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Feige wants to beat WB/DC to the multiverse punch, hoping to make the Flashpoint movie look like a lame attempt at copying Marvel's success, yet again.

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I'm willing to bet that had it been someone like Charlize Theron or Angelina Jolie in the role, that stare-down with Thor would have been received more favorably by nay-sayers. Brie Larson, for all her acting talent, just doesn't project the fierce attitude and raw charisma necessary to sell that scene, at least not to a large portion of the male audience. Most of the time Marvel gets it right when casting women to play "badass" characters (Black Widow, Peggy Carter, Okoye, Valkyrie, Hela), but sometimes they miss the mark, and when they do, the criticism (and disappointment) is understandable.

Considering it's Marvel, I expect they're mandating the designer use a 616-sided die (with no consideration that no player or GM would be able to see the die result when rolled).

More importantly, there should be lots of published material to convert to a superior, more mature, points based rules system. 

I'm willing to bet that had it been someone like Charlize Theron or Angelina Jolie in the role, that stare-down with Thor would have been received more favorably by nay-sayers. Brie Larson, for all her acting talent, just doesn't project the fierce attitude and raw charisma necessary to sell that scene, at least not to a large portion of the male audience. Most of the time Marvel gets it right when casting women to play "badass" characters (Black Widow, Peggy Carter, Okoye, Valkyrie, Hela), but sometimes they miss the mark, and when they do, the criticism (and disappointment) is understandable.

You are quite right. Unfortunately, the fact that there is an in-movie explanation/justification for Carol's dour personality isn't going to do much to make the haters not hate her anymore.
 
I think part of the problem here is that we spend so much of the movie's running time with Vers, the cold, ruthless Kree super-soldier, that we regard her, and not the hero she eventually becomes, as the movie's protagonist. For many, Vers is all they remember, and the fault for that probably lies in a combination of things: the screenplay, Larson's public behavior, and a general weariness for contemporary gender politics, to name just a few.

Are you guys misspelling it FACERIP on purpose?

You are quite right. Unfortunately, the fact that there is an in-movie explanation/justification for Carol's dour personality isn't going to do much to make the haters not hate her anymore.
 
I think part of the problem here is that we spend so much of the movie's running time with Vers, the cold, ruthless Kree super-soldier, that we regard her, and not the hero she eventually becomes, as the movie's protagonist. For many, Vers is all they remember, and the fault for that probably lies in a combination of things: the screenplay, Larson's public behavior, and a general weariness for contemporary gender politics, to name just a few.

You are quite right. Unfortunately, the fact that there is an in-movie explanation/justification for Carol's dour personality isn't going to do much to make the haters not hate her anymore.
 
I think part of the problem here is that we spend so much of the movie's running time with Vers, the cold, ruthless Kree super-soldier, that we regard her, and not the hero she eventually becomes, as the movie's protagonist. For many, Vers is all they remember, and the fault for that probably lies in a combination of things: the screenplay, Larson's public behavior, and a general weariness for contemporary gender politics, to name just a few.

I finally made my way through Batman: The Animated Series.
 
Despite the high praise this cartoon routinely receives, it just was not for me. I say that as a middle-aged adult who never watched it during its original run. I was already in my late 20s when it aired and I had no interest in it. So I carry no nostalgic feelings towards it. I can only view it through the lens of an adult who has very high standards for storytelling that no kid's cartoon could possibly meet.
 
But rather than go through the long list of things that drove me nuts about the show, I will just list the things I give it an A+ grade for:
Stellar voice cast. Exceptional music score. Excellent character designs. Wonderful Retro-Decco aesthetic that reminds us of the time period Batman truly belongs to. Batman regarded by the police as an ally (Bullock notwithstanding).

The advice writers always get is "write what you know". A lot of what comes out of Hollywood seems decidedly narrow in (intellectual) scope and immature in perspective. I think that age old bit of advice succinctly explains why.

The advice writers always get is "write what you know". A lot of what comes out of Hollywood seems decidedly narrow in (intellectual) scope and immature in perspective. I think that age old bit of advice succinctly explains why.

I feel the same way about Batman. Were I to be in charge of Batman movies, I'd reboot them entirely and do them as retro pieces, set in the time period and culture Kane & Finger wrote them in.

I finally made my way through Batman: The Animated Series.
 
Despite the high praise this cartoon routinely receives, it just was not for me. I say that as a middle-aged adult who never watched it during its original run. I was already in my late 20s when it aired and I had no interest in it. So I carry no nostalgic feelings towards it. I can only view it through the lens of an adult who has very high standards for storytelling that no kid's cartoon could possibly meet.
 
But rather than go through the long list of things that drove me nuts about the show, I will just list the things I give it an A+ grade for:
Stellar voice cast. Exceptional music score. Excellent character designs. Wonderful Retro-Decco aesthetic that reminds us of the time period Batman truly belongs to. Batman regarded by the police as an ally (Bullock notwithstanding).

I finally made my way through Batman: The Animated Series.
 
Despite the high praise this cartoon routinely receives, it just was not for me. I say that as a middle-aged adult who never watched it during its original run. I was already in my late 20s when it aired and I had no interest in it. So I carry no nostalgic feelings towards it. I can only view it through the lens of an adult who has very high standards for storytelling that no kid's cartoon could possibly meet.
 
But rather than go through the long list of things that drove me nuts about the show, I will just list the things I give it an A+ grade for:
Stellar voice cast. Exceptional music score. Excellent character designs. Wonderful Retro-Decco aesthetic that reminds us of the time period Batman truly belongs to. Batman regarded by the police as an ally (Bullock notwithstanding).

Were I to be in charge of Bond movies, I'd reboot them entirely and do them as retro pieces, set in the time period and culture Ian Fleming wrote them in.

There is a significant advantage to a "meh" property.  You can adapt them to better appeal to the audience and/or better fit the new media.  Change Superman and there is a huge outcry.  How many people have expectations of who the Eternals are and how they will act in the movie?
 
The success of G0tG proved that MCU can make successful movies with "below B-list" properties.  "Movies no one asked for"?  Who asked for Iron Man or Thor in the first place?  Really, what we now call "Phase 1" was a bunch of comic fans who believed they could bring characters they loved to the movies and make the audiences love them too.  They pulled it off.

You'll notice that not a single one of the other so-called Spider-verse movies feature Spider-Man. Tom Holland doesn't want to be in Sony's Spider-verse; he feels his home is the MCU. That means Sony will likely have to move forward with a different Spider-Man if they want that character to be part of some kind of shared cinematic universe. My vote is that they establish a live-action Miles Morales and continue their Spider-verse with him. Tom Holland can continue to be the MCU's Spider-Man and everybody wins.

You'll notice that not a single one of the other so-called Spider-verse movies feature Spider-Man. Tom Holland doesn't want to be in Sony's Spider-verse; he feels his home is the MCU. That means Sony will likely have to move forward with a different Spider-Man if they want that character to be part of some kind of shared cinematic universe. My vote is that they establish a live-action Miles Morales and continue their Spider-verse with him. Tom Holland can continue to be the MCU's Spider-Man and everybody wins.

Hey, nobody asked for a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, either.

The trailers for all the recent MCU movies have left me less than excited as well, for the most part.
 
Black Widow looks potentially very entertaining, but it looks to me more like a Bond movie on steroids than a "superhero" movie. Shang Chi doesn't excite me at all, mostly because the cast does nothing for me, and what (little) we've seen of the fight choreography doesn't even look up to the standards of Into the Badlands. As for Eternals, well, all I can say is that the first teaser/trailer was very weak in terms of exciting visuals or conveying any sense of the story, so it was pretty much a waste of some editor's time, IMO. But I'm hoping the movie will surprise me, like the first GotG movie did.

I suspect that the results of these various studies are reflections of the fact that most of us grew up reading hardcopy texts. It should come as no surprise that our brains became optimized for extracting and retaining information from that format. However, current (and future) generations who spend most of their time consuming information from a screen will most likely have brains optimized for that, rather than for hardcopy. It's like how I can type fastest, using all my fingers, on a full-size mechanical keyboard, and not very well at all just using my thumbs on the tiny virtual keyboard of my smartphone, whereas for kids today it's the other way around.

Interesting! I didn't know that existed. I do respect the effort that went into the FASERIP clone book; it is rather well done, IMO. However, they didn't have to go out of their way to rename everything since the only protectable IP elements in MSH were the Marvel characters.

Out of curiosity, what is an example of a "FASERIP clone"?
 
The only game I've ever encountered that uses the "FASERIP" system is the Marvel Super-Heroes RPG, which basically makes "FASERIP" and "MSH" synonymous, with "MSH" having the virtue of being faster (and easier) to type.