Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

The editing of that CA trailer is awful. Film might still be okay, but the trailer is basically just "stuff".

"Hey, this film has stuff in it"

I think I read her role has been cut down a bit and pretty much all references to her being Israeli have been removed.

Still going to be a car crash of a press tour for the film if she's there...

I really like TWS. It's a proper thriller wrapped up in a Marvel movie. As intended. Redford was picked for a reason.

Civil War was great too. Interesting baddie motive, ramifications for future movies and perfect introduction of new characters (compare with the awkward introduction of that Riri character in Black Panther 2). I DO find the bit where they all line up and run at each other a bit silly and designed for the cool trailer shot. The fight is cool but just them running at each other looks silly (IMHO of course)

I really like Iron Man 3 also but that's because that's basically a Shane Black movie again wrapped up in a Marvel movie.

No matter how much RDJ they throw into the next phase, I don't think they will reach the same heights as the previous peaks. I think FF4 and X-Men, if don't right, will give a major boost and so will RDJ and Holland and, of course, ALL of them together. They will do well but not eye watering money like the previous highs. And with costs getting so crazy high (250,000,000 for that Red One thing???!!!), there will be a lot of pressure on them so, when they DO come out, the promotion is going to be obscene.

I didn't know the comics and will defer to more knowledgeable people but RDJ back does smack of desperation. Even the reaction at comic Con was a little underwhelming. Yes, they cheered and roared but they SHOULD have brought down the Internet with reaction views and memes etc.

Like I said, I didn't know the comics but I know there a potential interesting arc and certainly a better arc than Krang.... I mean, Kang.

I think the next two movies will need to be huge

I'm more mixed on Evans coming back than RDJ.

At least with RDJ, he's playing a different character (or at least a different version of the same base character, likely some sort of alternate universe where Tony grew up as Victor Von Doom). That to me is interesting.

Whereas if they're just bringing Evans back to be Steve Rogers again, I think Sam will never truly have a chance to be seen as Captain America as he'll still be in Steve's shadow and it kind of damages Steve's ending of giving up the fight to have the kind of live worth living. Plus we know he survives it because he then returns to the original timeline as an old man.

Maybe they are going to do something new and different with him that'll make it worth it, but on the face of it this just seems lazy compared to what they're doing with RDJ.

Yeah I was thinking that. They did it in the comics a few years ago. Just not sure how good that would be if you have RDJ as Doctor Doom at the same time. Feels sort of redundant.

Making RDJ bad isn’t really creative at all. The point of going back to these actors is that they are desperate and don’t seem to have a decent strategy.

They really are threatening to undermine the potential goodies. You just know Mackie will have to fight Evans, in what world does he beat an actual super serum CA? Are they gonna kryptonite the bad CA?

And who honestly cares about the current marvel superhero’s? None of them really have the charisma and leadership feels of Cap/IM. Part of the reason CW worked was because it felt right that the two leads of each group were indeed leaders.

When Thor, CA and Ironman fight Thanos, it had serious gravitas. When CA uses mlolnir, I mean that was just superb. There’s not one superhero (thors a bit of a joke) who has that sort of symmetry that stark and cap had so they better start figuring out who is gonna be the lead hero’s if it’s not Evans.

Potentially who can be the Lead hero ? Reed Richard’s ? Some x men ? Not really much time to build up from current stable and something tells me the new CA movie won’t make Mackie that guy. He’s not got the same charm and leader like feeling that Evans had. I actually like Mackie but don’t see the role he plays as strong as Original CA.