WOWEE! :so-true:
He uses his stretching powers to twist his brain into inventing new ways to say Colombian death squads are cool.
Totally unsurprised. And fitting because I hate Reed Richard's uselessness in the comics.
A wealthy educated white dude who would rather build nanomachines or some shit than do the work to make the world a better place.
Comics exist in a universe where the world actively refuses to get better.
Venture Bros had the best take on him. Huge piece of shit, emotionally absent when not abusive
Venture Bros remains a fantastic commentary on super heros and the culture surrounding them, even if it started as a lackluster hanna barbera parody.
I was pleasantly surprised to see
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CIA Jim get twisted up with CGI magic until his brain pops
Super Spoilers.
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Dr Strange gets zapped to a universe where an organization called the illuminati are the world's preeminent super organization. Wanda Maximoff kills all of them, because she's gone evil and corrupted with black magic. The group is all cocky because they stopped Thanos, and Black Bolt is about to obliterate her with his voice, and Scarlet Witch is all like "but you don't have a mouth" she's removed his mouth, like that scene in the Matrix, but he tries to speak anyway and implodes his own head, the back of which slumps down in a jello-like manner. This is to date the most graphically violent MCU entry to date. Captain Carter gets cut in half with her own shield, Captain Marvel gets crushed by a collapsing column. Professor X enters Wanda's mind in order to stop her but she snaps his neck in the mental realm, so he has a jerky little aneurysm and slumps in his hover chair.
Beautiful. Now, if only
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she kills the rest of the
Marvel Cinematic Multiverse (MCM) then all those whiny thinkpieces about Wandavision would be worth it.
It would be the metaphorical equivalent of a fanboy's girlfriend forcing them to get rid of their Funko Pop collection.
I want that now and hope I get my turn at the Lathe to let it happen.
While I'm at it, I want Wanda to get over Vision and having children to pursue a relationship with a black woman.
The entire time in that world was my favorite part of the movie.
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Especially when Wanda was by limping chasing them with her face covered in “oil” that was very clearly meant to look like blood. Also the “You have no mouth” but.
It really was a Sam Raimi ass movie, and if i recall correctly, it had no Whedon dialogue.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReedRichardsIsUseless
The trope is even called "Reed Richard is Useless"
Much has been said about how Comic Books are reactionary; the only ones who try to change the state of the world are naturally villains and the status quo is defended by the protagonists. I do, however, think that a world that has been fixed by do-gooders and as a result has less strife is a less interesting setting dramatically. Could you make a movie about Mr Fantastic curing cancer or doing geoengineering to mitigate Global Warming? On the other hand, if this current cultural moment is giving us horror movies and dramas via the inventory of comic book characters, maybe we're going to get a weird biopic, something in the vein of 127 hours, The Aviator, or A Beautiful Mind, but with comic book characters. A kind of "man against society" conflict story where a guy in spandex under a lab coat struggles to make the world a better place while reminiscing about his strained marriage and protean relationship with Dr Doom as they repeatedly come into conflict, each both trying to force the world to meet their conflicting ideals.
John Krasinski is Mr Fantastic as directed by Terrence Malick.
Watchmen continues to be the best superhero comic ever written and one of the very few to recognize the inherent white supremacist reactionary ideology of superheroes. Its criticism still tracks nearly 40 years later. The ultimate fate of the superhero is becoming genocidal for convoluted, narcissistic reasons or to have godlike powers and do nothing.
The perils of living in a serialized world where your story can never have an end.
...For the love of god, Marvel, stop resetting The Hulk every single time he gets his life back together!
Watchmen continues to be the best superhero comic ever written
I'm more partial to Transmetropolitain, but I'll concede Watchmen on artistic merit.
That's a very good point. I guess there are ways to make a good story out of anything. I just wish reactionaries would let go of the wheel sometimes.
I don't know a lot about Reed Richards put I feel like office Jim is a terrible pick and only done so he can lead films to come.
I don't even know who you could get to do it, I'm sure any one that actually would be good for the role wouldn't have the star power that office Jim has.
It's just to get people in seats so they can point at the screen and recognize things they liked from the mid 2000s.
"OMG it's office Jim talking to Sherlock and professor x!"
Media just found ways to make Funko pops but we visual media.
See NFTs. Or choose self-care and don't.
I actually think CIA Jim was a good casting for Reed Richards, because I consistently can’t fucking stand Reed Richards
I’ll be honest my knowledge of Reed Richards is that I saw the mid-2000s fantastic 4 movies and the 2015 fantastic 4 movies, so I don’t know if he’s supposed to be a POS, but I hated him in all 3
Guy who is so insufferably smug and clueless that he drives half his family to Supervilliany?
They nailed it.
Just need to bring back Jenna Fischer as Sue Storm and Brian Baumgartner as The Thing.
Krasinski went from directing a David Foster Wallace inspired Brief Interviews with Hideous Men to glorifying the CIA and that's the real horseshoe theory.
He was in a Jack Ryan series and also that movie about Benghazi. He's not really CIA but did a few interviews praising the security state.
what others said, but also the guy who played the same character in the original english version of the office now plays a lovable cia guy in all the marvel shit and you can fucking bet the two characters are going to meet and have some cringe fanservice dialogue that will make you want to stab your own earholes
could we at least put a spoiler tag on this lol
i want to get stoned as fuck and watch my caped telenovelas in peace sometimes
Fantastic 4 would work much better as a comedy series or a family drama than it ever will as a movie. I don't know why they keep trying to do movie adaptations, especially now with all the successful series and miniseries.
why exactly did people start fantasy casting him? i don't think he'll be good in the role
The MCU is so sprawling that they'll take just about anyone whose at least B-List.
Once Chris Pratt got a leading role as a Superhero, anything went.
pitch: mike myers career revival movie but he plays four members of the illuminati
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