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@therealsilvermane

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    Kevin Feige and those folks at Marvel Studios live by the greatest Marvel quote of all, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
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    Because I’m posting posts about the The Marvels trailer in the The Marvels thread? ?????
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    Black Panther makes the bulk of its profits in North America which gives Disney a bigger take of the profits as opposed to international box office.
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    Super Mario made almost as much in one day as Shazam 2’s total domestic run so far. It’s not good to be a goofy second string superhero at the movies these days.
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    The Marvels First Trailer Reportedly Releasing This Week Tuesday, April 11
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    I say IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is the all-time perfect American film. It’s so perfect that it’s one of a handful of classic movies that millions of Americans still gather round each year to watch. George Bailey is the perfect American hero in a story that never lets up. He’s a big dreamer stuck in the dregs of a small town filled with folks content with the small life. And even though real life keeps him from living what he considers to be a full life, his character still lives life to the fullest at every moment even if he doesn’t realize it, and not just because he keeps putting others before himself. Whether he’s shakily doing the Charleston in a school gym, waltzing in the pool beneath it, courting Mary with the song Buffalo Gals instead of just kissing her, or saving the Bailey Building and Loan from a bank run, George not only thinks big but he acts on those intuitions. And when he dreams up one last big act, ending his life to save his family’s, the powers above give him a set of wings one better than Clarence the angel’s and two better than his little brother Harry’s aviator wings, wings that take him to the Twilight Zone and back, giving him a pretty unique outlook on life. It’s feel good, tragic, endlessly entertaining, and thought provoking. ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE is the perfect American movie.
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    Happy Easter shout out to the Ewoks, maybe the most under appreciated characters in all the Star Wars universe. The Empire underestimated them and fans still underrate them. They represent what Star Wars is all about. A farm boy from a desert planet takes out the Empire’s most dangerous weapon. A little green creature who talks funny and who lives on a remote swamp planet is one of the universe’s most powerful beings. And the mechanized mighty Goliath Empire is taken down in part by the sticks and stones of the overlooked furry forest creature Ewoks who look more cuddly than cunning. The modest and meek shall inherit the Star Wars universe. Hail to the Ewoks!
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    I’m not talking about so much what critics actually say, but the Rotten Tomatoes score itself. I think a lot of folks just look at the score and let that determine if it’s a good movie or no, regardless of what this or that critic says. I think most folks also don’t even realize what the RT score means. I think they see 50% and think an overall F grade, when in reality it means the folks at Rotten Tomatoes determined that 50% of the critics in a certain pool gave the movie a positive review and 50% didn’t, a judgement call which itself is subjective. I didn’t see Black Adam but was it that bad? I don’t think Shazam 2 was that bad. Quantumania wasn’t that bad. I think the system is Rotten.
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    Ultimately, Marvel Studios needs to get good with the critics again, that is, making movies that they’ll give a thumbs up, because that Rotten Tomatoes score is everything now, I think. It’s what folks look at first to determine if it’s worth seeing. You can have the coolest trailer in the world, but if critics pan it, it’s over. I think Scorsese’s criticism of comic book movies kind of gave movie critics a hunting permit and now they smell blood in the water with comic book movies. So it’s best if Marvel and DC don’t chum the waters with weak susceptible films. Don’t make world building the point. Do that in the credits like the old days. I think critics don’t care about world building. I know casual moviegoers could care less about it. Just make a good story with compelling character journeys that critics will review positively, and the rest will follow I think. And if there’s any doubt, don’t release it until there’s no doubt.
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    The “Age” in Age of Ultron doesn’t refer to an era, but rather to Ultron’s actual age in days, hours, and nanoseconds. Ultron’s age is a theme in the film as its goal is to rebirth itself in the Vision. This theme is reiterated at the end when the last Ultron bot tells Viz “You’re unbelievably naive”, to which Viz responds with the clever backatcha line “I was born yesterday,” before disintegrating it and capping its “death age” at a few days.
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    The MCU mishmashes stories from the comics to make something new, which I like. If the movies were just exact word for word live action versions of the comic book story, I think I’d find that boring. Avengers Infinity War/Endgame bore little resemblance to the Infinity Gauntlet comic, and it was great. There’s a surprise and freshness to it when they craft a new story (loosely based on the source material). One thing I loved about the Captain Marvel movie was that they took so much from the comics, like the secret military base, Mar-Vell’s Dr Lawson identity, the Skrull mind probe, the Kree colors, the Kree explosion that gives Carol her powers, her amnesia, her Binary powers, and the Kelly Sue Deconnick story elements, and mashed it together to give us a new updated story. Most of the MCU movies are this hybrid of many comics stories into one new story. Secrete Invasion seems to be two parts the original event series, but also one part the great Meet the Skrulls limited series, a solo Furry story, whatever else, and something new. I’m looking forward to it.
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    We haven’t seen a full appearance of present-day Nick Furry since Captain America Winter Soldier, where the fall of SHIELD had life implications for both Furry and Cap. For Steve Rogers, he lost his faith in institutions, an outlook that played out in Civil War and ended the Avengers. For Furry, he became a rogue soldier, but we never really saw the implications played out except in cameo bits. It looks like Secrete Invasion is a continuation of Furry’s story from Winter Soldier.
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    I thought Teletubbies
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    Not since I was a kid and I’m very curious how the WWE applies here.
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    Better edit that Falcon thread post. Everything we’ve seen of Skrulls in the MCU is that they’re allies of Nick Fury and Earth. So why on Earth would they suddenly be an evil invading alien farce? It would make no sense in the larger MCU story. From the official story synopsis, trailers, and rumors so far, the “bad guy” Skrulls appear to be a faction of disgruntled Skrulls that were installed on Earth as a spy network put in place by Nick Fury himself to do the work that SHIELD could no longer do, and who have now gone rogue. And that this faction includes Talos’ daughter, G’iah. Perhaps we can assume that these rogue Skrulls developed alternate plans after the Snap that don’t fit with the new world order after the Blip. Either way, Secret Invasion seems less like a wholesale alien invasion of Earth and more like an inside job by Skrull mutineers.
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    I admit I was being slightly disingenuous in my response to your last post, but I’ve been 100% sincere in my responses to drotto, Gatsby, and others concerning this whole art thing about which I’m done debating now.
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    No, trolling is posting obscene and demeaning memes over in the Captain Marvel thread. What we’re having here is an actual debate of the artistic merit of cinema versus a comic book in a forum dedicated to discussion and debate of cinema and comic books.
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    Fine. And I’ll leave with this statement. What one considers to be the best art form is debatable. That film ranks among the highest art forms today and is a higher art form than a comic book is, to me, not debatable. While the most artistic films combine the work of many craftspeople and several different artistic disciplines into one art form, a highly artistic film still answers to one vision, the director’s. Finally, if we’re still comparing the art of cinema to the art of the comic book, cinema simply dwarfs comic books when it comes to the amount of books on the subject, the amount of academic study and university-level education dedicated to its study, the amount of artistic recognition in the world in the form of awards festivals media and journalism, its effect on the world today, and the diversity of lives it reaches throughout the world. Okay now I’m done.
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    IMHO, the fact that cinema is a higher art form than a comic book is a fact.
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    First appearance of G’iah, matriarch of a Skrull spy family on Earth posing as a normal American household.
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    You might have missed the part of my post where I said human society TODAY is dominated by two mediums of art: cinema and music. I guess you could lump a Taylor Swift concert with 20X the energy of Chantal Akerman's film "Jeanne Dielman...", which is now considered by some to be the greatest film ever made, into that statement. I also believe I qualified my statement by saying I'm not talking about historic works of art sitting in a museum. Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling may be considered one of the great works of European art, but artists don't become legend these days by painting the walls and ceilings of Catholic Churches anymore. I'm talking about NOW. Art that is produced today and that changes the way we think and feel TODAY. Yes, I know all sorts of art can do this, even comic books. But here's a question: where are the Winslow Homers (painting) and the John Singer Sargents(painting) and the William Shakespeares(theater) of today? Answer: they're making movies.
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    It's always been my contention that if Leonardo DaVinci were alive today, he'd choose filmmaking as his artistic medium of choice. If one were to cut off the past and forget everything that came before including known art history, film and music are the two art forms that dominate human society today. Film combines all the arts, writing visual theatre music fashion, into one symphonic piece that can elevate the soul and speak to the human experience as much as anything else and moreso.