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  • Vespair@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldTalk about job security
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    1 month ago

    I think Jackman Wolverine is a very strong casting choice as evidenced by his success.

    But I think Simmons as J. Jonah is one in a lifetime, peak casting.

    Other people could play a comparably great Wolverine; I don’t think anyone is ever gonna top Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson





  • Vespair@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldDon't ruin it for others
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    2 months ago

    The first of the Holland Spider-Man films, Homecoming, is excellent. The only reason I didn’t recommend the Spider-Man series to you is because I think the second and third entries are a little shakier, and as a comics fan a bit “more Holland than Peter” to me, but this most recent fourth entry in the series is just as excellent as the first. So if you like the character already, check 'em out.


  • Vespair@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldDon't ruin it for others
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    2 months ago

    I mean, don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t work for Marvel Studios marketing department so I don’t really feel much incentive to sell you. I got no vested interest here, I just thought it was odd that the dude could acknowledge THING could and has been great in the past but while thinking THING couldn’t be great again despite the prior acknowledgement. That’s all.

    That said, I am a comic book diehard and I am also still very onboard with the MCU. I’d say the new Spider-Man is one of my favorite films in the greater universe… but it’s also absolutely not a film you should go into blind. It requires at least having seen the previous Tom Holland Spider-Man films, bare minimum.

    But if you’re at all interested in the MCU and haven’t dipped your toe in yet, my recommendation is simple: Watch Guardians of the Galaxy vol.1-3. These are, imo, the peak of the MCU (GOTG vol.2 is one of my favorite movies of all-time, in fact) and they’re also in some ways the most self-contained, so they don’t rely on a lot of connective tissue for their impact.




  • Vespair@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldDon't ruin it for others
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    2 months ago

    Comics have always waxed and waned. Some of the great storylines in comics happen between some of the worst. Imo it makes sense that the films following this model could do the same, and writing all of the off forever because you haven’t been 100% satisfied every time seems silly.

    It’s okay to not like the MCU, and it’s okay to be done with it. But you seem to be suggesting that the MCU was once good in your eyes - why do you think that somebody that has been proven to you to be good once is not capable of being good again?




  • Vespair@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldHe was very mature about this
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    2 months ago

    … Why are we making up scenarios to feel vindicated about literal fictions that we established in the first place?

    Literally who is this for and in what way is this remotely memetic?

    This just feels like the kind of cheap dunking on women shit you see all over reddit in the gross right winger cesspool subs.