Haven't seen the 3rd Guardians but I liked the Spiderman movies. No way home was great.
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I actually agree with your list pretty much completely. On some of those I feel like "how am I the only one who feels this way????".
I thought all three Shazam/Black Adam movies were so bad and really shocked anybody liked them at all.
The Batman...even if someone hates the rest of the movie it's an A- just for the one car chase scene and the incredible hallway fight scene. I mean, WOW.
I feel like Fury Road came out and made all other action movies look like a total joke...especially MCU movies...then nobody even TRIED to match it for years until The Batman which was the first time anybody even really tried. Top Gun in a way but totally different kind of action. Dune 1-2 have some moments where it goes there too in terms of unbelievable visual action quality, but it's a more serious movie than Fury Road or any comic book hero movie so it holds back for the good of the movie.
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‘The Fantastic Four’: Julia Garner Joins Marvel Studios Movie As A Shalla-Bal Version Of Silver Surfer
Julia Garner will play Silver Surfer in Marvel Studios' 'Fantastic Four' movie
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Silver Surfer will appear in Marvel's Fantastic Four
‘The Fantastic Four’: Julia Garner Joins Marvel Studios Movie As A Shalla-Bal Version Of Silver Surfer
Julia Garner will play Silver Surfer in Marvel Studios' 'Fantastic Four' movie
Silver Surfer will appear in Marvel's Fantastic Four
I know nothing about his girl so I'm kind of indifferent. I was more so digging the rumors that Anya Taylor Joy was going to take on the role.
So we getting Galactus as the next big (literally) bad then?‘The Fantastic Four’: Julia Garner Joins Marvel Studios Movie As A Shalla-Bal Version Of Silver Surfer
Julia Garner will play Silver Surfer in Marvel Studios' 'Fantastic Four' movie
Silver Surfer will appear in Marvel's Fantastic Four
I’m loving it. I think they did a great job of updating the original series, while maintaining the nostalgia and feel of the OG.
I’ve gotten my son into the original series as well, now that Disney is promoting the reboot.
Along with x-men, surfer and the cosmic stuff was what I bought monthly as a kid and even had mail subscription.
Him being a man isn’t absolutely essential to the story and there are plot lines where his love interest Shalla Bal gets the same powers…but you never know if this sort of thing also signals a general disregard for characters.
The one time it 100% did was when they race swapped characters in The Dark Tower disaster because aspects of the sequels are specifically about race, they clearly didn’t care and were not trying. The next film would have had an amazing black female handicapped character (even a civil rights leader) and they didn’t even have to wedge it in but the story would have been weird from race swap they already made.
I'm on board with XM97 as well. They nailed the nostalgia with the story-line and animation. I still find it odd that of all the mutants out there that Jubilee gets the screen time that she does. Full disclosure, I'm not familiar with the comics side of her or her powers, but it feels like the animated series does nothing to make her a very interesting character.
The back story of how that 90s series came about it pretty incredible, so many of the writers/creatives are just people who actually worked on the comics. They even had a comic series in those years that adapted the cartoon back into a comic which is kind of crazy given how loyal the show is to the original stories. The whole series is really "condensed X-Men's Greatest Hits". You can read 4+ decades of several comics series, or you can watch that animated series and get the same experience.
You knew it could take off because in the 80s and 90s X-Men was already selling significant quantity of action figures having never been a show or movie.
If I recall, they were going to use Kitty Pryde, who’s a much more recognizable and popular character, for that Jubilee role. But the powers-that-be wanted to introduce a new character, so they replaced Kitty Pryde with Jubilee.
If you rewatch the first season of the OG, Jubilee is pretty prominent in a lot of episodes. But I don’t think she caught on with fans, so they kind of just put her in the background during the later seasons of the series.
I think it’s kind of cool how they’re retooling her character in XM97, making her more relatable rather than just a whiny teen.
This video has some good background on that decision. It also gives a great history on how the show became to be.
Thanks for sharing! Some really interesting tidbits in there. I was 90% right on Kitty Pryde.
I couldn’t agree more with the video and adult themes. Rewatching with my son, the themes actually still hold true today. And some of those one-liners are still gold!
“Yes. Rogue has a way with men”
“Hey Tin Woodsman. I’m sending you back to Oz in pieces”
“Tell Cyclops, I made him a convertible”
“You wanna play with Gambit? Here take a card! — House wins”
Looks like it is indeed Galactus.
Fantastic Four MCU movie villain all but confirmed as Marvel teases key story details
The Planet Devourer will come forth, apparently
X-Men '97 is incredibly good. It's also a lot more adult-oriented than the original series, which was a surprise, but also good to know before I dared showed my kids. I used to watch the original series all the time when I was growing up, and I started watching a little with them before they got spooked and I realized that the violence and content level was a step above the original 90s cartoon.
The only missed opportunity so far has been the 3rd and 4th episodes. Revealing Jean Gray as clone was a huge moment that was glossed over really quickly in order to get to the meat of the Mr. Sinister/Madelyne Pryor storyline. And then the 4th episode (while insanely cool) felt more like filler that could have been taken out in service of giving the clone plot a lot more time to marinate.
The only missed opportunity so far has been the 3rd and 4th episodes. Revealing Jean Gray as clone was a huge moment that was glossed over really quickly in order to get to the meat of the Mr. Sinister/Madelyne Pryor storyline. And then the 4th episode (while insanely cool) felt more like filler that could have been taken out in service of giving the clone plot a lot more time to marinate.
Am I the only one… that teared up? Gambit was among my favorite X-men growing up. Rogue echoing Wanda’s “I can’t feel you” just broke me. God damn.
Holy **** just finished Episode 5 of X Men ‘97 and DAMN Marvel that’s how you say, “We’ve still got some tricks.”
That episode was crazy good.
That episode was crazy good.
