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Reply Subj: Re: Agent Carter sounds promising Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 at 06:06:30 pm EDT | |||||||
Quote: Quote: I'd have preferred Monica Rambeau, who at least has a unique powerset and isn't a female version of a previous male superhero. Quote: I think Monica's powers are a bit too hard to really do well... She's rather massively powered in some respects, and would require a fair amount of exposition to explain what's she's doing in others.True. If it's to be Carol, though, I hope they go with the USAF angle rather than the Cosmo-style magazine editor version (they can't use the Bugle anyway, I presume). I also hope they play up the energy absorbing and redirecting aspects of her abilities, since those are at least more distinctive than flies-and-hits-things-but-not-as-well-as-Wonder Woman-of-Superman. Maybe even use her seldom-remembered sixth sense. I would surely like to see a big budget CGI of the Supreme Intelligence in all his spuddy tentacleness. Quote: I think the film has a real chance to carve out the title as Carol Danver's own, first and foremost to the vast majority of audiences. I'll be curious to see if there even is a Mar-Vell.I'm interested to see what niche they decide to slot Carol into. The Guardians of the Galaxy have the outer-space beat for now, SHIELD has the spy/agent angle sewn up, and Rhodey has the military operative background. What does that leave? Quote: Of course, with it falling inbetween the two parts of "Avengers: Infinity War" one wonders how involved it will be in that. I'm also curious as to how soon Carol herself will be introduced. I'm not clear enough on the running order of the movies to speculate. However, I think it might be good to debut her in her own movie rather than seeding her into someone else's. I suspect DC might have run that into the ground by then. Quote: Quote: Another reason I'm approaching Ant-Man with caution.Quote: Ant-Man is actually the reason I'm surprised they went and announced as much as they did. It feels like a film that was compromised and compromised and then should have been cancelled but they couldn't back out of it at that point. I'm surprised that something like "The Inhumans" would be announced so early, boxing them in somewhat when certainly nobody would have missed it had it not been mentioned.I'm intrigued as to how Agents of SHIELD might fit in. Right now Skye's father certainly seems to have debuted somewhere in eastern China near Tibet - and Atillan. The Kree did genetically experiment there to create the Inhumans. Kyle McLachlen would be a good casting choice for Maximus. If one was looking for the Great Refuge one might need a Diviner. Quote: Quote: Quote:That's the film that most interests me, aside of course from the big Avengers entries. Quote: I'm automatically prejudiced against something called Civil War but I'll hold out hope for something better written this time. Quote: I actually meant the Black Panther film itself, and not Cap: Civil War. Count me amount those who grew less interested in the sequel when that angle came out. Honestly, I feel the truckloads of money they spent to get Robert Downey Jr. to costar in that one weren't really well spent. But I still suspect it could be quite good based on the last Cap film.I applaud the ambition of packing so much in while worrying about the execution. I just saw Spider-Man (version 2) 2 and it seemed horribly cluttered while still being horribly predictable. Everything I'm hearing about Superman vs Batman reeks of "world-building" over good story so far. With Cap, Falcon, Winter Soldier, rumoured Hawkeye, and now Black Panther in there, plus a "substantial" role for Tony Stark, it's starting to look a bit crowded. Quote: Quote: Quote:One assumes they would all be heavily involved in the Civil War Cap sequel, but who knows? I've heard that Avengers 2 will end with a new line-up, so perhaps the time has come for Cap's Kooky Quartet? Quote: That would require Cap, though, and the actor seems reluctant to reprise his role beyond his existing obligations. Quote: I've seen him go back and forth... he seemed to be rather reenergized by the reception of Cap 2 and certainly walked back prior comments, and has just been speaking of the role enthusiastically now.I'd welcome him in more movies. I'd actually prefer the role to be recast than for somebody other than Steve Rogers to be in the suit or for Cap to be absent from the Avengers. Quote: Of course, I suspect he'll be gunned down in "Civil War", only to be restored via the Infinity Gauntlet in either part 1 or 2 of that film anyway.It is a possibility, but if we can see that coming this far off it'll have remarlably little shick value impact in an actual film. Quote: As for Agent Carter, I really like the premise, the time period, the cast... Here's hoping the show lives up to all of it! Seconded. | |||||||
