The Superhero Cinematic Civil War

[chamber-music]

Streaming bundles are about cosolidating and cornering the market.

A lot of streaming platforms around at the moment and most people only have one or two. Combining various streaming outlets into one bundle makes them a more attractive package and gives them a advantage over their rivals.

 

[chamber-music]

Transformers 1986 is incredible, somehow. I don't get how that movie works so well.

That movie made me care more about the transformers than the live bayformer movies ever did. Bumblebee and rise of the beasts are the only live action movies I liked.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Zarex]

Huh?

I think if we get crossovers, they'd start in animation.

After few years after The Final Fate of the Flash in Crisis on Infinite Earths, a bearded tow headed fellow in a distressed superhero suit showed up in a Marvel Quasar comic and easily won a race involving many of Marvel's most prominent speedsters. The character believed his name to be "Buried Alien", leading readers to think this may have been Barry Allen avoiding death by moving to Marvel.

That would have been an easy and easily deniable crossover, again if Ezra wasn't awful. Ezra shows up in tattered clothing outside Quill's grandfather's house in a GOTG 3 post credit scene saying he thinks his name is Buried Alien. In a post credit scene in the Flash movie we see Ezra having lunch with Chris Pratt in a diner asking what earth he was on. It would have been a fun intercompany crossover with no legal clearance required, akin to the unofficial Rutland Vt Halloween Parade crossovers back in the 1970s.

But you are right, animation is the most likely place for crossovers with What If? a likely place if it were to happen.

 

[Iceman]

I didn’t realise Cassandra Nova was the villain. I always wanted to see her translated to live action one day, although not really in a Deadpool film.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[blueharvest]

Nice to have a release date finally.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

Set in the '40s? I want to see Batman and Joker team up to fight the Nazis.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I am just so happy this is finally releasing. Can't wait!

 

[Pennywise]

I am just so happy this is finally releasing. Can't wait!

Same!

Was hoping we’d find out the voice cast for the show, but only a matter of time before an announcement.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

It’s about damn time this Caped Crusader show got released.

Some of those designs are choices, but I’m willing to keep an open mind.

 

[Batgirl0202]

Finally got around to watching Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom...

My verdict? It was okay. I enjoyed it while it was playing but not essential by any means. Not great, not terrible, just another standard-issue CBM. I did realize while watching it though that I'm tired of Jason Momoa's schtick. Sure he's charming enough in the role but I'm ready for a more regal, stoic interpretation of Arthur Curry/Orin, perhaps with a less dudebroey actor...

I also liked that the very last scene of the DCEU was of Patrick Wilson eating a cockroach. That's oddly appropriate I think

Now that I've seen all the recent DCEU films, here's how I'd rate them:

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The Flash
Black Adam

Looking at the DCEU as a whole, these are my favourites:

Wonder Woman (2017)
Birds of Prey
Blue Beetle
Shazam! (2019)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Aquaman (2018)
Zack Snyder's Justice League

And that's a wrap. Rest In Peace DCEU. Now bring on the new DCU and Superman Legacy

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Sidebar, but Krysten Ritter clearly is telling us she signed on to be Psylocke.

 

[Drizzle]

Finally got around to watching Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom...

My verdict? It was okay. I enjoyed it while it was playing but not essential by any means. Not great, not terrible, just another standard-issue CBM. I did realize while watching it though that I'm tired of Jason Momoa's schtick. Sure he's charming enough in the role but I'm ready for a more regal, stoic interpretation of Arthur Curry/Orin, perhaps with a less dudebroey actor...

I also liked that the very last scene of the DCEU was of Patrick Wilson eating a cockroach. That's oddly appropriate I think

Now that I've seen all the recent DCEU films, here's how I'd rate them:

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The Flash
Black Adam

Looking at the DCEU as a whole, these are my favourites:

Wonder Woman (2017)
Birds of Prey
Blue Beetle
Shazam! (2019)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Aquaman (2018)
Zack Snyder's Justice League

And that's a wrap. Rest In Peace DCEU. Now bring on the new DCU and Superman Legacy

I feel like everyone went into Aquaman 2 expecting molten garbage but it ended up being surprisingly tolerable.

 

[kguillou]

A 1940's FILM-NOIR-ESQUE SET ANIMATED BATMAN SERIES?

This is the Batman project I've always dreamed of.

 

[Erzengel]

I did realize while watching it though that I'm tired of Jason Momoa's schtick.

I didn't think about it at the time but after a while I was like, can you play Aquaman a little more straight?

 

[Pennywise]

Why can’t we just get 1 episode weekly?

X-Men 97 has the right idea, excluding the first two episodes.

 

[MbJ]

Let's goooo!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

This is one case where Marvel can just flat out say that they'll be in Secret Wars. We all know it's happening, there's absolutely no point in hiding it.

 

[kguillou]

Why can’t we just get 1 episode weekly?

X-Men 97 has the right idea, excluding the first two episodes.

Thats a big mistake on their part. They should be releasing this weekly. I feel like this "weekend binge" model has run its course and is detrimental to the series. People will talk about it for a week and then it disappears from the zeitgeist. Releasing weekly keeps it in the conversation and builds hype and anticipation for the next one. X-men 97 blows up social media each week because of this.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

This is one case where Marvel can just flat out say that they'll be in Secret Wars. We all know it's happening, there's absolutely no point in hiding it.

And as long as he’s not Sacred Timeline Wolverine, I’d be okay with Jackman as a Wolverine variant in Wade’s corner of the MCU.

 

[Drizzle]

And as long as he’s not Sacred Timeline Wolverine, I’d be okay with Jackman as a Wolverine variant in Wade’s corner of the MCU.

Do we even know what the Sacred Timeline is in the X-Men movies anymore?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Do we even know what the Sacred Timeline is in the X-Men movies anymore?

No such thing homie