Marvel Cinematic Universe

[brewcity77]

Hawkeye is awesome. Quickly becoming my favorite MCU show. I really hope we get another season, though I suppose it depends on how it all plays out.

[reinko]

Hawkeye is awesome. Quickly becoming my favorite MCU show. I really hope we get another season, though I suppose it depends on how it all plays out.

Agreed, if it sticks the last 2 eps, will overtake Loki for me, and clearly already better than What If, Wandavision, and Falcon.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Watched E4 with the family last night.  Loving the ongoing PTSD discussion.
They have a lot of ground to cover and situations to resolve in two episodes.  It will be very interesting.

[brewcity77]

Expecting to see D'Onofrio as Kingpin next week. Pretty sure that was his hand in E3. Also guessing we'll learn that Laura is Bobbi Morse.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Expecting to see D'Onofrio as Kingpin next week. Pretty sure that was his hand in E3. Also guessing we'll learn that Laura is Bobbi Morse.

Marvel likes blending secondary characters from the comics into another.

[PGsHeroes32]

Obvious

But great to see regardless

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Interesting that Eternals didn't lead to a bump in this thread. I saw it...it was fine. Probably ranks bottom half of MCU movies for me. A few thoughts...

• Pacing was too slow. Beautiful film, but Chloe Zhao just didn't move it along like a typical MCU movie. I think that's why the lukewarm reception.
  
• I liked how they set up having the Eternals not get involved previously, and how the snap impacted the overall storyline. That was a tough needle to thread and I thought the explanation worked well.
  
• Good choice to stick closer to the Gaiman story than Kirby; Jack was brilliant but his original Eternals stuff was really out there. Also liked the villain twist they threw in there, which felt Gaiman-inspired but was still a turn from his source material.
  
• Going forward, I love Dane and Sersei as characters moving into a New Avengers. Also love how we get the first whispers (words rather) of Blade; that was Mahershala Ali's voice talking to Dane as he was looking at the Ebony Blade.
  
• Be interesting to see if they set up parallel MCU Earth and MCU Cosmic storylines. I'd love to see them follow the Secret Invasion and Kang stuff with the earthbound heroes while using Fantastic Four as a launching point toward stories like Annihilation with the Guardians, Cosmic Eternals, Starfox, Adam Warlock, and Nova (fingers crossed).
  
• More than anything, this felt like a table-setter. It will be an important movie down the line and will probably be better on the rewatch, but in the moment landed a bit flat.

I finally saw Eternals this past weekend. 
Your summary is a good description.  I think this one will look better in a few years after several more Marvel movies cycle through.  As you noted, there is so much set on the table that it's hard to piece together until the follow-up films.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Is this Marvel's Die Hard?

[PGsHeroes32]

LOVED far from home aside from the ending.

Really hope they don't stick with that for long. Like reverse quickly come the next movie.

[brewcity77]

Far From Home was one of the most mind-blowing MCU movies so far. Just so many "holy <bleep>" moments. I loved it. Not sure if it's a top-5 MCU movie, but it's close and certainly in my top-10, no hesitation.

[brewcity77]

Oh, and Hawkeye continues to deliver. Brilliant show. Hailee Steinfeld is a great casting. She interacts so well with Renner and Pugh.

[Uncle Rico]

LOVED far from home aside from the ending.

Really hope they don't stick with that for long. Like reverse quickly come the next movie.

Great way to build suspense on how to undo the ending.  Loved the film. Curious if we see Spider-Man swinging in at the end of Hawkeye

[PGsHeroes32]

Great way to build suspense on how to undo the ending.  Loved the film. Curious if we see Spider-Man swinging in at the end of Hawkeye

I wondered about that ending as well. Definitely looked Hawkeyeish.

Also, a thing to mention on this movie. Garfield and Dafoe turned in legitimate supporting actor performances. Like they should true Oscar consideration. They were both stellar

Holland was obviously fantastic as well.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

It'll never happen but Dafoe deserves an Oscar nomination at the very minimum.

That dude is so talented.

Green Goblin is a top-3 MCU villain.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Season Finale of Hawkeye. 
Wow!  That episode covered a lot of ground and as usual Marvel left unopened future threads of "what happened and what's next" and "what's the backstory on this one?"


Going to see Spiderman on Sunday with the family.

[tower912]

'Rogers the Musical' was enough to make me regret the whole thing.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

'Rogers the Musical' was enough to make me regret the whole thing.

Ha, I loved that scene so much.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

'Rogers the Musical' was enough to make me regret the whole thing.

I've been singing the song since the finale.  Stuck in my head!

[CreightonWarrior]

I've been singing the song since the finale.  Stuck in my head!

I could do this all DAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

[Dish]

No Way Home was incredible. The storytelling and layering of the plot was next level stuff. They took a complex concept, and made it into a heartfelt buddy drama. I'd go as far to say it should be nominated for Best Picture. There should be supporting role nominees from this film, Garfield/Dafoe are so damn good in this.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

I was thinking about fun, albeit unlikely, multiverse theories today.

So Chris Evans is done as Captain America, but imagine a multiverse scenario where they re-introduce him as Johnny Storm when the eventually bring the Fantastic 4 into the fold.

[Galway Eagle]

I was thinking about fun, albeit unlikely, multiverse theories today.

So Chris Evans is done as Captain America, but imagine a multiverse scenario where they re-introduce him as Johnny Storm when the eventually bring the Fantastic 4 into the fold.

That'd be pretty hilarious, if they do try to introduce one of the previous F4 though would you really prefer him over say Michael B Jordan again?

[Galway Eagle]

Binged Loki, Hawkeye and watched No Way Home during this past weekend's hangover.

No Way Home was great if you're really into the MCU for sure but my fiancé hated it as a casual viewer.

Loki was excellent.

Hawkeye was fantastic.

Question: Now that Murdock (as same actor) and Kingpin (as same actor) are in the MCU are we to assume that this officially makes the various Netflix series MCU canon now?

(Btws still haven't seen eternals so if there's an answer in that don't tell me)

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Binged Loki, Hawkeye and watched No Way Home during this past weekend's hangover.

No Way Home was great if you're really into the MCU for sure but my fiancé hated it as a casual viewer.

Loki was excellent.

Hawkeye was fantastic.

Question: Now that Murdock (as same actor) and Kingpin (as same actor) are in the MCU are we to assume that this officially makes the various Netflix series MCU canon now?

(Btws still haven't seen eternals so if there's an answer in that don't tell me)

I think Matt Murdock & Kingpin make Netflix canon now.  Brew may have more info on.  I heard viewership of Daredevil on Netflix has re-skyrocketed again.
Eternals is on Disney Plus January 12.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I was thinking about fun, albeit unlikely, multiverse theories today.

So Chris Evans is done as Captain America, but imagine a multiverse scenario where they re-introduce him as Johnny Storm when the eventually bring the Fantastic 4 into the fold.

There is rumor of a top secret Marvel movie.  It ties in with Scarlet Johansson settling with Disney and hired to produce a movie and another unconfirmed story from earlier in 2021 that Chris Evans may have signed to do another movie with an option for a second.  Supposedly Chris Evans is not Captain America, he is "Nomad" alongside Black Widow and The Falcon and it takes place between the end of CA: Civil War and the beginning of Avengers Infinity War.