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Post by chrom on Aug 11, 2024 14:53:37 GMT -5
It'll pass Joker next week
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Post by chrom on Aug 11, 2024 14:57:43 GMT -5
Marvel's first billion hit since No Way Home
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 11, 2024 15:33:03 GMT -5
Marvel's first billion hit since No Way Home Kind of illustrates why they grabbed RDJ as Doom really; the two most successful movies since Endgame have been a tribute to Sony's Spider-Man and Fox 's X-Men/Marvel movies and with them now done, there may not be any other event other than a Doomsday or Secret Wars to really get the audience in big numbers. Even Fantastic Four feels up in their air hype wise until trailers start hitting.
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Post by schma on Aug 11, 2024 19:28:46 GMT -5
It'll pass Joker next week I'm still kinda surprised Joker made as much as it did since it's not even really a Joker movie.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Aug 11, 2024 20:11:05 GMT -5
I’ve long lost interest in Marvel movies, but my husband liked it and wanted to see this a second time, so I went with him to see.
I quite liked it. It’s exactly what anyone would want or expect: good laughs, good action, and all around good times. A lot of fun, and sometimes that’s all you need.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Aug 12, 2024 18:29:32 GMT -5
Finally watched Deadpool 2 last night before catching the matinee of this today. I quite enjoyed it but about that ending… {Spoiler}…with Laura back in the FoxVerse with Logan as part of Wade’s “family” we can assume the TVA was also able to rescue Elektra, Blade and Gambit so I’m sure they’ll be back in Secret Wars. Did the TVA manage to rescue poor Johnny Storm before he kicked the bucket or was that too much for the TVA to bring that horrible foul mouthed man back?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 12, 2024 18:43:22 GMT -5
Finally watched Deadpool 2 last night before catching the matinee of this today. I quite enjoyed it but about that ending… {Spoiler}…with Laura back in the FoxVerse with Logan as part of Wade’s “family” we can assume the TVA was also able to rescue Elektra, Blade and Gambit so I’m sure they’ll be back in Secret Wars. Did the TVA manage to rescue poor Johnny Storm before he kicked the bucket or was that too much for the TVA to bring that horrible foul mouthed man back? {Spoiler}Elektra, Blade, and Gambit will 100% appear in Secret Wars, I'll stake my house on that.
Johnny, I very much doubt we'll see again, what with Evans almost certainly appearing as his more popular character going forward.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Aug 12, 2024 20:44:30 GMT -5
If they didn't bury him in the other films... {Spoiler}wouldn't Dudepeel have worked as a "final boss" of all the Deadpools?
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Post by kamzee on Aug 12, 2024 22:41:33 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I definitely think Blade, Elektra, and Gambit got out. Now whether they are in Secret Wars or not, I dunno. Tatum still wants to do that Gambit solo outing but I can't see his take working as a main character. He was hilarious for a 20 minute supporting bit, but that zany accent and what not isn't really something you can do for a 2 hour film.
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Post by Andew9001 on Aug 13, 2024 3:11:50 GMT -5
{Spoiler}I had a thought but i just wanted some clarity on it
{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} So if Logan shares a universe with the Deadpool films and the worst Wolverine is now in the universe too does that mean there are now 2 Wolverines? Is that right or did i miss something?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 13, 2024 3:23:02 GMT -5
{Spoiler}So if Logan shares a universe with the Deadpool films and the worst Wolverine is now in the universe too does that mean there are now 2 Wolverines? Is that right or did i miss something? {Spoiler}Correct. Plus an infant X-23 and an adult X-23.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 13, 2024 3:42:05 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I definitely think Blade, Elektra, and Gambit got out. Now whether they are in Secret Wars or not, I dunno. Tatum still wants to do that Gambit solo outing but I can't see his take working as a main character. He was hilarious for a 20 minute supporting bit, but that zany accent and what not isn't really something you can do for a 2 hour film. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}I agree. He would be well down the list of someone I would pick for Gambit. Fine for a supporting bit like you said, but if Marvel is gonna incorporate Gambit full time into the MCU, then he needs a recasting.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Aug 13, 2024 8:28:05 GMT -5
From what I know about it so far…I’m not sure how Feige considers it just below Infinity War/Endgame in changing the MCU. It's this: I'd guess the Multiverse Saga is being quietly dropped going forward. They'll probably pay off the setups from Multiverse of Madness and The Marvels in Avengers 5 and then mutants will be the main focus. If they wanted to be in the meta spirit of Deadpool, Feige should have said "No place to hide (no place to hide), no place to run (no place to run), the Mutant Age (the Mutant Age), has now begun!"
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Post by Fade on Aug 13, 2024 10:05:10 GMT -5
Marvel's first billion hit since No Way Home Kind of illustrates why they grabbed RDJ as Doom really; the two most successful movies since Endgame have been a tribute to Sony's Spider-Man and Fox 's X-Men/Marvel movies and with them now done, there may not be any other event other than a Doomsday or Secret Wars to really get the audience in big numbers. Even Fantastic Four feels up in their air hype wise until trailers start hitting. Kind of crazy the MCU is in its WWE nostalgia old vets reliance era.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Aug 13, 2024 10:37:57 GMT -5
Question, and forgive me if it was answered before, but... {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} How IS the Wizard of Oz a multiverse?
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The guy in the striped shirt in the void...was that meant to be The Russian?
The end credits Fox montage...double meaning, sentimental song called...GOOD RIDDANCE.
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 13, 2024 11:10:43 GMT -5
Question, and forgive me if it was answered before, but... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} How IS the Wizard of Oz a multiverse?
Also...
The guy in the striped shirt in the void...was that meant to be The Russian?
The end credits Fox montage...double meaning, sentimental song called...GOOD RIDDANCE. My guess is {Spoiler} Oz is a separate universe while Kansas is boring ass Kansas
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 13, 2024 12:57:21 GMT -5
Another example to use when people say that “cinema is dying”. Yep, the fact that both Inside Out 2 and now D&W have both comfortably crossed the billion dollar mark, despite those people knowing that in a matter of weeks both films will be available to watch in their own homes. Some people still believe cinema is on borrowed time.
Said it before, I’ll say it again. If cinema didn’t die in the mid-80s when it was at its lowest ebb mainly due to VHS or in 2020 when most of were forced to close for six months, it’s not going anywhere yet.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Aug 13, 2024 13:10:56 GMT -5
I think the very next weekend after Furiosa ate it, Bad Boys opened much higher than expected and kicked off a pretty decent summer. Two monster hits from Disney, Minions and Twisters were big hits, this Blake Lively romance opened big, some low budget horror like Longlegs and Maxxxine doing well. It’s been a pretty good post-Memorial Day season.
I was saying it back in May: the cinema’s not dead; Fall Guy, Planet of the Apes and Furiosa just weren’t all that great.
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Post by kamzee on Aug 13, 2024 14:16:00 GMT -5
It would be difficult for Hollywood to have a worse year than 2023. Last year was the perfect storm of crap. Long delayed Covid releases that had insane budgets, movies no one asked for, bad sequels, it was not great. This year just doing another Deadpool/Wolvie movie, another round of Bad Boys, a long gestating Twisters movie, and a sequel to a popular Pixar film (Inside Out) already made the box office jump.
Now 2025? Good lord. The Captain America movie will obviously crater and lose ghastly amounts of money. The less said about that Snow White the better. Not sure about Fantastic Four, but given the way Reed Richards and Johnny Storm have been used in recent films it wouldn't shock me if it flops. Marvel would have no one to blame but themselves for that one.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Aug 13, 2024 16:13:00 GMT -5
It's this: I'd guess the Multiverse Saga is being quietly dropped going forward. They'll probably pay off the setups from Multiverse of Madness and The Marvels in Avengers 5 and then mutants will be the main focus. If they wanted to be in the meta spirit of Deadpool, Feige should have said "No place to hide (no place to hide), no place to run (no place to run), the Mutant Age (the Mutant Age), has now begun!" That's a bit of a deep cut.
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