Winter Soldier showed how to properly use an aging former A lister. Robert Redford killed it in Winter Solider, and other than holding a gun he didn't do any stunts.
I'd love to hear Bucky's policies on the economy.
Honestly, I would love an accurate, in-depth exploration of the political climate in the MCU.
It's gotta be contract issues or some cheapskate bullshit.
Ugh. It was so unnecessary. Especially considering how the character has a full fledged death and funeral in what if.
I love that shit too. Political infrastructure and clashing Nation states are always interesting. Unfortunately Disney thinks their audience are idiots ( and let's face it, a great deal are) so your never going to get something good outside of a game or side story if you're lucky.
I want to hear his policy on the middle east.
I'd argue Michelle Pfeiffer too. Despite missing for most of the film, she is the emotional core of AMaTW. Also they didn't need to use that CGI technology to make her look younger like they did with Michael Douglas.
It doesn't work. It worked for phase one because the films weren't huge yet and fuckery like that was still common in the 2000s.
The problem is who could they have cast, plus the optics would be rough, especially in a post Floyd era with the only big recasts being two black dudes and ed Norton.
You laugh but somehow Obama only got one term then replaced by the iron Man 3 president then trump than Ross if you accept the premise that the Netflix shows are canon. Trump also wins reelection in 2020. Which means in a way superheroes made the country a fuck load more conservative, I guess Obama era Democrats fucking with Tony Stark really led to them being destroyed in the 2012 election. It also makes sense when you realize Tony Stark is treated as a stand in for Republicans in the comics and acts like a mix between trump and musk and would spend his fortune to force the Democrats to get fucked over for treating him badly in iron Man 2 and why you stop hearing about government trying to demand he give up his tech.
Space Marvel is also lacking in Galaxy infrastructure. Thanks to superheroes, Earth is the Aghanistan of the galaxy, so Aliens would treat it as Arakis. Instead, they float and villnuder.it unused.
he played super ghetto thugs up until that role, playing Gus is a lot better than playing crackheads.
thats because harrison acts like a politican and much like Biden you can feel the contempt even when he's trying to be a nice guy to the blacks around him. 0 sincerity.
no need to speculate it 100% lost money. disney was lying out their fucking ass about it being $180 million, it needs roughly $450 m to "break even" but was expected to hit $800 m a month ago. by July we'll find out it actually was made for $350 million. just like how The Marvels was supposedly made for $170 million and then after it bombed at the box office they admitted it actually cost $345 million.
Yeah the joke is that it feels like the budget came from USAID rather than investors so they don't have to worry about making money back.
Respectful disagreement on just two points. The de-aging on Michael Douglas was during a flashback to his days as Antman. Unless they used it elsewhere and I missed it. So that's justified. And solely on Ben Kingsley I don't think he was wasted in that role because even though it was a minor one, you needed someone of his calibre to pull off what they wanted there. Playing a character is one thing, playing an actor playing a character is actually pretty hard. And Kingsley can do comedy pretty well too which the role also needed. (He was also a supporting role in Shang-Chi as well fwiw)
Not really. She has friends and is mainly left alone. In fact, it's very minor but it's one of my favourite things in the show that when she gets her powers and starts feeling more confident, she gets the guts to confront two of her "bullies" - a pair of girls who block her locker - and just say "excuse me" and they notice that she's there and let her by. I.e. the show explicitly shows that she wasn't being bullied, it was just her perspective. I love that little element of the show for being actually helpful to kids: she wasn't bullied, she just saw herself as a victim and then stopped doing so.
they gave her a $250 million dollar film.
And she was the only good part of it. The rest of it was Brie Larson doing Bollywood musical numbers and Samuel L. Jackson yelling "Black Girl Magic!" to make someone fly.
Holy crap did they badly mismanage the space aspect of marvel. If they were smart they would lean more into it and actually adapt some kickass arcs like annihilation or just play around more with the major powers. They completely screwed up the kree-skrull dynamics. Admittedly rights issues were involved early on, but come on. They could have made a half way decent retcon. Lot of missed opportunities to bring in heroes from that area. Should have been the arc between endgame and secret wars.
it actually sucks that they're using him like this. it would have made a neat anniversary miniseries for Disney+, literally adapt the first mini-series which treats sentry like the Marvel Forest Gump, and just splice him into everything, have him shoot new scenes with all the cast and boom instant "love letter to the fans" hit. Of course they sort of did that already with endgame but they can always do it for the 20th anniversary or whenever.
people don't seem to realize how much it costs to do space bullshit. GOTG 2 mostly takes place on one planet and two different star ships which had both sets already made, and it still cost $200 million. you can't really do any of it cheaply, so it has to be a billion dollar hit. because of the modern film economy, in general its retarded to do blockbusters now. there's a reason you aren't seeing many movies with budgets beyond $125 million outside of kids animated films anymore, the ROI is shit.
