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Mostly MCU Reviews
My articles from
the week
So who’s seen Avengers:
Age of Ultron so far? If you
haven’t, check out my non-spoiler review
from last Friday; if you have, check out my spoiler review
from Saturday.
How did Avengers:
Age of Ultron lead into this week’s episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Here
are my thoughts from before the episode aired.
How did I do?
Daredevil
episode 1x04, “In the Blood” review. What was your favorite moment?
Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. episode 2x20, “Scars” expectations
and review. What did you think of the episode?
How long do you think Avengers: Age of Ultron should have been? I think huge ensemble movies should get a
little more leeway in terms of length, but that might just be me. Would you be turned off by a 3½-hour Avengers
movie?
The Late-S.H.I.E.L.D.
Pseudo-Director offers his insights on how to negotiate with the Inhumans. What do you think of his advice?
MCU News
Links to news
articles and blog posts about the MCU
Age of Ultron
has now made the MCU the highest-grossing movie franchise in the world
and it’s not going to be finished any time soon. Any guesses how much the MCU will gross by
the end of Phase 3?
Age of Ultron’s
official U.S. opening weekend total is $191.3 million. That’s higher than they said at first, but
still lower than the first movie and lower than most expectations. Where do you think the total will go from
here?
Joss Whedon wanted to include Spider-Man and Captain Marvel in Avengers: Age of Ultron in some
capacity at first. Would you have liked to see that? I'm torn: on the one hand it would have been awesome; on the other hand that would have meant 6 new characters in a movie with a dozen returning characters.
Tom Hardy wants to play the Punisher. I wonder if he might be too big of a name to
appear on Netflix (which may be the best venue for an MCU Punisher), but if the
money’s there and the actor’s there, I’m pretty sure the House of Mouse can
make it work! Do you want to see Tom
Hardy as Frank Castle?
Here are the details
on a certain cut scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron starring a fan-favorite character. Do you wish they had included this scene?
Martin Freeman joined the cast of Captain America: Civil War. Any idea who he might be playing? On that subject, take a minute and look at
this cast list
for Captain America: Civil War.
There are TEN Avengers (or future Avengers like Black Panther) on
that list! And that’s not including
Avengers frenemy The Winter Soldier, ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Sharon Carter and
Frank Grillo/Crossbones, or the new Spider-Man!
This is going to be the biggest MCU movie to-date… and both Infinity
War movies will probably be bigger!
Who’s excited to see all of these heroes (and a few villains) in action?
Avengers: Infinity
War Parts 1 and 2 will be the first movie(s) filmed entirely with the new IMAX camera. This sounds pretty cool. However, for me the story itself is more
important than the camera technology. A
good movie can transcend lower-quality cameras (not camera-work, but the
cameras themselves); a bad movie is bad no matter what technology the directors
throw at it. But what do you think?
Marvel TV—ABC Division
has decided not to double its shows again this year. The Bobbi and Hunter spinoff is not going to
happen, but the other series is still in the works. However, it’s not all bad news: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter were both confirmed for another season! Are you disappointed that we don’t get 2 new
shows, or does the news that both shows are returning and there’s a third show
coming alleviate it? Personally, I was
hoping for a spinoff show in which Bobbi and Hunter lead a team of S.H.I.E.L.D.
agents and Inhumans working together against a common enemy. Maybe they’ll find a way to work that into AoS
season 3.
Rosario Dawson’s
Claire Temple will be back for Daredevil season 2, along with other
Marvel Netflix series. Are you excited to see more of her?
News from Around
Geekdom
Anything not
related to the MCU that I find interesting
Two of the top three most-valuable comic book movie franchises are Marvel-related, and the MCU isn’t one of
them. Any guesses to number 1?
Here’s the first look
at the Suicide Squad in costume. What do you think of it? Are you excited for this movie?
So the second Star
Wars Anthology movie is going to be a Boba Fett origin story. I’m pretty curious to see what they are doing
with the franchise moving forward. Are
you excited?
Fox is releasing a
“Rogue Cut” of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Are you interested? I think Marvel needs to do something similar
with Avengers: Age of Ultron:
sell both the theatrical cut and director’s cut (#AoUDirectorsCut).
Announce ALL the
reboots! Disney is planning to reboot (or continue) the Indiana Jones franchise some day. Would you go see it? I think I would as long as it’s not another Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull-thing.
And in other news,
comic-book-based TV shows are taking over ALL the TV stations! Supergirl was recently greenlit for a
season one coming in the fall. Are you
going to watch it? I’m tempted by the
DCTVU, but I don’t think I can handle that on top of the MCU!
The one DC TV show I did
watch this year was Constantine, which was not renewed. If WB finds a new home for Constantine,
are you going to watch season 2?
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