*sighs and positions nerd cap*"Morbius the Living Vampire" (no, I'm not sure what that means) is an old Marvel property. He pops up from time to time. Maybe the rights were tied up with Blade.
Captain marvel. I fell asleep at one point and missed a major plot twist. I didn't care. It was good too see the latest Spider-Man movie get a good review in the magazine ,because the last two marvel movies I have seen have been poo.
Captain marvel. I fell asleep at one point and missed a major plot twist. I didn't care. It was good too see the latest Spider-Man movie get a good review in the magazine ,because the last two marvel movies I have seen have been poo.
Named after a soft cheese. Is it any wonder?Plus Brie Larson gives a mean side-eye.
speaking as a radical feminist, i would very much like to give her one.Brie Larson gives a mean side-eye
speaking as a radical feminist, i would very much like to give her one.
speaking as a radical feminist, i would very much like to give her one.
The Marvel movies in general and Captain Marvel in particular are LAYERED with hidden weirdness, waiting to be unlocked.
Whenever you see the Department of Defense Entertainment Liaison in a film's credits, it's a pretty good bet they signed on because they (or more likely, another Agency) wanted to stick something 'interesting' in there.
I'm a comics history nerd and have been studying how DoD and CIA have interfaced with my industry for a couple years now, and the Captain Marvel film is a gem of an example of the kind of thing they do, and how much work they put into it.
You might know that Carol Danvers was the star of a title called Ms Marvel in the 1970s. In Ms Marvel #1, there is a letter from a woman who says she works at NASA and is a comics fan. When this was brought to my attention, I thought maybe I'd try to track her down and interview her about the character for the entertainment news website I help run -- sounded like a cool story. I didn't end up getting around to it in the time frame I wanted, but I banked my research on it and thought I might circle back someday.
This woman did work at NASA and as far as I can tell, has had a very successful career in her field in the years since. Thing is, she worked in a special part of NASA -- Langley Research Center, which is where they test CIA spy planes.
When I saw the film, a bunch of things clicked: the hangar shown where Carol is a pilot appears to be the Langley Research Center hangar. The aircraft she's flying looks like a successor to the infamous SR-71 Blackbird spy plane (aka, the X-Men plane). The original version of the Blackbird, the A-12, first flew in test flights waaaayyyy back in 1962, at Area 51 -- which of course might explain some things. the Blackbird itself has been in service since 1964 (and was apparently retired around 1990).
Rumors and supposed designs of the Blackbird's successor have periodically surfaced since the mid/late 1980s -- which tracks with the time frame of the film's setting, interestingly enough -- and periodically surface again every few years. In reality, we don't know exactly what they've been doing with it. Accepted wisdom says that satellites and drones have fullfilled much of the role that original spy planes were designed to do, but... by amazing coincidence? News of a Blackbird successor model has been out there again over the past few months.
Anyway... with a few exceptions, the Marvel movies contain awesome levels of hidden weirdness. I CANNOT WAIT for Black Widow to come out.
While we wait to see if Black Widow is ever released, even The New Mutants for that matter, there was an interesting article in The Guardian about China's huge influence over Hollywood (China is an enormous market now):
News story
The reason I mention it is, remember the controversy over Tilda Swinton playing the mentor character in Doctor Strange, who many said should have been played by a Chinese actor and accused Marvel of whitewashing? Now we know the truth, it was nothing of the kind: the Chinese authorities pressured Marvel not to make the character Chinese because originally the mentor was Tibetan, and they don't want any representations of Tibet (which China invaded and now occupy) in movies. So they didn't even make him slightly Asian, or even male, they made he a she, a pasty Celt. The more you know...
When I first read of this, a long time before DS came out, the original reporting stated that they were altering the ethnicity of The Supreme Being in order to placate China. It wasn't clear in the tone at the point if China had applied pressure, or Marvel just altered it of their own accord to preempt issue with the CCP. I don't recall if Swinton had been cast at that point but there was no mention of "whitewashing" at the point, that narrative seemed to gain traction with the failed Ghost in the Shell adaptation.
Yes, the whole idea that a performer should closely share characteristics with their roles can be traced back to these two movies, maybe to Emma Stone in that flop Cameron Crowe movie too. I think what many people really want is to watch a documentary about superheroes, where their powers are all real.
I prefer actual documentaries like Pacific Rim.
Of the seven characters in The New Mutants two are Hispanic, two are Amerindian, one is Scottish, one is Russian (played by a Hispanic-English actress), one is white American.
Tweet Bob McLeod and tell him his disappointment about his contribution to the comics (he was the artist and responsible for the look of the characters) wasn't that important anyway.
Just pointing out that the film wasn't whitewashed.
Comic creators are often unhappy with how their characters are adapted for the big screen. Many Marvel and DC characters look little like their comic originals.
OK, I was wondering how they'd misspelled "Claremont".Tweet Bob McLeod and tell him his disappointment about his contribution to the comics (he was the artist and responsible for the look of the characters) wasn't that important anyway.