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I would agree I prefer the older animation over the stylized animation. The stylized is not bad and making some like that is a good idea but making the majority of the older animation type is just cleaner and easier to follow and in most ways far more realistic than the stylized. If everything goes stylized then how soon will they just start lowering the budget on the art and animation and then just claim it is the style of animation and you just don't like change.
I am NEVER getting over Iron Heart… specifically the fact that a Japanese corn show had the name first in a female Iron Man "adult" parody. 🤣
The writing is the key. The characters matters to draw interest, but it's the story that people actually want in the end and what makes a successive movie. The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie is the best example as it's all about mostly unknown characters, but people liked the movie because it was fun to watch.
Disney+ is failing only because they are making crappy stuff. If they had kept doing decent to great movies instead of bad to mediocre ones so would Disney+ be fine.
I feel like we need to get out of this no recasting rolls thing. spiderman franchise proves you can recast. they should have recast black panther for example. if RDJ is done, then recast Iron man. I would pick a recast ironman over iron heart any day of the week.
It's all PR. Disney is infested from top to bottom and you would have to almost start over to correct.
They is way to much LGBTQ nonsense and other virtue signaling coming out of Disney. Not to mention how consistently bad the writing has been since 2018 ( and the moment they bought Star Wars). I just refuse to watch it now as they are actively trying to destroy family values.
Admitting something long before the fact doesn't excuse Iger or Disney from the metric ton of sh*t they have produced.
It's not about the characters, it's not about the quantity of movies, it's all about the fact that Disney is actively insulting men.
When you weaponize entertainment no-one wants to watch.
The mandolin is great, everything else nah
God bless
No, all super hero movies and tv shows suck. Iron man was a crusty geezer in 2008, and he's even more of a crusty geezer now.
You can have both quality and volume. Just get good writers on multiple projects.
Disney lost any support from me after I saw how they treated their park staff in 2019. "Oh we can't afford to pay you park staff, money is very tight we have to do layoffs. Meanwhile, here you go CEOs, billions of dollars in bonuses."
joo-dih-shus
The fact your upset with characters no one likes and your suggestions are beating the old ones to death I'm going to disagree with you guys. I'm all for random characters and even them creating their own if that means leaving the comic book characters faithful to their CB interpretations. What they need is better writers Marvel hasn't been hiring comicbook fans for their writing department and that's why they've been terrible films. They need to reset the scope and expectations back down to the first phase, new leads to explore the other aspects of the marvel universe but without trying to tie it all in right away. Give us new foundations to build a new world of the MCU without using the old cast so these new characters had their own issues during the Infinity Saga, don't tell us show us. Vampires and Blade should have a few movies showing they've been successfully hiding from the rest of the MCU. Same with the Mutants and X-men they've been in the MCU the whole time so where were they, don't tell us show us. If they just put the Fox universe Cast in and say multidimension BS I'm completely done.
Focusing spectacle over substance can even be done by the same creators that originally created a masterpiece. The Lost World for instance was kind of spectacle over substance vs Jurassic Park. I like the movie, it's a good action film. But it doesn't really have the philosophical substance the original has, and Malcom is used and abused for his reactions to chaos, rather than us getting his analysis about the meaning of it all. The board room scene in Jurassic Park is master cinema, and it's just a room of people talking. In Jurassic Park the climax of the movie which is the Rex escaping, it's underpinned by the subplot which is that Nedry is stealing the dino embryos and he has to shut the Park off inorder to do it. Which leads to the Rex escaping, and that epic scene. The climax of Lost World which is the trailer going off the cliff, which is a cool action scene, doesn't have much plot going on behind it. They really did the scene as an excuse to have an intense climax, but it makes no sense why the rexes came back, or how Malcom knew they were there because it was silent. All that is within the same series with the same creators. That's nothing compared to the spectacle over substance that Jurassic World does, or what Disney has done with all of their IP's. It's interesting to me how things started to get worse decades ago.
Dr. Doom is by far my favourite character but I am dreading his arrival in the MCU.
It's 'Jew~dih~shus'.
what happened to marcus?
Honestly, I kinda liked the first ant man movie and I think I could do with more of that character too, but once again, not GARBAGE WRITING but an actually well written script. He they actually do some interesting things with his powers and stuff and paul rudd is pretty fun as him, but once again it all falls down on bad writing.
I think dreamworks is going to be the new disney
Thank you for not having garbage taste.
Disney's best bet would be to introduce an alternate universe Iron Man, played by Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connoly as alternative universe Pepper Potts. And see if they can get Terence Howard to play alternative universe War Machine, finally getting him in the suit. Really, that was their goal in the first place, but RDJ got it. Now, and I can't believe I'm saying this, Cruise is back on top and RDJ hasn't had a major movie since 2019.
i used to buy a lot of star wars figures but since disneys movies and everything i only pick up one in blue moon now. thats how much disney damaged star wars brand
"From… 2016"
The last time Marvel introduced new (non-legacy) heroes people genuinely liked long term was Power Pack, which started almost 40 (!) years ago. I'm very glad Power Pack is impossible to do in live action.
The reason Marvel is going to the less known characters for sequels is because more people know who Spiderman is, who Thor is, who Iron Man is, and they cannot introduce wokeness in them, but can in the less known without fans screaming.
You know that meme where Death is working his way down a hallway and knocks at the next door … that’s Disney anymore
I'd love nothing more than to love Star Wars enough to keep spending hundreds of dollars on each of my X-Wing and Armada fleets, and my Legion armies. Please, stop being blithering idiots and make me want to spend my money. It shouldn't be this hard to make nerds want to give you their money.
In case you didn't know, pixar was always apple…
One can argue about needing Antman 1 and 2, as the premise for End Game (Scott being in the quantum realm during the snap, setting up the idea of directed quantum travel to go back in time).
Yeah, just rewatching early New Who with Mom and we still enjoy the show inspite of the bad effects b/c of story writing is entertaining.
Watches Disney burn…
sips coffee
"This is fine."
Pretty sure Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is going to absolutely demolish the live-action Little Mermaid at the theaters.
I get the sense that Victoria Alonzo was more Feige throwing her under the bus. Rather than course correcting. I also have no faith that they will right the ship. They will need to do a lot more before I even begin to believe they are fixing it.
Star Wars has sucked even when George Lucas was in control 🙂 face it, nerds.
Remember Stargate SG1? Quality science fiction on a shoestring budget.
So yeah, Marvel and Star Wars are expensive to make, but the real problem is with the shitty writing.
Talking about the lack of budget (eye candy) and requiring the writers to step up more reminds me of the Netflix marvel series Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage and Punisher, etc, where they CLEARLY had almost no money at all for special effects but they still were compelling character dramas albeit a bit slow and boring at times, but fairly true to the source material. I could live with that if it was done well, but Woke writing can't really be done well by definition.
A moment of silence for all the knights that have gone MIA
Ben
Claudia
Oz
Marcus
I remember being excited for she hulk, and then they released the woke trailer. Oh boy did I dodge a bullet
Antman is to Mike Douglas's career as Saturn 3 is to Kirk Douglas's career.
CRAP
Today I learned that Australians can't pronounce "judicious." 😉
Love you guys!
Lucas film disaster is 100% Kathleen Kennedy's fault. Firing Victoria Alonso is a huge start, she was responsible for phase four the M-She-U
I think they see what other media companies are doing and know they're screwed if they don't up their game.
There were 100 hours of LOST, and I never stopped caring about any of those characters. In fact, fans didn't want them to introduce new characters, so they did so sparingly. If the characters are good, you don't need to "move on" after only 2 or 3 hours of content with them.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving evil multinational corporation
If the Mandalorian ever flops, I’ll still have several fanfictions that I can turn to that will be worthy stories about the main character.
At this point I don’t care how much ass Disney kisses they can burn for all I care.
1; they’ve gotten way to big and aggressive when it comes to purchasing and assimilating property rights from various studios.
2; their support, and profiteering off of the ugly shit china pulls is unforgivable.
3; they’ve pushed the woke shit too ling, and too far to be overlooked. If it was a couple bad movies followed by an apology and some good movies that would be one thing. But they had to spend 5 years doubling down with pushing gender studies on kids, and telling white men like me that we’re the source of everything wrong on the planet.
4; they destroyed a lot of my favorite franchises, and I’m petty.
As far as the enjoying countless iterations of my favorite characters goes. At this point Hollywood has gotten so bad at beating a dead horse that I’ve developed fondness for closed character arcs.
After a certain point no matter how good a story or character is, they reach natural conclusion and end on a high note, or they get relentlessly dragged through the mud until it’s just depressing.
3 4 movies tops. Bring the series to a satisfying conclusion, maybe pass the torch in a way that seems natural. Then after 5 to 7 years you can think about a reboot.
A mediocre star like Kurt Cobain goes out at the hight of his career, people don’t stop talking about him. A legend like Elvis plods along into old age and everyone remembers him as an overweight geriatric who died on the toilet.