can Bob just go home and cry into his pile of money.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Oct 23rd 2019 at 12:05:34 PM

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#111719: Oct 23rd 2019 at 1:40:13 PM

(heavily paraphrased)

Scorsese and Coppola: Marvel films aren't real cinema, but brainless distractions for the unwashed masses.

Almodovar: Eh. Could be hotter.

At least we've stopped calling them 'cultural genocide,' which always really bothered me. In large part because some movies being popular bears no resemblance to actual cultural genocide. Also, did anyone catch Almodovar accidentally (on purpose? I don't know much about him) calling all superheroes non-binary and asexual?

Edited by Pseudopartition on Oct 23rd 2019 at 3:50:23 AM

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#111720: Oct 23rd 2019 at 1:46:42 PM

Real culture can come from mindless spectacle, too. As mentioned, Baroque architecture was created to convince people that Catholics were cooler than Protestants. Or the acclaimed painter Peter Paul Rubens, known for his paintings of mythological scenes and full-figured women; most scholars actually believe that he simply painted women like that because he found that sort of figure sexy, no deeper reason than that.

Art vs. schlock is not nearly the clear-cut dichotomy it seems.

Edited by HamburgerTime on Oct 23rd 2019 at 3:49:24 AM

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#111721: Oct 23rd 2019 at 1:51:42 PM

I mean a lot of classical painters were literally just doing their work to get a paycheck because they needed to put food on the table. Same goes for a lot of old stuff that's considered "high art" now.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Oct 23rd 2019 at 5:23:15 AM

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#111722: Oct 23rd 2019 at 2:19:00 PM

Paychecks, huh?

They should have just done it for the exposure.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#111723: Oct 23rd 2019 at 2:22:55 PM

The classics really are overhyped. tongue

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#111724: Oct 23rd 2019 at 2:24:06 PM

Also, there is a diferent of what a work does have to said and what you can extract from it, I mean some queer people feel indentify with lovecraft work for their on reason and unfortune implication are unfortune because they werent though to be there to being with.

To some point is very posible to a job to be important by accident.

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Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#111725: Oct 23rd 2019 at 9:06:13 PM

@Tobias: She Hulk once smashed the Juggernaut at one point...

It literally caused Continent wide tremors because of it.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Oct 23rd 2019 at 12:06:36 PM

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