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Sgt. Politeness posted:Speaking of which, if Eternals was originally supposed to come out 2 months ago how have we not seen a trailer yet? I was taken aback when I saw that Shang-Chi is scheduled to come out in July! And I haven't seen a single piece of marketing.
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ImpAtom posted:I disliked Watchmen because "change the alien invader who is so strange and absurd that it forces humans to reconsider who they are" to "What if Dr. Manhattan, the literal symbol of destructive American imperalism, nuked a bunch of cities worldwide" shows such a staggering misunderstanding of the concept I could never get past it. It feels like a "heh, see, I can come up with a better idea than Alan Moore
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" while never actually explaining the fact that if Russia got Dr. Manhattan Nuked the missiles would probably be flying before Adrian could finish saying he did it before they came in and even if they were not there's a significant tone and theme difference between "The world unites under the fear of the unknown" and "The world unites under the fear of an aggressive god who is demonstrably the fault of America."
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bunnyofdoom posted:Uhhhh...you may want to rethink the opening of that last paragraph chief Yeah okay, I forgot but yeah I’ll cut it.
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Gaz-L posted:...Wasn't he just playing Matt Damon, though? Are we gonna be on the set of an in-universe Thor movie where Damon is Thor? Kind of hard to know exactly if it is supposed to actually be him or just an Asgardian actor since the whole thing wasn't exactly planned out and was just Chris Hemsworth thinking it would be funny if he called up his buddy to show up for one scene.
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Did people interpret that scene as Loki hiring Matt Damon to come to Asgard and play himself in a play? I just assumed he was some Asgardian actor.
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Barry Convex posted:because it's not coming out until November and there's another movie coming out in July that we haven't gotten a trailer for either Yeah, well, then that's 2 trailers God drat it! Maybe during the Superbowl? .....I'm just used to years of the Marvel-perpetual-hype-engine-cycle and this year has sucked. Had it been a normal year I might not have cared so much.
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STAC Goat posted:Did people interpret that scene as Loki hiring Matt Damon to come to Asgard and play himself in a play? I just assumed he was some Asgardian actor. Honestly, the way Hiddleston plays Loki, either is plausible. Hell, he definitely was going to Midgard, he put Odin in a home!
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You know what? Fair. I'm convinced.
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I do want to point out that Matt Damon’s role in Ragnarok is explicitly uncredited, which is especially weird when Sam Neil and Luke Hemsworth were both credited at the end of the movie. If he was, they could’ve easily done what they did with the other two and just credited him as “Loki Actor”, but they didn’t, and that to me implies that there is some sort of surprise in who he’s actually supposed to be or what role he’s going to play in Love and Thunder. It could be him playing himself, but I think it’s quite possible he ends up playing a superhero or character with a superpower related to either acting or shapeshifting. I can’t think of an unused Marvel hero that fits the bill, but according to reports he’s going to be on set for an extensive amount of time (implying this isn’t just a throwaway gag cause his friend Chris asked him to and he thought it would be funny). Matt Damon’s a pretty big get and I doubt they’d just spend that much star power on him playing someone who can’t show up in future installments in spandex.
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NieR Occomata posted:I do want to point out that Matt Damon’s role in Ragnarok is explicitly uncredited, which is especially weird when Sam Neil and Luke Hemsworth were both credited at the end of the movie. If he was, they could’ve easily done what they did with the other two and just credited him as “Loki Actor”, but they didn’t, and that to me implies that there is some sort of surprise in who he’s actually supposed to be or what role he’s going to play in Love and Thunder. It could be him playing himself, but I think it’s quite possible he ends up playing a superhero or character with a superpower related to either acting or shapeshifting. I can’t think of an unused Marvel hero that fits the bill, but according to reports he’s going to be on set for an extensive amount of time (implying this isn’t just a throwaway gag cause his friend Chris asked him to and he thought it would be funny). Matt Damon’s a pretty big get and I doubt they’d just spend that much star power on him playing someone who can’t show up in future installments in spandex. The comedy option for Valkyrie's search for a spouse. Like, he's not gonna win, but he's gonna be the obvious front-runner at first.
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I would love it if in Love & Thunder they just reveal that that actually was Matt Damon and that Loki made his hair like tbat with magic anf now it's stuck always looking like that. Like he's on some late night show "Yeah, Loki kidnapped me and took me to Asguard to play him in a play he wrote. He didn't like how the wig the costumer gave me look so he just did some magic on and now it's stuck like this now. I tried shaving it off but it just grew back within an hour." David D. Davidson fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jan 18, 2021 |
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Matt Damon showed up in Deadpool 2 credited under a pseudonym, so I think he just likes to hang out on comic book movie sets or something
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Matt Damon is a Watcher. He's just real bad at it.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Matt Damon showed up in Deadpool 2 credited under a pseudonym, so I think he just likes to hang out on comic book movie sets or something Despite all appearances in Snyder directed films to the contrary, Ben Affleck actually likes comic books and he and Damon are buds, so not unlikely that Damon thought it'd be neat to be in a Marvel movie.
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Gaz-L posted:Despite all appearances in Snyder directed films to the contrary, Ben Affleck actually likes comic books and he and Damon are buds, so not unlikely that Damon thought it'd be neat to be in a Marvel movie. Thor: Love and Thunder the hot new Marvel movie staring Matt Damon as Screaming Civilian #5.
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I hope it's just Sam Neil and him doing another play about how Loki saved the day during Ragnarok
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STAC Goat posted:Did people interpret that scene as Loki hiring Matt Damon to come to Asgard and play himself in a play? I just assumed he was some Asgardian actor. Both of these can be true at the same time
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site posted:I hope it's just Sam Neil and him doing another play about how Loki saved the day during Ragnarok
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I mean, we all know it's going to be Thor dragging Matt Damon in full costume around so he can pretend Loki isn't dead.
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Phylodox posted:I mean, we all know it's going to be Thor dragging Matt Damon in full costume around so he can pretend Loki isn't dead. ...gently caress that would be funny. Maybe not the whole movie, but I can definitely see that being a running bit.
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I really want to know who was responsible for the character dialog in the movie, because yikes, it's rough.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I really want to know who was responsible for the character dialog in the movie, because yikes, it's rough. It isnt great. Am I crazy to think Gadot has gotten worse at acting?
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Mr Hootington posted:It isnt great. It’s more likely that her acting stands out more without a decent movie to distract you from it.
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Mr Hootington posted:It isnt great. I don't know if her acting was any worse. The writing is much worse (Than WW, not as familiar with JL), and it seemed like her accent was thicker in this movie. That's not a dig at her, specifically, but she did seem harder to understand. Then again I'm willing to chalk that up to the bad writing. It would have sounded bad coming out of anyone.
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Remember when Gadot was really good in the Fast franchise? The gently caress happened to her acting, man?
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I dont think it helps Pine, Wiig, and Pascal are better actors and actresses. The only actor worse than Gadot is the kid that played Max's son. Edit: and I was very disappointed in the lightening lassoing. Why even do it at that point?
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Honestly my biggest confusion with 84 is like. You have a plot about Wonder Woman losing her powers. You also have a plot about a suit of golden armor that can defend against almost anything which is normally worthless to a character who is functionally invincible and which has giant wings. Wonder Woman dons the giant winged suit of protective armor after she gets her powers back and learns to fly
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ImpAtom posted:Honestly my biggest confusion with 84 is like. Yes and she goes back to DC to grab the armor after leaving DC!
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ImpAtom posted:Honestly my biggest confusion with 84 is like. It's simple. It's MCU style hollow fanservice. "Look, see? It's that Iconic thing from Kingdom Come! Isn't that cool, huh"? It's the same reason they shoehorned an invisible jet into the film. It doesn't make any sense except to be there as dumb easter eggs.
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I feel like the MCU doesn't often stop the plot so brazenly for things that only comic readers will understand or care about. Like, even the loving Thor stuff from AoU was meant to further the meta-plot.
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