Thunderbolts - July 26, 2024

Sassafras said:

So much negativity.

Not saying all won't suck, but I sure wasn't falling over myself for Captain America and Iron Man, way back.
It was THE BATMAN.

Don't know that anyone cared about GOTG either. Anyway I wish I hadn't listened to all the *&^% about Solo, way back, which felt like it was just because. IMO Solo is pretty entertaining. So these films might be.

Or maybe I just can't believe Disney/MCU would really let themselves tank, but I could be wrong.

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1. Bucky - yawn
2. Ghost - completely forgettable character from a bad Ant-Man movie.
3. US Agent - a somewhat interesting character from a show nobody cared about.
4. Red Guardian - comic relief from a movie that was 5 years too late and nobody cared about.
5. Yelena - cool I suppose but again from a movie and a TV show (Hawkeye) that nobody cared about.
6. Taskmaster - an affront to the character and one of the worst comics > movie translations to date from all superhero movies.
7. Sentry - a character than basically nobody knows about unless you're pretty deep into comics, or play a specific deck type on Marvel Snap.

chrisstbh said:

Not really negativity or a matter of it sucking, I just don't see it performing as well as Brave New World at the Box Office.

The cast is:

1. Bucky - yawn
2. Ghost - completely forgettable character from a bad Ant-Man movie.
3. US Agent - a somewhat interesting character from a show nobody cared about.
4. Red Guardian - comic relief from a movie that was 5 years too late and nobody cared about.
5. Yelena - cool I suppose but again from a movie and a TV show (Hawkeye) that nobody cared about.
6. Taskmaster - an affront to the character and one of the worst comics > movie translations to date from all superhero movies.
7. Sentry - a character than basically nobody knows about unless you're pretty deep into comics, or play a specific deck type on Marvel Snap.

Brave New World at least has a name going for it and has Harrison Ford (as Red Hulk) and Giancarlo Esposito.

I don't see either of them breaking a billion at the Box Office, or anywhere close to it honestly, I still think BNW takes the lead.

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chrisstbh said:

Not really negativity or a matter of it sucking, I just don't see it performing as well as Brave New World at the Box Office.

The cast is:

1. Bucky - yawn
2. Ghost - completely forgettable character from a bad Ant-Man movie.
3. US Agent - a somewhat interesting character from a show nobody cared about.
4. Red Guardian - comic relief from a movie that was 5 years too late and nobody cared about.
5. Yelena - cool I suppose but again from a movie and a TV show (Hawkeye) that nobody cared about.
6. Taskmaster - an affront to the character and one of the worst comics > movie translations to date from all superhero movies.
7. Sentry - a character than basically nobody knows about unless you're pretty deep into comics, or play a specific deck type on Marvel Snap.

Brave New World at least has a name going for it and has Harrison Ford (as Red Hulk) and Giancarlo Esposito.

I don't see either of them breaking a billion at the Box Office, or anywhere close to it honestly, I still think BNW takes the lead.

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I don't see either of them breaking a billion at the Box Office, or anywhere close to it honestly, I still think BNW takes the lead.

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Well these days I don't think $1Billion is a realistic target for either one of them and I doubt that Marvel/Feige is expecting them to make that kind of money. Besides, the only Captain America movie to make over $1B was CW and that was an Avengers movie in everything but name anyway. Thunderbolts is Avengers Lite so depending on the strength of the story you never know but even if it's great it won't bring in huge $. And since Endgame the only CBMs to hit $1B have been SM:FFH, SM:NWH, Joker and DP&W, all of which had extremely iconic CB characters to lure fans (and 2 were pre-Covid).

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ironwez20 said:

The new trailer looked pretty good though.

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chrisstbh said:

They managed to ruin Taskmaster even more.

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karamazov80 said:

Looks more like sportsmaster than taskmaster.

I just saw the trailer and it looks quite promising.

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jye4ever said:

So it seems that the reason taskmaster can’t look like comic book taskmaster with the skull mask is because China won’t allow it.

Marvel once again pandering to China even after China almost destroyed the movie industry with their wonderful gift called Covid.

sigh

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jye4ever said:

So it seems that the reason taskmaster can’t look like comic book taskmaster with the skull mask is because China won’t allow it.

Marvel once again pandering to China even after China almost destroyed the movie industry with their wonderful gift called Covid.

sigh

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chrisstbh said:

Apart from all of the other skulls that have appeared in Disney projects that released in China?

I think they just don’t know what to do with Taskmaster. Everyone hated her in Black Widow, they’re probably just trying to distance from the Taskmaster identity entirely. I bet she only gets called by her actual name (who even remembers what it is) in the movie.

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chrisstbh said:

Apart from all of the other skulls that have appeared in Disney projects that released in China?

I think they just don’t know what to do with Taskmaster. Everyone hated her in Black Widow, they’re probably just trying to distance from the Taskmaster identity entirely. I bet she only gets called by her actual name (who even remembers what it is) in the movie.

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loki2371 said:

OK, so they turned The Thunderbolts into the MCU's Suicide Squad...


I have 0 interest in this. But I'll watch the YT reviews.

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