The Marvel Cinematic Universe — Page 4

You have to be kidding me!  That was a joke and I really had no idea.

Good night.  It's gotten so I can't joke about Hollywood being stupid because even the dumbest idea I put out there they will make into a movie.  I mean what real life events are my going to cheaply exploit next.  This is a part of Sci-Fi I have never liked,the way real life events will be blamed on aliens,time travelers,or mutants it just feels cheap to me and it never really works.  Just because you have those things in your story doesn't mean they are responsible for everything that ever happened in the universe.  Some events will just be average people doing stuff to try and make the world a better place or because they are just crazy.  I mean is there now one important event in the last 70 years that the Xmen were not part of?  What are the odds of these people getting involved in so many important events. I'm sorry but this just doesn't work for me on any level.  If it works for you more power to you,but it just doesn't for me.

SilverWook said:

Using the Kennedy assassination as a plot point is nothing new. Quantum Leap, the 80's incarnation of The Twilight Zone, the Clint Eastwood film In The Line of Fire.

Gene Roddenberry once outlined a potential Trek film storyline reminiscent of City on the Edge of Forever, involving Kennedy. I kid you not.

 Yeah that is one reason I think it just feels so cheap here.  It feels like a really dated and overused sci-fi story telling device that makes me wonder if in the next movie the Xmen will go into space and end up on the planet of green amazon woman who all want to sleep with them. 

It just feels cheap and silly to me is all.

Seems rad to me. And First Class is the best X-Men film.

It's been done too many times for my taste.

Plus the only version of this story I ever cared for was the Red Dwarf version,why try to top perfection?

"It seemed to me that if Humans eat chickens then they must eat their own kind,otherwise they would just be picking on the chicken."

Yeah it has all turned into a big fart storm for anyone working for Shield.  I am wondering what effect this will all have not just on our heroes in AOS but how this will play out in Avengers 2.  I mean with Shield out of the picture what will bring the Avengers together next time?

doubleofive said:

SPOILERS FOR WINTER SOLDIER AND AGENTS OF SHIELD FROM 4-22:

However, I'm betting when May catches up with Hill, she will be working at Stark.

doubleofive said:

TK-949 said:

doubleofive said:

SPOILERS FOR WINTER SOLDIER AND AGENTS OF SHIELD FROM 4-22:

However, I'm betting when May catches up with Hill, she will be working at Stark.

Assumed that this "Maria" is Maria Hill. ;)

Preview images show Hill, so :-P

And, BTW, I still can't believe that Ming-Na Wen is 50 now. I mean, you know, WOW!

TK-949 said:

Spiderman has nothing to do with the MCU.

I am aware of this.  But thanks, I think.

Jaitea said:

I'd prefer that he was, I think his character would be in better hands

J

I agree totally.

Tobar said:

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. SPOILERS AHEAD

Also cool but strange to see Lola back in the mix. My brain just automatically says BTTFII when I see flying cars. It seems like an odd thing that doesn't quite fit the universe but even in the Winter Soldier Fury's Suburban was referenced as having that capability, it was just disabled.

BTW, two lines in AoS made me freak out:

Episode 8 "The Well"

"Did I fall asleep?"
"For a little while."

I just watched the third Iron Man film and the second Thor film.

Both were great fun. I can't see what the fuss about the Mandarin was about.

It was funny seeing Chris Ecclescake smashing up Christopher Wren's work...naughty boy.

I didn't like the third Iron Man (or better, I like it the least of all the MCU movies). Mostly because of the remote controlled armorpalooza, and the overall artificial (CGI) look of the movie. I wonder what it would have looked like if Favreau had directed it.

Thor was the movie I was the least interested in. And it turned out to be my favorite movie in the MCU.

Perhaps I'm not as attached to the comics as the hardcore fans so I just see the remote control aspect as a logical extension of the technology of the suit coupled with the modern world as distinct from the futurism of the early 1960's.

The characters are played with such gusto that the CGI, which is largely invisible to me if a bit wonky in places, only becomes a major issue during the ubiquitous boss fight scenes. These appear in practically every superhero film deflating all character development and turning the films into the rarely fun experience of watching someone else complete a computer game.Thor 2 had a riverside romantic scene in a futuristic decorative city with Nat Portman, a functioning male actor and a script that didn't suck (see it can be done).