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FilthyImp posted:This look with the eyes and painted-on skull is so loving goofy it's the #1 reason I hate most of his comic appearances. He's goofy. He's got 3 main looks. Pirate Skeletor. Flamboyant Pirate Skeletor. Tacticool Skeletor.
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A.o.D. posted:He's goofy. He's got 3 main looks. Pirate Skeletor. Flamboyant Pirate Skeletor. Tacticool Skeletor. I'll admit that I'd be much more into the idea of a He-Man reboot if it gave us Flamboyant Pirate Skeletor. Just Skeletor with eye-socket liner voiced by Johnny Depp.
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twistedmentat posted:I like when Taskmaster fights someone that has an ability that he can't mimic. Like in All New Wolverine where Laura just stabs him trough the hand with her foot claw. They always forget about the foot claws Mimicking the fighting style of Laura or Logan who have no need to play defense is a bad idea Tasky.
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I assume this has been theorycrafted before, but if the next phase is going all in on the multiverse stuff, maybe it will eventually culminate in Doom creating Battleworld? It would make a lot of thematic sense with a bunch of the concepts they've been throwing around in Loki and a lot of the upcoming slate, and it would entirely legitimise him as a big big bad if they could tease his creation of it over a few films. Maybe not for a phase or two, but a girl can dream. I just want a well done Doom!
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SomeKindofVerb posted:I assume this has been theorycrafted before, but if the next phase is going all in on the multiverse stuff, maybe it will eventually culminate in Doom creating Battleworld? It would make a lot of thematic sense with a bunch of the concepts they've been throwing around in Loki and a lot of the upcoming slate, and it would entirely legitimise him as a big big bad if they could tease his creation of it over a few films. Maybe not for a phase or two, but a girl can dream. I’d love an entire phase of just Battleworld stuff. Just let anyone do whatever they want, use what characters they want, and just reset it at the end.
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I just rewatched Loki Episode 5 and the blanket scene is achingly  Even if they fail to stick the landing this has been a blast and the last 2 episodes have been worth it by themselves.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:09
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Yeah, tbh I'm really loving Loki more so than Captain America and the Winter Soldier, though i didn't really even go on the forums during that show i was do disinterested. I'm really hoping its not just another loki though.
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Mike the TV posted:Taskmaster watching wrestling and suplexing people would be fun. Heroes did this. S3E1 I think.
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:Yeah, tbh I'm really loving Loki more so than Captain America and the Winter Soldier, though i didn't really even go on the forums during that show i was do disinterested. The show is enormously better just by virtue of sticking with the titular character for 90% of the runtime and not getting distracted. The scenes that don't include Hiddleston still progress our understanding of this tight story being told.
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https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1413687517291991040 This 100% Loki vs Falcon & Winter Soldier (and all of the military/spy-adjacent marvel stuff) for me. The Grumbles fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Jul 12, 2021 11:51
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The Grumbles posted:https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1413687517291991040 I think if you watch Loki stoned you can understand Alligator Loki without Old Loki's interpretation because Alligator Loki will speak to you directly from the screen.
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Jul 12, 2021 12:13
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The Grumbles posted:https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1413687517291991040 I'm pretty curious how they tie the two together, with all the multiverse shenanigans and whatever Val's doing.
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Jul 12, 2021 14:32
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Jul 12, 2021 14:41
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Wait, so is Loki a weed show or a hat show, because there's an argument for both.
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They released new posters, but the only one that matters is our good boy Alligator Loki: https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1414585371564904448
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The Grumbles posted:https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1413687517291991040
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FlamingLiberal posted:I enjoy both. I am also kind of more biased towards the Cap-related stuff. The Cap-realm stuff is better when done well (Winter Soldier, parts of Civil War, parts of Infinity War, parts of Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Iron Man 1 and 3, etc.). But, when done mediocrely or poorly, (Iron Man 2, parts of Falcon and the Winter soldier, Black Widow in anything other than Black Widow, parts of the Avengers, etc.) I'd rather them just go for a mediocre weird stoned movie. Thor, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Doctor Strange had some fun stuff to look at and creative stoned weirdness. Whereas the mediocre "real world" parts of Iron Man 2 or The Avengers were pretty meh. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Jul 12, 2021 15:24
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The weed movies rely too much on the visuals, particularly Ragnarok and Doctor Strange.
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live with fruit posted:The weed movies rely too much on the visuals, particularly Ragnarok and Doctor Strange. I mean, they're comic book films, so I'd certainly hope so!
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Jul 12, 2021 16:26
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AngryBooch posted:Mimicking the fighting style of Laura or Logan who have no need to play defense is a bad idea Tasky. Yea, they're both always on the offense.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The Cap-realm stuff is better when done well (Winter Soldier, parts of Civil War, parts of Infinity War, parts of Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Iron Man 1 and 3, etc.). One if the weird (and not in a good way) bits for me is that I spent most of Iron Man 3 thinking that the kid Tony met was a figment of his imagination and that we'd get some BS reveal that the kid was somehow Tony as a child or something. I don't know if it was the kid's acting or the directing but the kid never came off like he was a real human being. The one really good thing about IM3 was the Trevor Slattery reveal. I would watch the poo poo out of a Trevor Slattery Marvel movie or series. IM2 was... okay. I didn't hate it. It did its various jobs of introducing or touching base with characters would be important in later movies (Shandling, ScarJo, Samuel Mother-Fuckin' Jackson, "Peter Parker"). I'm a little disappointed we haven't gotten more of Sam Rockwell's Justin Hammer and it would've been better if Mickey Rourke's character had been allowed to be right about Stark's dad being a thieving rear end in a top hat, but it was an okay movie. Honestly the Marvel movies I tend to re-watch are the Ant-Man ones. I just really like that part of the world with Paul Rudd's Scott Lang being a fairly normal person trying to deal with all the whacky Marvel poo poo while also trying to have a real, normal life with his daughter. In the first movie, his reaction to getting told about all this weird shrinking tech being "I think our first movie should be to call the Avengers" is just such a "Yeah, that's what a real person in that situation would do" kind of thing.
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live with fruit posted:The weed movies rely too much on the visuals, particularly Ragnarok and Doctor Strange. The hat movies rely too much on expanding the boring politics crap from Age of Ultron.
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If this isn't how Loki ends, I'm going to be pissed:
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:If this isn't how Loki ends, I'm going to be pissed: I don't know about that exactly, but there will need to be some Owen Wilson Jetski action this Wednesday.
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Jul 12, 2021 18:21
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The jetski was behind the TVA all along
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Jul 12, 2021 18:32
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Are there any news in how long this next episode is gonna be?
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I realized I had never watched Season 2 of the punisher and it has all the same problems as the rest of the Netflix shows. 1-2 episodes of setup and good action. 8-10 episodes of dragging terrible overly dramatic conversations on the same 3 sets interspersed with a few okay action scenes that accomplish nothing and have basically no stakes. Primary characters are either forced to avoid each other or escape in increasingly stupid ways so the show can continue shambling on. 1-2 episodes of an attempt at a big finale that they don't actually have the budget for. I think every one of the Netflix series would have been improved by shortening the series by a couple episodes, and splitting the A and B plots of the season into two tighter mini-arcs.
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Jul 12, 2021 19:25
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They could have all been improved by making them comic book shows rather than soap operas
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I though Daredevil season 1 was fine, but I think the soap opera thing stemmed from them trying to grab a wide audience instead of embracing the comic book-ness of it. Compare it to like Agents of SHIELD, where the best seasons had LMDs and Ghost Rider and Inhumans in it. Instead they tried to make them like a gritty cop drama.
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In the age of streaming I think shows in general should cater number of episodes to what the writers/directors need to accomplish the story. I understand that budgets exist, but give the creative team control of doing what they need to do with said budget instead of mandating exactly X episodes.
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I think the long-form soap style worked for Luke Cage s2, it was a good plot with a lot of moving pieces that moved together pretty well. I can't really say that about any other Netflix marvel season though.
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All the last generation of superhero shows especially the DC CW ones had been long form soaps. There was probably pressure of the that made money do that variety.
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The "street level" slogan was a big part too -- it's not that big a jump from quotidian to soap.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:All the last generation of superhero shows especially the DC CW ones had been long form soaps. There was probably pressure of the that made money do that variety. "Good enough for the CW" is a pretty low bar for a premium ish service tho
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Jul 12, 2021 20:58
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Azhais posted:"Good enough for the CW" is a pretty low bar for a premium ish service tho There had been a number of other attempts at superhero shows -- Heroes, No Ordinary Family, Agents of SHIELD, Chuck -- most of which played with soap elements. Soap is the dominant unit in all television. Always has been, probably always will be. Hell, the MCU is constructed like a soap opera.
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Jul 12, 2021 21:22
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Open Source Idiom posted:There had been a number of other attempts at superhero shows -- Heroes, No Ordinary Family, Agents of SHIELD, Chuck -- most of which played with soap elements. No Ordinary Family was surprisingly decent and I was bummed when it got cancelled.
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Gangringo posted:I realized I had never watched Season 2 of the punisher and it has all the same problems as the rest of the Netflix shows. Yeah I tell people to watch the the first three(?) episodes, which make a good last stand kinda movie, and then watch the gym fight on Youtube.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Soap is the dominant unit in all television. Always has been, probably always will be. Soap operas and police procedurals. That's why Lucifer is the way it is. Although I would like to see an actual superhero show constructed in a Latin American telenovela style, which are the superior soap operas. Those can get loving WILD when the writers are allowed to
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I liked how both seasons of the Punisher had him shooting Conservatives. PMCs in season 1 and Religious billionairs in the second. Frank Castle is Antifa.
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It’s super hard to tell long punisher stories because he’s a character that actively resists change and relationships. He was probably best in daredevil, because he was an antagonist. The season two opening montage of “punisher kills every mobster“ was pretty cool. But after that, it’s hard to tell a story of him being menaced by other peoples with guns, because he’s a war god.
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