Marvel Media (Spoiler Thread)

I liked it. Not the most, but perfectly acceptable.

As I said above, I liked it. But it didn't approach the high bar set by Ragnorak. Ragnorak is one of my favorites.

This just seems middlin' Marvel to me. Better than Eternals. Better than Thor The Dark World. But not approaching their top tier stuff. Lost me a bit trying to be two goofy.

I actually disagree with some here. Bale was great. This wasn't a typical Marvel villain problem for me. This was a problem of making Thor too goofy. I think they saw how making him more humorous in Ragnorak and the last two Avenger films worked well, then completely overcranked that in the sequel.

Thor was a fun movie. the major problem for me is that they spent too much time with the wrong Thor. Mighty Thor needed more time. Oh well, there is always the next movie.

The sentient weapons gag also got overplayed. It was great the first few times, but like some other jokes they just kept going back to the same thing.

Well, I've picked an interesting past few weeks to re-watch the 90s X-Men show, haven't I?

Rat Boy wrote:

Well, I've picked an interesting past few weeks to re-watch the 90s X-Men show, haven't I?

Funny how on one hand, Marvel's acknowledging the Inhumans in Dr. Strange with Black Bolt almost straight from the ill-fated TV run, and on the other hand, Ms Marvel is now a mutant?

Finished Ms Marvel yesterday.

What an amazing series. The attitude it has is a combination of Peter Parker (in the fear of having these powers and not being able to not use them), with the sense of family in Hawkeye, mixed with a whole lot of Pakistani culture with a heaping dash of modern teenage culture.

For me, it is about the same level as Hawkeye. I like the violence and combat in Hawkeye a lot more, but the sense of family and belonging in Ms Marvel is amazing. That, plus being a dad really had me feel the episode where the dad wants to go as The Hulk to the con and gets rejected.

Saw Thor: Love and Thunder last night....very much a B- or C+ effort. The plot felt cobbled together to create cool scenes (like Star Lord looking at the Guardians, the goats rolling out of Asgard, Jane catching the hammer, etc.) rather than a strong story.

They also always seem to need a super-powerful weapon in these movies to make the stakes high enough. Perhaps "Eternity" is an entity in the Marvel Comic Universe but it feel like a silly thing tossed in to give them all some motivation (Gor to reach it, Thor to stop him)

Overall it was fun but I certainly don't' need to see it again.

Finished up Ms. Marvel last night. Solid effort, but it fell apart for me in the last two episodes. They didn’t need to go to Pakistan, nor did they need the flashback and (for some odd reason) time travel?

The bad guys just up and disappeared and the final threat was just a kid who couldn’t control his powers? The action in the finale was all over the place for me too with too many characters conveniently showing up at the school. I appreciate its a show about family, but it could’ve focused more on the core relationship of Kamala, her Mom, and Grandma.

Love Kamala though. Looking forward to The Marvels.

farley3k wrote:

Perhaps "Eternity" is an entity in the Marvel Comic Universe but it feel like a silly thing tossed in to give them all some motivation (Gor to reach it, Thor to stop him)

Eternity is certainly a character in the comics, but they really just reduced him to a macguffin in Thor. Although I was really impressed at how they took his design right out of the comics and made it look incredible in on the screen.

Mantid wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Perhaps "Eternity" is an entity in the Marvel Comic Universe but it feel like a silly thing tossed in to give them all some motivation (Gor to reach it, Thor to stop him)

Eternity is certainly a character in the comics, but they really just reduced him to a macguffin in Thor. Although I was really impressed at how they took his design right out of the comics and made it look incredible in on the screen.

Eh, all those super abstract "characters" never have much story anyway.

The latest Thor is, well, average. Some jokes, some cute stuff. Nothing great, nothing awful.

Lower-middle for me.

Just finished Ms Marvel - far and away the best Disney show. I liked Loki a lot but this was far better. Probably because it wasn’t trying to setup future events etc. it was just a great heart filled story

farley3k wrote:

Probably because it wasn’t trying to setup future events etc.

This was a set up for bringing her character into The Marvels. And other than Professor X from a different universe, she's apparently the first Mutant. They even played the 90's X-Men theme.

So maybe it was just done with a gentler hand.

MannishBoy wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Probably because it wasn’t trying to setup future events etc.

This was a set up for bringing her character into The Marvels. And other than Professor X from a different universe, she's apparently the first Mutant. They even played the 90's X-Men theme.

So maybe it was just done with a gentler hand.

True but that was a line in an after credit scene so it really didn’t influence the story. I felt like in Loki for example introducing Kang was a huge part of the plot.

farley3k wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Probably because it wasn’t trying to setup future events etc.

This was a set up for bringing her character into The Marvels. And other than Professor X from a different universe, she's apparently the first Mutant. They even played the 90's X-Men theme.

So maybe it was just done with a gentler hand.

True but that was a line in an after credit scene so it really didn’t influence the story. I felt like in Loki for example introducing Kang was a huge part of the plot.

And the very last episode.

I really enjoyed the new Thor movie.

Finished Ms Marvel and really liked it. I'm completely fine with Kamala being a mutant, because honestly, the Inhuman royal family have always sucked, so anything to avoid having to reference them is great. Black Bolt in Strange 2 was fine because he died a very stupid death. Your voice is extremely powerful and you're supposed to be super disciplined so you don't accidentally kill anyone or destroy anything with it, and then you start screaming because someone magicked your mouth away?

Anyway, it was great. I love that they really nailed the feel of the comics, and I agree it's probably the best of the D+ Marvel shows.

Stengah wrote:

Finished Ms Marvel and really liked it. I'm completely fine with Kamala being a mutant, because honestly, the Inhuman royal family have always sucked, so anything to avoid having to reference them is great.

You know, I feel like Agents of SHIELD did a pretty good job of introducing Inhumans into their universe without including the royal family at all. Granted Inhumans all but disappeared from the show after the Inhumans show disaster... so yeah...

It doesn't really matter to me one way or the other, just my thoughts.

Yeah, AoS definitely handled it better. Inhumans still existed in the show though. That was a whole subplot in the season they went to the future, any inhumans born on the station were taken as slaves by the Kree that ran it.

There is a old hulk vs thor movie that came out in the late 70s or early 80s. Doesn't hold up now and probably never did but I liked it. This is when Thor had to transform like a magical girl and the hulk was big guy in green paint. No cgi here but it looked better than dr who of the time.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

There is a old hulk vs thor movie that came out in the late 70s or early 80s. Doesn't hold up now and probably never did but I liked it. This is when Thor had to transform like a magical girl and the hulk was big guy in green paint. No cgi here but it looked better than dr who of the time.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

There is a old hulk vs thor movie that came out in the late 70s or early 80s. Doesn't hold up now and probably never did but I liked it. This is when Thor had to transform like a magical girl and the hulk was big guy in green paint. No cgi here but it looked better than dr who of the time.

I remember Thor drinking a ton of beer, but that is about all that I recall.

Finished Moon Knight the other day. I liked it but the real stand out to me was Oscar Isaac's performance. There were times I really felt like Steven and Marc were being played by different actors.

Trademark filings:

Assume we'll hear at least some of this this weekend.

I've been, for all intents and purposes, out on Marvel after Endgame, but the Wakanda Forever trailer is basically perfect. Hell, I don't know if the film has a shot in hell of living up to that.

Looks like

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Daredevil

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Looks like

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Daredevil

It's coming back on D+.