OBD Convo #8: Still New Year, Lets go full force for the year.

[OtherGalaxy]

Captain Marvel was confusing to me because they tried to hype up the first female led Marvel movie when Wonder Woman had already come out years before and was generally well received

Like it just made it so transparent that everything in the MCU is very sterile and focus-grouped. They didn't ever want to make a female led movie, they just waited until somebody else showed it was profitable.

 

[OtherGalaxy]

I agree that rhythm and beatwise yeah bayformers actually is ahead

The problem I had was I literally couldn't tell anyone fucking apart if it wasn't murderous prime

Bayformers kind of has the opposite issue from the MCU where the fights are actually over choreographed. I've watched them all a million times because I'm an obsessive schizoid who lives for transformers, and there's so many little hard to catch details on a first watch But yeah their biggest weakness is the lack of diverse color palettes. The ROTF Forest Fight would be perfect if they had made Megatron, Starscream, and Grindor not fucking different shades of gray/brown. The first movie didn't have this issue because every character was a different color, and the only ones that were the same color (megatron, jazz, frenzy) all looked so different even a casual viewer couldn't confuse them for each other.

 

[Solar Sailor]

This is what bugs me about the MCU in general, for action movies, they are terrible at action.

Last time they had good choreography was in Winter Soldier during the Highway Fight.

but even that lost its lister after repeat viewings

 

[OtherGalaxy]

Last time they had good choreography was in Winter Soldier during the Highway Fight.

but even that lost its lister after repeat viewings

coincidentally winter soldier is in my top mcu movies

 

[Cryso Agori]

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[Aurelian]

Last time they had good choreography was in Winter Soldier during the Highway Fight.

but even that lost its lister after repeat viewings

>mfw remembering the PS2 early era cinematic CGI/FMV crap they used for Black Panther's final fight with Killmonger or whatever the dude's name was

 

[TrueG 37]

Sephiroth madness had many problems but thats not it, journos will never stop going after stuff in fiction using nonsense to try to justify toning down and censorship

What the fuck am I looking at? Like I'm just straight up confused by how they got to thinking that .

>Sephiroth's evil

B- But think of the neurodivergent!!!

Only at Cbr

 

[Solar Sailor]

coincidentally winter soldier is in my top mcu movies

Its my top MCU movie, with Iron Man.

 

[Xadlin]

happy valentines

eat all your chocolades in order to wash the pain of being alone away

and if you have someone dear: Merry Valentines to you to

 

[CrossTheHorizon]

Sephiroth isn't neurodivergent, he's a chimera of a human and a planet eating monster god hopped up on magical drug juice

 

[Derpmaster9000]

This guy is quite used to bear visits, it seems.

 

[Gordo]

Sephiroth’s evil stems from Jenova lmao

 

[Gordo]

>mfw remembering the PS2 early era cinematic CGI/FMV crap they used for Black Panther's final fight with Killmonger or whatever the dude's name was

I was fortunate enough to sleep through Black Panther, woke up during the credits

 

[Claudio Swiss]

Ivan Reitman, producer, 'Ghostbusters' director, dies at 75

Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the late 20th century, from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died. He was 75. Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated...

apnews.com

 

[NostalgiaFan]

MCU movies have lost a ton of steam, both financially as box office reports go and in general popularity following Endgame. Especially with a lot of the original or "founding" cast leaving; Chris Evans (Steve Rodgers/Captain America), RDJ (Tony Stark/Iron-Man), Scarlett Johansson, Gweneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, etc...Eternals did not do that good good, Black Widow was massively panned and underperformed, no one was hyped for Shang-Chi. Besides that, The Incredible Hulk was a huge flop too.

>black widow
>eternals
>underperformed

Unfortunately for them even that would be overselling them. Their budget from what I heard was 200 mill which means they needed 400 mill just to break even. Eternals only got 402 mill making it almost a flop and BW did the worst by not even getting past 380 mill which makes it an outright flop, possibly the first one the MCU had since the one and only Hulk movie they did.

 

[Xhominid The Apex]

@NostalgiaFan You aimed for the wrong button man, FYI.

>black widow
>eternals
>underperformed

Unfortunately for them even that would overselling them. Their budget from what I heard was 200 mill which means they needed 400 mill just to break even. Eternals only got 402 mill making it almost a flop and BW did the worst by not even getting past 380 mill which makes it an outright flop, possibly the first one the MCU had since the one and only Hulk movie they did.

Yeah, BW was a pure Bomb and Eternals didn't profit at all.
Shang Chi did profit... but it was nowhere near the typical MCU gains in the slightest.
And No Way Home was big... but almost all of that money went to Sony, not Marvel so that was a major net loss.

 

[NostalgiaFan]

Ivan Reitman, producer, 'Ghostbusters' director, dies at 75

Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the late 20th century, from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died. He was 75. Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated...

apnews.com

>never realized I accidentally clicked the laughing face emote instead of the heart emote until I got back from break

 

[Gordo]

Speaking of Black Widow

 

[NostalgiaFan]

Yeah, BW was a pure Bomb and Eternals didn't profit at all.
Shang Chi did profit... but it was nowhere near the typical MCU gains in the slightest.
And No Way Home was big... but almost all of that money went to Sony, not Marvel so that was a major net loss.

To add insult to injury Venom 2, which was on a budget of 110 mill, made over 500 mill at the box office in the same year. That means every Sony produced Marvel film made more than any MCU film that Disney fully owned.

 

[NostalgiaFan]

It's like a polar opposite of their track record last year with everything else, Games, TV shows, Company Buyouts, etc. The one thing they did better than anyone else was in selling movie tickets and that was entirely due to Spiderman or Spiderman related properties.