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by WetheGeek

Phase 4 and Beyond: A Mini Series (All the future movies)

Phase 4 and Beyond: A mini series

Part-1

The MCU is far from slowing down, even without its fearless leaders from phases 1-3. With the fallout of Endgame, the future is what’s up in the air. So let’s take a look at what we know and what could be.

Phase 3 Ending:

Even though many of us assumed Phase 3 would end with Endgame, we were all wrong. According to the boss himself, Kevin Feige, Spider-Man Far From Home is the final movie. With Tony Starks death, we know Peter doesn’t have a mentor anymore. It appears Nick Fury will fill those shoes. Maybe with the help of Peter, Fury will issue in a new SHIELD. Details are sketchy so far, so I guess we will have to wait till July.

Phase 4:

Black Widow:

Even though she sacrificed herself in Endgame, we already know a solo movie for her is in the works. The rumor is Taskmaster will be the main villain. Personally I’m hoping this takes place between Infinity War and Endgame but there are no official reports as of yet.

Doctor Strange:

A sequel for the title character was rumored and subsequently confirmed a while back. The first Doctor Strange movie left us on a bit of a cliff hanger. It seems Mordo is a serial killer, who only kills magicians, and is still on the loose. Strange and Wong also appear to be the only two characters left who would rather use reason and logic before punching people, the only adults in the room, so we will see how it plays out.

Black Panther:

We last see the Panther clan happy and all together after Endgame in a new and thriving Wakanda. There isn’t much on the sequel other than we know it’s happening.

Guardians of the Galaxy:

This movie thankfully has its original director back and Disney has calmed down about James Gunn. Sadly we know this movie won’t be ready till after Suicide Squad 2, so like 2021-2022. Also our rogue group of heroes have changed since we saw them last. At the end of Endgame Thor, the fat god of washed up frat boys, has joined the team. We have much of the original Guardians with a few exceptions. The Gamora we know is dead. The current one we have was plucked out of the past and has zero, absolutely no feelings for Starlord. Endgame makes that very clear. Nebula is also somehow still alive, even though she shot her past self, so there may be repercussions for that. Otherwise the rest of the team was as it was before Infinity War.

The Eternals:

All we know currently is that Angelina Jolie wants to torment the MCU with her presence. Not a lot is know about this movie, but with the MCU taking on a more cosmic side, we definitely know these characters fit.

Captain Marvel:

With only the box office intake to base anything off of, a sequel wouldn’t be that much of a surprise. Since Captain Marvel makes a like 10 minute appearance in Endgame, she can literally be saving the universe anywhere else.

This has been the main movies coming out over the next few years. Stay tuned for Part 2 of our Phase 4 and Beyond mini series!

-RytheGeek

#marvel #avengers #endgame #spiderman #blackwidow #doctorstrange #blackpanther #guardiansofthegalaxy #captainmarvel #wethegeek #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

A love letter to Marvel

I love you 3000

The first Marvel movie I saw in theaters was Avengers back in 2012. I was 15. I actually didn’t even see it in a theater, I went to the drive in. I didn’t go to the movies a lot growing up, usually I just went to the library and rented new movies. Avengers changed all that. Since then I haven’t missed a single Marvel movie in theaters. That includes Deadpool or the X-men or anything in the MCU. I’ve seen them all.

I love the MCU for one reason, Iron Man.

Never before have I related on a fictional character as much as I do Tony Stark. It’s not because I’m wealthy or a super genius. Far from both. But just like him, over the past few years I’ve had the same character arc. From arrogant jerk to loving passionate defender.

The MCU has revolved around Tony Stark more than any other character. The first movie was Iron Man. The last of the Infinity Saga is his death. He was the star of the MCU and it’s not hard to see that.

In Iron Man we meet Tony Stark. He is a rich, arrogant, selfish, playboy who cares about no one. Throughout the eight movies we see him in we watch him lose his company, his health, his loved ones, his sanity, and more importantly himself. He struggles with it all. I haven’t suffered quite what he has but I understand in some small way what it’s like.

Avengers Endgame was by far the best MCU movie. Not only did it have obscure comic book references like Howard the Duck but it also had the humor that is quintessential of the MCU.

The special effects were vivid and lifelike. The dialogue was humorous yet depressing. The actors made you feel like you were there in every second.

It made me want more.

And in the end I watched my hero give it all for something else believed in.

The people he loves.

-RytheGeek

#avengers #marvel #endgame #ironman #tonystark #wethegeek #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

Let’s do the Time Warp again

Spider-Man Far From Home

Apparently Marvel is here to make me go crazy. I had all my articles written and then they drop a new Spider-Man 2 trailer I wasn’t expecting.

So here we go.

I’m going to ignore all the new things for the movie itself. I’m going to ignore Fury and Peter and Happy and Mysterio. It can all wait. The most important part of the entire trailer is Fury saying a multiverse exists.

Endgame ruined time and space.

Great job Avengers, you screwed it up again.

But this multiverse isn’t a bad thing. It opens the MCU up to a whole bunch of new options.

Since the first rumors of Fox selling out to Disney leaked a few years back, fans have been demanding the Fantastic Four and the X-men join the MCU. In many ways it seemed improbable until Fox gave up on life. With that merger came the rights to the above mentioned characters. But once again the biggest problem was that the MCU has no excuse or reason or way to include the new heroes.

Until now.

With this simple plot device the X-men and Fantastic Four can now easily join the MCU.

And now finally the smartest Marvel character can join the MCU. All hail Reed Richards.

-RytheGeek

#spiderman #farfromhome #xmen #fantasticfour #wethegeek #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

Endgame from a non believer

Endgame from NOT a fan

Okay so I just wanted this review to say “more Loki, less captain and I love ant man” but Ry said I should put a little more effort into it so here we go with each of those three pieces broken down:

MORE LOKI- guys I’m completely shamelessly saying here that I think this movie still should have had more Loki. Every movie needs more Loki. He’s not really dead. You’ll never change my mind. He’s a British actor in a science fiction situation he hasn’t exhausted his 37 lives yet. And while there is some Loki I am DEEPLY concerned with the fact that not a single avenger cared that this unreformed evil man just disappeared with an infinity stone. And while this is rumored to be the set up for the new show on Disney plus it was lazy writing and frankly goes against everything we know about the Avengers that they’d let this guy just disappear into space. That’s honestly more unbelievable than bringing half of the worlds population back from a disappearance. So yeah. You’ll make me happy with more Loki

LESS CAP- can we all just admit now that he’s gone how truly annoying cap is? Like boo hoo poor me I want you all to follow the law and then I’m just gonna go not follow the law and be totally rude to like all my friends. He’s poorly written from a bygone era and frankly I do not mind he’s no longer around to pout a little more. If he was snapped away the first time the second movie would be better.

ANTMAN- okay so my biggest issue with infinity war was the fact that like all of the newer avengers got snapped. That makes it really hard for someone like me who joined this series somewhere around Ragnorock. And who still hasn’t seen a lot of the early movies (but has managed to see iron man two and three go figure). Thus I am so thankful that Antman was in this film the way he was. Most of his time was spent asking questions like “who are you” and “why do you crazies think this loony Doctor Who level reset the universe crap will work”. This man was my saving grace in this film. I love him desperately. More Paul Rudd. Now.

-Luna

#avengers #endgame #loki #captainamerica #review #moviereview #paulrudd #antman #wethegeek #wethegeekluna

by WetheGeek

Was Captain Marvel really that good?

Before RytheGeek reviews Endgame (which comes out next week), Mabel and RytheGeek reviewed Captain Marvel. So here we go. Spoilers in all.

Mabel-

Captain Marvel was ok.

The action was there, the plot was there, the characters were there but, that being said, there were a few things about it that bothered me as a veiwer.

Please note: I have no lore or background or previous love for Captain Marvel or any Marvel character. Everything I observe is solely based on how I felt about the movies. Everything I say is how I felt slowed the movie or made it unbelievable (go figure, a superhero movie being unbelievable).

I find that recently it is a trend, especially with female superheros, to have a scene where someone struggles with a task for a few minutes before the main character fixes it to show off their power/knowledge.

In the movie, Captain Marvel and Nick Fury are stuck in a secure room where they had to get out. For a solid 3 minutes, Fury painstakingly lifts a security guard’s fingerprint off his badge with tape and uses it to open the secure door. Later, they’re met with another door that Captain Marvel just blasts the handle off the door within seconds.

Under the time crunch they had, my question is why would a military trained officer like Captain Marvel allow precious minutes to be wasted to watch Fury struggle? You can argue that it was a funny scene but there are less time consuming ways to pull that scene off without losing it’s punch.

The movie itself is very fast paced, sometimes not even allowing the audience a chance to breath and process before sucking us back into action and information, which is something I kind of expect from an origin movie. Because of this fast paced, information packed format, there were a few things that were rushed in the interest of time.

In the movie, the Kree had been waging a war on the alien race of Skrulls. Captain Marvel had been apart of Kree’s battle for some time but, upon coming to Earth, she learns that she might be on the wrong side of the fight.

The development of Captain Marvel switching sides happened too fast. It literally only took one short scene for her to decide that the Kree were actually that bad guys. The transformation was not earned. After Captain Marvel gets her memories back, she learns that her previous commander was an alien fighting on the wrong side of a war and that her commander was shot by her new Kree commander. The reason Captain Marvel switches sides is vage at best; there are so many unanswered questions and assumptions that she had to ignore:

Which side of the war was Vell talking about?

How could she know that the man who killed Vell wasn’t actually a Skrull pretending to be him?

Why trust Vell after she lied to her about her race?

The decision was made so fast that it almost doesn’t make sense. After we get to the hidden ship, then it makes sense but Captain Marvel had already made up her mind before that.

RytheGeek-

I had trouble writing this review. For a lot of reasons. On the one hand I don’t feel this movie was for me, it’s not your typical guy superhero flick, and that’s great. I loved Wonder Woman and initially I loved Captain Marvel too. It was fun and fast and bright and shiny. But after sitting down and thinking about it I had some huge issues with it.

First I think they ruined a perfectly good villain. This is the same issue I had with Age of Ultron and Iron Man 3. All three movies took amazing comic book villains and made them lame and weak compared to their counterparts. The Skrulls has so much potential. They literally could have changed the face of Marvel and the MCU as we know it. Instead they just were refugees. While I do understand the political importance in today’s climate of discussing refugees, I don’t think it should be infused in films. Unless you are making a strictly political film. They took an amazing villain bank and made them lame. Just as they did in Iron Man 3 to the Mandarin and Ultron in Avengers 2. All had great potential and yet…

My second big issue is something Mabel touched on, the turn over. Flash back to one of the best MCU movies to date, Captain America Winter Solider. We meet the title character, the Winter Solider and discover who he really is, Bucky Barnes, Captain America’s best friend. We find out Bucky was brainwashed by Hydra to be the perfect assassin. Sound familiar?But he was brainwashed by mere mortals and not a super advanced alien race may I remind you. Bucky, just like Carol, tries to break his “programming”. The major difference between them is that he spends five years after he learns the truth breaking his programming. She spends mere hours or days. I guess Hydra could be better at brainwashing, but I really doubt it.

My last big issue is why I’ve hesitated writing this article, the worst part of the movie, which isn’t even in the movie at all!

The fans.

I’ve been part of toxic fandoms before, like Rick and Morty or Star Wars. But this is the first one that made me truest uncomfortable. If you don’t love, and I mean loooove, Captain Marvel, you’re called sexist and bigoted. I’ve seen it in the comments. I’m not hating on this movie because of females. I’m hating because of plot holes. I hate Iron Man 3 just as much and I consider myself a huge Iron Man fan. I think people can critique movies and films and not be sexist pigs.

Personally I think Brie Larson has been a large contributor to the toxic fan culture. She acts like she knows everything about comic books and is the best actress ever. Her interviews have shown as much. And quite frankly she isn’t. She even lied about doing her own stunts, which is clearly wrong. She has pictures on set with her.

That all being said I still didn’t hate Captain Marvel. I give it a solid 7/10. It could have been far worse. They had great action and I love the Fury/Danvers dynamic. Not to mention Goose. That cat is great.

Thanks for reading

-Mabel and RytheGeek

#captainmarvel #marvel #disney #moviereview #recap #wethegeekmabel #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

The OA: A Netflix hidden gem

The OA

Season 2 of Netflix’s original series The OA was released last week, and I couldn’t have been more excited. Almost a year and a half after the pilot season released, our questions finally start to get answered and the plot starts to make a little bit more sense. If you’ve never heard of The OA, don’t worry, I’ll give you a spoiler-free synopsis and overall review of this hidden binge-able gem.

The OA is centered around a young woman named Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling) who randomly comes home after being missing and presumed dead for 7 years. Queue the happy family reunion and sob fest in the hospital. But there’s a catch to this seemingly positive intro to our story. Prairie suffered from blindness beginning when she was a child. I say suffered in the past tense because when she is found after that long 7 years, she has fully regained her sight. How she lost her sight to begin with and came to have her sight again are connected by the same type of event in Prairie’s life. Unfortunately, if I tell you what actually happened, it’ll ruin the whole brain-bang that is the show.

When I first watched The OA back in early 2017, I went into it thinking it was going to be a wonderful story of a blind girl magically regaining her sight, returning home, and adapting to normal life again. What I wasn’t expecting was the mind-bending conspiracy that unfolded in each episode. The more time I spent watching it, the more brain power I used to connect all the dots and critically think my way through the plot. The one central theme that captivated me from the start was the approach to death not as the end all be all, but as a gateway to somewhere else. Season one leaves you wondering where is this “somewhere else?” Is it heaven, hell, limbo? Season 2 answers this question vaguely. The somewhere else is just a parallel universe or alternate reality where the same people exist just living a totally different life.

The OA is an intriguing concept that explores the afterlife and possibility for infinite universes within a vast multiverse. This show is the perfect blend of drama and science fiction that will leave you with a major existential crisis. Are there alternate realities or parallel universes that we can’t access until death? Do you need a series of gestures and movements done by 5 people to retain the memories of your previous life? If you want a real thinker of a show, The OA is the series for you. Try not to lose your mind in the process.

-KatTheLadyNerd

#wethegeek #kattheladynerd #theoa #oa #netflix

by WetheGeek

Endgame Spoiled?

Theory and Spoiler City

I’ve seen Captain Marvel and I’m ready to spin some theories about Avengers Endgame! So potential spoilers for every part of the MCU. You have been warned.

While my Captain Marvel Theory was a bit outlandish and far fetched I think my Endgame Theory is much more grounded in what we know and have seen so far. Not to mention LEGO “leaking” the sets, Pepper Potts not returning, the IMDb cast page, and the contracts ending for some major MCU stars combined with the few trailers we have tell us a lot.

So without further ado let’s get down to it.

Endgame will focus on two things, avenging the fallen and trying to get them back. For those who have watched infinity war that seems pretty obvious. They are the Avengers after all.

As we last saw them Tony and Nebula are the only survivors on Titan. They have extremely limited resources being so far from earth. The ship Tony got to Titan on was destroyed. The only ship left is probably what’s left of a battle damaged Benatar. Nebula would be the obvious choice as pilot since this is Tony’s first time being in space (not counting the missile in Avengers 1). In the trailers it appears that the duo get stranded. From loose reports online all the footage we have seen is from the first half hour of a three hour movie.

While the duo is stuck the rest of the Avengers (Captain America, War Machine, Black Widow, Thor, and Hulk) have returned to Avengers compound in Upstate New York. Rocket is strangely missing from the cast. Having only met Thor before I’m not surprised if he goes off on his own to try to find Groot. We see at the end of Captain Marvel that the remaining Avengers have managed to get their hands on Fury’s PDA. Black Widow seems to have become the de facto leader since the dusting of Fury and Tony’s disappearance. Captain Marvel arrives in search of Fury and probably learns of the dusting. She has been off stopping the Kree/Skrull War for the past 30 years and helping other planets. The Earth team gets word from Tony and help save him and Nebula. Specifically Black Widow, Rocket, Thor, and a very depressed Hawkeye. This information is curtsey of the new LEGO sets. Hawkeye probably loses his entire family to “the snap” and has since become a very dark vigilante in search of revenge and answers.

After the entire team is finally on earth, Antman escapes the Quantum Realm and meets up with the team. Rocket, Tony, Scott, and Bruce come up with a way to use the Quantum Realm to time travel. The team wants to put together an infinity gauntlet before Thanos does or at the very least try to destroy the infinity stones before they are completely assembled. Captain America, Tony, Scott, and Rocket travel into the past to try to prevent the future.

Why these four? First I think Rocket because of the suit we see him in, in the trailers. It looks very reminiscent of his comic suit which could be before he joined the Guardians. The other three we have seen in early set photos wearing a small device on their hands that could be related to time travel. IMDb further confirms my suspicion of at least Tony and Steve time traveling in having casted Ty Simpkins again as Harley Keener, the kid from Iron Man 3 and Frank Grillo as Crossbones from Civil War and Winter Solider. LEGO goes on to solidify Tony going back to Iron Man 3 with the “Hall or Armors”. We see one specific suit we haven’t seen before or since that movie, the blue heavy lifting suit, Mark 38, (or as I call it HulkBuster Jr). We know Tony goes back in his current suit (Mark 50) because once again LEGO told us.

The time travel goes on because Tilda is set to reprise her role as the Ancient One. We can guess this is sometime in the 70s because of the extras on IMDb. This is well before Doctor Strange but presumably she still has the time stone to make this time travel easier.

We also have rumors of Katherine Langford casted as Scott Lang’s teenage daughter. There is some possibility that Katherine and Ty become heroes in the future and that’s why Antman is part of the time traveling team. We get to go to the past and the future in attempts to stop the snap from ever happening.

That’s about where my theory ends. I’m not really sure what act 3 will be. From the LEGOs I surmise that the final battle will be at Avengers compound. We haven’t seen much about it and that makes sense. The Russo Brothers are being very quiet about it.

With Spider-Man 2 coming out in July we also know everyone who was dusted comes back. We see Peter and Fury alive and well post Infinity War. Sadly it appears Tony doesn’t make it out of Endgame. We don’t see him mentoring Peter at all and that is depressing.

I’m about out of ideas on what happens in Endgame. But thanks for reading.

-RytheGeek

#infinitywar #endgame #avengers #marvel #fantheory #wethegeek #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

Maleficent was trash. Change my mind.

In search of answers…

Can someone please explain to me why Disney is making a Maleficent 2? Like what’s the point? I usually don’t go on tirades, especially against Disney the all powerful, but this one needs to happen.

Maleficent was a rotten garbage film that’s had not only crappy acting and special effects but a shoddy plot. It’s was a waste of an hour and a half of my life. I don’t usually hate movies with such a burning passion but this ranks up there with RIPD, Cars 2, and All is Lost. It was just a trashy waste of talent (or lack there of for the main character), money, and the viewers time.

I guess besides it being a rotting corpse of a hair brained plot I really just hate that Disney took a really well done classic villain and made them a wimp. I love villains that are bad and own it. Look at Captain Hook or Scar or Hades. All classic Disney villains who were evil through and through. They didn’t have to have redemption arcs. You knew they were evil and that was okay. But Disney mistakenly attempted to redeem Maleficent and it stunk of a freshly run over skunk. She doesn’t need to be redeemed. She is evil. Deal with it.

I’m not excited for this movie. If you can’t tell.

-RytheGeek

#maleficent #maleficent2 #disney #garbage #trash #badidea #wethegeek #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

The Bricks Spoil All

LEGO

Without showing you the pictures LEGO has done it again. They have leaked what Avengers Endgame will look like.

From here on out *SPOILERS*

The Russo Brothers have been pretty tight lipped about Endgame and with it only two months away the anticipation is mounting.

They have announced five sets in total that are from the new film. With each of these we understand LEGO is taking some creative liberties but the sets are usually pretty close to the films.

I do have every single set from Infinity War, I will admit. I wanted Thanos with a full infinity gauntlet. So you could say I’m excited for the new sets.

But what do these sets mean for Endgame?

The biggest point I want to mention is we don’t see another villain. The only bad guy we see is Thanos. Even with rumors of a Fantastic Four villain or Kang we don’t see a trace of them in the sets. So who knows.

After seeing Captain Marvel this weekend I will revisit my Endgame theory. I want to hold off until I know everything I can. But I do have some speculation on what the white suits mean, why some characters are with others, and why we see the hall of Iron Man suits again. So gear up for Theory and spoiler central this weekend. Because I think I have the time stone and I’ve seen into the future thanks to LEGO.

-RytheGeek

#legos #avengers #avengersendgame #endgame #wethegeek #wethegeekry

by WetheGeek

All out of Pepper

Avengers Endgame

It’s no surprise to anyone that there are new rumors floating around Endgame. Reddit seems to be a hotbed of these theories and rumors.

But the biggest surprise comes in the form of an official retirement from one of the supporting cast, Gwyneth Paltrow. Pepper Potts has been part of the MCU since Iron Man, the very beginning, but new reports are coming out that Avengers Endgame will be her last.

This isn’t the first time Paltrow has quit. After Avengers Age of Ultron she quit and was subsequently missing from Spider-Man Homecoming. She returned as Pepper in Avengers Infinity War but now it appears Avengers 4 will be the last.

Why should you care?

First it means Tony’s dream from Infinity War about them having a kid won’t happen. There will be no little Starks running around to take up their fathers heavy mantle.

That also means even if by some miracle she does put in the Rescue armor, she won’t be the new Iron Man either.

So now we look to the kid from Iron Man 3 to take over as Iron Man. Because it won’t me Pepper.

-RytheGeek

#ironman #rescue #avengers #avengersendgame #wethegeek #wethegeekry