Marvel Media (Spoiler Thread)

I still don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about "bad CGI." It looks fine. It's stylized, and on a TV budget, but it looks fine.

And yeah, I'm also still very much liking She-Hulk. Really like how every episode tells a more-or-less self-contained story, I've gotten a little weary of the ten-hour movie format of a lot of modern streaming shows.

So far I've loved every episode of She-Hulk, including this one. Might turn out to be my favorite of the Marvel shows.

It is nice to have something happening in the MCU that isn't world/universe/reality threatening.

Mantid wrote:

It is nice to have something happening in the MCU that isn't world/universe/reality threatening.

This might be why the Ant-Mans are our most rewatched of the Marvel movies. Fun and low stakes.

Today's She-Hulk must be the first Marvel anything I've seen that didn't have a mid-credits scene.

Edit: In case you were wondering who the tailor to the superheroes is in reference to.

hbi2k wrote:

I still don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about "bad CGI." It looks fine. It's stylized, and on a TV budget, but it looks fine.

I do think it looks pretty iffy. Movement and texture-wise.
On the other hand it's TV, it's not like Korg in the last Thor. Oof, almost seemed like it was on purpose.

Mantid wrote:

It is nice to have something happening in the MCU that isn't world/universe/reality threatening.

Like Hawkeye?

(Still my favorite, even though I didn't expect much going in.)

Pretty much sums up how I felt about it.

Haven't watched She Hulk yet, waiting to binge. So skipped a few pages.

But did watch Thor Love and Thunder this weekend. Wife and I both liked it. She thinks it's better than Ragnarok. I might still like that one better. But either way very good.

Yeah the tone was a little of in parts like they went too much for comedy at times. The screaming goats were more annoying than funny for me for instance. But overall still great.

And the final battle...

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Thor gifting his power to the kids was awesome and also a nice counter to the villain claiming gods weren't there for you, etc. Thor came through and shared power.

I also watched Love and Thunder this weekend. I really liked Christian Bale; I thought he was far and away the best part of the movie. I thought the serious parts of the movie were great; the goofy stuff felt forced.

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And the less said about a petulant Stormbreaker, the better. Oy.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:

I also watched Love and Thunder this weekend. I really liked Christian Bale; I thought he was far and away the best part of the movie. I thought the serious parts of the movie were great; the goofy stuff felt forced.

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And the less said about a petulant Stormbreaker, the better. Oy.

Bale was completely wasted on that movie.

When your villain is called The God Butcher and the hero kills just as many Gods (on-screen) as this villain, you've either god a major writer's room issue or a major editing room issue.

skeletonframes wrote:

When your villain is called The God Butcher and the hero kills just as many Gods (on-screen) as this villain, you've either god a major writer's room issue or a major editing room issue.

I think that was the point. Thor went the gods for help and they told him to f*ck off. It gave a little depth and motivation to Gorr to show he wasn’t just pure evil.

They already established that when Gorr met his god and he and the others gods he was hanging out with all laughed at his pain. Of course, then we don't see him again until he comes after Asgard. They should have shown him confronting other gods too, at least a scene where he finds some actually caring gods but the swords convinces him to kill them too, to show him moving on from killing gods that frankly deserved it to killing all gods indiscriminately.

to show him moving on from killing gods that frankly deserved it to killing all gods indiscriminately.

They do establish that when they visit some of the sites and Thor explains those gods were helpful ones.

They do but I'd have rather seen the actual event rather than just the aftermath of it. Also, when Thor said that he also was under the impression that Zeus was also one of the good ones and that they'd get an army of gods willing to fight with them, so his sense of whether a given god was one of the good ones or not at that point was still horribly misinformed.

I went back and checked he says they will recruit a powerful team at the location. He does say Zeus is wise but IMO it is kind of a don't meet your heroes thing once they hear him start talking. Again, not saying your point is wrong maybe showing a bit more would have established it even more but it seemed clear.

It was clear enough, it just felt like they rushed it rather than doing justice to the story they were trying to tell. Same with Jane being The Mighty Thor. They kept the dying of cancer part but all we got was a line from Valkyrie to let us know that her showing up at the fight with the shadow creatures wasn't actually her first time out as Thor and that she'd been heroing for a fair bit longer than the movie makes it seem.

I knew watching She-Hulk that I knew Mr. Immortal from somewhere before and he's played by the same guy who played the Twi'lek assistant in The Book of Boba Fett.

Loved this week's episode of She-Hulk. So great.

I didn't enjoy the wedding part. Didn't find it funny nor entertaining. I did enjoy the "b-plot" as Jen likes to call it.

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And yes, staring for more than 5 seconds is hell. :D

slazev wrote:

I didn't enjoy the wedding part. Didn't find it funny nor entertaining. I did enjoy the "b-plot" as Jen likes to call it.

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And yes, staring for more than 5 seconds is hell. :D

I didn't either until the end mostly, but my wife did. I think it's a commiseration thing.
B-plot was amazing.

It was funny when she told us yes this is a wedding episode, deal with it. At least we had the B plot line.

Rat Boy wrote:

I knew watching She-Hulk that I knew Mr. Immortal from somewhere before and he's played by the same guy who played the Twi'lek assistant in The Book of Boba Fett.

He also played in Lodge 49.

Finally watched Love and Thunder. Wow what a mess of a thing.

Loved some bits, like the argument with the axe, the goats, Melissa McCarthy as Hela and so on.

However wow that was a criminal waste of Christian Bale, and the plot made little to no sense. It was like they came up with a bunch of "wouldn't it be cool if" scenes and then string them all together with the barest thread of a plot.

I mean following up the majesty that is Ragnarok can't be easy but dang.

agreed on L&T

my thoughts, but much better put by this guy;

kazar-haussered!

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2 years away...

I'm not a big Deadpool fan but that was a successfully funny way to do an announcement.