Things are too interesting these days. Only Captain Marvel can save us!

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Captain Marvel 2 continues to bomb, probably because it include the actual Captain Marvel (Monica) but still gave Carol Danvers' real name to a teenage girl.  As you can expect, the studio that wasted tons of money to push this out blames sexism/racism/homophobia/whatever.  I'm surprised they don't blame global warming too, but maybe they can't have that many thoughts in their head at once.

I've heard this before but never really thought about it, it sounds like they're really putting the movie together in post-production.  Basically they filmed hours worth of footage with only a basic idea of what the actual story is, which the Marvels director even complain about not knowing what's going on.  That seems impossible to believe, but it sounds like that's what they're really doing, making movies via the "Marvel method."

Comic books are generally written in one of two ways.  There's 'full script,' where the writer writes down each panel and its dialogue for each page, then the artist draws that.  Changes can be made, but that's basically it.  'Marvel method' is the writer giving a basic idea of the plot, what happens on each page, the artist draws that, then the writer adds the words.  The writer can certainly put details into the plot, but can also just say who the villain is and let the artist go from there.

When it works, it works, but just as often it turns out material that's, at best, formulaic and tedious.  The artist isn't writing, he's focused on the pictures, so that limits the plot and the themes produced in the story.  I think it's basically impossible to do a work more complicated than a superhero story this way - even a teen romance would require panel-by-panel specifics on what the characters are saying and doing - but even the notion of adding this to movies seems utterly insane.

They can't possibly be that literal in this method but if they're doing expensive cgi movies about men in long underwear, it's disturbingly possible that this is what Disney might actually be doing with these movies, to the point where the producer is the one doing the most work to create the story.  The producers here would be Disney employees, so they expect obedience.

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There were some claims recently that Marvel didn't actually have a plan for Phases 1-3.  That is blatantly false.  The Cosmic Cube and at least one of the other Infinity Stones were included in the earliest movies and Thanos was introduced at the end of the first Avengers.  It can be argued how in-depth the plot was but this much was already there.  It is Hollywood so there would be countless changes being made along the way but they had the basics.

Thor getting a new hammer was always the one that stuck out for me.  This totally contradicts the whole Thor legend, but they just throw it out for, what, marketing?  Because Chris Hemsworth thought he had a good idea and was now a big star?  Of course the Thor in comics/movies didn't have much in common with the actual Thor myths anyway, but it's an example of how they make pointless changes for no reason.

My theory is that the high-ranking people coming and going are just deluded.  The Guardians of the Galaxy director claims to have been the one to come up with the Thanos plot, which is just stupid.  But that's probably why DC became desperate for him to do the same thing now.  And he gets paid well to enjoy sex with children.

But now Marvel is basically in the worst of all possible worlds.  Immense success which they have no way to follow up on, but they already had movies scheduled for release so they needed to think of some way to make them.  It's rumored that they've completely given up on Kang as the big villain for this go-round which means they have nothing to build on from Phases 4 and 5 for a climax.  They've also never figured out anything else to do with superheroes, showing how limited that genre has always been.

Everything I've heard about She-Hulk suggests that it was absolutely horrible.  I would never see it, but in theory Shulky was a brilliant idea.  [I can call her Shulky, we're tight like that.]  An office comedy set in a superhero world sounds like it should be a perfect idea.  Might not be as successful as a massive boxoffice hit but it would be cheaper to make and entertaining its own way.  Or Damage Control, I've never understood why Marvel hasn't kept that series running.

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I can understand why people aren't interested in the time-travel storyline.  I think it could work but I'm not the one seeing any of these movies.  I'm not sure how it could be made to work but in theory, it's not a bad idea.  The multiverse?  Now that's a bad idea.  They could just set movies in a universe where the same things happened but Black Panther is still alive.  Or maybe he joined the Justice League.

There's the fact that the 'multiverse' concept destroys all the interest in whichever universe you happen to be showing in this movie.  There's also the lack of interest the creators can bring, nothing needs to make sense because that's how *this* universe works.  This also allows the delusion of Hollywood leaders, dismissal of actual reality and detachment from the audience.  And Disney can influence all the other studios to go along with them on this, especially with the previous decade of box office smash.

I'm still worried this actually was part of the plan.  It does resemble Marvel in the early-70s after Stan gave up being in charge, and the mid-90s when they had burned out on overhyped first issues.  It's like they expect the X-Men to return and save the day.  The company is just putting out comics as movie specs and 'woke' propaganda which is why nobody buys them.  Then there's the problems with Disney and Hollywood.

It's very entertaining to watch Marvel/Disney fail.  My affection for Star Wars is completely past-tense and I've never had interest in Lucasfilm, Pixar or standard Disney productions, yet I've been paying a lot of attention to them these days.  The people in charge have clearly been aiming everything up to this point and it doesn't look like it's working out for them.  But they still haven't figured that out, so they'll keep going and the audience will stay away as much as possible.  If you really want to watch a good movie, there's lots of those from the last century and you probably already own a copy of them.

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□ [“South American Hotels say ‘No’ to Roger Waters After His Support Gaza Extremists"]

We need more of this.  Stop putting up with these tyrants.  Waters is very rich, he can afford a place to stay with his touring crew.  Just the amount of money he brings in from the tour would be enough to handle that.  Of course he blames Israel for making this happen because people in Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina could never make up decisions on their own and they certainly want to put up with him.

I've avoided paying any attention to the Floyd for a long time, so I forgot about this, but in addition to new music from the Beatles, the Stones and Robert Plant singing "Stairway to Heaven," Roger Waters has re-recorded Dark Side of the Moon for its 50th anniversary.  Looking it up, this redux was released a month ago.  Shows what I know.

All of Pink Floyd was born upper class, so Waters has never spent a day of his life in need and he's always expected people to obey.  He's also been famous for most of his life so he's always surrounded by people who tell him what he wants to hear and he wants to be told how great he is.  He really doesn't like it when peons think they don't have to listen to him.

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□ [“Pizzagate Was Always Real"]

I still can't figure it out if there are some high-level people who are actually fighting the oppressors or if this is just ordinary citizens gradually putting things together.  Either way, they should start putting out all this information that they have on the child-molesters-in-charge.  They should have started that years ago.

It's been over seven years since "Pizzagate" became known.  This reporter/close friend to Hillary's staff didn't disprove Pizzagate as a conspiracy theory and *then* decide to start molesting children.  The people who praised him on social media would know what he was into and so were they.  The founder and CEO of viral chatbot ChatGPT was just fired.  No reason was given but a few weeks earlier, his sister posted on the internet about how he molested her when she was very young and he wasn't.

It does seem like child-rapists invested in the internet quite early.  This would make them very rich and help make connections with other rich and powerful people.  I don't know why that would work for them but it's certainly believable.  It would certainly give a reason for those pizza places to exist, at least for the right customers, all protect by the elites and their media pets.

And this isn't even counting what Bill Gates has done...

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□ [“NYC Mayor Adams Announces City will Reduce NYPD Officers to Below 30,000, Slash Education Department Due to Financial Impact of Illegal Aliens"]

Why not ask all these new people to pay taxes to their sanctuary city?  They're so wonderful and productive, they'll certainly have no problems bringing in money.  All those skills that used to aid foreign countries can now be put to use right here in New York City.  Not like those wussy New Yorkers.

It's always strange how leftists insist that the government can pay for everything, demand higher taxes to make that happen, yet they're always eager to cut the funding for police or military.  Those people are paid to protect citizens from attackers and the left doesn't like that.  Any sensible person would immediately stop funding all the *woke* propagandists but then they wouldn't be in the NYC government.

But they certainly don't have to worry about losing elections.  Otherwise they would want to at least pretend to oppose crime, but frankly, the NYC mayor doesn't think this city has enough crime yet, so he's going to do what he can to bring more of it in.  New Yorkers just have to suffer because they deserve it.

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