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Post by Webber3000 on Sept 10, 2017 16:11:19 GMT -5
Hahaha, I know I won't satisfy your curiosity with this answer, but when impactful events occur, I always have a tough time sleeping and start remembering things I thought were long forgotten, very similar to how you remembered the day when your parents brought your brother from the hospital.
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Post by mr. excellent on Sept 10, 2017 22:59:47 GMT -5
haha, right on. Sounds like we've found the most random thing to have in common old friend.
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Post by mr. excellent on Sept 16, 2017 13:23:34 GMT -5
Kind of how I feel about the Spectacular Spider-man cartoon. I mean, this new one is a lot better than Ultimate in terms of its vision. However, after rewatching just clips, (clips!), from Spectacular I'm reminded of how much more intricate each of the character's arcs are. I saw a preview of episode 7, and I just don't think this show has the creative team behind it to compete with TSSM.
There are things that happened in episodes (of TSSM) that were fun and made for great episodic television in season 1 that ended up being brought back in unexpected and creative ways for season 2, without the show ever losing its episodic approach. The show had not 2 big bads struggling for power (Goblin and Tombstone) but actually 4 (Octavius, Goblin, Tombstone, Hammerhead) and a wildcard in Venom and a special throwback/upgrade to Silvermane. Even within these alliances, you constantly had roster switches and alliance changes that made sense to the character.
Guess I'll just try and enjoy this new show for what it is. While I'll never forget the disappointment of USM replacing TSSM prematurely, I can at least be happy that it lowered the bar to more realistic expectations. There's always hope though, I mean, Disney has made great shows before.
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Post by mr. excellent on Oct 14, 2017 13:59:03 GMT -5
I've been watching Jackie Chan interviews for the movie he has coming out called "The Foreigner". I seriously love this man. If I ever met Mike Tyson in person and got to shake his hand I'd probably be speechless and on the verge of passing out. If I ever met Jackie I might burst into tears, and then pass out for sure.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Oct 16, 2017 12:11:15 GMT -5
found these dank Ditkovitch memes XD Attachments:
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Post by mr. excellent on Nov 5, 2017 20:43:55 GMT -5
So, I'd put this in the sports section with MMA, but I figured it was kind of a general discussion topic that could work here too. Saturday 11/04 marked the return of UFC great Georges St. Pierre to the Octagon. He competed against Middle Weight (185 lbs) champion Michael Bisping for the Middle Weight title. Georges fought at Welterweight his entire UFC career and stepped away from the cage in 2013 to clear his head and find his passion for the sport again. In his time away, he actually appeared in an MCU film. It was 2014's Captain America: Winter Soldier where he portrayed Batroc the Leaper. No doubt you all remember that action scene where Captain America showed just what kind of a fighter a super soldier could be in the modern era.
I was rooting for Georges and I'm happy that he won. What other guy (except for Mohammad Ali, RIP) can take a 4 year hiatus from competition, and then return to compete at the highest level in a heavier weightclass, against the heavier and much larger man, and win in as dominant a fashion? What's crazier is that when Mohammad returned he wasn't the same, but GSP actually came back stronger. GSP, the guy who many called the 'perfect fighter', a machine, someone who's fight IQ and savvy in the ring functioned like a computer inside of a robot, came back even better than when he left at the top of the game. Granted, Ali not being as good upon his return wasn't his fault and it's an injustice that will never be righted, but the point is, no one else has done it. So, my hats off to 'Batroc'. May he have an opportunity to show up again in a future Marvel film. Maybe in Spider-man as some hired muscle for transport or something. Who wouldn't love to see that?
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Post by mr. excellent on Nov 6, 2017 20:14:58 GMT -5
Could this be what Marvel has up their sleeve after Infinity War? www.comicbookmovie.com/fantastic_four/the-fantastic-four-and-x-men-may-finally-come-to-the-mcu-as-fox-looks-to-sell-movie-studio-to-disney-a155061Phase 3 changed pretty significantly after Spider-man entered the fray. Can you imagine? Someone in the comments section over at comicbookmovie.com said that if Disney buys Fox's movie division, they could just continue allowing Fox to do their thing the way that Marvel is doing theirs, take Fantastic Four and X-Men characters over to the Marvel Studios side, and let Fox distribute the R-rated X-Men spin off films under the Fox banner. Might that be a route? My only thing is, if the X-Men are going to enter the MCU within the next 3-4 years, I'd almost rather Fox not put out another big X-Men film until it happens. Give the property a break, and then bring it back with a vengeance. Unless they can put out something that stands alone and wraps everything up that is.
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Post by BackinBlack on Nov 6, 2017 23:07:24 GMT -5
If the X-Men are brought over to the MCU, they should still be in their own new universe. Doctor Strange set up the multiverse and considering Inhumans are already the mutants of the proper MCU, it would be redundant to bring in actual mutants. They could still do interdimensional crossovers though.
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Post by mr. excellent on Nov 7, 2017 16:56:45 GMT -5
Infinity War is going to change a lot of things. If they can figure out a cool way to reset with Mutants, I say do it. If not, then I guess the interdimensional crossover would be cool.
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Post by BackinBlack on Nov 7, 2017 19:01:22 GMT -5
I feel it would be better to go with a new version. If Marvel's involved, it earns a bit more cred for a reboot; the Spider-Man situation proves that. Besides that, when you have certain actors cemented into their X-Men roles and eventually retire from them, it would suck not to have Jackman's Wolverine or Stewart's Professor X interacting with the Avengers. The only person I could see crossing over is Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool. Besides that, I would kind of like to see them start with the original five: Cyclops, Jean, Angel, Iceman, and Beast.
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Post by mr. excellent on Nov 7, 2017 19:54:38 GMT -5
Agreed on Reynolds and Deadpool except I would be okay having Jackman return.
The role should be like James Bond where someone else can come in and put their spin on it. However, I think Jackman is beloved enough that like myself, the fans would be happy to have with him back for another go around. It's kinda like J.K. Simmons and Jameson in that way for me. The only thing is, Logan was such a perfect end to Jackman's tenure as Wolverine. Honestly, I don't think a better film will be made on the character or involving the character. If he came out and played the character again in a film that didn't hit the mark, that'd really be a shame for him because he deserved that great send off.
It'd have to be some crazy out of the box idea for him to return. Thank God for those Infinity Stones, amiright?
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Post by brotherandbassist on Nov 8, 2017 9:06:27 GMT -5
Deadpool can pretty much pop up anywhere and it doesn't even have to make sense lol
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 10, 2017 16:13:53 GMT -5
There's this rumor that Hugh Jackman could return to play Logan AKA Wolverine in Avengers 4. www.comicbookmovie.com/x-men/rumor-hugh-jackman-may-return-as-wolverine-in-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-a156233So much could be said about this. I think the most common sense theory is that this rumor is bunk. Infinity War and Avengers 4 has been one long continuous shoot, right? The Disney/Fox deal isn't even done yet; would they really go back and change so much? Is that even possible at this point without destroying whatever is being set up in Infinity War? On the other hand, maybe that long diatribe I had on Avengers 4 actually being Infinity War Part 2 was off base. The one where I droned on about the public falling out of two parters thanks to franchises like Hunger Games and The Hobbit. Maybe Avengers 4 really was going to go in another direction and be its own thing, but then changed due to negotiations with Fox. I mean, we now know that Marvel and Sony had been talking LONG before we ever knew about it. With regards to Fox, we only recently found out about their talks with Disney, but these talks could have heated up all the way back in 2015 (before Infinity War began shooting). Why not? In 2015, Fox could have been showing Disney the dailies for Deadpool. X-Men Apocalypse hadn't come out yet, so the last thing Marvel would have seen would have been Days of Future Past (which killed in 2014). Deadpool ended up killing and setting records. Apocalypse ended up being a let down, but if Fox was letting Marvel see the dailies for Logan in 2016, no doubt Marvel was impressed enough to look past Apocalypse into the FoX-verse's more adult themed content. Logan is currently on route to get an Oscar nod for Best Picture for Pete's sake. Unlike the other superhero movies this year campaigning for it (save for Wonder Woman due to the cultural significance of it) , I think it may actually pull it off. Someone over at Collider was saying that while X-Men movies have been notably different in terms of tone than MCU films, acquiring Fox could be Disney's way of branching into more adulted themed superhero fair. Obviously, that wouldn't be the sole or even the main reason they acquire Fox, but the added perk is not something to ignore in a deal like this. So, back to the rumor of Hugh Jackman showing up as Wolverine in Infinity War part 2? If Fox and Disney started these serious conversations back in 2015 or even in 2016, I actually do think it's a possibility. To buy into this, I am of course buying into the idea that the conversations we're just now being made aware of were going on a lot longer than we (the public and rabidly obsessed fans) knew. As with the situation with Sony and Spider-man though, we won't know until the deal is done. The "evidence" to support this theory is there though. You may recall the announcement of Avengers 3 and 4 going from this: How big of a threat does Thanos pose, you ask? Big enough to span two epic films, beginning with Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War Part 1” on May 4, 2018, and concluding in Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War Part 2” on May 3, 2019 for one massive cinematic event. “We’ve always had a plan since Nick Fury broke into Tony Stark’s house and told him he’s part of a bigger universe,” recalled Feige. “‘Avengers: Infinity War Part 1’ is the beginning of the culmination of everything that has come before.” news.marvel.com/movies/23546/marvels_the_avengers_head_into_an_infinity_war/ (published Oct. 2014) to this: An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. Could it be that plans have changed a lot more for Part 2 than we've been thinking?
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Post by BackinBlack on Dec 14, 2017 9:28:15 GMT -5
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Post by Webber3000 on Dec 16, 2017 17:11:49 GMT -5
I get the appeal of having all Marvel heroes in the MCU, but isn't anybody concerned about Disney controlling that much of the media industry?
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