Marvel Cinematic Universe

It looks like a fun movie at least. Like sure the MCU style is a bit common but given the last major Marvel films aside from Spider-Man were overly pretentious (Morbius, Black Widow, and Eternals), it actually feels like a breath of fresh air to see it back.
Could maybe call Eternals pretentious but not Black Widow, both are bad however.
 
Could maybe call Eternals pretentious but not Black Widow, both are bad however.
Black Widow tried to act like it was a deeper movie than it really was especially with all the obnoxious girl power moments and making the villain a hybrid between Harvey Weinstein and Martin Scorsese (The fact they still seethe over Scorsese is still funny to me)
 
Black Widow tried to act like it was a deeper movie than it really was especially with all the obnoxious girl power moments and making the villain a hybrid between Harvey Weinstein and Martin Scorsese (The fact they still seethe over Scorsese is still funny to me)
I remember never seeing the movie except the few reviewers I watch & (to an extent) trust. Tho I do know that it becomes relevant if you want to watch Hawkeye, but even then you can watch the same reviews I did & get the gist of the story.
 
I remember never seeing the movie except the few reviewers I watch & (to an extent) trust. Tho I do know that it becomes relevant if you want to watch Hawkeye, but even then you can watch the same reviews I did & get the gist of the story.
Black Widow is like a C. Not terrible, not great. If you want something to pass the time you could do a lot worse.
 
It doesn't really strike up any strong feelings in me, I'm just apathetic. I'll probably forget about this until it comes out, then I'll forget about it again.

The thumbnail looks like one of those BossLogic photoshops where it's like "Here's what Chris Hemsworth would look like as Thor!!" To be honest I'm just sick of Marvel's overuse of CGI. I saw a video where someone who worked on the film was talking about how in the Matt Murdock scene in No Way Home, it was originally a snowglobe that got thrown through the window then they decided to change it to a brick in post. It was so obvious especially when Matt hands the brick to Peter and Peter holds it weirdly, you can tell his fingers are wrapped around something spherical. It's just kind of like what's the point? Either reshoot the scene or keep it as a snowglobe, don't just completely change everything with CGI just because you can.
 
It doesn't really strike up any strong feelings in me, I'm just apathetic. I'll probably forget about this until it comes out, then I'll forget about it again.

The thumbnail looks like one of those BossLogic photoshops where it's like "Here's what Chris Hemsworth would look like as Thor!!" To be honest I'm just sick of Marvel's overuse of CGI. I saw a video where someone who worked on the film was talking about how in the Matt Murdock scene in No Way Home, it was originally a snowglobe that got thrown through the window then they decided to change it to a brick in post. It was so obvious especially when Matt hands the brick to Peter and Peter holds it weirdly, you can tell his fingers are wrapped around something spherical. It's just kind of like what's the point? Either reshoot the scene or keep it as a snowglobe, don't just completely change everything with CGI just because you can.
Not even the amount of cgi, it's the lack of planing anything out before hand even lighting and the cgi teams not having enough time with poor material to work with on top. It's the whole shoot as much as you can on set and we will fix it in post mindset they have, instead of planing shit out and in turn being able to do it better and faster but harder to change shit in post.

If you look at the first Iron Man it looks better than everything after because it wasn't rushed to meet dead lines of the next movie, and they did plan shit out more.
 
I just feel nothing watching this. It isn’t terrible, but it is Marvel. It looks like another phase 3 film that will get praised for being fun while adding nothing else.

Is is wrong to miss the more serious Thor from 1 & 2. While those films were far from excellent, there were some great moments that I feel the rip-off Guardians style of Ragnarok will never be able to get to the heights of.
 
To be honest I'm just sick of Marvel's overuse of CGI. I saw a video where someone who worked on the film was talking about how in the Matt Murdock scene in No Way Home, it was originally a snowglobe that got thrown through the window then they decided to change it to a brick in post. It was so obvious especially when Matt hands the brick to Peter and Peter holds it weirdly, you can tell his fingers are wrapped around something spherical. It's just kind of like what's the point? Either reshoot the scene or keep it as a snowglobe, don't just completely change everything with CGI just because you can.
Funny you should mention that particular scene. This MCU stan has jumped to the defense by pointing out another piece of CGI people noticed.
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I just feel nothing watching this. It isn’t terrible, but it is Marvel. It looks like another phase 3 film that will get praised for being fun while adding nothing else.

Is is wrong to miss the more serious Thor from 1 & 2. While those films were far from excellent, there were some great moments that I feel the rip-off Guardians style of Ragnarok will never be able to get to the heights of.
Ehh not really. Ragnarok's problem was that it was too jokey for its own good, which is saying something given this is something comic book movies are known for. There needs to be a balance which hopefully L&T will deliver on.
 
I mean helps it looks like she has worked out unlike most female superhero

Or they used CGI to replace her arms.

Can't say for sure from that shot, but that's what it looks like to me.

I don't have a problem with them doing that. Yes as people are saying. They overuse CGI. This isn't a bad use, because I doubt Portman could obtain those arms.

The problem with Marvel CGI is they will do something that seems unnecessary but turns out really well. Like Tony Stark walking out onto that CGI street which most people didn't clock on first viewing. It works out so well, that they start doing even more CGI environments, but the quality starts to slip.

The trailer is pleasing, but it's just visuals and music. Tells you nothing. Which is also fine.
 
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Black Widow was good until the last act. Making it an ensemble helped a lot and then they shat the bed with the "now make it a video game cutscene" finale.

Thor 4 looks decent enough so far for a teaser. I feel like the real trailer should be much better. Like the way Femthor turned out as someone who didn't like the comics.
 
Ehh not really. Ragnarok's problem was that it was too jokey for its own good, which is saying something given this is something comic book movies are known for. There needs to be a balance which hopefully L&T will deliver on.
I think this is a consistent issue with a majority of phase 3-4 Marvel. The entire series seemed to get way to jokey for its own good, and it undermined a lot of the plot and character growth. Guardians was straight comedy, and it worked as it wasn’t trying to get much more emotion. Films like Civil War wanted you to take things seriously, yet it never seemed like the film could. Honestly, Winter Soldier is probably the best MCU film as it was one that managed to balance very well.

Unpopular opinion, but I really liked Thor 2 and wish it didn’t just get abandoned. Stuff like Thor’s mom getting killed was handled really well in that film along with Loki and Thor making up. The jokes were fewer, but I felt more were memorable due to it, like Thor casually hanging his hammer on the coat hanger or the Captain America Loki transformation. If the villain wasn’t dog shit, I feel like Thor 2 would have been regarded much better.
 
Willy's Wonderland is really low budget, and the few bits of CGI are really bad as a result, but the animatronic bad guys being actual puppets made me appreciate the director's efforts far more.

I will defend DOOM for the same reason. Fight me.
>DOOM
As in the one with Karl Urban? Because that one was good, & could've been great if the studio didn't try to fuck over it by rewriting it.
 
Marvel movies in a nutshell.
It’s gotten to the point that I’ve developed amnesia with how forgettable it’s all gotten. In this past months Moon Knight dropped alongside Sony’s Morbius. Plus there’s been trailers for Multiverse of Madness, Ms. Marvel and Love & Thunder dropped in rapid succession, one after another. Yet none of them made any impression on me and I struggle to recall anything unique about them; it’s all just one big blur.
 
It’s gotten to the point that I’ve developed amnesia with how forgettable it’s all gotten. In this past months Moon Knight dropped alongside Sony’s Morbius. Plus there’s been trailers for Multiverse of Madness, Ms. Marvel and Love & Thunder dropped in rapid succession, one after another. Yet none of them made any impression on me and I struggle to recall anything unique about them; it’s all just one big blur.
If I had to recommend just one out of this batch it'd definitely be Moon Knight. No offense to Reginald Dinglebatch or whatever is name is, but Oscar Isaac is just more fun to watch.
 
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