#cinematic universes

[alwaysbewoke]

finally got around to watching into the spider-verse and wow, it is as good as everyone said. what's wild is how good sony is at making these spider-man movies compared to how bad they are at making the live-action spider-man movies. clearly, the strategy moving forward should be to put some of the animated people on the live-action movies because this is head and shoulders above everything they're doing in live action.

[alepothemushroom]

You know...

The whole "interconnected cinematic universe" thing was fun for a while, but now it's just exhausting. Go back to having movies be in their own universe that occasionally crosses over with something else.

[titleknown]

In terms of weird trivia, I recently found out that ages ago Disney had a loose “cinematic universe” within their live-action movies linked to Flubber (the original one) of all things.

Let’s hope that when antitrust inevitably breaks up Disney with a hatchet (AS THEY SHOULD) they try bringing this back when they lose Marvel/Star Wars/The Muppets...

[kylo-ren-is-alive]

I hate shared universes. I hate that Guardians of the Galaxy exists in the same universe as Iron Man. I hate that Superman exists in the same universe as Batman. I hate that apparently all Stephen King stories take place in the same universe. If Indiana Jones crosses with Star Wars I'm going to start throwing things!

[thewilliamambervein]

So I have an urge to talk about possible horror film cinematic universes and how easy or hard they would be to make

Lovecraft: This would actually be really easy. You could pull a Stan Lee but have the character be named Randolph Carter, who appeared in a lot of stories and is implied to be in every story of HP Lovecraft probably because he was a self insert. Not to mention Mountains of Madness has an ending that could show scenes from other movies, implying that all of the stories are being effected by the same entities. Hell the role playing game was able to make it seem connected, might as well use them as inspiration for some of the needed connective tissue or even the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. The only issue is that technically Conan is apart of the dream scape in HP Lovecraft, because surprisingly the 2 authors were friends despite how opposite their writing styles were. It certainly doesn't help that most HP Lovecraft movies are either a cult favorite or just really horrible. I wish a studio would give Guillermo del Toro the money to make Mountains of Madness.

SCP Foundation: Okay so I have talked a lot about how I think some of the best SCPs and even some lesser known ones would be a good action/horror series of loosely connected movies with the most wild one being SCP-1730, maybe being used to show that all these things are somehow coexisting. But that's the thing, a lot of these stories have deep deep lore and radically different explinations even for aliens or what is after death. I could see maybe following a specific MTF squad but certain SCPs and SCP tales include the death of the main characters and there wasn't really an option to get out of it alive. Unless amnestics are used as a post credit scene or certain video being shown as a part of the file as a whole rather than a concise story. It has a ton of potential but it doesn't seem possible.

[shaffyreads]

I feel like a lot of people aren't criticizing cinematic universes for the valid reasons (lack of creativity and corporate greed). Instead, they're criticizing them because that's the popular thing to do right now. And they're not acknowledging the part the fandoms played in their decreasing quality. The fandoms told the studios with their wallets that they'd consume anything they shit out and the studios gave them shit...and the fandom was surprised it was shit.

Cinematic universes aren't bad because they're cinematic universes, and there's a place for them in entertainment. But I feel like we're going to see more stand alone movies and these same fandoms are going to decide that's the only way to make a franchise until they tell studios they can make whatever shit they want...the cycle repeats.

The problem isn't cinematic universes, the problem is that the audiences doesn't understand how to ask the studios for more. They tell studios they want something "new" instead of something of quality.

[atomiccupcakeobservation]

Not quite a review: The Batman; or, why it's actually a bit subversive and good

Not quite a review: The Batman; or, why it’s actually a bit subversive and good

Recently, my partner did a Twitter poll (he does a lot of those on various topics), and I was the fourth to do it. The poll was comparing The Batman with Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and asked which was better – with the final choice being “Both Bad.” The other three people had clicked “Both Bad” – I clicked on Dr. Strange, which is a slightly better movie (it’s not three hours, for…

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