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TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

You should just watch Blade (1998) 26 times instead.

TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at 18:44 on May 19, 2020

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TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

Alternate Marvel Essentials:

Captain America (1944)
3 Dev Adam (1973)
Spider-Man (1977)
Kyoufu Densetsu Kaiki! Frankenstein (1981)
Howard the Duck (1986)
The Fantastic Four (1994)
Blade (1998)
Hulk (2003)
Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Venom (2018)

TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHBhKbF2xMA

TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

Splint Chesthair posted:

This post gives me flashbacks to browsing YouTube around 2006. Guys would be trying to make fake “Avengers” trailers by editing clips of the 2002 Spider-Man and the Ang Lee Hulk with, like, a few shots of Kelsey Grammar as Beast from X-Men 3 and the Thing from the Corman FF.

Would gladly watch that fanedit every day rather than sit through Age of Ultron again.

TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

No don't merge it cause it will completely flatten everything charming and original about the movie (i.e. Tom Hardy and his supporting cast wrestling the film away from the director to turn it into an absurdist comedy).

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TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

So all making GBS threads on the MCU aside, I'm honestly curious how the pandemic is going to ultimately impact the future of this franchise. Like, I could see it going either way. It sort of hit at the perfect time for Disney to take a break, right between the ending of the last "Phase" and this new one they're kickstarting with Black Widow. But people were already bracing for BW to be the first film in the series to do some smaller numbers.

I guess the question is, does the delay between the release hurt or help? Does this current social and political environment end up steering audiences away from the franchise, especially since Endgame gave it a nice conclusion with a bow on top that doesn't have people hanging on a cliffhanger (can you imagine if this thing hit precisely a year earlier and disrupted the April release of Endgame)? Or does everyone come flocking back, more hyped than ever to return to something familiar?

I'm sure Black Widow will make money, but how much is the question. Certainly not Endgame numbers, probably not Spider-Man numbers. And are there diminishing returns after that? There's a core base that's going to see it through to the bitter end but what's the retention rate from here on out?

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