Marvel Cinematic Universe

Powerhouse of the Cell said:
I remember being a teenager back when Endgame came out in theaters in opening day.

I remember how the entire theater was crowded with everyone wearing marvel merch and cosplay.
And how all the Endgame theaters were packed.
One of the few theaters experiences that felt really eventful for me.

I really have forgotten how big the MCU was.
Truth to be told, maybe ending it by then would have been best.
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Avengers Endgame did feel like an event (and it was, don't get me wrong).

But I'm old enough to remember Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight. Went to both of those screenings at the midnight premieres (back when midnight screenings were a thing).

The Dark Knight midnight screening in particular, though ... Man. Not even Endgame was able to recapture that. The entire audience was entranced and amazed by the storytelling. You could hear a pindrop at all of the right scenes, people cheered, applauded, and gasped at all of the right scenes, etc. The energy in that theater that night was that everyone there knew that a movie classic was happening in front of our eyes.

And when I went to see Spider-Man 2, that is the first and only time I saw people literally give a standing ovation to something in the middle of the movie-- when Spidey stopped the train.
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
Avengers Endgame did feel like an event (and it was, don't get me wrong).

But I'm old enough to remember Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight. Went to both of those screenings at the midnight premieres (back when midnight screenings were a thing).

The Dark Knight midnight screening in particular, though ... Man. Not even Endgame was able to recapture that. The entire audience was entranced and amazed by the storytelling. You could hear a pindrop at all of the right scenes, people cheered, applauded, and gasped at all of the right scenes, etc. The energy in that theater that night was that everyone there knew that a movie classic was happening in front of our eyes.

And when I went to see Spider-Man 2, that is the first and only time I saw people literally give a standing ovation to something in the middle of the movie-- when Spidey stopped the train.
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I remember when I saw Raimi-man 1, it was a morning matinee as I worked overnight and early morning so I caught it on the way home
Bad Girl School was on a field trip to see it too. Mix of white, hispanic, and black trashy high school girls, the type to yell "AWW NAW WHY HE DOO DAT SHE LOVE HIM"
it was really fun to see how well the movie connected with them
 
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Hijo de D. Woodchucks Jr. said:
I get that Krasinski might not have been able to commit to playing Stretchy, but they seriously had to put fucking Pascualito as Mr. Fantastic?
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From what they said on Wikipedia, marvel wanted extremely cheap actors and they offered the roles to a fuck load of people but only these guys said yes, the guy who plays the thing was the best supporting character on a one season cable show when he got the role. You know he was cheap. They all were, Johnny was just the hit new character on stranger things, the silver surfer is some cunt from a Netflix show no one has seen.

They even admit on wikipedia to offering the role to a half dozen other actors who all turned it down because of money. Pedro was the only one who said yes
 
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Get the rope Macaulay! said:
From what they said on Wikipedia, marvel wanted extremely cheap actors and they offered the roles to a fuck load of people but only these guys said yes, the guy who plays the thing was the best supporting character on a one season cable show when he got the role. You know he was cheap. They all were, Johnny was just the hit new character on stranger things, the silver surfer is some cunt from a Netflix show no one has seen.

They even admit on wikipedia to offering the role to a half dozen other actors who all turned it down because of money. Pedro was the only one who said yes
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Marvel is retarded.

The MCU is regarded as the biggest series right now, there is no way they can just hire cheap actors for it now.

Any actor with self respect is not going to accept an MCU role unless it has really good compensation.

Marvel needs to realise it's been a decade since Avengers, they don't get to go cheap anymore.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
I remember when I saw Raimi-man 1, it was a morning matinee as I worked overnight and early morning so I caught it on the way home
Bad Girl School was on a field trip to see it too. Mix of white, hispanic, and black trashy high school girls, the type to yell "AWW NAW WHY HE DOO DAT SHE LOVE HIM"
it was really fun to see how well the movie connected with them
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The audience I saw Spider-Man 1 with was awesome, too.

2002 was back in the day when not everyone and their mother knew Spider-Man's origin story. When the audience applauded at the "I missed the part where that's my problem" line, only to be legit shocked and horrified at the next scene, was fantastic to witness as a Spider-Man fan.

Raimi added the most subtle change to Spider-Man's origin story-- a change that I thought was brilliant and is canon as far as I'm concerned. Peter was wronged before letting the robber go, which made him more relatable and sympathetic to the audience. The audience's reaction to it basically was "Yup, that's exactly what I would have done if I were him!" only to be sucker punched with the consequence of Uncle Ben's murder just like Peter was.

Great stuff. Modern capeshit movies would never have this much thought put into it.
 
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Powerhouse of the Cell said:
there is no way they can just hire cheap actors for it now.
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cheaper. thats the main word, they could have had Emma Stone and Adam Driver but they'd also have to pay $20 million for both.
StarkRavingMad said:
2002 was back in the day when not everyone and their mother knew Spider-Man's origin story
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its crazy thinking about how few people were online back in the 2000s in general, but even if you were online even sites like youtube felt smaller, you can look up the biggest webvideos of 2009 and its like an animal making a funny face, this is back when people were still shocked other people remembered TMNT villians like Krang. like a majority of the biggest keywords were just people looking up movie trailers or music videos or the latest lonely island video.

like the app store just came out so stuff like an app that makes gun noises or a beer pour were the height of culture.
 
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Get the rope Macaulay! said:
an app that makes gun noises or a beer pour were the height of culture.
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I remember Ivan Stang had a BACK IN MY DAY internet story of how in the early days of normieweb like aol getting on the web he wanted to have a button on a website that would make a toilet flush noise or whatever and his web guy was like "holy shit do you have any idea how much data that would need to just blast a sound file across the internet randomly like that are you nuts"
 
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Tor Lugosi said:
The after credits scene for the new Captain America is up on YouTube.

Did the writers just forget about the three alien invasions or how New Asgard is a tourist destination with dozens of alien species? The idea of the 'others' being shocking is retarded.
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maybe the entire other worlds are showing up? and there's gonna be giant planets flying at them
but yeah, nah it's fucking retarded
yet another space menace is certainly an issue but this is like, by this point there's probably government forms to fill out about this shit
 
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The plot summary on reddit matches with the leak from last year. Blah. It sounds painful and boring. Nothing like The Winter Soldier who has a cameo. (Ironically Thunderbolts will fix that)

The focus on Ross hurts it. They lucked out with Harrison Ford. Apparently Amadeus Cho is extremely miscast. Giancarlo Esposito is the head of the Serpent Society and they're literally in it 9 minutes total and at the beginning too. Liv is botoxed to hell. Sabra is incredibly pointless and serves no purpose. They'd have been better off with Sharon.
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
The Dark Knight midnight screening in particular, though ... Man. Not even Endgame was able to recapture that. The entire audience was entranced and amazed by the storytelling. You could hear a pindrop at all of the right scenes, people cheered, applauded, and gasped at all of the right scenes, etc. The energy in that theater that night was that everyone there knew that a movie classic was happening in front of our eyes.
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Conversely I was at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, and during the big finale my mate leans over to me and whispers "Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb."

I nearly ruptured a lung trying not to laugh.
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
Raimi added the most subtle change to Spider-Man's origin story-- a change that I thought was brilliant and is canon as far as I'm concerned. Peter was wronged before letting the robber go, which made him more relatable and sympathetic to the audience. The audience's reaction to it basically was "Yup, that's exactly what I would have done if I were him!" only to be sucker punched with the consequence of Uncle Ben's murder just like Peter was.
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The best part is Peter getting screwed in that capacity was a very early idea in the comics (ASM #1, literally the first issue after the origin, has him failing to cash Sullivan's check because it's made out to spider-man) that they just kept backporting closer to the origin as time went on. In the Ultimate comics' retelling the wrestling promoter's vault gets robbed, they accuse spider-man and kick him out, he refuses to help with another separate robbery out of resentment for the first and it's the second robber that shoots Ben.

Raimi having the promoter unambiguously wrong Peter first, then get robbed, was a stroke of genius.
 
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Only big theatre experience I've ever gotten was the Dragon Ball: Broly movie, where it was the most hyped fucking theatre I'd ever been to. When Vegeta went SSG, I had one guy yelling 'THAT'S MY NIGGA!', everyone got up to chant for Broly transforming, people went crazy for that ten second shot of Bardock firing off one shot, ect. It was a magical night.
 
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Reviews for Cap 4 are coming out, and yeesh:
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If you dig into the summaries, even the "positive" reviews have more disclaimers than a pharmaceutical ad. Aside from the critics who are mad that it doesn't try to play into modern politics (which is retarded given the political situation in a world of capeshit is going to be grossly different from ours anyway), it's mostly a bunch of "well this sure is an MCU movie." It sounds like yet another by-the-numbers movie, made worse by constant reshoots and disjointed editing.

Of course, you also have the shills pretending that nothing's wrong, like good ol' lolcow Moviebob:
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Judging from the summaries, though, Bob's in the minority with regards to the positive reviews. Critics are either outright dunking on it or calling it mediocre overall.
 
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King Dead said:
Critics are either outright dunking on it or calling it mediocre overall.
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We're going to find out USAID funded the last dozen years of pop culture aren't we?

Shits going bad. I'd be shocked if the MCU doesn't just vanish Captain America.

The MCU went all in on FF and its looking like Kevin faggy is going to retire real soon.

The critical have been going after marvel more in the last 2 years than the entire Thanos saga.

This is going to be frontloaded as fuck.
 
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