Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

Actually thought MoM was one of the rare highlights of MCUs recent slew of films. Decent RT and Audience scores, not to mention it grossed almost a billion. That’s a win in my book.

There’s a bit of a creative void left now that James Gunn is gone. It’s a no brainer.for me.

An Interesting Choice

She is very good in Ozark

I only know her from Inventing Anna on Netflix, where she was completely insufferable in the role, playing a completely insufferable person. I've already been trying to wipe that show from my mind, will have to try harder now in order to give her a fair shot as Silver Surfer.

As for Raimi, there were definitely no issues with his directing of MoM (if anything it helped save the film), but the issues were more down to the writing. If they got him in earlier for the likes of Secret Wars with a decent writer and they could work together from the start, he could be a great choice for it. At the very least, working with Marvel on MoM obviously wasn't a bad experience for him.

I would caution against "<insert director here> will be the saviour of the MCU " talk. After Ragnorok many put Taiki Watiti as the successor to the, at the time, shunned Gunn. Then Love & Thunder happened.

im not familiar with silver surfer lore from the comics but from a brief is she the original SS's partner…could this tie in with the movie that shes working wit Galactus to save him and essentially needs the FF

Ant-Man 3 was so bad, you've already forgotten it, and are remembering back to Ant-Man 2.

terrible movies though.

(although honourable mention for Gemma Chan, in the Eternals.)

I wouldn't be sure. I don't think the giant Celestial head sticking out of the ocean has ever been adressed. Seems it might be in the Ed Norton part of the MCU.

Norton isn’t coming back however some of that cast have returned already and others are returning and William Hurts character has been recast after died.

I think there was previous talk of it being addressed in the next CA film, but because it's been delayed so often that's why there's been so little mention of it. Plus a lot of the MCU stuff since then has been centered around space, Quantumrealm, Multiverse etc. Secret Invasion should have used it as a plot point for why people would never accept the Skrulls or other aliens living on the planet, but to be honest I can't even remember if they did make any reference to it. Maybe they did.

X-men 97 is pure nostalgia into my veins. I wasn't expecting to have such a strong reaction to it. That last episode had some incredible moments.

nothing more infuriating than those 'shorts' with stupid titles that give away spoilers.

Incredible episode along with the soundtrack..everything just hit right! That ending was not something I expected!

How many more weeks of X-Men '97?

I'm planning on a big series binge once its done.

Christ, Deadpool And Wolverine has me excited for an MCU film again

I'd pay extra for that

For me, the sheer amount of improv and wackiness just completely undercut the parts of the story about Jane and Gorr. At times it felt like they barely even wrote any dialogue in the script and instead just improv'ed, and as Hemsworth said, he pretty much became a parody. That's not to say there wasn't stuff in the film that wasn't funny, or that some of the serious moments didn't hit, but overall the film just felt like a huge mess to me.

And let's not forget "Infinity Conez"….

aND THAT'S THE THING, i THINK gORR (it was at this point I noticed caps lock was on) could have been a much better villain, but we barely got to see any of him and like you said, he only kills one god even though so much time was spent at the God Conference or whatever it was called.

There were definitely some highs in the film; I think the shadow planet they fought Gorr on was stunning, Bale did give a brilliant performance, some parts of Jane's story were done well (but usually immediately undercut by humour), and there were a lot of laughs in it. It just ended up being a film where the balance between story and humour was so off that the film was constantly working against itself. The MCU films get a lot of criticism anyway for serious moments being undercut by quippy dialogue, but Ragnarok had a much better balance between the two and let the serious moments really shine when they needed to. LaT though, just really struggled to let anything be serious.