The Naked Fun in The Superhero Cinematic Civil War Thread - Part 61

[Lily Adler]

Ant-man 2 is a 90 minute movie stretched to 2 hours.

Imagine a Nolan one.

 

[Mysteryman]

Based on some rumors that I’ve read of what happens in the third act, it’s not your typical CGI fest and I think everyone’s going to be pleasantly surprised.

Supposedly, it’s a pretty trippy sequence of characters entering The Void and confronting their past traumas, and the short snippets we’ve seen in trailers we’ve seen of Yelena crashing through one wall and then falling into what looks like a room at a Black Widow academy and Bucky hitting a person in a chicken suit with Bob standing in the background are most likely part of that.

They really are trying to do something different with this film.

Fingers Crossed!

 

[Spider-Fan]

Quantumania is hands down the worst MCU movie.

How a movie that had so many interesting actors in it, fun characters and so much potential and just end up the way it ended up was just astonishing. So boring and so...

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And on the contrary: I still very much like Ant-Man & The Wasp. I'm sorry but that movie had heart and it was fun.

I like Ant-Man and the Wasp. It's an entertaining romp.

 

[Babillygunn]

Superman's biggest problem is going to be the international audience. Hell, a decent chunk of what is considered the "domestic" number may not be eager someone so tied to "The American Way".

But Superman doesn’t go by the motto of “Truth Justice and the American Way” anymore. He now goes by “Truth Justice and a Better Tomorrow” which inflamed a lot of right-wing red hats who claimed Superman went woke.

Sidebar, but do the children even still play with toys these days or is that a market now for grown people doing collecting?

Funny story: when they were little, my kids were crazy into Lego. And this drove me insane. I hate Lego with a passion. I wouldn’t let them hear it because they loved their toys, but my wife and I had many conversations whereby I would ask her why we had to spend $100 on a toy whose very designed purpose was to break into a thousand pieces.

 

[Drizzle]

Fair. On the flipside, only Quantumania has Newton.

Remember being in school and every once in a while the class would be so disruptive that the teacher would punish everyone with a writing assignment or something even though it was only a couple of kids who were acting up? That's Quantumania. Newton, Pfeiffer, and a couple of other cast members are in the "good kids" category.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

But Superman doesn’t go by the motto of “Truth Justice and the American Way” anymore. He now goes by “Truth Justice and a Better Tomorrow” which inflamed a lot of right-wing red hats who claimed Superman went woke.



Funny story: when they were little, my kids were crazy into Lego. And this drove me insane. I hate Lego with a passion. I wouldn’t let them hear it because they loved their toys, but my wife and I had many conversations whereby I would ask her why we had to spend $100 on a toy whose very designed purpose was to break into a thousand pieces.

LOL

Never would’ve thought Lego resonated so much with the youngins. In my day it was the Power Rangers:


And I think “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow” is a much better motto and ideal for Supes to uphold. That’s him in a nutshell.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Bro and I were very much into Power Rangers figures. We had all the zords from MMPR and we stopped I think just after Zeo. I was also big into the various ToyBiz Marvel lines. I had probably 90% of them across all the lines

 

[Babillygunn]

Power Rangers was way after my time, but I can see how it would’ve been cool.

I grew up with GI Joe:


Star Wars:


And my personal favorite, Kenner Super Powers:



A lot of people my age swore by He-Man but I didn’t like their squishy heads as a kid.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Bro and I were very much into Power Rangers figures. We had all the zords from MMPR and we stopped I think just after Zeo. I was also big into the various ToyBiz Marvel lines. I had probably 90% of them across all the lines

I was watching this ID Channel special yesterday about MMPR, man, Haim Saban really made BANK with those Bandai toys we grew up on.

Meanwhile the actors from the shows were taking home 700 dollars an episode during MMPR. Then they wanted to get mad at Thuy Trang and Walter Jones for speaking out about the pay.

I would’ve knocked all that sh** over.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I was watching this ID Channel special yesterday about MMPR, man, Haim Saban really made BANK with those Bandai toys we grew up on.

Meanwhile the actors from the shows were taking home 700 dollars an episode during MMPR. Then they wanted to get mad at Thuy Trang and Walter Jones for speaking out about the pay.

I would’ve knocked all that sh** over.

Yeah, as a kid I didn't know any of that stuff. It was really scummy

 

[Lily Adler]

So many of you remembering the days when DC was too afraid to show Batman's parents get shot.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Babillygunn]

So many of you remembering the days when DC was too afraid to show Batman's parents get shot.

I grew up pre-Batman 89. I saw that in theaters just before I went to high school.

But I distinctly remember that Adam West made a reference to his parents’ murder in an episode of Batman ‘66, which was actually quite dark for that show.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Power Rangers was way after my time, but I can see how it would’ve been cool.

I grew up with GI Joe:
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Star Wars:
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And my personal favorite, Kenner Super Powers:
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A lot of people my age swore by He-Man but I didn’t like their squishy heads as a kid.

Oh man, Super Powers figures were my jam. I had so many. I even had the Hall of Justice. I didn’t realize until last year that it was modeled after a real building in Cincinnati! I never had any desire to go to Cincy before but now I need to see it.

 

[Lily Adler]

I grew up pre-Batman 89. I saw that in theaters just before I went to high school.

But I distinctly remember that Adam West made a reference to his parents’ murder in an episode of Batman ‘66, which was actually quite dark for that show.

Show not tell.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I grew up pre-Batman 89. I saw that in theaters just before I went to high school.

But I distinctly remember that Adam West made a reference to his parents’ murder in an episode of Batman ‘66, which was actually quite dark for that show.

Hell you remember the episode when Riddler’s henchwoman got killed in the Batcave?



That was a lot!

 

[Lily Adler]

Hell you remember the episode when Riddler’s henchwoman got killed in the Batcave?

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That was a lot!

Batman probably had conflicting feelings here.

 

[Babillygunn]

Hell you remember the episode when Riddler’s henchwoman got killed in the Batcave?

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That was a lot!

That actually was the same episode.

Her death was low key disturbing. She fell into the nuclear reactor

 

[Ninjablade]

Power Rangers was way after my time, but I can see how it would’ve been cool.

I grew up with GI Joe:
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I think my father still has that Snake Eyes figure, mint in the box, somewhere.

 

[Babillygunn]

I still remember getting my Snake Eyes figure when I was probably in Kindergarten. I still remember going to the toy store (a locally owned mom and pop toy store. We didn’t have a Toys R Us yet) and seeing it and thinking it was the coolest figure I’d ever seen. I think I got it as a reward for starting school.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

That actually was the same episode.

Her death was low key disturbing. She fell into the nuclear reactor

It really was. Sis got vaporized.

Now you got me watching this when I should be taking my ass to the gym:



Batman 66 should be on someone's streaming service by now. I would literally watch the hell out of it lol.

 

[Drizzle]

LOL

Never would’ve thought Lego resonated so much with the youngins. In my day it was the Power Rangers:
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And I think “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow” is a much better motto and ideal for Supes to uphold. That’s him in a nutshell.

Bro and I were very much into Power Rangers figures. We had all the zords from MMPR and we stopped I think just after Zeo. I was also big into the various ToyBiz Marvel lines. I had probably 90% of them across all the lines

I remember losing my mind seeing the Auto-Morphin Power Rangers figures in a store when I was a kid but that pic is evidence that they clearly only made an effort on the likeness for the Jason figure.

I also remember Green Ranger and Dragonzord merch being crazy hard to find because of how popular Tommy was.

 

[Ninjablade]

Unpopular opinion: Jason was always cooler than Tommy, and never should've been demoted. Insane work by Zordon to make the guy that *lost* the fight the higher rank.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Unpopular opinion: Jason was always cooler than Tommy, and never should've been demoted. Insane work by Zordon to make the guy that *lost* the fight the higher rank.

You get it.

And then Jason REALLY got cooler than Tommy when he was the Gold Ranger.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Unpopular opinion: Jason was always cooler than Tommy, and never should've been demoted. Insane work by Zordon to make the guy that *lost* the fight the higher rank.