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It Ain't Over, Bub - X-Men X-travaganza #2

September 20, 2020 by Neoplasmic in Movies, RPC Capes, Spoilers, Podcast

Welcome to part two of an RPC Capes special, featuring our take on the second half (or thereabouts) of Fox’s X-Men film franchise! Jacob, Brock, Keona, and special guest host Millennial Mike from the Exiles Network podcast discuss the finer adamantium claw-points of The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Logan, Deadpool 2, Dark Phoenix, and New Mutants! It’s a long show, with a lot of chatter and opinions and tangents! Click that play button below, and enjoy the episode!

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September 20, 2020 /Neoplasmic
Wolverine, Dark Phoenix, X-Men, Fox, Marvel, New Mutants, Deadpool
Movies, RPC Capes, Spoilers, Podcast
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23 Marvelous Movies: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

June 22, 2020 by Jacob Krehbiel in MCU, RPC Comics, Articles

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is what Marvel fans often point to as the film where the cinematic universe truly came together because it was here that the complexity, nuance, and genre-defining that were already prevalent in the previous films were brought to the attention of filmgoers and critics. Any series that went from pulpy, old-fashioned WWII adventure to espionage political thriller in the same vein as The Manchurian Candidate and the Bourne series.

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June 22, 2020 /Jacob Krehbiel
Captain America, Marvel, Steve Rogers, Black Widow, Nick Fury
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23 Marvelous Movies: Thor: The Dark World

May 29, 2020 by Jacob Krehbiel in Editorial, Review, Movies, MCU

Both Iron Man 3 and Thor The Dark World were released in 2013. Meanwhile, Warner Bros and DC had launched their cinematic universe with Man of Steel in that year as well, which was met with a disappointingly small box office intake and less than stellar critical reception. Many of the complaints lobbied against Zack Snyder's take on Superman were about how downbeat and overly bleak it was.

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May 29, 2020 /Jacob Krehbiel
MCU, Marvel, Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Retrospective
Editorial, Review, Movies, MCU
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23 Marvelous Movies: Iron Man 2

April 28, 2020 by Jacob Krehbiel in Articles, MCU

Iron Man 2, the first direct sequel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was made at a time when Iron Man went from a relatively obscure hero in the comics to an instant star in the movies. So, it only made sense that Marvel would give Tony Stark another outing before they dove into their truly esoteric characters like the even more obscure Thor and the explicitly patriotic Captain America.

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April 28, 2020 /Jacob Krehbiel
Iron Man 2, Mickey Rourke, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Marvel
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23 Marvelous Movies: Iron Man

April 24, 2020 by Jacob Krehbiel in Review, Articles, MCU

As I said in the prelude to this review series, the 2000s were the decade that superhero movies were becoming the next big Hollywood genre, after being deemed the kiss of death in the 90s. They were becoming more adult and complex and had their creative voices as shown by the success of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and the failure of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, which to many filmgoers and critics, relied too much on nostalgia for the original Christopher Reeve films. But an even more unique take on the comic-book flick came in the form of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man.

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April 24, 2020 /Jacob Krehbiel
Iron Man, Marvel, Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau, Stan Lee, Jeff Bridges
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