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No more than they knew Thanos was being set up to be the first Thanos. He barely appeared until Infinity War, and all of my casual film fans had no idea that he existed until that time. He was teased in a couple post-credits scenes, and had maybe one or two brief appearances before Infinity War, but to most people he was just another of the countless weird alien dudes that popped up. It wasn't until Infinity War that he became a recognizable bad-ass, much like I assume Kang wouldn't have jumped out at the casual viewers until he was full-on made out to be The Big Bad Guy.
You may need to retake human anatomy class.
I mean, that film looks like a middle school class project, and that Dr. Doom is hands down the cheesiest, fakest, corniest one ever put on film. Both the 2005/2007 Dr. Doom and the 2015 Dr. Doom are orders of magnitude better than the schlock you linked. There's a reason that film was never released, and a reason Corman's reputation is what it is.
The only audience I can imagine enjoying the '94 version is small children, and even there I'm unconvinced that they wouldn't also be disinterested due to its terrible production values.
Oh, I thought you were joking. You actually like that crappy movie?
If they stay true to the '80s comic it will be the smart Hulk in Secret Wars, but there's no guarantee they'll do that in the film.
lol more like a famously terrible adaptation.
I'd say it proves that the superhero genre is not dead, but that cinema itself is dying. People simply aren't going to the movies as often as before, and rather than seeing everything that comes out they instead choose 1 or 2 films each year to see. When the hype around a film is big enough, it becomes the one to see. They wait to stream everything else at home.
Keith!!
Oh wait, wrong RR movie.
I suppose one could argue that Tony Stark and Victor von Doom are disparate entities, but on the other hand it makes sense that in some universe Stark went bad and used his genius to conquer rather than save.
Then again, we don't know the extent of Robert Downey's involvement. Doom famously never removes his mask, so perhaps he's only voicing Doom, a la Spader and Ultron. Or maybe, as in Secret Wars, he repairs his face and makes the choice to look like Stark to confuse the heroes. Until we see the films, we don't know where they're going with this.
Impossible to say. I think it's possible that after Secret Wars they will move on with new stories, focusing primarily on Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Spider-Man, with various other lesser-known characters peppered in, as before. They'll build to some third major story arc. I don't read the comics, so I don't know what that would be, but something as cataclysmic as Thanos or the Beyonder threatening the universe. Maybe Galactus?
Or, they may pause for a year or two, and then reboot. Recast Iron Man, Captain America, and the rest of the best-known heroes, and start over. I don't know that they'd lead with Thanos again. Perhaps they could give Kang another go, but who knows? Maybe they'd lead with Galactus after the reboot, as he's the major "big villain" that's been missing to this point.
That's what the story arc has been. After all, 10 of the first 22 MCU films were Infinity Stone movies, because that was what that arc was. Now, after the events of Endgame, the Multiverse is the dominant story. The seeds that were sowed there have been sprouting ever since, and it's all growing towards a two-part conclusion, just as the Infinity Saga did.
2nd or 3rd tier heroes? You mean like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow? Besides the Hulk, the entire Avengers lineup was made up of C-List and D-List Marvel heroes, because they'd sold all their popular ones to other studios. If you asked the average man on the street to I.D. the Avengers in 2006 nearly no one would have been able to name any of them other than the Hulk, and god forbid you showed them the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, or nearly anyone else from the MCU. You'd have received a lot of blank stares.
Marvel has proven time and again that they can take characters no one knows about and turn them into household names simply by putting them in good movies. Before Avengers:Doomsday, they'll have released a new Captain America film and their first Fantastic Four film, as well as a Thunderbolts, which seems akin to GotG in its obscurity, and Blade.
That gives a solid roster of heroes to pull from:
Black Widow (Yelena)
Captain America (Sam)
Hawkeye
Hulk
Thor
Loki
Bucky / Winter Soldier
Spider-Man
Wolverine (potentially all the X-Men)
Deadpool
Guardians of the Galaxy
Black Panther (Shuri or someone else)
Shang-Chi
She-Hulk
Doctor Strange
Captain Marvel
Ms. Marvel
Moon Knight
Ant Man
The Wasp
Fantastic Four
Blade
Scarlet Witch
Red Guardian
Daredevil (we saw Matt Murdock in Spider-Man)
There are plenty of possibilities. Plus, Secret Wars was equally about the villains, so there is massive potential for interesting stories there.
I'm not worried.
The second one is quite good, no doubt, but it's more of a decent movie with some really funny moments that drags in parts. This one is a very good movie, perfectly paced, with non-stop hilarity.
I can't speak for WhereIsRent but I also found the film to be hilarious. I saw it in a nearly-full theater, and the entire audience laughed from start to finish to the point where I'm planning to go see it again this week to catch all the jokes I missed due to the audience's laughter at the previous joke.
Appreciation of that kind of rapid-fire dialogue style of humor isn't limited to the MCU, and it's clearly appealing to the audiences seeing the film. If you don't care for it, that's all good. There are many styles of comedy out there. This film offers a nice blend of intellectual wit and crassness that you don't often find in a film. Usually you either get the clever jokes in tandem with the dry, British-style wit a la Monty Python or Thor:Ragnarok or you get the vulgar jokes along with juvenile humor a la an Adam Sandler film. It was refreshing to get raunchy humor done intelligently. I can see how that would also be off-putting.
If it hits $210 million it will be 6th. I read elsewhere it was tracking for $205 million, making it 8th. Either way it's a staggering success, especially in the age of streaming.
Now that the numbers are coming in it's clear that the film is an unmitigated success.
It's projected to top $205 million, making it the 8th-highest opening of all-time. It will become only the 9th film to ever open with over $200 million. 6 of those 9 are MCU films. Two are recent Star Wars films, making Jurassic World the only non-Disney film to ever top $200 million in its first weekend.
Unsurprising, as pegging is nothing new for Deadpool.
I feel like that's everyone's opinion, at least among my circle of friends, and what I read in forums like these. The first one was fun, but the second one took it up a notch.
Close. Dr. Doom is a man in an iron suit.
Wild guess here, but he's Tony Stark from another universe who went the villain route and designed Dr. Doom armor instead of Iron Man armor.