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Eh, I read that the China government actually has a problem with the movie's star, Simu Liu, being critical of the Chinese government on social media. That's the kind of stuff they care about. Propaganda. I don't think the gov't over there cares whether Fu Manchu is in the movie or not. That's what I remember reading anyway.

Mmm, were there a lot of general audience fans of Dr Strange before Infinity War, though? Stephen Strange, for a majority of the movie Dr Strange, is a selfish jerk. And not that funny (just ask Wong). Strange doesn't sort of start to become a hero until after the Ancient One tells him "It's not all about you." And then his big battle with Dormammu is just Strange pulling a Groundhog Day trick on the Big D. I mean, don't get me wrong, I liked the movie (it's MCU of course), but I didn't come out of the movie thinking, "yeah! Dr. Strange!" It wasn't until Infinity War and after the Russo Bros and the Infinity War writers did their treatment of Dr Strange did I think, "yeah, this Dr. Strange is a bad muthaf***a", and that wasn't until he's fighting Thanos on Titan. In fact, I'd say besides the Ditko Dr Strange comics, that Dr. Strange's Infinity War battle with Thanos was the most important three minutes of Dr Strange's career and it's what really put him on the worldwide pop culture icon map, not his first movie. I know, my assumption, but I bet I'm right.

In the movie, Kamar Taj is in Kathmandu which is in Nepal, so the Ancient One could have been Nepalese, I don't know. I didn't look into interviews with the movie's writer, all I know is watching the movie, an Asian Ancient One could have come off as very stereotypical but whatever. It's not my favorite MCU film anyway. I didn't really really like Cumberbatch as Dr Strange until Infinity War. I think when Strange is taking on Thanos on Titan, that's when everybody else really became a fan, too.

It was still the right call to not make the Ancient One an old Asian man as that really is a tired stereotype but was the Western cultural perception of the old Chinese man in the 50's/60's. You're either an ancient Chinese secret kung fu master or you're Fu Manchu. I actually liked how Marvel Studios expanded the mystic side of Marvel as more than ancient Asia, but rather a multinational and also multiverse thing so that the casting of Tilda Swinton as someone more universal felt okay.

And when you flip the camera around...

Ben Affleck declared himself sober again in 2019 and has been sober since. A very lucid Ben Affleck called Kevin Feige "a genius" on a podcast in January of this year.

I'm sure Brie appreciates her fans but I think she's disengaged from the social media hate. My support brings me more comfort than anything else, and I like to think maybe for other would be supporters as a little positivity against all the negativity.

I got her six.

She leads with squats in her workout video. If you're subtly referring to Brie's butt and that CM1 pic that everybody likes circulating, her butt is just fine.

And Shuma-Gorath, a tentacled interdimensional demon, is right up Sam Raimi's alley. From Evil Dead to SM2, Raimi likes tentacles.

Perhaps I would if I didn't get as many reponses telling me how wrong I am.

Ben Affleck circa 2016 also had a 65/35 chance that he was publicly drunk.

Although there are rumblings that Bennifer or Ben-Lo or whatever it's called is back on the table.

And then there's Batfleck, a whole different animal.

Not just one other person, BATMAN said it...

It's okay. You can say the name. Forget Mephisto. I'm all in on Shuma-Gorath!

From everybody's new favorite Batman, the Batfleck himself... “Kevin Feige, who is the, I have to say, the greatest producer, most successful producer who’s ever lived. He’s the only guy in the world who if he told me like, ‘I know what the audience wants. This is what we’re doing,’ I would believe him 100%. That f**ker knows his audience like no producer – he’s a genius. He’s like a master ringmaster,” Affleck said.

And Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans finished out their MCU contracts, too. What's your point?

According to fake news sites like Cosmic Book News or We Got This/That Covered. Brie Larson has five films left on her contract and Marvel Studios wants to elevate all its female super-hero characters, not sideline them. Don't believe the hate.

One day some dude should really publish a chart illustrating in detail what physical traits on a woman are or aren't attractive and then a handbook for women on how they can make themselves more attractive, to us men, that is.

The Generation X slacker term didn't necessarily mean lazy, but rather "aimless and disengaged." So when I said "slacker" above, I didn't mean lazy. I meant Stark was not living up to his potential, as in not living up to the Stan Lee mantra "With great power comes great responsibility." That was Tony Stark in the first Iron Man movie. He had the greatest scientific intellect in the universe but wasted it away being content making weapons for the military and partying/gambling the rest of the time while Uncle Obadiah secretly sold Stark weapons to secret terrorist organizations. James Rhodes calls him out about it on their plane ride to Afghanistan and Dr Yelsing calls him out about it more than once in the cave.

"Yeah man, Brie Larson's behind the scenes a*s shots coupled with all those blank stares from those offensive offensive 'Her-o' trailers just offended us manly men all so much it really is the worst superhero movie of all time and we'd much rather stare at Tom Holland's butt not that we roll that way or anything..."

I don’t know, go back 4 or 5 pages in this thread and you might find 4 or 5 posts that said Brie Larson doesn’t do it for them.

Yes, MCU Stark was arrogant in Iron Man, but he was also arrogant in Age of Ultron, Civil War, and Infinity War. Arrogance wasn’t Stark’s problem in Iron Man. That was Thor’s problem. Stark’s problem in both IM 1&2 was he wasn’t fulfilling his potential. He was a slacker. In the first, he had to fulfill his potential or he’d die in the cave. Dr Yelsing’s dying words to him are “Don’t waste your life.” In IM 2, he has to fulfill the next level of his potential or he’ll die from palladium poisoning. He gets an assist from his dad and Nick Fury who puts him on house arrest until he answers the “riddle to his heart.” MCU Stark is the world’s first Generation X slacker superhero.