Is it time for us nerds to start anticipating THE AVENGERS, directed by Joss Whedon?

ughhh whedon

shouldve let dan slott have a go at writing it, bout time he branched out

Filming kicking off.

Feige on Hulk.

Cleveland mayor's office issued a memo last week detailing street closings for the shooting period here. Some of them are going to be VERY disruptive, right in the heart of downtown on some major streets.

my ILM buddies are working on this but I don't have too many details yet. I'm a little skeptical but we'll seem

see

Captain America was solid boilerplate, but it sometimes felt like it was in a big hurry to be over, just to set up the transition to the Avengers.

here's the aftercap teaser, only cam versions are online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnTI_D0zzBM

liked the "woo" at the end!

Woo!: The Movie. 2012, in 3-D.

the first comment on that page is otm...

The biggest mistake made by the 70's TV series and both movies is they don't allow Hulk to have a personality and substantive dialogue. Hulk is a character in his own right who in the comics goes on adventures and interacts directly with allies and adversaries. In the filmed versions, Hulk's role is mostly limited to angry rampages and chases. Hulk may speak in a childlike manner, but he's not a mindless brute.

uh there are plenty of comics where Hulk is a mindless brute

but yes HULK SMASH

but yeah, from what limited hulk I've read, he's also funny and gets dialog and stuff. does normal, non fight-scene stuff while he's the hulk.

http://superevil.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/kochalkahulk01.jpg

oh crap, totally forgot how to insert images.

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i give up.

http://superevil.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/kochalkahulk01.jpg

...is what I think you wanted

I like to think the rain hides the tracks of Hulk's tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0hCCTwlaYg

http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/c/70/4ba975c0eb3f7.jpg

http://twitter.com/#!/drunkhulk

Joss Whedon be blowin' shit up all over downtown Cleveland. Chris Evans is on set today doing the Captain America thing.

The likelihood that this is going to be a Skrull invasion plot is looking pretty good. All of the bad guys in the fight scenes are in motion-capture suits, and a lot of reaction shots from both actors and extras have been to things that are clearly going to be SFXed in later. One photographer captured what appears to be a crashed Skrull ship:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/526/img3049k.jpg

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/1951/2779289.jpg

Plus some kind of exotic weaponry being examined by Captain America:

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/8792/2776755.jpg

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1001/29972924613260208802815.jpg

And a dude in an overlooking office building captured this Captain America/Thor vs. the motion capture army fight scene yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOFJBHcm3k

Sam Jackson has wrapped on the Cleveland/Northeast Ohio locations and left town already. Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth are here for the duration, Scarlett Johannson is supposed to show up today, and Marvel will not comment on whether Robert Downey will be here or not. Monday night, they start night shooting on another location downtown, which they're dressing to look like Stuttgart, Germany.

If it's a Skrull invasion, I wonder if this will be based on Ultimates Vol. 2, then? I mean, the characters in the movie are pretty much the same as in that story (minus the Wasp), and movies based on Mark Millar comic have proven to be quite popular in the last few years.

I think it will be pretty close. Sam Jackson's Nick Fury is clearly the Ultimates version, and all the new character costumes seem to mirror their Ultimates versions pretty closely.

Trailer!

http://gawker.com/5848611/the-avengers-a-special-kind-of-club

Gotta say, my city looks pretty good on the screen!

So, yes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGt-saFvkNk

ok fine

Stuff, it blows up.

and they have a Hulk. It's like having a cow, only more.

well
it sort makes me feel better about having spent time watching Thor and Captain America

no Skrulls though it would seem...

Maybe that's what those bad-guy ships are full of. Yeah, I'll go see this.

I don't want no Skrulls/a Skrull is a guy who can't get no love from me

http://backlashmag.com/backlashblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/tlc-noscrubs-1.jpg

Definitely looked better than Battleship or that G.I. Joe sequel, but low bars both.

This lays out the baddies probable identity pretty convincingly. SPOILERS obv
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/05/lokis-army-revealed-avengers-superbowl-trailer-know-who-they-ish/

how old is Gandalf in this one?

it's the skrulls guys. cosmic cube is also involved somehow

this whole thing is really just a "how-long-can-we-milk-this" franchise experiment, so of course they went with something that would have a multi-movie story arc

So Loki and friends teaming up with the Skrulls then? Seems a bit much

slocki and friends teaming up with the skrulls then?

You know what I never got about comics? I get that folks like Thor ain't human, or that Spider-Man, say, is a mutation, or that Iron Man is wearing armor and Hulk is Hulk and stuff, and that's why they don't get hurt, or heal fast. Even Batman has a masochistic streak; he seems to get off on injury. But Hawkeye and Black Widow are humans who wear no armor. How do they throw down without getting broken in two?

kinda laughed at the epic reveal of these goobers in their halloween costumes

michael fassbender is. in. everything.

not that the trailer is ever any good predictor of a superhero flick, but this looks like it might be rather swell.

wait IS that michael fassbender?

no

yeah, the vision thing seems pretty likely. they're definitely integrating that actor into the longterm plans for the franchise in the same way as sam jackson

Wouldn't mind a bit of Ultron.

I like the versatility they're building into this franchise -- I hope they're willing to take advantage of it. Large scale superheroics and smaller scale espionage stuff, cosmic and terrestrial, theatrical releases and tv. Guardians of the Galaxy and a Hawkeye/Black Widow comedy-adventure (in a Romancing the Stone vein) in the same storytelling universe -- why not?

they just got the Daredevil rights back too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIAuv27SQ

looks quippy

i am unrealistically hopeful.

^^^

so they're doing power man now with this?
getting a very BBC vibe off the trailer.

FYI!

S.H.I.E.L.D. -- Marvel meets Joss Whedon meets...TV!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/50ea70cf0ea25a2f7488fe3006883bcb/tumblr_mq9lh7277g1qzvnpdo1_500.jpg

OK I'm hoping that's not a hoax

There's a reason I already started this thread, folks:

The Avengers 2 -- Age of Ultron

i finally watched this

yeesh

I still can't figure out how so maybe people praised the hell out of this

will admit i'm not in a rush to see it a second time, though that's partially cuz of word the sound mix is very "mumblemumblemumbleKABOOOM" on dvd

but there was also was a bit of novelty rush when seen in theaters by people eagerly anticipating the team-up

as opposed haters hating from their little entertainment room of hate

Hey, don't worry:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuYVniuIEAEPXUr.jpg

This movie held up surprisingly well on a second viewing. OTOH, if you do not enjoy superhero flicks, don't bother watching it.

BL

will admit i'm not in a rush to see it a second time, though that's partially cuz of word the sound mix is very "mumblemumblemumbleKABOOOM" on dvd

This might sound stupid but: see if there's just a 2.0 stereo option. I was seriously worrying I'd started to lose my hearing from too many loud shows, headphones up too high, etc until I realized that most DVDs released nowadays default to 5.1 and other exotic stereo setups and make dialog impossible to understand for those of us with normal-people TVs. I was watching Thunderball the other day and was wondering what the hell was going on until I realized that this movie from 19-fucking-65, released in mono, defaulted to a 5.1 remix.

looking for a 2.0 mix is the first thing I do on just about any dvd.

Also realized I signed my initials to previous post, lol@work.

thanks for the tip re: stereo. i've got a ps3 going into a goofy old tv so i'll give that a look

who knows what kind of profit they could've turned with an agent coulson movie

― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Sunday, May 6, 2012 2:06 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

i gave this another shot. it got better.

things this movie has going for it:

- robert downey jr
- some pretty wikkid fights

Yeah but that battle vs aliens in the city was freaking interrrrminabllllle. Liked the SHIELD helicarrier battles, tho.

i think i sort of snoozed off during that scene