Madame Web: it's really fucking bleak

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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I am excited for Madame Webb, the film.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2024 17:30

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 05:09

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Post-credits scene with the Morb.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2024 21:30

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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muscles like this! posted:

Reminder that this movie is set in 2003 so probably no cameos from other Sony comic book movies.

I mean, the Flash was theoretically set in 2013.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2024 23:49

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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"the multiverse" is a total trap for movie execs and comic writers alike. Execs hear "all your favourite characters in one story" and writers hear "extremely self-referential crisis on infinite worlds nonsense", neither of which is an actual story.

Everything Everywhere used the concept to pick at the idea of what makes you "you", Spider-verse used it to put a sci-fi gloss on having a friend from across the country, and The Flash used it to plaster a big advert for Warner Brothers across the third act. There's no real connection between the three.

I don't think you can point to a single cause for the MCU struggling where it previously seemed unstoppable, it's gonna be a combination of losing the characters/actors people liked, losing the sense of everything building to a climax however tenuously, the films themselves having taken a dip in quality (people I know who loved Thor 3 hated Thor 4!) and the sense that you now have to be tracking a bunch of Disney+ series to be getting "the whole story". While the MCU was huge it was self-sustaining, it succeeded because it was succeeding. Fixing that might be impossible - certainly all the attempts to replicate the formula have failed.

anyway gonna book a premium seat for MADAME WEBM this weekend

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 10:49

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Loved it. Absolute banger.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2024 23:19

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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This coulda been the Year of Web! Instead it's gonna be a year of jack poo poo.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2024 21:59

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Mordiceius posted:

https://twitch.tv/madameweb247

Someone has been streaming Madame Web on repeat on Twitch for the last 18 hours.

No better time to watch it!

# ¿ Feb 20, 2024 01:10

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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If I had to hazard a guess, originally he had a motivation that wasn't "they're all gonna kill me in the future", probably something to do with control over the magic spider that makes spider-people. In the dream sequence there's a line about them stealing it and the sequence itself has been totally mashed up in a way that suggests it used to be completely different.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2024 14:59

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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nemesis_hub posted:

This is a minor thing, but for anyone who�s seen it, is there a reason why she�s Julia Cornwall instead of Carpenter? Seems like such an odd thing to change.

Her subplot is about her being estranged from her father's new family so I guess at some point she was going to change name?

# ¿ Feb 20, 2024 23:12

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqtHYWF6wA

# ¿ Feb 22, 2024 15:06

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Alan Smithee posted:

i love how the sk8tergirl was just like "let's dance on the table for boys!"

like what

Mash up of that scene and the one of Mark Wahlberg in Transformers explaining age of consent laws to everyone present.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2024 11:32

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Madame Web, 2024

# ¿ Feb 24, 2024 20:02

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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MacheteZombie posted:

Studios should try making good movies

Like madame web

# ¿ Feb 27, 2024 00:03

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Madame Web is part of the MCU.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 15:01

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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I don't really see that it's better to have been Kingo or a side character in Black Widow than to have been in Madame Web. The crux is that you want your agent to put you in films that make lots of money and have lots of sequels, quibbling over nerd universe stuff is entirely tangential. It's how people end up in Terminator sequels.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 15:31

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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I dont think I can buy that "Yelena Belova" is a better career move than "Madame Web".

Also it should be illegal to name your character "Youregonna Loveher".

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 16:09

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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MacheteZombie posted:

there are many reasons why sony continues to make bad not spiderman spiderman movies

This is the thread about Madame Web though??

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 06:55

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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It's genius, I kinda love it. gently caress you fate, I'm making a photofit out of your haunting visions of my death.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 11:45

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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duh, he's spiderman

# ¿ Mar 20, 2024 01:31

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Like if there was a big new pop star called "Unabomber" who had shed-themed cover art and toured exclusively university campuses.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 01:25

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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tadashi posted:

I was thinking I was going to watch this movie in spite of everything anyone has said about it.
Thank you to this thread for changing my mind.

it's good

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 15:41

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Digital Domain just put out a VFX breakdown for the big MW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDDwN6szm_g

Spotted something fun, in the final shot where they're standing against a New York backdrop they've clearly repurposed something filmed in the Ezekiel's apartment set with that underlit wood.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2024 22:35

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 05:09

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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lol, that was not the case earlier. How weird.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2024 22:57

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