Not a bad ep! But the idea that Marvel is running low on good material to make into films in Marvel is a little crazy. Those books have been running a very, very long time. There's a lot of stuff still to do.
The trouble is they kind of started with the continuity of the last 20 years or so and so it's kind of tricky going backwards.
Marvel seems to insist on only doing movies about gigantic stories, where the whole world or even the whole universe is at stake. I maintain that these are worse stories because they are hard to identify with.
Take Wolverine. Wolverine has this whole side universe in the comics set in this fictional island called Madripoor. Wolverine in Madripoor would be great stuff.
The Hulk's Mr. Fixit, Grey, kinda smart era would be super cool on film. Back when he was a bouncer in a big casino.
With Thor, you've got that whole era when he was stuck in the body of a human doctor and they had to switch back and forth. That could be gloriously weird in the hands of a good writer.
There's a lot of good content still on the table, but they are much more human level stories.
KittyPryde and Wolverine the movie is long, long overdue.
A young superheroine's dad gets kidnapped by the mob and she has to face off with a demon-ninja to save him while her mentor looks out for her? Can't get any better movie magic than that.
And when early, dark Power Pack, man? The time is right. The merchandising would be glorious.
great points -- I've always said that when the stakes are too high in a movie (the hero wins or the world ends) its so much harder to build a story with stakes we can relate to and identify with. as i mentioned in the ep, it's my biggest gripe with the last few MISSION IMPOSSIBLE films. anyway, thanks for listening!
Last MCU movie I watched was Spiderman 2. Yeah, the one with Toby McGuire.
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Not a bad ep! But the idea that Marvel is running low on good material to make into films in Marvel is a little crazy. Those books have been running a very, very long time. There's a lot of stuff still to do.
The trouble is they kind of started with the continuity of the last 20 years or so and so it's kind of tricky going backwards.
Marvel seems to insist on only doing movies about gigantic stories, where the whole world or even the whole universe is at stake. I maintain that these are worse stories because they are hard to identify with.
Take Wolverine. Wolverine has this whole side universe in the comics set in this fictional island called Madripoor. Wolverine in Madripoor would be great stuff.
The Hulk's Mr. Fixit, Grey, kinda smart era would be super cool on film. Back when he was a bouncer in a big casino.
With Thor, you've got that whole era when he was stuck in the body of a human doctor and they had to switch back and forth. That could be gloriously weird in the hands of a good writer.
There's a lot of good content still on the table, but they are much more human level stories.
KittyPryde and Wolverine the movie is long, long overdue.
A young superheroine's dad gets kidnapped by the mob and she has to face off with a demon-ninja to save him while her mentor looks out for her? Can't get any better movie magic than that.
And when early, dark Power Pack, man? The time is right. The merchandising would be glorious.
great points -- I've always said that when the stakes are too high in a movie (the hero wins or the world ends) its so much harder to build a story with stakes we can relate to and identify with. as i mentioned in the ep, it's my biggest gripe with the last few MISSION IMPOSSIBLE films. anyway, thanks for listening!