McCloud posted:

https://twitter.com/mikedicenzo/status/1351578428840013825?s=19

2house2fly posted:

It would have been a decent fit. I'm thinking of the bit in MoS where he gives himself up to the military and is trying to be nice to them while they're putting cuffs on him and scheming to try and tranquilise him. The bit where Batman beats up Superman because he's worried he might turn violent would have an uncomfortable vibe tho

Jimbot posted:

I was happy to have forgotten about Obama Superman until now.

quote:

When we were planning 'Ultimatum,' we realized that we were standing at the brink of America electing its first African-American President and we acknowledged that maybe it was time to take a good look at one of our icons.

Blood Boils posted:

I don't know American law but why did they let him wear his mask in court?

FilthyImp posted:

Iirc, Spodey also misses out on poo poo like royalties, likeness usage fees, and merchandising because his identity is a secret.

well why not posted:

ST09 is a lot of fun, with some really memorable performances from Bana, Greenwood and Pegg. The "lens flare" thing is not really that noticeable unless you look for it.

A fun part of it is that they copied Shatner's fighting skill level for Pine's Kirk. He gets punched in the face like 18+ times through the movie. He absolutely does not hold his own, at all in any of the fights. The hero of this film gets loving owned, constantly. Pretty much every time there's a fight (the bar, the mining rig, the end scene on the narada) he's getting schooled until someone saves him. It's honestly worth a rewatch just to take count.

It's kind of the same joke from Lower Decks, just from another direction. Instead of Kirk-Fu being useless, Jack Ransom wrecks poo poo with it.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

all this talk about whether black people or white people should be villains are ignoring the true villains: albinos.

Everyone posted:

quote:

(AKA Disney's access to the rights to the Fu Manchu character)

Clarified that for you.

Timeless Appeal posted:

The original League of Extraordinary Gentleman has to tap dance around using him as much as they do with secret agent Jimmy in later comics or antichrist Harry Potter.

Spacebump posted:

I think that trailer makes it pretty clear that there is a first team sent made up of TDK, Mongal, Javelin, etc (basically the brightly colored costumed characters with Harley in the previous stuff put out for this.) I think that team clearly gets wrecked and the smaller team of people this trailer focused on are the main team in the film.

Mandrel posted:

I guess it’s all beside the point though, since it’s probably meant to parallel Steve jumping on the grenade at basic training. That was pretty unnecessary and didn’t make sense either, but he did it because he’s selfless and doesn’t make those calculations about his own survival at all or second guess his decisions to act I guess.

Aces High posted:

It did happen though, there's a Canadian Heritage Minute dedicated to a solider that fought in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion that did exactly that, got himself a posthumous Victoria Cross for it too

Klungar posted:

It's even worse in motion, nightmare stuff

Mr. Funktastic posted:

Considering his father is the Mandarin, yes. But apparently they look like bracelets now.

thrawn527 posted:

For some reason, I didn't think we were anywhere near getting a teaser for this.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

It's crazy to me that Awkwafina got famous via a viral Youtube video rapping about how much better her vagina is than other vaginas and has released one album, but been in nearly half a dozen $300+ million movies since.

Somehow, getting famous for rapping ended her rap career and exploded her acting career into one that many major actors would be jealous of, despite the fact that she never acted prior.

Mat Cauthon posted:

She got famous off doing her immensely corny minstrelsy gag in 2012 and kept doing it until a couple years ago despite people pointing out it's hosed up and racist.

Burkion posted:

https://nextshark.com/awkwafina-appropriation-crazy-rich-asians/

Burkion posted:

Most musicians don't put on a black accent when its convenient for their career.
https://www.femestella.com/awkwafina-blaccent-cultural-appropriation/

poonchasta posted:

And also, does dropping her black accent on a dime when it suits her mean that maybe she was forced to work with a vocal coach during pre production in one of her mainstream movie roles?

FilthyImp posted:

FilthyImp posted:

But the video was her donning a false rap persona. So there's a very incongruous clash between the two going on.

Grendels Dad posted:

Venom v Dilbert

MonsieurChoc posted:

I mean they were retconing Shang-Chi's dad to be the Mandarin.

Originally his dad was Fu Manchu.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I thought Fu Manchu was public domain by now.

Shageletic posted:

[distorted tones start playing]

I'm a Barbie girl

[burnt out armageddon scenery]

in a Barbie world

[dirty stragglers starving in see thru bubbles]

Life in plastic

[gun fire, bodies, blonde hair whipping in the wind]

Isn't it fantastic

Collapsing Farts posted:

Kraven doesn't even make sense

Why did he single out spiderman as some sort of "greatest hunt"? The world is filled to the brim with superpowered people by now, surely Spiderman is not the greatest trophy... Logically he should be hunting the hulk or Thor or hell, even Iron Man

Jedit posted:

But not Squirrel Girl.

man nurse posted:

No Way Home is absolutely going to run into the trouble of “too much poo poo going on” that 3 and Amazing 2 did, and you know what? I’m totally here for it. Throw in the kitchen sink, gently caress it.

YOLOsubmarine posted:

I don’t really care if people want to do them, but outside of specific medical situations it is entirely about vanity and not about health or general fitness.

Grendels Dad posted:

It's as if you look at a poster of Terminator, but actually Michael Biehn is the Terminator.

Shageletic posted:

in the bts of Ghost Rider 2 you could see flashes of Cage wearing his de los meurtos makeup, which he insisted he wore for every scene where he was Ghost Rider.

LesterGroans posted:

It's a godawful show. I saw three seasons of it because I watched it with a roommate and there are extremely brief glimpses of fun (Kyle MacLachlan is great in season 2) but it's mostly a typical network slog. Even people who seem to love it pull that "you need to watch episodes 1-3, then 5-8, then 11-16 and THEN it starts to get good!" kinda poo poo.

sticklefifer posted:

Nah, AoS is fun, but of course you're not going to have any context for the characters if you drop in at season 4. The first season had to spin its wheels until the MCU did the Hydra reveal, but otherwise it's a light and fun action show with a surprising amount of character development.

Everyone posted:

Justice League had to cram three extra origin stories into itself, while the MCU did all those as separate movies and carefully built its universe over a decade or so of films.

Pillowpants posted:

Yeah, but now to actually get into the MCU and start, you need to be willing to watch something like 2 or 300 hundred hours of movies and TV shows.

Robot Style posted:

If people cared about things like being familiar with a character's internal life, or bringing the context of their experiences into a new situation, then the MCU would have run out of steam long ago because the characters just default to template after every movie.

FilthyImp posted:

Lol you simpleton, you absolute knob.

Black Widow was introduced in Iron Man 2 and Hawkeye had a bit part in Thor!

KVeezy3 posted:

I don't think it's good that people are now celebrating that the MCU was able to shed all pretense and place that concern first and foremost.

KVeezy3 posted:

Snyder has made multiple ensemble films that are self-contained, but he was doing something different with his Superman trilogy, where the protagonists have the narrative space & capacity to take on a mythical stature. Take for example, Batman v Superman, which only has two super-heros to 'introduce' but results in a narrative with a fairly complex & interweaving structure, even with Wonder Woman remaining the character with a Dark and Mysterious Past until the end.

Intrinsically linked to this is that Snyder was allowed to make these kind of films, and then had his legs repeatedly cut off near the finish line.

Everyone posted:

One point about GotG is that by the time it was released, there had already been nine previous MCU movies, all of which were at least relatively well received by audiences. So the MCU was a successful brand at this point. Audiences had come to trust that whatever else Guardians of the Galaxy would be a fun action movie with a good bit of comedy because that's what all the previous MCU movies had been. Also, the MCU was the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which meant that Guardians of the Galaxy would be an exploration/revelation of a new part of that universe and the new characters in that part of the universe.

Shageletic posted:

Male oral sex is portrayed much more than women, otherwise I'd agree with your extraneous pleasure prevention theory

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Wasn't there a bunch of obscenity laws in the UK basically clearly aimed at banning female-domination centric porn? The attitude of most authorities really hasn't caught up with the normalisation of sex after the internet.

Justin Godscock posted:

I cannot believe they casually dropped a major spoiler of Abomination coming back. I mean, Tim Roth is returning for She-Hulk but him coming back before then it pretty drat huge given how long ago (and almost forgotten) The Incredible Hulk is to Marvel Studios. This wasn't even a "holy poo poo, guys" moment like Spider-Man in Civil War's trailer. He just suddenly appears in a random scene unannounced.