Official Marvel / MCU Discussion:

I could love that. I don't know how you build a whole season around it per se, but that's pretty cool stuff.

This universe is just ridiculous.

 

I think it's a good thing that Spider-Man will be in the Marvel movies now, starting with Captain America 3, but then I read that they are doing yet another reboot of stand-alone movies. Another set of movies with his origin story, him in high school, whatever. Do we really need 3 different sets of Spider-Man movies in under 2 decades? It's a good character but come on now. Superman got 2 movies in a decade, my favorite character Batman got 3, now they're getting one more in the same movie combined. Spider-Man gets 7-8?

 

Yeah I mean it's not ideal, but they had to go with a new kid for a few reasons.

1. The Amazing Spideys were so bad it was shocking and Marvel doesn't even want those movies poisoning what they've got going here. Not to mention Garfield apparently was invited to a big dinner with some of Sony's top executives and he blew it off. Sony was going to fire him anyway and replace him even if they decided to make Amazing Spidey 3.

2. I really wanted Tobey McGuire back. I thought it'd be an awesome thing for fans of the original series. The problem is: where was he when the world was collapsing? The battle of NY, Hulk rampaging around Harlem, and of course now there's Daredevil running around Hell's Kitchen. I mean someone would have had to have seen him right? Or at least heard about him? SHIELD would have brought him up as a potential target?? They had to go away from this idea too.

3. If you send him back to high school you introduce something new and fresh to the Marvel Universe which people are starting to say is on it's downward path already after Age of Ultron. You introduce a kid as a hero. There aren't any of those right now in the MCU. Now you see how a kid deals with the situations that these adults have so far. You see how these adults kind of treat him and view him and where their ideals are compared to a naive teenager. It'll be an interesting concept.

Either way, it's definitely not an origin story. Marvel wants you to know that! Feige said that during the events of Age of Ultron there's a kid swinging around Queens in a homemade Spidey suit. They won't do a full origin, it'll be a soft one where they acknowledge that you already know who this is just like they did with Norton's Hulk in 2008.

 

Yeah... Not a huge fan of that. John Hughes movies are great, but I don't know that I'm all that interested in a Spidey themed one... I guess we'll have to wait and see the product though.

 

I have no idea who that actress is, but AWESOME. I loved the first season of Daredevil and the second is shaping up to be an awesome story as well.

 

Actually the ratio of female to male heroes is pretty lopsidedly male.

Males in tights! Everyone's a fan!

 

It'd be the first time they acknowledged another series as being part of their "universe" but it really has very little overlap.

I'd absolutely LOVE it.

He goes on to say they've talked about other things and other characters as well. It seems Marvel is high on Snipes.

 

I liked the trailer. I thought it looked pretty interesting. I want to see more fourth wall breaking though in the movie!

 

Saw it last night. It looks alright but I need a higher quality video. I'm not sure about Apocalypse. He's got a classic comic look and what I saw looked different. I dislike that!

 

Just saw Ant-Man. It's hilarious. If toy like Marvel you'll love it. If you just want to see a fun, silly movie it's great.

 

I think everything I've seen of X-Men Apocaplypse so far looks good, except for Apocalypse. Fassbender looks as good as ever, the new characters look solid, Apocaplypse IMO, looks terrible. I don't read comics though, so maybe he's supposed to? I dunno, is the point that he's so powerful that he doesn't even need to be able to turn his head. Is the pyramid references at the end of DoFP meant to suggest that Apocalypse had a pyramid for a head? As posters on Ain't It Cool asked, is he meant to remind us of Man-E-Faces, Ronan the Accuser, Arnold's Mr. Freeze, among other hilarious references? They're photos, they're early I guess, but it looks like a bottom look of the week on Face/Off.