…all principal photography for Avengers: Doomsday is now complete, allowing the team to create a first cut of the film. The second phase of filming is set to begin in January 2026, with secrecy measures expected to be even stricter.

So just a little break.

“Please, like, people have got to subscribe to Disney+ and watch this show,” Winderbaum said. “If that happens, they will get more. And we are excited. We’re ready.”

So just the one season then.

I want it to be good and if it’s good I want more than one season, but I fully expect this to be a one and done situation.

He did have an intimidating face when the mask was down. They went for the more lighthearted crazy MODOK when the mask was up/removed. I’d have to scrub through the scenes again but I thought he had some scenes where he was yelling that also looked intimidating.

I mean to steal from the top comments on the linked thread… That’s what MODOK looks like.

Sure the origin is different, but that’s ok. I wish he would have stuck around longer, but he’s probably too silly to really fit in with the rest of the MCU as established.

Besides there are so many things to complain about with this movie, an Ant-Man film that drops all their fun side characters, Bill Murray is wasted, and of course the big bad of the whole era just so easily defeated, just to name a few.

But this movie had fun scenes with the ant army, the various goo people, and just Paul Rudd being Paul Rudd.

Ultimately this film fails because even though it was just “ok” when watching, it ultimately goes nowhere. We’re just coming off Phase 4 (if phases matter) which is disjointed and didn’t really have a purpose. Here is the start of KANG… and he sucks. Teased in the Loki series, then something mysterious at the end of Shang Chi, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange play with the Multiverse, and now… a whimper.

Now I realize there are outside forces at play here, and the plan is for Doomsday to pickup where these loose ends dropped, but it still sucks.

Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci

I’d put them both fresh out of high school age in a film like Adventureland, mashed up with a Breakfast Club theme. Just a bunch of young adults figuring out where to go next in life.

I wonder if there is going to be room for much story or if it’s just a 2 hour battle where we jump from scene to scene.

The What If…? episode set up the idea of a possible solution, but I’m getting the sense that everyone dies in this.

Honestly just chaos could be fun.

It took 10+ years, but he solved it. He might just be the World’s Greatest Detective.

I’m not even sure they believe their own words.

In the mid-2010s pretty much all of them would do incredible business

That puts us in “The Amazing Spider-Man” territory. While technically both films were a financial success, they were not well received critically. Sony had a whole plan for a Spider-Man universe following these two films.

If it had been such incredible business, they would have continued with their Spider-Man universe. However even at the time they knew they weren’t up to the task, they knew they didn’t have the quality to create a profitable Spider-Man universe. So they made a deal with Disney/Marvel.

THEN, for whatever reason, AFTER giving up Spider-Man, they still tried to create that Spider-Man universe, but without Spider-Man.

Unfortunately for all of us… Venom sorta worked. Sony could have their cake and eat it too. Except, as we saw, not really. But we could justify Venom 2, Venom 3, Morbius, Madam Web and Kraven, all by saying, “But Venom worked, it could happen again.”

You saw the first 30 minutes. This is an additional 2 hours (30 min x 4 episodes?).

Another thing to consider is “bad” according to who?

I’ve watched poorly rated movies that I really enjoyed. I’ve watched highly rated movies that I really disliked.

Maybe you’ll only enjoy a specific actor/performance, maybe you’ll only enjoy a certain scene or storyline.

Sometimes it’s worth rolling the dice.

Not that I’m against new communities, any reason you made a new community instead of joining !dcstudios@lemmy.world ?

True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

It was starting to turn around by the end of season 2, but not enough.

I say we go all in. If we’re bringing them back, bring them all back. The issue was the story, not the actors.

unlimited amount of money and resources

But not time. The film has 10 heroes (Eternals), plus two villains (Deviants in multiple forms & Arishem), plus a backdoor introduction of Dane Whitman.

Everyone is split up and we spend a lot of the film doing introductions. Sadly the Deviants villain is barely one of them.

A TV series is the easiest solution. Otherwise start cutting and merging characters. You don’t have to literally merge them, Thena & Gilgamesh are teamed up, their story is told together. Sprite is attached to Ikaris. Makkari is tacked on to the end, have her joined up with others, or be a messenger. Have Phastos with Ajak early on. It’s not easy, but you gotta do something.

Why do you think Lady and the Tramp would be better with CG? Also since it isn’t clear from your post, you know that film already exists right?

Among my complaints of these remakes is that converting animals to CG just makes them less dynamic and less interesting. I know The Lion King remake has been successful, but the characters lack the unique feel that the animated version had. I guess with Lady and the Tramp each dog is generally unique versus The Lion King where most lions are just… lions, but I’m still not sure it’s an improvement.

I mean not liking the main actor is certainly going to skew your opinion of the film.

Carell was coming off of The Daily Show as a popular correspondent. The first season of The Office had aired, although honestly that probably didn’t build much hype. Apatow produced (with others) Anchorman, so I’m sure there was a “From the producer who brought you Anchorman” hype. So maybe a little hype before the film.

The movie itself is an excellent comedy and about a month later The Office season 2 would kick off, so Steve Carell now had a film and TV career. I could see Carell being a little overexposed at that time, but it was well earned. That’s probably the hype you’re thinking of.

Robbie Robertson, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Bugle makes the most sense to me.

It’s a character not explored much yet in film. Robbie has ties to Tombstone who is rumored to be in the film. We know The Daily Bugle exists, although it is different than we’re used to seeing. Although with Stark technology out of the picture Peter is going to need money and working for the Bugle makes sense.

Slammin’ Salmon is an excellent film.

I also enjoyed Quasi, not as much as their other films but it was still fun.

Lol, you’re right, season 3, fixed

I haven’t seen the most recent episode yet, but so far the best episodes this season have been the silly episodes.