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Anon88 said:
how did he manage to look at all the Marvel universe stuff like Punisher (...) which have nothing to do with Spiderman's side of the universe
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Well, in complete fairness...
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thhrang said:
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I knew that and while your not wrong that he's kind of a Spiderman character, it's not like he was a long term reoccurring villain. Frank has his own tv show and the two of them hardly cross paths in any of the media. Unless you actually read the comics (which basically no one does) you're not going to know about this minor connection between them.
 
Anon88 said:
I knew that and while your not wrong that he's kind of a Spiderman character, it's not like he was a long term reoccurring villain. Frank has his own tv show and the two of them hardly cross paths in any of the media. Unless you actually read the comics (which basically no one does) you're not going to know about this minor connection between them.
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Tbh I think the thing that I'm probably looking forward to the most with this whole movie is seeing the dynamic between them, it should be fun if they manage to not fuck it up.
 
Anon88 said:
You know it is a little weird that brought back RDJ when Doom doesn't ever take his mask off in the comics. You basically could've just casted some nobody for the role and saved a lot of money.
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And go the Darth Vader route by having someone else voice him (because RDJ would likely ask for more money if he was just doing a voice role).
 
Anon88 said:
You basically could've just casted some nobody for the role and saved a lot of money.
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Absolutely they could have, however that misses the point of bringing RDJ back. They did it because they were in the shits and needed a nostalgia bump. The last several Marvel movies have generally not gone well financially, or critically. Then We Wuz Kang went and got himself arrested which shitcanned that arc they had planned. Getting RDJ back was an easy way of generating some buzz, and a lot less work than doing what they really needed to do (take some time off, thoroughly clean house of all the useless wankers in charge/directing, massively cut costs and go back to making actually good movies).
 
dontwantagoudatime24 said:
Hope there's gonna be a Imax exclusive aspect ratio. Shamed i missed out for far from home and no way home.
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That's funny, there isn't an IMAX release for this (there aren't actually any Marvel IMAX releases this year, Dune Part 3 currently has the screens for Doomsday as they secured them before Marvel even changed the date). It is entirely possible that the 1.90:1 aspect ratio is available in Dolby cinema.

And there's no way in hell this would be in 1.43:1 (the actual IMAX aspect ratio) - the only two films in the MCU that have used that are the Eternals and Fantastic Four (2025). But, chances are unlikely you'd be going to an IMAX capable of showing that aspect ratio for a marvel film unless it had dual laser GT.
 
We're three episodes into Daredevil: Born Again season 2.

Matt and Karen don't seem to have any kind of plan to take down the Kingpin. Karen randomly kidnapped a police officer who happened to hate Kingpin. Said police officer gave them a keycard (which resets at midnight!) that gives Daredevil access to one of Kingpin's black sites where he's keeping vigilante prisoners. They storm the black site, released the prisoners who are being held in large, unlocked chicken coops and then permanently main and/or kill a bunch of police officers as they're making their escape.

When Kingpin hears about the breakout he blows up a cargo ship that had been capsized in the Hudson river all season.

Kingpin isn't really doing a whole lot this season. He's not the mastermind he was in seasons 1 or 3. He just kinda sits around looking worried while minions occassionally show up to deliver bad news to him.

Vanessa's just there looking serious all the time.

Kingpin has three primary minions this season: fat bumbling guy who's fucking Ben's daughter, head of the police task force, and some random british dude. Again, there's no plan here. No unifying vision. Everybody is just doing random shit.

Ben's daughter is producing propaganda for Kingpin, but also SECRETLY RELEASING ANONYMOUS-ESQUE ANTI-KINGPIN VIDEOS.


In a better season of this show, Kingpin's fat bumbling assistant would be forced to kill Ben's daughter. Alas, I'm expecting something much, much dumber here.


I'm going to say something controversial, but Born Again season 1 was better. When you hire writers who are too stupid to write a coherent season-long plotline, its better to break things up episodically. Say what you will about BA:S1, but you could at least enjoy individual episodes. Here, everything is just a grey mush. Nothing works. Nothing makes sense. There's nothing to enjoy about it. Just a failure in every respect. Even the fight scenes are shit.
 
It’s really funny how the Kang saga completely exploded due to negative associations with the actor. Why didn’t they just recast him? It’d be jarring normally, but it’s Kang. The one guy who’s whole mo is that he can be different people.
 
MrLisReal said:
It’s really funny how the Kang saga completely exploded due to negative associations with the actor. Why didn’t they just recast him? It’d be jarring normally, but it’s Kang. The one guy who’s whole mo is that he can be different people.
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I think it’s partly them showing in… one of the movies I didn’t give half a shit about, that every Kang is identical, partly them coming to the realization that no one really gives half a shit about multiverses.

They work in comics to justify What If’s or different comic lines (Mainline, Ultimate, whathaveyou), but in a single overarching plot? The only time that’s been remotely successful is goddamn Dragonball, because it was used as a vehicle to introduce new characters to punch.
 
MrLisReal said:
It’s really funny how the Kang saga completely exploded due to negative associations with the actor. Why didn’t they just recast him? It’d be jarring normally, but it’s Kang. The one guy who’s whole mo is that he can be different people.
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Reminds me of when The CW Flash show did the same thing with the Elongated Man after his actor was fired during the pandemic. Even though his debut season established Ralph could shapeshift, his final appearance put him in a Daft Punk helmet that hid his real face and voice.
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I don't normally like it when characters are abruptly killed off when their actors' contracts are over, but they really should have just killed Ralph off-screen, because this was just embarrassing. It says a lot when the Batwoman show did a better job working around the loss of a main castmember inbetween seasons than this show did.

But hey, at least these writers tried to wrap up Ralph's story instead of ignoring him like what Marvel did with Kang.
 
MrLisReal said:
It’s really funny how the Kang saga completely exploded due to negative associations with the actor. Why didn’t they just recast him? It’d be jarring normally, but it’s Kang. The one guy who’s whole mo is that he can be different people.
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And it's not like the MCU has not recast actors in the past. See War Machine, Fandral of the Warriors Three, Red Skull, and Hulk.
 
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