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  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    55·
    2 days ago

    When Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard as War Machine for “Iron Man 2”, then-Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter said nobody would notice because black people all “look the same”.

    • Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      To be fair, it was an upgrade. Also his first line is “it’s me, I’m here, deal with it” fully calling the fact that it’s a different actor so Perlmutter is just a racist piece of trash.

      • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        I liked Terrence Howard as Rhodie more, him and RDJ had a better chemistry as buddies imo. I fully acknowledge that Don Cheadle is probably a better person and I seem to be in the minority with this opinion, though.

        • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          6·
          14 hours ago

          100% liked his portrayal more but I think it’s also me missing the initial vibe of the first movie. It was a comfort movie for a while a decade ago.

          Then again I was basically a child and I liked that the desert villain greets Tony Stark with a cheerful Arabic hello, not quite having it sink in what it means. I read it more like Arabs are being put in movies and isn’t that neato and not “ah shit this is me to a lot of people”.

          Mostly though I miss the novelty of nerd bullshit being made into big productions. I followed the marvel stuff semi religiously and then just suddenly couldn’t care about any of it

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      They did Anthony Mackie really dirty. Twisted Metal proved to me he could carry as a lead in an action-comedy franchise, which is what the MCU basically is. They just gave him the worst script ever in his Captain America theatrical debut of New World Order.

      And oh hey, look, another black man, too…

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        Twisted Metal helped turn my partner’s opinion on him around. She hated his performance in S2 of Altered Carbon.

        I feel like he got the treatment John “they won’t Disney Plus me” Boyega was avoiding with his run on Star Wars. His first co-lead performance was that Falcon and Winter Soldier show, then he got a single (poorly written and probably poorly resourced) movie to star in, and now he’s second fiddle to Chris Evans again in an already crowded cast.

        • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          I also heard he wasn’t great in Altered Carbon, but I’ve never watched that one. I thought he did well enough in Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the major problems in that movie *TV show were the hastily written lib ending and the classic liberal “swerve” on the mostly sympathetic victim, with the most cliched “kick the dog” moment ever.

          So did John Boyega refuse MCU roles or something? I don’t recall this quote you referenced or know the context. If so, sounds like it was a good idea. Although I haven’t seen him anything in awhile, but I’m sure he’s set with the Star Wars money.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            14 hours ago

            IIRC the Boyega thing was during the press run for Rise of Skywalker and he was half-joking (and probably fucking tired), but the “direct to streaming” stuff had a real stigma and mediocre pay. I think Disney had been renewing contracts with their franchise actors to have the right to pull them into those shows and he had already felt burnt by his role in the ST (fr they did him dirty tho).

            I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up in the MCU if he leaned into the Disney work. Oscar Isaac ended up in Moon Knight (we’re not getting a season 2 of that, are we…), so it’s a realistic hypothetical scenario lol.

            I haven’t seen a lot of his stuff post-Star Wars, but They Cloned Tyrone was pretty funny and Pacific Rim 2 was ass lol. Like you said, he seems like one of those post-franchise young actors who can be a bit more picky. Robert Pattinson has had a cool career, I’m hoping John Boyega lands some good roles.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      2 days ago

      In the 1950s “Commie Smasher” Captain America and Bucky, specifically William Burnside and Jack Monroe, fought against the Soviet spy, the Second Red Skull (because the stories were written as straightforward Red Scare propaganda, this Red Skull was a ruthless communist operative working to destroy America from within). Their comics heavily targeted Soviet and Asian communist threats during the Red Scare, Marvel later retconned the characters’ jingoistic extremism to critique 1950s McCarthyism.

      When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby revived the original Steve Rogers in 1964 (The Avengers #4), they established that Rogers had been frozen in ice since 1945. This created a glaring plot hole: Who were the Captain America and Bucky fighting communists in the 1950s? In 1972, writer Steve Englehart solved this discrepancy by fundamentally altering who these characters were, switching their narrative roles entirely. They were unmasked as fanatic copycats, later named William Burnside and Jack Monroe. Burnside had legally changed his name and undergone plastic surgery to look exactly like Steve Rogers. They were reimagined as tragic, terrifying villains who represented right-wing extremism.

      The duo traveled to predominantly Black areas, specifically launching violent, unprovoked physical attacks against innocent residents in Harlem, New York and Watts, Los Angeles. Because of their deep Red Scare brainwashing, the pair viewed any societal changes, including the early Civil Rights Movement and the increased assertiveness of African Americans, as a literal Soviet plot to overthrow America. They violently beat Black citizens while falsely accusing them of being communist spies or “pinkos” trying to destroy the country.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      The series is just called Magnum in Brazil though, thats how the character was localized there. Elsewhere it’s still called Wonderman.

      • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        the-more-you-know

        The translations of super hero names always confuses me. Some are translated, other are not, some doesn’t make any sense, why the fuck Magnum?

        • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          The translations of super hero names always confuses me. Some are translated, other are not, some doesn’t make any sense,

          Most comics are read by kids or teens, and back in the day in LatAm there were laws promoting local language (Spanish and Portuguese) over anglophilic words. Which is why we got stuff like Bruce Wayne = Bruno Diaz, and Speedy = Ricardito. In the 1990s I believe Panini (the italian company) bought the publishing rights to the DC and Marvel and changed a lot of names back to the Original ones.

          why the fuck Magnum?

          Wonderman would probably be confusing due to the sound W make in portuguese, besides translating to Homem-Maravilha would make people think it was a knockoff of Wonder Woman. Magnum is just a random cool name they though of it back in the day, also it could be a reference to Magnum P.I. idk lol.

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Some MCU defenders were claiming it was Mahershala Ali fault Blade wasnt made like he had tyranical control over Kevin Feige the dude that runs the MCU