Running MCU thread

I'm very excited about any Daredevil series with that cast. I've always been a big fan of What If? and I'll give almost any Spider-Man series try. I'm just not so sure about the other stuff.

I like the concept of Ironheart, but I wasn't blown away by the character in Wakanda Forever. I'm probably more interested in the villains, though I am concerned that they are finally bringing Mephisto to the MCU, but they are doing it with Sasha Baron Cohen.

 

No one had thoughts on Agatha? I jumped in here and noticed it not event mentioned.
I found it fairly 'meh' (like most of the TV properties lately) and the last episode I spent having it on while playing euchre on my phone.

 

The show was dragged down by the woman who played Agatha. Everyone else was great. She’s not a main character actress. She was great in Wandavision because she wasn’t the focus. But I just had a real hard time getting into her character. The Teen was great. Aubrey Plaza was amazing. The other witches were good. But Agatha herself was a slog. The final episode that was supposed to offer insight and sympathy fell flat and felt more as a penultimate episode rather than a finale. They are really banking on getting a season 2.

 

Oddly enough, I thought Katherine Hahn was a strength of the show. It wasn't great, though it got a little better during the back half of the season. I nearly gave up on the whole thing. I got sick of waiting for them to reveal The Teen's identity. It wasn't hard to guess, but it felt like the story was bogged down until they got there.

 

I'm far more excited to see this than the Captain America movie.

 

I guess we're getting a few new trailers today. Even with Harrison Ford and Giancarlo Esposito, I'm concerned this will fail.

 

That Cap movie looks like crap.

Thunderbolts will be good and will underperform.

 

The Thunderbolts looks like a ton of fun. I'm ready to see it now! The Cap movie, maybe it doesn't translate to a trailer and is more like a government thriller or something, but yeah. I am sure I'll see it sometime but I probably won't go to the theater unless it gets really good reviews.

I have loved most everything about the MCU, but I guess I am getting fatigued. There are a few movies I haven't seen yet (latest Ant-Man, the Marvels), and the last series I finished was Ms. Marvel (liked it a lot), but didn't watch Moonknight before that. I watched about half of She-Hulk, and it was fine, but we got sidetracked and haven't gone back to it. I loved Loki and still haven't watched season two. I should just make it an objective to get through all of these to see what I think.

That said, and I know it is totally different in many ways and not sure how it all fits, but Deadpool & Wolverine is a top five MCU movie for me and I just loved it so much.

My interest is still there but there is just so much. Maybe they know that and don't care and whoever something singular attracts, it attracts.

 

The fact that the new Captain America movie queued up the Red Hulk rather than trying to hide him away ... there's gotta be an even bigger plot twist they're hiding.

 

I'm assuming they did that because the nerds know he is red hulk and they wanted to give them a taste?

If there is a "twist" the obvious connection would be leading into Thunderbolts threemonths later

 

Everything I've read and seen suggests that the Captain America movie is going for the same genre as The Winter Soldier, so yes, a political thriller. It will be damn good if they can come anywhere close because that was easily one of the top five MCU movies.

 

Yeah, that was going to be a tough one to hide. I'm guessing any surprises will be something that ties into Thunderbolts*. I've seen a lot of guesses that we are headed for Dark Avengers, which is also why there is an asterisk on Thunderbolts.