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I miss the One Shots.

Not only are they good fun, but they add a certain depth. Like an extended post-credits sting.

 Ghaz wrote:
... Now, in a notable shift, the rights have reverted to Marvel Studios...

This is the 'major bit of news' I was referring to. If Marvel has reclaimed the distribution rights from Universal, then they should be able to make a film where Hulk is the lead character and not relegated to being a sidekick...

 AduroT wrote:
Don’t you put Venom in the same bin as Morbius!

They’re both Dirty Boys and must share the same bin.

 Easy E wrote:
Is that the one from Ang Lee?

I would watch that again.

No - this is the Ed Norton v Abomination one. I actually prefer the Ang Lee one...

 AduroT wrote:
Don’t you put Venom in the same bin as Morbius!

you said it, Venom is watchable, Morbius is, well, Morbius

Morbius is so good, they re-released it to the theatre!



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Dirty dirty dirty dirty don’t make me go..erm…invent…thread bleach.

DIRTY BOYS!


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 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Don’t you put Venom in the same bin as Morbius!

Morbius is, well, Morbius

Stars a bloody awful actor who fronts a bloody awful rock band, isn’t even vaguely talented and allegedly pays extra special attention to those fans that…..shall we say weren’t around circa 2008….allegedly.

But more importantly, made Joker seem like a right spanker and about as hard and threatening and edgy as a sponge from the planet wussywussywusspants.

I think they are missing 2 of the 3 MCU spidermans still.

MCU adjacent, so not sure if this deserves its own thread, but the Kraven the Hunter trailer is up:

https://youtu.be/rze8QYwWGMs

Secret Invasion kicks off tomorrow. I for one a, hype.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Secret Invasion kicks off tomorrow. I for one a, hype.

Agreed. I am really excited to see some hopefully Winter Soldier style content. Sepite there being Skrulls the MCU has lacked some of this more grounded action since... Hawkeye?

Good first episode. Less build up than I was expecting, they just kind of jump in with both feet right off the bat. Lot of info on what Fury’s deal has been since Endgame. Something I expected to happen later in the series happens already. No fancy credits like the other series have had, just black and white text. No post credit scene on this one.

Well. Blimey.

Straight into it, eh? And without gloves.

I’m hyped for the rest of this tale!

And now the show is stirring controversy over its opening credits use of ai artwork. They say they did it intentionally for the off putting not quite human effect of the ai art.

Now, I'm no lawyer but IIRC AI art isn't legally protected in terms of copyright because it wasn't made by a human (thank you PETA).

but as the monkey photograph copyright case proved even if the AI did most of the work (like the monkey did) the fact that a human set up the situation (set up the camera, input the request for a certain type of image to the AI) it could be copywrite to those humans

As far as I know if the AI did the majority of the work then the product cannot be copyrighted. So if a human puts prompts into a generator then the resulting product is not a copyrightable product.
So for the example that set the law in the US, a human created a comic book using AI that generated the layout and images while the human made the text. Because most of the work had been done by the AI the product wasn't allowed to be covered by US copyright law.
So if this intro was a human putting prompts into a generator that the AI then generated, it wouldn't be covered.

As far as the show itself is concerned, one of the more interesting things is they've never established Boss Skrull Talos as a good guy.

In Captain Marvel they just sort of handwaved it as 'he has a family, he must be good,' and we're sort of stuck with that premise for the intro. But this is the kind of show that should have layers...




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Really uncertain about this one after epsiode 1.

Everyone is an obvious spy. No one actually walks around like they're just people- they move like people in a spy movie, openly sneaking on the street in front of people (and pulling guns).

Can't figure out why homeless chic is a thing, either. Its seems like it would attract more attention than just workman/business casual.

Some of the transformation scenes just do not work. Yes, the Skrulls are hidden from the camera view and the protagonist(s) view, but are in full view of other people.

This reminds me a lot of the Dr Who follow-up episode with the shape-shifting tentacle monsters, post peace treaty, when a faction is creating a conflict because there needs to be a conflict to resolve.

Yeah, I was immediately like How did no one see them change!? the first time they pulled that stunt in the crowd and then they did it twice more. I was rather expecting a twist that nigh the entire crowd were Skrulls and it was an elaborate trap to bait and capture Fury.

Decent first episode. I like the paranoid vibe they're setting up right from the start and the quick jump into the action.

Some minor quibbles:

1. I assume the crowd scene at the end was telling us that scary Skrull leader dude was in fact tracking Fury in Moscow by shifting into all those people he saw. That's fine for the guy in the bar, but how the hell does that work for the woman on the park bench and the kid that were there was he walked through the city? Is the guy shifting, then sprinting down a bunch of side alleys to shift again and wait for Fury to show up? Weird.

2. Agreed about the "everyone is acting like a spy" thing. Maybe in the case of G'iah (yes, I looked up how to spell it) it's supposed to be showing her inexperience but everyone else just kind of screams "SPY!" with how they definitively do not blend in anywhere.

3. As far as the overall plot goes, doesn't the fact that world governments are aware that Skrulls exist make the supposed plot a bit dodgy? Sure, you can't assume Skrulls are responsible for everything, but when it's one plausible explanation for geopolitical frenemies doing out of character things it somewhat lessens the impact of their plan.

4. Agree on the shifting in plain sight problems. It looks cool on screen but the practicalities don't make sense. Wouldn't this sort of thing be all over social media by now as well? It reminds me of the scene at the end of Rise of Skywalker where Rey teleports the lightsabre to Kylo and he pulls it from behind his back. It's supposed to be this big kick-ass moment, until you realise Kylo's surrounded and the 3 guys behind him would clearly see the sabre he's now holding, which just turns the whole scene into unintended comedy for me.

The most important thing?

Martin Freeman got beaten up.

That’s the main thing here.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The most important thing?

Martin Freeman got beaten up.

That’s the main thing here.

I'm in !

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The most important thing?

Martin Freeman got beaten up.

That’s the main thing here.

I'm in !

I used to have issues with his American accent, but then I saw (and heard) Burn Gorman in Man in the High Castle so now I have no problem with him at all.

MarkNorfolk wrote:

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The most important thing?

Martin Freeman got beaten up.

That’s the main thing here.

I'm in !

I used to have issues with his American accent, but then I saw (and heard) Burn Gorman in Man in the High Castle so now I have no problem with him at all.

Oh he has The Hobbit trilogy, Sherlock Holmes, Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and innumerable “Martin Freeman Looks Exasperated in a variety of different films” to make up for.

So, I was mulling over the show at breakfast, and realized we've got another 'refugees are worthless people' story going on.

The usual mix of Gormless Tools and Evil Terrorists.

Nevermind that they are shapeshifting aliens who are physically superior to humans, a partially intact tech base, a couple dozen sites that only they can inhabit, and 30 years to work , they're just barely getting by.

Instead of refugees are scum, we could have had the prosperous United Secret Skrull Republic, propped up by Skrull Technologies Incorporated, and either openly or secretly puppeting MCU!Russia (or, gasp, actually cooperating). And that could have been the basis for either powerful and prosperous micro-nation (and a sudden twist where the real problem is Kree infiltrators) or an actual Secret Invasion.

But apparently we're so culturally invested in the usual refugee narrative that we get angry terrorists again.

Eh, it's okay. I didn't not like it but I also didn't really care, which is pretty much all I can say for anything Marvel at the moment.
Guardians 3 was really fun but the last Marvel thing I enjoyed before that was Spider-Man.

The Skrulls problem is they never tried to bond with humans by turning their new home into a cheap amusement themed around their culture and lost homeland. Surely they could have won hears and minds with a Kreean BBQ stand too.

Sigh. After almost a year between this and She Hulk, I was hoping for something good after the various delays and reshoots but I nearly turned it off a few times by the end of the episode. I feel like they should have maybe led with the newcomer being shown to the Skrull settlement instead of the bizarre intro we did get. There was just nothing there to sink my teeth into.

Very underwhelming. I hope it gets better quick but with only 6 episodes (why is this their magic number?) I kinda seriously doubt it will. Endgame seems more and more like it really was the end.

Lawyer for Marvel's Jonathan Majors blames NYPD 'racism' for his domestic-violence arrest - Insider

It looks like the defense has a strong case while the prosecution, not so much...

Slipspace wrote:
3. As far as the overall plot goes, doesn't the fact that world governments are aware that Skrulls exist make the supposed plot a bit dodgy? Sure, you can't assume Skrulls are responsible for everything, but when it's one plausible explanation for geopolitical frenemies doing out of character things it somewhat lessens the impact of their plan.

It'll be interesting to see if they even address that. I'll just say I have my doubts and leave it at that.

Slipspace wrote:
4. Agree on the shifting in plain sight problems. It looks cool on screen but the practicalities don't make sense. Wouldn't this sort of thing be all over social media by now as well? It reminds me of the scene at the end of Rise of Skywalker where Rey teleports the lightsabre to Kylo and he pulls it from behind his back. It's supposed to be this big kick-ass moment, until you realise Kylo's surrounded and the 3 guys behind him would clearly see the sabre he's now holding, which just turns the whole scene into unintended comedy for me.

Yeah, it's kind of irksome. All the cool kids pretend that the world does not exist outside of that one camera angle. It's in Obi-Wan Kenobi, in at least one John Wick, in The Crazies. You could probably make a long list. Probably goes back decades, too, though I suppose it may have gotten more popular in recent times.