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[Jopax]

IIRC the original serum was destroyed with the death of its creator, what they had was a shoddy copy or something. Like, it worked, kinda, but nowhere near as good as the original.

[Iduno]

IIRC the original serum was destroyed with the death of its creator, what they had was a shoddy copy or something. Like, it worked, kinda, but nowhere near as good as the original.

I thought it was that they had a stock, but no recipe. Maybe they thought that part of the mixture was blasting people right in the face with gamma rays, using bleeding edge modern technology that they definitely had in the 1940's?

[Reelya]

Aside from being very dumb, MCU is also not great at internal consistency. ...

I was having a discussion about the MCU actually with a guy at work, about how many of the viewers actually read the comics, he thought it must be 50:50, i.e half of the movie-goers read the comics. I'm pretty sure it's a lot less than that. For example, in January 2019 the top-selling Marvel comic was Captain Marvel, due to the movie, and that sold 119000 copies. The movie made over $1 billion dollars worldwide. Assuming a generous cost of $20 a ticket, then that's 50 million people who went to see it, or about 500 tickets sold per comic sold.

The guy just didn't get how the MCU has been so successful precisely by not targeting the comic book fans. Actually, those "why don't they just stick to what's in the comics?!?" people don't get it either. They're raking in $1 billion per dumb movie, and most of y'all aren't buying the comics. They have a formula, and it's working. Why would they mess that up?

[TamerVirus]

"why don't they just stick to what's in the comics?!?"

Still waiting for the spider-man movie where Peter Parker has to cope with how he killed Mary Jane with his radioactive spunk
Or a movie where he has six arms
Or one where he gives birth to himself
Or one where he fights Big Wheel

[Iduno]

Aside from being very dumb, MCU is also not great at internal consistency. ...

The guy just didn't get how the MCU has been so successful precisely by not targeting the comic book fans. Actually, those "why don't they just stick to what's in the comics?!?" people don't get it either. They're raking in $1 billion per dumb movie, and most of y'all aren't buying the comics. They have a formula, and it's working. Why would they mess that up?

Yeah, that's why instead of saying they were going with established canon, I said they were trying to establish a new canon.

Ignoring the comics if fine, but if you can't make up your mind about what you want while claiming it's all one story, you're doing a bad job of storytelling.

"why don't they just stick to what's in the comics?!?"

Still waiting for the spider-man movie where Peter Parker has to cope with how he killed Mary Jane with his radioactive spunk
Or a movie where he has six arms
Or one where he gives birth to himself
Or one where he fights Big Wheel

Agreed.

[Kagus]

Speaking of which, I just watched Birds of Prey. Was fun enough, entertaining... Definitely not the dramatic masterpiece of the year, but it was good dumb fun. I'm kinda sad about how they did my man Zsasz, but I guess that's just showbiz.

It certainly did the "battle of the sexes" thing a lot better than Captain Marvel. It occasionally seemed like it laid it on a little thick, but I think that likely has a lot to do with how sensitive we all are to the topic these days.

[Iduno]

Speaking of which, I just watched Birds of Prey. Was fun enough, entertaining... Definitely not the dramatic masterpiece of the year, but it was good dumb fun. I'm kinda sad about how they did my man Zsasz, but I guess that's just showbiz.

It certainly did the "battle of the sexes" thing a lot better than Captain Marvel. It occasionally seemed like it laid it on a little thick, but I think that likely has a lot to do with how sensitive we all are to the topic these days.

But it is a terrible movie, as it reminds us of Suicide Squad.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Or one where he fights Big Wheel

Literally the greatest villain ever written. /s

[IronyOwl]

Literally the greatest villain ever written. /s

I see you're unfamiliar with THE WALL!

[scriver]

The Wall wasn't the enemy, Pink was his own enemy the whole time

[Iduno]

Has anyone else heard/read about a new Mario movie coming out in the future?

Also, that it will probably not retain the only acceptable part of the first movie?

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Edit: Worse news, Mario will not be played by Captain Lou.

[TamerVirus]

I know its being made by Illumination, the Despicable Me animation studio so it's gonna end up as kinda meh 6/10 fare with massive profit margin because its made on the cheap

[Iduno]

I know its being made by Illumination, the Despicable Me animation studio so it's gonna end up as kinda meh 6/10 fare with massive profit margin because its made on the cheap

Then they should at least aim for "actors need to be constantly drunk to deal with the shame of being in this movie" quality instead. If they want good, they're going to have to put in a lot of effort to make the story of some dude jumping on turtles to kidnap a princess interesting. They'd have to do a lot better than the cliché noir take on the idea of Mario getting addicted to power-ups and destroying his life so bad in pursuit of the Princess that she can't stand to be near him.

[TamerVirus]

Instead Mario is gonna floss and do other Fortnite dances because that's what the fellow kids are into these days

[Telgin]

I'm at least confident that it won't be Richard-Simmons-CG-Sonic levels of bad.

Speaking of which, have any reviews for the Sonic movie started trickling out yet?  They made him less terrifying to look at but the movie still can't be good.