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Jared Leto will return in....... Avengers: Doomsday
That would be amazing.... I'd love to see Morbius return.
He does look like he's gonna be a good Skeletor though.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
"Vulkan: There will be no Rad or Phosphex in my legion. We shall fight wars humanely. Some things should be left in the dark age." "Ferrus: Oh cool, when are you going to stop burning people to death?" "Vulkan: I do not understand the question."
– A conversation between the X and XVIII Primarchs
Doom stands victorious over the broken bodies of our heroes when a portal appears. Jared Leto walks out wearing an Infinity Gauntlet on each hand. He reaches out and Cap's shield and Mjolnir fly to his hands. He looks at Doom and says, "It's Morbin' Time". Audiences cheer through tear filled eyes. Art is achieved. Cinema is saved once more.
LunarSol wrote: Doom stands victorious over the broken bodies of our heroes when a portal appears. Jared Leto walks out wearing an Infinity Gauntlet on each hand. He reaches out and Cap's shield and Mjolnir fly to his hands. He looks at Doom and says, "It's Morbin' Time". Audiences cheer through tear filled eyes. Art is achieved. Cinema is saved once more.
Lowkey the meme potential for this would be big, it could save an otherwise terrible film into becoming a mediocre one just from the ridiculousness of this alone. Even if it's only one of the different variant timelines that Dr. Strange can look through if he gets access to the time stone again
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LunarSol wrote: Doom stands victorious over the broken bodies of our heroes when a portal appears. Jared Leto walks out wearing an Infinity Gauntlet on each hand. He reaches out and Cap's shield and Mjolnir fly to his hands. He looks at Doom and says, "It's Morbin' Time". Audiences cheer through tear filled eyes. Art is achieved. Cinema is saved once more.
That is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
"Vulkan: There will be no Rad or Phosphex in my legion. We shall fight wars humanely. Some things should be left in the dark age." "Ferrus: Oh cool, when are you going to stop burning people to death?" "Vulkan: I do not understand the question."
– A conversation between the X and XVIII Primarchs
Marvel has been impacted by today’s Disney layoffs. Affected by the staff reductions are both the offices of Marvel Entertainment in New York and Marvel Studios in Burbank, sources said. About 8% of the workforce has been let go, I hear.
There are layoffs in most departments, including film and TV production, comics, franchise, finance, legal, as well as visual development.
The cuts in the visual development area are said to be significant, with Marvel Studios retaining a small team to oversee the hiring of artists on a project-by-project basis who will be outside contractors going forward.
There are layoffs in most departments, including film and TV production, comics, franchise, finance, legal, as well as visual development.
The cuts in the visual development area are said to be significant, with Marvel Studios retaining a small team to oversee the hiring of artists on a project-by-project basis who will be outside contractors going forward.
Josh D’Amaro, CEO of Marvel parent Disney this morning confirmed that up to 1,000 employees across the company will be laid off, with its streamlined marketing and brand organization taking the brunt of the cuts.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
I just wanted wanted give an apology to Just Tony for the earlier exchange. I was more antagonistic than I should have been and that wasn't right so I just wanted to saqy I am sorry for it. I figured that since it was a public exchange the apology should also be public as it would seem disingenuous otherwise.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
So, there have been issues in the visual department not keeping up with the work load, and the solution is to..... cut the visual department.
The genius of late-stage capitalism at work.
I can hear the pitch now. "Since our House organs can not keep up and are causing delays in the production schedule, we will out-source the work instead. That will lead to lower costs, better lead times, and better quality visuals."
I mean, everyone knows that the more steps you add to a process and the more you hand-it-off the better the end quality right! When you bid out every job, it makes the jobs get done faster, right! It's science!
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To be fair, there is a case for using Jared Leto as gratuitous fan service in an X-Men film.
Cast him as Multiple Man, and have a brief introduction montage of him and his clones being killed in ever more inventive and satisfying ways.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
LunarSol wrote: New trailer was shown but isn't publicly available yet to my knowledge. I was totally joking about the Mjolnir thing but....
That would have been from CinemaCon, which is basically a trade show for the motion picture industry. Those trailers don't always make it to the internet or in a timely manner after their release at CinemaCon.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Easy E wrote: Not much discussion of Daredevil: Born Again here. I personally only just started watching it slowly, interspersed with Hockey Play-offs.
Clearly, they took a ton of inspiration from Minneapolis, but am curious if it is based on a Comics run at all?
I know Kingpin becoming Mayor of New York and outlawing vigilantes is a story-line from the comics, I don't know much beyond that though.
Got distracted watching other shows and am just now getting back to Daredevil, a few episodes until the finale. Given production times, Can it be based on Metro Surge? It really does feel like it would be, but it also feels too fast to have a show of this caliber to be pushing that out already. It’s just so on the nose though.
Watched the Daredevil season finale.
You're not getting spoiler tags for this drivel.
This was just stupid.
1) Mobs of angry New Yorkers finally take to the streets against Fisk . Moreover mobs of angry New Yorkers storm the court house where Fisk is holed up, surrounded by his armed taskforce.
AND NONE OF THEM ARE ARMED. No guns, no ball bats, no bricks etc, just masks & some cell phones... No one even picks up a gun from any of the several task force guys shown being taken down.
2) Before the mobs attack, Fisk is offered a great Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free deal. He refuses. Then he's offered it again as the mobs are surging into the court house. Again he declines and instead goes on a murderous barehanded rampage through the halls. Killing dozens of people. With plenty of witnesses.
Then in a fight on the indoor balcony he kills more people in plain sight of hundreds - but the mob surging up the stairs is finally starting to pull him down. Justice is nearly served - until DD & Jones get the mob to stop.
And then DD convinces him to take the deal....
The season should have ended with Fisk DEAD. Beaten, stabbed, shot, thrown off that balcony.... or at the very least beaten to within an inch of his life & lying on life support in a hospital somewhere.
Nope.
Instead the last we see of Fisk? He's standing on a sandy beach somewhere getting ready for season 3.
Standing alone on a beach staring blankly at the sea, no wife, no mayoral aides, no underworld figures.
Totally alone with everything gone. Its him at the lowest we have ever seen.
I assume the crowd is aware his unit would shoot seeing weapons, and are savy enough not to pick them up. And the writers know this is a politically sensitive scene in the US, and want to both show the peoples power, and do it without encouraging armed assults on civic buildings/people.
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Easy E wrote: Not much discussion of Daredevil: Born Again here. I personally only just started watching it slowly, interspersed with Hockey Play-offs.
Clearly, they took a ton of inspiration from Minneapolis, but am curious if it is based on a Comics run at all?
I doubt the production process lets relatively recent events to be included in the series on demand. It's just that an authoritarian dictator's playbook isn't really secret or surprising to anyone who wasn't asleep on history lessons. The steps are well known and predictable, so it's not really that prescient to create a strikingly similar scenario, when strikingly similar scenarios have played out not once, not twice, not three times in history already.
More broadly, the "New York Born Again" project is quite obviously designed to draw parallels, but I don't think recent events like Minneapolis were purposefully included, especially as Fisk's militia was founded in the previous season - once again, you don't need to be a history scholar to guess how such militia is likely to be used.
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For some reason I dropped this in the mini-movie review thread instead of here. Perhaps because it is a mini-movie?
Speaking of streaming and any length you need, Marvel dropped a special presentation Punisher. It was called One Last Kill. Terrible title by the way, as there is a lot more than one kill in this thing.
This one reminded me a lot of The Raid or Dredd but this time the protagonist had some serious mental illness to deal with in addition to all the bad guy killin'.
Also reinforces the idea that revenge never satisfies. Perhaps a tired idea now-a-days.
<Anyway, that reminds me of an interesting ecoomic theory that currency was created to try to end the "cycle of vengeance" based violence in high-honor cultures.>
I am not sure where exactly this story should fit on the timeline, and I do not recall how Frank ended DD: Born Again season 1. If someone could remind me in spoilers, I would appreciate it.
After this, we also watched Dirty Laundry which is a Punisher short from 2012 with Thomas Jane. One Last Kill made me think of it.
John Bernenthal does a great Punisher, and it really is hard to imagine this character is going to be in the next Spider-man film. He does not seem to be the type that will fit into a PG-13 adventure-comedy story.
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The Disney division has promoted Brad Winderbaum, already its chief of television and animation, to head of Marvel television, animation, comics and franchise, Marvel has announced.
At the same time, David Abdo will segue from Disney to serve as Marvel’s general manager, comics and franchise, reporting to Winderbaum.
With the new top leadership coming in, that means that Dan Buckley, the longtime Marvel Comics topper, is departing. Buckley will remain at Marvel through mid-2027 to support the leadership transition.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
I really enjoyed Spider Noir. Characters acted rationally. Plot was sensible for a superhero series.
Watched in black and white. I think the effects work well that way, they are sort of modern take on 50s movies style. (Which isn’t the era the series is set in, I know)
I gave up after three episodes. The series has a few pleasant gimmicks—alt-Spidey, Nicolas Cage, the styling—all great. But where's the script? A bunch of tired Noir clichés and tropes mixed together doesn't make for a plot.
Souleater wrote: Oh, I thought that was part of the point of it, really. That they were leaning into the old school noir cliches.
I enjoyed it, it was a lot better than the utter trash that Disney+ likes to shovel from the bottom of the dung heap (ie. Ironheart).
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
"Vulkan: There will be no Rad or Phosphex in my legion. We shall fight wars humanely. Some things should be left in the dark age." "Ferrus: Oh cool, when are you going to stop burning people to death?" "Vulkan: I do not understand the question."
– A conversation between the X and XVIII Primarchs
That is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
