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  1. Mordecai
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    Marvel Cinematic Universe General Thread

    [SPOILER] Absolutely in agreement here - it was already an issue just from the sheer number of films, but adding in the tv shows to the continuity is going to be really offputting to a lot of people. I think time will have to tell on how important the shows are to the overall plot and so how much of an impact they have, but you're chosen term of timebomb is pretty much on the money.
    Post by: Mordecai, Jul 15, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  2. Mordecai
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    Solid ending, good set up for whatever comes next. Far, far better than Wandavision or FWS, though not perfect by any means. I felt it struggled a bit with pacing, and didn't do as good a job of explaining what was going on as it could have done. But definitely highly enjoyable.
    Post by: Mordecai, Jul 14, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  3. Mordecai
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    Did I miss something that gave an actual explanation for it? To me it literally just looked like ultra cheap and shitty costumes and didn't feel like it was adding anything to what was going on.
    Post by: Mordecai, Jul 7, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
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    My only complaint about the latest episodes is that some of the costumes looked super low budget, like they forget to assign any budget for them and some intern had to do the zero cost cosplay thing to put the actors in costume. Other than that, it was great.
    Post by: Mordecai, Jul 7, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  5. Mordecai
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    Firstly I think that you're misrepresenting Loki - that is certainly how he started, but I think they're doing to emphasise the fact that he's grown as a character over the course of the films. As for moral dilemmas, I could see various ways that an involuntary agent of a fascistic government being forced to hunt to down another version of himself through all the worlds of the multi verse/through all of history and the future could find himself in moral dilemmas.
    Post by: Mordecai, Jun 14, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  6. Mordecai
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    Just finished the first ep of Loki. Very interesting set up, lots of avenues for drama and moral dilemma. It'll be very interesting to see where they go with it from this starting point.
    Post by: Mordecai, Jun 13, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  7. Mordecai
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    Trailers often have things in them that only make sense given context from the full film. Certainly Marvel don't always have the neatest or most consistent plots, but I'd wait to see what the context of that statement was before assuming it makes no sense.
    Post by: Mordecai, May 25, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  8. Mordecai
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    As you say, very intriguing. I've no context to put it in, but the trailer certainly made me curious to find out what's going on!
    Post by: Mordecai, May 24, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  9. Mordecai
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    Its worth noting on this that Marvel's official position until pretty recently was that you should be able to watch nothing but the films and follow the story completely - its only with the new Disney+ shows that they've abandoned that and decided to tie in the shows to the MCU. The Netflix shows were written to be distinctly separate and not necessary to follow the MCU at all.
    Post by: Mordecai, Apr 28, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  10. Mordecai
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    Absolutely agreed with Genghiz. Civil War had an extremely weak premise, but if you are willing to ignore that then its a fantastic film and a great watch. Just really weak in the setup department.
    Post by: Mordecai, Apr 26, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  11. Mordecai
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    Pretty sure Russo has said its supposed to be about a year between those 2 films.
    Post by: Mordecai, Apr 8, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  12. Mordecai
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    Finally, an offshoot show with a trailer that leaves me actually interested to watch the show. On thinking about it, I think one of the reasons I've not been overly enthused about Wandavision or FWS is that I never really developed any interest in those characters during the films. They were given limited screen time, and never particularly developed in a way that made them interesting. Loki is different in that regard, he's a character I'm already interested in, which automatically makes...
    Post by: Mordecai, Apr 5, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  13. Mordecai
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    Its also good to avoid most of them, because many of them are really pretty bad.
    Post by: Mordecai, Apr 5, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  14. Mordecai
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    Watched the first episode of FWS. Wasn't impressed, literally nothing gripped me to keep me watching. If others tell me that the series gets truly phenomenal in later episodes, I might find myself doing what I did with wandavision and just fast forward through large chunks so I can keep up with the overall plot development.
    Post by: Mordecai, Mar 30, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  15. Mordecai
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    Can't see any of those being the actual name, surely...
    Post by: Mordecai, Feb 24, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  16. Mordecai
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    Ah, I was trying to think of something equivalent to the MCU in scale. I don't think a couple of episodes of Star Trek and SG1 function as proof of concept for having Captain America suddenly being Johnny Storm not being seriously confusing for the audience.
    Post by: Mordecai, Feb 13, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  17. Mordecai
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    I'm struggling to think of an actual example of this? Anything you can point me towards?
    Post by: Mordecai, Feb 13, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  18. Mordecai
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    How on earth are they going to make that work without it being horrifically confusing?
    Post by: Mordecai, Feb 13, 2021 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  19. Mordecai
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    I'd definitely dispute this. Maybe more popular with comic or cartoon fans, but that accounts for a distinct minority of the film fans. Sure, Miles got an outing in the multiverse film, but that's the only way most people are familiar with the character.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 12, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  20. Mordecai
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    Really? I'm not sure I am...making Loki isn't a good guy was always going to be a stretch but going the cop type character angle I'm concerned they're going to try and make him a proper good guy rather than keeping him as an amusing anti hero with lots of emphasis on anti.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 11, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  21. Mordecai
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    My memory of it is thats not quite accurate. She expressed concerns about the covid vaccine specifically, due to how quickly its been developed. I think conflating that with being antivax is unhelpful. I don't agree with her concerns, and I think her voicing them from a popular pulpit is dangerous - but not the same sort of terrible thing as being an actual antivaxer is.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 11, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  22. Mordecai
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    Yeah that sort of plot could work. Maybe giving her a bit more air time will let her develop some character beyond "annoying genius". And there's definitely some interesting plot to work with in the legitimate heir thing, and a good strong feminist plot which they'd no doubt enjoy doing.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 11, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  23. Mordecai
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    That's pretty much my feelings on it Raiko. They've already established that the Black Panther is an inherited position - so either make boring genius girl the new Black Panther or say that he died somehow and the tribes have elected a new royal family, so there's a new heir who can be the Black Panther. Then just use the Black Panther stories, very slightly modified to fit the new overarching story.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 11, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  24. Mordecai
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    Disney have announced a few new pieces. 10 TV series in the next decade apparently, though no details on whether that incudes one's already announced, or if its properly new ones. Christian Bale is going to be the main villain in the next Thor. The Black Panther sequel is not recasting Black Panther or using CGI, instead it'll explore side characters. Not sure how successful an approach this will be, as much as its a very respectful one in regards to Boseman. Captain Marvel 2 is going...
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 11, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  25. Mordecai
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    Oh, I've no issue with harking back to the previous films. Thats a nice tough. My issue is with tying in the film into the shit TV series that a comparatively small number of people have watched. However they bring in the TV characters, its going to annoy people. Either they treat them like a new character and introduce them, annoying the fans of the TV show, or they treat them like an existing character, annoying the folk who've never watched the TV shows will be confused and irritated.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 9, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  26. Mordecai
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    Any film involving Iron Fist is going to be a pile of shit. Just like the Iron Fist series. Hell, most of the marvel tv series are pretty shit.
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 9, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  27. Mordecai
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    So they're crossing over from the tv series Daredevil into the films now? Fucking hell...
    Post by: Mordecai, Dec 9, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  28. Mordecai
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    I always felt that Hulk was one of the least interesting, least relatable Marvel characters so I can't say I'd be sad if a Hulk centric series didn't happen.
    Post by: Mordecai, Oct 19, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  29. Mordecai
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    On the other side of that, I don't know if its that I'm generally missing the cinema and generally the outside life, but I could really go a 3+ hour Marvel release, a big soda, and a pick n mix.
    Post by: Mordecai, Oct 4, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  30. Mordecai
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    Why are they calling the films Homecoming 2 and Homecoming 3 etc? Homecoming was the first one, Far from home was the second one.
    Post by: Mordecai, Oct 3, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  31. Mordecai
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    I'll be honest, that trailer was just...weird. And not in a way that makes me want to watch the show to find out what the hell was going on. The only thing that was interesting was the idea of "you're dead and this is happening to you", but the little bit of setting shown was quite off putting. Gutted that they're tying it into the movies, I thought that keeping their movies and shows pretty much separate was one of the better decisions Marvel made. If they start tying in a bunch of shows...
    Post by: Mordecai, Oct 2, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  32. Mordecai
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    You're looking at it from the perspective of someone who knows what the comic book characters were like though. The vast majority of people watching Marvel films haven't read the comics or watched the cartoons, and don't know what these characters are supposed to be like. What they do know is that they've seen a bad film with that bad guy before. All they see is superhero films recycling the same couple of bad guys every decade rather than going over any new ground.
    Post by: Mordecai, Sep 20, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
  33. Mordecai
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    Kang benefits from an absolute lack of familiarity on the part of most of the fans. Doctor Doom and Galactus have both featured in films that are generally regarded as failures and which no one really remembers positively. Going with a new bad guy can only be a good thing. Besides, Galactus is a terrible bad guy. He's far too large scale, and high powered, so any solution to him as a threat needs to be, frankly, ridiculous. It can just work in comics, but theres a definite struggle in...
    Post by: Mordecai, Sep 20, 2020 in forum: Movies, Music and TV shows
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