Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

Wyatt Russell is saying the ThunderBolts will start filming in March/April.

My 5 year old is gone big into Groot since seeing the short Groot series on Disney. Anyone know if there's other GOTG/Groot stuff that's suitable for that age? The Christmas special is 12's so sounds a bit old. Would be cool if there was a kids cut of the Marvel films.

Thanks but more looking for suitable Marvel than just shorts.

I have to say I take issue with a Disney committee creating new marvel superhero character (Tahhori). It's not about whether the character is good or not, but there's something impure about it. If they got an established marvel comics writer (preferably native American) to create a character I'd be much more agreeable, but I do feel they should be limited to using established characters from the comics. At least with regard to superheroes.

Harley Quinn was created especially for Batman The Animated Series and look how that turned out.

I'm guessing ties into the end of episode 5 setting up

Seems like Variety are getting gloomy about caped films.

and in a related article

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hollywood-2024-problems-media-mergers-disney-ticketmaster-late-night-box-office-1235849990/

2.) Will Disney get its groove back?

Not so long ago, all was right in the Magic Kingdom. Marvel was the envy of the movie biz, “Star Wars” had been rebooted, the theme parks lured families from around the world and Disney+ seemed like a potential Netflix killer. 

Boy, how things have changed. Disney’s superhero films are bombing, a victim of a rapid expansion into streaming that led to a glut of content and a lack of quality control. The studio keeps announcing, then abandoning “Star Wars” spinoffs and sequels. Price hikes at its parks have alienated consumers. And Disney+ has failed to convert its subscriber base into robust profits, while rumors are swirling that the company might sell ABC to generate some cash. All of this has left Disney’s stock languishing, setting the stage for a fresh proxy fight with activist investor Nelson Peltz.

I could see them wrapping up the current MCU in the Multiverse Saga, and jumping to a fresh new universe with F4 and X-Men at the foundation. They're just struggling to balance keeping the MCU going while losing most of the big draw names that made it what it was. Eternals, Shang Chi, Captain Marvel... they just don't seem to be clicking with audiences in the same way. They also badly mishandled Thor which hasn't helped, and then their big bad now requires a rewrite. If they just reset with a new universe without the baggage of the MCU, without overpowered heroes, without decades worth of references, it could revitalize things. The problem with the above though would be introducing F4 and X-Men in a high stakes event which would box them in a bit from the outset. I'd love to see something low key like the very first X-Men used as the intro to a fresh new MCU... add F4... Blade.. Spiderman... Hulk and in time bring in a new Avengers. Bring the world ending stakes waaay back down and build it up again like the first saga did.

I find bluffing much easier if you kill someone and take their skin.

Where the fùck was Enoch with this wisdom when I played poker.

They might as well have renamed the series "Kingpin".

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1sDEbhP4BY/?igsh=MXBrNHNsNnFmd21vdw==

Interestingly, first time I've seen them use footage from the Netflix side. Guess the Defenders saga is fully canon now.

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It seems like they've reversed course a bit. Eg Hawkeye Kingpin felt like a bulked up Kingpin who was more sanitised and less unsettling. This one feels more like back to the Daredevil version.

Most of the complaints I saw about Kingpin in Hawkeye was that Kate Bishop was able to beat him, which made him look weak.

Even though he got hit by a car, knocked through a brick wall, and then got knocked out by an exploding arrow which if I remember right, exploded right in his face and threw him across the room. And that was all while Kingpin was flinging Kate across the room like a ragdoll.

Kate Bishop hit him with far more than Daredevil ever did and Kingpin still managed to escape before Echo found him.

I think the whole thing of Kingpin has always been that he looks fat and overweight, but really he's just insanely muscular underneath. I don't think he has any sort of powers or abilities though.

But yeah, Daredevil beat him by punching him in the face a few times, but Kate Bishop beating him after he's been hit by a car, knocked through a brick wall and being thrown across the room by an exploding arrow apparently makes him look weak because Kate Bishop is a young girl and not a fighter like Daredevil.

Hawkeye was always going to be a fairly harmless Christmas/Holiday romp and I enjoyed it for that. Falcon and the Winter solider was not PG but did cut back on the gore. Compare the shield decapitation with the car door from Daredevil. There's room for comic adventures for all ages, including R rated.

Magneto is very hard to go full villain a la Thanos.