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@therealsilvermane

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  1. For example, this page could be a storyboard for a Hank-Jan love scene in an Ant-Man movie. It uses different camera angles and sequential action to tell a story, just like a movie.
  2. Are they that different, though? Yes, one medium is experienced as a moving image with sound on a screen, the other is viewed on a page, but both could be seen as different forms of sequential visual art. If you've ever been to a comic book sequential art class (and I have), you might hear that a comic book page could almost be a storyboard page for a movie, as both movies and comic books tell a story primarily through visuals. IMO, cinema and comic books might actually be the two artistic mediums that have the most in common with each other.
  3. I’m not talking about comic book movies specifically here. I’m talking about cinema vs the comic book.
  4. Not even to mention the complexity of craftsmanship and human hours it takes to make a film compared to a comic book.
  5. Yeah, a forum for comic book MOVIE discussion. The truth hurts? I mean, take the highest examples of comic book art, say Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns, and they can’t stand up to the highest examples of cinematic art, whether it’s Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Vertigo, Tokyo Story, Star Wars, City Lights, or any other movie from any top 100 list.
  6. I'd say in a lot of cases, the movies are better than the comics, disregarding the fact that film is a higher art form than the comics. In the MCU's case, it's my opinion that a lot of these characters have found their perfect form in the films. I'd say that about Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor, Doctor Strange, Wanda, T'Challa, and yes, Carol Danvers. Heck I'd say the Eternals movie is probably better than the comics.
  7. Loki 2 has already wrapped filming, and we can assume it's in post-production. Given the current tone of this news story in the media and the public, I think Marvel Studios stays the course with Loki 2 and keeps Jonathan Majors' Professor Timely in the edit. The only MCU film currently filming right now I think is Captain America New World Order, which is not a Kang storyline. So I don't think Majors' arrest controversy really affects anything right now.
  8. Ike Permutter was never part of Marvel Studios. At one time, Marvel Studios had to answer to the larger Marvel Entertainment, headed by Perlmutter. That ended years ago, around 2017, I believe. Louis D'Esposito, Nate Moore, and other high level producers are still at Marvel Studios. Also if quality over quantity is going to be a real thing at Marvel Studios, and it looks like it is, then the workload may actually be lighter.
  9. Oh, I know exactly what Zack the boy was talking about. My question if he forgot Loki, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, etc was rhetorical. Although something tells me if Eternals was more about Black Knight, he wouldn't have had a problem with that. But the statement was "focus on unfamiliar characters", plain and simple. However, only two out of the seven feature films of Phase Four were films about brand new heroes, Shang-Chi and Eternals(which includes the Black Knight). The other five movies were sequels to established well known MCU characters. Yes, they introduced new heroes within those films, but MCU sequel films have always done that. Iron Man 2 wasn't just Iron Man, it also introduced Black Widow and War Machine. Captain America Winter Soldier introduced Falcon and Winter Soldier Bucky. Thor Ragnarok introduced Valkyrie and Korg. While Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness introduced America Chavez, it was still a Doctor Strange movie that featured his spiritual hero journey and power-up to be the Superior Dr. Strange of the multiverse. Thor Love and Thunder may have introduced Jane Foster Thor, but the movie was still Thor's spiritual journey of getting through a god's mid-life crisis. Wakanda Forever introduced a new Black Panther because T'Challa died, and Shuri was not an unfamiliar character in the MCU by any means, as she was a fan favorite from the first film. Just as Phase Two and Three sequel movies introduced new characters yet kept it the main hero's story, so did the Phase Four sequels. Zack the boy twists facts and spins truth in his little MCU Phase comparison chart meme to further his agenda. He would have us believe in his meme chart that all the Phase Four movies failed (which they didn't) because they featured unfamiliar characters, which is a falsehood. For him, if any Phase Four movie failed critically or at the box office, it couldn't have had anything to do with rushed screenplays because of a crowded workload and release schedule or some other breakdown in the filmmaking process, but had everything to do with focusing on "unfamiliar characters." That's bs.
  10. Great. More anti-Phase Four propaganda generated by toxic YouTubers. (sigh) Work is never done… Yes, even Kevin Feige admits that the MCU hasn’t been full on zeitgeist recently , which is why they’re now focusing on quality over content. Rushed scripts, rushed schedules, and rushed post-production might have resulted in a few projects that could’ve used more time in all phases of production (like Love and Thunder or QuAntuMania) But this list’s creator is so focused on his apparent anti-woke agenda that that’s all he seems to be considering here. Ya Boi Zack is comparing 3 complete MCU phases that have 5 Avengers movies (including Civil War) to 1.1 MCU phases that don’t have an Avengers movie yet and was, as Kevin Feige said, a phase where Marvel is trying new things. Real fair… Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye, Jason Aaron’s Thor, Dan Slott’s She-Hulk, and Warren Ellis’s Moon Knight were all popular critically acclaimed comics stories. Although Black Widow might’ve had an underlying theme of trafficking women maybe, I fail to see any underlying agendas in the stories of Shang-Chi, Eternals, Spider-Man No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, Love and Thunder, Wakanda Forever, or QuAntuMania. These movies focused on superhero journeys, it just so happens that a lot of critics didn’t like three of these movies. By stories with agendas, does Zack the boy mean the diverse heroes ? Phase Four focused on unfamiliar characters? Are Black Widow, Spiderman, Doctor Strange, Loki, Clint Barton, Thor, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, and Prince Namor unfamiliar characters? One show in Phase Four poked fun at the fans, She-Hulk, which also poked fun at Marvel Studiios, because the show is a 4th wall breaking meta comedy series. Ask Will Smith, some guys can’t take jokes. Unrecognizable character? Some characters in Phase Four are almost literally lifted out of the comics, including Kate Bishop, Kamala Khan, and She-Hulk. Yes, Shang -Chi doesn’t really resemble his 70-80’s comic book version and that’s a good thing, because while it was maybe fine then, it’s outdated as heck now. Yes, that’s correct, Victoria Alonso was promoted to head of VFX after Phase Three. I didn’t see poor VFX in Zack boy’s tilted list of faux comparisons.
  11. Bringing back characters from past stories to new ones makes those older stories more relevant and gives a little more cohesiveness to the larger MCU. Bringing back Jane Foster and Darcy from Thor or using scenarios from Thor Dark World in Avengers Endgame had the same effect. The characters being brought back from Incredible Hulk are Betsy Ross and Tim Blake Nelson’s Sam Stearns aka The Leader.
  12. You can view Alonso’s firing as positive or negative, but it was still a turmoil moment for Marvel Studios. Perlmutter is the guy Feige had to fight to get Black Panther and Captain Marvel made, which both eventually grossed a billion plus each. That alone should’ve been grounds for firing years ago.
  13. Finally some good news. Marvel Entertainment head Ike Perlmutter is out at Disney. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/marvel-entertainment-chairman-isaac-perlmutter-out-disney-1235363074/
  14. 'Bad things come in threes' according to the laws of the universe, so the Majors arrest should about wrap it up. (fyi, QuAntuMania box office performance was the first) Looking forward to the success of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3...
  15. Okay well the longer this festers in the court of public opinion the guiltier he looks, and the court of public opinion can be way more damaging than any legal decision.
  16. About that Jonathan Majors evidence his attorney promised that clears him..
  17. There’s already a Punisher, Iron Fist, and a Luke Cage series available to stream on Disney+ now. There’s even a Jessica Jones series if you’re interested.
  18. I think Infinity War was more than just a mash-up end-of-year superhero event movie. There’s a real story there, too. But with all the characters, whose story? It’s argued that it’s Thanos’s story. MCU films, almost by formula, are stories where the protagonist’s mission is also a spiritual journey that is visually marked by a superhero power up. For instance in Thor, when he becomes the guy willing to sacrifice himself for others, he becomes worthy, and thus regains the power of Thor. In Captain Marvel, when Carol regains her memories and remembers who she was, she frees herself from the Kree brainwashing and becomes Captain Marvel. For Thanos in Infinity War, his mission to obtain each Infinity Stone is spiritually stained by the loss of his soldier children, one-by-one through the film, the most painful being Gamora at his own hands. When he achieves all the Stones and the ultimate power-up, he even loses part of himself physically. In the end, we see him in his garden at peace with himself for what he’s lost and gained. In Infinity War, the villain is the protagonist, which is a pretty unique twist on the superhero movie.
  19. The video is edited to make it look like Levi is saying Shazam is better than John Wick. He actually says the movie is better than what critics say.
  20. You mean the long list of two dudes with private Twitter accounts who went to film school or something with Jonathan Majors who said that he's a horrible human being and a major a**hole? Okay
  21. You mean the first situation where the public immediately rushed to judge and condemn a man in a celebrity domestic dispute, and the second situation where the public immediately rushed to judge and condemn a man in a celebrity domestic dispute? Those two situations? What was it that Bruce Lee once said about a finger pointing the way to the moon..?
  22. Bruce Lee probably just did a one-inch punch in his grave just now.
  23. Well, Marvel just slapped their brand on a very well known character, Ant-Man, and the money isn't exactly flowing in, is it? You mention Echo as if that's the only thing Marvel Studios has on the schedule. Did you forget about Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, Captain America, Blade, Deadpool, Loki, Secret Invasion, Daredevil, and The Avengers?
  24. You threw a lot of conjecture, opinion, and not quite accurate information along with what's already known into your response. For right now, I'll just respond to your Captain Marvel bits. The only real official press that's come out about the The Marvels is its move to November to allow more time for VFX. There are zero official statements or records or industry schedules for reshoots for the film. That type of stuff isn't secret. The only places saying there are reshoots happening are troll sites like Cosmic Book News that, big surprise, are just reporting what that guy John Scheider said about The Marvels being a " show" that has been contrasted by way more reliable scooper KC Walsh who has said that The Marvels has been going smooth and inside test screenings have been positive. That isn't press by the way, that's industry scoops. Moving the dates of movies is a regular thing, and Marvel Studios has been doing it quite a bit since the pandemic. Yes, summer to fall is a big move, but it jives with Disney's recent "quality over quantity" statement. The Captain Marvel comic book series has not been cancelled. I should know as I pick up the new copy as they come out from my LCS. Finally, there is no leaked -script to The Marvels confirming a Freaky Friday-like body swap story. This was simply online fan theories which the head writer of Ms. Marvel dubunked, saying it is what it looks like, Kamala Khan and Carol Danvers switched places physically.