In that contest, I'm more hyped for Shang Chi only because I love martial arts. I have my doubts about the film but if I had to choose...
I was never much into them so the flick does absolutely nothing for me. I liked Mandarin in the comics, but the MCU vesion is nothing like him.
Touching on what you said about genres and types, in no particular order I dig:
- Space Opera
- Super Spies
- Street level heroes like Spidey and Daredevil -- plus Batman before they made him into a god (I also really dig the aesthetics for these 3 heroes)
- Martial Arts (Kung Fu etc.)
- 'Hard' Fantasy (George R.R. Martin)
- Epic or High Fantasy (Tolkien)
- Pulp Fiction in the vein of Black Science or Conan the Barbarian
I've never really thought about it. I know I like Sci-Fi, lots of kinds. From Hard to Soft. I tend to prefer the grandness of Space Operas, but I'm open to it all. I like both Wars and Trek, though Wars keeps me engaged throughout all periods, while Trek I'm not planning on going past TNG or looking into the EU. I hate Foundation though. Random though, but I loathed that book. I really did. I think about it and it makes me dizzy. Before that Dracula was the most boring read I'd come across, but Foundation was something else. So banal, so tiring that I didn't even want to imagine anything, I just wanted it to be over. I've read hard books, but that was just exhausting in its blandness.
Anyway, I like Historical Fiction, either verging into Fantasy or not. I tend to pefer Antiquity settings, but I have no problem with the majority of time periods. I like "Exploration Fiction". You know, BOATS and all that. It's how I got into Trek. I don't much care for the half-assed sophomore philosophy sessions, it's the core concept that hooked me. I like stuff from all over really. I hate things like Tromma, find extreme pulp boring, and some other stuff I can't think of now. Really, I give most genres a shot. I can enjoy a good detective story just as easily as a political drama. Maybe that's why I didn't hate the Space Politics in the Prequels.
Not sure where I'd put Tony Stark's Iron Man ... or Superman for that matter. The former I dig thanks to RDJ and the MCU, the latter is more of a nostalgia trip, because he's overpowered for my taste these days.
I've got enough interests in capes to have places for most of them. But I don't intent to have a figure-pre-detolf display. I want to display them in groups. But I have no plans as of now because I don't know how the MCU will play out, how the characters will be treated, cast, what costumes they'll wear, etc. But really, I don't care much how the movie version acts as long as they look close to the comics; I buy them as representations of the source.
You could put Stark & Superman in a Sci-Fi shelf if you have one. Doctor Who, Terminator, whatever. I plan to set up one for all my randoms. But I'll have to wait until I own more. Between Vidya, Movies and Shows there are too many genres and characters for me to think about such things now. Say someone makes a Master Chief and a Kratos. Do I put them in the Vidya shelf? Or do I put Master Chief in the SyFy shelf and Kratos next to a hypothetical Marvel Herc? It's too much "what if" at this point.
The Eternals touch on Space Opera but knowing nothing about the characters, so far I'm kinda like "Well there's a bunch of CGI I don't care about" --- but that could change. We'll see.
I like the genre, enough to give whatever comes my way a shot, but not to the point where I love eveyrthing that falls under its umbrellas. I'm more interested in it compared to all other Phase 4 products thus far, but that's not saying a lot. I have some excitement, and I suppose that's good enough. It's DSITMOM and F4 that I'm really waiting for.
