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twistedmentat posted:Green Goblin, like the Joker, are villains that should be put out to pasture and just not be used. Yes they're the most iconic villains, but it feels like such a crutch for writers to use them. You don't have to do any work to introduce them or show why they're a threat. That's why the Vulture was such a brilliant choice for a villain. Suicide Squad made huge amounts of money, more net then BvS or JL, so if anything is safe it's that. The main reasons for that are Harley Quinn and the Joker... which is the actual reason the Joker is never going away: he moves product. He sells media that he's in, he sells shitloads of merch, by most metrics he's more popular then Superman, DC's iconic flagship character*. It doesn't hurt that he's easy to write for (he's batshit crazy, so his plans and motivations don't need to make sense) and his very appearance ratchets up tension even if he doesn't end up doing anything. So yeah, even if it would be good for Batman as a character, he isn't going anywhere. *I suspect this is at least partially because Superman's recent appearances outside comics have mostly been limited to lovely movies, whereas Joker is occasionally in stuff that people don't end up regretting watching.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That's actually one of the things I didn't like about GOTG2. It was cute for a minute or two but it just goes on ages and it wasn't even clever or interesting to look at. It didn't help that a ton of the marketing had this laser-sharp focus on Baby Groot. By the time the movie rolled around I was already sick of seeing him and then the first five minutes are just him dancing around while something more interesting is relegated to the background. I thought the banter in that intro sequence felt really forced and fake too, like it was someone trying to copy the style of the first movie and missing the mark.
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I would really like for GotG 3 to end with a dancing sequence if they wanna go full cheesy. In fact, they should have the villain of the movie actually accept a dance-off challenge, or otherwise have the villain defeated with the power of music, because come on, if any MCU movie is gonna do it it's gotta be GotG. I have a lot of favorite MCU moments but the ones that made me feel are: Iron Man: "You've just stepped into a bigger world." Avengers: "There are always men like you." AoS: "You jumped through a hole in the universe for me!" >  AoU: "I was born yesterday" Civil War: "My father made that shield." GotG 2: Father and Son
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William H Macy as J Jonah Jameson Michael Fassbender as Norman Osborn
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I thought the banter in that intro sequence felt really forced and fake too, like it was someone trying to copy the style of the first movie and missing the mark. Honestly, almost the entirety of GotG2's attempts at comedy felt that way to me. Like, there was a... sincerity? Some kind of quality that made the first movie so great that I felt the second one failed to get except for a few scenes.
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I can't think of a single joke in GotG2 that landed for me the way "you actually got his arm!" or "my reflexes are too fast. I will catch it" or Yondu seeing the Troll doll and just grinning or "No, that doesn't follow. See, I want it more" did. Which reminds me of what could easily be my favorite MCU moment: the prison break, when Rocket gives everyone something they need to do; and then while everyone else is fighting cut to Peter just politely asking that guy for his arm.
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Deadpool 2 Trailer 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFpgIoYPGRc So yea, it is going to be the X-Force.
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Samuringa posted:Deadpool 2 Trailer 2 This looks good. I wonder how well X-force will work though. I think the first Deadpool movie worked really well because of the small cast, so expanding it too much might make things a little messy.
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I shot all the gluten into the sun so it can't not hurt us anymore
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Who is that woman with the electric whip?
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Samuringa posted:Deadpool 2 Trailer 2 he hits that dude with a brick so hard
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I'm more excited than I should be to see that X-Force grey suit Deadpool costume on the big screen.
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All that aside, it looks kinda bad. Like usually they put the best bits in the trailer and that all seemed kinda terrible to me, aside from "man I wish I'd finished college."
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Hmmmm. I was hoping Deadpool 2 would be him protecting the kid (probably a young Apocalypse or other future villain) from Cable in a kind of adaptation of Rememder’s Uncanny X-Force run but this does not look great
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Jagermonster posted:Hmmmm. I was hoping Deadpool 2 would be him protecting the kid (probably a young Apocalypse or other future villain) from Cable in a kind of adaptation of Rememder’s Uncanny X-Force run but this does not look great
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Ryan Reynolds got Tim Miller fired because he wanted to do more than just 2 hours of lame broad dick jokes. I wouldn't expect much from it.
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We also haven’t seen the actual villain, apparently it’s Black Tom Cassidy
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I had a weird thought while on the bus: Steve is the youngest Avenger, aside from Peter and Wanda, right? He probably was what, 21 or 22 when Cap1 happened? The Vision doesn't count.
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These last few pages have just reminded me how lucky as dumb comic book nerds we are right now and also how Cap is the best cinematic superhero. All three of his movies are great (the first one being the weakest but I love it) and Chris Evans just absolutely nails Steve Rogers. Winter Soldier is one of my favorite action movies period. My favorite moment, non action, in an MCU film is the Cap musical montage in The First Avenger. It's so 1940s and cheesy I love it.BrianWilly posted:This whole sequence, capping off with this line, is probably what elevated the Civil War from "This is a great comic book film" to "This is some of the best stuff being made these days, period" in my eyes. Yeah. Civil War is great and I think a lot of the underlying themes and where the story zigs instead of zags are kinda under appreciated by a lot of people because they did the big standard superhero fight spectacles so well
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Samuringa posted:I had a weird thought while on the bus: Steve is the youngest Avenger, aside from Peter and Wanda, right? He probably was what, 21 or 22 when Cap1 happened? Cap was born on July 4th, 1918, frozen in 1944 (IIRC), thawed out in 2011. So he’s probably around 33-36 depending on when Infinity War is set. MCU used to take place in whatever year the movie was released but Homecoming explicitly states that it’s 8 years after Avengers 1, so it takes place in 2020. If Infinity War is 2021, Cap would be 36.
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BlackJosh posted:(the first one being the weakest but I love it) It’s kind of weird how much better the Marvel movies have gotten. I absolutely loved them when they came out but the new stuff is miles ahead. I rewatched Iron Man a few weeks ago and it absolutely holds up, but that doesn’t mean it’s not totally surpassed by stuff like Civil War. Some of it is the decade (!) of character development, but it’s also the writing and directing and everything else.
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Aphrodite posted:Ryan Reynolds got Tim Miller fired because he wanted to do more than just 2 hours of lame broad dick jokes. I wouldn't expect much from it. To be fair, that's about all Deadpool 'fans' outside of the comics really expect or want.
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Oh man, just remembered one of my favorite things: the turing-machine supercomputer. God drat that reveal was incredible, and it's such a wonderfully pulpy concept.
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Jamesman posted:This looks good. I wonder how well X-force will work though. I think the first Deadpool movie worked really well because of the small cast, so expanding it too much might make things a little messy. Rumor is that X-Force is treated as a joke and most of them are quickly killed off on their first mission.
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cap gonna die e: can't wait for sam cap
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Although it's sad - as Chris Evans is a great Captain America - I'd love to see Bucky or Sam step into the Captain America role. Bucky seems the most likely, as his story arc seems to be leading to that as the next step.
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Why couldn't it have been rdj instead Here's hoping for Sam cap
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I didn't ask for this. I didn't ask for any of this.
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Soul Glo posted:cap gonna die Uh if you read the article it says Cap is going to be sent to live on a nice farm upstate where he can play with other superheroes
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zoux posted:Uh if you read the article it says Cap is going to be sent to live on a nice farm upstate where he can play with other superheroes yeah thor, iron man, vision and hawkeye's family are gonna be there too it will be nice 
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site posted:Why couldn't it have been rdj instead Why not Bucky?
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Gotta have time to run for President.
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I can believe that A4 may actually be Evans' last film, but "for now, he has no plans" is not "official" and /film is exaggerating his remarks for clickbait purposes.
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I want Bucky and Sam to both take up the mantle and the next Captain America move to be called The Captains of America
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Mr Hootington posted:I want Bucky and Sam to both take up the mantle and the next Captain America move to be called The Captains of America hawkeye also held the shield in the comics i'm just saying, there's even more potential here
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Mr Hootington posted:I want Bucky and Sam to both take up the mantle and the next Captain America move to be called The Captains of America The Captains of The United States of America
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Soul Glo posted:cap gonna die No, he’s gonna get time gemmed back to finally go on his date.
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