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Post by james on May 13, 2023 17:35:47 GMT -5
Groot speaking in full sentences! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2023 18:21:07 GMT -5
Death of....
....no, you always seem to come back, unless you're Uncle Ben.
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Post by zaku on May 13, 2023 18:25:37 GMT -5
There isn't a sub forum for all movies matters...?
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Post by berkley on May 13, 2023 18:53:02 GMT -5
The movie Mantis would be up there near the top of my personal list. Maye Ego as well. Actually, these might be seen as individual examples of a more general problem of going for the cheap laugh a little too often and with the wrong things. mantis and Ego, in their very different ways, should each have been impressive, even disturbing in some ways. Mantis deadly and a bit eerie at the same time, and Ego a really kind of scary, awe-inspiring cosmic power. But I suspect the MCU people are afraid of appearing to take themselves too seriously so they tend to over-compensate in the other direction.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 13, 2023 19:03:58 GMT -5
Groot speaking in full sentences! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ There was a point to that though.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2023 19:26:27 GMT -5
The superiority complex.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2023 19:56:42 GMT -5
They blew it so bad on Ego.
I think of that full-page panel at the end of the issue where Thor first saw Ego. Not using that was just idiocy.
They would never have got Mantis right. It was way beyond the capabilities of any super-hero movie writers. Working within their limited parameters, the writers made her into a successful character for the MCU.
But you’re right. She’s not Mantis.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2023 19:57:25 GMT -5
The thing I hate most is that the stakes are so high every time that nothing that happens means anything.
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Post by berkley on May 13, 2023 22:35:03 GMT -5
They blew it so bad on Ego. I think of that full-page panel at the end of the issue where Thor first saw Ego. Not using that was just idiocy. They would never have got Mantis right. It was way beyond the capabilities of any super-hero movie writers. Working within their limited parameters, the writers made her into a successful character for the MCU. But you’re right. She’s not Mantis.
Fully agree on Ego but I find the MCU Mantis just an awful character in itself, regardless of how close it is to the comics or not.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 13, 2023 23:44:24 GMT -5
Damage Control. Making it a government agency tasked with cleaning up alien combat sites and similar things, instead of the more awesome private contractor who cleans up superhero battlesites and hits the FF with major bills and the like. Terrific minis reduced to cheap background material.
Also not a fan of how SHIELD has been used; but, I can say that about most SHIELD things, post-Steranko, other than Marv Wolfman's use in MTIO and Tony Isabella's, in Daredevil, with the Silvermane HYDRA. And early Spider-Woman. Oh, and Clay Quartermain, in Hulk.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2023 0:26:56 GMT -5
Aunt May looking 100 years old in the comics.
Marisa Tomei should be the new norm.
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Post by badwolf on May 17, 2023 7:37:01 GMT -5
Having to remember everything that happened in 20 previous films to know what is going on.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 17, 2023 10:37:06 GMT -5
Same plot in all 20 films.
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Post by badwolf on May 17, 2023 10:41:31 GMT -5
They blew it so bad on Ego. I think of that full-page panel at the end of the issue where Thor first saw Ego. Not using that was just idiocy. Not sure if I'm familiar with that page, but I was thinking of this:
Instead we get jokes about whether he has a penis.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 18, 2023 7:10:13 GMT -5
What they did to Kirby's Eternals (and, no, I'm not referring to their changing the genders or races of individuals).
Cei-U! I summon the first MCU film I unequivically (sp?) disliked!
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