Amph "You think you're the only superhero in the world?" - The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Blame the Guardians of The Galaxy formula.

 

It's the inevitability of franchisiness. If RDJ doing Tony Stark is universally considered the best thing about the MCU, the rule of franchisiness dictates that eventually all of the MCU will increasingly be directed at mimicking RDJ doing Tony Stark. The "Guardians of the Galaxy formula" is really just a formula for building a movie around a bunch of characters doing RDJ/Tony Stark impressions. Every superhero in the MCU gets their Tony Starkiness turned up a few notches on the dial until eventually everyone's at 11.

 

I blame an Infinity Stone.

 

To be fair, everything that I've ever seen from Marvel, whether it be in films, TV series or comics, most of the time, even during serious events, there's humour involved. Whereas DC keeps it dark, which is why I love both companies, as you can go to either depending on what mood you're in.

 

Yeah when the progenitor template for the entire MCU is Iron Man which was directed by Jon Favraeu and largely improvised on set, it has a knock on effect tonally of humour in on every single movie in the MCU. (Incredible Hulk, a kind of dour flick, was developed concurrently with Iron Man and is kind of ignored so tonally it's the least jokiest of the series). But, if one wants to take a long view, every movie in the MCU is a sequel to Iron Man so it's going to stylistically be the same.

On the flipside, every move in DC is sort of a sequel to Man of Steel and while later ones, Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman did have humour, there is an overriding tone of darkness that isn't present in the MCU. Because the MCU started with Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr.

 

if you've seen the justice league trailer it's pretty clear that wonder woman was the bridge to dc going with the full-on marvel approach. if you can't beat them join them i guess.

 

Because redundant threads being redundant?

 

It's the officially official policy of the Department of Redundancy Department.

 

If Blade Runner 2049 had gone full jokey, it would've made trillions at the box office. Scenes of Jared Leto being Mr. Magoo. Cast Kersplat as Officer K. Profit!

 

No. Get your TV Tropes out of my JCC.

 

Krennic could be getting a new job as Ben Mendelsohn is in talks to join Captain Marvel as the villain.

https://heroichollywood.com/ben-mendelsohn-captain-marvel-villain/

 

Like I posted on another thread, I am shocked Marvel has not just released the SDCC trailer. There are crappy copies everywhere on YouTube. Might as well give in and get it up properly especially since the leak trailer is getting fabulous feedback.

 

I really thought that Infinity War would drop with Thor but I'm totally okay if they moved it to Last Jedi.

 

Obviously we're getting the recent YouTube dropped Black Panther trailer in front of Thor

 

Infinity War... is a heist movie?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/avengers-infinity-war-is-a-heist-movie-about-stealing-1820042787

 

" One of the significant risks of the superhero film scene is genre stagnation, and the energy and wit of a heist movie might be exactly what Avengers needs to break out of that trap."

Yes, just like Ant-Man!

 

Well, based on the previous MCU films, we know where certain Infinity Stones are located, so Thanos would have to steal them from those locations. And as such, Infinity War is shaping up to be a film that answers the criticisms of the MCU not having a strong or well developed/used villain.

 

I'm totally not opposed to a heist film or a genre swap (especially where the Russos are concerned -- see The Winter Soldier) I'm just hella-surprised.

 

Makes sense considering some Avengers are in possession of the stones.

 

Yeah, I'm surprised too that the Russo would describe Infinity War as a Thanos lead heist film. But after reading the article and giving it some thought, it does make sense. Thanos would not want to alert great powers than him about acquiring all the Infinity Stones. At this point, I don't think Thanos has enough firepower to take on the Nova Corp. When Thanos' heist is discovered, the Infinity War shall begin.