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Imo, the worst shit is the multiverse shit that makes it all meaningless. If they don't like how they told the story, they will just make up a new version and say multiverse and you are the idiot for saying that it doesn't make sense in another way because multiverse.
An repetitive story with no meaningful content for the franchise and no interest in consistency.
This is how I feel about comic book stories in general. Due to the nature of the medium, they have to constantly come up with new stories with the same set of characters to keep it fresh…eventually the well runs dry.
Multiverse is just the gg ez way to do a reboot with even less effort lol
Apparently, the new vision is to use the Multiverse explanation in order to bring all of the characters into one single timeline. So, apparently, Marvel has become quite aware of your issues, as the new studio head feels the same way. They’re doing what they can to address it, FWIW
They're doing a Battleworld, the comic event where Doom kidnaps Franklin Richards, and the molecule man, in order to temporarily erase the multiverse.
The end of that particular comic storyline justified the end of the Ultimates universe, while allowing Miles Morales to join the main marvel universe.
Nothing else changed. Because the first law of comics is that nothing ever changes. Not really.
Movies on the other hand, have a problem. Actors age out of roles, so you should be changing the world with each movie... Marvel isn't doing that.
Actors age out of roles, so you should be changing the world with each movie...
Counterpoint: James Bond has been chugging along for sixty years. Some are better than others, but the basic outline is the same for almost every Bond movie, and it's still a prestige franchise.
It's an infinite Deux Ex Machina
Not to mention that every single movie has the same plot. But more meta each time
Wait. Wait. Wait. This one has a black guy as the protagonist. How about a woman. What if they are all alians. Or hear me out. All ultra wealthy?
I'm trying to remember if Marvel likes the US military. Aren't they always turning out to be secretly controlled by HYDRA or something? I also seem to recall that Iron Man decided he couldn't trust them with weapons and invented his suit so that he could do all of his killing personally.
Early on up until the first Avengers they were, but that movie strained the relationship due to how much the DoD wanted to meddle in the production. They didn't like the helicarriers due to realism, for example. And you can see shit like F-35's on the flight deck, national guard doing their thing during the invasion, Captain America straight up using an M4, things like that.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
Their involvement is blatant. They literally have a near century long intimate relationship with Hollywood as a well established recruitment tactic. It's hardly a secret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment_complex
https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/03/22/how-why-defense-department-works-hollywood.html
Damn didn't realize they were involved in every single film made by Hollywood. Really explains a lot about Finding Nemo
That totally explains why i thought about the military after watching dude, wheres my car?
...the military doesn't come off in a good light in any of the movies that isn't the first Cap, and even then they're antagonistic by sidelining one of their best chances at winning due to bureaucratlcy.
The latest one is the worst offender ever.
I don’t want to watch anything for three hours TBH. 95 minutes is the optimal run time for a film. FITE ME.
I do personally enjoy a long film if it's doing something good with the run time. Oppenheimer was a solid one recently, even with it being so long it was still densely-packed and I don't think it would have been improved by being shortened. That said, I think two hours is roughly my default sweet spot. The further over that you go, the better you're going to have to be to persuade me. I'm ready to be persuaded but it needs to be something
I think 2h is optimal. Not too long, but can still fit a proper story with enough time for development.
90 minutes is enough for children/family movies
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This seems like a good time to mention that fucking Casablanca has a running time of 102 minutes. For most of the history of Hollywood 100-120 minute running times have been the norm.
Gigantic runtimes are a feature of depression era economics, the 1930s and now.
They go and stand in front of a mirror? I don't get it.
They reflect.
What have I been watching all this time?
Ngl i just thought he looked bummed
I kind of feel like if a meme image needs an explanation it’s probably failed.
It's high time we reintroduce the intermission... in the third dimension.
I saw Interstellar in a classy New Zealand theater that gave creatively-cooked meals during an intermission. I feel like that would be a well-appreciated change of pace for a lot of people.
Did they just serve 5 types of corn-based foods, y'know, for immersion?
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine were good. Nothing since then has looked interesting.
They really don't like it when you don't swoon over the latest new hot trending macguffin.
Grogu is a MacGuffin, not an actual character.
Fight me.
You're right, but I can still fight you if you want, say we meet at the park near sundown?
I'll even let you get the first hit in, I'll be walking around, and you can just run up and punch me.
Perfect, that is so fair. Please do not tell me which park or how to recognize you. It wouldn’t be sporting otherwise!
Nerds screeching about marvel is the new /r/athiesm
Are we pretending this is Marvel thing exclusively and not an ALL superheros thing? Lazy slop memes, aren't going to stop lazy slop movies. Do better.
I’m not the biggest comic book reader, but I did prefer DC over Marvel because the stories ended every now and then. There are some very memorable self-contained stories. And then they mulligan and reboot Batman or whatever, but at least there were occasional conclusions and it wasn’t just an ongoing soap forever and ever and ever. Marvel had prompts within the story to refer to issue #blablabla of maybe the same series or some adjacent series. No.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had assumed knowledge from the fucking Christmas Special
Is it Spider-Men or Spider-Mans?
We're trying to be inclusive here, it's spider-people.
