Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

I really like the Garfield Spidey movies.

I didn’t like that they were setting up that Oscorp created all the Sinister Six equipment though.

The Rami movies were far too much like the Reeves Superman movies but Alfred Molina was a great villain.

I know about some of the secrets of No Way Home thanks to a blabber mouth a few rows back at Shang-Chi.

It doesn’t make sense to me (yes I know they are fantasy movies) that Peter Parker and other characters can be different people (they did this in the Arrowverse too) but it should be fun.

I’m hoping No Way Home has Parker in the traditional costume and colours. I don’t mind costumes changes and updates for any superhero but I prefer it when Spider-Man or Superman have the traditional look and colours.

I found Garfield's Spider-Man quite unlikeable, almost cocky and the whole thing about his parents being involved in some conspiracy that gave him spider DNA was ridiculous. Sony's desperation to set up their own cinematic universe meant that the movies actually being made suffered massively.

Oh are there first impressions out for Venom and Carnage?

Looks like CGI hooplah to me, and the worst kind of CGI hooplah: poorly lit. Like the battle of winterfell. so I'm not that interested. Though, that's not a criticism of Hardy or Harrelson, both are great, this just seems like B-level comic book movie tier.

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Scarlett and Disney have settled the Black Widow lawsuit. No details on the settlement though - THR.

I'd assume she was already contracted for that gig.

Question is will she get any fresh deals.

I feel you're really overegging any sort of 'backfiring' here - I don't see anyone outside of a very small bubble really caring about this at all either way, definitely not into the general consumer market that would impact Disney in any way. Youtube shows have to talk about something and the vast majority of commentators and 'film junkies' who would comment on this already have a strong distain for Disney anyway - look at how the majority of regular posters talk about Disney in most threads even here.

Nothing you mention there really stands up to any scrutiny on claims of misogyny:

Firstly, you're not comparing like with like here. Johnson is a far, far bigger star than Scarlett and they likely have very different contracts - one with a legacy Marvel contract and the other with a new contract with a separate part of the business. I'd fully agree you'd have a case of misogyny if say a Hawkeye movie came out around the same time and Renner was on the same contract as Scarlett and Disney chose to negotiate with him. You can't compare apples to oranges and then make a giant leap that different treatment is based on some form of bias.

Secondly, has it been confirmed Blunt received no additional money with the move to Disney+? If this isn't confirmed then claims of misogyny do not hold up.

Thirdly and most importantly, Scarlett had an option in her contract to go to arbitration to do exactly what you are asking for and renegotiate the deal. Rather than doing that she chose to take a very legally questionable route and try to go around arbitration and take a swing at big bad Disney in public via a lawsuit - something no male star has done. Again, you can't say they took a harder swing back than they would with a male star when no comparative MCU male star has taken those actions before - especially in a situation where there was minimal need to play nice as their character was dead.

To add context to the above post it is about a rumour about the stinger at the end of the new Venom film.