Didn't Stan Lee have a contract stating that he got to have a cameo in every Marvel movie? Isn't this what that primadonna would have wanted? Oh, and superhero movies in general suck.
It might comfort you to know that “Phase Four” of Marvel looks like it will go nowhere in story, and doesn’t look very interesting at all as a whole. Fantastic Four MIGHT come out in three years from now.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks it looks boring. The main draw of the entire MCU was Robert Downey Jr., and I just don't think its going to be held together well by Thor, Spiderman and the B-squad. I think part of it is that there is just a huge over-saturation of superhero movies now. The entire concept has been completely diluted, but I get the studios keep pumping them out because of the large ROI. If they really wanted to do a worthwhile F4 movie, they should have Chris Evans come back as Johnny Storm and then never address it whatsoever. Or they can just have the team gang-rape Stan Lee's corpse for 2 hours, but it sounds like that's been happening all along, apparently.
I think some of the alternative characters like GotG, Eternals, etc. have some potential, and Thor 4 done by the same guys who did Ragnarok seems fun, but Phase 4 looks like a flea market basket of nonsense. The TV shows thus far have been fucking awful, to the point where I'm looking at "Loki" in the same vein as "Agents of SHIELD". Loki is a fantastic character, played by a tremendous actor, and the MCU just over-exposed it to the point where a TV show is fucking pointless. I get "Endgame" was a high point, and definitely hard to follow, but....yeesh. Did y'all even know Ghost Rider was in one of those shows?? Except he drives a haunted...Dodge? Go fucking fuck yourself. It feels like it's gotten too big, so there's no point in the individual movies (seriously, why would you need to see Black Widow? Watch the previews twice, and guess what the fuck happens) and the other elements (the video games, the cartoon series and the tv shows) are either irrelevant, a tremendous let-down, or both. They better hurry the fuck up with them X-Men. Fantastic Four is too wholesome, they are boring as shit. There's been no less than 4 attempts, all of which are embarassing. The only way I'd be into it is if they got the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" to portray the characters, and Dennis as Dr. Doom.
Apparently, not even death itself allows one to escape a Hollywood contract. Or one's image and vision being exploited. I tend to agree, but I really liked Batman, Batman and Robin, The Dark Knight, and if it counts, Super by that pedophile James Gunn was borderline brilliant at times. It's hard to imagine any of those movies being made nowadays, though. If there's one thing Disney are masters of, that's corpse-fucking.
Haha, it looks like they are leaning in to the camp and trash from the first one, instead of trying to go the other way.
Carnage is a character in the comics who brutally murdered every innocent person that came into sight with him “Because I can”. If you were to make it serious, it would have to be even nastier than the first “Blade” movie. Instead it will probably just be a bad movie, like the first Venom film was.
I don't know if this will be any good, but whoever cut the trailer knows what they're doing. However, it's based on the book, Two Kisses for Maddy. They should have used that title instead of the Bill Cosby book.
I'm genuinely curious, but what do you mean by "serious Carnage movie"? I loved the character when I was 8 years-old to the point of even reading a Spiderman light novel about him battling the supervillain, but the last descriptor I would ever attach to him is "serious"...or to Spiderman in general. You have this incredibly dangerous villain, that, rather than the military immediately blasting him to Kingdom Come as soon as he becomes a nuisance (what ultimately happens to THOUSANDS of superheroes in The Boys, including ones, like Homelander, who are depicted as far more powerful than Carnage is), simply gets captured and put in a loony bin until he inevitably escapes. And his entire character and motivation is basically "lunatic who makes Spidermanesque quips and bad puns, because this was the fucking 90's in comics and all you needed was a "badass" character design, story and originality be damned. Look at Rob Liefeld!". A truly serious story featuring Carnage would involve whatever cops or federal agencies immediately toasting him with bullets, nerve gas, napalm, and whatever else as soon as they wanted to. But him simply being caught and released, like an unneutered stray cat or an illegal alien, is not a "serious" story, regardless of how many swear words or the amount of graphic blood or the number of innocent people killed. It's still just a damn kid's story. And I can vouch for that, because it's exactly what I loved about him as an 8 year-old. He had a cool-looking design and would kill tons of people graphically while mocking them.
There is just nothing appealing to me about the Saw/Spiral genre of movies. Figuring out increasingly elaborate ways to realistically and viscerally relocate limbs and organs is just not a movie experience that I find any enjoyment in.