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I feel like they turned the multiverse shenanigans down here. Its actually a surprisingly intimate trailer in that its really just highlighting a few character sequences and not much more. What I like most is clearly Hugh is playing a very different Wolverine and isn't afraid to do that. Am not as blown away as some people seem to be by the trailer. I think it does a poor job selling the comedy which is my big worry for this sequel; and it looks to have the Ant Man problem of cutting out the regular cast (though I imagine they are back for the final act - or least I hope). DP2 trailer had more swagger and I think the X Force stuff was more exciting personally that just 'oh Wolverines here'. Still excited though, just wary but I think that's how a lot of the audience will feel until the reviews start feeding in.

Why are we talking like Swift hasn’t recently acted in multiple recent box office disasters?

It’s clearly two separate Batmen though. I am not gainer having Batman in these films but not a version already on screen with a pre built story which doesn’t fit. Batman in the joker films should literally be a fucked up Bruce literally running around in Hokey gear who is basically absolutely unhinged.

I feel like cinematic universes have broken peoples brains. not everything needs a crossover - in fact Jokers very success highlights this.

Good news it’s still just Deadpool but the TVA worries me (least its all played for fun, is it just me or this an alternative TVA?) - I think they’re going to be parodying this type of cross over film. maybe an unpopular opinion? I hate the name. Calling it Deadpool & Wolverine is a bad option when it should just be DP3.

I am so excited for Marvel Tv shows if they are fully back to the brawler grounded heroes.

It makes sense. The original cartoons draws were the characters. Star Wars TV is slowly becoming a live action Big Finish and that’s fine by me. I personally would be interested in What If being a brand for different series though. Like, I don’t care for one offs - give me a limited series.

“I would prefer 100% layoffs rather than 25%” - quite the take!

I disagree. People complain about high budgets them bemoan layoffs. Pixar is too expensive and need to outsource more of their work. Or die. Also amazing to see some online still blame Chapek for this.

It looks mid tier to me but that’s no bad thing. Disney made a mistake running away with their toys from the Netflix shows/model - the initial idea of a grounded group made more sense that these crossovers constantly. And I think Disney have shown their not incapable of bad writing either. We’ll have to see how it performs in the ratings. I am expecting another drop but honestly the big question is when Marvel find their level and can start growing again rather than having a break out hit (though that can happen) - so I think they need a period of consistently and cross overs within the shows and less focus of jumping to film as with The Marvels.

Mando budget will be very interesting to see.

WBs have honestly shown themselves to be very canny. I know it's not popular with movie buffs but Zaslav has made some very good decisions around costs. Aquaman I'd probably going to break even or a small loss due to his marketing decision. And I don't buy into the people claiming it would have made even more if he had marketed it more. I think the dollar spend on marketing would always be higher than the dollar of revenue it generated.

Can’t remember if it was here or Reddit I raised this but after he got (over hyped) responses to his performance in Ant Man (he was legit good in Loki 1 though) his Loki 2 performance went unmentioned. Mostly because it was absolutely fucking awful and the worse thing an actor can do - utterly annoying. No one cares about him.

I think there are just a lot of ‘fan’ (content shovelers) making things up based on faint rumours/fan speculation. Though I could see an exec looking at the demographics and saying “we need more kids watching! Where are all the kids!?” And thinking kids want to watch kids. Young Avengers is crippled in this format anyway. They will all be adults in the universe before they even build them across multiple films to have a single Young Avengers film. The other issue is as far as I can tell there are no young men for these young avengers so far? I think it’s more likely that over time there have just been characters with children being introduced and growing up so people have created this in their heads. Kamala was not introduced for YA but for X Men ultimately it seems.

I don’t think you can be overly upset about the media jumping on the MCU negativity bandwagon. They jumped on the positivity bandwagon and were part of it seizing the zeitgeist. Feels like Secret Wars might be getting pushed back if X-Men is getting brought forward. Avengers being a group of team ups (New Guardians/X-Men/Fantastic Four) plus maybe Spidey and other New York heroes as the basis of the New Avengers would work very well. Like with Infinity War you can have them battling it out in different locations (probably with X-Men mixed within them) - which allows you to have a big cast but not feel too ‘full’.