vishspal
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Post by vishspal on Aug 2, 2024 1:42:36 GMT
Does anyone think the pre MCU movies such as Blade, the X-Men, Raimi's Spider-Man, etc should have been a shared universe? I feel like this was a missed opportunity in Deadpool & Wolverine. What about everyone else?
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Post by kolchak92 on Aug 2, 2024 2:01:27 GMT
No. Personally I'm sick of "shared universes" and I miss when superhero movies just took place in their own world independently, like the Chris Reeve Superman movies did.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 2, 2024 2:17:36 GMT
Scarlet Johansson and Jessica Biel should have had a threesome with me in the mid aughts but there was no shot of that happening, and likewise all these characters were owned by mostly different studios at the time. We're only getting this stuff now because Marvel and Gisnep were able to buy back most of them, or broker deals with the stragglers like Sony and Spider-Man. That's what makes it so perplexing it took until 2016 for a DC crossover when WB have owned all of those characters for decades.
But yeah, I'd have actually been more excited for a shared universe with those franchises. I didn't care about the MCU until about midway, partly because the characters they had all felt like B tier rejects while the big potatoes still belonged elsewhere, and partly because their movies all felt samesie. Something as pulpy as Raimi's Spidey crossing over with R rated horror movie Blade and arthouse Hulk and "embarassed to be superheroes" X-men would be crazy.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 2, 2024 2:30:25 GMT
Steve Ditko on shared universes: "short term gain, long term loss."
Shared universes make stories less important in themselves.
How exciting would Blade be if we knew X-men were around being able to change weather etc...
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 2, 2024 14:40:37 GMT
No. Personally I'm sick of "shared universes" and I miss when superhero movies just took place in their own world independently, like the Chris Reeve Superman movies did. I agree. The Batman is one of the few modern superhero movies that are their own thing. |
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 2, 2024 14:44:29 GMT
Scarlet Johansson and Jessica Biel should have had a threesome with me in the mid aughts but there was no shot of that happening, and likewise all these characters were owned by mostly different studios at the time. We're only getting this stuff now because Marvel and Gisnep were able to buy back most of them, or broker deals with the stragglers like Sony and Spider-Man. That's what makes it so perplexing it took until 2016 for a DC crossover when WB have owned all of those characters for decades. But yeah, I'd have actually been more excited for a shared universe with those franchises. I didn't care about the MCU until about midway, partly because the characters they had all felt like B tier rejects while the big potatoes still belonged elsewhere, and partly because their movies all felt samesie. Something as pulpy as Raimi's Spidey crossing over with R rated horror movie Blade and arthouse Hulk and "embarassed to be superheroes" X-men would be crazy. That would be a bizarre crossover. |
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 2, 2024 14:47:10 GMT
I have to admit that Keaton Batman crossing over with Reeve Superman would have been cool.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 2, 2024 15:30:06 GMT
Well, they can be if you want, as multi-verse. Just because Disney hasn't allocated dollars to it, doesn't mean it's not tangible for ppl who want it.
We had Groot teaming up with Captain Rogers, so anything's possible.
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