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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
There were rumors of Hulk being killed off, so more Professor Hulk makes me happy.
We all poked fun at the possibility of it, but Taika Waititi is playing straight with us: the Silver Surfer isn't coming to Thor: Love and Thunder.
The old Planet Hulk animated film replaced Surfer with Bill, so, we are getting Bill?
I can't believe we're going to get Starsharks
. I hope we get to see the Acanti as well.
As for Loki, I want to see Kid Loki. I think that would be another nice lead up to Young Avengers.
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, Taika's being ambiguous about that. There's some speculation that both he and James Gunn have their own ideas regarding Beta Ray Bill, so it's all up in the air.
Fun fact: The Starsharks first appeared in Chris Claremont's run of Uncanny X-Men, which means Fox had the movie rights to a whole species of killer alien sharks and did absolutely nothing with them! Thanks for that, Simon Kinberg, Bryan Singer, Tom Rothman, and Rupert Murdoch!
Got some laughs out of MCUltron
Can't say Fox Phoenix elicited much out of me.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNope, but I just love the fact that once they could use the Marvel stuff that Fox initially had dibs on, Marvel Studios didn't hesitate in throwing in stuff Fox slept on, like SWORD, Madripoor, and now Star Sharks, which I didn't even know were a thing until now!
I know that, I'm just poking fun at how dull the Old Fox was.
He came at the wrong director. Whedon had this surreal (and stupid) idea that the Avengers are a unstoppable force once they're properly assembled and thus their main conflict should always be that they're a ticking time-bomb of a team. Hence why in The Avengers the main conflict is about them coming together when they're such a mess, and once they actually do assemble properly towards the third act, they solve the primary conflict fairly well (noticeably the main risky moment in the Battle of New York is the World Security Council launching a nuke at NY for not trusting the volatile mix of the Avengers, not anything Loki does).
Hence, Ultron provides 0 actual threat to the Avengers, as (per Joss Whedon) they can only be troubled by their own inner demons keeping them from properly assembling.
Edited by Gaon on Apr 9th 2020 at 10:19:50 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Also joss atempt to make Ultron more human come across as just make him quirky and less threating, Ao U is the movie everyone point out about the "marvel humor" being distracting.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I feel Thanos would've been closer to the comic incarnation had Whedon directed Infinity War. Less of Well-Intentioned Extremist and more of madman who worships death. It would've been a very different movie that's for sure. We probably would've had the Snap happen at the midway point and bring everyone back at the climax instead of splitting it across two films. Whedon seemed to try and make his Avenger films more stand alone, although YMMV on how well he accomplished that.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Apr 9th 2020 at 1:32:16 PM
The avenger movie work better because previous movie already set everything it was necesary, not much time wasted in presenting every hero and that stuff.
Ao U on the other hand, have to present make Ultron and presented with Wanda and plenty of other stuff that eat time, the movie really feel very tight and to fast pace to be good.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
