yeah, they were muted as hell. thry dont have to be on crazy time, but they acted like 50 year old friends just chilling. the actors work better during interviews than they did on screen
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It started faithful though and branched out into different interpretations further down but you needed the Iron Man and Cap foundations first. And it's not about catering to neckbeards, it's that the stories in the comics were just of a certain quality. If you're not a James Gunn level writer (which most aren't) you're better off just mostly sticking to the source. Yeah Taika Waititi threaded the needle with Ragnarok but by Love and Thunder Thor was a flanderized caricature of himself.Yall both made good points. I would say a few things tho,
(1) Nobody (i'm generalizing) liked Thor's faithful adaptation (through two solo movies and two Avenger movies) until the tail end of the Infinity saga when they allowed Hemsworth to ham it up with the humor in the YT skits and then Ragnorak.
(2) Also, while they kept Steve Rogers a relatively faithful adaptation, it wasn't until they landed an emotional cord with audiences with his relationship with Bucky in TWS and juxtaposed Steve with other MCU characters in his movies (Widow, Falcon, Fury... then Tony, Peter, T'Challa), that he took off. Nobody cared about him after First Avenger.
(3) Guardians of the Galaxy... yea lol. Threw adaptation to the bushes and made a bigger hit than any x-men (sans DP) or F4 movie.
My point is, neckbeards don't represent general audiences and catering to them (faithful adaptations) was not why the MCU was successful. It was well-written emotional storytelling ignited by the "innovative" execution and success of Avengers 1 (aka the "payoff" for watching all the other shyt leading up to it).
shyt storytelling killed the MCU brand, point blank. "Faithfulness" itself was bushed before the MCU even peaked, and let's not act like a lot of faithful comic stories aren't dog shyt anyway
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Well, half of the main cast is 50/almost 50 lol (Pedro & Ebon).
Finally saw this and I felt the first 30 minutes of this shyt moved so fast I couldn't really get a read on anything. The cast didnt feel like they had any chemistry to be called the F4. I don't know it was cool I guess not bad...just there. Maybe it was the universe that made it less engaging but I didn't really feel anything was really at stake. I knew everything that was gonna happen before it happened.
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I watched this last night. I'm still waiting to read how people were responding to this. I never made it all the way through the superman threaded due to all the pointless bickering.
I will say though, that fukking beard soured me for the last part of the movie. I didn't realize it was in the promotional material.
I was watching on my phone, and slightly caught the shaving scene, but I didn't realize they actually gave him a beard.
I know it is from a version in the comics, but I think that was so stupid
For such a great looking Ben grimm, I personally think the beard was too distracting, and it just looks stupid. Lol
I will say though, that fukking beard soured me for the last part of the movie. I didn't realize it was in the promotional material.
I was watching on my phone, and slightly caught the shaving scene, but I didn't realize they actually gave him a beard.
I know it is from a version in the comics, but I think that was so stupid
For such a great looking Ben grimm, I personally think the beard was too distracting, and it just looks stupid. Lol
And ^ this is coming from a guy with a glorious beard.
Does that mean he shaves his head? Lol, he can grow hair, in the form of rocks...and Mr fantastic hooks hip up with some home made barber tools? Lmao, I was a little too high for this last night lol
Does that mean he shaves his head? Lol, he can grow hair, in the form of rocks...and Mr fantastic hooks hip up with some home made barber tools? Lmao, I was a little too high for this last night lol
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I wonder if he goes to a barber shop on the block or is too fancy for that. No wonder the Yancy St gangs have beef with him. He got rich and forgot where he came from