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The_Doctor posted:We just gonna memory hole that he was in Dr Strange? Movie sucked, so I'm all for that. Arist posted:Krasinski was so goddamn boring as Reed One of the worst casting decisions in the MCU.
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Just finished Loki today. It was one of the best story endings in the MCU. The second season got a little lost for a bit, but the ending was great and tied up the character wonderfully. I like to imagine that Loki healing the dying branches was him doing something with his own variants in those branches (which is why they turn green), potentially even putting those variants into the Loki role to begin with. That would tie into why the variants for Loki are so extreme - Loki always exists, even if he's an alligator.
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Jerusalem posted:Oh I completely forgot about Forge. What was his mutant power? He could... make anything? Which, I never quite understood that. Cyclops: I need to be able to do [insert crazy task] Forge: Oh, uh (five minutes later) - here, take this. Cyclops: What is this? Forge: Push the button on this device, and it'll do that thing you need to do. Cyclops: (pushes button, thing is done) Huh. It did the thing. That's it? Forge: That's it. Cyclops: How does it work, exactly? Forge: ... I have no idea.
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That's an aspect of Forge that gets extrapolated into Mitchell Hundred for Ex Machina. Yes, he can build you a ray gun that looks like a prop from The Day the Earth Stood Still and it will function exactly how you think it should. No, he doesn't know exactly what laws of physics he broke to build it but it works so please leave.
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So Forge is an Orc from Warhammer?
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Arist posted:Krasinski was so goddamn boring as Reed He was, but Anson Mount's story in Reign of Marvel Studios makes that entire scene sound like a complete nightmare for everyone involved, like it wouldn't surprise me at all if I was told that Krasinski never met any of the other actors and had no real context for what he was saying and doing.
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Arist posted:Krasinski was so goddamn boring as Reed So you're saying he nailed the character perfectly?
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Nov 17, 2023 12:09
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I'm a broken record on it but I think Reed Richards should be the most frustratingly nice man in the universe. Just a really nice, friendly, happy guy who is incredibly supportive of people but has no comprehension of the fact that 99.9999% of people - including certified geniuses - are completely incapable of keeping up with what he thinks of as the most basic and rudimentary principles of science. Wanna see him patting Tony Stark on the back and saying,"Great job, champ!" when he sees the most modern Iron Man armor but asking in friendly confusion why he didn't build the armor into his own DNA. Happily asking Rocket Raccoon if he'd like to join his class of 8-year-olds in the Future Foundation because,"I'm sure you'll get caught up in no time". Asking Hank Pym why his shrinking tech can ONLY go down as far as the Quantum Realm. Also he releases all his patents for globe-changing tech into the public domain and can't figure out why even after simplifying them as much as possible, all the world's top scientists still can't figure out how the gently caress any of it works. Plus of course the one person who CAN understand any of it is Doom, and Reed is just thrilled and pleased as punch to shoot the poo poo with a fellow scientist while Doom is utterly infuriated that somebody else is in the same league as him.
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Nov 17, 2023 12:21
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Feige just needs to find the strength to do the right thing and cast Glenn Howerton.
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Nov 17, 2023 12:59
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Glenn as Doom, Charlie as Reed but specifically from that one episode where the stupid science bitches fail to make him smart.
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Nov 17, 2023 13:17
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The Dave posted:Feige just needs to find the strength to do the right thing and cast Glenn Howerton. Just cast all of the Always Sunny people. Devito can be the thing and Charlie can be Mole Man.
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dingo with a joint posted:Movie sucked, so I'm all for that. Just say it was doom and he got his face scars from Dormamu. His name in Strange was an alias to hide he was the ruler of a country. Comics have used worse origins.
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Jerusalem posted:Glenn as Doom, Charlie as Reed but specifically from that one episode where the stupid science bitches fail to make him smart. I now have Charlie Day delivering "check out Doctor Doom over here" rattling around my head, which is cheering me up
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Red posted:They're finally figuring out that endlessly rolling out poo poo regardless of quality harms the brand. Now they can go tell the Star Wars people about their amazing discovery.
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Nov 17, 2023 14:55
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Cast Jesse Bradford as Dr. Doom. He finally settled on a handle.
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badjohny posted:Just say it was doom and he got his face scars from Dormamu. His name in Strange was an alias to hide he was the ruler of a country. I'd hate it because I really, really want Doom to have the systematic oppression of the Roma people included in his backstory.
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A.o.D. posted:I'd hate it because I really, really want Doom to have the systematic oppression of the Roma people included in his backstory. Then they'd have to China-tise the movie when it gets released in Europe.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Now they can go tell the Star Wars people about their amazing discovery. Too late, they already have poop on their hands from Obi Wan
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I had fun with Loki but I don't get how it fits in with the rest of the multiverse nonsense at all. Are alternate universes and alternate timelines different concepts, meaning you can have infinite different universes within one timeline? Or are alternate universes just alternate timelines that split earlier and are widely different?
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Elman posted:I had fun with Loki but I don't get how it fits in with the rest of the multiverse nonsense at all. Are alternate universes and alternate timelines different concepts, meaning you can have infinite different universes within one timeline? Or are alternate universes just alternate timelines that split earlier and are widely different? It's literally just "TVA exists outside of time and has different rules." Alternate universes are just alternate timelines that split off. Loki just has special time travel rules in the TVA so they can head off the questions about how time travel is supposed to work in the MCU.
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Elman posted:I had fun with Loki but I don't get how it fits in with the rest of the multiverse nonsense at all. Are alternate universes and alternate timelines different concepts, meaning you can have infinite different universes within one timeline? Or are alternate universes just alternate timelines that split earlier and are widely different? On the one hand,  On the other hand, it's open to interpretation so they haven't closed the door on it, but it seems like multiverse and timelines are probably the same thing yeah
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's literally just "TVA exists outside of time and has different rules." Actually yeah in that last scene they seem to reference Quantumania so I guess it implies there's no different universes, just different timelines. So I don't get how Kang can ever be a threat.
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Nov 17, 2023 19:10
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kang's toast, writer and director are off kang dynasty, moving on
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Different universes are different timelines.
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Nikumatic posted:kang's toast, writer and director are off kang dynasty, moving on It's the opposite. They moved the director of Kang off to focus entirely on Shang-Chi 2 (he was previously supposed to work on Shang-Chi 2, Wonderman, and Kang Dynasty at the same time) and because they wanted one single director for both Avengers movies and to be devoted to them full time. They pulled in the Multiverse of Madness and Loki writer for the scripts and they are looking at Sam Raimi or Jon Favreau to direct both Avengers movies. They are moving their "tried and tested" directors and writers to Kang.
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Finally finished Loki last night. I wasn't digging this season nearly as much as the last through the first four episodes. But eps 5 and 6, holy poo poo. That was some of the best MCU content there's been. You really got a sense that for once, a team took their time, figured out exactly what story they wanted to tell and got to actually tell it. Definitely the most satisfying MCU entry this side of GotG3 in Phase 5, and easily top-3 post-Endgame. I hope that's it for Loki though. There really is nowhere to go but down (literally, I guess?) and what a hell of a character arc. That said, even though nothing has been determined for sure with the Kang story irl, the ending really gave a strong "Kang died on the way to his home planet" vibe in case Marvel pivots. But I really don't know what else there is to do with Kang. He already seized control of all time and lost it, and it's the umpteenth time we've seen him defeated on screen. I guess we'll once the Jonathan Majors case begins trial in a week or two. The only gripe I kind of had was the Sylvie was under-utilized, but I guess she served her purpose of helping prime-Loki determine what type of god he wanted to be. Doronin fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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bentacos posted:Make Chris Evans Johnny Storm again. He did say he'd rather come back as Johnny Storm than Cap, if he came back at all.
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What areas other than the tva exist outside the multiverse
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Snazzy Frocks posted:What areas other than the tva exist outside the multiverse The Watcher's nest thingy, and that bar he made in What If?
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Presumably wherever Death etc hang out. Valhalla maybe? It seems like maybe the
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The quantum realm is described as "616 adjacent" in Loki season 2, so it seems like other timelines would have their own quantum rralms
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Raimi getting the Avengers movies would be awesome if they keep the producer meddling to the minimum MoM had a couple of problems but Raimi’s direction was perfect for the screenplay
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's the opposite. They moved the director of Kang off to focus entirely on Shang-Chi 2 (he was previously supposed to work on Shang-Chi 2, Wonderman, and Kang Dynasty at the same time) and because they wanted one single director for both Avengers movies and to be devoted to them full time. Sam Raimi as the director would loving rock!
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Elman posted:I had fun with Loki but I don't get how it fits in with the rest of the multiverse nonsense at all. Are alternate universes and alternate timelines different concepts, meaning you can have infinite different universes within one timeline? Or are alternate universes just alternate timelines that split earlier and are widely different? The coherency of the whole concept is not helped by the nonsense inherent in the concept of alternate universes. Branching timelines- sure, that makes sense. But clearly there wasn't just one thing that went different for there to be an alligator Loki. Particularly multiverse stuff with all the Spiders Men played by different characters or what have you. That is supposing that the concept of a spider man is some sort of elemental concept that manifests differently in different universes. It's not a coherent material concept, it's supposing that the fundamental nature of the universe is narrative. And that's fine. They're rolling with it, and it's fun. But you can't really apply any sort of causal logic to explain the multiverse. It's an inherently narrative concept.
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Saw the Marvels last night, only group in the theater but frankly it was a solid as hell movie. Short, funny, moved itself along and didn't try and do too much but still built some on the characters.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:So thinking about Loki more… Eiba posted:it's supposing that the fundamental nature of the universe is narrative. I vibe with all this Elendil004 posted:Saw the Marvels last night, only group in the theater but frankly it was a solid as hell movie. Short, funny, moved itself along and didn't try and do too much but still built some on the characters. this too dingo with a joint posted:Movie sucked, so I'm all for that. not this though, first Dr. Strange is great, what the hell 
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Dang just finished Loki and really enjoyed it. Finale was on pointElendil004 posted:Saw the Marvels last night, only group in the theater but frankly it was a solid as hell movie. Short, funny, moved itself along and didn't try and do too much but still built some on the characters. I'll go see it this weekend I think
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