TTRPGWhiz

Feels like this convo has reached a nadir, no?

Another super normal comic book movie thread.

Griping that Sue Storm should be more like the version that puts up with her husband talking down to her is wild. My guess it that the Surfer is Shalla Bal and not Norrin Radd b/c this universe is (clearly) not the MCU, so after Galactus eats this planet and they get assimilated to the 'other' universe, there's a chance for 'our" Surfer to show up.

This is starting to feel more and more like the Secret Wars / universe incursion storyline. Most of these folks will probably be playing those roles for the last time. A Doctor Doom plot being the method by which the FF join the fray is pretty perfect. Kinda hoping Galactus eats their Earth and they need a new one.

I am very familiar with the comics lol. It's why I didn't refer to this dude's first trailer appearance as "Bulletproof Bob (?)" 😅

That Sentry spoiler is massive, might want to rethink that one.

https://deadline.com/gallery/avengers-doomsday-cast-photos-marvel/

For sure, the implication that there just *has* to always be a Captain America is pretty weird. Like, who is clamoring for that? In-universe or out?

I think the Viltrumites::CoH Archetypes as D&D Monsters::Classes. They're stat blocks, not character sheets. In other words, every Viltrumite we've seen so far is an AV, and they don't have to play by character creation rules.

I haven’t seen it.

My point was and is that it's regrettable that every conversation on this sub about these movies inevitably (and sometimes immediately) becomes "big company does bad thing to IP I like / why do these movies cost more but perform worse". It's like starting a conversation with, "Hey, there's a new Captain America movie coming out", and someone nearby rushing over and shouting "DISNEY HAS RUINED MY ADULTHOOD, LET ME SHOW YOU SOME SPREADSHEETS" at you. People are of course free to discuss "the industry" however they want; other people are also free to pine for the days when the biggest debate was about Bat-nipples.

"My money" stops being "my money" when I give it to someone else. Just like anyone's money. I don't pay Disney to make more movies; I pay Disney to watch the movie(s) they already made. Maybe that's voting with my wallet and sending a signal to Disney that I, personally, would like more of the kind of movies I just paid for. But that's not really how any of that works (I don't know what I think of a movie until after I've seen it; Disney doesn't care what I, personally, do with my money). People are of course "allowed" to discuss corporate finances or whatever else catches their interest. My opinion is that I find it lamentable that every thread about MCU movies in this sub inevitably turns into these armchair business analyses.

Ha, fair’s fair. I mean if a single sentence of the budget convos was “and they used MY TAX DOLLARS!”, I’d feel a bit more petard-hoisted. I stand by my opinion that it’s weird to care about movie budgets (or box office, frankly) if it’s not your money. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wait til you hear about the incentive to move 2,000 jobs from Cali to Florida! (Also around $600M) Anyway: I miss being able to talk about comics movies without the conversations inevitably turning to armchair econometrists making their best guesses about the motives and business practices of a megacorporation with a $200B market cap. You either like the movie(s), or you don’t. They either do well commercially, or they don’t. The rest is just baloney.

lol, yeah I almost edited my post to include a bit about tax breaks/incentives. That’s definitely why folks are concerned about these movies’ budgets and why it’s never come up before. 😂

That, and the obsession several regulars of this sub have with budgets and box office are what keep it entertaining. You’d think these movies are being made with taxpayer dollars for how much some people care about Disney’s bottom line.

Sigh. I’m saying the first time anyone saw Clark Kent, they’d say “that’s Superman”, and vice versa. Superman shows up, some facial recognition spots him, it says “hey that’s Clark Kent”. You don’t need some lady saying his name for people to figure it out; it would have happened the second he showed up. If it’s “spazzing out” to point that out, sure.

In-universe, Superman would have the most recognizable face on the planet. This just doesn't hold water. It wouldn't take someone yelling his first name for people to figure out who he is. Internet 'sleuths' deduce much less public people's identities (and jobs, addresses, families, etc.) all the time. And that's without WayneTech. There's no need to twist logic this hard to cover for a terrible plot device. His disguise is dumb.

Cool. Now what if he took off that jacket, flew around and fought a giant monster. People might notice. (also: an edited Inside Edition clip is probably not great evidence. This is like saying nobody in LA knows their state's capital because a two minute Tonight Show clip says so)

Clark Kent’s “disguise” has been people clothes, some glasses and bad posture for damn near 90 years; it’s never gonna be the movies’ fault that people (including Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters) are fooled by it. My personal headcanon is that folks just let him pretend to be Clark because they figure it keeps him happy and not destroying everything/everyone. It’s the dumbest disguise in the history of disguises, but why poke the bear.

Opinions are opinions; the rationale behind how people arrive at them is fair game. My post wasn't addressing your comment that you don't see Pascal as Reed Richards; that's valid (I don't either, but it's not because "he doesn't look like the world's smartest man"). My post was about people feeling like Being Very Smart means Looks Like This. Every time someone writes something in this sub that even sort of contradicts a previous post, there's a reply along the lines of "I'm sorry different opinions aren't OK with you". We really gotta move past it.

Being bummed that the world's smartest man doesn't look the way you might expect them to says more about the beholder than the beheld.

I ran an Ice/KM/Soul and can confirm, does a bang up job keeping friendlies up. Works best with some -Res frens.

What an arc. Guess this turd got polished enough.