Great. Not only are they stealing my future Black Widow movie, but they are doing it with Jennifer Lawrence????? Somebody must really not like me right now......
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Great. Not only are they stealing my future Black Widow movie, but they are doing it with Jennifer Lawrence????? Somebody must really not like me right now......
1. Wonder Woman
2. Spider-Man: Homecoming
3. Thor: Ragnarok (I know I liked this one more than you)
4. Logan
5. Justice League (I like this more than others)
6. Lego Batman (2nd viewing was better, but I wanted this to be better)
7. GOTG 2 (I haven't rewatched it yet, but I'm hoping I like it more than I did the first time)
I never made it to the theater to see Logan and I ended up watching it piece-meal over 5 or 6 viewings as I'd tune it in on HBO after getting my daughter to bed. I feel like I did that movie a disservice by not seeing it from start to finish.
And, yeah, Infinity War looks pretty bad ass. My biggest fear on this one is that I hope it "takes a breath" and doesn't just load up the screen with non-stop action. I'm all for packing in the action, but I hope they don't go into it feeling like every hero needs an equal amount of action time.
Now that I've posted my full-out The Punisher review, I figured it was about time for me to update my MCU rankings to include it, so here goes. While you'll notice that The Punisher actually only ends up one slot above Daredevil Season 2 in my rankings, there is still a big enough difference in quality between the two to place one in the top tier of MCU rankings, while keeping the other as a second-tier property.
Please give me your thoughts on where I threw The Punisher in. I'd love to hear them.
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Thought this movie had the best drama and best writing and story line of all the movies. Its action sequences were probably only second to Civil War as well.
- Marvel’s The Avengers – Iconic way to pull everything together with the best villain in the MCU. The final battle was so epic and unlike anything we had ever seen up until that point.
- Captain America: Civil War - Most fun and one of the funniest movies on the list. Also produced the best action sequences, had some of the best character moments, and showcased the best balancing act of so many characters. Biggest downfall was having a very good, but not great story line, which kept it from topping my list.
- Iron Man – Epic way to start the Universe with an unbelievable star for a headliner. Never got into the Iron Monger villain though.
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Best space epic since the original Star Wars movies. Also was probably the funniest movie of the MCU so far.
- Marvel's The Punisher: Season 1 - Most complete Marvel TV series so far with great pacing, great story, superb casting, and amazing acting. Ben Barnes as Billy Russo is now not only one of my favorite actors, but he is up there as one of the best Marvel villains. Very stand-alone series, but I wish there were a few more crossovers.
- Marvel's Daredevil: Season 2 - The introduction of Jon Bernthal's Punisher in Season 2 was what truly made this season great and better than Season 2. Had a few pacing issues, but overall, the series only improved all the characters within it from Season 1, but I'm still so-so on all the Electra stuff. Still needs a few more crossovers, but had a few.
- Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 1 – Loved the street-level more-adult-themed tone of this show. Also contains probably the second best villain in the MCU. Being on Netflix is a great way to un-cuff all the normal problems of making a TV show for network viewing.
- Ant-Man - Had super-low expectations, but walked away pleasantly surprised. Yet another weak villain, but contained some great comedy with some great actors. Paul Rudd won me over when I once was really skeptical of him.
- Captain America: The First Avenger – Epic first-half of the movie with Cap’s origin story, but believe it or not, I found Red Skull a little underdeveloped. Loved the WWII time period aspect of this one.
- Spider-Man: Homecoming - Amazing casting on this movie throughout, with Tom Holland being the best Spider-Man yet. Also featured one of the greatest villains in the MCU yet with Michael Keaton, with one of the best scenes and best twists. Movie just lacked the music score and emotional weight of some of its predecessors.
- Marvel's Agents of Shield: Season 4 - Best season of AOS so far with a very good two-part story line. Ghost Rider was amazing movie quality all around (casting, acting, visuals, story) and fit perfectly into the story, as well as tying the series to the Doctor Strange multi-verse/mystical/inter-dimensional world. Tons of fun with a lot of great emotion.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Huge on the laughs, fun and heart, but a little mediocre on the story and substance. Also, went a little overboard at times where things got a bit too campy. Characters were probably more fun than story.
- Marvel's Jessica Jones - Series filled with great actors, great drama, good diversity to what we are used to, and one of the best villains in the MCU (Kilgrave). Series suffered most from having probably 3-4 too many episodes, poor pacing, and not enough ties to the overall MCU.
- Iron Man 2 – Many will mock me, but I actually really enjoyed this movie and actually enjoyed it more than Iron Man 3. Make fun of me all you want, but I didn’t think Whiplash was that bad. I think this movie gets unfairly criticized.
- Doctor Strange - This was a fairly Marvel formulaic origin story with some ground-breaking visual effects, a mediocre villain, an innovative ending, and some great characters. However, its biggest problem for me is that it was probably just a bit too out there on the magic side to fully be my cup of tea, which is okay. I still enjoyed it.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – Fun movie, but suffered from too much CGI action, too many characters, and too many storylines.
- Iron Man 3 – Don’t know what it is, but I just never really got into this one, and it probably had something to do with the big Mandarin villain twist towards the end. Also never really liked Killian either. Again, I surprisingly like Iron Man 2 better
- Thor – Don’t know what it is, but I just never got into this storyline or villains as much as the others. However, it is growing on me over time and I now like this more than Thor: The Dark World
- Thor: Ragnarok - I appreciate them trying to go in a creative new direction on this movie, but it ultimately felt too much like a quirky improv comedy (how he shot it) to me. Went a little too heavy on the comedy, which ultimately offset and mitigated the substance, scale, and weight of the movie. Hela was great villain though.
- Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 1 - Loved the music angle, loved Cottonmouth as the villain, loved the first 4 episodes. However, this was another Netflix series that really lost its way somewhere in the middle, and I really didn't care for any of the Diamondback stuff. Still enjoyed it, but definitely the worst Netflix series yet.
- Thor: The Dark World – Criticize me if you will, but I actually liked this movie more than probably most, but after re-watching it recently, it did fall some in my rankings. I now have the origin Thor above it.
- Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 2 – Liked the less cheese and more serious tone than the first season. Also, loved the Inhuman’s storyline. Used to hate Skye, but now don’t mind her. This is definitely the best AOS season so far
- Marvel’s Agent Carter – Loved the period timepiece aspect of this. Great show.
- The Incredible Hulk – Good movie, but not great. Never was into Norton for the role or the look they gave theHulk, so I was super glad when the switch was made and they remade the Hulk's appearance.
- Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 1 – Struggled hardcore in the first half-dozen episodes, but then finally picked up when Winter Soldier story line set in and the cheese started to fade. Overall, ended up really enjoying this.
- Marvel's Agents of Shield: Season 3 - Was VERY up and down throughout. There was times I really liked what they were doing, whereas other times where I really did not like what they were doing. Overall, the series is getting a little tired, too many forced fistfights, and still too high on the cheese factor. Still fun at times though.
- Marvel's The Defenders: Season 1: Started out alright including a great hallway fight scene earlier on, but then everything fell apart from there in the back half of the season, mostly dragged down by Iron Fist being Iron Fist, poor storytelling, and really poor dialogue. This series was a big let-down for me.
- Marvel's Agent Carter: Season 2 - Great actors and characters combined with a poor stand-alone story, which lacked substance and true stakes to the MCU
- Marvel's Iron Fist: Season 1 - A combination of terrible casting/acting from Danny Rand, terrible boring story, poor fight sequences, and too low a budget resulted in Marvel's first major dud for a TV show. At least the back half of the season was much better than the front half.
- Marvel's Inhumans - Garbage TV show all around. Bad acting, costumes, sets, directing, characterizations, special effects, and storytelling. This TV show was intentionally made fast and on the cheap as a money-grab and it totally shows through.
Please give me your thoughts on where I threw The Punisher in. I'd love to hear them.
https://www.cbr.com/stan-lee-sexual-misconduct-accusation-c2e2/
Does all of this spell doom for future Marvel movie Stan Lee cameos????
Does all of this spell doom for future Marvel movie Stan Lee cameos????
http://collider.com/venom-movie-spider-man-cameo-tom-holland/#images
Well, the latest rumor is that the Tom Holland Spider-Man will in fact be in the upcoming Venom movie. Well, at least what has been reported is that Tom Holland was at least on set for a couple days during production.
https://screenrant.com/venom-movie-mcu-connections/
Here is a list of all the previous evidence up until this past report shaping whether or not Venom exists in the MCU
Well, the latest rumor is that the Tom Holland Spider-Man will in fact be in the upcoming Venom movie. Well, at least what has been reported is that Tom Holland was at least on set for a couple days during production.
https://screenrant.com/venom-movie-mcu-connections/
Here is a list of all the previous evidence up until this past report shaping whether or not Venom exists in the MCU
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I doubt it. There were allegations against TJ Miller, yet he will still be appearing in Deadpool 2.
I thought this was going to be the case anyway, as the MCU only has Tom Holland for 2 stand-alone films, yet they have referenced that Tom Holland signed on for a trilogy of solo films, which would indicate Spider-Man: "Homecoming 3" would be part of Sony's superhero universe.
Edit: Here is an interview with Tom Holland where he says he is contractually obligated to appear in 6 films as Spider-Man: 3 solo films and 3 ensemble(Avengers)
How many more movies are you signed on for as Spider-Man?
They give you options, and those could be exercised whenever. Like a cameo in Avengers. I'm unclear as to which movies, though. I do know I have three Spider-Man movies and three solo movies contracted. But if you have another movie, Marvel is so good at working around it. They're very respectful of your life, really. They understand that you have to work on other movies, and they try and fix it up so you can work around each other.
And here is an article from Collider that goes over the initial Sony-Disney deal that brought Spider-Man to the MCU:They give you options, and those could be exercised whenever. Like a cameo in Avengers. I'm unclear as to which movies, though. I do know I have three Spider-Man movies and three solo movies contracted. But if you have another movie, Marvel is so good at working around it. They're very respectful of your life, really. They understand that you have to work on other movies, and they try and fix it up so you can work around each other.
So what does Marvel Studios get in return out of this deal? Besides getting to play with a toy they’ve been eyeing for a very long time now, they get to use Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in a set number of MCU movies (five in total, per this initial agreement, including Homecoming and its sequel).
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I don't know that this necessarily proves much. For one, TJ Miller had already filmed all of his scenes for Deadpool 2 prior to the allegations against him being made, so it would have required Fox to go back and reshoot all those scenes, which while not impossible, makes things much more difficult and expensive. Past Deadpool 2, we'll see if they end up using him. Also, the other big thing is that Deadpool is Fox (as of right now) and most the other Marvel movies are Disney, and Disney tends to go to extra lengths to prove themselves to be a more family-friendly culture. We'll see in this case. Regardless, there is tons of examples going around right now of all the major studios distancing themselves from nearly all the actors/producers/directors tied up in allegations. There is a big cleaning house going around right now in all of Hollywood. While I'm generally in favor of it, I hope things don't go too far with it. In the end, we still live in a country where people are innocent until proven guilty. It seems the more and more allegations that pop up, the closer and closer we get from the more black and white scenarios (Weinstein) to the much more grey scenarios (maybe like an Aziz Ansari).
Here is the press release regarding the bonus features and release date for Thor: Ragnarok on 4K & standard blu-ray
Disc-based release date is March 6
Digital-only release date is Feb 20
Disc-based release date is March 6
Digital-only release date is Feb 20
First official image from Ant-Man & The Wasp, along with the official plot synopsis
From the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes Ant-Man and The Wasp, a new chapter featuring heroes with the astonishing ability to shrink. In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a super hero and a father. As he struggles to rebalance his life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he’s confronted by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym with an urgent new mission. Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside the Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from the past.
From the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes Ant-Man and The Wasp, a new chapter featuring heroes with the astonishing ability to shrink. In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a super hero and a father. As he struggles to rebalance his life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he’s confronted by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym with an urgent new mission. Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside the Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from the past.
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https://screenrant.com/tick-season-2-amazon-renewed/
I see The Tick just got renewed for a second season, which I'm super glad to see. So far, they've only released the first half of season 1 (2nd half comes late February), but I've loved what we've seen so far. It is just one of those fun, hilarious, entertaining series to kick-back and enjoy.
https://screenrant.com/tick-season-2-amazon-renewed/
I see The Tick just got renewed for a second season, which I'm super glad to see. So far, they've only released the first half of season 1 (2nd half comes late February), but I've loved what we've seen so far. It is just one of those fun, hilarious, entertaining series to kick-back and enjoy.
Is the problem it's shaped like a ****? I never noticed until people pointed it out.
Watched first episode of Runaways last night. Definitely a lot different than anything out there from Marvel so far and I'm digging it. Thumbs up so far.
This imagery is the latest MCU thing all over the internet. Rut Roh.
Yeah, that's unfortunate.
This far out, it's probably in the all publicity is good publicity category but I bet they do some adjusting.
Don't know this for a fact on Infinity War, but I know that for most of the MCU movies, the costumes are actually designed by Alexandra Byrne, who is a woman. Granted, I'm sure all of the costumes are more of a team effort than just her, but I'm sure she has a strong say in all of them. I can pretty much guarantee you it is just an honest mistake. Personally, I never notice any of that stuff unless someone points it out. Therefore, I'm sure if I was a designer, I'd make all sorts of stupid stuff that could be construed the wrong.
