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Your fascination with Ike makes sense. Rich Johnston’s fascination with Ike is odd since his take on him goes from hot to cold depending on the day.

Actually, Disney stock hasn’t been soaring lately. Even though the movie side of the company has been doing well, the issues over ESPN’s profitability has been a major drag on the stock price.

Hot and cold depending on what Ike has done that’s worth reporting on. That’s the problem with facts, they have an irritating way of dictating the story.

I should register the domain name for Blooding Cool immediately.

I’ll keep running stories about Ike Perlmutter, Some will be positive. Some will be negative. It all depends on what he gets up to.

@Rich Johnson: I just naturally assumed that the post being riddled with typos was a joke at your expense.

My money is on Ike as the culprit. Seems like something obsessive, spiteful Ike would do. He has motive and opportunity. East Coast is his domain. and sources there most likely work for him. As for Arad getting credit lol. I read the Sony/Marvel exchanges in the Sony leaks; when talking about Amazing Spider-Man 2, they imply Arad was probably an idiot that never knew what he was doing.

Perlmutter also gave millions of dollars in support of Drumpf. When BC (I think) broke that story, it got a pretty strong reaction from folks, including some who work for Marvel publishing.

Perhaps that caused enough hassle to have someone decide BC could be fed a new narrative.

I’m shocked that Rich Johnston managed to leave a comment above with no typos in it.

@Skottie: Look at his punctuation and you’ll see that you are mistaken. :-)

@Genius Jones
Do you Ike Perlmutter personally? Or do you just base your judgment on hearsay and the perceptions of people who might or might not know him, but are nonetheless quoted in articles. How do you know he is obsessive and spiteful? After all, Ike himself NEVER talked or defended himself (a wise thing probably). Could you imagine, that Feige got really fond of having power and that he wanted more and more? Could you imagine that he actually is scheming in the background to contribute or establish the Ike-bad-guy image? You are so easily to manipulate. You just base your judgment on whatever you read in the media. But I am sure Feige is not lamb, after all he was the one who basically back-stabbed Ike after Ike was too uncomfortable for him. Now we have a Marvel studio which is run by Feige and every single movie is produced exclusively by him and by him only! That is going to kill the MCU eventually. Inbreeding, closed systems and dictatorships never end well. “Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. – and my bet is that Feige is lusting power more than Ike. I am sure both men have their issues and perceptions and this conflict should have been handled in a more intelligent way than what Disney came up with. .But one thing is for sure, the real world is not as simple as a comic book where there is a good guy and a villain, even though Feige might see himself as the superhero now who successfully slew the villain.

@Heidi McDonald
Do you really think the world is as simple as having a good guy and a bad guy? The real world is NOT a comic book where those lines are so clear. There is more than just black and white, that is why I appreciate Johnston’s article in BC very much. Finally someone who tries to shine some light on the bigger picture and not always simply giving in to the primitive good versus evil scheme. Perlmutter is not the bad guy at all. Neither is Feige, but both have their issues and their perceptions and unfortunately Disney chose the most primitive and stupidest solution to “resolve” the conflict. And because their solution was so unenlightened, we are still discussion it, and the Civil War is still going on. I would love it if you could stop from trying to find a good and a bad guy in this situation, but rather try to give a balanced view, so that people can stop playing the blame game, scapegoating and beating up the one person who has never actually said anything to defend himself, but was labelled because of some “sources” take things out of context, project their own perceptions on to it, or are simply disgruntled like those Disney employees. I am sure the big, bad Ike persona which was created by the media (and maybe Feige himself?!) is not even close to the reality of who Perlmutter is.

@Skottie and comicsatemybrain

Is mocking a writer who tries to give some more, and very interesting insights into a story which keeps as all busy the only thing you are capable of? I surely hope you never make a mistake, and that whatever you do serves the public only half as much as what Rich Johnston does. You are unkind and disrespectful.

@sarsar:

“Inbreeding, closed systems and dictatorships never end well. ”

—you ACTUALLY wrote that sentence in defense of Ike Perlmutter…

uh…ok

I saw it too, and I gotta say I was really surprised at how great Ant-Man’s showing was. I’m telling people who skipped Ant-Man to watch it before Civil War.

Why are reviews already running for a movie that won’t be released until May 6? By the time I can finally see it, I’ll feel like I’ve already seen it!

Well, George…you could NOT read them..

I only checked this one out, because it said there were not spoilers.

@George: It releases here in Europe next week (27th), so it’s not really very far away.

Superhero movies always open overseas before they open in the U.S. That’s because the “global market” is what really counts today, especially with this kind of movie. The overseas audience can’t get enough of CGI spectacle, and the plot barely matters.

Let’s face it — pleasing the Chinese has become MUCH more important than pleasing Americans (or Canadians, either). The North American market has become a barely noticeable afterthought.

I think George’s definitely right about plot — I find the idea of Thunberbolt Ross lecturing Cap about responsibility laughable. This is the guy who attacked Banner on a university campus, prompting him to turn into the Hulk.. A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.

That’s not including the recycling of the Avengers plot apparently (villain manipulates heroes into fighting) and the …. third? …. fourth? …. car chase/fight scene we’ve now had (2 in Winter Soldier, 1 in AofU).

Not impressed by the trailers so far, and will be less impressed if critics simply lap these things up without seeing how unimaginative these stories are becoming for the House of Ideas.

Nobody likes the Inhumans. Give up, Marvel.

Still just Disney rip off. Stick to the original EU instead.

Looks very much aimed at the Twilight/Hunger Games/Insurgent teen girl audience. But I’ll probably see it anyway.

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