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  1. @therealsilvermane
    So what are you talking about then? Canst thou provideth an example?
  2. @therealsilvermane
    Some of the greatest films ever made have contained strong social messages i.e. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life or John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. Parasite, last year's Best Picture winner was about how capitalism makes slaves of the have-nots.
  3. @therealsilvermane
    I appreciated the full-circleness of Kate Bishop's hero journey. In Episode One, we saw her start her personal training because she wanted to protect her mom. In Episode Six, her final test as a hero was doing just that, going head to head against the Kingpin to protect her mom.
  4. @therealsilvermane
    MCU movies don’t follow that old pattern.
  5. @therealsilvermane
    I’ve only seen the movie once so far, but as I remember the last spell makes everyone completely forget who Peter Parker is, so MJ and Ned forgot that they ever knew him. And I suppose we have to just accept that this also must mean all written and video remembrance of Peter is also gone. Kinda like George Bailey except he did exist and did make a difference it’s just nobody remembers.
  6. @therealsilvermane
    As someone completely unfamiliar with the Netflix shows, I thought this MCU Kingpin was kinda spot on. If you’re referring to the end, read the comic book.
  7. @therealsilvermane
    I honestly think with Kevin Feige, it's not just about the money, but he wants to do right by these characters because he's a fan and actually has a conscience.
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    Also it would have been easier if Kate Bishop had just hit Kingpin with a Pym tech shrinking arrow and then stepped on him.
  9. @therealsilvermane
    Regarding the sneak preview of Rogers! The Musical, while meant to poke fun at the idea that anything popular gets made into a musical these days, I actually appreciated how for a majority of the "Save the City" number, the performers weren't the Avengers but ordinary New Yorkers in an ordinary Village People kind of way. For me, it kinda presents the idea that New York isn't these Marvel heroes in colorful spandex but the doctors, the business people, the lawyers, the cops, the waiters, and the construction folk that make the city tick.
  10. @therealsilvermane
    Kingpin and Echo's relationship really does echo that of Thanos and Gamora. With that... Btw, Kingpin must have taken some kind of black market version of the super soldier serum or something. I know in the comics he's just a really muscular dude but that can't explain everything in a live action version.
  11. @therealsilvermane
    "I'm tired of comic book movies until I'm not tired anymore!"
  12. @therealsilvermane
    As has been speculated by others, I think the MCU will split into an upper level tier and a lower level tier and they won't cross over as much as they have in the past. The upper level tier will involve the big gun or fantastic power heroes who deal with more cosmic/multiversal level events and they'll be heroes like Captain Marvel, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, She-Hulk, Shang-Chi, Dr Strange, Eternals, etc. and they'll deal with big gun threats like aliens, Kang, Korvac, etc. The lower level tier heroes will be those with with lower powers or no powers and will include heroes like Sam Wilson Captain America, Winter Soldier, the new Black Widow, Kate Bishop, Moon Knight, etc. They will deal with more earthbound street level threats and this lower tier's "Thanos" will be the Kingpin.
  13. @therealsilvermane
    Eternals' story discussions and MCU ramifications will probably begin anew on January 12th when the movie starts streaming on Disney+.
  14. @therealsilvermane
    However much money any movie made or would have made in China Brazil or Nigeria or how many people in those countries went to their theaters has zero effect on the U.S. movie theater industry.
  15. @therealsilvermane
    The Multiverse was toyed with in Dr Strange, Avengers Endgame, and WandaVision. It was in full effect in Loki. Skipping origin stories for previous successful Marvel characters in TV or film was what Marvel Studios already did with its Spider-Man debut in Homecoming and Hulk. I think it was the success of Into the Spiderverse that proved to Sony and Disney that they could pull off a live action version of it. As far as canonizing the Fox Marvel stuff, Disney has removed the Fox Fantastic Four films from Disney+. Those movies were not good and those character versions were not beloved the way the Sony Spider-Dudes were. It's not the same. As for the X-Men, there were only a handful of FoX-Men with real staying power to include Logan, either version of Charles X, either version of Magneto, and Evan Peters' Quicksilver. Marvel Studios already toyed with the last guy in WandaVision to great effect with the fans. We might see something with the other guys but the rest are maybe best left forgotten. Fantastic Four is already in the pipeline. I don't think No Way Home's success will have any effect on its release date. The Fantastic Four still remains a property that has yet to truly prove it can succeed in a live action format and I don't think Marvel Studios is in any more rush to push it out than it is now. I think X-Men or Mutants or whatever they'll call it, is still many many years away from its MCU debut.
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    Intended sarcasm noted. However... FACT: The week prior to Shang-Chi and the Ten Ring's release, all the talk in news outlets, social media, and even here in the CGC forum was how the U.S. movie theater industry was in a death spiral, that the pandemic proved that people prefer their movies streamed over going out to the movies, that the pandemic only hastened the inevitable...that we'd all soon be watching movies on our iPads and iPhones instead of buying movie tickets. All the talk was that the supposed early savior, Black Widow, only made things worse for the U.S. movie theater industry due to its huge Disney+ Premium Access numbers that backed up the talk that U.S. movie theaters were dying. A week prior to Shang Chi's release, the U.S. movie industry, as far as many were concerned, was an industry in hospice care and only waiting to die a slow and painful death. That all changed the Monday after Shang-Chi when this lowly little superhero movie with very low box office expectations shattered those box office expectations and received glowing reviews from critics and audiences. The Monday after Shang-Chi's opening weekend, all talk of the U.S. movie theater industry being dead to the world...died. Shang Chi continued to have strong weekends at U.S. movie theaters throughout the month of September when very few movies with strong box office potential were releasing. As the IMAX CEO himself said on Twitter, amid all the chatter that nobody wants to go to the movies anymore, Shang-Chi proved that if you make a good movie and only give people the option to see it in a movie theater, then people will show up. Since Shang-Chi's opening weekend and up to No Way Home's debut, there has been zero talk of the U.S. movie theater industry being a dead industry. Shang-Chi created the domino effect of goodwill and moviegoing behavior that has lifted the U.S. movie theater industry. As much money as No Way Home is going to make and how many people it's bringing into the theaters, there was no talk last week that the U.S. movie theater industry was a dying industry. The reason why there was no longer all that talk was because of the critical and domestic box office performance of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
  17. @therealsilvermane
    Finn is still on the China poster, he's just smaller and to the right of BB8 who is more prominent. Droids must poll well in China.
  18. @therealsilvermane
    It's the suit Peter made from Stark tech at the end of Far From Home.
  19. @therealsilvermane
    The black and gold suit is the Stark suit inside out which is how Peter wore it after he couldn't get the green paint off.
  20. @therealsilvermane
    I didn't like Black Widow that much, though Yelena Belova was awesome and really the main reason for the movie's existence. I also didn't care for some MCU movies in the Studios' formative years like Incredible Hulk, Thor 2, Age of Ultron (except Vision), or Iron Man 3. Captain America First Avenger had to grow on me. I preferred GOTG V2 over V1. Ant-Man and the Wasp was just okay IMO. The MCU isn't beyond reproach for me, but that doesn't mean that my life isn't like 18.5% better because of the MCU or anything.
  21. @therealsilvermane
    I posted the bottom comment back in April when news stories broke that Sony was taking Spider-Man away from Disney/Marvel Studios again. My point was that if Marvel Studios can't have Spider-Man, then they will be okay. And it's still true. Marvel Studios was doing just fine up until Civil War. Black Panther and Captain Marvel did just fine at the box office without needing a Spidey cameo or tie-in. This was not to say that Webhead isn't important or that the MCU wouldn't be way better off with Spidey in their films. Anyway, it's a moot point anyway. It looks like Spider-Man is here to stay in the MCU for a while. But going forward it seems like (SPOILER!) he's going to be the lovable loser again that everybody picks on. Peter's story will be the better for it.
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    And fifth, I don't really care which movie makes the most money and which movie has the bigger set of gonads or whatever. And fans who want quality storytelling shouldn't either. For me, I don't want to see the same thing over and over again to the point of spinning wheels. Exploring growth and new heroes in this expanding universe should be the direction, not making nothing but Thor and Iron Man and Spiderman movies over and over and over again.
  23. @therealsilvermane
    Okay, so first of all, why didn't Black Widow, a MCU legacy character, make what No Way Home is about to make? Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy have done just fine pre-pandemic at the box office. Second, Marvel Studios absolutely has not gone away from its "legacy characters" (whatever that means) and only went away from the two big guys, Stark and Rogers, because the actors wanted to bow out of the MCU. Marvel has only gone away from T-Challa (if you count him as a legacy character) because the actor died. The MCU still has Peter Parker, Thor, Dr Strange, Scarlet Witch, and Vision for the folks who hate change and Captain Marvel. Third, Spider-Man No Way Home is absolutely an outlier in a way because it's an Avengers Endgame type level event, a movie that comes with so much speculation, hype, and expectation, that probably every person on the planet is going to see this movie. Also it's Spider-Man. If we weren't in a pandemic, NWH is probably a 2 billion dollar money maker. If the expectation going into this third movie was that it's just another solo Spider-Man adventure featuring a new solo villain like Scorpion or somebody, the hype and expectation would be far far less for this film. But as it is, the expectation is that this is going to be a freaking Spider-Verse movie with very special guest stars, thus we probably have the first billion dollar movie of the pandemic. However, I hear that NWH is not getting a China release, either, so we shall see. Fourth, Thor, Iron Man, and Cap, as popular as they've become due to the MCU, still pale in comparison popularity-wise to Spider-Man. All Marvel heroes pale in popularity to Spidey. As I noted above, comparing the pandemic box office performance of the previously unknown Shang-Chi and Eternals to the Super Bowl of Spider-Man movies is a bit unfair. And as we've argued before, Shang Chi was made in part for the China market and got shut out of China so there went like 30% of its box office potential.
  24. @therealsilvermane
    The world first found out about Spider-Man’s identity because Jameson shared Mysterio’s death video. But after that, the story was picked up and shared by countless media outlets throughout the world, social media, and word of mouth, to the point that not every single person on the planet learned Spider-Man’s identity through Jamison’s Daily Fix show, but countless other ways. Dr Strange might spend his entire life making everyone forget every time they heard about Spider-Man’s identity from a different source other than the first moment Jameson shared the video. It’s a much quicker and easier spell to just make everyone simply forget.
  25. @therealsilvermane
    It really is a brand new day for Peter Parker and Spider-Man. I however can’t believe he’s going to walk away from MJ forever.