Pokecheque wrote:
harmfuljays wrote:
http://collider.com/upcoming-marvel-movies/#blade
Pass......I don't understand the need to have Natalie Portman run around with a hammer or be Thor. Who in the world is this targeting?
Well, to be fair, it's based off a recent (and pretty well-received) plotline in the comics, so I think it could work. And hey, as Kyle says it's Natalie Portman. Honestly, I thought the Thor franchise was the weakest of the various "properties," and The Dark World was and still is by far my least favorite of the MCU films. Ragnarok was good but I didn't come out absolutely loving it. I'm curious though as to how they go about bringing Mjolnir back.
The one I'm kinda wary of is The Eternals. That one could suck hard, because IMO the source material ain't that great. Jack Kirby created them when he returned to Marvel from his brief dalliance with DC (where he created very similar characters in the New Gods) and they've just never clicked for me. They even brought in Neil frickin' Gaiman and John Romita, Jr. to kinda revitalize them and it still just did nothing for me. If they try and tie them in with Thanos, like the comics, it'll make a little more sense. Otherwise it's just gonna be some good-looking people in outlandish costumes spouting Shakespearean-inspired dreck amidst some fancy CGI effects. The cast is certainly intriguing though.
But the one I'm super-duper excited about is BLADE starring MOTHERFUCKIN' MAHERSHALA ALI!!!!! If that doesn't kick heretofore serious ass I'm going to be enraged. I loved the first two Blade films with Wesley Snipes, and hated the third one. And I couldn't even get through the first 20 minutes of the TV series.
TO BE FAIR (shout out to Letterkenny)
Yes...I too could watch Natalie Portman in anything...I watched Black Swan for crying out loud....but its just too much pandering for me. There's no need for it. But Marvel studios is charging foward! Inclusion speed!
I thought they already time traveled that Mjolnir business...seems time travel fixes everything lately....
I remember the Eternals mini series back in the 80's (my height of comicbookdom) and it was fairly weak then. By the time they redid it back in 2006 I was too busy chasing kids to pay attention and my days had passed. You are on target...doesn't seem to be enough unless they are tying it in the Skrulls, Kree, Thanos, Universe concept....
Black Widow....I might watch that one but that's only because I like Scarlett.
The Doctor Strange one.....Pass. Doctor Strange is odd enough...drilling down on a minor character is reaching.
I liked a few of the Blade movies.....I didn't know who that MAHERSHALA ALI guy was so I had to look him up.
I am not particularly wowed by any of those announcements though. Marvel seems to be tearing off in a direction beyond my following.
007....I have never really been into outside of the Roger Moore/Connery era...if they want to jump in on the Gender fluid wagon so be it. I can only cringe and wait for it to go the other way:
Pretty Man
Dirty Dancing with roles reversed.
The notebook
Titanic.....Jill, Jill!
CinderJohn...escapes his cruel Wicked father who makes him do chores goes to the club and loses a slip on loafer.
Very excited!