Just be happy it’s not another portal.
You know about Marvel movies by now, let’s not be coy. It’s hard to avoid them considering there’re toy, TV (streaming and traditional), comic, snack, amusement park, and film properties developing the lucrative universe and all its heroes. But its villains, that’s always the issue. It’s comic rival, DC, has always had the better villains. Joker, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, General Zod, Bizarro, Brainiac, Lex Luthor. I bet you recognized at least one of those names. With Suicide Squad, it proved even its minor leaguers could make a smash (financial) hit. Marvel’s a bit of a different story.
Would fans watch a film starring a team-up of Obadiah Stane, Whiplash, and Thor’s Dark Elves? Probably not. Would some nod their heads knowingly as I made up a name for the weird bugs/robots/aliens that came through the various portals in...
You know about Marvel movies by now, let’s not be coy. It’s hard to avoid them considering there’re toy, TV (streaming and traditional), comic, snack, amusement park, and film properties developing the lucrative universe and all its heroes. But its villains, that’s always the issue. It’s comic rival, DC, has always had the better villains. Joker, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, General Zod, Bizarro, Brainiac, Lex Luthor. I bet you recognized at least one of those names. With Suicide Squad, it proved even its minor leaguers could make a smash (financial) hit. Marvel’s a bit of a different story.
Would fans watch a film starring a team-up of Obadiah Stane, Whiplash, and Thor’s Dark Elves? Probably not. Would some nod their heads knowingly as I made up a name for the weird bugs/robots/aliens that came through the various portals in...
- 3/30/2017
- by Jacob Oller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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