The Superhero Cinematic Civil War Thread* - Part 61

[Web-Head]

Finally finished The Penguin last night, mostly because my Max subscription ends after tomorrow, I thought it was a slog. A couple of good episodes mixed in but meh

 

[emielaen]

Lol why do they sound like children?

“First we tell a bye bye story… now we tell a hello story!”

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Maybe/I think they mean that Infinity War and Endgame were closing out the Stones and Thanos and Iron Man story while the mission now is to begin from scratch with Dr. Doom because there is no unifying stories to close out this time…well besides chucking this multiverse concept into the dumpster I guess.

 

[squeekness]

The way I interpret that quote is "soft reboot" in regards to the MCU.

Not necessarily a bad thing if the movies get better.

 

[squeekness]

For real. Marsden’s character makes me wish we still had a president.

Me, too!!!!!!

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Drizzle]

"There's nobody else in the world who could play Doom"

 

[emielaen]

He should replace the Thor emoji. He's my superhero.

 

[Spider-Fan]

No one can play Evil Tony Stark like RDJ

 

[Lily Adler]

No one can play Evil Tony Stark like RDJ

I'm debating if he'll go full ham or not.

 

[flickchick85]

“The way he’s about to” doing all the heavy lifting in that statement.

 

[Moncton]

Looks like the final tally for Captain America will be just over 400 million, won't even match Aquaman 2. Yikes.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Looks like the final tally for Captain America will be just over 400 million, won't even match Aquaman 2. Yikes.

To be fair to it, it could have done way worse. But definitely losing money.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Oh those Russos…

 

[Snow Queen]

Somehow the least dumb quote to come out of that interview.

 

[Lily Adler]

Like I said in another thread, this is just word salad. It doesn't mean anything

When the Russos are taking cues from our current president.

 

[kguillou]

I’m sorry y’all, i know RDJ is an exceptional actor but ive yet to see him in a role where he is terrifying and intimidating, the way he’d theoretically need to be for Dr Doom. Maybe the guy’s got it in him and we’ve just never seen it but based on his past work i just cant picture a scary imposing Robert Downey Jr.

But I guess people said the same about Heath Ledger.

 

[squeekness]

I’m sorry y’all, i know RDJ is an exceptional actor but ive yet to see him in a role where he is terrifying and intimidating, the way he’d theoretically need to be for Dr Doom. Maybe the guy’s got it in him and we’ve just never seen it but based on his past work i just cant picture a scary imposing Robert Downey Jr.

But I guess people said the same about Heath Ledger.

I did say that about Heath, and fortunately RDJ is as just a talented actor so I'm going to try and hold off judgement over what would normally be a mismatched casting.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Yeah 17 year old me was like, "Heath Ledger?! WHY?!"

Then we saw this:


And I was like yeah I believe in Harvey Dent too

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Obviously RDJ is more than capable of playing Doctor Doom. That's entirely beside the point.

 

[squeekness]

Obviously RDJ is more than capable of playing Doctor Doom. That's entirely beside the point.

Not everybody can pull that off. I love Jessie Eisenberg and he was a horrible Lex Luthor.

 

[Ninjablade]

RDJ's acting ability is the last thing anyone should question. I mean his latest role alone he just won the Oscar for should quell any notions of his ability to play a proper Doom. That said, they're not brining him back to play a proper Doom.

 

[Lily Adler]

Obviously RDJ is more than capable of playing Doctor Doom. That's entirely beside the point.

It's a question of how he'll play him.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Not everybody can pull that off. I love Jessie Eisenberg and he was a horrible Lex Luthor.

Squeek I'm so conflicted with that.

Like, I wanted to punch him in the face, so didn't that mean he succeeded in his job?

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Not everybody can pull that off. I love Jessie Eisenberg and he was a horrible Lex Luthor.

With all due respect to Eisenberg, who I also think is a great actor, RDJ is a different beast.

See, though, that still speaks to my point: if you gave Eisenberg a different script and didn't direct him to act like a crackhead he could have been great. There are multiple roles of his that are pretty much irrefutable evidence of this. But, much like RDJ will be, he was playing a bizarre version of the character in a (probably!) terrible movie directed by a moron(s).