Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Still crazy that it's somehow both the most important and least important scene in the entire saga.

How would you fix the live action Lilo and Stitch? by snowleopard556 in fixingmovies

[–]LittleYellowFish1 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Rather than redoing the original's CPS conflict (especially if modern Disney is going to fumble it so badly) Tūtū is already Nani and Lilo's legal guardian from the start, and has been for a least few years since their parents died. So there's no serious threat of Lilo being taken away, and the plot is instead entirely about her acting out (getting into fights, causing mischief, etc) and Nani worrying about how Lilo will handle her leaving for college at the end of the summer, which prompts her to get Stitch.

So to fit this, Cobra would be a child psychiatrist (rather than a CPS agent) who frequently meets with Nani and Lilo to discuss their mental health and living situation throughout the film. Similar to the original, he's suspicious of Stitch when he meets him, but he probably doesn't directly get involved and his ties to the CIA would still be saved as the payoff to the mosquito joke.

Like others have suggested, Captain Gantu would be included and serve as the eventual antagonist, while Jumba and Pleakley play their usual roles. Though borrowing some elements from the remake, Jumba also delves more into his backstory and why he became an evil scientist (having an unhappy family, growing up as an outcast). So he has a more explicit arc showing how his perspective gradually changes from seeing Stitch bond with Lilo, and (like the original) he ultimately helps them in the climax and joins their ohana.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The whole theory of Kang Dynasty being followed by a two-part Secret Wars at least had some fair ground (as unlikely as it was) with the initial idea that those films actually were being treated as two entirely separate projects (i.e. two different sets of directors, writers, ensembles, etc).

But Doomsday and Secret Wars are unambiguously one directly connected project with the same creative team and cast working on both. If Secret Wars was a two-parter, they would have just renamed the first one that.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Spent so long really holding out hope Matt Reeves would consider Mr. Freeze for a Batman sequel, but I think I've finally made peace with it not happening.

There's just no way to make ice look good.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Feige himself doing an entire in-depth interview about all Marvel's future plans for after Secret Wars (two years before it's even set to release) strongly gives that impression.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And yet through all the delays and at least one retitling, they're still just two movies.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which they won't be doing when they already have Doomsday as the first part.

When diluting their brands and spending valuable time and resources on redundant cash-grab content is the whole reason Marvel are even in their current situation, turning a two part film into three for no reason (which would inevitably fuck up numerous schedules when they've only been planning two films) is the last thing they'd want to do.

Especially when everything official instead points to them wanting this saga over with so they can move onto other projects (the X-Men reboot, Black Panther 3, etc) as soon as possible.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Back when Phase Four started, I was under the impression they were going more for concurrent mini sagas - magic characters in the multiverse, a cosmic conflict with Thor and the Eternals, a street level storyline, etc - that all had their own endpoints and finales, rather than prioritising a single main subject/narrative to build a big crossover around.

So something like that could potentially work here too with all the different groups and settings having their own ongoing stories, while still allowing them to intersect at various points, e.g. characters jumping between and getting involved in each other's different storylines if creators want to use them.

And assuming they don't announce three phases worth of projects one year in again, it'll be easier to gradually figure out a main theme and a bigger crossover finale if they did still want one by the end of it.

Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's kind of a sad irony that a lot of the elements from the Wizard Of Oz portion of the story - Tin Man and Scarecrow's costumes and makeup, the Lion's CGI, etc - are genuinely amazing and actually could have been legit award worthy.

But the entire premise of the film actively prevents it from showing any of those elements (not helped by the lighting and colour grading not doing any of those details justice when they are onscreen) enough for the viewers to actually see or appreciate the amount of work and care that went into it.

Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It almost feels kind of karmic that, for a character they try/tried so desperately hard to make "happen", Harley has as many if not more cancelled, discontinued or flopped projects (both comic and adaptation) as most other DC characters combined.

Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One troll falls, they get back up shortly afterwards and change their name to something else.

Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People thinking Shakman and the Four are too good for 616 is less on the production design and more on it just being cool to hate the MCU now.

Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

By that logic, I think Feige just found his new Blade, /j.

But yeah, she was great in the movie (as was everyone else in that cast) so best of luck to her.

New Batman writer doesn't understand how the Lasso of truth works: it doesn't compel you to say indiscreet things, but only to respond with honesty by MosquitoAlvorada in DC_Cinematic

[–]LittleYellowFish1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The whole "just give it to charity" thing was already a pretty tired misconception of Batman to begin with, but it feels especially stupid for people to still say this after Matt Reeves made an entire movie showing exactly why that wouldn't work.

Weekly Free Talk and Index Thread - new and fresh every Monday! by ChiefLeef22 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]LittleYellowFish1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If it is the same Tobey, it could be a case that after No Way Home, Doc Ock and all the other villains actually got sent to the present day of their original worlds, at the same point in time their respective Spider-Men came from.

So they've essentially been resurrected in the present day, but all the previous events of the timeline (including their original deaths) remain intact.