Topic: The Movie Thread

So Alfred Molina’s also back for the new Spider-Man movie, meaning we have characters from all 3 Spider-Man series making their appearance! Have to say, I’m really looking forward to it now.

@nessisonett I'm not sure I'm too keen on the idea but will give them the benefit of doubt and wait and see how it turns out. There's been other things I thought sounded naff but ended up loving (eg. Guardians of the Galaxy).

@BearsEatBeets Part of me’s worried that they’ll bite off more than they can chew like the Spider-Man 3 fiasco but it could totally work, given the success of Into the Spider-Verse. Spider-Man definitely comes into contact with plenty different versions of his enemies and himself in the comics over the years.

Wow, it’s looking like even people like Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire could be back! Makes sense though, Doctor Strange is going to be in it so would tie into the multiverse stuff his film will contain.

@nessisonett Just saw the Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone news. I didn't know Doctor Strange was going to be in it too. That would help explain it well and a lot of these could be just short fun cameos. Marvel's shown they can do multiple characters better these days, I just hope the reveal of his identity is still a key feature of the story as I thought that was an interesting twist at the end of the last one.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah, that’s my one major concern, that the identity reveal would be minimised as this is just them either cashing in on Into the Spider-Verse or trying to beat Flashpoint to the punch!

Apparently Netflix's Daredevil is going to be in Spidey 3 too.

@BearsEatBeets LOL I was just reading about that. I'm a bit apprehensive if this will work and the cynic in me think it could turn out to be a huge mess.

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I was seriously hyped until I actually sat down and thought about it. The second one left the story on a great cliffhanger and I was hoping for a more grounded tale than Far From Home. It sounds great on paper but then so did the cameos in Rise of Skywalker!

@nessisonett Oh yeah that was probably one of the best endings I've seen in recent times. Kinda elevated the whole film to another level. Got a bit of a soft spot for Gyllenhaal, so was glad he ended up stealing the show.

Brilliant news, Disney+ are adding mature content in Europe, Canada and other regions, including Terminator, Alien, Die Hard, Logan, Deadpool, Bob’s Burgers, Atlanta and more. This massively opens up the possibilities for new content especially as they announced there are 10 Marvel shows and 10 Star Wars shows in development. It’s not coming in the US as Hulu operates in those regions, requiring an extra subscription.

@nessisonett yeah this whole hulu/espn/disney+ thing they have us do over here is lame. Or at least the fact that I only get a discount if I subscribe to all 3 is lame.

Good for those other regions though.

@nessisonett I seen some bits on twitter about the new shows in the Stars Wars universe, but that is good news. Iirc, Disney were haggling with the current licence holders, like SKY in the UK for some of the content. No financial package could be agreed, so Disney just waited it out. As it stands currently there isn't enough content for me to stay subscribed to D+ after my free period ends, as I only sub for Mando really.

@JohnnyShoulder I’m hyped for Ahsoka, Obi-Wan and Lando shows tbh. Some great characters there.

@BearsEatBeets that's awesome if that's true about Daredevil, just because it could potentially officially canonise the Netflix MCU shows which were always kind of in this grey area, moreso now that they've all been canned in favour of a line up of more direct movie spin offs. Even if they end up decanonising them in some multiversal shenanigans, it would be good just to get some recognition for them on the big screen!

To my knowledge, the only MCU TV show that's been referenced in a film was agent Carter when Jarvis featured in avengers endgame. Obviously the movies get referenced loads in the shows and characters pop up like Lady Sif and Nick Fury.

Some really cool Marvel news too, Ant-Man 3 with Jonathan Majors as Kang, Ironheart TV Show (ppl will be upset but they’re totally setting up young avengers), Armor Wars with Don Cheadle, trailers for the new shows coming soon, an FF movie from Jon Watts, Tim Roth back in She-Hulk, Quasar and Ms Marvel being in Captain Marvel 2... the list goes on!

@nessisonett They have scaled back the Star Wars movie releases but are releasing a f ton of TV shows.

If the Ahsoka show is as good as Mando, that will one to watch. Maybe Obi-Wan Kenobi. But not sure about the rest.

I'm a little bit more optimistic from how good Mando is. But they do seem to be repeating the same things as they did with Marvel. Will be crazy popular but will be over saturated AF. I enjoyed the majority of Marvel films but by the end I become fed up with it all.

@JohnnyShoulder @RogerRoger Interconnectedness aside, flooding the viewing market with all things SW does take some of the shine off each show as it's own individual entity imo. Something to be said for a degree of rarity. Part of Mando's appeal for me is how it's really one of a kind at the moment. Soon it'll be "just another SW series" which seems a little unfortunate.

I'm a bit slow catching up on all the Disney news (there's plenty of it) but I'm quite eager to see how this pans out.

I should probably look up a definitive list and see what's tv series and what's film as I've just been discovering titles pretty much.

@zupertramp If you throw enough crap at the wall some of it will stick eventually.

@RogerRoger The whole interconnected thing with the Marvel mcu did do my head in towards the last few movies. One of the reasons why I enjoyed Logan and Deadpool so much.

We shall see with the new stuff, but I will remain on the cynical side of the fence until proven otherwise.

@JohnnyShoulder ha, the Disney motto.