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Commander X said:
Seeing the recent Thunderbolts trailer and

"Umm, do we have to call ourselves [Name of comic book hero, or Team here]?"

Fucking hate this shit.
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I actually thought the trailer looked quite fun, but then I genuinely cringed at the end, when that happened. Stop doing that shit. That bullshit post-modern cynicism, where everybody pretends to be quietly embarrassed of the comic booky stuff. Have a bit of fucking confidence in the ridiculousness of the intellectual properties you own.

Personally, though, I can't help but think of Thunderbolts' cast as a bit of a missed opportunity. I'm glad they're doing something with John Walker from Falcon and Winter Soldier, but no Venom? No Bullseye? Tom Hardy definitely would've done it if you'd asked him - those Venom movies he did for Sony were basically just a gigantic excuse for him to fuck around and get paid for it - and I'm sure you could cut Colin Farrell a cheque to come back after all this time, to cash in on the nostalgia, if nothing else. Have him put on the alligator trenchcoat again and just swagger onto the set like 2003 never ended. People would love it.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
That was Ford 50 years ago. Ford today hated being in the Sequels and clearly did not care by Rise of Skywalker. Which has been his attitude in non-Indiana Jones movies for decades at this point.
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I don't think he even cared in Empire lol. Harrison Ford is one of my favorite actors of all time, he's good in everything but Star Wars was essentially just a favor to George Lucas for getting him some money for American Graffiti. Ford was an electrician or a carpenter or something and really liked acting but also didn't give a shit because he knew he had a normal job if it didn't pan out. Han Solo is like the closest to his real personality at the time he played, a guy who's just there to get paid and doesn't give a fuck. Who comes back because he's got a heart of gold and wants to help his friends.

He liked acting but didn't want to be in shitty genre movies which even though it was a phenomenon he thought of star wars as just goofy kid shit. where Indiana Jones is also kind of like that, it was just always more his wheelhouse because it wasn't (in his mind) gay sci fi shit he couldn't be bothered with but a treasure hunting Nazi killer which he could at least make heads or tails of. He's always been weird about star wars because despite it making him a huge star he's deep down like a regular blue collar worker type guy who likes shit about normal guys not space wizards.

Nowadays him being in this it's just they offered him a huge check and he likes working. I've seen interviews with him where he just likes making movies because he gets bored and doesn't know how to utilize his free time. Sam Jackson is the same way he's in so much shit because he doesn't like to be at home or bored and he likes having fuck you money.
 
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Overly Serious said:
I don't know if he can or cannot actually fight but he sure as Hell has the attitude.
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He's physically fit but notoriously unathletic. He couldn't hit the baseball even when the pitching machine was at its lowest setting and they had to use special effects to make it seem like he's fast because he's absurdly slow as a runner. Maybe he got better after major league
 
Hazel Motes said:
Ford is the great self-loathing actor. He hates every film he's famous for. I imagine he wishes people remembered him for his bit part in the Conversation rather than Star Wars.
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I've always thought if I ever met Harrison Ford at like a restaurant or some random occurrence even though I'd want to tell him Han Solo was my hero I'd instead tell him I love Frantic, Presumed Innocent and the remake of the Fugitive.
Get the rope Macaulay! said:
He's physically fit but notoriously unathletic. He couldn't hit the baseball even when the pitching machine was at its lowest setting and they had to use special effects to make it seem like he's fast because he's absurdly slow as a runner. Maybe he got better after major league
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my boy Willie Mays Hayes! Snipes has been doing Karate and Hapkido since he was 13 or something so he's got some athleticism, that said I'm sure he's just an exhibition type guy and probably couldn't utilize any of that in a real situation.
 
el bandito loco said:
I've always thought if I ever met Harrison Ford at like a restaurant or some random occurrence even though I'd want to tell him Han Solo was my hero I'd instead tell him I love Frantic, Presumed Innocent and the remake of the Fugitive.
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I'd tell him he convinced me he was an actual retard in Regarding Henry.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Wasn't there something on featuring an israeli character only for the war to make Disney decide that removing a Jewish character from a film is actually totally PC?
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Sabra, an israeli mutant with some superstrength and regeneration and the ability to "loan" some of her lifeforce to another to heal them, with the side effect of granting them random superpowers for that duration. She loses some of her enhancement while doing so until she takes it back.

A Jewish mutant with Banking abilities. Oy vey.
 
Prehistoric Jazz said:
Sabra, an israeli mutant with some superstrength and regeneration and the ability to "loan" some of her lifeforce to another to heal them, with the side effect of granting them random superpowers for that duration. She loses some of her enhancement while doing so until she takes it back.

A Jewish mutant with Banking abilities. Oy vey.
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Reminds me of Marvel's attempt at an Italian superhero: Sbarro, who has the distinction of being the only superhero whose base of operations was a turnpike rest plaza.
 
dick brain said:
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Nobody likes to be part of a project everybody hates, money or not. The good side here is that Mackey can now use some of that money to fund or push for projects he wants to be involved and be part of that are more demanding and challenging and he can be as creatively involved as he wants.

Putting that aside, I really don't see much of a future for the MCU. With Feige saying that the X-Men will be important AFTER Secret Wars, it will be years until Disney/Marvel can make some money, and that of course if they don't fuck up the mutants, something I don't trust them to do right.

All of these movies feel a bit like Marvel's just making time until they can adapt the X-Men, and then put all of their hopes there. And then, how the fuck are they gonna manage the Avengers, the Thunderbolts, The F4, and the X-Men? The full Marvel cast is gonna be huge if most of them make it until whatever is the end. The smart thing would be to keep the X-Men in a different universe in case their main line fucks up, but they are too greedy. As much as I like the X-Men, I really think it's not gonna be good and we might end up missing the Fox universe.

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Miriam Margoyles said:
I actually thought the trailer looked quite fun, but then I genuinely cringed at the end, when that happened. Stop doing that shit. That bullshit post-modern cynicism, where everybody pretends to be quietly embarrassed of the comic booky stuff. Have a bit of fucking confidence in the ridiculousness of the intellectual properties you own.
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Yeah, I see they have learned nothing of the success of Wolverine and Deadpool. Yeah, I know the filming likely wrapped before the movie was released, but still, they should have just removed this scene. Disney really doesn't learn anything and they will keep making the same mistakes again and again and then wonder why their movies keep bombing.
 
Tasty Tatty said:
Nobody likes to be part of a project everybody hates, money or not. The good side here is that Mackey can now use some of that money to fund or push for projects he wants to be involved and be part of that are more demanding and challenging and he can be as creatively involved as he wants.
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I don't dispute that he's probably having a shitty time filming, but there's nothing you can say that will make me feel sorry for someone who's getting paid ten million dollars. That's the equivalent of 250 years of the median American income. He could spend a thousand dollars every single day until he dies, and at the average life expectancy that would still leave ~2.5M for his kids or whoever, and that's just going off Marvel money alone. There are a whole lot of people doing shit they don't want to do for money, I am not wasting a second feeling bad for Anthony Mackie.
 
The Thunderbolts trailer shit just feels very on the nose, like they're daring people to guess what the title is going to be changed to. I still think it'll be Dark Avengers.
 
I stopped watching MCU since I got sick from it years ago. I wanted to know how many tv series/shows came out since I stopped at Doctor Strange (2016).

I watched 16 mcu productions.
I did not watch 30 mcu productions.

Absolutely insane
 

Chris Evans is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part of the cast for “Avengers: Doomsday,” the highly anticipated sequel that will also star Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, The Wrap has learned exclusively. Evans will be involved in some capacity, but the extent and exact nature of his role is unknown.
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The absolute and unironic state of marvel right now. You can practically smell the desperation.
 
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