McKay has been a writer on both Ant-Man movies. Feige got the ok for the Galactus easter egg in Vice.
Am I the only person who thinks is kind of blah about CM being oh so powerful right out the gate and being #1 compared to everyone else? It really kind of makes me go meh about the whole thing. We’ve built up this who universe for 10 years and then boom, she’s super awesome and the only hope against Thanos? Just not really feeling it... I guess we will see how it plays out. It so far, I’m not really excited. #teamthor
Watched Age of Ultron last night for the first time in a long time. I liked it when it first came out, but that movie really doesn't hold up as well for me as many that came after it. Whedon did a great job with Avengers and putting it all together to get the ball rolling, but the improvement in quality from him to the Russos has been significant, IMO. At least comparing AoU to the Cap movies and IW.
Ultron was made worse by IM3. Needed to start setup for him then. The jump to him hating humanity took 30secs of screen time
Whedon sucked at writing Cap compared to Markus/McFeely. The "language" bit at the beginning of AoU is cringey.
This is 100% what should have happened. Ultron was a weak villain because his backstory was created in basically 30 seconds. Plant his seeds in IM3 at least, and you get a better villain in AoU. Not to mention the fact IM3 was trash overall, but that’s a story for another day...
The whole “I’m going to download humanity’s entire history in a matter of seconds and render judgement” was somewhat lazy but I bought it Then again I think I like AoU more than most ITT
Cap should have waited for everyone else to try to lift Mjolnir and leave the room, then show him lifting it easily and flipping it. Would have been amazing, and shown why Cap is Cap. But I get they wanted to save it for Vision later in the film. “An elevator isn’t worthy.”
He is a combo of Jarvis and the Mind Stone. So in MCU terms it’s believable. And I liked Ultron being snarky as hell. I liked AoU, solid tier 2 for me and it eventually set up Civil War perfectly, though I doubt that was Whedon’s intention. But the seeds absolutely should’ve been planted in IM3. Marvel let RDJ and crew make the movie they wanted. Guessing that’s the least involved Feige has been since he took control of Marvel Studios. And it still made $1 billion.
Those are my exact feelings on IM3. Definitely felt like a film Disney gave to RDJ to pay for all his success for them. He hired his friend to direct. It wasn’t in line with the MCU vision, and, while it did well financially, it wasn’t what they wanted long term with the vision of Feige. Now they have the money and power to tell RDJ to get in line with their overall plot line for the MCU or step aside.
My fan fiction of IM3 premise should’ve been: - Stark and Banner as science bros. in the lab experimenting on Ultron program - The real Mandarin as the villain and still have extremis - Implement Ultron program on one of the Iron Legion bots - Bot goes rogue by the end of the movie - In AofU, Ultron steals the scepter from Von Strucker right before Avengers arrive in opening scene
Also, originally ant man was supposed to come out before AoU. Plant the Ultron seeds in IM3, have Hank Pym water them in Ant Man, harvest that beautiful Ultron flower in AoU. Also should of had a post credit scene showing the ultron programming survived on a random pager or something somewhere. When I think of ultron I think of him coming back like 20 different times.
I forget what it was but Whedon wanted to do something substantially different with the first Avengers film
If they go anything like the comics, then CM gets stomped just like any of the other heroes by Thanos. For the record, I don't see her beating him in a fight in End Game. Especially if Thanks actually has all his powers but had no reason to use them against the "weak" heroes in Infinity War. I still think the most likely outcome is Thanos doesn't die.
Iron Man 3 could have been Civil War/Ragnorak tier with a coherent storyline and a director that wasn't just brought in as a favor to RDJ. But instead we got...Trevor the actor as fake Mandarin...smh.
This is part of my problem ... they have built her up to be able to and she wasn’t that powerful in the comics. We have all this invested in the original avengers but it sounds like she is going to turn the tide? I mean, I get handing off to the next group for the next phase but come on, pay it off right in my opinion. Almost like they are trying to use a female as a ploy also to get a different group involved. Just my though but I was never a fanboy of the “female bad ass” from the video game era of when I was a kid so that may also have something to do with it.
Thor was literally genetically bred by Odin to become the strongest Asgardian ever, capable of far surpassing even himself. I get why he was nerfed in the MCU since it wanted to keep things a bit less Dragon Ball Z ish tier power scaling being the focus. But I'm gonna be a bit peeved if that was their stance for 10 years then all of a sudden drop a Super Saiyan female Goku in Carol Danvers into the equation.
And then Karrigan from Starcraft and Lara Croft... and it goes on in the fighting games too. Just overplayed.
As long as I get a real Hulk/Thanos fight, even if Thanos ultimately wins, I don’t care who deals the final blow.
To me, it has nothing to do with male/female or whatever. I just don’t want any “good guy” to be THAT powerful. That’s DC’s biggest issue - Really, no one can hang with Superman and it feels so forced every time they try to make him struggle. I hope no character is able to go toe-to-toe with Thanos (or even comes close). That ruins what the Avengers are supposed to be about - A group of flawed people coming together to stop a power that feels unstoppable. If the good guys have their own unstoppable power then it just falls totally flat and everything leading up to this movie feels like a waste.
Endgame is going to break that site. I remember when tickets when on sale for The Force Awakens. It was a nightmare.
Um no. Just the fact that they are making it CM this late in the game to be the ultimate savior. Seems like they are grabbing at trying to get that value of an overly played craze. Almost like trying to show up DCs Wonder Woman. Something DC did right was had WW already in play and we knew she was a badass in the series. CM just shows up at the very end of this whole phase? You could almost consider it a reaction to how great WW did... Just my two cents. I may be overthinking it and it ends up I’m wrong but how it’s being presented is a bit offputting to me who has invested this much into the past 10 years for fucking CM to just show up and now they win. I wanted it to more be about the team coming together after Civil War to overtake Thanos. Again, maybe I’m wrong.
That's fine. I think we're all confused at the strange turn into criticizing Lara Croft and Metroid and such. The through line isn't a deus ex machina situation that CM might be playing into, but that they're all women in roles where men are traditionally represented. My hope is that even with her rumored power level that she still fails to take down Thanos so it isn't that easy, that we have to also rely on the characters that survived to pull off a 1 in 14,000,605 miracle. I feel as though "lean on middle aged supersuperheroine who has disappeared from the radar for two decades but is now back and defeats Thanos single handedly" would have garnered much better odds from Strange.
Soon after the 2nd trailer is released, which will probably be March. Possibly before CM is released.
I wonder if all the “she’s the most powerful being we’ve dealt with” talk is just to build her up beyond what she actually is so Thanos can smack her around easy at the beginning of Endgame to further prove his badassery.