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Michael Waldron (Loki, Dr. Strange & Multiverse of Madness, Avengers Doomsday, co-creator of Chad Powers) is supposedly developing Nova as a post Secret Wars project.

I assume that’s Shang Chi, but it looks a lot more like his dad.

I was referring more to the Peacemaker S2, Creature Commandos, Supergirl, Clayface parts of this first phase.

The “problem” is that Gunn made his name with the Guardians of the Galaxy and then repeated that semi-success with Peacemaker, two properties that had less name recognition than Supergirl or Clayface. I can completely see where his “Let’s start small and build up to the big hitters” idea comes from. Additionally, it’s better to work the kinks of this new universe out with those movies before going all in on his version of Batman and the Justice League.

It sounds like Gillespie made a movie that admittedly didn’t work, the studio/Gunn got involved and it marginally improved.

Money well spent. How else will people ever wanna go see some guy named *checks notes* Spider-Man.

For me, it wasn’t as “fun” as something like Masters of the Universe (which was 100% pure nostalgia) or The Marvels (driven mostly by Kamala Khan). I agree it was pretty much in line with my expectations as well.

Saw the movie today; it was fine. There was nothing noticeably bad about the script, but I could see an argument that a decent bit of the dialogue was one liners rather actual conversation. Lobo was fine, his muscle suit/Momoa’s steroid body was a little distracting, and I just now realize it reminded me just a little of the Schumacher Bane. Milly Alcock was very good though, I thought, and I look forward to more of her and Corenswet’s Superman interacting.

I subscribed to EW back in the late 90s/early 00s, and I don’t remember him being like that either, although I vaguely remember strongly disagreeing with certain reviews. Apparently he’s also tough on average superhero movies.

I’ve seen decent reviews for this; although it’s currently at 59% on RT.

Cannot wait. I mean, literally I can, I have to, it doesn’t come out for over a month but regardless, I CANNOT WAIT!!!

Re: Media literacy, I’ve seen some of that with the He-Man movie, where I’ve seen at least two reviews complain about Adam not seeming to care about his adopted parents, except… there’s no mention of him ever being adopted or having adopted parents. Even if there were, his obsession with finding his way home (and all the Earth scenes) makes it pretty clear he’s not especially happy on Earth/doesn’t consider it his home. He’s not Superman with Ma and Pa Kent, he most likely grew up in an orphanage.

Same here. I am 100% in the actually pretty small nostalgia demo for this (my first Christmas memory is coming downstairs and seeing Castle Greyskull and some figures laid out under the tree), and I loved it. Is it a great movie? No, of course not, it’s fucking He-Man. But it’s probably about as good a pretty faithful He-Man movie as you can make given the source material.

Am I alone in thinking that Chris Evans is going to make his triumphant return to change the tide of whatever threat they’re facing, only to get immediately jobbed out to Doom?

I’m cautiously optimistic. It looks good, but I’ve enjoyed how much the MCU Spidey movies mostly stayed away from mopey Spider and were more fun. This movie seems to be riffing more on stories I didn’t really like.