#mcu crit

[buffyseasonsix]

There is still time 🩷 to watch a non mcu movie. There is life outside of the mcu. 🩷 I promise, it does get better.

Come with me, there are worlds where there are more than two sex scenes and you can say fuck and you can be silly with your whole chest. There are worlds where they build sets, and mix practical and digital effects to increase the realism. There are worlds where action is well paced and gorgeously filmed and individual characters have strengths they can use to target the other's weakness

[mwagneto]

i can't believe the mcu is gaybaiting with fucking Chris Pratt of all people, that is so fucking funny..... i hope he cried into his pillow every night while filming

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

What gets me about the Stucky poll is that everyone is going on about history but the thing about history is that today will be tomorrow's history and in 10 years people will be calling Gentlebeard and OFMD more broadly "historically important representation" and will consider whatever Stucky was a blip in a broader subculture that spawned from what I believe future critics will be considered some of the worst movies ever created by a major studio.

Like yes it is an AO3 bracket but hIsToRiCaLlY this show revitalized the rom com. What did Captain America: The Winter Soldier do other than be a main stream unnoteworthy inoffensive Disney sponsored emotionless shell of the great Jewish art it filched all its ideas off of. The cinema landscape would be better off without it.

Anyway much respect to anyone who was writing Stucky based off the comic books before Disney got a hold of them and nothing to say to anyone else other than sorry you'll never get to see your guys kiss. I'll get to see mine fuck in HD in like a month maximum.

[chaoticke-rambles]

I've been watching What If...? with my dad because he's invested and I like watching things with him and it's. hmm. I'm not going to talk about plot, or the fact that there's a non-zero chance my dad picked up on the queer (lol) when I was complaining they can't make Hela not goth. Instead, what's been standing out to me is how many of these ministories are like. Focused on women and/or minority characters.

Like, the one episode is about a new character named Kahori who's an indigenous woman of the Mohawk nation in the 1500s who gets supercharged by the tesseract and stops colonialism by beating up the Spanish. Great concept, and it was mostly in the Mohawk language in collaboration with Mohawk creators, which was really cool. I think that's a cool story for them to have told. However, I'm also a little annoyed that the only place we can really get stories like these is in What If...? The MCU is such a cultural juggernaut, and yet they are only recently starting to tell stories led by women and minorities. And the fact that What If...? is adding so much complexity to women and letting people who aren't allowed to be focal characters take the stage is frustrating to me.

Because, on the one hand, it's good that we get these stories, and that there are a few episodes discussing female friendship and trying to show minority perspectives that really haven't been seen in the rest of the MCU. But on the other hand, it's really highlighting how pathetic a lot of the rest of the Marvel properties are at things like having two women onscreen at once and giving them motivations besides "hot and deadly." Marvel is willing to tell these stories, but only in the What If...? world where they're not going to be taken seriously and will absolutely have no effect on the wider MCU. They get to wave at these stories and be like "See? We can do it!" without having to actually commit to anything.

And it's really frustrating to watch.

Elseworlds style stories are great for exploring concepts like "what if everyone was a vampire" and "zombies." and "what if Superman landed in Soviet Russia" and the fact that Marvel's idea of a wild, world-breaking thing to do that would not be sustainable in the main universe is women being real people is, uh, not a great look

[420technoblazeit]

Yeah I just thought it was funny how they acted like that was enough for gender fluid loki, like I tend to be more forgiving when it comes to stuff being shown or not for bi/pan rep especially for a show that only has 1 season sometimes a character mentioning it is all you can probably fit sometimes.

But the fact that they tried to claim loko is genderfluid while 'that' is the only reference to it is hilarious

the mcu will literally do ANYTHING to fence sit on representation it's so predictable. they show a file for 0.5 seconds that labels loki's sex as fluid and dont talk about it in the show just so ppl can go oh but it's just because he's a shapeshifter obviously!

which is weird bc being genderfluid is a big part of comic loki's identity and ties into his arc of reinventing himself and proving everyone wrong when they say he can't change as a person. i dont usually read comics but i follow loki's current line pretty closely bc i really like how well they write his gender fluidity and grey morality.

at this point just dont address the genderfluid thing if you're going to promise he'll be trans in this iteration and then refuse to work it into the writing. it's really frustrating to have this incredibly transparent pandering with no actual substance in the show

[justin-hammer-come-home]

Just watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, and I want you all to know that whatever you’re expecting Multiverse Of Madness to do, this movie already did it and a billion times better.

They played the Multiverse Of Madness trailer before this as a joke. Bitch knows it can never realize what this movie accomplishes in 2 hours. Just go watch Everything Everywhere All At Once, it is exactly what a movie about the multiverse should be about.

[cherrybombfangirl]

J and P from the fandom ask game? - ✨ Enc

Fandom Asks~

J - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr

Oooh, probably Lockwood and Co.? My brother recommended it to me but then someone I follow posted about it a bunch and I got into it and now I’m really hoping Netflix will greenlight Season 2

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

Marvel Cinematic Universe AU where Tony Stark is actually held accountable for all his bullshit and also none of the other character’s identities are erased- I do not appreciate the MCU for what it did to say the least and I would like an AU where we get proper representation and Tony’s behavior isn’t excused or romanticized- but hey, that’s what fanfiction is for, right? That’s all I can really think of, 😅.

I would love to see a Ninjago AU where Kai kept it a secret that Lloyd was the green ninja cuz he’s a little kid

Thanks!

[m--rtyr]

I think marvel should’ve spent more time establishing god characters in films before introducing a character like Gorr so that more time could be spent developing him + more emotional response when gods that got skrunklied get brutalised.

But maybe that’s just my opinion