This guy has completely hit the nail on the head. These big Hollywood companies spending dumb money to bring back A list actors for iconic roles when they could easily bring in some new and upcoming hungry actors who actually care about the roles. This trend is repeatedly being shown all over Hollywood and it needs to stop.
But they don't know what created A-list actors in the first place. They started out small, until they had their breakout hit, but instead of just playing that role over and over again, they were cast in roles that challenged them to actually act, and for the most part, it paid off. Nowadays, "big" actors get one breakout role, and every role they're cast in afterwards is subservient to that role. Examples include Chris Pratt, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and now Pedro Pascal. Like, when was the last time they played a character that wasn't a wisecracking loser, or a parent/guardian of a special child or a beefed up hot dog who's too cool for school?
I don't think directors are the ones forcing the characters to take off their mask... Darth vader was to iconic to make directors do that... Before I thought they were doing it because they don't know how to make a character act real without showing their expressions but the more i think about it, the more a mask would be gold for any director to slap on their actor's face for easy edits... I think it's the actors putting this in their contract for fear that they might have a killer acting expression in a scene and no one gets to see it because of the mask... Plus they might end up creating a well love character but no one gets to see them do it with their own face and it won't look good on their IMDb page... Thoughts???
They seem to forget that Tom Holland was borderline nobody by Hollywood standards before 2015. And yet? He's one of the best actors they have currently.
RDJ does have the acting skills to play a totally different character from Tony Stark. The problem is that Marvel likely won't do that as they brought RDJ back specifically for his built in appeal to the masses, and they wouldn't want to change that, so his Doom will be very Ironman-like.
That's so disappointing. Since I think it's redundant to dismiss RDJ's acting chops if better utilized. But with the Russo's at the wheel... that's a mad size *if.*
The MCU told the story it needed to tell, but stories have to end. That's what the problem is with the comic books behind the MCU: there has to be a next issue, even if the story is complete. Sad to see the movies follow the same path.
@@spritvio639 cause we still wanna passively be up to speed on whats happening with it? And its not like we could ever avoid hearing about it on the internet
@@spritvio639I see that using the words "moved on" makes it look like I have written off Marvel entirely. That's not how I meant it though. I am willing to come back anytime Marvel puts out something worth watching.
God it was insulting! They should've cast Cillian Murphy or Mads Mikkaelson as Doom. I don't know what I'm disgusted at more: this or casting Pedro Manscal as Reed Richards.. A *DILFY* ROLE for A *WHITE WELL ACCOMPLISHED* ACTOR!
I feel like this is unfair. If a big reveal was being made and it turned out to be an actor you really like of course you’re gonna cheer regardless of the context. You can disagree with his being Dr. Doom and still be hype to see him in the flesh.
It’s kind of astonishing that people thought of these mcu films as “accurate to comics” when in reality they just cherry pick highlights from our favorite storylines while forgetting that they benefit from a long term plan that integrates different characters arcs into one big arc for the whole payoff like endgame to pay off which btw endgame didn’t stick the landing and ever since that film they refuse to start with a new iron man,cap,black widow, spidey etc…
I don't think I've ever heard a single person call the MCU "comic accurate." They didn't have Spider-Man for the longest time and still can't use mutants; how can they be? They weren't accurate even before they started their shitty gender and race swaps and decimated characters like She-Hulk, Valkyrie, and Stature. (You can't even argue they got Captain Marvel right, cause she's not evil and butch enough and they didn't cast Mackenzie Davis to play Carl Manvers.)
having the leader, thunderbolt ross and red hulk in "captain america" movie is so dumb. why don't we put them in a hulk movie oh wait the hulk is a lifeless husk that is poorly acted and poorly fleshed out in the MCU. Brilliant work
Disney will be damned if they decide to give any money to Universal and make a new Hulk movie, so instead they just put the Hulk and Hulk content in movies where they don't belong, at the detriment of those movies. Thor Ragnarok is another prime example of this.
Also the last movie about the Hulk was trashed by an lot of people. It wasn’t till he start saying “ Hulk smash” that guys start paying attention to the character. What do you mean poorly acted?
@@nowonspecial they can't make a spider man movie too without giving 75 percent profit to sony. Yet they don't make a Hulk movie but they easily make Spiderman movies because they like the yummy 😋 spidy money because it's easy money. Why would they work hard to create a good character with a different movie which we have not seen before cause it takes hard work, hard work was a thing that the previous directors did in the mcu before the endgame to give a unique movie with unique characters like what scott Ericson did with dr. Strange, jon favreu did with iron man, James gun did with the guardians, Josh Whedon did with the Avengers, louis and Edward Norton did with the incredible Hulk, James mangold did with Logan, ang Lee did with the Hulk, Sam raimi did with the Spider-Man Nowadays we can see entitled bratty writers like that of dr. Strange 2 who didn't even bother to watch wanda vision before making that cash grab this guy will also write secret wars and the writer of antman 3 ( the film which had to introduce the big bad of this phase) who said it is my first time writing a screenplay for a movie or a show this same guy was a writer for kang dynasty. I want to ask " why do you want a billion dollars collection from us if you can't be fair to your work? "
@ I’m gonna act like a producer now. So I have to make back double the cost of creating the movie, so If my Hulk movie cost 137 million to make and it made back 265 million. Then I lost money. This is an business, we have to make money to continue this business. So my Hulk movie lost money, plus got subpar reviews and fans are now calling me “ woke “ because I want to make a meaningful movie and not just a “ Good guy punch bad guy” movie. So why should I make this Hulk movie?
I am a firm believer that it should've been Bucky who should've taken the mantle over Sam, simply because he had a lot more character to him. (In the context of the MCU) Don't get me wrong, I like kinda like Falcon, but when you look back, he really wasn't that important of a character. Bucky was given literally everything to be a great character, yet they wasted it. Such a shame.
You have no idea how much bucky would have been the best cap... A guy who was forced to fight for the enemy trying to redeem himself as the defender of freedom... He was the perfect fit... Sam was perfect as falcon, leave him as falcon (and can you just let us blk just have our own original characters rather than giving us hand me downs)... A person from the same era as steve, from the same war that made America the defender of the world (don't think about the irl problems with that, just stick to the idealized version of it), we would literally have the Steve rise to cap that was montage through in the first avenger movie... So many opportunities... I know this channel as a lot of gripes with efap, I do too, but their reasoning of why bucky would have made the perfect cap was beautiful (it was in their review of falcon and the winter soldier, one of their best episodes if you ask me)... What marvel did was the biggest missed opportunity ever for the thousand entry of blk MN opprsd which backfired hard on them because they had no idea how petty they just made blk people in comparison to what the rest of the world was going through... Imagine a recovering bucky rising to become cap in a recovering world from the blip... Aaaargh... Thinking about it just pisses me the 4K off...
And yet… I don’t think THIS version of Bucky was a great fit for Captain America. Bro was basically nonexistent in Civil War beside being a McGuffin for Tony and Steve’s fight, then in Infinity War does nothing for the final fight and he’s there for only a few minutes and vanish, same thing for Endgame. A new captain America should’ve been someone with a presence as big as Steve but this Bucky ain’t it. Should’ve just retired the shield.
@anibalrodriguez2626 you think bucky was non-existent in civil war??? Really... You just glossed past the climax of civil war to make that point... Plus that's not a reason to not pass the shield to him because the point would be he'll grow into being the new cap... Spiderman was basically non-existent in civil war and he grew up to be his own character in the MCU... But at least you didn't defend the Sam choice...
We all know Sam becomes the new cap. then he gives it up. I don't understand why they're making it a big deal! Like cool Sam is the new cap. But show him give up the mantel and have Steve come back as cap for secret empire as a Hydra agent. lol! But it's like MCU is afraid of good storytelling. lol!
Last I heard Baron Zemo is still alive in the MCU and he was in the comic book Thunderbolts. Soooo, why not include him in the team? He was like the only compelling villain who survived their intro and he's played by a fantastic actor. Him and Bucky would have tons of interesting character interactions, even with Red Guardian maybe. He'd add credibility to this being a team of villians. He's like...right there. Dying to be put in this movie.
@@brewmaster2912my brother ghost was so forgettable the ant-man and the wasp quantum never mensión her, when they make a What if ? about ant-man and the wasp they totally forgot that She was literally in the same room. Her exact problem is that they focus to heard on make her sympathetic buday really have nothing else going for her.
I really hate how actors are further becoming more like brands, or even just simply living memes, rather than artists who value their craft. I totally get that not everything has to be taken seriously, in fact I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not saying that every actor should only consider a role if it can let them an Oscar. But there gets to a point where fans need to stop acting like trained seals every time they see popular celebrity who is popular because theyre told they're popular.
@@JP-1990 How do you think I felt with Jonathan Majors? He's not bad. But he never gave me *HIM* energy (but then again, that could come down to the whack material).
@@JP-1990 Yeah, he was solid in _Devotion._ It's just he didn't convey that omnipotent energy. I probably need to watch more projects with Majors, but he felt kinda weak chin to me in Quantumania.
When I think of Doctor Doom, I think of how Stan Lee wrote him. He is dramatic and speaks in big words. He has a real sense of presence despite the fact that he can't really emote. As soon as he appears, you know it's a big deal. Despite barely being in it, that's how he was portrayed in Avengers EMH. Even the unreleased Fantastic Four film had a decent Doom. But this casting does not give me any of those vibes. I was never even that big a fan of RDJ as Iron Man. He was good, but my favorite Tony Starks are Robert Hays (from the 90's cartoons), and Eric Loomis (from Avengers EMH). Although much of that is the writing.
If they wanted a female Herald they could have just used Nova; she is a well established character and has a very strong relationship with Galactus, and was connected to the Fantastic Four beforehand. This move to gender-bend SS seems like Disney Marvel is trying too hard. 😕
@@brewmaster2912 Ain't the Russo's the same bozos who posted AI pics during the strike past year & even admited they're using chat GPT to write Doomsday and Secret Wars?
@@ItsJae_37so stupid. Imagine a school shooter blasting a whole school full of kids and the man who is meant to be the symbol of America goes and says to the government “you can’t keep calling them school shooters”
@@juanbisonosuero3650 What I meant by that is it's a fight that nobody wants as the main conflict of a movie as it's pitting a hero against an unrelated villain.
I've said this on a previous upload but once again I think they blew their wad way too early with Thanos - they literally turned every major event in the canon into a one film steppingstone to lead up to the Infinity Gauntlet and now they have nothing to go off of and it feels directionless and pointless - like smashing action figures into each other.
Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Punisher: Street level threats. The X-Men: International threats. The Fantastic Four and Sentry: Cosmic threats. The Avengers movies: Everyone reunites to stop Galactus. Viggo Mortensen would be Doctor Doom. Ten more years of high quality MCU projects, right there. But no, they had to hire Victoria Alonzo, skip through the entire 90s and 2000s of Marvel comics and go straight into the shitty woke era. The MCU is long dead and they deserve every single failure since 2021.
The problem is, RDJ isn’t a bankable star outside of the MCU. Most of his non MCU movies under performed. Another thing, expect him not to wear the Doom mask during most of the movie. All his Doombots will be life like androids who look identical to Victor before he got the scars from the science experiment that went wrong. He might even use some sort of facial manipulation imaging around his face to hide his scars and burns.
I went from thinking "It's so dumb it's brilliant" to "Nom it's just dumb." really quickly when I heard about the... to put it nicely surreal but to put it bluntly COMPLETELY INSANE choice to get RDJ to play Doctor Doom. And, of course, it's obviously the latter.
It’s telling that Sony immediately retooled Spider-Man 4 to take place after Avengers Doomsday after the cast reveal. I get the feeling that they’re going with Peter Parker taking on Evil Tony Stark.
You have no idea how much bucky would have been the best cap... A guy who was forced to fight for the enemy trying to redeem himself as the defender of freedom... He was the perfect fit... Sam was perfect as falcon, leave him as falcon (and can you just let us blk just have our own original characters rather than giving us hand me downs)... A person from the same era as steve, from the same war that made America the defender of the world (don't think about the irl problems with that, just stick to the idealized version of it), we would literally have the Steve rise to cap that was montage through in the first avenger movie... So many opportunities... I know this channel as a lot of gripes with efap, I do too, but their reasoning of why bucky would have made the perfect cap was beautiful (it was in their review of falcon and the winter soldier, one of their best episodes if you ask me)... What marvel did was the biggest missed opportunity ever for the thousand entry of blk MN opprsd which backfired hard on them because they had no idea how petty they just made blk people in comparison to what the rest of the world was going through... Imagine a recovering bucky rising to become cap in a recovering world from the blip... Aaaargh... Thinking about it just pisses me the 4K off...
Not gonna lie, If they gotten Lex Lang just voice Dr. Doom and have someone wear the suit and do all of the action, then you got yourself Dr. Doom in live action. You would think that having Dr. Doom in live action would be pretty easy by now. 🤔 Or just get an Romanian male actor who is tall, muscular and can play a commanding, intelligent and regal character and call it a day.
I literally watch you more then the MCU because you care more about this property then Kevin and his curious I feel bad for Stan Lee but at least he didn't see how his creations fell down because of Disney
I have a slight suspicion that Stan had a big hand in how the MCU is turning out as well, but the man can’t defend himself anymore so I won’t push that further
@@TeenPerspektiva For example, After Zendaya was announced as MJ, Stan came to her defense to say “Actually I wanted MJ to be black all along but back then it wasn’t allowed”. Maybe he was telling the truth but idk, it seems he was ok with letting a lot of all this changes through that now are common place and we complain so much
@@anibalrodriguez2626 interesting. well he didnt really have control over those things but i wasnt aware of those interviews. my guess he just wanted to be publicly supportive
@@lukeswagwalker1435 I am a Muslim from India and this guy is right. He is not a nerd the problem is you are uneducated. Your lgbt movies like eternals, dr. Strange 2 don't work in other countries like India , Pakistan and are outright banned in Saudi Arabia, china etc. so go and play this😮 victim card on Saudi Arabia and China. Even shang chi got banned in China😂😂🤣🤣 so why don't you call them r@scist and f@$cist
@@lukeswagwalker1435 nah allow yourself with this comment. You can see he’s a dedicated fan from the comic lore material. who’s done his research and actually spitting facts about how these big Hollywood companies not respecting the actual source material of the comics and wasting money on A list actors for cash grabs instead of bringing in up and coming new and fresh actors who properly could deliver outstanding performances also.
@@lkl2426 he has many MANY fallacies in his videos he had some points in this despite his retarded anti woke bias bullshit but it's mainly about the franchise as a whole and ngl a lot of the youtubers who have been complaining for years straight up contributed to the state the MCU is in ngl
I was excited when John Walker was recruited into the Thunderbolts because I thought it was gonna be a R-rsted gritty movie. Would love to see him and the Punisher fight before becoming friends as they both are veterans with PTSD issues. ... I gave Marvel too much credit.
We have - The Fourth Fumbled - Team of "supervillians" that proves how bad the MCU is at making villians - A movie with characters that are the embodiment of "sloppy seconds" after how Captain America and Hulk finished their stories - Daredevil whose character have already been humilated in recent years I think Blade dodge a bullet by been postpone indefinitly
Capitán América 4 is just like wakanda forever you get to have a storyboard of capitán América fights the hulk well you get the chinese copy of that (sorry to the chinese people I don't want to insult them)
12:12 You can’t be serious dude, Sam Wilson has been Captain America in the comics for over a decade at this point. If you think Marvel made this decision to appeal to Black audiences alone, you’re nuts. While I agree that narratively it would have made more sense for Bucky to pick up the title as Captain, to say the the only reason is because Sam happens to be Black is dumb.
Braeden Alberti is back! Finally, someone points out the flaws behind the Fantastic Four film's production. It simply doesn't look or feel like a Fantastic Four film. At least the upcoming Superman film vaguely looks like Superman.
Krasinski didn't want to commit to a franchise since he's focusing on directing. He agreed to do MoM in part for the idea that it wouldn't be anything beyond that, a cameo.
7:19 yes and no. The Thunderbolts were initially a team of minor supervillains recruited by Baron Zemo during the Heroes Reborn event to fill in for the displaced Avengers as part of a world domination plot. They ultimately revolted against Zemo when they preferred the hero life. The team more or less was scattered to the winds after a while and once the Avengers returned. The Suicide Squad interpretation is an invention of Warren Ellis. He made a new Thunderbolts team led by Norman Osborn to hunt down anti-registration heroes during Civil War. This run was super popular and it’s become a defining aspect to the team since then. This era of Thunderbolts also led to the Mac Gargan Venom and Iron Patriot of Dark Reign. Post-Ellis, the Thunderbolts became kind of a cult classic heroes type book. The kind of comic that has characters that have small devoted fanbases yet said characters are almost always killed off in events for cheap drama. I believe Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak oversaw this era. Anyone else is free to fill in the blanks or correct me. I haven’t read Thunderbolts in many years and I’m probably more than out of date.
I grew up with these stories as my number 1 interest and priority in life. The MCU's historic run was every dream if ever had about the movies i wanted to see, all come true. At this stage i don't even watch the movies. Haven't even seen eternals, wakanda forever, marvels, or any of the D+ shows after Hawkeye. For them to lose me, who would be happy with almost anything if it maintained the spirit of the comics i loved, is abject failure at a historic scale.
I do actually think Pedro Pascal and Robert Downey Jr are talented actors, especially showcased through Oppenheimer and The Last of Us, but I don’t know if either of them are really up for those roles…
I still think if they had stuck the landing with Galactus, Rise of the Silver Surfer would've been a success. If he was instead shrouded in "cosmic dust." Then as Johnny and Surfer go through the dust, you go up and see a giant leg. Then further up and you see a giant arm. Until Surfer comes face to face with Galactus. He's mostly shrouded in shadow and we see his purple eyes
Honestly at this point I don't know what concerns me more: the MCU having no future or the MCU having a future. It's been 20 years of repetitive movies featuring characters with 60 years of repetitive books. Maybe it's time for everybody to move on and get a new hobby.
I still suggest Cillian Murphy would fit the role as Dr Doom. RDJ doesn't sit right for me. But Disney Marvel is desperate and they're doing this for the Memba Berries. I'm at my Pedro Pascal fatigue stage where I am getting tired of seeing Pedro show up in more movies. That and he does not look anything like Reed Richards. And don't get me started on female Silver Surfer. I know little to nothing about the Thunderbolts. I'm just curious to see how they'll fuck up Sentry. Captain America 4 is DOA. Nuff said.
Someone needs to get The Hulk out of Disney’s grubby hands and do him Justice in a tv series. That way we can see his storylines and his supporting characters. Especially his villains that you mentioned that can match the Hulk’s strength. Abomination, BI-Beast, The Wendigo and Absorbing Man. Having a Red Hulk is dumb. Ross was better when he was a regular human as a Hulk villain.
13:01 i always thought of it as ross deciding that since he can not control the monster within someone else he would let his own consume himself which is a part of why he's so much more stable bc he not only embraced that monster within humanity but he let it BECOME him as opposed to hulk who is in most iterations a separate personality that represents a part of bruce that he either can't accept or doesn't let it change who he is as bruce banner his desire to still maintain the two sides is what separates him from ross who threw his humanity away for pride and power and it represents the product of war you become the monster you were fighting even though it's been inside you this whole time
My thoughts exactly. They should’ve just kept Thaddeus Ross as regular human general trying to take down the Hulk. What’s worse, he’s not even up against the HULK!!! Just Captain Falcon!!! WHO IS WRITING THIS MOVIE!!! 💀💀💀💀 Like no seriously!?! What in the damn is going on here?!?!
I remember when I met the red hulk concept in the event comic avengers versus X-Men I remember being confused and then rationalizing that the avengers accept this guy on the team because they wanted to have a hulk that is under control. No idea if the actual books rationalize this decision since I don’t see why they will want this guy on the group.
I don't think directors are the ones forcing the characters to take off their mask... Darth vader was to iconic to make directors do that... Before I thought they were doing it because they don't know how to make a character act real without showing their expressions but the more i think about it, the more a mask would be gold for any director to slap on their actor's face for easy edits... I think it's the actors putting this in their contract for fear that they might have a killer acting expression in a scene and no one gets to see it because of the mask... Plus they might end up creating a well love character but no one gets to see them do it with their own face and it won't look good on their IMDb page... Thoughts???
I am concerned about the MCU. I think it is a mistake to cast Iron Man as Dr Doom. I doubt they will adapt the X-men properly or the rest of the Marvel characters the have rights to. It is what it is. Things are out of audience hands. Good or bad, you have to accept it.
Other than Spider-Verse I am done with Marvel. The last one I saw was Deadpool and Wolverine and felt more like a farewell to Fox Marvel and didn’t impress me like Deadpool 2 did. The only other ones I saw before that an episode and segments of Hawkeye, season 1 of What If, and No Way Home which was a really really bad fan fiction and just proved how bad Tom Holland is.
@solivagen435 While that may have helped a bit. The bad writing for his films wouldn't have done the actor any favors. What really upset me with the films is how badly written the character is and is more Iron Man Junior than Spiderman. The bad quips and the fact that he never learns from his mistakes. That's just some of the reasons off the top of my head.
@@jamesmoyner7499 It seems like a solid plan to have talented writers update the Lee/Ditko run like "Life Story," along with casting a fresh, unknown teen actor for the role of Peter Parker. However, wouldn't this approach limit creative freedom? Also, have you looked at Holland's other credits to dismiss him as an actor?
@@solivagen435 I actually haven’t seen any of the non-marvel stuff Tom has been in and when I heard they cast him as Nathan Drake I was furious because you know they only cast him because he i(at the time) was the new “It” Star and needed to cast him in stuff. Also you can bring new and different stuff to a story done before, but it still has to make sense to the characters that came before and Tom doesn’t do it as Spiderman for me. To be perfectly honest and this is just a me thing, but I just don’t like him just like Timothee Chalamet, Mark Wahlberg, or Matthew McConaughey. They just rub me the wrong way. Also the fact that Tom Holland is going to portray legendary actor and dancer Fred Astaire for film really pisses me off because Fred went so far to have it in his will that no films be made about his life and to know not only did someone of his family sign off for that to happen, but that Tom said yes to do it to play him.
@@jamesmoyner7499I highly recommend his performance as Lucas Bennett in the film "The Impossible." In my opinion, it stands out as his best role. He was also solid in "Edge of Winter," which kept me on the edge of my seat due to its stressful tone. I agree that Tom wasn't the best choice for Nathan Drake; honestly, I wouldn't have minded seeing Nolan North in that role. I understand that the film is set in an era before the games. But Tom didn't give off that rugged energy. The same can be said for Sully. But Wahlberg's passive line reading was hilarious to me. Also, I didn't know about the Fred Astaire situation. It makes sense because Lee Hall, who previously wrote the stage play of Billy Elliot, is the screenwriter of the biopic. But it is odd that Tom Holland, who isn't a fan of the corporate machine that is Hollywood, is making a product with a signed-off death wish. He is an actor, and I think his agent is the worst. However, I am not the most prominent advocate of Tom's decision. I liked Wonka, but it was still a bit corporate.
I just hope there’s a slight possibility for this story to work, even if it fails I just want one of these new movies featuring relatively new characters to work to at least show they care
Excuse me but Red Hulk is a interesting concept for at least having another Hulk around. Also US Agent was the only good part of that Falcon and Winter Soldier show. He explored the concept of doing your duty but being fucked over because of that which is relatable.
I’m glad someone isn’t a complete sheep about the red hulk argument, it works well considering Ross was so desperate to put the hulk down/control him that he willingly exploited his military resources and experimented on himself to become the very thing he hates, creating a new persona just to mess with the hulk physically and mentally.
Okay, how can you talk about comics and compare it to Suicide Squad when you talk about the Thunderbolts? You don't mention anything about how the original team was a group of villains posing as heroes to achieve their objectives... Then some members of the Thunderbolts seek redemption after being heroes for a while.....you have such an interesting premise and you go and take the iteration of the team that was like the suicide squad .. what a great choice, you have thought a lot. You should have said that they should have been introduced after End Game since the Avengers were not there... and thus be faithful to the original iteration, which is a concept that is not merely a copy of Suicide Squad.
Idk if people are being paid to say good things about this movie but the entire premise for the new fantastic 4 is already pretty awful. The only reason characters like Richard reeds and the thing worked like 60 years ago is because there was nothing else like them, now though….its not gonna be pretty. Just disappointing. They need to let go of holding onto the coattails of characters who were popular back in the 50’s and hire GOOD writers who create more mature, engaging and complex stories instead of just pretending having the rights to more characters means “marvel is saved”.
Kinda weird to now think that in a sea of garbage content that Spider-Man NWH, Guardians 3, and Deadpool 3 were actually good. Why is that? Is it because the main actors and creatives forced their vision to the front, against the producers’ desires, making those movies successful in their own right?
I wish the companies just listened to the fans. A small break to plan the next phase, the nxt movies be more down to earth and focusing on the aftermath while slowly building something new. I find it ironic for companies of this size to not have the foresight for an investment
Outside of Bucky, none of the characters in Thunderbolts have any fan interest. All the other characters were in either mediocre to bad movies or shows that most of the moviegoing public never watched. Granted, that could be a benefit if they retooled all the characters, but so far from the trailers they are behaving exactly the same.
I think part of problem is that they've pretty much mined out all the best source material from the Lee/Kirby/Ditko eras, (and Starlin,) and non of Hollywood writers are a patch on them.
When i first heard of red hulk, i was excited because i thought it was like a super angry hulk but still hulk... Only to see it and find out it's a different character and not just any character, freaking ross... Ross... Ross... Well that's dumb... If you wanted to power up ross, give him a hulk buster type of suit, don't turn him to hulk...
13:16 Bro, in the first episode of "Secret" Invasion, they reveal that Scrolls are on Earth in the millions. Marvel probably couldn't even spell mystery.
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes should be first up. Spectacular Spider-Man has too many external factors for it to come back, though, along with it being competition with Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man along with Wolverine and the X-Men with X-Men '97.
I would just like to say that I am excited to see John Walker back. Maybe not for this movie of course, but he was the best thing to come out of Captain Falcon and the Snowman.
Thank you for making this video, its really annoying that marvel thinks "look RDJ" now we suppose to love the movie, they just dont understand why we loved the first movies
I don't get the switch up on Sam ive been seeing recently. Steve choose Sam for the shield over Bucky because Sam has a cleaner record. Bucky was the Winter Solider for over 70 years and he still suffers greatly from the trauma of going through that. He may check some boxes like being a Super Soldier, but he isn't mentally ready for the responsibilities of being Captain America. Sam may not be a Super Solider but he's been around Cap long enough to build a close connection with him. He's proven himself to be a good man since his first appearance in the Winter Soldier. From Steve's perspective there's really no one better than Sam since he's proven that he's constantly willing to help stand against the other side to do whats right.
Fantastic Four is the only thing that’s important and will be a success with how well the production went and Pedro is someone who doesn’t care about the high recognition as his face has not been present in Star Wars since Mando S2 and he always respected his stunt performers
This guy has completely hit the nail on the head. These big Hollywood companies spending dumb money to bring back A list actors for iconic roles when they could easily bring in some new and upcoming hungry actors who actually care about the roles. This trend is repeatedly being shown all over Hollywood and it needs to stop.
Agree
But they don't know what created A-list actors in the first place. They started out small, until they had their breakout hit, but instead of just playing that role over and over again, they were cast in roles that challenged them to actually act, and for the most part, it paid off. Nowadays, "big" actors get one breakout role, and every role they're cast in afterwards is subservient to that role. Examples include Chris Pratt, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and now Pedro Pascal. Like, when was the last time they played a character that wasn't a wisecracking loser, or a parent/guardian of a special child or a beefed up hot dog who's too cool for school?
In the words of Vince McMahon "You ruined it!"
I don't think directors are the ones forcing the characters to take off their mask... Darth vader was to iconic to make directors do that... Before I thought they were doing it because they don't know how to make a character act real without showing their expressions but the more i think about it, the more a mask would be gold for any director to slap on their actor's face for easy edits...
I think it's the actors putting this in their contract for fear that they might have a killer acting expression in a scene and no one gets to see it because of the mask... Plus they might end up creating a well love character but no one gets to see them do it with their own face and it won't look good on their IMDb page...
Thoughts???
They seem to forget that Tom Holland was borderline nobody by Hollywood standards before 2015. And yet? He's one of the best actors they have currently.
Christian Bale was wasted in Thor. HE should have been Doom.
He would've made an awesome Doom.
Man, with the right writers (which seem to be missing entirely from current Disney Marvel), that could've been great.
@@anubusx he wouldn't, DOOM IS ROMANI, Bale isn't
your right he was wasted in thor but I don't see him as Doom
Facts, he woulda smashed it… Cillian Murphy wouldve bene perfect also, I remember seeing it was rumoured about a year or so ago.
RDJ does have the acting skills to play a totally different character from Tony Stark. The problem is that Marvel likely won't do that as they brought RDJ back specifically for his built in appeal to the masses, and they wouldn't want to change that, so his Doom will be very Ironman-like.
That's so disappointing. Since I think it's redundant to dismiss RDJ's acting chops if better utilized. But with the Russo's at the wheel... that's a mad size *if.*
He’s pretty much going to be Infamous Iron Man from the comics
@@danielwright3929 Infamous Iron Man is a reformed & MAINLINE Victor Von Doom, not Tony Stark & not a Variant
@ I know that
@danielwright3929 doesn't seem to
I moved on after Endgame and Im happy to see I made the right choice. Nothing of value was missed.
Same brother
The MCU told the story it needed to tell, but stories have to end. That's what the problem is with the comic books behind the MCU: there has to be a next issue, even if the story is complete. Sad to see the movies follow the same path.
Uh, why are you here if you've moved on?
@@spritvio639 cause we still wanna passively be up to speed on whats happening with it? And its not like we could ever avoid hearing about it on the internet
@@spritvio639I see that using the words "moved on" makes it look like I have written off Marvel entirely. That's not how I meant it though. I am willing to come back anytime Marvel puts out something worth watching.
People losing their shit at the RDJ reveal made me cringe so damn hard. "Yeah slop, feed us more slop nomnomnom"
God it was insulting! They should've cast Cillian Murphy or Mads Mikkaelson as Doom. I don't know what I'm disgusted at more: this or casting Pedro Manscal as Reed Richards.. A *DILFY* ROLE for A *WHITE WELL ACCOMPLISHED* ACTOR!
@@wiinterflowers4277white??
Oh, no... I think I'm one of them. ☺️
@@solivagen435 Weirdo. Cast a Romani actor and sack the fuck up!
I feel like this is unfair. If a big reveal was being made and it turned out to be an actor you really like of course you’re gonna cheer regardless of the context. You can disagree with his being Dr. Doom and still be hype to see him in the flesh.
It’s kind of astonishing that people thought of these mcu films as “accurate to comics” when in reality they just cherry pick highlights from our favorite storylines while forgetting that they benefit from a long term plan that integrates different characters arcs into one big arc for the whole payoff like endgame to pay off which btw endgame didn’t stick the landing and ever since that film they refuse to start with a new iron man,cap,black widow, spidey etc…
Yeah, Endgame was so poorly written and downright lazy
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp and the amount of story thats missing from the story lol
I don't think I've ever heard a single person call the MCU "comic accurate." They didn't have Spider-Man for the longest time and still can't use mutants; how can they be? They weren't accurate even before they started their shitty gender and race swaps and decimated characters like She-Hulk, Valkyrie, and Stature. (You can't even argue they got Captain Marvel right, cause she's not evil and butch enough and they didn't cast Mackenzie Davis to play Carl Manvers.)
I feel that's old news by now.
having the leader, thunderbolt ross and red hulk in "captain america" movie is so dumb. why don't we put them in a hulk movie oh wait the hulk is a lifeless husk that is poorly acted and poorly fleshed out in the MCU. Brilliant work
Disney will be damned if they decide to give any money to Universal and make a new Hulk movie, so instead they just put the Hulk and Hulk content in movies where they don't belong, at the detriment of those movies. Thor Ragnarok is another prime example of this.
No. Marvel only has the rights to put Hulk within movies or shows. They can’t make an Hulk movie.
Also the last movie about the Hulk was trashed by an lot of people. It wasn’t till he start saying “ Hulk smash” that guys start paying attention to the character. What do you mean poorly acted?
@@nowonspecial they can't make a spider man movie too without giving 75 percent profit to sony. Yet they don't make a Hulk movie but they easily make Spiderman movies because they like the yummy 😋 spidy money because it's easy money.
Why would they work hard to create a good character with a different movie which we have not seen before cause it takes hard work, hard work was a thing that the previous directors did in the mcu before the endgame to give a unique movie with unique characters like what
scott Ericson did with dr. Strange,
jon favreu did with iron man,
James gun did with the guardians,
Josh Whedon did with the Avengers,
louis and Edward Norton did with the incredible Hulk,
James mangold did with Logan,
ang Lee did with the Hulk,
Sam raimi did with the Spider-Man
Nowadays we can see entitled bratty writers like that of dr. Strange 2 who didn't even bother to watch wanda vision before making that cash grab this guy will also write secret wars and the writer of antman 3 ( the film which had to introduce the big bad of this phase) who said it is my first time writing a screenplay for a movie or a show this same guy was a writer for kang dynasty. I want to ask " why do you want a billion dollars collection from us if you can't be fair to your work? "
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I’m gonna act like a producer now. So I have to make back double the cost of creating the movie, so If my Hulk movie cost 137 million to make and it made back 265 million. Then I lost money. This is an business, we have to make money to continue this business. So my Hulk movie lost money, plus got subpar reviews and fans are now calling me “ woke “ because I want to make a meaningful movie and not just a “
Good guy punch bad guy” movie. So why should I make this Hulk movie?
I am a firm believer that it should've been Bucky who should've taken the mantle over Sam, simply because he had a lot more character to him. (In the context of the MCU) Don't get me wrong, I like kinda like Falcon, but when you look back, he really wasn't that important of a character. Bucky was given literally everything to be a great character, yet they wasted it. Such a shame.
You have no idea how much bucky would have been the best cap... A guy who was forced to fight for the enemy trying to redeem himself as the defender of freedom... He was the perfect fit... Sam was perfect as falcon, leave him as falcon (and can you just let us blk just have our own original characters rather than giving us hand me downs)... A person from the same era as steve, from the same war that made America the defender of the world (don't think about the irl problems with that, just stick to the idealized version of it), we would literally have the Steve rise to cap that was montage through in the first avenger movie... So many opportunities... I know this channel as a lot of gripes with efap, I do too, but their reasoning of why bucky would have made the perfect cap was beautiful (it was in their review of falcon and the winter soldier, one of their best episodes if you ask me)... What marvel did was the biggest missed opportunity ever for the thousand entry of blk MN opprsd which backfired hard on them because they had no idea how petty they just made blk people in comparison to what the rest of the world was going through... Imagine a recovering bucky rising to become cap in a recovering world from the blip... Aaaargh... Thinking about it just pisses me the 4K off...
And yet… I don’t think THIS version of Bucky was a great fit for Captain America. Bro was basically nonexistent in Civil War beside being a McGuffin for Tony and Steve’s fight, then in Infinity War does nothing for the final fight and he’s there for only a few minutes and vanish, same thing for Endgame.
A new captain America should’ve been someone with a presence as big as Steve but this Bucky ain’t it. Should’ve just retired the shield.
Um... no. Bucky is still slightly psychotic, they make that abundantly clear.
Sam is Captain America.
@anibalrodriguez2626 you think bucky was non-existent in civil war??? Really... You just glossed past the climax of civil war to make that point... Plus that's not a reason to not pass the shield to him because the point would be he'll grow into being the new cap... Spiderman was basically non-existent in civil war and he grew up to be his own character in the MCU...
But at least you didn't defend the Sam choice...
We all know Sam becomes the new cap. then he gives it up. I don't understand why they're making it a big deal! Like cool Sam is the new cap. But show him give up the mantel and have Steve come back as cap for secret empire as a Hydra agent. lol! But it's like MCU is afraid of good storytelling. lol!
Bro is back
Unlike marvel
Like he never left
And he'll keep coming...
Last I heard Baron Zemo is still alive in the MCU and he was in the comic book Thunderbolts. Soooo, why not include him in the team? He was like the only compelling villain who survived their intro and he's played by a fantastic actor. Him and Bucky would have tons of interesting character interactions, even with Red Guardian maybe. He'd add credibility to this being a team of villians. He's like...right there. Dying to be put in this movie.
Scheduling conflicts with the actor apparently.
I’d rather have Zemo lead the Masters of Evil. Also, Ghost was compelling too
He too busy hitting the griddy to the ocarina.
If someone sey the actor did not want to do i honest to god do not believe him
@@brewmaster2912my brother ghost was so forgettable the ant-man and the wasp quantum never mensión her, when they make a What if ? about ant-man and the wasp they totally forgot that She was literally in the same room.
Her exact problem is that they focus to heard on make her sympathetic buday really have nothing else going for her.
I really hate how actors are further becoming more like brands, or even just simply living memes, rather than artists who value their craft. I totally get that not everything has to be taken seriously, in fact I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not saying that every actor should only consider a role if it can let them an Oscar. But there gets to a point where fans need to stop acting like trained seals every time they see popular celebrity who is popular because theyre told they're popular.
@@JP-1990 How do you think I felt with Jonathan Majors? He's not bad. But he never gave me *HIM* energy (but then again, that could come down to the whack material).
@solivagen435 I remember there being a bit of hype around majors as an up and coming Star.
@@JP-1990 Yeah, he was solid in _Devotion._ It's just he didn't convey that omnipotent energy. I probably need to watch more projects with Majors, but he felt kinda weak chin to me in Quantumania.
@@solivagen435 Gonna be honest.... I don't think RDJ is going to pull off Doom.
@@JP-1990 I gotta be honest... I think he can.
When I think of Doctor Doom, I think of how Stan Lee wrote him. He is dramatic and speaks in big words. He has a real sense of presence despite the fact that he can't really emote. As soon as he appears, you know it's a big deal. Despite barely being in it, that's how he was portrayed in Avengers EMH. Even the unreleased Fantastic Four film had a decent Doom. But this casting does not give me any of those vibes.
I was never even that big a fan of RDJ as Iron Man. He was good, but my favorite Tony Starks are Robert Hays (from the 90's cartoons), and Eric Loomis (from Avengers EMH). Although much of that is the writing.
If they wanted a female Herald they could have just used Nova; she is a well established character and has a very strong relationship with Galactus, and was connected to the Fantastic Four beforehand. This move to gender-bend SS seems like Disney Marvel is trying too hard. 😕
Thank you 🙏🏻 😂
@@juanbisonosuero3650 For what? Nova is a dude in the comics.
@@juanbisonosuero3650 For what? Isn't Nova a guy in the comics?
I love how he just gets right into it. Unlike other videos where the narrator take 10 years to get to the point
Dr. Doom is my favorite comic book supervillain.
I don’t wanna see how they waste him.
@@IronThomas37 luckily you don't have to, you can always go back & read some of his best stories like Books of Doom & Infamous Iron Man
Tbf, considering it’s the Russo Bros directing, it won’t be perfect but I’m sure it’ll be better than the other live action Dooms
@@brewmaster2912 Ain't the Russo's the same bozos who posted AI pics during the strike past year & even admited they're using chat GPT to write Doomsday and Secret Wars?
@ seriously?
Watch other fumbles or movies they did after endgame😂😂@@brewmaster2912
0:24 I despised the announcement for RDJ as Doom then, and I despise it now. It seems like we're just going to get Evil Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Downey Jr will return in Sherlock Holmes 3 as Moriarty.
The good thing about Captain Falcon’s “You gotta do better” scene is we can now repeat that line to Marvel as sweet karma
TFOne fans on the marketing be like:
"you have to stop calling them terrorists"
It was not worth it 😀👍🏽!
@@ItsJae_37okay bad one is so much better😂
@@ItsJae_37so stupid. Imagine a school shooter blasting a whole school full of kids and the man who is meant to be the symbol of America goes and says to the government “you can’t keep calling them school shooters”
Falcon versus Red hulk gives off the same vibes that attempted Black Adam versus Superman movie, except this one is actually happening.
Sorry to desire is not the same One was very really the wish of the rock the other I really don't think is the witch of any especific actor.
@@juanbisonosuero3650 What I meant by that is it's a fight that nobody wants as the main conflict of a movie as it's pitting a hero against an unrelated villain.
I've said this on a previous upload but once again I think they blew their wad way too early with Thanos - they literally turned every major event in the canon into a one film steppingstone to lead up to the Infinity Gauntlet and now they have nothing to go off of and it feels directionless and pointless - like smashing action figures into each other.
Yep 👍 im still pissed they f up Ultron made him one off villain
@@olivercrespo2329 When I was young and stupid, I used to think the MCU would end after Avengers 4... silly me.
Worst thing about this video was that it ended
Cilian murfy is the one who suppost to be portray Dr Doom in the mcu instead of Robert Downey JR
Scarecrow as Dr Doom? Sick
@@anibalrodriguez2626 + Cillian IS ACTUALLY ROMANI like Victor in the comics
@@ArcTrooper269 For reals. Whitewashing and Romani erasure exists at Disney everyone!
@@ArcTrooper269really? Than that's great and he is very popular after peaku blinders and Oppenheimer
That's more of a fan cast. But I'm pretty sure he would've gotten the spaghetti treatment. 😬
Cillian Murphy should’ve been Dr. Doom.
I didn't like Oppenheimer and I heavily agree with you there! Dude actually can act.
He's too short and skinny, though. He's 5'7".
Nah, Michael Fassbender.
@@andrew2353 Ooh good choice!
Why not an unknown Romani actor?
Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Punisher: Street level threats.
The X-Men: International threats.
The Fantastic Four and Sentry: Cosmic threats.
The Avengers movies: Everyone reunites to stop Galactus.
Viggo Mortensen would be Doctor Doom.
Ten more years of high quality MCU projects, right there. But no, they had to hire Victoria Alonzo, skip through the entire 90s and 2000s of Marvel comics and go straight into the shitty woke era. The MCU is long dead and they deserve every single failure since 2021.
The problem is, RDJ isn’t a bankable star outside of the MCU. Most of his non MCU movies under performed.
Another thing, expect him not to wear the Doom mask during most of the movie. All his Doombots will be life like androids who look identical to Victor before he got the scars from the science experiment that went wrong. He might even use some sort of facial manipulation imaging around his face to hide his scars and burns.
Pitbull american of that
You’re absolutely right.
Marvel is not gonna change anything until one of their big movies like Avengers, lose money at the box office.
Man, I live in sweet bliss dropping it all after Endgame.
It’s like heaven on this side, you all should try it.
I went from thinking "It's so dumb it's brilliant" to "Nom it's just dumb." really quickly when I heard about the... to put it nicely surreal but to put it bluntly COMPLETELY INSANE choice to get RDJ to play Doctor Doom. And, of course, it's obviously the latter.
It’s telling that Sony immediately retooled Spider-Man 4 to take place after Avengers Doomsday after the cast reveal. I get the feeling that they’re going with Peter Parker taking on Evil Tony Stark.
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You have no idea how much bucky would have been the best cap... A guy who was forced to fight for the enemy trying to redeem himself as the defender of freedom... He was the perfect fit... Sam was perfect as falcon, leave him as falcon (and can you just let us blk just have our own original characters rather than giving us hand me downs)... A person from the same era as steve, from the same war that made America the defender of the world (don't think about the irl problems with that, just stick to the idealized version of it), we would literally have the Steve rise to cap that was montage through in the first avenger movie... So many opportunities... I know this channel as a lot of gripes with efap, I do too, but their reasoning of why bucky would have made the perfect cap was beautiful (it was in their review of falcon and the winter soldier, one of their best episodes if you ask me)... What marvel did was the biggest missed opportunity ever for the thousand entry of blk MN opprsd which backfired hard on them because they had no idea how petty they just made blk people in comparison to what the rest of the world was going through... Imagine a recovering bucky rising to become cap in a recovering world from the blip... Aaaargh... Thinking about it just pisses me the 4K off...
Not gonna lie, If they gotten Lex Lang just voice Dr. Doom and have someone wear the suit and do all of the action, then you got yourself Dr. Doom in live action. You would think that having Dr. Doom in live action would be pretty easy by now. 🤔
Or just get an Romanian male actor who is tall, muscular and can play a commanding, intelligent and regal character and call it a day.
I literally watch you more then the MCU because you care more about this property then Kevin and his curious I feel bad for Stan Lee but at least he didn't see how his creations fell down because of Disney
So true
I have a slight suspicion that Stan had a big hand in how the MCU is turning out as well, but the man can’t defend himself anymore so I won’t push that further
@anibalrodriguez2626 lol what
@@TeenPerspektiva For example, After Zendaya was announced as MJ, Stan came to her defense to say “Actually I wanted MJ to be black all along but back then it wasn’t allowed”. Maybe he was telling the truth but idk, it seems he was ok with letting a lot of all this changes through that now are common place and we complain so much
@@anibalrodriguez2626 interesting. well he didnt really have control over those things but i wasnt aware of those interviews. my guess he just wanted to be publicly supportive
And here i was thinking "Man, this guy's videos are amazing, wish he made more of them"
This video should be called "nerd hates women and minorities and cries about it" could just not watch it.
@@lukeswagwalker1435Congratulations, you're one of those slop consumers he was ranting about, and with all you just said you give him the reason 😃
@@lukeswagwalker1435 I am a Muslim from India and this guy is right. He is not a nerd the problem is you are uneducated. Your lgbt movies like eternals, dr. Strange 2 don't work in other countries like India , Pakistan and are outright banned in Saudi Arabia, china etc. so go and play this😮 victim card on Saudi Arabia and China. Even shang chi got banned in China😂😂🤣🤣 so why don't you call them r@scist and f@$cist
@@lukeswagwalker1435 nah allow yourself with this comment. You can see he’s a dedicated fan from the comic lore material. who’s done his research and actually spitting facts about how these big Hollywood companies not respecting the actual source material of the comics and wasting money on A list actors for cash grabs instead of bringing in up and coming new and fresh actors who properly could deliver outstanding performances also.
@@lkl2426 he has many MANY fallacies in his videos he had some points in this despite his retarded anti woke bias bullshit but it's mainly about the franchise as a whole and ngl a lot of the youtubers who have been complaining for years straight up contributed to the state the MCU is in ngl
I was excited when John Walker was recruited into the Thunderbolts because I thought it was gonna be a R-rsted gritty movie. Would love to see him and the Punisher fight before becoming friends as they both are veterans with PTSD issues.
... I gave Marvel too much credit.
BABE WAKE UP, BRAEDEN ALBERTI UPLOADED
I might've made this joke before but oh well. Every one of your videos is a BANGER.
We have
- The Fourth Fumbled
- Team of "supervillians" that proves how bad the MCU is at making villians
- A movie with characters that are the embodiment of "sloppy seconds" after how Captain America and Hulk finished their stories
- Daredevil whose character have already been humilated in recent years
I think Blade dodge a bullet by been postpone indefinitly
Capitán América 4 is just like wakanda forever you get to have a storyboard of capitán América fights the hulk well you get the chinese copy of that (sorry to the chinese people I don't want to insult them)
12:12 You can’t be serious dude, Sam Wilson has been Captain America in the comics for over a decade at this point. If you think Marvel made this decision to appeal to Black audiences alone, you’re nuts. While I agree that narratively it would have made more sense for Bucky to pick up the title as Captain, to say the the only reason is because Sam happens to be Black is dumb.
Its wild that around this time they also got Giancarlo, but instead decided to give him a one off role in BNW
Braeden Alberti is back! Finally, someone points out the flaws behind the Fantastic Four film's production. It simply doesn't look or feel like a Fantastic Four film. At least the upcoming Superman film vaguely looks like Superman.
The real question is why in the heck did Marvel Studios picked Pedro Pascal over
John Kranski to be Mr. Fantastic??????
Krasinski didn't want to commit to a franchise since he's focusing on directing. He agreed to do MoM in part for the idea that it wouldn't be anything beyond that, a cameo.
@@juanyanez8156 interesting 🤔
John is still not the best choice
Neither is a good choice you just like the office
7:19 yes and no. The Thunderbolts were initially a team of minor supervillains recruited by Baron Zemo during the Heroes Reborn event to fill in for the displaced Avengers as part of a world domination plot. They ultimately revolted against Zemo when they preferred the hero life. The team more or less was scattered to the winds after a while and once the Avengers returned.
The Suicide Squad interpretation is an invention of Warren Ellis. He made a new Thunderbolts team led by Norman Osborn to hunt down anti-registration heroes during Civil War. This run was super popular and it’s become a defining aspect to the team since then. This era of Thunderbolts also led to the Mac Gargan Venom and Iron Patriot of Dark Reign.
Post-Ellis, the Thunderbolts became kind of a cult classic heroes type book. The kind of comic that has characters that have small devoted fanbases yet said characters are almost always killed off in events for cheap drama. I believe Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak oversaw this era.
Anyone else is free to fill in the blanks or correct me. I haven’t read Thunderbolts in many years and I’m probably more than out of date.
Actually, you were pretty accurate
Mads Mikkelsen should’ve been Doctor Doom
Definetly.
Red Hulk is like if you took Lex Luthor and gave him Kryptonian powers despite it being against everything he stands for
I never understood the draw of Pedro Pascal. His appearance in WW84 was just horrendous. It does not appear that he can act.
I grew up with these stories as my number 1 interest and priority in life. The MCU's historic run was every dream if ever had about the movies i wanted to see, all come true. At this stage i don't even watch the movies. Haven't even seen eternals, wakanda forever, marvels, or any of the D+ shows after Hawkeye. For them to lose me, who would be happy with almost anything if it maintained the spirit of the comics i loved, is abject failure at a historic scale.
Nothing they do will make up for the years of blaming the fans. 😮💨😑
tbf i think sam wilson captain america is not the biggest issue brave new world is facing lol
I do actually think Pedro Pascal and Robert Downey Jr are talented actors, especially showcased through Oppenheimer and The Last of Us, but I don’t know if either of them are really up for those roles…
Both of them were miscasts for Reed and Doom. It should've been John Krasinski as Reed and Cillian Murphy as Doom.
@ I definitely agree but I could see both of those actors being hesitant to signing on for multi-picture deals in a capeslop franchise
I still think if they had stuck the landing with Galactus, Rise of the Silver Surfer would've been a success. If he was instead shrouded in "cosmic dust." Then as Johnny and Surfer go through the dust, you go up and see a giant leg. Then further up and you see a giant arm. Until Surfer comes face to face with Galactus. He's mostly shrouded in shadow and we see his purple eyes
Honestly at this point I don't know what concerns me more: the MCU having no future or the MCU having a future. It's been 20 years of repetitive movies featuring characters with 60 years of repetitive books. Maybe it's time for everybody to move on and get a new hobby.
I still suggest Cillian Murphy would fit the role as Dr Doom. RDJ doesn't sit right for me. But Disney Marvel is desperate and they're doing this for the Memba Berries.
I'm at my Pedro Pascal fatigue stage where I am getting tired of seeing Pedro show up in more movies. That and he does not look anything like Reed Richards. And don't get me started on female Silver Surfer.
I know little to nothing about the Thunderbolts. I'm just curious to see how they'll fuck up Sentry.
Captain America 4 is DOA. Nuff said.
Someone needs to get The Hulk out of Disney’s grubby hands and do him Justice in a tv series. That way we can see his storylines and his supporting characters. Especially his villains that you mentioned that can match the Hulk’s strength. Abomination, BI-Beast, The Wendigo and Absorbing Man. Having a Red Hulk is dumb. Ross was better when he was a regular human as a Hulk villain.
Maybe losing James Gunn hurt ... then rather then stay grounded with Punisher-Daredevil-Blade trilogy. They went multiverse.
13:01 i always thought of it as ross deciding that since he can not control the monster within someone else he would let his own consume himself which is a part of why he's so much more stable bc he not only embraced that monster within humanity but he let it BECOME him as opposed to hulk who is in most iterations a separate personality that represents a part of bruce that he either can't accept or doesn't let it change who he is as bruce banner his desire to still maintain the two sides is what separates him from ross who threw his humanity away for pride and power and it represents the product of war you become the monster you were fighting even though it's been inside you this whole time
No need for concern. It's over. It's all over. Problem solved.
My thoughts exactly. They should’ve just kept Thaddeus Ross as regular human general trying to take down the Hulk. What’s worse, he’s not even up against the HULK!!! Just Captain Falcon!!! WHO IS WRITING THIS MOVIE!!! 💀💀💀💀 Like no seriously!?! What in the damn is going on here?!?!
I remember when I met the red hulk concept in the event comic avengers versus X-Men I remember being confused and then rationalizing that the avengers accept this guy on the team because they wanted to have a hulk that is under control. No idea if the actual books rationalize this decision since I don’t see why they will want this guy on the group.
I don't think directors are the ones forcing the characters to take off their mask... Darth vader was to iconic to make directors do that... Before I thought they were doing it because they don't know how to make a character act real without showing their expressions but the more i think about it, the more a mask would be gold for any director to slap on their actor's face for easy edits...
I think it's the actors putting this in their contract for fear that they might have a killer acting expression in a scene and no one gets to see it because of the mask... Plus they might end up creating a well love character but no one gets to see them do it with their own face and it won't look good on their IMDb page...
Thoughts???
Identity politics and activism ruined the MCU. It made them forget about real storytelling in exchange for casting “diverse” actors
Also I disagree about shit-talking US Agent. He’s easily one of the best characters in the MCU since it all went to shit
FACTS.
at least we might get the real taskmaster after this sorry excuse for taskmaster in thunderbolts... that'd be cool i guess
I am concerned about the MCU. I think it is a mistake to cast Iron Man as Dr Doom. I doubt they will adapt the X-men properly or the rest of the Marvel characters the have rights to. It is what it is. Things are out of audience hands. Good or bad, you have to accept it.
Original thunderbolts premise/story was interesting too, not generic anti-hero stuffs.
Other than Spider-Verse I am done with Marvel.
The last one I saw was Deadpool and Wolverine and felt more like a farewell to Fox Marvel and didn’t impress me like Deadpool 2 did. The only other ones I saw before that an episode and segments of Hawkeye, season 1 of What If, and No Way Home which was a really really bad fan fiction and just proved how bad Tom Holland is.
@@jamesmoyner7499 Do you believe they should have cast an unknown American as Spider-Man in the MCU instead of Tom Holland?
@solivagen435 While that may have helped a bit. The bad writing for his films wouldn't have done the actor any favors. What really upset me with the films is how badly written the character is and is more Iron Man Junior than Spiderman. The bad quips and the fact that he never learns from his mistakes. That's just some of the reasons off the top of my head.
@@jamesmoyner7499 It seems like a solid plan to have talented writers update the Lee/Ditko run like "Life Story," along with casting a fresh, unknown teen actor for the role of Peter Parker. However, wouldn't this approach limit creative freedom? Also, have you looked at Holland's other credits to dismiss him as an actor?
@@solivagen435 I actually haven’t seen any of the non-marvel stuff Tom has been in and when I heard they cast him as Nathan Drake I was furious because you know they only cast him because he i(at the time) was the new “It” Star and needed to cast him in stuff. Also you can bring new and different stuff to a story done before, but it still has to make sense to the characters that came before and Tom doesn’t do it as Spiderman for me. To be perfectly honest and this is just a me thing, but I just don’t like him just like Timothee Chalamet, Mark Wahlberg, or Matthew McConaughey. They just rub me the wrong way.
Also the fact that Tom Holland is going to portray legendary actor and dancer Fred Astaire for film really pisses me off because Fred went so far to have it in his will that no films be made about his life and to know not only did someone of his family sign off for that to happen, but that Tom said yes to do it to play him.
@@jamesmoyner7499I highly recommend his performance as Lucas Bennett in the film "The Impossible." In my opinion, it stands out as his best role. He was also solid in "Edge of Winter," which kept me on the edge of my seat due to its stressful tone. I agree that Tom wasn't the best choice for Nathan Drake; honestly, I wouldn't have minded seeing Nolan North in that role. I understand that the film is set in an era before the games. But Tom didn't give off that rugged energy. The same can be said for Sully. But Wahlberg's passive line reading was hilarious to me.
Also, I didn't know about the Fred Astaire situation. It makes sense because Lee Hall, who previously wrote the stage play of Billy Elliot, is the screenwriter of the biopic. But it is odd that Tom Holland, who isn't a fan of the corporate machine that is Hollywood, is making a product with a signed-off death wish. He is an actor, and I think his agent is the worst. However, I am not the most prominent advocate of Tom's decision. I liked Wonka, but it was still a bit corporate.
Good video. BTW, do you plan to start posting on Twitter more?
3:25 last three are the same guy btw
I need longer video!! Love your vids!!
Keen on that Agatha review!
Been waiting for this
I just hope there’s a slight possibility for this story to work, even if it fails I just want one of these new movies featuring relatively new characters to work to at least show they care
Excuse me but Red Hulk is a interesting concept for at least having another Hulk around. Also US Agent was the only good part of that Falcon and Winter Soldier show. He explored the concept of doing your duty but being fucked over because of that which is relatable.
I’m glad someone isn’t a complete sheep about the red hulk argument, it works well considering Ross was so desperate to put the hulk down/control him that he willingly exploited his military resources and experimented on himself to become the very thing he hates, creating a new persona just to mess with the hulk physically and mentally.
The F4 cast is perfect! ..Except for Pascal. I gotta wait to see I guess.
God I wish it was Glenn Howerton
9:23 That isn’t even a real shot from the trailer. It’s clearly ai.
Okay, how can you talk about comics and compare it to Suicide Squad when you talk about the Thunderbolts? You don't mention anything about how the original team was a group of villains posing as heroes to achieve their objectives... Then some members of the Thunderbolts seek redemption after being heroes for a while.....you have such an interesting premise and you go and take the iteration of the team that was like the suicide squad
.. what a great choice, you have thought a lot.
You should have said that they should have been introduced after End Game since the Avengers were not there... and thus be faithful to the original iteration, which is a concept that is not merely a copy of Suicide Squad.
@@saviletotorres143 I was gonna say the same, LITTERALLY Citizen V being Zemo was a PLOT - TWIST, not something stated from the begining
0:16 not the AI thunderbolts
i was always a fan of antony starr as dr doom and i stand by that to this day
That would be an interesting choice, ngl.
Idk if people are being paid to say good things about this movie but the entire premise for the new fantastic 4 is already pretty awful. The only reason characters like Richard reeds and the thing worked like 60 years ago is because there was nothing else like them, now though….its not gonna be pretty. Just disappointing. They need to let go of holding onto the coattails of characters who were popular back in the 50’s and hire GOOD writers who create more mature, engaging and complex stories instead of just pretending having the rights to more characters means “marvel is saved”.
While I agree with some points, it seems like you're intentionally leaving out information to further your arguments
Pedro is in everything, having him as Mr Fantastic breaks immersion
At least we still have Fantastic Four World Greatest Heroes cartoon series.
And also the Fantastic Four animated series as well
Kinda weird to now think that in a sea of garbage content that Spider-Man NWH, Guardians 3, and Deadpool 3 were actually good. Why is that?
Is it because the main actors and creatives forced their vision to the front, against the producers’ desires, making those movies successful in their own right?
Excellent as always. Make more videos.
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I wish the companies just listened to the fans. A small break to plan the next phase, the nxt movies be more down to earth and focusing on the aftermath while slowly building something new.
I find it ironic for companies of this size to not have the foresight for an investment
See this is why I’m holding out for DC at this point. With the Matt Reeves Batman Universe and the DCU.
The Masters of evil should have been in the MCU years ago and are you going to do a video on Venom 3 and Kraven the Hunter movie?
Outside of Bucky, none of the characters in Thunderbolts have any fan interest. All the other characters were in either mediocre to bad movies or shows that most of the moviegoing public never watched. Granted, that could be a benefit if they retooled all the characters, but so far from the trailers they are behaving exactly the same.
Tons of Walker fans
I think part of problem is that they've pretty much mined out all the best source material from the Lee/Kirby/Ditko eras, (and Starlin,) and non of Hollywood writers are a patch on them.
Casting Tony is a cop out, and has completely turned me off of the future.
They should have let Daredevil alone. The show ended perfectly as it is😢
When i first heard of red hulk, i was excited because i thought it was like a super angry hulk but still hulk... Only to see it and find out it's a different character and not just any character, freaking ross... Ross... Ross... Well that's dumb... If you wanted to power up ross, give him a hulk buster type of suit, don't turn him to hulk...
13:16 Bro, in the first episode of "Secret" Invasion, they reveal that Scrolls are on Earth in the millions. Marvel probably couldn't even spell mystery.
Let’s start a petition to bring back Marvel Cartoons!!!
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes should be first up. Spectacular Spider-Man has too many external factors for it to come back, though, along with it being competition with Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man along with Wolverine and the X-Men with X-Men '97.
No, I don't want Disney to ruin classic Marvel animated shows
said no one ever 😭😭 thats DC's thing anyways
Are we talking about the same RDJ that literally a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude ? He's gonna nail it as Doom
I would just like to say that I am excited to see John Walker back. Maybe not for this movie of course, but he was the best thing to come out of Captain Falcon and the Snowman.
I don't know why they don't cast a European actor as Dr. Doom.
5:48 Pedro Pascal is a bad choice for Reed Richards, but he can act. He did a great job in The Wild Robot.
If the falcon doesn't get powers with a variant of the super serum, there's no way I'm gonna believe he can stand toe to toe with Red Hulk
The MCU Nerfing Mr. Fantastic made me mad.
That's it for 2025?! OUCH!
Ouch indeed.
Thank you for making this video, its really annoying that marvel thinks "look RDJ" now we suppose to love the movie, they just dont understand why we loved the first movies
I don't get the switch up on Sam ive been seeing recently. Steve choose Sam for the shield over Bucky because Sam has a cleaner record.
Bucky was the Winter Solider for over 70 years and he still suffers greatly from the trauma of going through that. He may check some boxes like being a Super Soldier, but he isn't mentally ready for the responsibilities of being Captain America.
Sam may not be a Super Solider but he's been around Cap long enough to build a close connection with him. He's proven himself to be a good man since his first appearance in the Winter Soldier. From Steve's perspective there's really no one better than Sam since he's proven that he's constantly willing to help stand against the other side to do whats right.
Fantastic Four is the only thing that’s important and will be a success with how well the production went and Pedro is someone who doesn’t care about the high recognition as his face has not been present in Star Wars since Mando S2 and he always respected his stunt performers