Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 New Yorker: How the MCU Swallowed Hollywood (long read) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted June 11, 2023 Report Share Posted June 11, 2023 Recently discovered the Geek Buddies podcast, and going through their episode reviews of Hawkeye. It reminded me how cool this scene was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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csyphrett Posted June 19, 2023 Report Share Posted June 19, 2023 2 hours ago, Bazza said: No surprise there. This was the base of the Lee-Ditko feud and why Ditko didn't work for Marvel for years until he created Speedball with Roger Stern's help. I admit that a lot of people outside comics wouldn't know that the three first Marvel creators didn't get along and Lee was responsible for DC and independents getting Kirby and Ditko work. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted June 21, 2023 Report Share Posted June 21, 2023 Son of Jack Kirby slams new Stan Lee documentary. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/iron-man-creator-jack-kirby-182159778.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2023 Actual statement, two posts above yours. Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted June 21, 2023 Report Share Posted June 21, 2023 15 minutes ago, Bazza said: Actual statement, two posts above yours. oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2023 It’s all good. Some have this uncontrollable issue about not clicking on tweets. It’s like they have make believe children’s disease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted June 28, 2023 Report Share Posted June 28, 2023 (edited) On 6/19/2023 at 12:42 AM, Bazza said: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stan-lee-marvel-veteran-review-disney-doc-1235523843/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR120bi92TTYDQdQ3IH9fFufzKgXYit4zuN-Ok3jxbO3Be6Crf8HlkG8w2c Roy Thomas addresses the issue Edited June 28, 2023 by Starlord Lord Liaden and Hermit 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 28, 2023 Report Share Posted June 28, 2023 Witnesses, surveillance footage, additional accusations of fraud and grand theft in Jonathan Majors domestic violence case Next court date is August 3. Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2023 Lawnmower Boy and Ranxerox 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Old Man Posted June 30, 2023 Report Share Posted June 30, 2023 3 hours ago, Bazza said: GotG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted July 12, 2023 Report Share Posted July 12, 2023 I pulled out my Infinity Gauntlet graphic novel yesterday and read it through. I was struck by how much, vastly much better that was than the movies and it made me kind of sad. But, and this is a very important qualifier, there was no way that the MCU version could be as good. The comic book series was relying on decades of stories, characters, developments, and events over the course of comic books that simply wasn't there for the movies. They couldn't use Adam Warlock because the only way the story worked was because of Adam's very long history and incredible adventures with cosmic beings over the years. All those bizarre and delightful Starlin comics that developed a truly amazing cosmic stories and characters, building the universe. Marvel Cinema only had a few years and a few dozen characters to wedge into this story, so they couldn't rely on all that back story to set up the events. Which is sad, because what a missed opportunity. But they did okay with what they had -- not, I believe, nearly as good as some seem to claim, but okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted October 5, 2023 Report Share Posted October 5, 2023 And the Super Skrull thing was really weak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 Rumor: Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Film To Be “Sue Storm-Centric”, Reed Richards “So Poorly Depicted That Some Actors Even Passed On Playing The Role” https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/09/29/rumor-marvels-fantastic-four-film-to-be-sue-storm-centric-reed-richards-so-poorly-depicted-that-some-actors-even-passed-on-playing-the-role/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted October 7, 2023 Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 59 minutes ago, Bazza said: Rumor: Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Film To Be “Sue Storm-Centric”, Reed Richards “So Poorly Depicted That Some Actors Even Passed On Playing The Role” https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/09/29/rumor-marvels-fantastic-four-film-to-be-sue-storm-centric-reed-richards-so-poorly-depicted-that-some-actors-even-passed-on-playing-the-role/ I'm going to reserve judgment until something more concrete than one anonymous person's statements come out. We don't know what HIS biases are. Dr.Device 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted October 7, 2023 Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 Quote I'm going to reserve judgment until something more concrete than one anonymous person's statements come out. We don't know what HIS biases are. Same. It does not sound good and it would be not exactly unusual for Marvel to do this but we'll see. Marvel kind of has to do the XMen and Fantastic Four right or they can just write off being relevant for a generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 7, 2023 Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 The misguided Marvel movie and television projects in recent years have squandered a lot of the public confidence and goodwill toward their brand that they built over a decade. The studio really needs to get its act together and start putting out less quantity and more quality, if they want to recapture their loyal audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 7, 2023 Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 Sue centric would be the direct opposite of Fantastic Four (2015) where it was reported that the director didn't want the character around. Kate Mara had to come back and wear a wig to refilm some of her scenes. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted October 7, 2023 Report Share Posted October 7, 2023 16 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: The misguided Marvel movie and television projects in recent years have squandered a lot of the public confidence and goodwill toward their brand that they built over a decade. The studio really needs to get its act together and start putting out less quantity and more quality, if they want to recapture their loyal audience. Welcome to full assimilation into the Borg...I mean Disney...Collective. Not happening. They have a streaming channel to sell, so it'll be more quantity, quality be damned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. MID-Nite Posted October 8, 2023 Report Share Posted October 8, 2023 20 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: The misguided Marvel movie and television projects in recent years have squandered a lot of the public confidence and goodwill toward their brand that they built over a decade. The studio really needs to get its act together and start putting out less quantity and more quality, if they want to recapture their loyal audience. I'm curious as to what you consider to be big misses. Not saying it isn't true...just curious. Lately, it seems like every Marvel project is bashed to hell before it even comes out. In that environment, nothing is going to be satisfactory. I thought Age of Ultron was garbage, but I didn't assume everything was going to be crap going forward...which is what people seem to be doing now. Not everything is going to be Avengers (2012) or Thor: Dark World. Most things are going to be somewhere in between. Secret Invasion was definitely a miss, but I thought Wandavision was pretty good. I guess as a fan of monster films, I'm just used to quality being up and down and I don't dismiss the genre based on any one film or even a group of them. "shrugs" Old Man, Ternaugh and Lawnmower Boy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted October 8, 2023 Report Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) The rumble about Daredevil (and stuff specifically released) sounds sketchy too, like having no Karen around in the Born Again storyline and Ben Urich being replaced by a female character. We'll see when it comes out but given the bad publicity and panning of shows like She Hulk and Secret Invasion Marvel seems like they ought to be really careful what kind of things they do lately. Don't get me wrong, I didn't much care for the Karen character in the Netflix show, her and Foggy were basically dead air time to fill minutes but she plays a super key role in the Born Again story. Edited October 8, 2023 by Christopher R Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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