The Avengers 2 -- Age of Ultron

If they actually have him talking about how much fun he's going to have peeling everybody's skin off, I can see it working, I guess.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/04/elizabeth-olsen-avengers-scarlet-witch

http://io9.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-finds-and-casts-its-second-v-1502076286

I hope this thing isn't starting to get X3-level unwieldy.

Trailer
http://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_ndva19t7n71szaunl.mp4#_=_

Doom death or something

well that does look pretty cool

The backlash against the Marvel and DC cinematic universes will have all winter to consume itself in FIYAH and by May everybody will be ready and willing to give this a billion dollars.

...everybody except Morbs, I mean.

I could dig it up until the LOGO BRAAAAAAMMMMMS

That reminds me, update display name

wait there's backlash?

afaik marvel-marvel (not fox not sony) is still gold and DC/WB is lulz. what am i missing?

Has anybody started a rumor that Ultron is going to go Demon Seed and make a terrible looking baby with Scarlet Witch?

I think there is generalized backlash on comic book movies that seems to be more of an echo of apocalyptic CGI spectacle fatigue

i dunno guardians seemed to be pretty well-received

I sold a lot of tickets to that movie through personal evangelism out of a desire to ensure it did better than Wahlberg Dinobots

Tombot where ya been, man. (I mean, yeah, real life and family and etc., granted.)

Anyway, they gave in and/or this leak was a fake and was priming for this anyway but here's the full HD thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do

BTW, all time:

https://twitter.com/MuseZack/status/525071313585451008

I think there is generalized backlash on comic book movies that seems to be more of an echo of apocalyptic CGI spectacle fatigue

Yeah, this is what I was getting at. I think it will ramp up from vague nothing-syllables to actual "goddammit, this stuff takes money away from real movies" vitriol for a few months, but the wallets will still open like flowers in the springtime.

thing is, very few "real movies" need to be seen in IMAX

was that james spadervoice i just heard?

and for all i can tell that trailer was cobbled together from outtakes from other marvel films, seemed pretty generic

just hearing james spader makes me :D

also
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/264/200/acb.jpg

and who doesn't love pinocchio references

low bass rumble

reaction shot of thor looking worried

low bass rumble

metal foot steps on pavement in close up

low bass rumble

james spadervoice

mechanical crunching sound

"tagline"

reaction shot of iron man looking worried

low bass rumble

repeat

I GOT NO STRINGS

TO HOLD ME DOWN

spaderbot + hulkbuster fight = count me in

Guess they're saving the Vision for trailer 2. I expect he's going to save the day

superheroes stand around in intersection, scan skies for threat

It's amazing how only the futuristic fast forwards or alternate realities even feature the heroes fighting in piles of ruined cities. I wonder if they help with clean up between disasters?

"Hulk clear rubble!"

Like all of the well-to-do, they have people for that.

there was one spectacularly misguided comic where the superheroes (and villains) chipped in with the recovery effort

https://s-media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/21/14/1d/21141df8c869476c42ea2c9f69c47ea0.jpg
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/43640/1322893-__hr_09.jpg

yeah, everyone knows cyclops' optic blasts can't melt steel like that ffs

hahahahaaaaaahahhahahaha I'd forgotten about weepy Doom

weepy doom nevar forget

it's also nice that they got a giant Sontaran to stand in for The Kingpin

...everybody except Morbs, I mean.

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2014/10/pollute-soul-2-marvel-whores-back/

J Wells is technically a "body"

That's the same Jeffrey Wells who wrote: "I saw Winter Soldier last night at Disney and I have to give praise where due. This is one sharp, well-written (by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely), rock-solid, mega-efficient, super-expensive something or other, and with a certain humanist empathy that seeps through from time to time. It’s going to be a huge hit."

yes one of his commenters addressed that above

glad you have Wells quotes cataloged and at the ready tho

you're welcome morbs

I really liked Guardians of the Galaxy, and Marvel movies are cool to watch with my younger brother, but I'm still ready for the backlash. I think the final straw for me would be the news, which I also brought up in the Dawn of Justice thread, that WB is cutting 1475 jobs to fund their agressive slate of 'tentpole' movies. You know, 'tentpoles', the films that was supposed to bring in the money that could then be used for more interesting things. And now CNN will fire 300 people, so Zack Snyder can destroy another city.

WB bumbling around chasing marvel is excellent meta-entertainment tbqh

Re: crying Dr Doom. I read that when it came out, at the height of my delusional fanboy mindset and even I and many fans thought it didn't seem right. Later on Romita said Dr Doom, Juggernaut and Magneto weren't literally supposed to be there, it was just supposed to nail the mood down, but I don't think that worked at all.
If you read online articles about this, there are loads of comments saying "Dr Doom is just crying because he didn't do 9/11".

I saw the Birdman director saying why he hated superhero movies.

I was out of comics fandom for a while when that came out, but I recall at the time some questioning as to whether 9/11 should have even taken place in the MU. They probably should have skipped it, if only because their reaction was practically preordained. That issue would have made an interesting aside in the Sean Howe book.

Also there was a lot of talk of Marvel storylines of genocide and stories where Juggernaut actually knocked over buildings and killed thousands of people without that ever being remembered.

Marvel, DC and lots of independents did some storylines for it.

IIRC, that was basically the extent of Marvel's in-continuity acknowledgement of 9/11, and it was pretty much a stand-alone issue. Crying Doom was awful and embarassing but, as such, wasn't wholly out of place in Straczynski's run on Amazing Spider-Man.

There was also that Moment Of Silence comic. The Heroes gallery too but that wasn't stories.

Remember there being a lot of talk about the motivations of these and Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow Of No Towers.
And the speculation of these becoming worth something in back issue market.

Trailer breakdown. Had completely missed that was Andy Serkis in there.

http://io9.com/shot-by-shot-breakdown-of-avengers-2-trailer-reveals-sp-1649782452

tony starkis

fwiw I was speaking generally of the genre, not about this movie specifically (which I haven't seen)

xp

I was only mildly disappointed with Ultron's voice because I'd always imagined him to sound more like a Dalek. He looks like a screamer. But Spader performed commendably.

I dunno, I enjoy these movies as live-action "What-If?" setpieces featuring characters I only peripherally followed in the comics until the first Iron Man movie came out; I'm not looking at them for much more than "how many quips, beatdowns and explosions can we get over the next couple of hours and are the staged/delivered well enough to make easily-entertained me smile"; it's a remarkably low hurdle to clear tbh but I feel like demanding that movies entertain me rather than putting myself in a mood to enjoy what they have to offer and then enjoying them is easier and makes me happier.

i want to watch this again

i enjoyed this enough though it definitely cemented a sense of superhero movie fatigue. thought the gulf in quality between this and the first avengers movie is wildly overstated though obv the first one had the novelty of omg a teamup and omg they got hulk right etc. thought spader was great, as an offspring of stark it made sense he would be this asshole who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. plus, yknow, less than zero.

Dr casinos overstuffed post otm except about Hawkeye, who is the soul of this movie.

Ultron was a vg villain imo, equal parts hal, skynet and evil stark, pity that whedon couldn't keep that going rather than turn him into a fighty robot but otherwise this was as good as it was going to be

no comments on this in more than a year? guessing people are not too geared up for a 2-part sequel then.

oh I'm geared up

not looking forward to the part where Cap eats it though

the movie isn't out for another year what is there to talk about

It's four MCU movies away, gotta hyperventilate in the correct order.

yeah exactly. so much more MCU to go