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    Ta-metru_defender

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    A-HAAAAA THANK YOU THANK YOU. Paging Nate and Micah, because we have had this conversation so many times. 

     

    I think another thing to consider is that there's only so much talent in the movie industry that wants to get bogged down in the often-long-term commitments that superhero movies bring (see Marvel and their unprecedented contracts around the start of MCU Phase One) and how, with those starting to wrap up the closer we get to Avengers III, people are starting to say they want out. Chris Evans isn't going to stay on as Captain America. ScarJo and Jeremy Renner are both underutilized and have their own careers going. Marvel's entirely lost control of Robert Downey, Jr. with the will there/won't there Pandora's box that is Iron Man 4. And Marvel's ship is so creatively tight that they need to keep churning out these movies before the bubble bursts - see Edgar Wright's ouster from Ant-Man, a move which I still think is gonna shake the movie up and give the MCU the closest thing it's really had to a bust.

     

    It's prevalent in Doctor Strange, too - just look at the clusterbomb that the casting for that movie has been. First it was Benadryl Clambasket. Then it became Tom Hardy. Then it was Joaquin Phoenix. Now they're saying it could be anyone from Jared Leto to Ewan McGregor to even Matthew McConaughey. The short list is incredibly varied; all of those actors are surreal in their own way, but surreal in wildly different aspects, and with Strange's release date starting to look not-so-far-away after all, that's a big deal. 

     

    DC's gonna suffer the same problem, only they don't have the added benefit of both 5+ years of consumer goodwill and they are trying to find a set of diversified actors and stories that Marvel can't compete with. Sometimes it could work (Will Smith and Tom Hardy in a Suicide Squad movie? God on high, yes yes yes) and sometimes I just swear they're setting themselves up for a mixed bag (Batman v Superman on the same weekend as Cap 3, now featuring RDJ? Really? DC sales are going to be hamstrung)

     

    (Also another note calling Man of Steel kinda mostly alright is incredibly generous for me because the only reason I could honestly get through it was staring at Henry Cavill and wishing I could be that handsome. It was supposed to be the big boost that DC needed to match Iron Man in shared universe potential and that is not what it was) 

     

    I definitely agree with you, though, on the genre blending being crucial to the success of the shared universes - Winter Soldier and Guardians got rave reviews because they were fresh, original concepts that didn't just feel like different takes on the same story, the way the Iron Man movies (and to an extent the Thor movies too) did. If DC can copy that? Yeah, I think they'll definitely be alright. It's just a matter of finding talented directors who can bring that hybrid vision of superhero/[genre here] to the screen.

     

    -Tyler

    shadow pridak money gang

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    if you had a mouse would you murder it and eat it

     

    no. same reason i don't hunt down and murder kiwis. too fuzzy to eat the skin and you need someone else to peel it for you or it's gonna gross out out of eating it

     

     

    Why must I think of purple elephants?

     

    burgundy elephants have been out of style since springtime and if you want to be part of the in crowd by god you're gonna start thinking in violet missy

     

    -Tyler

    Reznas

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    I think the huge outpouring of people just talking about what fun they had shooting various types of guns and bows proves exactly why Ryu's talking about, and I'm not sure that what she said merited the equally passive-aggressive response that you gave her tbh Takuma

     

    -Tyler

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