Some vids and a quiz

[selenak]

I strongly suspect one of the reasons why, by and large, I like the cinematic Marvelverse better than the DC-based movies, is that while DC ever since Nolan made his first Batman movie puts all their money on grimdark (both in themes and look) and shies away from anything looking remotely like it could be perceived as camp, the Marval guys embrace their comicbook origins and looks with gusto. (See also: Loki in full reindeer Asgard regalia in The Avengers.) This vid celebrates the comicness of the MCU (and the eyecandy) with equal gusto.


More on the thematic exploration side, but still MCU based, to be specific, about how Phase 2 of the MCU movies (Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Cap 2) had our heroes questioning the identiies they've built themselves without losing the drive to make a difference: Counting Stars .

Which was made by such_heights, who also made a great vid celebrating Buffy the Vampire Slayer (both show and girl): Level Up.


And lastly, I got 12 out of 13 questions right in this Beatles quiz, which is good or pathetic, depending on your pov. (I appreciated the questions weren't of the dumb "what were their last names" type you often find with quizzes.)

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Ooooh. I got 10 (2 wrong guesses and a misapprehension, but I had no idea that the BBC had ever banned a Beatles tune).

MCU vs. DC: Apparently I need to think about that some more. I stopped reading DC in the '60s because Marvel characters were more interesting, and so far the MCU characters still have more going on, but mostly what I see is that the characters as characters tend not to take themselves quite as seriously, and I'm pretty sure there are enough exceptions to that (the villains for one example) to invalidate that premise. So.

[selenak]

BBC banning: all about the drugs (or rather interpretation of drug advertising), as far as I know.

re: Marvel and DC: the thing is, back in ye olde 1990s Lois & Clark, which, granted, was tv, not cinema, showed that DC could embrace the fun (and get a hugely enjoyable show out of it) while still retaining the occasional angst. And Clark Kent of all the people really should have a sense of the absurd in any of his incarnations, so when some genius decided to follow up Nolan's grimdark Batman trilogy with a grimdark Superman film, I groaned (before getting to such pet issues like Superman ignoring the fact his fight with the villains flattens Metropolis, instead of him at least trying to lure them away from the populated areas).

re: villains: mind you, that's the one era where DC arguably does better in terms of making them impressive. With the exception of Loki, the villains of the Marvel movies didn't make much impact on the audience.

[kaffy_r]

I got 7 out of 12, largely because of luck and scattered memories cooperating.

I'd seen the Such Heights MCU video just last night, and second your thoughts on it. The first vid is really stylistically sophisticated, if a little hard on the eyes after a while. I liked it a great deal, nonetheless.

[selenak]

Luck and scattered memories is how I usually fare on such quizzes, so it was indicative of my pathetic fannishness that I did better this time around.:)