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Tony is resisting the urge to tap all of that.
 
Is there actually a Fifth Element anime?

Is there a Kickstarter I can contribute to in order to help get one made?

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY CREDITS!!!!
 
No intention of watching that.

 
Yeah, I'm sorry, but I have no desire to see the Captain Marvel movie. I don't like Brie Larson.
 
It's not the 90s nostalgia that turns me off - it's Brie Larson herself, and the decision to put her clobbering an old grandma in the trailer.
 

Ordo

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It's not the 90s nostalgia that turns me off - it's Brie Larson herself, and the decision to put her clobbering an old grandma in the trailer.
.....Grandma is most likely a Skrull....so....justified.
 

Prince Charon

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I feel like I'm missing something significant: What's wrong with Brie Larson?

(I may regret asking that, like when I found out what Allison Mack has been up to recently, but it may also be something totally innocuous.)
 

Ordo

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I just think she's a terrible actress.
Evidentally pretty sexist towards white men as well.

Here's what I don't get. Marvel has Spider-Man. Arguably one of the most iconic Superheroes in the world right now. Tons of TV shows, plenty of Video Games, both good and bad, and two movie series... So why aren't they trying to push him as the new face of the franchise?
 

Lord Raa

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Evidentally pretty sexist towards white men as well.

Here's what I don't get. Marvel has Spider-Man. Arguably one of the most iconic Superheroes in the world right now. Tons of TV shows, plenty of Video Games, both good and bad, and two movie series... So why aren't they trying to push him as the new face of the franchise?
Rights.

Sony has the movie (and maybe the live-action TV) rights to Spider-Man, which is why it took some serious negotiation to get him in the MCU for Civil War and Infinity War.
 
Rights.

Sony has the movie (and maybe the live-action TV) rights to Spider-Man, which is why it took some serious negotiation to get him in the MCU for Civil War and Infinity War.
Ah.

Then they should have gone with Black Panther. He's been pretty popular since Civil War, and his actor, to my knowledge, has never insulted the fanbase.
 
The problem is that the writing for the Black Panther film was terrible. Not Suicide Squad bad, but not nearly as good as the rest of the MCU. And the film killed one of the better villains in the franchise before they hit the halfway mark.

I don't have a problem with the character T'Challa nor the actor who portrays him, but I've never found him to be a strong enough character to carry a franchise as big as the MCU the way Steve Rogers or Tony Stark could.

Spiderman has a different problem: he's too young, and frankly anti-social, for it to work.
 
And you really think Brie Larson can? Between the two of them, I'd say Chadwick Boseman is easily the more charismatic of the two, and again, hasn't been antagonizing the fans.
 
Of course not. She's portraying what amounts to a new character, at least to non-comic fans, so she lacks a foundation for the audience to build on.

That was true of RDJ in the first Iron Man - but there was no MCU for him to carry, then. Only once several of the heroes were established was there an MCU, and by then RDJ and Chris Evans had proven themselves capable of bearing the burden.

Captain Marvel the character might have the chops, but as it stands there's no reason to believe Brie Larson could, and banking on her ability to do it before the film is even finished is a gigantic gamble that has more than a whiff of feminist bullshit at Marvel.
 
That was true of RDJ in the first Iron Man - but there was no MCU for him to carry, then. Only once several of the heroes were established was there an MCU, and by then RDJ and Chris Evans had proven themselves capable of bearing the burden.
Iron Man had some cartoons and cameos in the Spider-Man cartoon. Captain Marvel showed up in X-Men as a villain one time.

Captain Marvel the character might have the chops, but as it stands there's no reason to believe Brie Larson could, and banking on her ability to do it before the film is even finished is a gigantic gamble that has more than a whiff of feminist bullshit at Marvel.
I doubt the character can pull it off, and I know Brie Larson can't pull it off, given how much she insults the fans of the series, and how obvious it is that she's just in it for a paycheck.
 

Prince Charon

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I see. So, bad casting decision, then.
 
I see. So, bad casting decision, then.
Pretty much. I think they should have tried poaching Margot Robbie from DC, or possibly an older actress since she's supposed to be about ages with Nick Fury. Preferably one that doesn't have a terrible attitude.
 
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