The Marvel Cinematic Universe — Page 35

DuracellEnergizer said:

I can live with the mask. It’s all the lines everywhere which bug me; it makes the costume too busy.

^ this

Spider-Man’s whole costume has always been lines!

The more I think about Civil War, the more I like it, to the point where I think I can say it’s my third favourite film in the MCU.

I think my ranking goes something like this now:

The Avengers (2012) - 7 (maybe eight?)/10

Iron Man (2008) - 7/10 (again maybe eight?)

Captain America: Civil War (2016) - 7/10

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - 7/10

Iron Man Three (2013) - 6-7/10

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - 6-7/10

Ant-Man (2015) - 6/10

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - 6/10

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 5/10

Thor: The Dark World (2013) - 5/10

Thor (2011) - 5/10

Iron Man 2 (2010) - 4/10

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 3/10 (I can barely remember this so my rating might be off)

DuracellEnergizer said:

I can live with the mask. It’s all the lines everywhere which bug me; it makes the costume too busy.

For me, it’s not that they look too busy, it’s that they look ugly and serve no visible purpose.

I like the lines most of the time. I dunno why. It gives it detail I guess.

So I recently plowed through Agents of SHIELD (I took a break to focus on school about halfway through season 2) and I have to say, it’s a very strong show.

The first half of the first season is a bit slow, but once everyone gets their intro episodes and it hits Winter Soldier territory, it really picks up. In fact, it never really stopped picking up from then through Season 3. I didn’t expect half the twists they served up throughout the first three seasons.

They do a fantastic job of making you feel something for the characters, as well. Skye develops incredibly throughout the show, as does Grant, the departure of two characters is an incredibly emotional episode, and some of the romances you really root for, some of the allies you truly love and cheer their return or feel sorry for their deaths. And they do just as good a job with the bad guys. By the end of season one, I hated one character; by the end of season two, I despised them; and by season three I somehow hated them even more. Some of the bad guys you even like or redeem themselves. I feel like the acting is generally really good from the whole cast.

It’s got its share of goofy bits and slow episodes, and there are definitely moments when you think “Uh… shouldn’t they call in the Avengers on this one?” but it really is very worth a watch when you have the time, even if just for the interesting context and background it gives to the movies.

Immediately after Agents of SHIELD, I picked up the first season of Daredevil, which is also a lot of fun. It’s totally different from Agents in terms of subject matter (Agents is very network TV-friendly, whereas Daredevil is definitely much more adult-oriented) and it feels generally very distant from the rest of the MCU (aside from Jessica Jones, which I’ll get to in a bit), but it’s still very much a superhero show, and people definitely have superhuman abilities and there are references to the MCU, it’s just a tighter focus on a different part of that universe. My biggest complaint is the handling of a big-name Marvel character like Ben Urich in terms of the direction he takes in season one. Aside from that, it’s a very good show on its own merit, outside of being “just a superhero show” and it kicks a ton of ass in incredibly brutal and visceral ways.

I’m currently heading through the first season of Jessica Jones, as I’ve heard that there are cameos from Jones in season two of Daredevil (I’ve already noticed officer Mahoney from Daredevil in Jones), and if Daredevil is for adults, Jessica Jones is really for adults. It’s incredibly dark, vulgar, intoxicant-fueled, and there’s an awful lot of sex (though that seems to slow down as the season progresses and the darkness and complexity increases). It’s a fantastic show though, and I don’t know if there are more complex and confusing villains than the Purple Man. Plus Luke Cage is in it and says “Sweet Christmas” at least twice. Definitely worth a watch if you can stomach the super darkness of it. It does start slower than the other shows (I feel), but at least watch up until episode 8, because shit gets very real then. I’ve had to take a break from it, in fact, because I’m just drained from the drama.

The depth and complexity of the characters (especially the villains) in these shows really makes me kinda wish that the entire MCU had been high-budget series’ like these. So many huge villains were almost criminally underused and then killed off in two hours in the movies, where as TV villains like the Purple Man and some of the ones in Agents are so much more developed and complex that you don’t know who’s side is the right side sometimes. Marvel is killing it on the small screen.

Hey look it’s not a CGI mess like in civil war! I’m sure they’ll touch it up in post-production but as long as it doesn’t stick out that bad.

Super jazzed for the new shows!

pittrek said:

A very, very stupid questions - with “Vengeance” they mean vengeance or is that some Marvel character?

“Vegeance” is part of the “Ghost Rider” mythos, it’s what he seeks. e.g. “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” (2011)

DuracellEnergizer said:

If Nicolas Cage ain’t returning, neither am I.

(Obvious Sarcasm, was Obvious.)

The part will be played by Robbie Reyes.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/groot-and-rocket-raccoon-to-be-sent-into-space-sort-of-1784161530