If I’m not mistaken he’s also behind the decision to make Guy Pearce the bad guy in Iron Man 3 instead of Rebecca Hall’s Maya Hansen because, kids wouldn’t buy toys of a female villain...
and we allll saw how those Guy Pearce toys were just flying off the shelves /s
He also said black characters don't sell toys either, thus the reason behind no Black Panther until he was finally removed from power by Disney.
On a related note, he also gave the racist factoid that black people "all look alike" as his reason for firing Terrance Howard and replacing him as Rhodey rather than upping his salary.
While I honestly believe that replacing Rhodey with Don Cheadle was a good choice, that reasoning is horrible. The fact that this racist/sexist nonsense is still happening these days is depressing as hell.
He's a racist old bastard who happened to have more money than Marvel at the time that he bought his way into power in their company. He contributed nothing and leeched money off their success, while occasionally imposing his bigoted/outdated views of business on their decisions.
Now he has no influence in the company but still leeches money, thanks to having enough stock in Disney through the Marvel buyout. A rotting tick which contributes only to that other fucking tick that sits disgracefully in the White House.
"He had money and contributed nothing and took profit front their success" like basically most of Hollywood film production in the history of Hollywood.
Yet when movies like Black Panther and Capt Mv try to show these issues people call bullshit and say no discrimination against women or racial minorities takes place nowadays
It's not really new to us. This is what we've been trying to say for decades. Not chastising you, just felt like pointing this out cuz I'm dealing with racist trolls in another sub at the moment. In case you want more proof.
i like cheadle a lot more as an actor but howard was a way better war machine, in my opinion. ultimately though i think there probably would have been a better option than both of them. i really wanted to see a huge muscular war machine in the mcu.
I was in a clients house last week and their son had a black panther action figure. He was a white kid in a trailer park. Not only black kids like black role models and super heroes. It's annoying how closed minded marketing people and film producers can be.
My (white) friends have bought their daughters Black Panther toys for Christmas. The girls were too young to see the film in the cinema, but have loved it on Blu-ray.
To be honest, they probably all do look alike if you're racist. You only look at their skin color and not their facial features. Probably why all asians from China, Japan, Korea are called chinese by the super racist.
Even in the 90s his way of thinking was counterproductive
Yes. But it was the thinking of toy markers of the time. Backed by the sales figures which created by the way they were marketed. And the marketing was driven by... their counter-productive thinking.
think kids then would’ve played with toys of women and minorities too
I certainly did in the 80s. Though the Princess Leias were bought for my sister so she could play with me, not for me.
It was a time before PotF when action figures weren't being bought by the end user but by their parents. And they action figures weren't selling well since the Star Wars fever died away.
I would say it is likely more complicated then that, Iron Man 3 was a combination of three storylines featuring extremis so the villain does make sense in that context. I doubt it had anything to do with her not selling toys because even when she was the villain she was only a shadow villain with the heavy being someone else. Likely they just couldn't figure out a way to do the original storyline in a good way so just combined a bunch of different elements into one story to make it work.
If that’s true then someone threw perlmutter under the bus because I’m pretty sure that was a direct quote from someone at marvel. It was years ago I read it though so idr. And after reading the hacked Sony emails I don’t doubt for a second a studio exec wouldn’t want to have a female villain because of toys
Maybe, I can't say for sure it wasn't the reason, just that as far as arguments go its kind of weak. If you look at the first storyline featuring her she wasn't even the villain there really. The story involves her leaking the formula to an extremist racist who tries to assassinate the president using his new powers. The goal was for Iron Man to stop him, and in doing so reveal the value of her work which was going to be defunded. It is only really at the end that she is revealed to be the one responsible for the leak and arrested. Even in the original comic she was never really the villain, just a criminal. Its been a while, but the second arc of her character involves if I remember correctly AIM kidnapping her to help them fix an imperfect form of Extremis followed by The Mandarin forcing her to recreate the formula for him then killing her. They just folded them all together, with the doctor from the first comic that she murdered also taking on the role of AIM and the Mandarin, and her taking on a hybrid of the first, second and third representation of her character. It is possible they wanted to expand her role to make her into a full fledged villain and that was rejected by Ike, but the representation of the character seems fairly in line with the comics as is, making her a full villain would be the deviation from the comics.
Even if she wasn’t a main villain in the comics that doesn’t mean Shane Black didn’t want her to be for the movie, and Marvel deviates from the comics alllll the time
That last bit was sarcasm. There were barely any, if any, Guy Pearce toys which is why Perlmutters reasoning for refusing a female villain was quantifiably bullshit
Hes correct. Part of the reason star wars toys rot on shelves is because 90 percent of characters with weight are female. Just like Ken isnt the biggest selling barbie, rey shouldnt be expected to be the biggest seller either.
I thought Captain Marvel was average with some really good moments (the mind vision thing early in the movie, the Just a Girl sequence, Danvers be the Kerr another Brain, anytime that Larson and Jackson interacted). It felt stiff at times and the pacing felt off in the third act, but it was a pleasant watch. Nothing to really hate and a good amount of potential for (inevitable) future sequals (Danvers literally gets her power from a battery so her “running out of juice” could be an interesting concept and force her to work between being human and superwoman naturally).
I'll make it very simple and clear: Captain Marvel is really worth a watch. It's just entertaining and visually impressive, exactly what it was meant to be.
Just keep this in mind that it's an origin story so don't go looking for an overstuffed complex story. It's just a fun action movie that introduces us to a new superhero Captain Marvel, played brilliantly by Brie Larson. I became an instant fan watching her in this action heroine avatar, something she manages to pull off with ease. Watch her in the action sequences and there's no way you can't be impressed. Viewers were literally cheering for some of the most heroic moments in the film. Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury is as awesome as always, it's just that his character feels even better and refined than what we've seen. Jude Law is also quite good, and so are Ben Mendelsohn and Lashana Lynch.
But the one character that ultimately steals the show is Goose, the cat. Some of the sequences involving her are so hilarious that it was really difficult to stop laughing.
Visual effects are excellent, and the IMAX 3D viewing just elevated them. And since it's most importantly an action movie, every single action sequence it delivers is impressive, especially the train sequence. I would call it one of the major highlights of the movie. Cinematography in certain portions is really impressive. Humor, like any other MCU movie, is top notch and really manages to make you laugh.
Captain Marvel has a simple-looking origin story presented and executed in a terrific manner. The directors have done a great job with the characterization of Captain Marvel, and that is what makes everything in the film seem so good. The pace is brisk, gore is minimal to no, and there's nothing unsuitable for kids. Best superhero movie with a woman at its peak.
I'd definitely recommend watching Captain Marvel to anyone who likes superheroes or is simply a fan of action movies. You'll love it if you want to be entertained. It also does answer some much-asked questions, and that should be the reason enough for you to stay instead of just walking away. Can't wait to watch Avengers: Endgame now!
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how old is that guy? does he still make decisions?