Going over the real Thunderbolts is a waste of time as I’m pretty sure Marvel Comics already screwed up their own concept around the time of Civil War. I heard what they did to Jolt, my favorite of the team, and it makes me sad. Besides, Thunderbolts* is not that team. Taking the basest version of the concept, former villains trying to be heroes, and using Bucky and a bunch of MCU namesakes nobody cares about in place of the real team isn’t winning them any rewards. The movie isn’t out yet, so we can only guess at how bad the movie will be based on recent history and what they slapped the name onto.
It’s the trailers I want to talk about. Marvel Studios recently dropped a new trailer for this movie, a full trailer this time. While it hasn’t won me over or anything, the job of marketing is to get butts in seats to watch the movie or show, read the book or comic, or play the game. Marketing these days has been kind of weak on all these fronts, so understand that I’m grasping the tips of the straws here, but the new trailer…actually didn’t suck. If I didn’t already know they ruined the whole thing with the characters they chose, already ruined by the MCU by directors who couldn’t care less about what they’re adapting in a studio run by a man who cares even less no matter what shills and documentaries try to tell me (watch Icons Unearthed: Marvel sometime), would I think this movie could work? Not from the original teaser, but the more recent trailer? Maybe?
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