What I've seen and enjoyed:

X-Men (from the 2000's). First Class. Days Of Future Past. Sam Raimi Spider-Man. Blade 1+2.

What I've seen and didn't enjoy:

Iron Man. Avengers 1. The Amazing Spider-Man. X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Daredevil.

It feels like Marvel's earlier movies were better? From their MCU stuff I get the vibes of tokusatsu but it takes itself way to seriously and the Joss Whedon banter is so reddit it hurts.

Thoughts?

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    26 days ago

    I'll second Logan, Thor: Ragnarok, and the first Guardians of the Galaxy.

    I didn't see it mentioned in this thread, but Moonknight is pretty good.

    I finally watched The Marvels and liked it more than I thought I would, but I don't think I could actually recommend it to someone.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      26 days ago

      I finally watched The Marvels and liked it more than I thought I would, but I don't think I could actually recommend it to someone.

      Wasn't that the one where chuds got big mad over Captain Marvel being a woman even though she's been a woman in the comics for like a while?

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        26 days ago

        The Marvels is the second one - it's got Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Monica Rambeau in a kinda silly adventure movie. I'm sure the pronounjak-rages were made about it, too. It got a few sensible chuckles from me, but I don't think I could recommend it. It was better than Aquaman 2 I guess shrug-outta-hecks

        The first one, Captain Marvel, is a shitty amerikkka air force ad.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        26 days ago

        Yeah

        The original Captain Marvel died before I was born so it's really weird that anyone would get mad about it

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      25 days ago

      I didn't see it mentioned in this thread, but Moonknight is pretty good.

      Moon Knight was surprisingly well done, I have always liked the comics but thought making the transition to TV/Movies for Moon Knight would be kinda difficult. I think they did a good job.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        25 days ago

        Oscar Isaac does a pretty great job with his performance in it. That probably helps lol.

        Are there any runs of the comic that you'd recommend?

        • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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          25 days ago

          I thought the 2006 to 2009 Charlie Huston (writer) and David Finch (Illustrator) was really grime-y and heavy in a non-edgy way. It was kinda impacted by the big "Civil War" event (I'm generally anti-"Massive multiple comic super events" as I think it usually doesn't really work) but I thought that whole run was a great run. It really explored Khonshu as a character which I dig. I always see Moon Knight as a "Warlock"/"Anti-Paladin" style character and I the relationship between Khonshu and Moon Knight to be the most interesting dynamic of the comic.

          I also dig the "Mr. Knight" alter ego run as well. Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey I think was 2012 or something like that. Great art and strong writing, just plain good-ass comic.

          Of course read the OG comics too, I only read the first ten from 1980's but they were pretty damn good.

          As with all comics there is just so much damn to read, but I have found most of the Moon Knights to be solid.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            25 days ago

            As with all comics there is just so much damn to read

            Too true, thanks for some possible jumping in points. I just started reading Berserk this week, so who knows when I'll give Moon Knight a shot lol