Me too, I’m glad I waited lol. I like her character, I just didn’t wanna buy it without knowing what’s she be doing in the movie.
I haven’t seen the Black Widow or Shang Chi movies yet and I don’t care about movieverse stuff but at this point I think it’s safe to say the MCU movies will be good (at least in a purely just entertaining way). Before they hit their stride around when Disney took over, it was safe to assume that all movie adaptations of comic characters from Marvel or DC were going to be wrecks.
Did anyone get a strange email from Pulse telling them their order for the Eye of Agamotto has been delayed? The reason I ask is because I never ordered the Eye of Agamotto, so I have no idea why I would be getting an email for it.
definitely enjoyable...marvel magic still works... maaaaybe a bit too long...could have used a 5-10 minute trim (especially towards the end)
I did, but I suspect it's really about HeroQuest. Several other folks who haven't ordered anything else got the same email. The delay timeframe looks right, too: from late 2021 to January 2022. My money is on HeroQuest being late. EDIT: They now say "Oops, wrong email sent!" So who knows.
Fascinating take. My favourite DC & Marvel adaptations are Dark Knight, Raimi's Spider-Man 2, and Donner's Superman, all made before Disney purchased Marvel (40 years before, in Superman's case). New stuff isn't the only good stuff.
Well, everyone has their own tastes. I’ll give you Donner’s Superman for nostalgic sake but honestly, go back to those movies and even back then, I appreciated them mainly because it was all we had. I mean, Gene Hackman is a great actor and all but that Lex Luthor was pathetic.
In Hackman's defense..I think arguably the best portrayal of Lex we've ever had were in Smallville and the Justice League animated series.
Not saying much…I go back to my original statement about on screen interpretations of comic characters.
So after seeing Shang-Chi... Spoiler They could easily make another wave from the film. Abomination BAF with Shang-chi (with the rings) or a civilian clothes look, Razorfist, Wong, Trevor, movie accurate Wenmu, and someone else. However, I think it’d be a better call to do two-packs. Wong vs Abomination is an obvious pack, but I’d also love a Razorfist and Trevor. Maybe split the two up with more accurate versions of Shang-Chi and Wenmu. Wenmu with Razorfist and Shang with Trevor knowing how Hasbro loves to split up characters to make you buy them both.
Oh, the Luthor scenes are definitely the weakest part of Donner's Superman (they're so slapstick they feel like they're from a different movie), and the timey-wimey ending is weaksauce, but I love Reeve's portrayal of both Clark and Kal El, all the Smallville and Fortress of Solitude stuff has a great timeless mythic feel, and the scene where Lois interviews Superman is better than most entire superhero movies made since then. And I'd say Dark Knight and Spider-Man 2 still "hold up" pretty well too, haha. But yep, to each their own! I'm definitely enjoying the MCU; it's consistently entertaining, even if it doesn't usually reach my snobbish definition of "great art." And I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with Fantastic Four and X-Men. (There needs to FINALLY be a GOOD Fantastic Four movie (aside from The Incredibles) one of these days!) Anyway... toys!
Personally, I despise the Reeve version of Superman, Clark is incredibly fake in that version. To me, the gold standard of Clark/Superman is probably Dean Cain.
I’m just now realizing that figure would make a great Mark 1 Iron Man in my merged ML/GIJoe head canon.
