Marvel Cinematic Universe
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No, that titles remains in the hands of Deadpool 2, no doubt. However, lets just say the mid-credits scene was good, but I found the end-credits scene to be pretty meh. Its worth noting though that I always tend to like the mid-credits scene, then be pretty disappointed with all the end-credits scenes in MCU movies.
After posting my full-out review of Ant-Man and the Wasp, I figured I'd do my usual updating of my MCU rankings:
- 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.
- 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 in Michael Keaton, with one of the best scenes and best twists. I've liked this movie more over time and it has climbed my rankings more over time.
- 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.
- Black Panther - Very good movie with great characters, superb character development, a good story arc, and a top 3 Marvel villain. However, its biggest downfall is some very poor action and CGI work.
- 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.
- Ant-Man and the Wasp - Fun, hilarious smaller-stakes movie that is truly enjoyable to watch. However, the villains are forgettable and I found myself wishing for more emotional depth. Not quite as good as the first one.
- 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: Season 1 - 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: 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. This movie is growing on me over time.
- 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
- 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.
- Marvel’s Agent Carter – Loved the period timepiece aspect of this. Great show with good movie tie-ins.
- Marvel's Jessica Jones: Season 2 - Had some great character moments that draw you in as well as some decent pacing, but overall struggles mightily from being a really slow burn. It also really lacks action and doesn't have another villain on par with Kilgrave.
- 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 Runways: Season 1 - Had a good tone as well as some good character work throughout. However, there was very little action and what action we got was really lackluster. Also, its biggest problem was that it didn't exactly stick the landing at the end. This was a decent series overall, but not great by any means.
- 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
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CycloneErik
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Go see it. See it now!
They ramped up all the fun from the first one. Phenomenally fun movie.
They ramped up all the fun from the first one. Phenomenally fun movie.
CycloneErik
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They were wonderfully creative with this one.
Something magical about the way Marvel can have more toys involved, if you will, and find ways to make everything more awesome instead of getting in the way.
Jeremy Renner has been cast as Twitch Williams, who will be a lead character in the Spawn movie. It’s not really MCU news, but it’s kind of telling that Hawkeye may be done in the MCU after Avengers 4.
http://m.ign.com/articles/2018/07/0...tion-of-spawn?abthid=5b43ee582ac0c3203600037a
http://m.ign.com/articles/2018/07/0...tion-of-spawn?abthid=5b43ee582ac0c3203600037a
Please tell me it doesn't get gross? A long time ago I saw the image of (whichever baddie it is in the comics) when Wasp was defeated, and I can't get it out of my head. I don't want to deal with Wasp getting eaten in a live-action movie. I almost don't want to get invested in the character because 1. I love Evangeline Lilly, and 2. the eventual ending is too horrible to think about.
No to spoil anything, but naw, I think you are safe. Also, I'd HIGHLY doubt Disney has any plans to eliminate their one semi-lead female character right now, especially when their goal is to add more female leads, not take them away.
Justice League was on HBO the other night so I watched it. Reminded me of how bad some of those DC movies are. Woof! Than channel flipped into the last hour of Civil War. Hell, the credit trailers in Civil War were better than the whole the Justice League movie.
Luckily there is plenty of good DC content out there where I can completely ignore the mess they've made of the DCEU. Teen Titans and Teen Titans GO!, for example. Great stuff.
Luckily there is plenty of good DC content out there where I can completely ignore the mess they've made of the DCEU. Teen Titans and Teen Titans GO!, for example. Great stuff.
While not usually my cup of tea, I'm actually looking forward to seeing Teen Titans Go to the Movies soon.
Daughter loved the serious episodes of the original. I liked the comedic ones (where the intro tune was sung in Japanese instead of English.) Any episode that had Control Freak was always great. Mad Mod was generally good for some laughs as well. And now with TTGo!, *everything* is comedy. "The Night Begins To Shine" episodes were amazing.
The movie took me completely by surprise though. I had no idea it was happening, and then this weekend I saw an ad/trailer for it on TV and I was like "whaaa?" Can't wait for July 27th now.
Edit: omg, I'm sorry! I just realized this is the Marvel EU thread. Is there a way to x/post on these forums? Or maybe I should just "quote" this post, and copy it over into the actual DCEU thread?
Finished Luke Cage season 2 yesterday. As non-spoilery as I can be, I really, really liked the arc of the new characters and Luke’s arc this season. I was a little shocked at the ending honestly, in a very good way.
I’ve watched Daredevil, J. Jones season 1, Punisher, and now Luke Cage in their entirety. I think I like Daredevil S1 the most (great villain), but I think all of these shows are doing a really good job at having their own voice. The characters are distinct. I will say I didn’t watch the defenders or J. Jones season 2, so this season starts with Luke dating Claire, Misty with no arm, etc., and I had no idea how that happened. But I think these Netflix shows do a really good job creating and developing characters that are fun and interesting.
I’ve watched Daredevil, J. Jones season 1, Punisher, and now Luke Cage in their entirety. I think I like Daredevil S1 the most (great villain), but I think all of these shows are doing a really good job at having their own voice. The characters are distinct. I will say I didn’t watch the defenders or J. Jones season 2, so this season starts with Luke dating Claire, Misty with no arm, etc., and I had no idea how that happened. But I think these Netflix shows do a really good job creating and developing characters that are fun and interesting.
CycloneErik
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No, the Blob thing doesn't happen. Nothing even hints at it.
The only thing remotely close is that people tough Bill Foster near the heart, and people who read Civil War can flinch every time. That's as close as they get to anything cringe-worthy.
Haha, you apparently are sticking mostly to the actually good series then
. But yes, I agree with you on the seasons that you have watched. Things get not so good and dicey on the ones you haven't.
https://screenrant.com/winston-duke-kimbo-slice-biopic-starring/
Saw this yesterday and found it interesting. Black Panther's very own Winston Duke has signed on to play UFC Fighter Kimbo Slice in a biopic of his life. Lets just say this is about as perfect of a casting as they could get for that role. Duke will do great. After Black Panther, the dude won't even really have to train.
Saw this yesterday and found it interesting. Black Panther's very own Winston Duke has signed on to play UFC Fighter Kimbo Slice in a biopic of his life. Lets just say this is about as perfect of a casting as they could get for that role. Duke will do great. After Black Panther, the dude won't even really have to train.
For all you regulars to this thread, I'm just curious what everyone is watching through right now superhero related whether it be TV shows or catching up on some movies. I think I've mentioned I'm currently working through Legion Season 2 and am 4 episodes in so far.
