Capeshit thread (comics and movies)

[Lindsay's Liver]

I haven't seen anything Marvel in four or five years and I get the impression that I'd be lost if I went to whatever the latest one is. I've missed maybe five or six movies and about 28 Disney streaming series. It feels to me like the hugeness of it all will eventually lead to diminishing audiences. Businesses thrive on new business. They want to grow, not just appeal to the same people each time.

A lot of eyes will be on their eventual "Fantastic Four" movie, I think. I'm curious about that one myself.

As for failed reboots and restarts, those movies were just bad, which makes the difference. If a movie is good it's another story. I'm keeping an open mind about the James Gunn DC rehabilibation.

[Le Redditeur]

What's to be curious about it? It will be generic capeshit trite with lots of woke and padding.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Fantastic Four is cursed. No movie adaptation was ever any good.

[Lindsay's Liver]

I loved Fantastic Four as a kid. I got into them during the John Byrne era. It's crazy that there's not a decent movie about them. I'm curious to see if this one will be. That's all I got.

[McGinnis]

Fantastic Four is cursed. No movie adaptation was ever any good.

The B-movie

I loved Fantastic Four as a kid. I got into them during the John Byrne era. It's crazy that there's not a decent movie about them. I'm curious to see if this one will be. That's all I got.

Redditeur is probably right, don't get your hopes up. Modern Hollywood are unlikely to make a good movie simply because they're an all-white team and there's no way to force in their DEI initiatives without it being incredibly ham-handed (see: Trank's Fantastic Flop shitshow)

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

They will probably keep Trank's of making at least one of the Fantastc Four black.
Also the Invisible Woman will be the leader.

[McGinnis]

They will probably keep Trank's of making at least one of the Fantastc Four black.

But that's just it. They can't without it being fucking stupid. Sue and Johnny are brother and sister so you can't make one of them black without making the other black, or else coming up with dumb justifications for why one's black and the other isn't (as Trank's movie did). You could make Reed Richards black but then they'd probably complain that the black is the stretchy nerdy science man who doesn't really do anything. So that leaves you with The Thing and if you make him black they'll complain that of course the rock monster is the black one

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Making the stretchy one a non-white stretchy one would be extra weird considering they turned their actual non-white stretchy one (Kamala Khan) into a Green Lantern.
The Thing might work on a "I look like the monster all white people think all black people are" symbolism angle, but then again they like whining and bitching when a black person is not actually black (at least in Pixar's Soul).
That leaves the brother-and-sister combo, which has the added bonus of all those "racists" claiming that's "unrealistic".

[Kugelfisch]

Arguing that capeshit is like arguing No Man's Sky has a billion different planets. Technically its true but it all blends together.

[CuckTurdginson]

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Its happenninnnnnnnnng.