Marvel Cinematic Universe

[Buster Scruggs]

I liked Deadpool and Wolverine. But there's one big question I have

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Spoiler: Deadpool 3 Spoilers kinda

One of the people in the void explain this away by saying something along the lines of “The TVA picks out anyone who could’ve put up a fight for their universe”. But it would’ve made it better to just actually explain how these characters ended up there as opposed to some throwaway line that kind of explains why they’re all there together, imo.

 

[Shartavius]

Doesn't RDJ get more expensive to hire with every Marvel movie he stars in? Surely the Disney war chest can't be that deep.

I suspect the failure of that Dolittle vanity project emboldened Disney to ask a big favor of Downey.

Concerning the "Why is ____ in the Void?" question which keeps coming up: the canon explanation is that the Void is populated with multiversal "variants" pruned from the timeline by the Time Variance Authority as food for Alioth, in a kind of symbiotic waste disposal arrangement. So even though it could be any one of infinite variants of X-23 or the other characters we see there, the film made for dummies apparently wants us to think that it's the exact same characters we last saw in their respective 20th Century Fox, Dimension, or Sony films - Despite it creating the above plot hole addressed by Buster Scruggs. It's all very gay and retarded.

Had he not been wasted as a nothing villain in the first Doctor Strange, Mads Mikkelsen could have been casted as Doom.

Disney also could have simply re-cast Kang with a different Basketball American in a Doom mask; and made Victor a variant of him, rather than Tony Stark (which will probably result in a profoundly embarassing "twist" that he's a Kang variant who just-so-happens to looks like Stark). But that would have demonstrated cleverness, rather than the desperation and creative bankruptcy we've come to expect from the Mouse.

What in the fuck is the point of stunt-casting a familiar face as a character defined by a mask permanently attached to that face; obscuring the likeness Disney paid so much money for? I predict the Mouse will do what they do best: Have the actor they paid for a largely computer-generated performance swing into frame to remove their mask or helment during a firefight, deliver a line, and then replace the mask or helmet and become a flying cartoon character again.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Jesus Christ what a shit show.

At least they got RDJ back to get some asses in seats. Won't get my ass in a seat, but it's something at least.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

. The final fight scene with Wolverine *finally* donning the mask was worth the ticket price alone,

The fight where 90% of the fight in question is obscured by blood on the bus windows and hugh looks like a ps3 model doing an idle animation at the end?

That final fight?

 

[Conspiracy Mawile]

Didn't like Deadpool 3 very much. The movie started after 25 minutes of godawful trailers (who tf cried for beetlejuice 2???), and felt boring and unfunny 2/3 of the runtime. Most of the jokes didn't land, and the only good part of the movie imo was the short fight scene against all the deadpool variables at the end. The scene where they jumped out of the bus though looked like total cgi shit, who the hell signed that off? First marvel movie I saw since endgame in 2019, can't say it made me excited for what's to come.
If they rehire RDJ as Doctor Doom, they must be out of every idea at this point.

 

[Exterminatus]

So they really are just dropping Kang the Wifebeater? All those years of (shitty) buildup amounted to nothing then. Should've planned things out better and gone with Doom from the very beginning.

I think Kang can be a fine villain, especially if you're looking for a world-ending threat but their poor storytelling and poor choice of an actor for Kang fucked it, albeit I could do without multiverse shit for a long time, so if I was in charge I'd go for a villain like Galactus or Dr. Doom right from the start if I had to make another series. If I could I'd go back and scrap the Age of Ultron movie and have him be the next villain for the Avengers to face after Thanos.

What in the fuck is the point of stunt-casting a familiar face as a character defined by a mask permanently attached to that face; obscuring the likeness Disney paid so much money for? I predict the Mouse will do what they do best: Have the actor they paid for a largely computer-generated performance swing into frame to remove their mask or helment during a firefight, deliver a line, and then replace the mask or helmet and become a flying cartoon character again.

I saw someone mention it on another site, but they were speculating that RDJ will probably be maskless for a good chunk of the time he's present on screen, saving the "epic" masking moment for the final battle so we can get all the "cool" reaction content for youtube and shit.

 

[Back me up!]

It was right there!


RDJ could been the Kang replacement! Have some balls Marvel!

 

[PizzaPoppa]

I enjoyed Deadpool & Wolverine, and pretty much all the flaws in the film have to do with the MCU cookie-cutter mold that Ryan Reynolds is probably contractually obligated to. I still think 1 and 2 are better, only because back then a rated-r meta movie was a novelty item.

I loved how pretty much everyone in this movie played their parts straight, and with the cameos they all kept the same early-2000s energy that has since been long gone. I love revisiting those older Fox superhero movies, because they feel like such a breath of fresh air compared to goyslop the MCU produces now. The story, villain and motivations suck, but it's probably one of the few times it's actually appropriate to have a cameo-ridden sandbox to play with. Also, with the characters we revisit from past movies, there's still that experimental energy in the film that superhero movies used to have. Now, every cameo feels like a corporate move, where they wear the same kevlar uniform and have the same exact humor as every other hero in their arsenal.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I think Kang can be a fine villain, especially if you're looking for a world-ending threat but their poor storytelling and poor choice of an actor for Kang fucked it, albeit I could do without multiverse shit for a long time,

Kang would have been a great way to go about doing some smaller scale stuff but still tie it into a bigger thing, like the idea of there being a problem bringing up Blade in the middle of current MCU because where the fuck were the vampires when aliens tried to blow up their lunch and the time some purple scrotum guy snapped half of the vampires away, that was because Blade was off in his own Tomb Of Dracula universe, then Kang someone something

 

[Kulee Baba]

Comic Book nerds are so fucking retarded thinking Dr. Doom should be a gypsy (aka ROMANI). First off his name is "VON DOOM" implying he's got Germanic Nobility. Latveria is a hyper fictional Romania (Stan Lee's parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants) and the country borders Romania and Hungary.

He's inspired by Causescu who was actually more evil than Dr. Doom. Latervia should look like Brasov Romania with Gothic architecture. If it was a Gypsy dictatorship it'd be fucking tents and horse carriages.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

It's amazing that it only took two days for practically the whole movie to pop up on my Youtube front page.

 

[Commander X]

 

[Kulee Baba]

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That they thought Kang should be the next big thing is pretty amazing to me. As a 90s kid I didn't really read comics, I watched the tv shows and played video games. Thanos I didn't even really know because trying to get to the final boss of Marvel Super Heroes is a bitch, I never even saw him played in MVC2 in the arcades. Dr. Doom I definitely knew was a big deal, he was also a high tier character in MVC2 and MVC3

I only knew of Kang when Jonathan Majors was already playing him. That's how irrelevant Kang was to Marvel's brand. It's fitting that he's been totally scrapped I didn't even see the last two Ant-Man movies lol.

 

[Salt_Merchant]

Had he not been wasted as a nothing villain in the first Doctor Strange, Mads Mikkelsen could have been casted as Doom.

Id put it to you that the villain in that film was so forgettable they could easily have cast him as DR doom and no one but the most consoomer brained marvel fans would know

the whole argument of wasting actors in movies is kinda null and void now considering they just cast their biggest actor who played the most important character in the entire franchise as a second character.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

caught some of Deadpool and Wolverine, seemed nice enough
Blade was very cool in it, Gambit was pretty cool
Wolverine putting on the mask was coolintimidating, like Batman if he could turn his neck
they should have ended with Blade and the rest show up at Deadpool's with everybody at the end

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

From what I've seen on Youtube it looks fun enough, but I still think I would have been annoyed if I paid ticket price to watch it.

To be fair, though, there hasn't been anything that has come out in the past 4 or 5 years that I wouldn't have been annoyed paying ticket price for, so that doesn't mean much.

Super hero fatigue has set in hard for me at this point.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Any goodwill they had for bringing in Blade evaporated the moment they had Wesley Snipes deliver the "some motherfuckers still trying to ice skate uphill" line. I saw people actively cringing in the theater at that moment.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Here's a controversial take on capeshit movies:

Even though The Punisher is considered to be a "tainted" character because he hasn't had a commercially successful adaptation so far, I've enjoyed literally all of the adaptations.

Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane, Ray Stevenson, Jon Bernthal ... I've liked all of them. I think that the Thomas Jane Punisher movie is actually on the upper tier of 2000's superhero fare, too. Underrated as hell!

Frank Castle is just simply too damn chad for those who enjoy goyslop. Pussies.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Here's a controversial take on capeshit movies:

Even though The Punisher is considered to be a "tainted" character because he hasn't had a commercially successful adaptation so far, I've enjoyed literally all of the adaptations.

Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane, Ray Stevenson, Jon Bernthal ... I've liked all of them. I think that the Thomas Jane Punisher movie is actually on the upper tier of 2000's superhero fare, too. Underrated as hell!

Frank Castle is just simply too damn chad for those who enjoy goyslop. Pussies.

Most of the films still stuck to the Death Wish blueprint so they're still pretty enjoyable action movies.

I'm sure modern producers will take him down the gay "cucked Ninja" path soon enough. If they were going to go down one of the lame paths I'd rather they go with funny haha lame like Angel of Death or Frankenstein Monster Punisher.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I really enjoyed Deadpool and Woolverine, think it was a nice little sendoff to the pre-MCU Marvel films, and it’s probably the last MCU movie I’ll ever be interested in.