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

Don't really care too much about the MCU. I think its gotten to big for itself. I want other types of movies to come out. Pretty pleasantly surprised with the Hunger Games movie, Thanksgiving, Wonka, and Godzilla Minus One.

 

Oh, I didn’t say I hated 80s movies though.

 

I just finished rewatching Hawkeye, and I'm wondering if Jack is supposed to become a superhero? I don't read comics, so I wouldn't know. MCU could use a classic old-school Zorro swashbuckler.

 

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jacques_DuQuesne_(Earth-616)

 

Cool, let's hope they develop him. And give him a costume that looks absolutely nothing like that one.

 

I've been looking at a lot of Phase One MCU movies (I lose track of the Phases...pre-END GAME) and I think in some ways that people remember Thanos as being a bigger part of it than he was. YES, he was behind Loki in AVENGERS, yes the Infinity Stones were sprinkled throughout the MCU (taking on much more significance on the rewatch), but I find that most of the movies work just fine if you give Thanos almost no thought. I mention this only because now, having seen what we got through END GAME, there is a sense that what the MCU really needs is a "big bad" that everyone is going to have to team up and fight at the end of the current "arc" or phase or whatever. I can certainly see that, and perhaps with audiences having seen how ENDGAME played out that expectation is inevitable, but not sure that is what the current MCU is most lacking.

 

The 2015 F4 movie, while not very good, is certainly better than the Tim Story ones from the early aughts. I will die on this hill.

 

Intriguing episode.

Spoiler

It was great to hear Cate Blanchett as Hela again. They even got Idris Elba to voice Heimdall briefly. This episode was an interesting combination of the first Thor movie, Thor: Ragnarok, and the Ten Rings movie. It was great to see Wenwu again. Apparently, he was behaving as he did during his marriage and his redemption at the end of the film, during which he relinquished control over the Ten Rings to his son. Never thought I'd see an enlightened and redeemed Hela, but I'm all for it. Now, she and Wenwu get to save young Gamora from Thanos.

Great stuff.

 

The hill:



(it's a really bad hill to die on, my dude...)

 

Yah the Tim Story movies certainly have much more of a fun Sliver age Fantastic Four vibe. Yeah they bobble Doom and Galactus (Doom gets better in the 2nd one). It certainly is better than the constant bobble fail that is 2015 Fan4astic.

I do say bring back Miles Teller Reed Richards as the alternative universe villain The Maker though. That would totally work

 

Yeah, the first two Fantastic 4 movies knew they were comic book movies. Kind of like Guardians of the Galaxy. But yeah, dropped the ball on the villains.

Fan4astic was just a depressing mess, wanted to be "The Dark Knight" but with the FF?? And their Doom was somehow even worse.

 

I saw a post from a probably faux "insider" but they did raise a good multiverse point that one can see already happened. And if you want to compare multiverse jumping in Doctor Strange and Spider-Verse. In the one scene in Multiverse of Madness, Doctor Strange and America turn into animation and paint. So this presupposes that when someone jumps a multiverse, they end up in that universe's style. So live action people become animated people. But if you look at Spider-Verse, we see people stay in their native format. The canon event images from Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire are their live action universes. We see (potentially) MCU Prowler Donald Glover in live action in an animated verse. But he is caught in a "cage" that could keep him in that format. Spot pops his animated head through a hole into a nonplussed live action Mrs. Chen, or the Lego Verse still staying in Lego format aside from Spot (he is still half in his hole, and also Spot is on his way to God-Mode nemesis). Anyway, I just think it's interesting that if people jump universes do they stay in their native stylstic format (Spider-Verse) or jump into that universe's style (Doctor Strange in Multiverse of Madness). I just want to see an eventual Spider-Gwen assemble with live action and animated Gwens at once, to be honest.

 

That's in my state. I was there in May.

 

Ok, new year, new time to talk about Marvel.
Today's object: Marvel Studios the Marvel Cinematic Universe an Official Timeline
Earlier i bumped in the video bellow:


See, the mere fact one would need a 344 pages book to explain the timeline of events in the movies/series is a clear indication on how messy things got.
And also shows the homework it become, a complain many people use to let the MCU go.
For example:The events of She Hulk lasted the spring and summer and ocurred before the events of Ms Marvel,but those series were aired in an inverted order ( Ms Marvel aired in july/22 and She-Hulk in august 22). It's bugsome because this information was not really made public or explained in any form. If you just watch the Disney+ shows you would never guess the real timeline of the events. And the take on the Department of Damage Controle looked diferent in each series. Also The beggining of Thor Love and Thunder happens during the events of She Hulk , but Gorr actions happens in the fall (2025). Another thing you can't tell by watching the movie - to me Gorr actions started,like Jane's disease, years before the beggining of L&T, while Thor were still fat and working with the Guardians..
Also there's a explanation on how Mysterio could know MCU's Earth is 616 years before Multiverse of Madness.
and the movie ends by the time.
This also explain another big point of complains: the lack of connection of the phase 4 and 5 projects. See, if many events are occuring at the same time, in various movies, but in their own storytelling there's no explanation or even hint of this, how do you expect people to guess it? See both the events of Eternals and Spiderman fFFH happen basicly at the same time, right after TFATWS. Quite frankly doesn't make much sense.
Having Eternals and the last FFH movie seems to have 2 cataclysmic events, both in London, that would dominate the news for months but instead there were almost ignored from any other project since, making wonder if even their location in the timeline is correct or some make up thing. Also it´s odd that the entire events of MoM happened in between the closing of the Multiversal portals after Peter defeats Green Globbing in NWH and his later visit to the coffee shop MJ works also in NWH ( why Peter didn't help Strange when the Shuma Gorah attacked early on MoM?).
Overall, from now on, after this year of retreat, the MCU should find a way to become simple again. Tell stories like the original individual avengers movies that anyone can see when things were happening and were they were going.
And, then, hope we don't need books and videos to locate us about what's happening in the MCU.

 

Easier solution: Don't care about the exact chronology - problem solved.

 

Or don’t care about any of it.

 

Works for me.

 

Then nobody would watch anything & there would be no topic at all

 

Maybe that’s for the best.

 

First, if a movie or a show comes out in a different order, it's not like you can't go back and re-watch it in the correct order later on. Second and more importantly, you are correct in that not everything is told sequentially. Comics have it worse with aligning multiple solo books with each other and then those who are on teams. Caring way too much about specific dates like that is way too anal retentive.