Marvel Universe stuff

Days of Future Past sucked?

Uh... ok.

I think they balanced it fairly well. The story was focused on McAvoy and Fassbender, the two best things to happen to the series since it's inception. Wolverine? Yeah ok I'm kind of sick of Jackman, but whatever, I understand he sells tickets.

But I do agree that Jennifer Lawrence could die and I wouldn't care. Overrated.

We are getting our autographed family picture with Stan Lee next week at the Kansas City Comic Con. I'm geeked out. Stan is 94, and he's pulling out of Comic Cons. He has to be taken to the hospital for the debut of Deadpool. It's now or likely never.

I guess he ran out of souls to steal after Jack Kirby died.

He'll be one of the guys I regret not meeting when he's gone, but it doesn't sound like the signings are very enjoyable for him, so I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. My ex would let out an "awwww" every time he had his scene in a movie. I should look at getting something of his before the prices skyrocket, at least.

I can't believe he's still doing it now. It's gotta be 95% dealers who just are getting the signature on midgrade books to just immediately slab and resell. It's cool Lyrical is getting the sig on a family picture. Shows you are putting value on the man and not just the signature for resale.

So Simon Kinberg is talking about making a F4 2 sequel with the same cast. They only have about 3 years to make another FF film or it reverts to Marvel. It sounds like they would rather lose money then let that happen though.

Couldn't they just make a porn movie using the characters?

I'll be the black guy.

Fuck where them Asian superheroes at. I mean it's not like we got many non mutant Asian guys running around besides Amadeus Cho.

meStevo_sl said:

Probably worth their money to keep stringing it along w/ hopes for a nice arrangement from Marvel of some kind if they want to try and bring some aspect of the FF into the MCU.

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it's crazy that this, in fact, may be the plan now... instead of, you know, just making a good movie.

j00t_sl said:

it's crazy that this, in fact, may be the plan now... instead of, you know, just making a good movie.

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It's why the last one was made.

Harshaw_sl said:

Fuck where them Asian superheroes at. I mean it's not like we got many non mutant Asian guys running around besides Amadeus Cho.

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Mantis will be in GotG 2 I think.

Harshaw_sl said:

So Simon Kinberg is talking about making a F4 2 sequel with the same cast. They only have about 3 years to make another FF film or it reverts to Marvel. It sounds like they would rather lose money then let that happen though.

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At least he kind of realizes why it failed.

"We want to make another 'Fantastic Four' movie," stated Kinberg. "We love that cast - I mean if I were to say to you now Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller, and Kate [Mara] and Jamie [Bell] are great actors - we love that cast. I love the comic, I mean I love it almost as much as X-Men. We're working really hard on figuring that out. Nothing would make me happier than the world embracing a 'Fantastic Four' movie. We'll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely - well, not completely, but largely - distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker 'Fantastic Four' movie, which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic."

But using the same cast just illustrates he doesn't really comprehend the thoughts he's having. And it's not because zomg the Torch is a black guy, though that is a symptom of it, which is that they really don't believe JUST the comic can work. (I will say, despite torch being a little cliche, ironically he was probably the closest to feeling okay in the movie--probably a byproduct of Toch naturally fitting into the age range they selected for all the characters and B Jordan being a great actor.). Really ALL the characters were wrong, totally off the mark. The biggest was how they portrayed Reed. Dude made a cast with zero faith in the comic, and thinks he can shoe horn that shit into a more faithful adaptation.

He's probably one of these guys that believes "oh, no one will like the actual characters--they are so corny!"..The type of guy that would have renamed Captain America to just Captain to avoid 'uncomfortable symbolism'. Marvel is making fucking tons of money doing one thing--believing that the characters are good and their stories are compelling. Just....fucking do that, damn.

Valderen_sl said:

It looks like Lupita Nyong'o and Michael B. Jordan are joining the Black Panther movie, that's some pretty stellar casting.

Michael joining probably kills a FF4 sequel with him as Johnny.

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Really excited to see Panther, he was great in Civil War. Him Ant-man and Spidey really stole the show. But Panther, I think, was probably one of the best on screen translations I've seen.