Travis343 posted:

It is Mother's Day but who knows how many people are taking their moms to see Captain America.

Heathen posted:

The same people who took their girlfriend to see Deadpool when it opened on Valentine's Day weekend.

The same people who will drive by the homeless veteran on Memorial Day weekend to see X-Men Apocalypse.

I'm not sure why holiday weekends would make a difference. How hard do you celebrate that you can't squeeze in a three hour window to watch a movie?

And if it does affect the box office that's on the studio. They aren't assigned the dates, they pick them. No one in a movie studio knows how to work a calendar?

Heathen posted:

http://deadline.com/2016/05/kevin-feige-marvel-studios-captain-america-civil-war-iron-man-doctor-strange-black-panther-1201750467/


Two things.

First, the earliest they would do a Black Widow solo movie would be Phase Four in 2020.

Second, he mentions nine movies through 2019, ten counting Civil War.

2016:
1) Captain America: Civil War
2) Doctor Strange

2017:
3) Guardians of the Galaxy 2
4) Thor: Ragnarok

2018:
5) Black Panther
6) Avengers: Infinity War Part I
7) Ant-Man and the Wasp

2019:
8) Captain Marvel
9) Avengers: Infinity War Part II
10) The Inhumans

This means they are still doing an Inhumans movie and neither the Agents of SHIELD storyline nor Indiana Jones 5 getting the date have stopped them.

X-O posted:

Scarlett Johansson has made the character very popular and has proven that she's a big enough star to sell even a bad movie like Lucy. It's a no brainer really and it probably should have been done after Winter Soldier.

Toxxupation posted:

I'd rather an actual female superhero with actual super-powers over a lady who's really good at doing that leglock around the neck sweep thing that Black Widow always does.

twistedmentat posted:

I am really trying to think of any major black male superheroes that haven't been adapted yet, and I can only think of Blue Marvel and Goliath. Michael B Jordan as Blue Marvel would be kind of awesome.

Cocks Cable posted:

But Rogue does supposedly have drawbacks to her powers though. She's suppose to absorb memories and personalities along side the powers which can produce dangerous unintended side effects and makes them ill-suited for casual use. Absorbing the bad guy's powers is a huge risk if his persona has a chance to override your own. And potentially loving up your head makes it a weapon of last resort. The movies only lightly touched on this idea in the first one and then never mentioned it again. The troublesome complexities and lingering trauma of Rogue's powers were never properly explored.

theflyingorc posted:

No, that's stupid. She was used reasonably in the first movie, because it was ensemble VS ensemble.

But having her take out the telepath by making it very cold was dumb and it's really clearly shoehorned and it's because she's Halle Berry.

Chickenwalker posted:

Does Netflix count as a movie since it's episodic? The Luke Cage thing looks like it's going to be too serious and try-hard with its Inner City Blues horseshit. Framing Hell's Kitchen as some awful shithole is one thing because it's so far removed from reality, but making it seem as though Harlem is the crime-ridden black neighborhood seems behind the times. There is no one black neighborhood in New York, and Harlem certainly isn't the worst of them. It all just seems like very hackneyed "Dangerous Minds" type of drama.

site posted:

Hell's kitchen is now known as Clinton and is gentrified af and not a hellhole tho right?

E: well that kind of hellhole anyways

Chickenwalker posted:

I'm saying that making Hell's Kitchen some kind of grungy hellhole is so far from the truth nowadays it's laughable, but saying that Harlem is some den of crime is tone-deaf and behind the times. Stay out of Harlem is advice my rural parents would give me based off of their knowledge of New York from outdated pop culture.

Set it in Bed-Stuy or Brownsville/East New York if you want to deal with urban racial themes. Harlem is increasingly gentrified and not really that dangerous anymore. Yes I know it's a made-up show, but it just seems silly for them to try to make it seem like Harlem is the place where people are living on the mean streets. That one line where the woman goes "YOU MAY BE BULLETPROOF BUT HARLEM AIN'T" is just egregiously hack-y trope poo poo. It makes you half expect someone to demand someone else's badge because they're a loose cannon in the next scene.

We'll see I guess. I love blaxploitation, and the character grew out of that genre, but I just don't think they have the finesse to deal with themes like this in the super-serious way they've been trying with other things (and look to be trying with this).

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

They didn't say that Joker was going to be in Justice League, but DC said they had plans to use him "in future films" and people assumed it would be Batman solo and/or Justice League.

Grendels Dad posted:

The next Deadpool movie should be about a lovely little side-quest he does while the Apocalypse movie happens in the far distance.

Retro Futurist posted:

I assumed Rhyno meant it as a good thing

SMP posted:

BiggerBoat posted:

My concern about the MCU is that at a certain point it's just going to be Too Much and it'll collapse under its own weight and get too convoluted. That, or start casting to many stars and we wind up in Batman Forever territory. I don't mind the shared universe but at the rate we're going we're going to be in a Secret Wars saga before too long. DC seemed to jump head first directly into that territory and it's one of the things that's hurting their films. I wish Green Lantern hadn't bombed because I'd really like to see him Justice League and love the character(s).

Codependent Poster posted:

In English!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue80QwXMRHg

BiggerBoat posted:

Wait...what?

X-O posted:

James Cameron apparently was not that impressed with Wonder Woman.


I mean, saying Wonder Woman is a step backwards is what's a bit misguided I think.

Shageletic posted:

James Cameron heroines are very much a type, muscle bound gun gripping badasses that are almost uniformly shallowly characterized.

Just because they might not be as pretty as Gal Gadot, doesn't make them more deep or substantial or less hackney. Cameron is not the director who should feel superior about being nuanced when it comes to women.

Lobok posted:

Wonder Woman definitely suffers for not having Michael Biehn juggling Gal Gadot's bare breasts for the camera.

Aphrodite posted:

Cameron didn't create Ripley.

ekeog posted:

magik's one of the premiere characters that isn't (always) in the core x-men team and if anything that connection with colossus that they can use down the line is even more reason to bring her into the cinematic universe.

Mulva posted:

Needless to say "Erik Killmonger" isn't a traditional Wakandian name. Basically when Klaw comes in he forces Killmonger's dad to help him, the dad gets killed when poo poo goes down, and the entire family is forced out. Killmonger trains himself, changes his name, studies at MIT [Who in the Marvel universe probably don't blink twice at a student named "Killmonger"], and goes back to Wakanda with the intent of returning it to it's roots. As you do.

Arist posted:

Vision is turbo-hosed. Not only is he easily the most powerful hero, he's got the Mind Stone in his loving head. He's going to die and everyone knows it.

purple death ray posted:

I thought Captain America was odds-on favorite to bite it in Infinity War.

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Superman is limited to a pretty set list of physical things here can do. Green Lantern can just do whatever the gently caress he wants.

He can just have five Superman surrounding him at all times

purple death ray posted:

He makes and pilots green planes and space ships that can fly at light speed, right?

teagone posted:

I just realized Hawkeye wasn't in the trailer. Unless I missed a quick shot of him, lmao.

FlamingLiberal posted:

The War Machine suit is in that last shot of those heroes running

Omnomnomnivore posted:

They’re in every shot, squint harder.

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

The Winter Soldier: Captain America

twistedmentat posted:

Illyana Rasputin/Magik - Mutant Demon Queen of Limbo because as a child she was kidnapped from the X Mansion by the wizard Belasco who wanted to use her soul to do something in Limbo. Between Belasco and an version of Storm that was trapped in Limbo too, she learned magic that augmented her mutant ability to teleport using stepping disks. She also possesss the Soul Sword and Soul Armor, of which she just seems to use her sword now. BTW, its heavily suggested that she and Kitty had a relationship, though I doubt fox would want to have a lesbian in their movie.

Magik is my 3rd favorite Mutant after Wolverine and Rogue, so I'm hoping she's done right in the movie.

fruit on the bottom posted:

I think it absolutely would have to be from Cap as the one he respects.

You could just have someone coach Evans beforehand or, if we really want to go full sitcom on this, have him wear an earpiece with Cheadle, Mackie, and Boseman feeding him lines and then getting into a fight over something at the exact moment when Keaton asks Evans how his privilege manifests when interacting with black people who are more well-off financially than him.

But on a serious note what if they also invited the other kid also and then tried to make it a teaching moment and a cool shared experience? Would that salvage the situation?

Aphrodite posted:

it says right at the top those are pitches he made, not any official work. He was never attached, he was trying to get hired to replace Del Toro.

Kai Tave posted:

Saying Guardians 2 was "afraid of being sincere" because it has quips is one of the dumbest takes I've seen since the last dumb take I saw.

site posted:

One thing I was curious about after ragnarok was if the odinforce is supposed to exist as A Thing in the mcu