I can't tell if it's bots or if aging millennials
people always talk about AGI when it comes to AI, not realizing that 75% of the human population can't pass the benchmark of "general intelligence" either.
Its even worse than you think because a decade ago when Fant4stic came out, literally no one online was using that retarded name unless as a joke. everyone used the proper name "fantastic four" but between indians and boomers all only just learning how to be online in the last decade and zoomers being taught to use people's preferred names and pronouns its obvious only the most compliant are dominant online now.
Harrison Ford was apparently very crotchety
he was forced to do the mo-cap work for hulk, and because of the plane crash he got into Harrison can't even move his arms above his chest anymore and walks like the 80+ year old man he is, i swear someone said he did more stunts in this than the last indy film. like year of course he's crotchety
Red Hulk is one character that should've just stayed in the comics. The whole idea is just too dumb and contrived. It's comic book-y in all the worst ways.
i didn't realize the "hulk family" only started in the mid-2000s, before then it was just Hulk and she-hulk. then they decided to expand the roster because they knew there would be films and tv shows, same with a bunch of other comics in the last 20 years really.
like how batman went from 2 (technically 3) robins and batgirl and alfred and almost exactly 20 years ago suddenly you had 5 robins, 4 batgirls, a dozen knock off batman, a couple catwomen, lucious fox, and a fuck load of other people all part of the "Bat Family" I can't exactly say for sure but comics took a massive nosedive in quality and the last ok years were the early 2000s.
There's a reason they've been a lot more cautious about how they adapt comic book storylines and they'll change stuff like Ms. Marvel's powers if they feel they can't make them work. but now they don't give a fuck and it shows hard. even reddit is trashing this film, and that's very rare for them nowadays. in the last 5 years they've only shit on a handful of blockbuster films, and of those i'd say half of them were sony's spiderman spin-offs. this is getting Madame Webb/Kraven/Morbious level mockery.
the MCU has released 24 tvshows and movies in the last 5 years and of those only maybe a half dozen have been well received. you had the exact opposite ratio for the 24 films they released in the 2010s. Its times like these that you have to wonder if it was even worth making any more films, imagine if they just stopped after Endgame. It reminds me of how huge Star Wars became after the OT and makes me wonder if it would have stayed good if George kept shitting out a new film every 3rd year.
Another big thing to point out is that the MCU deliberately took 2024 off outside of deadpool 3 and 3 tv shows they very quietly released so they could regroup and go back to making good shit again, if you've looked at the 2025 release calendar, apparently they didn't learn jack shit. Ironheart is DOA and we all know they're going to fuck up daredevil, thunderbolts feels as Paint-by-numbers as this does, and Fantastic four is only getting slight optimistic enthusiasm
s because I need my Black Widow sequel
after the lawsuit ScarJo is more likely to appear in BLACKED than a Black Widow sequel, Miss Flo is the new black widow. Thunderbolts is going to get the backblast of this film's shitty reception, the stupid song they used doesn't bode well for that film's "antics" either.
but fucking annoying ass Robert Downey Jr demanded to be let in
i don't believe that for a fucking second, RDJ was their most popular actor in all of the MCU and they needed him more than he needed them, he gets paid way too much for him to demand to be a part of any film without cause. Chapek's son is also listed as a producer, so its more likely that this is a project that got all the contracts filled right before covid and that's why Scarjo, Chapek, and others got an exec producer credit on this movie which was probably a Black Widow sequel at some point and then turned into this.
the film itself looks fucking stupid, Sentry ruins the whole concept, it should have been a dumb McGuffin plot, like stealing some comic book material from a comic book country, like have them steal Vibranium from Wakanda.
Sentry in general is a great idea wasted on being forced into comics, if it was a genuine one-shot and marvel wasn't allowed to bring him back it would be the greatest story of the modern marvel era. its what i always use for why Manga is better than comics. every new concept isn't chained to these huge franchises forever where no one ever dies or ages.
