Marvel Shared Film Universe: MCU Theatrical & TV (discussion, crossovers, etc.)

[Pak-Man]

While I am COMPLETELY disinterested in Namor, I have no doubt Marvel Studios would have me rushing to Toys R Us to get a figure for my desk by the end of the movie if they made one.

[LucasM]

I created a new useful list.  It is a chart of the mid-and-end-credit scenes on the assorted home video releases of the MCU.  [<= The blue there is a link to the post where the list resides.]

[Cyrusso]

While I am COMPLETELY disinterested in Namor, I have no doubt Marvel Studios would have me rushing to Toys R Us to get a figure for my desk by the end of the movie if they made one.

Yeah, Namor is definitely the Aquaman of the MCU... what? Too on the nose? 

[LucasM]

[k1]

Last nights episode of SHIELD was the best one of the season. This has been a weird story line. Not sure that the show will last past this season though which is a shame.

[LucasM]

While I am COMPLETELY disinterested in Namor, I have no doubt Marvel Studios would have me rushing to Toys R Us to get a figure for my desk by the end of the movie if they made one.

Yeah, Namor is definitely the Aquaman of the MCU... what? Too on the nose? 

Technically, Aquaman is the Namor of DC... Namor was created by Bill Everett in 1938, and was first published in April 1939.  Aquaman was first published in November 1941.  But, yes, the DCU is beating the MCU in creating a water-character on film.  So the general public will think he was 'first'.

[Edward J Grug III]

Last nights episode of SHIELD was the best one of the season. This has been a weird story line. Not sure that the show will last past this season though which is a shame.

I think that every season.

[LucasM]

FINALLY! We Have a 'Cloak And Dagger' Premiere Date

Let the countdown begin, because at the winter TCAs, Freeform announced that Cloak And Dagger will be coming to television on Thursday, June 7. According to Variety, Cloak and Dagger will have a monstrous two-hour premiere.

This may be the only new show that we see on cable television for the MCU, as we recently learned that there won't be any new Marvel projects on ABC this year.

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[LucasM]

Brie Larson on set in Captain Marvel suit.

Spoiler

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[Johnny Unusual]

Ooo, old school.  I like it.

[goflyblind]

(link to embiggen: https://i.imgur.com/N1n35Dy.jpg )

[LucasM]

I have been looking for an HQ copy of that since first seeing a tiny useless copy on Facebook!  Thanks, goflyblind!

[Pak-Man]

Found the Stan Lee cameo!

[LucasM]

Wow I can be slow at times!

Was just watching The Avengers again (9th time), and only now - having just recently watched the Blu-rays of Season 3 of Agents of SHIELD (imported from the UK) - did it finally register that Powers Boothe's Gideon Malick was on the World Security Council in The Avengers (he is listed in the credits there as "World Security Council Member #1" and, obviously, only appears by voice and in heavy shadow)!

No wonder in The Avengers he was so bent out of shape at Thor taking the Tesseract back to Asgard.  It also makes the apparent ease of his vote for nuking midtown clear, because it would eliminate not only the age-old enemy of Hydra, Captain America, but also eliminate further potential enemies in the rest of the Avengers.

[LucasM]

OK... I reworded what I wrote just above and integrated it into my massive crossover list.

But I've added something new to the post just following that, the one that previously just had the end credit scene checklist in it.  This is a little something that I've been working on recently.

A little (unnecessary) history first.  I first watched Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 in 2D.  Fine, no big deal.  But when I got the 3D Blu-ray, I noticed something: a fair number of scenes were massively improved by an expanded aspect ratio.  Now, the first film I believe I experienced the shifting screen ratio on was 'The Dark Knight', where powerful scenes were made more powerful by the shift from the 2.35:1 of the majority of the film to the 1.77:1 full HD screen.  Well, MCU films do that as well - but ONLY in the 3D versions of the films (no 2D versions have the screen-filling scenes uncropped).  That pisses me off a bit, because I don't always want to watch films in 3D, but I DO always want to get the impact of the IMAX scenes.

So, here's a link to the post that has the new list (and the older, end-credit-scene checklist as well). 3D Blu-rays that have the exclusive MCU IMAX scenes in the expanded ratio on them, and the chart of the mid- and end-credit scenes on the assorted home video releases of the MCU films.

So far there appear to be only four films where this is the case (though I will now be more attentive while re-watching others, in case I missed some).  But given Disney's track record across their output, I think Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther are likely to do this as well.  Sadly, Disney isn't releasing Ragnarok domestically in 3D at all (GotGv2 was only available in 3D in an exclusive Best Buy steelbook with the 4K version which sold out pretty much immediately).  So I've already got my UK 3D copy of Ragnarok ordered.




EDIT:
Here is an example of JUST how much difference this makes, with side-by-side images for 2D and IMAX scenes for the first Guardians of the Galaxy.