The Kristian Harloff Show - Does the MCU need a full reboot?

Episode Date: July 29, 2023

Join the site: http://www.thekristianharloff.com Marvel's Secret invasion seem to be a big let down for a lot of the fans. It started off OK and then like a lot of the MCU as of late, did not deliver. On today show kristian harloff goes alone and answers all of your questions. Should the MCU be rebooted? Should they rely on X-Men, fantastic four? When will Aquaman two come out? How is the marketing for Blue Beetle going to hurt or help the film? Boom Studios are back with 2 new big releases in comic books. This and more on a solo episode of big thing Capes and Cowls. #marvel #MCU #secretinvasion #DC #DCU

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Both Ryder Strike, Sack Strike, and the news is, it's here and there. There's not a lot of news, but I said today, I was like, you know what I do is, let's have you guys. I posted something on both my Facebook page and the, the community page on YouTube and I said, the answer, let's throw some questions out

and let's talk about it, man. So that's what we're going to do today. We're going to talk about a lot of those things. There is a few questions that came in, and I was going to plan on talking about this anyway. Secret Invasion has wrapped, and man, the finale is divisive at best.

And so I will tell you right now, I've only seen two episodes. I never had the urgency to go back and watch more, even though I didn't mind the first two. But I just had no urgency to watch it. But apparently, I don't know if I want to. Everybody's talking about how bad the season finale was. But I do know about a couple of spoilers and things that had happened. And there's questions that people asked that will probably get into that. So I will give a fair warning when we get to the secret invasion portion of things. So that way, you know, if you haven't seen it, you don't want to be

spoiled, you're not spoiled through this show. Because I don't like that as much as you guys don't like it. So anyway, let's get into it. If you're brand new to the show, you've never been here before, do me a favor and hit that button. 100,000. Trying to get there. We just hit 85, guys. We just hit 85,000. I'm pretty proud of that. Not even two years running this channel less far. So we're getting there. And we hope that you guys can help us out and get us to 100,000. Yeah, we got some more things coming up. I think we'll talk about in a second. Let's get to the, let's get to the show. It's big thing. Apple, podcast, Spotify, anywhere podcasts are found. You can get us there. We're growing there.

Just as much we're growing over here. So thanks. Let's get into it. It's Big Thing, Capes and Cows. I'm pretty ready. Are you guys ready? Cool. Let's do it. Ready? Go. What's up, everybody? Welcome back. It is Caps and Cows. Big thing. Christian Arloff here.

Again, Winston and Coy out this week. Coy got back from Comic-Con, but I think he's out at some other con right now. And Winston's recovering from surgery. So he's doing good so wish them um wish them well and i'm excited to have the guys back once we can and and also to be completely up front also is that we've got um not too much to talk about not everybody's super comfortable about talking about everything and and i'm even curious about what we can talk about what we can we've done various videos on it there's been some information there's been some misinformation there's a lot of stuff so you know anyway i was like okay well what we'll do

is we'll just get some questions from the audience and you guys ask what you want to ask. And however long the show is, that's how long the show is. So let's start. Let's get into. You guys ask some great questions. Like I said, Facebook and the community page. That's where we threw them in there.

That's what we got. And let's start with the first one. Okay, first question. So this is a secret invasion question, and I'm not making it public yet because I think there's a spoiler within the actual question itself. So if you haven't seen secret invasion, I would suggest skip it. ahead about five minutes or so, maybe 10. Okay, you've been warned.

That's the spoiler. Here it is. Paul Reaper, I saw a comment today that the director of secret invasion, in his opinion, thinks that Rody became a scrawled during Civil War. Should he know these details and not just guess? Is this another example of Marvel creators not communicating? 100%. That's the most ridiculous answer that the director could.

a given. Ridiculous answer. I think. What are you talking about? It's a very, very important fact. Inside of the, or detail inside of the whole MCU. So wait, Rodie was, that's not Rody in end game?

I think. I don't know. This is a cool reveal. So we're just, that's what we're going to do. We can really think about it. It's like the same thing with Dr. Strange too. well the writers didn't really watch Wanda Vision same reme never it wasn't finished read the scripts

it's it does it doesn't it's one of these things it's very similar to me it's starting to feel like star wars you know with the with the canon stuff well everything's canon everything's canon now in 2012 everything's canon um you know books tv shows uh video games comics it's all canon but if it needs not to be it won't be what do you mean well there might be some details that we change here and there and that director hasn't read it so they're just going to change that

well then don't say that it's everything's connected everything is part of it but this guy thinks it's it's civil war that's what was so great about the first three phases even if they were faking it seemed it never never seemed like they were like they seemed like they had everything intact. It was a well-oiled machine knowing, well, that's going to connect to this, that's going to be part of that, that's going to do that. I'm not telling you have to do that. But if you announce that that's what you're doing, and that has been your plan, and you've seen success with that plan. And this isn't the only guy that's doing stuff like that.

As I mentioned, it's like, oh, well, we think. We're not really sure. We're not really talking about it. It seems lazy. It seems lazy. Now, again, as I mentioned, I can't speak too much on it. I mean, look, the reveal is the reveal. I can speak on that because it's just if you don't know when it happened and what are you doing.

But I will say this. I think that the show itself, I've just heard not great things about it on how it plays out at the end. But I can't really say yes or no if I liked it or didn't like it or didn't like it because I didn't see it. So I've only seen two episodes that. I'll probably watch it again, but I've just seeing tons of. people who liked it saying it's like the worst Marvel show that they did over Sheilk. It's not good. And I like the first two episodes.

I like the first two episodes of Sheehold too. I saw some dopy dum-dum jump in and say, Oh, you're funny. You like the first two She-Hulk. And then everybody said they didn't like it and you didn't like it. No, everybody said they didn't like it. There's a lot of people who didn't like it on episode one. I watched one and two and stand by it.

I liked one and two. I thought, oh, this is a fun vibe. I remember calling people going, that's a fun show. I like that. And then it just went to Fartsville, USA. And it seems like that's what happened with this show. And it's a bummer.

Again, like I said, I like those first two episodes, and I love Kingston Van derer. He's phenomenal. So I almost want to watch it now for the curiosity factor. So yeah, man. Now, do you think Rodi was a skull right from the Civil War accident as he was wearing a hospital gown while his abduction by scrolls? It would be rough for him to know the events of endgame. I think this was a bad choice overall is what I think.

I think because of the last comment of him, the director, it was clearly done as a, oh, what if Rodi's a scroll? That'd be awesome. and they didn't even ask about like, well, when? Yeah, it doesn't matter. Like somewhere around like Civil War. That's fine. But what about endgame? When he looks right at Tony's eyes and he has like this moment.

So that's not, that's not Rody? That's a scroll? That sucks. When was it? I don't, it's kind of, it sucks. It's a stupid reveal. And again, I've got to see three, four, five, and six if it actually makes sense. but it seems like it was just put in there to shock

and be like, oh, that's a cool reveal. I don't know, yeah. So next question, Matt Cleburne. Your thoughts on Coy's haircut, hilarious. How do you feel about Marvel possibly can't see the Marvels for a tax ride off like Batgirl? You know, I saw this question and I looked that up. I didn't see any report to that,

and if it was, it's probably like one of those silly sites. I would assume. I haven't seen any actual reports of that. There's no way in the world that that happens. They just released a new trailer for it recently. They put a ton of money into it. It's a big massive... If the strike is over by the time they get to November, December, which it very well might not be,

but if it is over, that's a big movie that they can put some money back in the bank account. So I don't think they're going to do that. if it isn't over, I think it connects to other things that are happening inside of the MCU. So you'd lose a portion of storytelling. So, yeah, I think that there's a, can I say less than 0% that that happens? There's no world where that happens. And I'm wrong. Come back and you can tell me, been wrong before, but I think I'm going to be right in this one.

Yeah, I don't think there's any world where that happens. Pete Parker 22. What's your honest thoughts on whether DC delays all upcoming releases? And do you think Sholo promoting Blue Beetle would help the box office? Besides Cobra Chi fans, I don't think most people know who he is. Well, listen, do I think that it would help? Yes. Do I think that it'll help dramatically where it's going to make it a massive hit?

No. But I think having your star out there promote, and as charismatic as he is, as likable as he is, and as you can get him on more big profile shows, more interviews, more things. He's young. He knows also how to make moments go viral. He says things that he gives really, really well-structured, thoughtful answers. And I think that it would help tremendously to get the word out a little bit more.

Because I do think that at least, you know, a couple people going, who's, oh, I didn't really know this kid. Oh, he's in Coburkeye? Wow, he's pretty great. yeah maybe I'll check out his movie that happens do I think it's enough to turn it into a massive hit no I don't but I do think that it would have helped

and I do think that having again both Sholo George Lopez the entire cast also not only to just the entire every demographic but I think specifically also to the Latino audience

I think that that would be a massive massive source of revenue to and people that should support that movie in general. I think that it's going to be the comic book fans. I think it's going to be people who like Kobri Kai, but I think that how important of a movie is for the Latino community, I think that they would be doing a lot of publicity on that side to make sure that the Latino audience was aware of it,

and they're not able to do that. So I do think that it would have been pretty massive to have him and the other cast promote, for sure. As far as your other question goes with, do I think that it's going to get pushed back? You know, it really just depends. We talked about this the other day with the strike. It depends on when the strike, what happens with the strike. And it depends on there's so many things that can happen right now. Here's one side of it where the studio is just so stupid and so stubborn that they aren't going to budge,

they're not going to negotiate, and they're going to take these hits, take this amount of money and just not get on get talking until January, February pushing into 2024, then I do think if it's pushing it's not settled by November then I do think it will be pushed because I think that they're going to want to have Jason Mamoa out there. They're going to want to have Timothy Shalameh promoting both Dune and and and Wanka. Isn't Waka Warner Brothers also? I feel like it is. But either way, they're going to want to, um, Yeah, so you definitely want to be right. So Timothy Chalmay's got two movies with them coming out.

So they're going to want to push that. I think that they'll, but as far as your D.C. question goes, yeah, Aquaman would definitely get pushed. I think they would want to do a Jason Mamoa publicity move there. They'd want to get more people talking about it in general. And they'd want to get, they're going to try to do everything they can, marketing-wise, to get that movie some money. Because there's just too many with the DC stuff that's been going on so far with the, and Black Adam, Shazam, and a potentially blue beetle. This is a movie that the first one made a billion dollars.

So they're going to want to put some kind of money into it in order to try to get some money back. But it's just a matter of what happens. How is it going to happen? I mean, are the studio is going to be that greedy? Are they going to be that stupid to not realize the amount of damage that they're doing by not negotiating and not giving the actors and the writers what they write for them?

deserve. And besides the stuff that they're asking for, the rightfully deserve part of it, the rightfully deserve is sit down and have a conversation with these people so they can talk about their livelihoods. You know, and it's like, I was just having this conversation with somebody today about, like, Bob Iger, who, as an executive,

before all this stuff going down, I've always been on the Bob Iger, thinking he's a career Hall of Fame, executive his comments about the the audience being excuse me the actors being um not realistic and on he you talk about somebody who just not did not read the room and is so far past what normal human beings have to go through and the idea of it also in in any type of business you'd be it's it's crazy to me like i i figure i could see david zasloff saying something like that. But Iger deals so much with people in and seems like he can have that kind of

commonality. But he proved himself to be that kind of, you know, billionaire executive inside of that comment because that was such a, even in business, he's, he's so good at business and what he's kind of built his entire legacy off of to say something like that. Let's anybody, let's say you're sitting with somebody watching this or somebody in your house and you run a business with somebody. and you're going into a business proposal with some of your workers in your business. And they're not happy with certain things that you're doing in the business, but you feel that the way you're doing business, whether right or wrong is the right way, right?

You can say to your business partner, you can say to whoever, I don't know, maybe they're asking for too much, maybe this, I don't have to figure it out. We'll sit down, we'll talk to them, we'll figure it out. And you can say that behind closed doors, you can say that whatever, and you still be, you know, again, maybe not reading the room, not realizing where you are in the totem pole as opposed to them, but you're saying it to somebody that you're involved in business with and you're not coming off as this kind of like pompous ass

in a public setting when people are trying to fight to get, I mean, $26,000 to get health insurance for a year. That's what you've got to make it's at. 26,000, which I think is ludicrous, by the way. I think that certain people agree with me, certain people don't, but the amount of dues you have to pay now to get into SAG the first time is enough to cover health insurance for, I think, like, two years if you're probably going to do it yourself. I think that if you're paying SAG dues and you pay it monthly, you should automatically, whether you make $5 a year, if you're part of the union, that's why you're joining the union, you should get health insurance. That's my personal belief on it. or you know or if you don't pay your dues you're you're not getting health insurance that's just that's just how it goes

just take care of your union members in general but i just um yeah i just think it's a it's in it was incredibly insensitive in general of what was going on and i think that they they if they don't sit down and have conversations movies like aquaman and these other movies are supposed to come out in the year it's not going to happen i do think though because there's also word now that Gavin Newsom's going to start getting involved and Gavin Newsom is trying to do everything he can now as he wants to get more and more in the in the national news stories to become potentially a presidential candidate. If he's the guy that helps negotiate and settle these things, it looks good on him because if California continues to have that with with economy right now considering that California brings in some of the some of the most cashish to the United States in general with the entertainment business being a big reason why

he's got to get it he's got to get it in order so he's going to step in so yeah I don't know I think those movies will probably get pushed for sure okay next one well you know before we even do that we're talking about money we're talking about saving money we're talking about all this stuff and I've been talking about it for you guys

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All right, man. Let's get to another question. Let's do it. All right. Next question. Galaxy Geeks, why do you think that these Marvel TV shows cost so much? Secret Invasion was extremely expensive, but most of the show is people talking in a room. It's almost like Disney believed that they had unlimited money.

I mean, look at Haunted Mansion. That movie should have never been released in July. I don't even know how the movie's doing. I guess it's not doing well. Maybe it is. I'm not sure. Well, that movie got pushed. I think that movie was supposed to come out in August.

And I think it got moved when Marvel's was going to come out in July. and then they switched the date. I think Haunted Mansion was supposed to come out in August. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was the case. But as far as why it was so expensive, I think that that pushes still into the what's his face, Bob Chappick. I think that during his era,

he was handing out these big checks for streaming services, streaming shows and letting them do whatever the hell they wanted to do. And yeah, I think they're spending. spending too much, spending too much on talent, they're spending too much. I think that that's where a lot of it came from, whether it's, I don't know how much Mendelsohn and Sam Jackson and Amelia Clark and all these actors and actresses cost Olivia Coleman, Kingsley Benedict, all of my, I don't know,

but I wonder inside of whatever deal they had continue on every time you play the character, it's more and more expensive than that even carries over for television shows, but I think when it comes down to the VFX, people that they had to do for they almost treated it like, it's six episodes, but it's more so like a, you know, a two, three-hour movie. Apparently that the last episode was only like 35 minutes or whatever it was. I'm telling I was so not invested in this show, and even though, and it's weird because a lot of times, even when I'm, if I watch two episodes of a show, I'm like, oh, go back and watch it. Watch it enough,

and if it's one that I dug, I'll go back and check it out. I had no interesting going back and I'm probably going back now just to see because I want to see if I agree with everybody how terrible the finale was. I see the meme, the one, again, that one I won't spoil. But I see the one meme in this primarily silly reveal and I see this one meme going around, going four characters you're never going to see ever again. And then one of them is like Son of Hulk and there's a few other ones and one from this show. But yeah, I think that the reason why they spent way too much money on it in general, And this is one of the things that they're going to have to figure out in the strike, right?

So they've got to figure out, I'm on board with the idea that the streamers have to release their numbers. Like, how are you making your money? How are they, if they're able to spend this kind of money, how are you making your money? How are you equating that to amount of people that click on? How does that all work? They need to be more telling in all that because I think that there's, you know, a lot of the scroll stuff, It looks like the same way that you saw it when you saw it in the movies and the kind of VFX people they're paying for. It's like, so I think it goes into a lot of the effects and a lot of those things, whether they're sitting in a room or not.

You still have a lot of VFX artists that you're paying for. So that's what I would guess. But who knows? What do I know about it? R. Murphy, 2982. Your oldest daughter is one year away from my oldest girl. Did she enjoy the Miss Marvel series? And if she did, is she excited about the Marvels?

Both my daughter and I loved it, love Ms. Marvel, excuse me, for the first. family bringing us together and increased excitement for the marvels. So, you know what's funny that my oldest was almost 12 years old? She actually started watching the marvels before she saw any of the MCU. And it was the marvels that made her want to start watching the MCU because she was really responding to it. And I think she watched an episode before she watched anything else. And she was like, oh, I really want to watch the MCU now. And so we watched the majority of the MCU.

We watched up until end game. I don't know, what did she say? I think she saw Homecoming. Yeah, she watched Homecoming and Far From Home. And then after that, I don't know what she's seen in the new phase. I know that she was, well, I took her to see the new Amman movie. But she, I don't know,

she's not super excited for the Marvels yet because she didn't go back to watch Miss Marvel. And I know that she does want to watch it. She's really into anime right now. She's into anime. She's watching this stuff on Netflix and these other things. that she's really in anime right now. So I don't know when it comes to,

I think she'll wind up getting back into this. The problem is that my excitement was so, when I want to watch stuff with her, you know what she really likes, actually, which is this is her, she, she started watching her first rated-d-ar movie was by accident, and she was watching vacation with me a while ago,

and then she realized there's one scene where it's quickly, very quickly, a rated-dart movie. She said, what's his rate? they're like R she's like I can't watch I remember she was the one that said it and then however she loves

Greek mythology she loves all that stuff my wife and I were watching Troy the other night and she's like I want to watch Troy it all right at R she's like I don't care I don't watch it so she started watching Troy she's actually watching Troy with us right now so I think Ms. Marvel is a

maybe a pallet cleanser for her on that one okay next one Joaquin 3-2-1-3 should Marvel keep doing specific genres with, or should there be more connectivity to the tone and genre of the MCU? Or both. I personally like the genre stuff and creative freedom,

but I feel like Avengers needs to be classic MCU. I think it needs to be both. I'd answer your question. I think it needs to be both, and I think that it loses its way sometimes, and I think that I don't even necessarily know, like you look at multiverse of madness, right? There's definitely horror elements in it,

but to call it a full-on horror, no, I'd call it a Sam Ramey movie. Thor Love and Thunder, is it a silly comedy? Sure, is that genre of comedy? Maybe, but it's a Taika-Watini movie. I like The Eternals. I like it more than most people.

It's a Chloe Zhao movie, even though I think that it has a lot of, it's got a lot of different things in it that I really enjoy, but it's got, and I'm not telling you, there's a lot of movies. That example probably the least out of the three, though, because a lot of movies should have, if you're bringing in a director,

it shouldn't look like generic Marvel. It should look like there's a stamp of the person that you bring it in to helm the movie. And I think more so Eternals had that with Kloos-Zao's feel, but it's a Klozia movie, the long kind of sweeping shots, the feel of it, if you're not, if you didn't respond to the actual story itself, it can be kind of drawn out boring, maybe,

right? But I do think, even to hear myself say it, I would probably take that one out of the examples I gave out of the three of them, but like the Tyca movie and the Sam Ramey movie, so clear that it's just that type of style. And I think that the genre fits if it does fit inside of the MCU, because that's what they did for the first three phases. And I think well, so I do think they need to do that. And I think there's no really connectivity to it all right now. Like, is it a multiverse? Is it an alien invasion story? What, like, what is it? What, what is it? And I don't think they really know right now. And I don't think these strikes are obviously helping them at all to tell their story, plus other things that are going on.

And I've said it, and I think someone's going to ask this question soon, so I'll reiterate it in more detail when it comes up. But I think that the sooner the better they can end all this multiverse stuff and all the different, you know, amount of characters that just aren't hitting and just focus on X-Men and Fantastic Four the better off they're going to be. They need to just...

And they just need to end all this stuff that they're doing right now. It's not working and then get into Fantastic Four in X-Men. Binnie B. 0-730. Did you watch the boys' Gen V. trailer? I think it looks like a great spinoff to the boys. It certainly seemed consistent to the boys' tone for sure. And I like the idea of the college that they're training in to see

the spinoff of the idea that you can actually... potentially see these characters showing up to the actual the boys because they want to get into the seven and there's a couple times that I went okay like there's there's jokes that I've seen in the boys before and they're going for that kind of shock value thing inside of the trailer is it going to work the same way the boys does when you're watching and you're like it just kind of comes out of nowhere and you're like holy moly I can't believe that they actually went there or is it just going to be shock value now the trailer doesn't necessarily represent how it's going to actually feel because you can feel like it's shock value when in reality when you watch the actual episode you're like oh that fit in perfectly and it was pretty funny and it worked well so but i think the tone was consistent as what to what the boys are so i am because of the fact that we got away a little bit for the boys it's going to be a nice little appetizer but it also made me something brand new that that fits in and and then it becomes a

weekly a weekly thing so i'm curious I'm curious. J9, 14, given that Kang is seen as the big bad for the multiverse saga, who should be the next big bad? Personally, I could see a slow tease with Dr. Doom spying behind the scenes and making him the next upper tier level threat for the MCU.

I mean, you just said it. It 100% has to be Dr. Doom. It 100% has to be Dr. Doom. And I think it should come at the end of Secret Wars and it should do all that and they should set it up and they should be between the X-Men, Fantastic Four, all of it.

That's where it should land. be him and Henry Cavill should play him. That's what I'm saying, and I'm sticking to it. Starvin' Jackalope. What makes a great Superman score? Now, I'm definitely not going to be, I'm going to be in the minority on this one, because John William's Superman score is my favorite,

one of my favorite themes from movies all time. I feel, and I think I've said this before in the past, and I'm staying consistent with it, I believe that the John William Superman score should be like the James Bond theme. Because it doesn't matter what actor, who it is, they don't change to James Bond theme. It's the James Bond theme.

If a score becomes that iconic, it should be the overall theme of the franchise. I think that for Star Wars movies, whether it's Rogue One or whatever it might be, should be the Star Wars theme. It should always be the Star Wars theme because it's synonymous with the brand. Superman, I know,

Superman came first. I understand that, the comic book, all that. But the score by the great John Williams, you hear it and you just think Superman. And I guess this is probably an answer to your question. It's big. It's hopeful. It's bombastic. It's just pure. And it's Superman. And I think that it, and I love the Hans Zimmer score. I'm going to be wrong. I love it. I think it's great. And I like the mashup of them both. But it was specifically made to get away from it because And for Superman returns, they used the John Williams score. At least John Ottman used the variation of it, right? And used it at times.

I think it should be used at all times. I think it should always be used. And I think that it's just too synonymous with him. I think it should be like the James Bond theme. But that's me. I know people are going to disagree and think that there's other ways to do it. But that's the way I feel about it. Purple Funk.

Christian, do you think that with the recent Kevin Spacey's innocent verdicts, and pretty open demand to start work again. We could see him working with independent studios similar to Gina Carrano, not really saying I'm for it, but I had a thought yesterday that he could try to spin the canceled angle similar to how Gina did it and pivoted to smaller productions.

Thanks and love the show. Hashtag bring back Joey Pickles. F of Joey Pickles. Thank you so much for the comment. Yeah, look, I think he will work again. I think it will be through the independent. And so it will be someone who he's able to work with, the money that he helps raise when he produces something on his own.

I don't think he's going to be working heavily with the studios and other things, too, because I just don't think whether, you know, the way that it works is there's just too, there's too much baggage right now. And I don't think it's going to be something that he's going to be able to fix in the long run when it comes to the studio stuff. I just don't think it's going to happen. But he'll work in other movies. He'll work in other stuff.

There'll be other things that you'll see him pop up in for sure. But yeah, so that's how it's going to work. So I guess to answer your question, yes, I do think he's going to work. And I do think we'll see him again. And I do think it'll be, and it'll also probably be stuff that he might fund himself. So, all right, next one. Joseph Weeks, 37, 8, 6. With Secret Invasion already not going over well.

And Blue Beetle, at least box office-wise, looking to disappoint. Which movie do you think? More has to be a hit for the health of their respective company. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom or the Marvels. Easy answer. The Marvels. Has to be the Marvels. Because now if you would have asked me Superman Legacy or the Marvels,

I'll probably take Superman Legacy. Because Aquaman Lost Kingdom, still not under the new regime. Still not under the new regime. You still got James Gunn and Safran waiting in the wings to put their movie out. And they're just trying to make any kind of money they can on the past regime. to just not lose money for the studio. And whether it's reshoots or whatever the hell it is, yeah. So it's not going to be, and Marvel's is still part of the narrative of what they're trying to tell

and try to build. They're building the blocks to the big Avengers movies and all that stuff. So they needed to work. It's also their big movie outside of Guardians now that's not attached. Well, it's still, it's attached to the first three phases. And it's a sequel to a movie that made it. billion dollars as well. So yeah, it's still connected to all of it and they still and after a disappointing show like Secret Invasion, they need something big. You know, they need a hit. Now,

they're coming off of a successful movie in Guardians 3, but it really is, that movie's not attached to a lot of the MCU stuff. It really isn't. But this is and it needs to do well. Now, Aquaman needs to do well because they need to, I mean, they're putting out another move for the studio. They put in another movie that's going to eat it. And again, why they need to pay the actors what the actors are asking for. They've got to give the actors what the actors need. They've got to give the writers what the writers want. Besides just the moral side of it, but the fact that they've got to get business back and move it. And in order to do that, you got to sit down and talk with these people. And that studio needs money coming into it. That as far as the respective brand goes,

Superman legacy doesn't do well on its first run. I mean, the first movie out of the DC. Yeah, that's the biggest. That's the one that needs to hit the biggest. All right. Next one here from Wicked Art. Speaking of which, you see this art here. That is from Wicked Art.

And you can get the Capes and Cowell's comic book over at the Christian Harlov.com. That is an original comic by Wicked Art about the three of us, knuckleheads, adventures, doing what we do. So if you want to go over there, the Christianharlough.com, If you're at the $10 level, you can read it.

If not, you can buy it a la carte. All right, here is the question from Wicked Art, who asks kind of a two-part question. But who is your favorite X-Men character? And how do you think they will introduce them into the MCU since they haven't been there? My favorites are a nightcrawler, storm, and Gambit. I have the lazy answer, the stock answer.

Wolverine was always my favorite, and he was my favorite way before the 2000 movie. I liked him when I read the comics back in a day, They meltdown with him and Havix, one of my favorite comics of all time, the limited series that came out back in the 80s. I loved, so I think that they're going to have to, it's going to be interesting how they reintroduce him after, like, Deadpool, right? Because you've got to try to replace now for real this time, the character that Hugh Jackman has played since for 23 years now. Or maybe it'll be 25 once this movie comes out, right, a 24 or whatever. So yeah, I think that I'd like to see the new one get introduced in all the X-Men movies.

And that's why I'm saying, I think, I know everybody wants to see them. I do as well. And whether it's at the end of Secret Wars or not to introduce them, that to me is, that's where you've got to introduce them or do it after. don't do it before. I know that they've kind of teased the idea of mutants and all that kind of stuff, but do it afterwards. Because you really, if you focus on X-Men and you focus on Fantastic Four, you can stretch that out for 10 years easily. And you don't have to, the problem is that they've introduced all these different characters and all these different kind of side characters and anything that they were kind of hoping and crossing their fingers.

Well, everybody loved, nobody, I can't even tell you how many time you hear this. and nobody thought guardians was going to be nobody knew what the hell guardians was and then James Gunn comes in makes guardians and now they're in the their everyday conversation everybody knows who they're household names yeah

but there's a lot that goes with that the writing directing James Gunn piggybacking off the extreme success of the other movies that came before it the movie came out in 2014, so it had 2008 up until then to ride the wave of the MCU. The MCU right now is trying to introduce all these new characters and people that

off of subpar after subpar after subpar movie and TV show, and you're like, I don't care about any of these people. Everyone they're introducing, you're just like, okay, they're fine. But there's no one that you're like, oh, yeah. like that's great look camora oh awesome tracks amazing who's that i don't know who that is i have no idea that person is oh yeah they're in that one show fine um so yeah that's um it's gonna be interesting for sure so we'll see how they're going to introduce the x-men i mean i just hope they hold out and they wait because they can really build you know you give them their own movies

down the line Connor is my name. When do you think we could start seeing movies like Deadpool 3 or Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse Pushed Back to the Strikes? Well, I think that there's a reason why that those particular movies, although I do think that Deadpool would probably get pushed again because they were hoping, remember when the writer strike happened, they were still shooting Deadpool, but they were doing it under the agreement that they couldn't write new stuff, they couldn't improvise, they couldn't do any of

that stuff. It just had to follow the script that they had. And then once the sack strike came, it was like, that's it. We're not shooting anything anymore. So I do think that even though I think they were they pushing for like June, it's the same answer that I had before. It's just dependent on when these studios decide to sack up,

get into a room, and have the conversation that needs to be had. when that happens then you're going to get more clear answers but I think that this is it's really unfortunate because it does it does come down to greed it comes down to greed

and like and a lot of people who still aren't understanding this and I see these questions all the time or comments all the time of why should we care about these rich actors getting more money that I can ever see in my lifetime that's not who is being fought for here. A lot of those people that you're talking about, who are on the picket lines, mind you,

but a lot of them have saved up enough money that they'd probably be okay if they didn't work ever again, right? So you're, well, yeah, so what do I care? That's not who they're fighting for either. They're not fighting for themselves. Some of them are. For sure.

But I mean, just solely, not fighting for themselves. They're fighting for people who are doing commercials, who are doing these roles, who are doing stuff, who are struggling to get themselves jobs. And it's hard enough as far as what they're, what the struggle that they're going through to just get a gig to get them health insurance. And then I just saw like Jennifer Esposito posted this thing. And she was talking about how like she hadn't worked for, a year or something to do something and because of it like her health insurance was at risk or

because she wasn't because residuals don't count towards that money that if you make you know a hundred thousand dollars i think you make a hundred thousand dollars in residuals from like a sitcom you were on um it doesn't add towards the minimum i think i think that that's how it goes i don't i'm not sure but that's what i read but things just need to change and the studios need to sit down and the studios need to have these conversations and the idea that you can just pay a background person and then have their likeness like forever. That's just, come on, come on. Come on. Come on. Anyway, Jamal B. Castro. Do you think the MCU should have rebooted after endgame? No, I don't think they should have rebooted because I think showing, like, even with Spider-Man No Way Home, which was fantastic,

I think that there's the stuff that they did with Wanda Vision. I think that they just did too much. I think they got a little bit too ahead of themselves, and they put out way too much because they were a proven entity, and people like Bob Chappek and all these people, again, Greed, said, oh, let's just milk the fans for everything. They'll love it. They'll eat up everything that they do, and that's not what built the MCU. And I think that they just kind of lost their way.

Do I think that they should reboot it? No. I think they should pivot. I think that they should recharge. I think that they should start to do what they used to do, and they should do what we talked about previously. And that's, I've got a genre. I have a director.

I have my plan. I have where we want to go, and I want to maneuver. And everybody who is working on this should read this, should be familiar with this. You should know that this connects to this. You should know that. I think maybe Civil War. where he was the scroll. I don't know.

What are you talking about? What are you talking about? So I think that a reboot, no, but a restructure, absolutely. Scott, Andy Mason, are you at all worried that Blue Beatles marketing means DC have zero faith in the movie itself? I'm worried about the marketing in general

because there's no marketing behind it now because they can't, again, have their stars and they can't push the movie. But I still think there's ways to market the movie. Again, as I mentioned before, they should really be marketing the Latino community because this is a very important movie for the Latino community as it's an all-Latino cast in a superhero movie.

It's a very important movie for... And I think that people need to see it. And I'm curious to see it. I hope... And look, my question with the movie also is and as you may I don't know how new you are to the channel or not new to it

Sholo has been someone that I've been interviewing since he was 17 years old and I love the kid I root for the kid and he's not even a kid anymore he's like whatever he's 24 25 years old but either way

I root for him and I hope the movie kind of turns around it's a massive success and has a huge opening weekend my issue with the last trailer is that minus him and the the family aspect, which I enjoy, the movie looks a little paint by numbers as far as superhero. And that's what I think is hurting superhero or comic book movies right now is the, I've seen

this before. And when you have so many movies over the last, since 2008 or whatever, it's got to seem different. It's got to feel different. It's got to have, and maybe it does once you see the movie. And that's what I'm hoping for it. And I hope it's got a great word of mouth. but that's what makes me more nervous than anything else. And the fact that they can't promote it, the actors can't promote it,

that's what it is more so than the studio not having faith in it. The studio has faith in the studio also probably realizes with early tracking and everything now, too. They probably have another loss on their hands, which is a bummer. Gareth William, did the last episode of Secret Invasion Cement the downfall the MCU as, let's be honest? I mean, the downfall? No. As I just said, they've got X-Men and Fantastic Four. the wings. They just got to get there. And they've got to get,

it's these side characters and everything else, it's just, and these movies that just don't fit together and are these other things and, like, just not working. They got to get to those other things and they got to get to them sooner than later. But, and now with all the pushback, look,

Deadpool is going to be big, and granted it was Fox beforehand now, but it's, it's, it's MCU now. That's going to be a big movie for them. So, yeah, It's downfall, no. It's not downfall. But it's, they're, they got to get the goodwill back, no doubt.

Eric Henderson, with the family-friendly and TMNT, mutant mayhem, getting great reviews, would a more comic-accurate Teenage Mutant Turtle's movie do well, especially since it would not be family-friendly and how dark the comics can be. Don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to see a hard PG-13 or even R-rated last Ronan movie. I know it would never happen as long as Nick Loney and has the film rights. Okay. So there is a chance like down the line, but I think right now, especially with this movie, I didn't get a chance to see it. I enjoyed it.

I thought it was, and it was also great for my 12-year-old. When right over my 5-year-old's head, she didn't really dig it too much. At one point she turned to me, she goes, I don't like this movie, but my 12-year-old loved it. So I think that that's where they're going with this for now, and I think there will be a sequel, because I think this will do very well. But I'd love to see a more, you know, a more serious one down the line. But I think, yeah, I think for now they're going to focus on this. Alex Trinay. Hey, Christian, I know this might be slightly off topic,

but I wanted to get your reaction to the news about Donald Glover taking over writing duties for the upcoming Lando series. I, for one, I'm excited and wouldn't mind seeing this as a feature film instead. Thoughts, hope you have a great weekend. I had this conversation with somebody today. It's great news that who knows if it'll ever happen. That's the way you've got to look at all these reports now when it comes to Lucasfilm.

Who knows? Is it great that Donald Glover is potentially writing this? Of course it is. There's a writer strike going on right now, so that won't happen for a while. There's an actor strike going on for a while, so that ain't going to happen right now. There's a,

when the hell is this going to come out? Because they have all these other things locked in, what's it going to connect to type thing. But so if it happens, if 2026, 27, maybe and if it happens it's also one of those things of like it it falls into the overall I think problem of what they're doing over there which is what are we like are we doing this just because Donald Glover is a major star he's a huge talent people like him as Lando

or do we have a need for this story right now do we really want to tell this story right now which could be the answer but I don't have confidence that that's the answer and that should be the answer. Because do I think that Donald Glover is one of the most talented people out there right now and just an electric personality? Of course he is. And would I actually, do I think he was the best thing about solo? I do. But I would want the answer to be, oh, no, no, no, no, the take that he has is just so good. And that's the reason why. When in my belief, it's because he's a big, massive, huge star, which should be part of it, but not all of it. And I think that that's a lot of the times why a lot of things have been made around there,

especially with directors and stuff of that nature. But I think it's good news if it happens. I just don't know if it's going to happen. Alex Rodriguez, with the Flash, a complete financial disaster, and Blue Beetle projected to have a poor opening weekend already. I believe James Gunn is a huge mountain to climb to deliver Superman movie that will get everyone excited about D.C. again. What would you like to see or what take can he take that will separate his Superman from

previous iterations and ignite his universe in the box office like a top gun maverick long-time follower and happy to see you succeeding with your channel well thank you very much and long-time yankee fans so appreciate you commenting um so yeah look this is going to be an answer that i just feel like i'm repeating myself over and over again i would love to see a version of this superman movie that is not the same let's set up the story and then at the end there's this big huge 70 million $1,000 CGI battle with Superman, he's fighting aliens, and here comes Green Lantern and all this other stuff. I'd like to see it way more in the Richard Donner scale of things

and just completely scaled down. Like, I use Barbie as an example. And now I know that Barbie is not a scaled down movie, but Barbie only costs $130, $140 million to make, and it's already made $500 million, right? Now, I wasn't a massive fan of the movie, but you can't take away. from the style, the creativity, the, it just, it was, it didn't rely on the same formulaic stuff.

It just didn't. And same thing, as you mentioned with like Top Gun Maverick. It felt like old school filmmaking, even though it had, that had a massive budget, but it was close to $200 million, but it felt smaller, if that makes sense. And it, it's the practical effects, those types of things, that would be, I mean, how are you do practical effects with the guy who flies the same way they did it with Christopher Reed and I think that I'd like to see that I'd like to see it look like the like a 70s 80s movie but with like you know but but it looks even more way more real than it did

back then so yeah I will want but that's that's the main thing that how do you make it a hit you got to scale down you got to scale down all right here's the last one before we move on to our boom segment Sean Wingblade you're in Kevin Feige's shoes. You see the recent MCU struggles with the box office quality, personal issues with John Majors Kang and general public interest. Do you? One, wrap the current projects and reboot

it all with X-Men. Fantastic Four introductions. Multiverse explain it all the way and keep the good stuff. Ms. Marble, Shung-chi, stay the course. Strangely enough, as I've been basically talking about, I guess I'm

staying consistent on what I've been saying here is you stay the course for now, but that's if you know what the course is. If there is an actual course, what's the course? I know they have, well, it's leading into Secret Wars. It's leading into this. Well, what's the course? What's the actual story?

Show me the story. That's what I would do. I would focus in on the story, focus in on what I need to do, do what they essentially have done, and pull back. I get a stupid hair. It's killing me here, Sean. In front of my face, it's gone. but it's a

yeah they're scaling back they took out a lot of shows and stuff that they were going to do put one or two shows out per year two movies call it a day lead it to you know get a summer big summer movie big Christmas movie two shows to fill in the gaps and then get us to Secret Wars

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I've seen 99.9% really great comments from even people who aren't into it. Like, yeah, it's really not my thing. And I'm going to stick to, like, the pop culture stuff and everything else too. I saw one dopey comment about, like, how, this is what the channel's become now. I'm out here. And it's like, it's one show, guy. It's one show. And it'll be on Tuesdays.

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