I thought you were all grown men. Now I can understand if you are taking your kids or grandchildren but I stopped reading comic books in elementary school. Now Bob, OTOH............
These were the top comics from back in the day. I remember the Xmen epusode Death of Phoenix...one of the grestest comics ever. All in my high school class had a copy. Nobody was a collector. 3 years later at Univ in Montreal, I go into a pro comic shop run by long haired hippies ..and say the price for a mint copy $1,000!
The damn comic probably cost $2 back in 1980!
Phoenix was by far the most powerful superhero(ine) of all time. Impossible for hollywood to do it full justice.
I thought you were all grown men. Now I can understand if you are taking your kids or grandchildren but I stopped reading comic books in elementary school. Now Bob, OTOH............
I am curious as to what you all find redeeming about these movies
it the movies. Pure entertainment nothing more. If not your cuppa tea, pass and move on to Wuthering Heights/ on Golden Pond or whatever type of movie tickles your fancy. lol
Logan and Day's of Future Past were ok. But honestly they screw up stuff that is too sacred from the comics. They have no idea how to tastefully move from comic to movie. Marvel is guilty of that, but not nearly as bad, and no where near enough to make you just despise a movie.
I thought you were all grown men. Now I can understand if you are taking your kids or grandchildren but I stopped reading comic books in elementary school. Now Bob, OTOH............
I am curious as to what you all find redeeming about these movies
Steve, I've mentioned it before; it's all fun entertainment.
We're all different about our movies, our music, our entertainment in life.
Redemption we find it wherever it swings our rocks; films like Roma for instance; now there is some redeeming in that film, for me. ...Even in films like Black Panther, and Green Book.
Avengers: Infinity War was pure adrenaline fun. I understand 100% the huge interest in Endgame.
I think you're a Marvel fan or in the middle or not. Kids and adults can enjoy them, I do for some, and less for others. There's a kid in each adult, and it's nice to bring it back then and a while once. It feels free.
it the movies. Pure entertainment nothing more. If not your cuppa tea, pass and move on to Wuthering Heights/ on Golden Pond or whatever type of movie tickles your fancy. lol
I’m probably one of the biggest movie buffs here
That’s why we have chocolate vamilla and strawberry. I bet I see more movies in a month than you do in a year.
Not lecturing. I see you love GoT (like me) and its the biggest fantasy of them all! As I said, don't judge, just pass on the superhero movies. Not your thing, no biggie!
Logan and Day's of Future Past were ok. But honestly they screw up stuff that is too sacred from the comics. They have no idea how to tastefully move from comic to movie. Marvel is guilty of that, but not nearly as bad, and no where near enough to make you just despise a movie.
I totally agree and in that order too. Fox was a disaster otherwise and The Gifted is just awful with all the whining of the main characters. Even the occasional "Oh cool it's _______!" can't save it.
I've just been reading a fantastic history of Marvel, and Stan Lee was pushing the movies side of things pretty much from the 70s onwards, much to the frustration of SDitko, JKirby etc. EndGame is pretty much what his vision would have amounted to, such a shame he died just before it was released.
Me? I'll still take the angst and psychadelia of the 60s-70s comics everytime.
I’m probably one of the biggest movie buffs here
That’s why we have chocolate vamilla and strawberry. I bet I see more movies in a month than you do in a year.
I find it is the equivalent of jokes where you just had to have been there to find it funny Stevie. For guys our age, there was a comic comeback in the 80s and early 90s. This also happened to be the time where SFX was just starting to take off. In context, what was happening in the comics could not as yet be done on screen. It took another 20 years for the industry to be able to visually adapt the material successfully because of the lack of technology. Seeing the set pieces after all these years of wondering if any of these would be made at all, well, to me I felt like a childhood wish had been fulfilled. No wonder they've raked in so much money. They caught at least 2 generations! This is this generation's Star Wars and we their folks are in a unique position. Where else could a 49 year old Dad and his 11 year old boy, talk about the story arcs, minor subplots, etc, etc. I think it's really cool for my kid to think I'm cool because I know this stuff. They are growing up with near instant availability of information yet we know things about what tickles them silly. I love it!
While not entirely faithful to the source material, as GoT isn't, I think the MCU did a fantastic job on the continuity front. Is it 20 movies over 11 years? The thought of even attempting such a project was audacious, to pull it off, WOW. Hats off baby!
Congrats Disney/Marvel. Now fold in the Fox and Sony properties and redeem the sins of Fox LOL
As I said Jack I’ve seen most of them and I go only with my kids and grandchildren for the very reason you state. I just would never go alone. I admit I’m in the minority.
Come to think of it, I've not seen any of them (I've watched all including the earlier, disappointing Hulk movies) with anyone other than my kids. It's the shared experience with them. I think it is different for you because you're with them to give them a good time. I understand where you're at. The only difference is, for us, these characters meant something to us when we were the age of our kids. It just wasn't a thing for you, not then and thus not now and that's perfectly cool with me.
That said, I also think I know why you don't connect much. The amount of FX for what remain classic plots makes for great eye candy but not necessarily a great film. Here's a funny case, Jaws vs The Meg. The ever failing animatronic shark in Jaws forced Spielberg to take a less is more, Hitchcock like approach and the movie remains one of the best horror/thrillers to this day. Contrasted with The Meg, where othing is left to the imagination. Sadly bad CGI physics is so prominent it hurt to watch it. Just plain hokey. Super Hero movies, are extremely graphic. I can see where this could wear heavily on some viewers.
It ranks number one in a multitude of fastest record earnings ever.
Some say now that it can topple Avatar, if after this weekend it reaches $2.2 billion.
Yes me too Ron, and there is an hommage to that film in the end credits of Avengers: Endgame.
It's not a video clip, it's just a very subtle sound effect.
Don't read if you intend to see the film and all the end credits.
But for most people they wouldn't know and everyone knows by now that there is no video clip for the next movie.
"Our educated guess is that the clanging metal is the sound of Tony Stark forging his first Iron Man armor in the 2008 film that kicked off the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe."
