Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[hobbsyoyo]

Good question.

 

[Synobun]

Do you really mean it?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah. I totally glossed over the fact that a dedicated comic book studio has produced a plurality of the comic book movies. That was dumb.


However everyone else is in on it too, heck even Pixar has a superhero franchise.

 

[Broken_Erika]

None of them will come anywhere close to the greatest superhero movie of all time!

 

[Traitorfish]

What movies do you suggest Marvel make instead?

Better superhero movies, I guess.

Which, it looks like they're starting to do. Marvel has always struggled to match memorable heroes with equally memorable villains and stories, but by all accounts, recent efforts like Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok and Spiderman: Homecoming are doing just that. Problem is, the way they've set up the MCU, as this big multi-film convergence, it means that you're not allowed to just pass over the less memorable entries, or even the ones that just don't interest you personally, because every three years it turns out that Doctor Strange was going to be on the test after all. So you end up with this weird structure where you can't keep up with Guardians of the Galaxy, a film which previously had only the loosest relationship to the rest of the MCU, without being expected to know why Bondledonk Cumberdink is doing a turn as metrosexual Gandalf, and that might turn out to be asking too much.

In fairness, this is assuming that Infinity War actually has enough consequence for the MCU to justify it's grandeur, which the last two Avengers films didn't really manage. The only real consequence of Age of Ultron was setting up Civil War, which turned out to be a better Avengers film than either actual Avengers film, no necessary reason to think that Infinity War will be much more impactful.

 

[Lexicus]

Bondledonk Cumberdink

Bendleblab Cumblebleb

 

[Snerk]

Winds of Winter not coming in 2018

 

[JohannaK]

Some authors just want to see the world burn...

 

[Kyriakos]

Winds of Winter not coming in 2018

Now there's a surprise.

Not

 

[Snerk]

Now there's a surprise.

Not

It is known

 

[Mouthwash]

If you were GRRM, wouldn't you sit on the book until that awful show ends and the spotlight is yours again?

I surely would. But I don't know if it's something he would do.

 

[Snerk]

There's no lack of spotlight on GRRM. If anything there's too much spotlight on him. He has stated that he doesn't get much writing done when he's on the road promoting stuff, doing interviews and stuff.

 

[rah]

If he waits that long, the spotlight may be on his obituary.

 

[Synobun]

I don't see why it matters. Dude owes his fans nothing.

 

[Cutlass]

This gives me hope that the superhero movie fad is finally running out of steam. I'm not a fan of almost all of them but of course no one is forcing me to watch them. What has annoyed me is that these movies tend to be expensive to produce and it seems as though so much money is spent on them that studios have avoided making a lot of other movies. I could be wrong, of course, I have no hard data. It just seems that the superhero movies have crowded out a lot of other potential offerings.

They've expanded the MCU from 18 feature films to 24. At last count.

They do this because they've been financially successful. It's a better business proposition to continue a series or do remakes than it is to try something entirely new.

 

[Traitorfish]

Twenty-four Marvel films and we can't even get a goddam Dredd sequel.

Adorno was right, mass culture is pee-pee poo-poo garbage (exact quote).

 

[Synobun]

Aren't they making a Dredd show?

 

[Cutlass]

Twenty-four Marvel films and we can't even get a goddam Dredd sequel.

Adorno was right, mass culture is pee-pee poo-poo garbage (exact quote).

Make it yourself.

 

[Traitorfish]

Make it yourself.

Ugh, that sounds like work.

 

[Takhisis]

What movies do you suggest Marvel make instead?

None. That money could be easily better spent doing other things.