Avengers: Infinity War

For avenging.

So...got Thursday night opening tickets, come what may.

#BREAKING Avengers: Infinity War has been Rated R by the MPAA for Intense sequences of sci fi action, grisly imagery, some sexuality, nudity, strong language. This marks the first ever R rated MCU film pic.twitter.com/gD4Oggm2R9

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NUDE THANOS CONFIRMED

thought his face was wrinkly? we have news

xxxp Gamora and Nebula are Thanos's daughters, why would the GotG NOT be in this?

the fact that they're all in it is kind of the point...

The point I think is how many will be left when it's over. Marvel people have talked up their "next phase" ...

Guardian of the Galaxy

Avenger and a Half

the conclusion of these movies would be a swell time to introduce Dr. Doom.

He's part of the Fantastic Four deal so off limits iirc.

In fact, it seems Noah Hawley announced the other week he's making a Doom movie for Fox in the near-ish future.

GIVE ME DOOM

I thought the Disney/Fox deal gave them FF & X-Men finally

Doom is hands down the best villain in comics. It's criminal how badly he's been done. Also there would be something great about a Bad Wakanda all of a sudden popping up on the world stage.

Corporate mergers take a long time and they're not anywhere near even having it approved iirc?

fyi
Under the terms of the agreement, which is expected to close in late 2018 or early to mid 2019, pending regulatory approval

we're a long ways out, assuming it doesn't fall through

Ah well I guess we’ll see

being in the middle of a big merger/spin-off thing at my own workplace, the misunderstanding of timelines is very relatable

another couple years and we'll have this finished

so what is endgame for this universe? are our great grandkids going to have Avengers films?

they'll taper off, then fifteen years later someone will try to add a movie in the same chronology and it'll flop, after which they'll badly reboot it

Rise of the Starks

It just occurred to me yesterday that there's only been two major cast changes in the decade that the MCU has existed, and even those happened very early on. This thing has been surprisingly well planned out. I'm sure they have another decade roughly sketched out, although I'm somewhat at a loss in terms of guessing how that will play out.

My current prediction is that, if Skrulls are a big enough deal in the Captain Marvel movie, the unnamed Avengers movie might be a take on Secret Invasion. Which could make for another big shake-up of the status quo. I think we'll probably see an expansion of the cosmic and magic stuff, as well. Beyond that, who knows. She-Hulk, maybe? Ms. Marvel?

Who besides Rhodes?

Norton > Ruffalo

that Hulk was such a nothing of a movie

oh yeah. Ruffalo was a big improvement. Cheadle is kind of a non-entity in these. Too bad they didn't keep Howard.

I kinda like the Hulk flick. It's the MCU's b-movie. And it's better than Ang Lee's gamma-irradiated turkey.

(I'm trying to talk the gf into rewatching all seventeen(!!!) of the MCU movies that are on blu-ray with me before the new one drops next month. I can give a more up-to-date review when/if that actually happens.)

I’ve been calling this “Avengers: Infinity Fuck” in my head ever since it was first announced years ago, I just wanted to mention that

And it's better than Ang Lee's gamma-irradiated turkey.

this is incorrect

The Ang Lee one is very bad.

i like the Ang

Yeah me too

I liked Bana as Banner but that's as far as I would go. The split screen stuff was terrible.

I'm surprised that Lee's literary adaptations don't use flipping pages as scene transitions. You know, like a book!

the Hulk movies are so bad that it feels like there's been three or four of them, from a "shit I will avoid watching in favor of [sports / lawyer movies] if that's all that's on [cable / the airplane seatback]" perspective. One or the other seems like it keeps popping up and who can tell if it's Bana or Norton? Ultimately, who cares? There is no good 3-act arc in Bruce Banner's existence. It is an eternal violent struggle with rage and the absurd, unwillingly waged by one of the smartest men alive, and the latter always loses. Does not translate to popcorn movie. Does not need a archvillain.

On the other hand, I wouldn't be against Tim Blake Nelson returning to be one of the pillars of The Intelligencia in round 2 / phase 3 / whatever.

I feel like Victor Von won't get his proper due until there is a titular origin film about Doctor Doom (as implied, I think, in Sparkle Motion's "Bad Wakanda" comment above) and the other prerequisite being that some brilliant character design genius can translate his look onto the screen without looking like a nickel-plated luchadore mask or either throwing out the baby with the bathwater and just giving him a metal face.

Ironically the Corman production of FF was the most faithful to Doom’s costume out of the 4 attempts so far.

There is no good 3-act arc in Bruce Banner's existence. It is an eternal violent struggle with rage and the absurd, unwillingly waged by one of the smartest men alive, and the latter always loses.

not a fan of PAD's run?

(overall otm point tho)

By coincidence I watched the most recent Fantastic Four movie yesterday - in theory I liked the idea of Doom the Redditor, but iirc they pulled back on that, as befits a movie which is a collision of bad ideas and likable actors (and Miles Teller)

I caught the first 15 minutes of the Silver Surfer one not long ago and was kind of impressed how well they captured the tone of the FF- it was incredibly goofy but no less so than any mid-80s stretch of the comics.

Yeah no those are good.

Hm, dunno. Can't he just be a big bad guy?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-why-the-avengers-are-thanos-supporting-characters-1823921364

Thanos is the hero

If this is at all like the comic, then I assume the movie will be a lot of Thanos consolidating his galactic/cosmic power, there will be cuts to Strange or Thor or whomever mumbling about a disturbance in the force of something, and that it will end with the cliffhanger of everyone dead. I mean, there is so little the previous movies have done with Thanos that they have a lot of ground to make up. Then again, I always thought Ultron was a great villain, but they turned him into a boring one-off in the last Avengers movie, so who knows.

yeah assume the r rating has to do with the murder of half of the universe's population

I believe the R rating is only a rumor at this point and I would be surprised if Disney let that happen.

It won't be rated R. I mean, the first one was almost R, too, but there is no way this movie is hitting theaters as an R.

I mean, you've gotta let the kids in if you expect to sell them Thanos bedsheets.

Exactly. Plus, cosmic violence is bloodless.