megaplayboy Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 My guess is that Marvel does about 20-30 movies every 10 years, for the next 20 years, then reboots the whole cinematic universe as the actors age out and the audience demographics shift. That would make it by far the longest continuous film series in the west, outside of some old cliffhanger serials of the 20s, 30s and 40s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 Well James Bond has been going on since 1962, its the longest running and most successful franchise series in history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 when black panther became the first superhero movie to be nominated for an Oscar marvel must have flipped out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 That nomination came after Disney/Marvel put a lot of time, money, and effort into working the political levers of the Academy. I think they would have flipped out had it not been nominated. Matt the Bruins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 Yeah, honestly I doubt they were particularly surprised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Never underrated by me. One of my favorite elements of Age of Ultron was the teamwork between Thor and Cap. Between all of the Avengers, really. The opening battle in that film particularly displayed what a well-oiled machine they'd become. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Yeah that was one of the high points of the movie, how well they worked together. Too bad the rest of the film didn't live up to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 That is one of the things I have enjoyed in most the movies, that their choreographers have thought about how they can support each other. Even Winter Soldier with Cap and Sam had some stuff, not to mention watching Bucky and Cap defeat the death squad in Civil War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDU Neil Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 On 1/8/2019 at 12:21 AM, Hermit said: Oh I hope It does well, but again, mostly because I want that Kamala Khan spin off Yes. A thousand times, yes. (I have no more likes.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 After watching the newest Fantastic Four film (yes FF in name only), I've gone on stretchy superpowers. It looks unnatural and gross. Sorry Reed. Twilight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 You watched that? On purpose? Why do you hate yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 18 minutes ago, Bazza said: After watching the newest Fantastic Four film (yes FF in name only), I've gone on stretchy superpowers. It looks unnatural and gross. Sorry Reed. Watch The Incredibles and Incredibles 2 and that should help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 I have, but those are animated. I'm fine with that, but seeing actual 'fake' skin and an arm actually stretch. That I find extremely unbalancing. Ps: Ben as a rock monster -- fine with that -- for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 41 minutes ago, Old Man said: You watched that? On purpose? Why do you hate yourself? As a film goes, it wasn't bad. I just wished they dropped the FF ethos (names, etc). It then would have been a nice pastiche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Bazza said: I just wished they dropped the FF ethos (names, etc). It then would have been a nice pastiche. I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. Unfortunately, they know that their crappy movie won't be seen by anyone unless they appropriate the names and use them as nerd-culture-bait to get fans into theaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 On Flash, they do a decent job with Elongated Man's stretching. Not nearly as disturbing and uncanny valley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 For the most part I'm ok with Elongated Man's stretching. Some of it is still a little disturbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 Saw Ant Man & the Wasp finally. It was okay, entertaining but light weight. Not a lot of dramatic tension in the movie being about trying to get someone's mom out of somewhere inexplicable that you've never seen and have no emotional connection with. The truth serum scenes were funny, wish they'd have had Wasp spend more time blasting and flying and less leaping around martial artsing. She was basically Ant-Man, without ants (meh) and with flight and blast, but a better martial artist. It was like having Rambo be a sidekick in a movie about Rambo. Rambo AND Superman! You sit over there, John. Don't even wear the costume. Someone else can wear it a while, though. Particularly annoying was the inexplicable use of fake CGI young faces on Fishburne and Douglas. We know what they looked like as younger men, we've seen them in dozens of films. Why on earth didn't they model the young faces on, you know, younger versions of these actual men??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 2 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said: Why on earth didn't they model the young faces on, you know, younger versions of these actual men??? They probably tried to. For some reason this is still very, very hard to pull off convincingly. I remember watching dailies of the shots featuring CGI young Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy and wondering why we couldn't make him as convincing as all the CGI aged Brad Pitts we'd done for Benjamin Button. The CG models were okay, I guess, but the facial animation was just plain bad. Part of it, I believe, may have had to do with the fact that Jeff Bridges refused to do all the facial capture stuff that Brad Pitt did (quite enthusiastically I might add), which left CLU lacking a certain realism you really only get from solid performance capture sessions. I think I was even more amazed that 6 years later ILM failed to produce a CGI young Carry Fischer that was any more convincing than our CGI young Jeff Bridges. The uncanny valley is immensely deep and more difficult to climb out of than even I imagined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 11 minutes ago, zslane said: Carry Fischer Well, no wonder! Whoever this guy is, he looks nothing like Carrie Fisher. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Ternaugh said: Well, no wonder! Whoever this guy is, he looks nothing like Carrie Fisher. Maybe he is related to Cary Grant. Ternaugh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2019 Old Man and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 4, 2019 Report Share Posted February 4, 2019 The very brief Avengers Endgame SB trailer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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