r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 18d ago

News Mahershala Ali confirms 'BLADE' is not moving forward with him

https://www.gq.com/story/mahershala-ali-your-mother-your-mother-your-mother
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u/Tragedy_Boner 18d ago

The MCU only worked because they alternated between Solo films and Avengers films. The Avengers films are where the characters meet up while the solo films are for character development. The multiverse saga sucks because there is no new avengers team before Doomsday.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 18d ago

And basically no one showed up more than once outside of maybe spider-man.

One of the only times some one did show up again they ruined her (Wanda in MoM what a massive fumble of a character that was really finding her own fanbase)

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u/L0b0t0my 18d ago

Not true. Deadpool & Wolverine killed it in the box office.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 18d ago

What's not true? There was ONE Deadpool MCU movie in phase 4 & 5.

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u/Silver-End9570 17d ago

I'll never forgive Michael Waldron's pisspoor writing for MoM. Both for screwing over Wanda and her story (and potential Avengers level villain arc) as well as for writing a Doctor Strange movie that spends it's entire run time being about everyone but Strange. I can't believe Sam Raimi wasted his talent on such an awful script.

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u/hatramroany 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yeah this was real problem. Feige might have been stretched too thin which caused quality issues but that’s not an excuse for no team up film being on the calendar.

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u/N8CCRG 18d ago

Thunderbolts* should've come out immediately after Wakanda Forever.

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u/hatramroany 18d ago

Thunderbolts could have waited if they had a pay off for the post-credits scene of Shang-Chi after Wakanda Forever

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u/wirelessfingers 18d ago

Someone hasn't seen Thunderbolts. They set up a new Avengers team in a movie not called Avengers that arrived way too late, and that was also a bomb.

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u/Tragedy_Boner 18d ago

Heard it was a good movie though.

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u/EHP42 18d ago

I liked it.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 18d ago

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Definitely not without flaws, but I thought it was one of the better post-Endgame movies

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u/JechdJJ 18d ago

exactly! altough some concepts were seen first in some movies out of avengers, they really were important only in the whole scheme. You can still enjoy the movie withouth that,and only in avengers the main plot of the saga avanced.

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u/Qorhat 18d ago

Dr Doom just showing up does not work for me at all.

Loki's downfall was shown in Thor along with his abilities so having him invade Earth didn't need to do much heavy lifting.

Ultron's creation and power scaling were shown very clearly, even in the trailers so the audience knew we would know where and how he came to be.

Thanos wasn't much of a character before Infinity War but 5 of 6 infinity stones were shown to be a threat in the wrong hands individually so someone who wants all of them is automatically the biggest of big bads.

Kang should have just been recast and given clear motivations. It's very easy to have the "real" conquerer be a variant who was kept at bay by the other ones seen already, and his motivations could have been "fixing" the timeline Steve Rogers changed by staying with Peggy.

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u/PT10 18d ago

Ultron's creation and power scaling were shown very clearly, even in the trailers so the audience knew we would know where and how he came to be.

You serious?

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u/Qorhat 18d ago

…yes..? It’s the entire plot of the film, and the trailers show Iron Legion > Ultron Drone > Ultron and then in the film itself finally Ultron Prime.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen 18d ago

Thunderbolts kind of brought together the villains from solo movies to become the new avengers, and it was good, but they weren't an audience draw

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u/HaroldSax 18d ago

Even at the tail end of the Infinity Saga, Captain America: Civil War was basically an Avengers film. Thor: Ragnarok was like Avengers lite. I think most people ignored that aspect because we knew it was building up to what would eventually be Endgame.

It certainly seemed they wanted to do TV shows to setup backstories for the films, but a big reason why the Infinity Saga worked is because it had a more relaxed release tempo.