looks boring
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
that's a mirror, dude
― DJP, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Would mirror universe Tony Stark be clean shaven?
― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
No, but he would be Samarium Man.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
meh
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
smash smash self-referential joke smash smash
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Looking forward to a whole lot more insightful opinions from uninterested parties.
― U SNOOZE U LOOZE BRAH (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
When the MCU started picking up steam, I never thought the Cap movies would be more interesting than the Avengers movies, but I'm interested in this more as a lead-in to Civil War than on its own merits.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
I think overall the Cap movies are the best self-contained stories; I never cared that much about Captain America as a comic book character but I really, really enjoy him as a film character.
― DJP, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I've seen and enjoyed all the Marvel movies of the modern era (except the Hulk which is kinda not so much canonical so since they switched leads so quickly)cap's second film might be the best of the bunch but they're all sorta equally good popcorners; if you are adamant about the leap in quality between, say, iron man 2 and avengers, i think you're splitting hairs
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Destroyed buildings in CGI. Jagged girders and exploding glass in CGI. Malevolent robotic creatures profusely decorated with ornate curlicues in CGI. Noisy, bass-heavy, throbbing, insistent music. Fight scenes reduced to little more than strobe effects through countless quick cuts. Under-developed characters delivering perfunctory dialogue. Scarlett Johansson rolling her eyes.
Looks boring.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
loool
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
― DJP, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 1:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
http://giant.gfycat.com/WindyUnhappyAstarte.gif
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Needs more heroes. And villains, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
One X-Men: The Last Stand is one too many.
― U SNOOZE U LOOZE BRAH (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
xxxp - dude did you see Iron Man 2? it goes on for a million years.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
i don't remember iron man 2 being long? i also don't remember manakamana being long.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
looks cool, stoked for madness, etc. except renner seems like he's in another movie and should really be in that other movie.
― Soylent News Service (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
not to be one of those "i just posted multiple to say i don't care" people, but i'm realizing with marvel i'm more interested in the new movies than the sequels - can they get ANOTHER franchise up and running vs can they enjoy the fruit of that labor. i'm totally gonna see this and probably have a great time, but i'm more jazzed to find out whether Ant-Man will work
― da croupier, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
this is, in a very real sense, teal vs orange: the movie
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to watching this at Cinerama, finding it tolerable
― brunch technician (silby), Friday, 24 April 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
the hulk cannot be entirely orange
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
a profound philosophical truth
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
btw, downey such a class act
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3055271/Robert-Downey-Jr-sparks-controversy-accused-making-racist-remark-Oscar-winning-Mexican-director.html
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
rough press tour for The Avengers crew
I do find Innaritu complaining about movies that "purport to be profound" fairly rich though
― Number None, Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
yes, no denying that
superhero grist obviously has a strong fascist stripe tho
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
say what you will, they keep the superhero movies running on time (over two hours)
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
that's on time?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
it's a mandatory requirement of superhero movies, iirc
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu otm. Let's not pretend like these movies have anything real to say.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Biggest military country in the world has biggest movie franchise in the world centered on a hero who is a defense contractor/super rich asshole.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
100% true, but coming from iñárritu we're definitely in 'bald men fighting over a comb' territory here xp
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
The people making these movies are likely not among the the people making arguments that these movies are profound.
― More Fetid Than Fêted (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I can assure you that they are not
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
James Gunn has a background writing stuff for Troma! I would say he's refreshingly non-profound.
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
http://marvel.wikia.com/Orange_Hulk_%28Earth-295%29
― DJP, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
tbf, this is complicated somewhat by tony stark's decision to stop making weapons in the first iron man - the family of pivotal characters in age of ultron were killed by stark weapons too
he still enjoys strapping himself into his wmd-suit and conducting unilateral action on foreign soil tho
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Civil War will be addressing some of these concerns, I'm sure.
― More Fetid Than Fêted (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
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― Οὖτις, Thursday, April 30, 2015
I can assure you that they are!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, they sort of try to have their cake and eat it too with him turning against weapons development but remaining all pally with the military, Rhodes, SHIELD etc. I mean it just makes him seem like a sanctimonious in-denial asshole.
It'd be great if the "Civil War" movie just skips ahead to Dark Reign and gives us a supervillain in the red-white-and-blue "Iron Patriot" suit. That would be nice too because generally I'm more interested in the on-the-ground Marvel Universe of Bendis and company than the side turn into galactic/cosmic stuff with Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy and I guess Infinity War which seems a huge misstep. (I'd be all about a bizarre mindfuck Fantastic Four movie, but the odds of that look extremely low.)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
well I'm referring to the FX people I know who actually work on these movies, who generally seem to have a profound sense of self-loathing about most of these projects. The set of TMNT2 was sounding especially bleak for ex.
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
I am sure Jeph Loeb thinks he is profound as hell but as far as I can tell he has very little creative input :)
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
I am a big fan of Jeph Loeb in his current role with respect to Marvel's television projects as he clearly isn't contributing anything creatively.
― More Fetid Than Fêted (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Day is bright! Solar Hulk am powered by good sun!-- Orange Hulk
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
orange hulk otm
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
lotion is his kryptonite
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
spf-55 aerially dropped by helitack
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
There does seem to be some blurring of 'centred on' and 'started by' in this thread - but I'm interested in seeing people's reactions over the weekend on how the film deals with the issue of tech and governments.
I haven't seen any of the writers or directors claim profundity - even Branagh, who you'd imagine would be a good bet.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Orango Hulkington
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 April 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
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