Marvel Cinematic Universe -

[ChadBrazilian]

Meh any villain with a mask the MCU has whose a dude in the comics is a woman in the films.

Only in shitty modern versions for realism Taskmaster has a mask. His face is literally a skull. He was a mutant with the power to copy anyone's fighting style, without any practice, just by watching his opponents fight. That's why this is a downgrade. The mask barely looks like a skull.

 

[Commander X]

Spidey 3 looking great so far

 

[SmugAutist]

>Dafoe manages to trick Peter into thinking that their universe's Spider-Men were corrupted and killed them, and Peter needs to free them so they can save their planets
>Peter frees them, and they escape into the city
>Strange shows up and tears Peter a new one, explains that he had been holding them in this prison due to instability in the multiverse connected to each dimension's Oscorp experimenting with inter-dimensional travel and says Peter has a responsibility to stop them

Nice to know that we can continue the honored trend of throwing character development out the window. You'd think after being almost killed after being deceived in the second mlvie would wise the guy up a bit.

 

[Amaranth]

Only in shitty modern versions for realism Taskmaster has a mask. His face is literally a skull. He was a mutant with the power to copy anyone's fighting style, without any practice, just by watching his opponents fight. That's why this is a downgrade. The mask barely looks like a skull.
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I don't remember Taskmaster ever being a mutant and the skull was just a mask, He was a guy who could just copy anything since young and enhanced that by taking a rip off super serum which had a side effect of him losing his personal memories

Taskmaster was a cool villain cuz he could stand toe to toe with most superheroes while still being a pretty much normal guy and often outsmarts them

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Yellow Panther

Doesn't look like shit but highly derivative of Black Panther and am not a fan of the monsters and shit. Abomination being in it might be good though. Will probably check it out but not as into it as I was before when I thought it was going to be more grounded.

 

[starborn427614]

Yellow Panther

Doesn't look like shit but highly derivative of Black Panther and am not a fan of the monsters and shit. Abomination being in it might be good though. Will probably check it out but not as into it as I was before when I thought it was going to be more grounded.

CGI's better than BP so far, so it has that going for it.

 

[TchPiKinmup]

Only in shitty modern versions for realism Taskmaster has a mask. His face is literally a skull. He was a mutant with the power to copy anyone's fighting style, without any practice, just by watching his opponents fight. That's why this is a downgrade. The mask barely looks like a skull.
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Taskmaster isn't a mutant in the comics and never has been. And his skull mask has always been a mask.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

I only know Taskmaster from the Marvel ARPG, and there he hyped himself up by claiming to "almost" once have deflected Captain America's shield. My understanding of him is that he can learn any fighting ability but lacks the physical capability to pull it off (never mind exotic stuff), so makes a killing by training minions for other super villains instead of bringing the heat himself.

That seems pretty cool tbh.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Watched the first Iron Man again.

Still holds up pretty well, and is one of the very best of this franchise.

Third act isn't the best though. Obadiah Stane, a sneaky underhanded businessman, suddenly becomes a cackling supervillian who can match Iron Man in a fight even though he doesn't have any experience wearing these suits.

It really set the tone for Marvel where every movie has to end in a big overblown action scene, no matter how contrived. Even the Disney+ shows haven't been able to get away from that so far.

 

[Max Doof]

What is it exactly that made the paramount films feel more “movie like” compared to the current crop. Like did marvel just stop giving a shit after selling to disney?

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

What is it exactly that made the paramount films feel more “movie like” compared to the current crop. Like did marvel just stop giving a shit after selling to disney?

I now think that Ike Perlmutter was tard wrangling Feige. As chairman off Marvel, Ike had veto power and may have kept some dumb ideas off the table. Granted he had some bad ideas of his own (Inhumans tv show, the general direction of Marvel tv, pre D+). Feige did look the golden child with the success of Black Panther and Captain Marvel. But the switch of Marvel Studios to Disney Studios coincides with a lot of the current crop of trash being greenlit.

Edit: and early in the marvel studios days, Avi Arad was still onboard. He had produced a lot of the third party marvel films like the Raimi Spiderman trilogy and the Fox X-Men films. Avi actually brought Kevin in to be boots on the ground for the first X-Men film. I think Avi was EP on some of those early Marvel Studios flicks.

 

[Tookie]

What is it exactly that made the paramount films feel more “movie like” compared to the current crop. Like did marvel just stop giving a shit after selling to disney?

Disney wants average to slightly-above average films to maximize profits and has discovered a finely tuned formula to achieve that. All their films blend together and have an odd sanitized feel as a result.

 

[God of Nothing]

Watched the first Iron Man again.

Still holds up pretty well, and is one of the very best of this franchise.

Third act isn't the best though. Obadiah Stane, a sneaky underhanded businessman, suddenly becomes a cackling supervillian who can match Iron Man in a fight even though he doesn't have any experience wearing these suits.

It really set the tone for Marvel where every movie has to end in a big overblown action scene, no matter how contrived. Even the Disney+ shows haven't been able to get away from that so far.

I was just about to post how I just decided to start watching the first movies I missed when I saw yours. It really is astonishing how well it holds up. Going to watch Cap's right now. I didn't watch Hulk and have a vague memory of Thor, but I remember and heard both being pretty shit.

 

[The Valeyard]

The Incredible Hulk was mediocre, but Edward Norton was a better Bruce Banner than Mark Ruffalo imo.

 

[God of Nothing]

The Incredible Hulk was mediocre, but Edward Norton was a better Bruce Banner than Mark Ruffalo imo.

Medicore films are a lot worse than just horrible ones, in my experience. You can at least talk about a horrible film. A middling film is just eh. Shame.

 

[starborn427614]

This week's episode of Loki was thankfully a big improvement over last week's.

EDIT:
Simpsons/Loki crossover short announced for July 7th

https://ew.com/tv/marvel-simpsons-team-up-loki-short/

 

[albert chan]

This week's episode of Loki was thankfully a big improvement over last week's.

EDIT:
Simpsons/Loki crossover short announced for July 7th

https://ew.com/tv/marvel-simpsons-team-up-loki-short/

A Simpsons/Loki crossover would have been good if this were 2012. Now, this just seems like it’s doing something for the company’s sake.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

A Simpsons/Loki crossover would have been good if this were 2012. Now, this just seems like it’s doing something for the company’s sake.

Yeah, this is just Disney jerking itself off.

 

[X Pac Heat]

Spoiler

In the post credits scene in Far from Home, they broadcast a video where Mysterio says Spider-Man's real identity, so it's not a big stretch to go from there.

As any logical person would tell you, you go after the friends of criminals. It's just obvious they were accomplices.