Things that I marvel at

[Chakor]

Sorry Shell. I'm new here and saw a few political discussions in other threads here in the Sandbox, so I wasn't sure what the policy was here. I won't engage in political stuff again, LOL.

 

[Mr. Green]

 

[WellCQCaboutthat]

That tree was amazing, unbelievable!!!

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[YoNoSe]

I guess I got what I asked for by doing the search.

Feige will pull out the two hairs he has left on his head.

But I guess everyone should have known when word broke that Feige enlisted Dan Harmon to add more humor to the script.

At FOX us adults (I'm 37 ) can actually enjoy these CBMs without cringing at the kiddie gags and light tone that Feige continues to generously employ in his safe interconnected universe.

That crowd is getting smaller and smaller. With every mediocre MCU movie more and more people jump ship. And with every brilliant non-MCU movie more and more people realize that its a good thing that not all the Marvel characters are at Feige's disposal.

The spoon-feeding here is absurd. We get it, Feige, this Spider-Man movie is set in the MCU. Christ.

As far as I'm concerned anything Marvel being done outside of Feige's reach is a breath of fresh air.

Kevin Feige will never get his hands on the X-Men.

He'll continue making garbage with every other Marvel character.

You have Feige to thank for Civil Skirmish and its absurd jerry-rigged conflict between the heroes.

Yep, Thor is destined to star in **** movies until Feige is fired.

Feige found a formula he's happy with box-office-wise so he has no reason to suddenly reinvigorate the franchise artistically and make good movies again.

This is the woman who walked away from Thor: The Dark World weeks before pre-pro after realizing Feige was interested in making a crap movie.

Coogler right now is the only person I think stands a chance at making something truly visionary in that franchise. He's a tough dude and I just can't picture him allowing Feige to run all over him, specially since he brought over most of his ensemble. Then again, he probably doesn't have final cut in his contract (sighs).

But Feige, a self-proclaimed fan of Bay's Transformers movies figured out that there's a massive audience for light and fun CGI-heavy comic book movies [for kids].

I never thought any CBM adaptation would ever top the legendary Galactus cloud of Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer but Feige and co. spectacularly did.

Kevin Feige = FORMULA

The auteur approach can absolutely work in studio films, just depends on which ones. It can't work in the MCU because Feige isn't interested in anything truly inspired.
*There's still an absurd part of me that hopes Coogler can somehow get around Feige on BP. Doubtful.

Had Favreau said "This is a stupid comic book movie about a guy in an iron suit so let's not take it too seriously" there would be no franchise today to speak of. Ironically, that's basically what Feige does now with every property.

I love Gunn but under Feige the odds for a good movie at this point are slim to none.

An event like that ensures movies like Affleck's proposed The Batman get treated intelligently rather than be forced to go the Feige route for the sake of BO returns.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) is the first real bad film in the series. Rothman destroyed then-producer Hugh Jackman's idea for an R-rated low-budget Wolvie film and retrofitted it into a "X4" of sorts (as he called it) with a strong commitment to making it safe for the kids (a mindset current Marvel CEO Kevin Feige is also employing to destroy that franchise). In the end the film was a mess, sadly wasting a superb take on Sabretooth by the great Liev Schreiber. 6/10


Days of Future Past (2014) like X2 is one of the greatest CBMs ever made. The level of complexity and raw emotion explored herein by Singer is basically unreachable over at Feige's brain-dead MCU.

A franchise I'll take any day in favor of one with an actual commitment to being safe and uninspired - which is Feige's MCU.

When the MCU begins to tank, Feige's power will lessen and a return to form can happen.

Jesus.

This girl is a God damn genius. She just beautifully deconstructed why Feige's formula is a steaming pile of dog **** and how the fandom has finally figured out that there's nothing new or original coming out of the MCU anymore. .

I thought Whedon, Wright and DuVernay leaving would make the suits second-guess Feige's methods but the guy keeps delivering solid BO returns off safe summer fare.

If only there was a way to have Jeph Loeb absorb the film division & replace Kevin Feige. Loeb is cranking out fantastic content for their Netflix division while Feige keeps making safe popcorn movies.

I was shocked to see that the most rabid MCU fanatic, Collider's Matt Goldberg, finally stopped giving Feige's formula a pass.

The MCU started strong (2008 - 2012) and had sporadic moments of brilliance (2014). At this point its just another Bayformers franchise (a franchise Kevin Feige fittingly loves).

*With Feige at the helm hiring journeyman directors, the chances of these films being something special are minimal.

Gunn and The Russos somehow pulled off great films despite Feige's safe tone demands, but at this point GOTG & TWS seem like flukes. Even Whedon couldn't get AOU past said demands.
He's a tough dude. I see Feige struggling to neuter and censor him (then again Feige could always do that in post like with TIH). We'll see.

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*The fact that this movie has a higher RT score right now than Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge is a perfect example of how the critics at this point just don't give a ****. Feige can keep delivering formulaic crap for the next ten years with these MCU movies and they'll continue to eat it up with powerful enthusiasm.

Feige deserves tons of criticism.

People forget the guy's a suit. He has no artistic background. Heck, when Singer was shooting X-Men (2000) Feige was Lauren Donner's production assistant.

Feige takes the cake when it comes to making Marvel villains ineffective and underwhelming.

In a nutshell:

Feige

You mean the studio that brought us such gems as IRON MAN 3, THOR: THE DARK WORLD, AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON & ANT-MAN shouldn't have to pay? Yeah, I don't think so. I hope FOX hangs onto those rights until the end of time.

Kevin Feige turned CIVIL WAR into a friendly skirmish yet people are still championing his movies.

Can't wait for Doctor Strange to unleash a barrage of supernatural one-liners and heavy-PG action that the whole family (just the kids) can enjoy!!!

Most overrated popcorn movie ever made.

Thank God Lucasfilm is under Kathleen Kennedy and not Kevin "The King of Safe Cinema" Feige.

With Feige in charge the odds of an MCU movie taking any risks are extremely low. Its all formula at this point and because we love the characters we keep watching these movies opening night.

Civil War was a slap in the face to everyone who expects more than generic popcorn from these types of films. Incredibly disappointing, specially as a sequel to TWS and to add insult to injury - criminally overrated. The movie is exactly why my interest in the MCU is at an all-time low. Feige just won't take chances with those films anymore.

The future:

Variety: "How do you feel about the way Thor was handled when you were playing him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?"
Hemsworth: "Terribly. Kevin Feige butchered those films and never gave the directors room to breathe. That's why Branagh didn't come back. That's why Taylor didn't come back. That's why Joss didn't do Avengers 3."

You're the kind of person that wouldn't bat an eye at Feige or Marvel/Disney if tomorrow The Russos quit Infinity Wars "over creative differences."

You're one of those people who actually believes Joss Whedon walked away from Infinity Wars because of "Physical Exhaustion."

Films that could have been great had the studio behaved the way they agreed to behave when the contracts were signed (Leterrier, Favreau, Taylor & Whedon had final cut in their respective contracts yet Feige interfered).

So again, if you love cinema, champion the artist, not the suit.

But hey, don't let me keep you from living in your fantasy world where Feige is worth every auteur in the business and every turd he ****s out you pay five times to see. Its your money, man.

No opinion and speculation there, broski. Just a bunch of talented filmmakers who have been vocal about their negative experiences with Marvel Studios (Feige).

I don't know about you, but there's nothing I hate more than a suit like Feige compromising the quality of these films to serve his vision of accessible, generic summer fare for the sole purpose of monetary gain.

I think that was the first time I encountered alleged fans of Marvel Comics defending Feige's bull**** Mandarin decision and going as far as saying "The Mandarin in the comics sucked anyway”

Are you honestly jabbing the director of THE USUAL SUSPECTS & APT PUPIL, who launched the modern CBM genre, to champion Kevin "I cut the suicide opening from TIH because its too depressing" Feige?

Christ. That alone tells me you don't even realize how absurdly safe Feige's movies are. ****, the guy sends filmmakers running to the hills when they challenge that.

Also, Feige aspires to match the Transformers movies. He doesn't see them as guilty pleasures.

What's tiresome is Feige's unhealthy obsession with safe summer fare.

There was a way of doing CW as a serious thriller like TWS, but Feige had his way and what we got instead was a plot designed to lead up to a 10 minute skirmish between the heroes in the Marvel stable
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FIRST CLASS & DOFP in particular just put Feige's popcorn antics to shame

Trank's superior cut will eventually be released, just won't make a difference to the Feige Disciples who think everything will be better under him, even after two dreadful Thor movies, two mediocre Iron Man sequels and the forgettable AOU.

Butchering the Thor films was only Phase I of Feige's master plan.

A good Thor film under Kevin Feige is impossible.

Disney can't be bested at making accessible family-friendly summer popcorn. They're the new Transformers franchise (a Kevin Feige dream come true).

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This giving a pass to Disney shtick that started after The Avengers is internet poison. Discussions on MCU films always goes sideways because people end up defending Feige and Disney instead of the comics.

"Disney can do no wrong." Bollocks.

So in other words, Feige can adapt any major Marvel arc and have it not resemble said arc one bit and you'd still champion his decision-making, right?

Because who cares if these movies resemble the comics?

Oh wait, some of us do. And as lovers of the books first and foremost we have no reason to blindly follow Feige wherever he goes. Fake Mandarin, Putty Patrol Dark Elves, Jokemaster Ultron, Honey I Shrunk The Kids Ant-Man & Captain America: Civil Skirmish happened under Feige - so the lack of trust in him is completely warranted.

Feige can come out and say "There is absolutely no reason for our Netflix heroes to interact with our film heroes" and you would completely agree with him.

Feige knows RDJ & Evans sell more tickets though. Because in the end the heart of the MCU is promotion and toys (money), not a commitment to the source.

Feige just wants action and one-liners. The Netflix shows actually care to develop character and show the struggle of being a hero.

No you're not.

They could make him a fun-loving, chatty drag queen and MCU disciples would still spend months afterwards speaking volumes of how great a job the Russos (Feige) did in doing "justice" to the character.

Red Skull, Mandarin, Malekith, Ultron, Darren Cross, Sokovian Zemo...

Feige did them tons of justice.

Exactly. I trusted Whedon with Thanos before AOU. Now after Ultron, no Whedon and just Feige.

God help us.

I love Thanos, he's my favorite Marvel villain of all time, but under Feige I'm expecting the most restrained version of Thanos ever. And after six years of cinematic build-up that'd be just tragic.

Its a good, fun popcorn movie perfect for Feige's safe MCU.

At this point I'm starting to think TWS was a fluke that The Russos somehow got past Feige and co.'s strict kid-friendly guidelines.

The Civil War film was a bona-fide trailer for BP & Spider-Man's movies that featured a 36 hour feud between Cap and Tony (which Feige naturally resolved with a cute letter in the mail at the end).

Hope this happens.

The Winter Soldier was the best movie to come from the MCU so far and I'd love to see them direct a CBM where they're given teeth. No surprise they're sick of Feige [already].

Feige's dream of a Bayformers MCU is now complete.

"Let's gather 12 superpowered beings (well, not Hawkeye and Widow) and make them pointlessly fight (amicably) for 10 minutes while they crack jokes at each other. They'll love it!!!" -Kevin Feige


Civil War for me is the culmination of Feige's desire to Transformerize the MCU..

Feige won't change the formula at this point. They're making too much money and the general audience is happily eating it all up.
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Feige won't let these movies matter. There's too much focus on what's on next to let what's on now count for something.
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Prince of Persia and John Carter weren't under Feige (who has complete autonomy over the Marvel division).

. Rumor is Feige strangled the film creatively and Favreau had no real creative control.

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[Snake Plissken]

I marvel at this previous post, while looking at this post.

Your hate boner for Arad is making you unreasonable.

 

[WellCQCaboutthat]

Holy **** thats a lot of research....

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[a-dev]

It's ''safe'' to say...

 

[EVILFACE]

Someone has way too much time on their hands and worries way to much about what someone else posts on a doll forum.

 

[hockeyflow33]

This is the reason the internet gets blocked at work haha


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[Chakor]

A pug in an UGG on a rug looking snug.

 

[YoNoSe]

Someone has way too much time on their hands and worries way to much about what someone else posts on a doll forum.

Mostly amused. Working in healthcare, slightly worried. Getting spikey about the time on someone else's hands with 45 thou posts ain't a great sign either.

 

[ali032373]

Love that Larry Blackmon icon.

 

[YoNoSe]

Love that Larry Blackmon icon.

Word up.

 

[YoNoSe]

Holy **** thats a lot of research....

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It took entire minutes. Almost five, maybe.

 

[a-dev]

https://www.iflscience.com/technolo...-designed-to-hang-suspended-from-an-asteroid/

 

[Snake Plissken]

A hotel, that moves 16,000mph... eh yeah okay if it hung that low, it would be hit with wind resistance would rip apart.

A building that's built on an asteroid makes a whole lot more sense then a building that's dangling like a scrotum in the atmosphere.

 

[Mr. Green]

Human population growing. Aquaculture in space could be use there. Of course the draw back is the huge scenic pollution and the possible crash to earth.

 

[a-dev]

On the list of possible solutions to overpopulation I think capturing an asteroid and holding it in earth's orbit and then suspending skyscrapers from it would be pretty far down.

 

[DinoDB1975]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rd-world:homepage/card&utm_term=.873a51a36f06



Giant pythons in Indonesia, giant saltwater crocodiles in the Philippines...glad I don't live in a place where one could disappear because of the wild life...

 

[Snake Plissken]

An Indonesian man disappeared. Villagers found his body inside a 23-foot-long python.

Eh, he might be alright.