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[Enforcer]

I guess Young Avengers will be paid off in one of the upcoming Avengers films... but if not... that was a lot of build up for nothing.

I think that's more to the point that the MCU has started to feel very disjointed. You're supposed to watch everything so you know what's going on, but everything doesn't even mean something to everything else and at least some of the easter eggs are JUST easter eggs when people are expecting them to be hints at future films/characters.... it's just a bit of a mess. Too big for its own good.

Sounds like they need... a Secret War

 

[TFitz]

I was really hoping to see Young Avengers.

Just rename it Avengers West Coast. I'd still like to see them team up.

 

[Enforcer]

It really is surreal to see a film franchise actually accomplish what happens in comics—you let a story become too long and convoluted and inconsistent across too many creators, the center cannot hold and the whole thing falls apart.

It was a hell of a run though. And I truly doubt we’ll see the likes of it again. (Gunn seems to be onto something for DC but WB is run by absolute dimwits and I could see him not being given long term control.)

We haven't truly arrived at comic parity until they introduce Peter Parker's clone and resolve the story hastily and unsatisfactorily 3 movies later.

 

[Damien]

Sounds like they need... a Secret War

The real question is - will audience interest collapse and the NEW-CU™ never goes anywhere. Or will it be so successful that it's a giant gibbering mass of barely related films again within 4 years? Place your bets.

 

[altcunningham]

The real question is - will audience interest collapse and the NEW-CU™ never goes anywhere. Or will it be so successful that it's a giant gibbering mass of barely related films again within 4 years? Place your bets.

I think it's like @TheSameIdiot reposted from BlueSky a while back re Rivals:

They will bring in the mutants hot and heavy. They know who really pays the bills.

 

[Enforcer]

Honestly depends on the casting for the next Iron Man, Captain America and Thor (if they recast). And how good the X-Men end up being.

The real question is - will audience interest collapse and the NEW-CU™ never goes anywhere. Or will it be so successful that it's a giant gibbering mass of barely related films again within 4 years? Place your bets.

 

[altcunningham]

Make a New Mutants Soft Rebootquel.

Justice for Yana.

 

[Damien]

I think it's like @TheSameIdiot reposted from BlueSky a while back re Rivals:

They will bring in the mutants hot and heavy. They know who really pays the bills.

That's almost a certainty. But, to Enforcer's point:

Honestly depends on the casting for the next Iron Man, Captain America and Thor (if they recast). And how good the X-Men end up being.

Some of the actors have reportedly signed on to keep going. So you reboot everything, but like... 96-year-old, 6'2 Hugh Jackman is still gonna be Wolverine, and Chris 'I don't want to be Thor anymore' Hemsworth MIGHT still be Thor? But maybe Ryan 'the only man that can play silly Deadpool now' Reynolds won't be Deadpool? And Downey is sticking around but probably as Doom even though he'll almost certainly always be best known as Iron Man no matter what they do going forward? It's all very confusing.

I kind of wish they'd find a good ending and literally start all over, with all new actors and completely untethered from anything that came before. But that's just me. And, of course, we just have to wait and see how they do it.

 

[Enforcer]

That's almost a certainty. But, to Enforcer's point:




Some of the actors have reportedly signed on to keep going. So you reboot everything, but like... 96-year-old, 6'2 Hugh Jackman is still gonna be Wolverine, and Chris 'I don't want to be Thor anymore' Hemsworth MIGHT still be Thor? But maybe Ryan 'the only man that can play silly Deadpool now' Reynolds won't be Deadpool? And Downey is sticking around but probably as Doom even though he'll almost certainly always be best known as Iron Man no matter what they do going forward? It's all very confusing.

I kind of wish they'd find a good ending and literally start all over, with all new actors and completely untethered from anything that came before. But that's just me. And, of course, we just have to wait and see how they do it.

In true Marvel Comic form, I don't think they'll start over completely from scratch. I think you'll still get Tom Holland Spider-Man mixed in with recasts. I don't know if I could see Downey continuing as Dr. Doom post Secret War, but it would probably be a while before FF movies revisited him... and I guess the FF cast will be the same?

The whole comic Secret War bringing together everything that kinda worked in different universes into one would really confuse people, though. Getting it right and not just bringing along the old baggage with the promise of All-New All Different is going to take a master stroke. And frankly, I don't know if Feige has that juice anymore. The multi-verse is also a concept that should not be mentioned for a good long while. There is something potentially exciting about rolling the 2000s separate Marvel movies into one big send off for both those and the first iteration of the MCU...

 

[CTV]

Make a New Mutants Soft Rebootquel.

Justice for Yana.

That was truly the worst of the FoX-Men films and they had so many legitimate reasons to just not release it, which would have been better. Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik and the girl from Game of Thrones who played Wolfsbane were perfect casting but the rest of it...whew. Methy Cannonball? White Sunspot? White Cecilia Reyes? That random line where they had Magik call Dani "Pocahontas" like she's Trump? PASS

Never 4get:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1298749212931305473

 

[Enforcer]

My buddy and I went into New Mutants with about as low of expectations as you could possibly have and were mildly entertained. Having them picked up by a Blackbird at the end would have been cool... but whatevs.

 

[Schizm]

In addition to being a clearly patchwork film, I wonder how much the direct connection to Eternals hurt Brave New World...

"What's with the person island?"
"It's a Celestial from Eternals that partially-"
"Oh OK, say less"
"..."
"But if they are mining for Adamantium, does that mean Wolverine is in this?"
"...it does not."

I'm convinced calling it Adamantium was an ADR add and the exec who "thought" of it got paid millions to fix their own problem.

 

[CTV]

I don't know, wasn't Brave New World supposed to introduce Sabra as a mutant before her role got cut?

 

[Enforcer]

I'm convinced calling it Adamantium was an ADR add and the exec who "thought" of it got paid millions to fix their own problem.

That and some late green screen updates on the computer graphics...

 

[PantherCult]

I 'recognized for the entire runtime that I was watching a terrible movie and couldn't come up with very many nice things to even say about it when it was over beyond being glad it was over.'

I don't think Eternals has any redeeming qualities as a film or as an entry into the larger MCU.

So I tend to have a lot of respect for alot of KD's opinions and takes... but this one tarnishes that shine for me.