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Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
Point. I'm wondering, if the bigger chains have their own streaming platforms already (I certainly get bombarded by AMC emails enough) if it could have been feasible to offer "timed exclusive" streaming through those services. It would hurt the smaller chains, though...
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
That's a full year from Widow's original release date. Also interesting that Eternals and Shang-Chi have switched order. Wonder what the thinking was there.

Since the two movies were announced, my enthusiasm for Shang-Chi has only increased, and my indifference to The Eternals remains as minimal as it ever was, so they MAY have just looked at my own personal tastes and extrapolated from there.
 

gogglebob

The Goggles Do Nothing
(he/him)
Point. I'm wondering, if the bigger chains have their own streaming platforms already (I certainly get bombarded by AMC emails enough) if it could have been feasible to offer "timed exclusive" streaming through those services. It would hurt the smaller chains, though...

Also, by accounts that I've seen, the "plan" for Mulan's "home release" was a failure, or at least it wasn't ultimately as successful as Trolls 2. I don't think it's a coincidence that this has been formally announced after the dust has settled on Disney+'s other big anti-theatrical release.
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Frankly, I am happy to wait to see Marvel movies in the theater. I feel like 1) it can be enjoyed at home but will feel less like an event 2) it should be released only when the world is ready and safe. A safer release will definitely make more money because it will make people feel like the world is getting something closer to normal. There are probably other reasons but while I don't think streaming is somehow "lesser" or less legitimate but I would rather see it in a theatre but without the Christopher Nolan "YOU MUST SEE IT IN THE THEATRE DIE FOR MY ART" capacity.
 

BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
Also, by accounts that I've seen, the "plan" for Mulan's "home release" was a failure, or at least it wasn't ultimately as successful as Trolls 2. I don't think it's a coincidence that this has been formally announced after the dust has settled on Disney+'s other big anti-theatrical release.
Probably had something to do with Disney+ Exclusivitiy.

When Trolls 2 Came out, my smart TV was going "HEY HERE'S ALL 7 WAYS YOU CAN WATCH THIS! the second I turned it on. And while I FUCKING HATE that my TV now advertises to me every time I turn it on, I was definitely aware that I could use it to watch Trolls 2!

I didn't see shit for Mulan though, because I don't have Disney Plus. And even If I wanted to see it, I probably wouldn't have gone to the hassle of getting a subscription AND paying the premium watch fee.

Basically Fuck Disney.
 

BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
Like there are still 3 or 4 "THE SECRET MEANING OF INCEPTION EXPLAINED!" video essays getting tossed to youtube's algorithm every single week, but not even the people who were willing to die for Tenet are talking about it.
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
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No, you're right.

The original source (Variety, not the AV Club) reports that it's a new show with Jackson "attached to star" and says who the writer/executive producer of the new show will be. The writer/producer for the new show starring Jackson is not the writer/producer for Falcon or WandaVision or Ms. Marvel or any other previously announced show. (It's Kyle Bradstreet, who also did some writing and production for Mr. Robot.)

That's not news saying "he'll probably be heavily present in [other] shows." If there is not a new show starring Jackson and written/EP'd by Kyle Bradstreet, it will mean the reporting is wrong. But Johnny Unusual is correct that this is what the reporting says.
 
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upupdowndown

REVOLUTION GRRR STYLE NOW
(he / him / his)
Since the two movies were announced, my enthusiasm for Shang-Chi has only increased, and my indifference to The Eternals remains as minimal as it ever was, so they MAY have just looked at my own personal tastes and extrapolated from there.

honestly, the thing that makes me most interested in Eternals is the director, Chloe Zhao. Her first two indie films got excellent reviews, and her film Nomadland from this year with Frances McDormand won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival - first time that a film's taken the top prize at both of those festivals. It already has Oscar buzz.

if I had to guess on the do-si-do of scheduling, it's that the Disney+ schedule for the MCU miniseries got rearranged, and there's stuff in one of the later-running series that ties into Eternals.
 

Jeanie

(Fem or Gender Neutral)
Like there are still 3 or 4 "THE SECRET MEANING OF INCEPTION EXPLAINED!" video essays getting tossed to youtube's algorithm every single week, but not even the people who were willing to die for Tenet are talking about it.

I still don't know what it's about. No one talks about it outside of "Chris Nolan's Tenet".
 

Mightyblue

aggro table, shmaggro table
(He/Him/His)
I can go into a bit of detail, got dragged to a empty theater to see it a week or so ago; it's a action-thriller based around intersecting and inverted timeframes. Basically some far-future faction of humanity decided to fuck over the past in order to prevent some unnamed global catastrophe, and invented several things including some kind of world-ending macguffin and a device that can invert the flow of time for matter placed inside it. This has created a kind of temporal cold war, where present and near-future/past factions fight to prevent the macguffin from being assembled or to assemble it on behalf of the far-future guys.

The movie is constructed such that you see events in the regular timeframe with the inverted events happening at the same time, with snippets of inverted POV here and there (helpfully distinguished by blueshifting the footage). By the time you've hit the halfway mark the movie's already given you all the pieces to assemble what's going on with the plot through both, but until you pick up on the trick with learning about the existence of an inverted timeframe, you're unable to piece them together to form the whole picture.

It's an absolute masterwork of design and craft in service of an entirely deconstructed narrative that is entirely weightless because the attention and thought required to parse that in real-time robs the plot of any real stakes, especially with Nolan's decision to make the macguffin an ontological weapon of all goddamned things which is a decision that almost seems designed to lose an audience who is going to wonder how an algorithm is supposed to end existence. I think I snorted out loud when that bit got revealed past the halfway mark.

Would I recommend people see it? Yes, but less because it's an action movie, and more because I am absolutely astonished that Nolan managed to cram a high-concept sci-fi movie into a bog standard spy thriller. Definitely should wait until you don't have to risk yon plague though.
 

SpoonyBard

Threat Rhyme
(He/Him)
Honestly not sure whether to put this here or in the Disney+ thread but whatevs, it's more Marvel-centric.

Ms. Marvel has been cast!

I'm still not sure how they're going to represent her powers on a TV budget, even a Disney-backed streaming budget, but I can't wait to see it regardless!
 
Oh jeeze, that looks dreadful. Like they wanted to make their own Harley Quinn, but it's a bad family sitcom and also Robot Chicken. Big big yikes.

Also makes perfect sense that it's on Hulu. Since the clips seem pretty violent, and Disney+ is their family-oriented service with tons of censorship, and Hulu is the place where adults go watch TV.
 

SpoonyBard

Threat Rhyme
(He/Him)
I am... not here for that MODOK. Eeesh. I'm all for going in a comedic direction for the character, like Gwenpool and West Coast Avengers did recently, but even putting aside the robot chicken presentation this just feels really low effort.

Anyway.

On top of bringing back Amazing Spider Man 2's Electro in the next MCU Spidey film, there's now a rumor that McGuire and Garfield have signed on as well. So I guess they just really want a live-action Spiderverse?
 

Kishi

Little Waves
(They/Them)
Staff member
Moderator
Tobey Maguire as the out-of-shape going-through-some-things Spider-Man.
 

Vaeran

(GRUNTING)
(he/him)
I waffled over whether I should post this here, but what the hell:

Voters Assemble! The Cast of the Avengers Unite for Democracy

It's a Biden/Harris fundraiser livestream taking place Tuesday evening; participating will be the Russo brothers, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, and everyone's favorite Avenger, Kamala Harris. You can get access by donating any amount; I kicked in $25. This is how starved for new MCU content I am.
 

Vaeran

(GRUNTING)
(he/him)
Reminder that the livestream is tonight at 6:45pm EDT.

Also, Wikipedia is finally tackling the important issues of our time:

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Vaeran

(GRUNTING)
(he/him)
It's been well documented that if you were to paint the Avengers logo onto the side of a cliff face I'd run into it at full speed like Wily E. Coyote, but the fundraiser livestream was pretty enjoyable.

Everyone assembled was their expected warm and charismatic selves, and you can tell these people genuinely like each other. If she's not an actual fan of the movies as she claims, Harris at least does a believable job of pretending to be one, as she was conversant with character names and moments from the films in a way that didn't seem coached. Everything was done in service of the political message, of course, but they managed to loop Marvel themes like power, responsibility, coming together despite our differences to do good, etc. into a broader sociopolitical context without feeling overly forced or corny. A few fun moments:

- While not on the announced guest list, RDJ showed up halfway through, initially hiding his face behind a toy Stark Gauntlet. During the trivia section he correctly answered some questions about ridiculous minutiae to everyone's bewilderment, then turned the gauntlet around to reveal he had crib notes on its palm, and made a crack about using the Time Stone to swipe the answers from the future, including "VP Harris" as an answer to an unasked question. Cute.

- Scarlett Johansson "lives in the woods!" as she kept exclaiming to explain her glitchy connection issues, which often had her cutting out or lagging a few seconds behind everyone else and accidentally talking over them, to Chris Evans' continued amusement.

- Today happens to be Kamala Harris' birthday, and there was a staggered, halting attempt to sing her Happy Birthday which mercifully fizzled out when everyone realized how out of sync they were with each other.
PAUL RUDD: That was the worst rendition of Happy Birthday I've ever heard.

- Asked what superpower she'd like to have, Harris picked Shuri's intellect, as she'd like to be able to use science and technology to solve the world's ills and bring people together. She also had a really inspiring message for young women off the back of some talk about sisterhood (i.e. Gamora and Nebula's relationship.)

- Harris asked the cast what other Marvel superhero besides their own they'd like to play:

DON CHEADLE: I'm gonna say Captain America. I just wanna wear Captain America's pants! The tights.
CHRIS EVANS: *immediately* No you do not.
 
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