Sooo, because of No Way Home, I decided to rewatch The Amazing Spider-Man films and I was hoping that my opinions would change in a positive way because I used to despise those back in the day.
How did that turn out, you may ask? Well, I went from "I HATE THOSE FILMS. ANDREW GARFIELD SUCKED AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3 DESERVED TO BE CANCELLED" to just "whatever". My opinion hasn't changed that much, surprisingly but I feel more calm about Marc Webb's vision of the wall crawler.
I am going to talk some spoilers. Do not hate me for bringing them out because you had almost a decade to watch them. So here we go:
THE POSITIVES
* Andrew Garfield is fucking fantastic. He sure as hell could have been a great replacement for the web head after Tobey Maguire. I mean, he is a Spider-Man fanatic and I can easily tell he enjoyed playing him in some certain scenes of his films.
* The swinging choreography. As much as I love the swinging scenes in the Raimi trilogy, they didn't age very well compared to TASM's swinging. TASM's swinging scenarios are just plain amazing, no pun intended, and I think they used more practical effects than CGI to make those scenes.
* Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. She definitely nailed the role of Peter Parker's first love interest (Unless you count Betty Brant as the official first girlfriend for Peter, according to the comics), she and Pete had a great chemistry and she was definitely better than Gwen Stacy from Spider-Man 3. She wasn't even much of a damsel in distress which makes her a little bit better than Mary Jane in the Raimi trilogy.
* The action sequences are watchable enough, I guess. I wouldn't really say they are very memorable but they don't have any moments which takes me out of the action (Like shaky cam or horrible CGI). Great stuntwork and visuals.
THE NEGATIVES
* NO ONE CARES ABOUT OSCORP OR PETER'S PARENTS. Seriously, I thought I was watching Spider-Man movie, not a Bourne film. What is the POINT? What does that have to do Peter's relationships and responsibilities?
* The villains. None of them managed to win me over. All of them had flimsy reasons to become the villains. Dr. Curtis Connors had a decent start but once he turned into the Lizard, he became extremly boring and story just refuses to tell us why he wants to turn everyone into lizards exactly. Rhino is by far the worst Spider-Man villain adapted on the big screen, there is absolutely nothing interesting about him, except Paul Giamatti acting like a cartoon character. Electro is probably the only one who had the biggest potential to be the one villain that defined Andrew's franchise because he was sympathetic. However, his arc was completely ruined by falling in the category of superhero fanatics becoming villains (Like the Riddler from Batman Forever and Syndrome from The Incredibles). I was never a fan of that trope. Green Goblin...um, why was he introduced so early in the franchise? Where the hell did Harry Osborn come from? He wasn't mentioned ANYWHERE in the first film but his father was, yet Peter never mentioned being friends with Harry. Green Goblin is like the arch nemesis for the wall crawler, how can you just have him be in action in the final act of the second film? Do I even need to mention that he looks more like a zombie than a Goblin. Say what you want about Willem Dafoe's "Power Rangers" Goblin suit but at least he looked like a Goblin. Ridiculous yes but still more accurate to the comic counterpart.
* The first movie was marketed as an "Untold Story" for Spider-Man, yet all I can remember is that it expanded more on Peter's origins rather than doing something that Sam Raimi never did in his films. This film is like a youtube video which borrows ideas from another video but tries so hard to execute them differently so they do not get copyrighted by the creator of the original video. The best example is Uncle Ben's famous quote. Instead of saying "With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility", he says "Your father believed that if you could do good things for other people you had a moral obligation to do those things. That's what's at stake here. Not choice...Responsibility".
* Uncle Ben's death is fucking garbage. Why the fuck would you try to stop an armed thief yourself, especially when you are in an old age and you are NOT A COP? I felt no sympathy from Marc Webb's version of Uncle Ben because he deserved what he got.
* Garfield's portrayal of Peter Parker. There are so many moments which doesn't make him very relatable as he is supposed to be. Like stalking Gwen everywhere, sneaking in Oscorp at high risks, using a skateboard in school, breaking so many promises etc.
* Peter and Gwen's relationship isn't very well established in the first film as I remember. It was in the second film but they should have done it more in the first film. Gwen is not much of a character until the second film, the same film where she dies.
I have been writing a lot and I am feeling tired right now. Overall, those films are mediocre at best. They do have their great moments but they were completely overshadowed by Avi Arad's garbage decisions. Stop with the fucking studio interference and let the directors use their own vision for fuck's sakes. I'll give him credit for not ruining Spider-Verse and No Way Home but he is still not to be trusted. I will also say that after No Way Home, Andrew Garfield deserves a real conclusion to his universe. The Amazing Spider-Man 3 needs to be made because he deserves it.
This was a really fun series, probably my favourite of the Disney Plus shows so far. I just really liked the grounded, small-scale tone of the show. It really helped it develop a great personal conflict with a handful of characters in a tight, christmas-y-thematic New York.
It also introduced a lot of other fun characters and concepts that were cool to see. It kind of reminded me of the Marvel Netflix shows in some areas, just with more campy comedy and less blood.
While I did enjoy Yelena's inclusion in the MCU, it feels like she really had her silly one-liners turned up to 11 in this show, and it was a bit much for my tastes. She's supposed to be a ruthless Assassin (mostly) with a personal vendetta against Clint, and yet she's very jokey and nonchalant about it all when around Kate. It undercut the seriousness of it a lot and I didn't really like that.
the return of Kingpin was super duper cool. Doubly so since his reveal was on like the 17th of December, and then just a day or so later, Daredevil appears in No Way Home! Amazing timing on that, gotta give props to Disney's/Sony's marketing and release team. Big moment for the MCU here.
Also very neat to see the small (haha) crossover of Ant Man and a bit of Stark and Shield with some of the trick arrows. It really sells the connected universe when they do small touches like that, especially when the growing/shrinking power set is actually used in a series where you really wouldn't expect it.
(On that note, RIP tiny Bro dudes. I honestly feel really bad for them. They're about to be ripped apart by that adorable owl. That's one of the bigger dark implied deaths of the MCU.)
I do not think Kingpin is dead. I think Marvel knows what they're doing, and they would not kill off such a big important character with an off-screen "camera pan away for the kids" moment, especially right after another fake-out death in that toy store. He probably turned the gun on Maya or wasn't shot where it counts.
Jack was my favourite part of this episode. He's just such a chill character, and was having the time of his life with that sword here too lol. The LARPers are fun, though I can't get over how their friendship started because the firefighter guy literally stole the costume from the burnt apartment. ...Like, really?
Seeing the full musical number at the end was really nice. Makes you wonder a bit if a cheesy superhero musical can actually be pulled off, or if it'll forever be doomed like that one awful Spider-Man Broadway show.
Weird we didn't get a tease for what's next for Hawkeye or Kate or Maya. All the other shows at least had some tease of a season 2 or character continuation.
Man, I wanna see No Way Home again. Can you believe that this is the first time I want to rewatch a film again in theaters? The blu-ray release is already too far away and I really wanna see this film again but I can't because covid lockdown striked again.
Not liking modern journalism this week. You never can tell what's made up for clicks or a dubious source exaggerated for a good headline... especially when you come across
1. "Sony reportedly in talks to continue an Amazing Spider-Man 3"
2. "Emma Stone being pinned to play 'Spider-Gwen' alongside Andrew Garfield in new film."
3. "Andrew Garfield's 'Amazing Spider-Man' reportedly being set to battle Tom Hardy's 'Venom'"
And all that sounds pretty cool, yet far-fetched. (If Garfield's Spidey does make a solo return, I hope to God they get different writers. Just borrow some from Marvel Studios or something.)
Seconded with seeing NWH again @AronDracula
it really is such an 'Endgame' type of event. So much fun, executed in such a satisfying way, that's also Tom Holland's best Spidey film.
Sucks about the new covid lockdown. Hopefully yours don't last too long.
After recent Marvel events I've decided to pick up where I left off with the Marvel Netflix shows.
I left off after finishing Defenders, so currently I'm going through Punisher S1, then I'll get to JJ2, LC2, IF2, and the biggie that everyone says is great, Daredevil3.
The Punisher show is good. It's got a great central plot about Frank's PTSD and learning to cope with his isolated position in life with Micro, an ex-government hacker.
What does irritate me though is just how these Netflix shows are structured. They're all 13-episode seasons, 1-hour-ish episodes.
That's nice if you like length, but man, sometimes it really makes events drag out. I just want to get to some good stuff, but characters often get pulled into side-activities that don't really affect the main plot.
Disney's got the better plan at least. Freedom of structure. Some shows are 9 30-minutr episodes, some are all near an hour, some a mix of the two, etc. I'm excited to get to Iron Fist S2 since I've heard it's only 10 episodes, so some filler should be removed at least
Watched No Way Home again and it still holds up! Caught some more details I had missed in my initial viewing which is neat. Man, I'm really looking forward to whatever the next trilogy is.
Despite my personal preference on it, I hope Raimi peppers in some jumpy horror elements into Doctor Strange 2. He used it to great effect in the original Spider-Man trilogy.
Really elevated the spook factor of some of the villains. If we're dealing with Multiversal Monsters then that's the way to go.
No Way Home just reached 2 billion dollars box office, beating both Avengers Infinity War and Star Wars The Force Awakens. I honestly couldn't be more happier and I'm glad that pandemic didn't do shit to stop this film from reaching that number, although it did for me.
EDIT: Wait a minute. Now it's back to 1.5 Billion according to box office mojo. Was I dreaming or did some hackers just pull a false information? I take back everything back what I said above.
Apparently there's 2 different versions of the first Norman Osborn/Green Goblin scene where he's talking to the mask.
One of them has weird edits where it randomly does closeups on Norman's face, while the other one shows careful tension as you don't see the mask talking until Norman turns around...
I saw the second version. No idea what the first one looks like, but a lot of people say it's the worse one.
I'd post a clip of it from someone who noticed it on twitter, but yeah, spoilers and I'm not about to promote illegal camcorder footage.
The trailer for Moon Knight is out with a release date of March 30th!
It looks like they're going deep into Mark being absolutely bat… moreshit insane!
The poster for it is out as well.
With how the trailer looks and the blood on the poster, I hope this means the show will go pretty dark. Well as dark as a PG13 rating can go anyway.
I watched Eternals and it was, eh, okay.
Good not great.
Lots of characters to keep track of, wasn't much of a fan of the first third/half of the film where they kept doing flashbacks to history they helped change. When Kingo appeared it started to speed up and bring some levity.
Makkari probably had the best use of CGI super-speed in the history of cinema. Barely any slow-motion shots, and clear enough what she was doing while moving super fast. Impressive.
The Deviants really faded into the background when the Celestial plot twist came into play. I was surprised when it reappeared at the end of the film.
Wasn't much of a fan of Sprite (her crush on older-guy Ikaris didn't help)
Ikaris was a nice grey character but it sucks that they decided to kill him off anyway.
Not totally sure why humans don't have much records of Eternals saving them from Deviants hunting them in the past, but eh.
Interested in how that giant Celestial coming out of the Earth (and appearing in space) is gonna shake up the normal humans' lives. Pretty crazy that this happens soon before (or after?) Spider-Man No Way Home. Humans just can't catch a break can't they?
Was surprised to see Kit Harrington essentially play a normal dude at the start and end of the film for a Marvel paycheck, (he was one of the first casting mentions I heard of so this small role really surprised me)
But then the end credits scene happens. Ok hm.
Also Harry Styles lol.
We are going to be eating really, really well this year in Marvel content.
* Moon Knight (starts March 30th)
* Morbius [Sony] (April 1… morest)
* Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (May 6th)
* Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8th)
* Ms. Marvel (rumored Mid-2022)
* She-Hulk (rumored Mid-Late-2022)
* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One [Sony] (October 7th)
* Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (November 11th)
* The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (Late-2022)
Morbius (quite intrigued to see what the fuck is up with the universe of the film versus the actual movie)
GotG Holiday Special
She-Hulk
Thor: Love and Thunder
Ms. Marvel
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
For me, Black Panther has just been plagued with so much bad press from all sorts of angles, my hype just isn't there. I enjoyed the first movie, but it really wasn't anything groundbreaking for me.
Spiderverse excluded since I haven't seen the first one, otherwise it'd probably be high from all the good things I've heard.
We are going to be eating really, really well this year in Marvel content.
* Moon Knight (starts March 30th)
* Morbius [Sony] (April 1… morest)
* Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (May 6th)
* Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8th)
* Ms. Marvel (rumored Mid-2022)
* She-Hulk (rumored Mid-Late-2022)
* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One [Sony] (October 7th)
* Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (November 11th)
* The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (Late-2022)
There was a 30-second TV spot for Doctor Strange 2 during the super bowl that looked like it had a handful of interesting shots not in the main trailer...
As much as I hate Screen Culture (for their awful fake trailers they play off as official) it seems they're the only one who actually uploaded the real Big Game Spot. So here.
Am I the only one excited for this the most? I was introduced to Moon Knight's character when I played Spider-Man Web of Shadows (One of my favorite Spidey games and very underrated). Moon Knight does seem to be the Batman for Marvel but he looks cool as hell. I think I'm more excited for this than Doctor Strange 2. It also happens to come out in the same month with The Batman and I'd rather watch both of those than compete who is better.
Here is the trailer for the blu-ray of Spider-Man No Way Home. The trailer and the thumbnail contain spoilers of that film in case you haven't seen it.
I thought the way it was done in the film was enough but this is even better. I hate the fact that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko passed away before the release of the film. I think he would have been proud.
Disney Plus Canada is getting the Netflix Marvel shows in March, since theyll be leaving us after February 28th... for some reason. Weird contract deal if you ask me.
All the Netflix Marvel shows will be added to D+ instead of Hulu, under a new mature category, expanding the Parental controls (not sure if you guys are getting the rest of the Star catalog too -- if so, Hulu might not be sticking around).
No. We’re not pulling back. There’s a tonal shift,” Feige said. The rating for Moon Knight has not been revealed yet; the series debuts March 30, two weeks after Disney+ introduces the new Parental Controls that include access to TV-MA programming.
There still isn't a TV rating for Moon Knight. So it'll either be revealed as TV14, or TVMA, after the mature shows get added.
Big spoiler for Multiverse of Madness if you haven't seen the trailer and aren't aware of any speculations about a certain character.
Patrick Stewart has confirmed that it is in fact him in the MoM trailer in an interview with a YouTuber named Jake's Takes!
"I actually didn't recognize my own voice, it sounded different. Whether I had a cold or something at the time, I don't know, but I was astonished and all they saw was the back of my shoulder and I think my earlobe, nothing else that there would have been so many connections made. It pleased me.”
I watched the Making of What If? tonight, and there's some pretty interesting things they touch upon near the end of the documentary related to season 2 and how ideas might bloom into the larger MCU.
When the story leads mention the work on Marvel Zombies and how they wanted it to be a "sneaky introduction" to the famous comic, but told through the events of the MCU... it makes me think that the official Marvel Zombies animated show we know is greenlit, is actually going to be based on the original comic.
They make it a bit point to repeat: that the Zombies canon in the comics is really an alternate universe that stands on its own, and the MCU version of it is different -- though with some references (like Scott Lang's head in a jar -- apparently there's lots of Head-In-Jar characters in the comics) so this is probably the writers team's effort to make a backdoor pilot for a comics Zombies series, and it worked.
Kevin Feige himself teases that the team were also mulling over the idea on how to build Season 1, as "essential viewing" for the MCU, and how they might be able to spin-off some of those concepts into other corners of it.
Another member of the team also touches upon how they have a plan in Season 2 to revisit the relationship between Captain Carter and the Watcher, that they briefly share a respect for each other at the end of S1
So... Captain Carter confirmed for Season 2, and possibly confirmation that they're going to try and incorporate her into the larger MCU (which looks to be the case, for now, from that new Doctor Strange poster detail...)
She's one of my favourite Marvel Comics characters, so definitely looking forward to this. It looks like they captured the spirit of Kamala, which is great! A bit disappointed that her powers here aren't the same as her comicbook counterpart, but I assume they didn't want audiences to confuse her and Mr. Fantastic. I hope they still managed to fit her Embiggen ability in somehow.
Yeah, from what I've casually known about Kamala, the lack of the stretchy, growy limbs is a bit strange, but they probably wanted to make it different to Reed Richards and give her powers a more "cosmic" origin like with Carol Danvers?
Superheroes shouldn't have to have dominion over one power set, especially with how big the MCU is getting, but ah well.
Looks like her powers are thanks to some bracelet macguffin. Maybe it'll break by the end of the show and she'll learn to use her Iconic "embiggen" move, then?
The trailer for Ms. Marvel is finally here!
She's one of my favourite Marvel Comics characters, so definitely looking forward to this… more. It looks like they captured the spirit of Kamala, which is great! A bit disappointed that her powers here aren't the same as her comicbook counterpart, but I assume they didn't want audiences to confuse her and Mr. Fantastic. I hope they still managed to fit her Embiggen ability in somehow.
Marvel Netflix shows are now on Disney Plus wherever it's available, in all their TV-MA glory.
I don't think they're in the Star section at all, so these are probably the very first Mature/R-rated pieces of content for the actual Disney Plus catalog!
Disney: Releases a TV-MA content section for Mature content in the USA.
Also Disney: Spends time and money to re-edit CGI in Falcon&WinterSoldier to make it less violent.
Yes, it's been noticed that Disney has re-edited some scenes in TF&WS (specifically episode 3), removing blood or "slightly-more-violent-than-usual" combat moves.
Man, this sucks. This episode had my favourite action. Derek Kolstad really brought out some dark violence we don't usually see in the PG-rated MCU. The tone was kept pretty dark.
The rest of the world has had access to the "dark" content for over a year now, but all of a sudden when you guys down south get it, the Big Mouse says this one episode is too dark? That's annoying.
It's also especially weird this is happening a day before Moon Knight starts -- which I've heard is not a TVMA show, but still has some chilling violence for an MCU property.
Disney: Releases a TV-MA content section for Mature content in the USA.
Also Disney: Spends time and money to re-edit CGI in Falcon&Wi… morenterSoldier to make it less violent.
Yes, it's been noticed that Disney has re-edited some scenes in TF&WS (specifically episode 3), removing blood or "slightly-more-violent-than-usual" combat moves.
(Spoiler)
Man, this sucks. This episode had my favourite action. Derek Kolstad really brought out some dark violence we don't usually see in the PG-rated MCU. The tone was kept pretty dark.
The rest of the world has had access to the "dark" content for over a year now, but all of a sudden when you guys down south get it, the Big Mouse says this one episode is too dark? That's annoying.
It's also especially weird this is happening a day before Moon Knight starts -- which I've heard is not a TVMA show, but still has some chilling violence for an MCU property.
Just finished watching the first episode of Moon Knight. I really liked it! It's mostly set up with the episode introducing Steven/Marc along with the villain, though there's still a fair bit of action. There's more blood here than the usual MCU affair, though nothing super violent but there is one pretty gross moment that happens. There's also some pretty cool transitions and I like how they play around with Steven's insanity. I really liked Oscar Isaac in this, he does a really good job of making Steven out to be really pathetic and sad lol. The series also feels pretty disconnected to the wider MCU, which I like. There's no references to the Blip or any other past/ongoing events. Only real gripe is that the CGI in the chase scene was pretty rough at times. Overall good first episode, looking forward the next week!
Spoilers
Seeing Oscar Isaac with a dislocated jaw and then having to reset it himself was super gross. It was great.
Nice to see more blood in the MCU. I really like the cut with Steven blacking out and then coming to only to be covered in blood.
Was not expecting the tree to completely annihilate those two cultists lol.
Was definitely not expecting a Last Airbender reference on my bingo card.
Man was offered a steak well done and he said that sounded delicious. He really is insane.
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Sooo, because of No Way Home, I decided to rewatch The Amazing Spider-Man films and I was hoping that my opinions would change in a positive way because I used to despise those back in the day.
How did that turn out, you may ask? Well, I went from "I HATE THOSE FILMS. ANDREW GARFIELD SUCKED AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3 DESERVED TO BE CANCELLED" to just "whatever". My opinion hasn't changed that much, surprisingly but I feel more calm about Marc Webb's vision of the wall crawler.
I am going to talk some spoilers. Do not hate me for bringing them out because you had almost a decade to watch them. So here we go:
THE POSITIVES
* Andrew Garfield is fucking fantastic. He sure as hell could have been a great replacement for the web head after Tobey Maguire. I mean, he is a Spider-Man fanatic and I can easily tell he enjoyed playing him in some certain scenes of his films.
* The swinging choreography. As much as I love the swinging scenes in the Raimi trilogy, they didn't age very well compared to TASM's swinging. TASM's swinging scenarios are just plain amazing, no pun intended, and I think they used more practical effects than CGI to make those scenes.
* Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. She definitely nailed the role of Peter Parker's first love interest (Unless you count Betty Brant as the official first girlfriend for Peter, according to the comics), she and Pete had a great chemistry and she was definitely better than Gwen Stacy from Spider-Man 3. She wasn't even much of a damsel in distress which makes her a little bit better than Mary Jane in the Raimi trilogy.
* The action sequences are watchable enough, I guess. I wouldn't really say they are very memorable but they don't have any moments which takes me out of the action (Like shaky cam or horrible CGI). Great stuntwork and visuals.
THE NEGATIVES
* NO ONE CARES ABOUT OSCORP OR PETER'S PARENTS. Seriously, I thought I was watching Spider-Man movie, not a Bourne film. What is the POINT? What does that have to do Peter's relationships and responsibilities?
* The villains. None of them managed to win me over. All of them had flimsy reasons to become the villains. Dr. Curtis Connors had a decent start but once he turned into the Lizard, he became extremly boring and story just refuses to tell us why he wants to turn everyone into lizards exactly. Rhino is by far the worst Spider-Man villain adapted on the big screen, there is absolutely nothing interesting about him, except Paul Giamatti acting like a cartoon character. Electro is probably the only one who had the biggest potential to be the one villain that defined Andrew's franchise because he was sympathetic. However, his arc was completely ruined by falling in the category of superhero fanatics becoming villains (Like the Riddler from Batman Forever and Syndrome from The Incredibles). I was never a fan of that trope. Green Goblin...um, why was he introduced so early in the franchise? Where the hell did Harry Osborn come from? He wasn't mentioned ANYWHERE in the first film but his father was, yet Peter never mentioned being friends with Harry. Green Goblin is like the arch nemesis for the wall crawler, how can you just have him be in action in the final act of the second film? Do I even need to mention that he looks more like a zombie than a Goblin. Say what you want about Willem Dafoe's "Power Rangers" Goblin suit but at least he looked like a Goblin. Ridiculous yes but still more accurate to the comic counterpart.
* The first movie was marketed as an "Untold Story" for Spider-Man, yet all I can remember is that it expanded more on Peter's origins rather than doing something that Sam Raimi never did in his films. This film is like a youtube video which borrows ideas from another video but tries so hard to execute them differently so they do not get copyrighted by the creator of the original video. The best example is Uncle Ben's famous quote. Instead of saying "With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility", he says "Your father believed that if you could do good things for other people you had a moral obligation to do those things. That's what's at stake here. Not choice...Responsibility".
* Uncle Ben's death is fucking garbage. Why the fuck would you try to stop an armed thief yourself, especially when you are in an old age and you are NOT A COP? I felt no sympathy from Marc Webb's version of Uncle Ben because he deserved what he got.
* Garfield's portrayal of Peter Parker. There are so many moments which doesn't make him very relatable as he is supposed to be. Like stalking Gwen everywhere, sneaking in Oscorp at high risks, using a skateboard in school, breaking so many promises etc.
* Peter and Gwen's relationship isn't very well established in the first film as I remember. It was in the second film but they should have done it more in the first film. Gwen is not much of a character until the second film, the same film where she dies.
I have been writing a lot and I am feeling tired right now. Overall, those films are mediocre at best. They do have their great moments but they were completely overshadowed by Avi Arad's garbage decisions. Stop with the fucking studio interference and let the directors use their own vision for fuck's sakes. I'll give him credit for not ruining Spider-Verse and No Way Home but he is still not to be trusted. I will also say that after No Way Home, Andrew Garfield deserves a real conclusion to his universe. The Amazing Spider-Man 3 needs to be made because he deserves it.
Saw the Hawkeye finale today.
This was a really fun series, probably my favourite of the Disney Plus shows so far. I just really liked the grounded, small-scale tone of the show. It really helped it develop a great personal conflict with a handful of characters in a tight, christmas-y-thematic New York.
It also introduced a lot of other fun characters and concepts that were cool to see. It kind of reminded me of the Marvel Netflix shows in some areas, just with more campy comedy and less blood.
Man, I wanna see No Way Home again. Can you believe that this is the first time I want to rewatch a film again in theaters? The blu-ray release is already too far away and I really wanna see this film again but I can't because covid lockdown striked again.
NWH SPOILERS
Not liking modern journalism this week. You never can tell what's made up for clicks or a dubious source exaggerated for a good headline... especially when you come across
1. "Sony reportedly in talks to continue an Amazing Spider-Man 3"
2. "Emma Stone being pinned to play 'Spider-Gwen' alongside Andrew Garfield in new film."
3. "Andrew Garfield's 'Amazing Spider-Man' reportedly being set to battle Tom Hardy's 'Venom'"
And all that sounds pretty cool, yet far-fetched. (If Garfield's Spidey does make a solo return, I hope to God they get different writers. Just borrow some from Marvel Studios or something.)
Seconded with seeing NWH again @AronDracula
it really is such an 'Endgame' type of event. So much fun, executed in such a satisfying way, that's also Tom Holland's best Spidey film.
Sucks about the new covid lockdown. Hopefully yours don't last too long.
After recent Marvel events I've decided to pick up where I left off with the Marvel Netflix shows.
I left off after finishing Defenders, so currently I'm going through Punisher S1, then I'll get to JJ2, LC2, IF2, and the biggie that everyone says is great, Daredevil3.
The Punisher show is good. It's got a great central plot about Frank's PTSD and learning to cope with his isolated position in life with Micro, an ex-government hacker.
What does irritate me though is just how these Netflix shows are structured. They're all 13-episode seasons, 1-hour-ish episodes.
That's nice if you like length, but man, sometimes it really makes events drag out. I just want to get to some good stuff, but characters often get pulled into side-activities that don't really affect the main plot.
Disney's got the better plan at least. Freedom of structure. Some shows are 9 30-minutr episodes, some are all near an hour, some a mix of the two, etc. I'm excited to get to Iron Fist S2 since I've heard it's only 10 episodes, so some filler should be removed at least
Watched No Way Home again and it still holds up! Caught some more details I had missed in my initial viewing which is neat. Man, I'm really looking forward to whatever the next trilogy is.
Despite my personal preference on it, I hope Raimi peppers in some jumpy horror elements into Doctor Strange 2. He used it to great effect in the original Spider-Man trilogy.
Really elevated the spook factor of some of the villains. If we're dealing with Multiversal Monsters then that's the way to go.
No Way Home just reached 2 billion dollars box office, beating both Avengers Infinity War and Star Wars The Force Awakens. I honestly couldn't be more happier and I'm glad that pandemic didn't do shit to stop this film from reaching that number, although it did for me.
EDIT: Wait a minute. Now it's back to 1.5 Billion according to box office mojo. Was I dreaming or did some hackers just pull a false information? I take back everything back what I said above.
NWH STUFF
Apparently there's 2 different versions of the first Norman Osborn/Green Goblin scene where he's talking to the mask.
One of them has weird edits where it randomly does closeups on Norman's face, while the other one shows careful tension as you don't see the mask talking until Norman turns around...
I saw the second version. No idea what the first one looks like, but a lot of people say it's the worse one.
I'd post a clip of it from someone who noticed it on twitter, but yeah, spoilers and I'm not about to promote illegal camcorder footage.
The first Moon Knight trailer is gonna drop tomorrow, sometime after 8:15pm ET when the NFL Wild Card game starts.
The trailer for Moon Knight is out with a release date of March 30th!
It looks like they're going deep into Mark being absolutely batshit insane!
The poster for it is out as well.
With how the trailer looks and the blood on the poster, I hope this means the show will go pretty dark. Well as dark as a PG13 rating can go anyway.
This feels like it'll be way more of a psychological thriller than Wandavision was!
Ooh and that poster is very interesting. We might be towing the line of PG-13 more often, I hope?
I watched Eternals and it was, eh, okay.
Good not great.
Lots of characters to keep track of, wasn't much of a fan of the first third/half of the film where they kept doing flashbacks to history they helped change. When Kingo appeared it started to speed up and bring some levity.
Makkari probably had the best use of CGI super-speed in the history of cinema. Barely any slow-motion shots, and clear enough what she was doing while moving super fast. Impressive.
The Deviants really faded into the background when the Celestial plot twist came into play. I was surprised when it reappeared at the end of the film.
Wasn't much of a fan of Sprite (her crush on older-guy Ikaris didn't help)
Ikaris was a nice grey character but it sucks that they decided to kill him off anyway.
Not totally sure why humans don't have much records of Eternals saving them from Deviants hunting them in the past, but eh.
Interested in how that giant Celestial coming out of the Earth (and appearing in space) is gonna shake up the normal humans' lives. Pretty crazy that this happens soon before (or after?) Spider-Man No Way Home. Humans just can't catch a break can't they?
Was surprised to see Kit Harrington essentially play a normal dude at the start and end of the film for a Marvel paycheck, (he was one of the first casting mentions I heard of so this small role really surprised me)
But then the end credits scene happens. Ok hm.
Also Harry Styles lol.
If anyone's interested, the full screenplay for Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available to read and download!
Yes, this is real. Seeing all three of these web heads together is just heart melting.
We are going to be eating really, really well this year in Marvel content.
Ranking in scale of most to least hyped/interested.
For me, Black Panther has just been plagued with so much bad press from all sorts of angles, my hype just isn't there. I enjoyed the first movie, but it really wasn't anything groundbreaking for me.
Spiderverse excluded since I haven't seen the first one, otherwise it'd probably be high from all the good things I've heard.
Now this is HYPE
THAT VOICE AT 1:17 SOUNDS REALLY FAMILIAR
IS THAT FUCKING PATRICK STEWART???!!!
The poster for Multiverse of Madness and there's a sneaky reference to What If? in it!
At the bottom right of Strange you can see the Captain Carter shield!
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!
And... Gosh, this looks like it ties into a lot of stuff!
Edit: poster detail
YOOOOOO it definitely is it!
There was a 30-second TV spot for Doctor Strange 2 during the super bowl that looked like it had a handful of interesting shots not in the main trailer...
As much as I hate Screen Culture (for their awful fake trailers they play off as official) it seems they're the only one who actually uploaded the real Big Game Spot. So here.
Am I the only one excited for this the most? I was introduced to Moon Knight's character when I played Spider-Man Web of Shadows (One of my favorite Spidey games and very underrated). Moon Knight does seem to be the Batman for Marvel but he looks cool as hell. I think I'm more excited for this than Doctor Strange 2. It also happens to come out in the same month with The Batman and I'd rather watch both of those than compete who is better.
Here is the trailer for the blu-ray of Spider-Man No Way Home. The trailer and the thumbnail contain spoilers of that film in case you haven't seen it.
Marvel released the promo image for the No Way Home Bluray release. It's pretty good.
Big Spoils of course.
I thought the way it was done in the film was enough but this is even better. I hate the fact that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko passed away before the release of the film. I think he would have been proud.
Disney Plus Canada is getting the Netflix Marvel shows in March, since theyll be leaving us after February 28th... for some reason. Weird contract deal if you ask me.
No Way Home Spoilers
another blu ray/digital promo picture
Look at those homies
Here is the true description of the Peter faces
Disney Plus IS getting mature in the US.
All the Netflix Marvel shows will be added to D+ instead of Hulu, under a new mature category, expanding the Parental controls (not sure if you guys are getting the rest of the Star catalog too -- if so, Hulu might not be sticking around).
Report by Deadline.
Interestingly, there's this part of the article.
There still isn't a TV rating for Moon Knight. So it'll either be revealed as TV14, or TVMA, after the mature shows get added.
Big spoiler for Multiverse of Madness if you haven't seen the trailer and aren't aware of any speculations about a certain character.
Patrick Stewart has confirmed that it is in fact him in the MoM trailer in an interview with a YouTuber named Jake's Takes!
I watched the Making of What If? tonight, and there's some pretty interesting things they touch upon near the end of the documentary related to season 2 and how ideas might bloom into the larger MCU.
When the story leads mention the work on Marvel Zombies and how they wanted it to be a "sneaky introduction" to the famous comic, but told through the events of the MCU... it makes me think that the official Marvel Zombies animated show we know is greenlit, is actually going to be based on the original comic.
They make it a bit point to repeat: that the Zombies canon in the comics is really an alternate universe that stands on its own, and the MCU version of it is different -- though with some references (like Scott Lang's head in a jar -- apparently there's lots of Head-In-Jar characters in the comics) so this is probably the writers team's effort to make a backdoor pilot for a comics Zombies series, and it worked.
Kevin Feige himself teases that the team were also mulling over the idea on how to build Season 1, as "essential viewing" for the MCU, and how they might be able to spin-off some of those concepts into other corners of it.
Another member of the team also touches upon how they have a plan in Season 2 to revisit the relationship between Captain Carter and the Watcher, that they briefly share a respect for each other at the end of S1
So... Captain Carter confirmed for Season 2, and possibly confirmation that they're going to try and incorporate her into the larger MCU (which looks to be the case, for now, from that new Doctor Strange poster detail...)
The trailer for Ms. Marvel is finally here!
She's one of my favourite Marvel Comics characters, so definitely looking forward to this. It looks like they captured the spirit of Kamala, which is great! A bit disappointed that her powers here aren't the same as her comicbook counterpart, but I assume they didn't want audiences to confuse her and Mr. Fantastic. I hope they still managed to fit her Embiggen ability in somehow.
The forum isn't letting me edit my comment so I guess I gotta make a new one.
They also released the poster for the series.
Yeah, from what I've casually known about Kamala, the lack of the stretchy, growy limbs is a bit strange, but they probably wanted to make it different to Reed Richards and give her powers a more "cosmic" origin like with Carol Danvers?
Superheroes shouldn't have to have dominion over one power set, especially with how big the MCU is getting, but ah well.
Looks like her powers are thanks to some bracelet macguffin. Maybe it'll break by the end of the show and she'll learn to use her Iconic "embiggen" move, then?
Looks like it'll be a fun time.
Marvel Netflix shows are now on Disney Plus wherever it's available, in all their TV-MA glory.
I don't think they're in the Star section at all, so these are probably the very first Mature/R-rated pieces of content for the actual Disney Plus catalog!
Disney: Releases a TV-MA content section for Mature content in the USA.
Also Disney: Spends time and money to re-edit CGI in Falcon&WinterSoldier to make it less violent.
Yes, it's been noticed that Disney has re-edited some scenes in TF&WS (specifically episode 3), removing blood or "slightly-more-violent-than-usual" combat moves.
Man, this sucks. This episode had my favourite action. Derek Kolstad really brought out some dark violence we don't usually see in the PG-rated MCU. The tone was kept pretty dark.
The rest of the world has had access to the "dark" content for over a year now, but all of a sudden when you guys down south get it, the Big Mouse says this one episode is too dark? That's annoying.
It's also especially weird this is happening a day before Moon Knight starts -- which I've heard is not a TVMA show, but still has some chilling violence for an MCU property.
All that for a drop of blood.
Just finished watching the first episode of Moon Knight. I really liked it! It's mostly set up with the episode introducing Steven/Marc along with the villain, though there's still a fair bit of action. There's more blood here than the usual MCU affair, though nothing super violent but there is one pretty gross moment that happens. There's also some pretty cool transitions and I like how they play around with Steven's insanity. I really liked Oscar Isaac in this, he does a really good job of making Steven out to be really pathetic and sad lol. The series also feels pretty disconnected to the wider MCU, which I like. There's no references to the Blip or any other past/ongoing events. Only real gripe is that the CGI in the chase scene was pretty rough at times. Overall good first episode, looking forward the next week!
Spoilers
Seeing Oscar Isaac with a dislocated jaw and then having to reset it himself was super gross. It was great.
Nice to see more blood in the MCU. I really like the cut with Steven blacking out and then coming to only to be covered in blood.
Was not expecting the tree to completely annihilate those two cultists lol.
Was definitely not expecting a Last Airbender reference on my bingo card.
Man was offered a steak well done and he said that sounded delicious. He really is insane.