JonnyLaw
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Introducing Franklin already is a real wild card, as that opens up a lot of different possibilities depending on where they want to go.
I agree it feels like the trailers plus (Thunderbolts spoiler)
SpoilerThe arrival of the F4 ship in the sacred timeline
are almost intentionally misleading us. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ending of this was almost Empire Strikes Back-esque, with Galactus and/or Doom triumphant and the F4 seemingly taken off the stage until a heroic return to save the day in Doomsday.
I know Strange supposedly isn’t in Doomsday, but one potential story beat they could play with there is that Strange already had a bad interaction with one version of Reed Richards talking about the dangers of incursions, so another one showing up from a different universe should definitely gain his attention.
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55 minutes ago, twiztor said:
i thought that Kingpin had to stay TV-only due to the movie rights being elsewhere.
Hence the “despite what D’Onofrio says.” IIRC, he’s the one who revealed that.
Disney has the rights back to Daredevil from Fox, so I believe the argument was that Sony somehow had some rights to Kingpin as a Spider-Man villain. Since the Spider-Man moves are Sony co-productions, there shouldn’t be anything stopping Kingpin from appearing in those.
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I don’t think anyone has mentioned this here, but apparently the MCU does not have a major panel at SDCC.
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58 minutes ago, Craig H said:
He directed the Thunderbolts. I think he has the Kevin Feige confidence vote that dudes like the Russo brothers, Peyton Reed, and Jon Watts have had.
I read that right after I posted; shows how much attention I’ve been paying.
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Marvel is going back to four movies a year in 2028, and someone named Jake Schreier will apparently direct whatever the mutant/X-Men movie is.
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Oops, hit quote instead of edit.
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I thought the middle third/half of Moon Knight was bad the first time I watched it, but on a rewatch binge, it wasn’t that bad. Perfectly mediocre.
I have absolutely no desire to rewatch Secret Invasion. It really did feel like a Bendis comic in that it kinda referenced stuff from other movies/shows but basically ignored them and did its own thing poorly.
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Hopefully nothing reaches “Secret Invasion” bad, but at least it was comic accurate in that regard.
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21 hours ago, odessasteps said:
I don’t know if you needed all the heroes to be B/C list heroes to make him all the more Super by comparison.
I think it’s a little of this, combined with this being set in a world that already has some super-heroes, but presumably not your A-listers working together yet, combined also with Gunn liking the weird B/C guys.
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I can easily see Seth Rollins as the annoying B-story distraction who plays a recurring role similar to GSP/Batroc. Frankly, he makes a lot more sense in that role in that movie than casting Esposito does. I’m a little surprise they recast and reshot things so Esposito would be that specific character instead of just casting him as a different character, making him the Serpent Society lead, and tacking on a scene or two showing him to be behinds things.
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9 hours ago, Casey said:
I don't know that Tennant as The Riddler would've flown in Nolan's Batman universe tbh. If Snyder ever did a Batfleck movie, I could see that, but Nolan had all of his stuff somewhat grounded in reality. I'm not a big fan of what Snyder did with his Snyderverse but I would've been pretty hyped for a stand-alone Batman movie actually. I'm glad neither of them touched the character though because (hot take?) I loved Paul Dano as The Riddler. I don't know what the consensus is on Dano and him playing that role, but it worked for me. Might've never gotten it if Nolan or Snyder did the character, seemed like Reeves was using big villains that hadn't been touched in decades (not counting Catwoman as a villain obviously).
Kind of not looking forward to a James Gunn co-written Batman movie if I'm being honest. His style works for stuff like Guardians or Superman, I'm not sure how it would translate to Batman. And if it's as colorful as those movies... yeah, I just don't know. We'll see (maybe?).
I think the same things could have been said about Morrison’s Batman, and Gunn has some Morrison tendencies IMO.
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I’m interested to see additional movies are announced. IIRC, they only have F4, Brand New Day, and the two Avengers movies announced for the rest of this year and the next two years. With their reduced release schedule, they could wait until next year to announce a new slate, but that would be late for whatever gets released in summer of 2027. At the same time, this summer seems too early to announce things, so who knows.
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It’s amazing how different the tone and vibe of this is to prior DC stuff. I can’t wait for this.
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On 4/29/2025 at 9:55 AM, TheVileOne said:
I was highly disappointed. The movie went off the rails, and it was basically a bait-and-switch gimmick.
It so badly wants to be the grounded version of Guardians of the Galaxy, but without any of the charm or character investment. Sentry is badly executed.
The one bright spot is Florence Pugh as Yelena.
I’m curious as to what you think was a bait and switch.
SpoilerMy hunch is that it turned into a “New Avengers” movie rather than a classic Thunderbolts type of movie. They didn’t really harp on it much, but really, you’re left with a classic Thunderbolts situation as you essentially have a team of “villains” “pretending” to be the Avengers while the real Avengers are gone.
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I was a little pissed that I had mostly managed to avoid spoilers except for
Spoiler1) hearing there was a “big death” only for it to be Taskmaster, which I didn’t think was it, so I kept waiting for Bucky or Red Guardian to sacrifice themselves at some point, and 2) having the post credit scene spoiled thanks to paying just enough attention to the credits that I saw the Fantastic Four First Steps theme listed.
I thought it was really good, higher MCU stuff. A couple of questions/thoughts about the post-credit:
SpoilerI may have misread the scene, but I read it as there was a separate space event going on before the F4 rocket appeared. Either way, that’s one or two future things teased, plus you’ve got Sam’s team forming, presumably with Falcon and who else? Earth-bound Star Lord? Thor/Valkyrie? The mysterious Spider-Man?
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On 4/22/2025 at 8:29 AM, RIPPA said:
https://youtu.be/GTowMnn-8sk?si=nVpRzaJJ6zPvrvj2
Weapons
Directed by Zach Cregger (Barbarian)
Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.
Very brief teaser but enough to go "well this is gonna fuck some people up"
It still cracks me up that one of the Whitest Kids U Know and co-Director of Miss March has become a successful horror director.
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That looks so fucking good.
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Secret Invasion and the middle part of Moon Knight are the only things I’ve thought were actively bad.
That said, I haven’t seen Eternals yet.
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As someone who binged the new MC Chris and Dana Snyder podcast in the last week, I lol’d.
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1 hour ago, Raziel said:
So, Doom's murking The Thunderbolts before the Titlecard to establish his threat and we spend the rest of the flick with Cap trying to get a workable team together before Multiworld Maddness kicks in.
It would be mildly amusing if many of these are solely just cameos in a massive George Perez-esque group shot of heroes from different multiverses gathering.
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Do we have a new Stan Lee on our hands?
Take that however you want.
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I can see Rollins as a GSP as Batroc level recurring villain, and I think that’s basically what the character came off as in BNW. I assume they have bigger plans now given who they cast, but I can easily see Rollins cackling madly while shooting at Cap’s truck.
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I’m just now getting caught up on Creature Commandos. I watched the first two awhile back, thought it was fine, and dropped it for a while. Finally picked it back up tonight with the GI Robot episode, boy, that escalated quickly. Immediately watched the next one, and the Weasel episode was just as good.
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My daughter, now 10, and I started binging through a lot of the MCU Infinity Saga a couple of weeks back when we both had flu. We skipped some of the lesser consequential ones for Infinity War/Endgame/CA:Brave New World. She’s enjoyed them all, but the Captain America ones surprised by how much she liked them and him. “Before I watched these, I thought he was just some lame guy, but now he’s my favorite!”
We’ve sped through WandaVision this weekend and are about to finish up the finale before going back and catching up on some of the movies we skipped. So far, I think WV is one of her favorites.-
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DC TV & Movies - 2025
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Apparently there’s a rumor Jensen Ackles is in the running for Gunn’s Batman.
I got my CW actors mixed up for a minute and was briefly intrigued/excited about Wentworth Miller being the new Bruce Wayne.