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    Mamma! Mia: Here! We! Go! Again! | July 20, 2018 | Universal | Ol Parker to write and direct | Greatest Title of All Time? Yes.

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    35 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

    Is that character good?

     

    @Barnack It didn't hurt Lizzie, Zoe, Tessa, Cate, etc.

    Dazzler has a reputation (for better or for worse) of being lame, but I feel that it has more to do with her inception than with the character itsefl (she was created as a crossover gimmick between Casablanca Records ---the label that was home to Donna Summer  during her disco heyday--- and Marvel to capitalize on the disco music craze in the seventies). I think her powerset is cool (she can turn soundwaves into light energy [including laserbeams]) and I feel that, if the MCU ever did a musical CBM, she could be the perfect star.  In her solo book, she was a disco singer who regularly used her powers innocently enough (to create stunning light shows for her concerts), but she battled some of the Marvel Universe's biggest threats: Doctor Doom, Enchantress, and Galactus (believe it or not). She actually killed Klaw (when he was a creature made of living sound) by fully absorbing his whole body into her mutant sound-transmuting biology.

    Fanboy Wars Thread: Personal Attacks not allowed | With Digital Fur Technology

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    I also think that TDK's impact gave a lot of people the misguided idea that CBMs need to be "realistic." Ugh. 

    Nope.

    In my comic book movies I want fantasy, wonder, and awesomely made up worlds.

    I want to see a woman stop bullets with her bracelets and fight a werecheetah.

    I want to see a man fly and another man stick to walls.

    I want to see a giant purple world eater satiate his hunger.

    If I wanted to see a "realistic" film, I would watch a documentary about the US tax system.

    Keep realism away from CBMs.

    Fanboy Wars Thread: Personal Attacks not allowed | With Digital Fur Technology

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    The Futurist and his scorching takes are always good for a laugh.

    But damn...I have to agree with him this time: the DCEU (sans Wonder Woman) was completely derailed (before even starting) by this whole misguided idea that dark/grit was the way to go to creat the cinematic DC world.

    Which is really odd, because when I grew up, I always perceived DC as the colorful, silly, larger-than-life, fun world, while Marvel always seemed to me more restrained, down to earth, gritty, and realistic. Not that they didn't have goofy concepts and characters, but if anyone had told me back then that someday a movie studio would create a cinematic universo full of darkness, rainy nights, gloom, and realism, I would have guessed Marvel would be it.

    Fanboy Wars Thread: Personal Attacks not allowed | With Digital Fur Technology

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    2 minutes ago, Quake said:

    How is that gonna make so many DC fans happy ? The only thing that will make DC fans very happy is either MoS 2 announcement or Batfleck staying. BoP news is smalltime and will not make DC fans so happy as al these people has teased.

    They never said "so many fans." They said "will make some DC fans happy."  

    Nothing wrong with that.

    And BOP news may be smalltime (according to you), but in reality, anything related to Margot Robbie and Harley is more buzzy and hot in 2018 than anything related to Man of Steel.

    Weekend Thread | Hotel 3 $44.1 Skyscraper 25.4, Ant Man’s size does matter with $28.8M

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    8 minutes ago, PPZVGOS said:

    Thor is a major Marvel character, hence why there was a Ragnarok. Ant-Man is not and Marvel is wasting their time and money with it. If they are savvy, there won't be a 3rd Ant-Man movie. 

    Thor was a nobody.

    Let's not pretend that Thor was an iconic A-lister like Spidey, Wonder Woman, or Batman, when the MCU started.

    And his two first films were as "well-received" as Ant-Man 2.

    But just like Marvel nurtured him into a big movie property, they are doing the same with AM.

    And believe me, they will do a third, and most likely shoehorn Spider-Man in it, and feature some cool female character ala Valkyrie in it just for fanservice.

    Weekend Thread | Hotel 3 $44.1 Skyscraper 25.4, Ant Man’s size does matter with $28.8M

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    3 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

    Ants have short legs.  It's tough to see Ant-Man go out like this.  I enjoyed it.  There probably won't be a 3rd now.  

    I bet that Marvel will greenlight a third Ant-Man film, but they will Ragnarok the heck out of it (different tone, different [buzzy] director, the addition of a better known superhero in a supporting role [like Hulk], the inclusion of an obscure yet cool superhero (for fanservice) played by some exciting upcomer [like Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie], etc)

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