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Zzulu posted:Nothing wrong about wanting to gently caress a robbit, mate ... but not until she's PERFECT.
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sunday at work posted:His origin has a lot of orientalist mysticism about it but casting Asian actors would have given them a chance to change those aspects and let Asian people own the rolls in a better context. Instead they just cast another white person. The Ancient One is Tibetan. (at least the version everyone is complaining this isn't) Putting a Tibetan into the movie means admitting Tibet exists. China is a huge market for Disney. MASSIVE. China reacts badly to Tibet being mentioned. Vindictively so. So... The Ancient One being Tibetan was never an option. The options at that point are "Who can we get who has the spooky, otherworldly air about them that we want for the role" (Tilda can't turn that off if she tried) or "We need one of them other asian-types for the role. Doesn't matter what kind, they're interchangeable." One option means casting someone based on their acting skill and general presence, and the other is kinda racist. More diversity in casting is a good thing, and here they picked a woman to play this major character that was (usually) a man in the source material. Y'know, exactly the sort thing people had been complaining about.
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Radio! posted:I'm guessing that's not the case for the TV shows, though? The actress who played Daisy's mom is ethnically Tibetan. Casting anyone who might be even maybe mistaken for Tibetan as a character who has been Tibetan for decades in the comics and is one of the leads of this movie is a whole other level. Chinese censors may take one look and say "Huh, well, this character was Tibetan before... and they've got a guy here who looks like he could be Tibetan... Tibet's not real! gently caress THIS!" Or maybe nothing at all would happen, but there's no way to know that until it's too late. That's a billion-dollar risk for Disney to take when they could just go get Tilda Swinton, who is likely to knock the role out of the park anyway. That and, yeah, I really assume movies would be under a shitload more scrutiny than TV shows for this sort of thing. They're huge events, and China's cinema business has been growing at a crazy rate. Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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I think the best AoS candidates to put into a Marvel movie are May and Mack. We've had SHIELD agents in the movies already, so it would be easy to drop them in without any explanation beyond mentioning that they are SHIELD agents. Coulson would take a lot of explaining for movie audiences who don't watch AoS, and any powered characters tend to require some backstory so people don't get confused when they suddenly do crazy poo poo. But May's rear end-kicking and cold stares are pretty self-explanatory, as is a big dude with a shotgun axe.
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Oct 1, 2016 17:48
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David D. Davidson posted:Now that its been around for the better part of a decade now, I think that X-men and the MCU are better off as their own separate things. Also, they're two completely different kinds of worlds. The MCU movies are all about a world where this weird superhero poo poo just started happening, and they're having to adjust to it. Some people still don't even believe half of it is real. Most people love the Avengers, because they're new and fascinating. Steve Rogers is a little bit of an exception, but how much did most people really know about him back in the 40s aside from his goofy USO tour schtick? The Xmen is a world where Mutants are a group that is hated and feared, and it's been that way for a while. They're an analog for racial discrimination, or gay rights, or whatever group is being treated as the "other" at the time the stories are written. Obviously people know Mutants are real, because otherwise that whole analogy falls apart. In the comics, it's kind of easy to just let that dissonance get pushed aside or ignored. In the movies, it'd be weird to see that you've got Mutants who are hated, but functionally similar enhanced humans who are adored, and try to even explain how the average person in that universe could know the difference or care.
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Now that Ward is truly and finally dead, what are the odds of the season finale being a showdown (or team-up) between a Ward LMD and Ward's ghost?
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'm getting tired of all the Star Wars references in this show. Product synergy has gone too far
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Oct 29, 2016 20:47
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bloodychill posted:They had to take Ghost Rider out of play for the dumb Battlestar Galactica retread we're going to get because his whole soul fire thing would very obviously not work on the LMD's.
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Dec 19, 2016 02:54
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Rhyno posted:I am so blown away by her. I detested her on AoS and loving adored her on Preacher (she's the best part of that show). I hope they locked her in for a few seasons, Oscars do things to actors heads.
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OB_Juan posted:Okay, looks like I was wrong. Fitz has some serious confidence in his ability to tell LMD from human.
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Jan 29, 2017 23:37
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Please give me a scene where one of the LMDs manages to hack Coulson's robot arm, so we can get a full Evil Dead 2 style man-vs-his-own-severed-arm fight.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:40
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bull3964 posted:I cannot imagine a situation, after all this trauma, where anyone on the team would be cool with having a robot around let alone one that has the face of someone who betrayed them. Before this episode, I was sort of expecting the season to end with one of the main characters (my money was on Fitz) doing clean-up work at Dr. Radcliffe's home, that ended with them finding their own long-dead corpse under the floorboards. But it seems that the LMD threat isn't going to be a long-term thing like Inhumans have been.
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Dr. Radcliffe was livid when he found out Aida had reset the simulation with him inside, saying that there could be catastrophic (if somewhat vague) damage to the subject if the simulation resets with that person still inside. So... what does this mean for May, who spent weeks inside the simulation as it ran a constant reset loop? Is her brain going to be totally fried? Are we going to get a good-guy Ward (either in the matrix or an LMD body) versus an incurably psychopathic HYDRA loyalist May? That actually might be an interesting mirror to Captain America's current HYDRA shenanigans in the comics.
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When Fitz started making out with Aida, my first thought was "drat it Leopold, she's basically your Daughter. Aida, stop seducing your Dad. At least Fitz has the excuse of a mind wipe, but you know you're being a creep. Knock that off!" Marvel's Agents of O.L.D.B.O.Y.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Just re-watched the clip on ABC's YouTube of Fitz killing Aida's real world counterpart and I'm really liking that the "REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE" pretty much fails every time. I'm even thinking Coulson was already having doubts, probably due to already having his mind hosed wit, and not because he has a particular strong connection to Daisy.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:03
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Simmons has to be absolutely livid. "Coulson, you're telling me you went back inside to rescue children that we both know don't actually exist, and that led to Mace for-real dying to save those imaginary children?" Sure, the whole thing is going to be worth the sacrifice, since it turned May to their side and she's the goddamn Cavalry, but Simmons doesn't know that yet.
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For a while, I thought Ghost Rider was going to show up in the framework and reveal that this VR world wasn't a figurative Hell, but thanks to Darkhold mojo it was actual literal Hell. Like, the VR interface was just a way to dangle souls into Hell, until their tethers to the mortal world were cut, trapping them forever. Radcliffe would be damned now, with no living body to return to... But then I guess that would make Agnes double damned? At this point it looks like they're going more straight super-science though, rather than bringing the season full-circle back to demons and hellfire.
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R-Type posted:Any chances for a Ward re-skin at this point? Chokes McGee posted:Finally I can feel things like a real person!!
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twistedmentat posted:There's no way Fitz is going to go along with Aida is there? I honestly expected him to strangle her right then and there. Fitz having ANY coherent reaction right away would be asking a lot from him. Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 18:45 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 18:43
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My name is Scott Webster, so clearly I should get Spiderman powers and a Spidey suit variant that includes a kilt. ... drat, my real life seems even more disappointing now than before.
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May 5, 2017 20:20
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BrianWilly posted:Heck...if you took robo-May -- who had seemed so profoundly human -- and placed her in a Darkhold-cloned body of the real May, is she going to behave as levelheaded and sensible as she did at the end, or is she gonna Hulk out and start snapping necks 'cuz having a real brain is just so overwhelming?
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May 11, 2017 22:35
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Argue posted:Save money in general by having Coulson and the team set up a new spy base underneath a Subway™. Marvel's Agents of S.H.E.D.
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Green Tea Erotica posted:Only if they bring back Wesley Snipes and say the original Blade trilogy was the true start of the MCU.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Lucas produced Howard the Duck, but did not direct it.
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