Superhero Films: Will They Ever Take Off? - The Bear and Badger

monkey

EvilRedEye wrote:

I think it’s fun we’re seeing demonstrated in real-time that excessive interconnectivity and multiverses are commercial poison for superhero stuff and yet the comics industry will take away absolutely nothing from this.

I'm sure I've said this before but I'd still be reading Marvel comics regularly if they'd let me just pick a title or two and get complete stories. The title hopping and need to keep up with the wider context finished me off. X-Men is absolutely inpenetratable to a casual reader.

b0r1s

Wookienopants wrote:

I'm genuinely excited for this. Love Deadpool and love the multiverse stuff.

Just watched the trailer. Yep looks good fun and don’t care if it’s Reynolds being Reynolds cos I like Reynolds being Reynolds, clearly if your don’t like Reynolds being Reynolds then you’re not going to like more Reynolds being Reynolds.

Wookienopants

Yep

ChopperByrne

monkey wrote:

EvilRedEye wrote:

I think it’s fun we’re seeing demonstrated in real-time that excessive interconnectivity and multiverses are commercial poison for superhero stuff and yet the comics industry will take away absolutely nothing from this.

I'm sure I've said this before but I'd still be reading Marvel comics regularly if they'd let me just pick a title or two and get complete stories. The title hopping and need to keep up with the wider context finished me off. X-Men is absolutely inpenetratable to a casual reader.

Yep X titles have been a joke for a long time now. About 7 or 8 titles, all interconnected. The stories might be good, but I'm not buying that many to read them.

Gremill

b0r1s wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

I'm genuinely excited for this. Love Deadpool and love the multiverse stuff.

Just watched the trailer. Yep looks good fun and don’t care if it’s Reynolds being Reynolds cos I like Reynolds being Reynolds, clearly if your don’t like Reynolds being Reynolds then you’re not going to like more Reynolds being Reynolds.

Yes.

ShabbyMcCrabby

I like his shtick as well, I just wish he took some real acting gigs every now and then. He's made some great stuff in the past where he's shown he has range. Just seems a waste to do the same thing every film now.

monkey

There's no lower form of internet user than someone who points and laughs at Rotten Tomatoes scores.
On the other hand lol look at this

EvilRedEye

From Rolling Stone:

Well, having now seen this tangled-up I.P. gossamer first-hand, we can say that Madame Web isn’t as bad as its somewhat botched promotional campaign might suggest. It is, in fact, way worse. A genuine Chernobyl-level disaster that seems to get exponentially more radioactive as it goes along, this detour to one of the dustier corners of Marvel’s content farm is a dead-end from start to finish. It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies. Not a single decision seems of sound mind. Not a single performance feels in sync with the material. Not a single line reading feels as if it hasn’t somehow been magically auto-tuned to subtract emotion and/or inflection. The sole amazing factor of this Spider-spinoff is that someone, somewhere signed off on actually releasing it.

g.man

Sounds amazing!

Paul the sparky

Is this a proper Marvel thing or one of the Venom/Carnage/Morbius things?

monkey

The latter.

monkey

There's Kraven the Hunter and Tom Hardy's contractually obligated Venom 3 to look forward to this year as well.

Paul the sparky

They've got Kraven coming too haven't they?

I'm assuming they're profitable and low effort

g.man

It's part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Movies, or SPUMM for short.

apparently

Paul the sparky

The Miles Morales films are head and shoulders above this wank. Wish they'd been given all of these instead of whoever is botching them now

RedDave2

g.man wrote:

It's part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Movies, or SPUMM for short.

apparently

I still find the Spumm thing funny.

I am hoping the kraven movie is not shit though - the director is much better than this type of thing (j.c. chandor - director of margin call, all is lost and a most violent year)

regmcfly

g.man wrote:

It's part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Movies, or SPUMM for short.

apparently

They essentially have to keep making films with the license or it goes up for grabs. Hence banter town

g.man

Nah, that Kraven movie looks like another absolute dud.

g.man

regmcfly wrote:

g.man wrote:

It's part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Movies, or SPUMM for short. apparently

They essentially have to keep making films with the license or it goes up for grabs. Hence banter town

I thought that might be the case. Saw a trailer for that Madame Web thingy and it looked as if it was shot on an iPhone.

Frosty

Marvel must be raging at the stink these films pile onto the MCU with general audiences who don't care enough to know the difference. Just adds to the fatigue as they try and turn around perception on the MCU.

regmcfly

The stink of Spumm

Diluted Dante

Who is in charge of the Sony Spider-verse? It absolutely baffles me what they are doing.

I could do a better job drunk.

LivDiv

If you thought Madame Webb might be the bottom of the barrel you're a damned fool!
A’Sai

Spoiler:

g.man

Diluted Dante wrote:

Who is in charge of the Sony Spider-verse? It absolutely baffles me what they are doing.

I could do a better job drunk.

I suspect it’s an AI powered by a pile of old PS3s

Diluted Dante

LivDiv wrote:

If you thought Madame Webb might be the bottom of the barrel you're a damned fool!

Big Man (I) a.k.a. Mr. Big / Frederick Foswell

Fuckin' A

mannaboy

You’d think Marvel could sue for damaging their brand, to get the rights back, but then their recent output hasn’t been much better.

LivDiv

I like how everyone is talking about Big Man and ignoring Little Jazz Hands Man, Lasso Man and A Man Made of Metal.

Big Man is the least interesting man in that image.

g.man

Plot twist. Man Made of Metal is Big Man!

hylian_elf

Or he could be Bigman.

Diluted Dante

The metal man is the Big Man. You've been tricked into thinking it's a nickname based on physical size, and not importance! Your big man is called The Ox.

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