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.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
WB bumbling around chasing marvel is excellent meta-entertainment tbqh
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― I Am A Very Important Businessman (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
tony starkis
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 October 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
haha thanks for sharing crying doom, had never seen that.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 26 October 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn1.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/villains-takeover-doom1.jpglots of good gises for "crying doom"
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 October 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if doom cries equally for the victims of american military interventions overseas
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 26 October 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/25176235/images/1370125134806.jpg
― Number None, Sunday, 26 October 2014 11:48 (nine years ago) link
well that wasn't supposed to happen. Curse you Doom!
― Number None, Sunday, 26 October 2014 11:50 (nine years ago) link
heh, i tried to post that one too and caught myself in the act
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
BTW, is the use of the song from "Pinocchio" the first official Marvel/Disney crossover? Maybe second, after "Phineas & Ferb?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
depends what you define as a crossover, I guess. marvel characters appeared in the Disney infinity game recently:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5578/14533012778_b7e82a3674_z.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
But that looks like a Marvel game, right? Just produced by Disney? Ultron is a Disney song (property) from a Disney movie popping up in a Marvel movie. Just like Marvel characters popping up in a Phineas & Ferb (Disney) ep.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
i am in no position to mock a typo on ilx but i am in a position to love the one above
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Noooo ooone hits like Ultronmatches wits like UltronIn a spitting match nobody spits like Ultron
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Give it time! Odds of a scared little girl clutching an Elsa doll ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Ha, my typo.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
I think you can mix and match marvel and disney characters but I haven't played it tbh
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dying
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
we are so close to cloud strife showing up in an avengers movie
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
It's a cross-Disney megaproperty game; the Marvel Super Heroes were added in this year's edition (2.0).
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
I love the Donald Duck figure for some reasonhttp://i.imgur.com/7Jq7Y6Q.jpg
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
He looks like Sonic the Hedgehog or something, so much badditude.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
disney has been trying to make donald A DUCK WIT ATTITUDEZ for a long time now
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
hulkbustin' new trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZoO8QVMxkk
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Apparently there must be a certain subset of nerd who is looking forward to the Hulkbuster suit more than anything else in this movie
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Probably the same folks who used to write to the letter columns as a kid, asking whether Hulk or Thor can lift more.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
there is such a great Jan Strnad/Gilbert Hernandez strip about that ("Who's Stronger, Thor or the Hulk?")
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/whyfight1.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
tbf isn't Downey basically the biggest star in the avengers crew? I also think theyre not making any more iron man solo movies so featuring iron man a shitload also makes sense.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
tbf isn't Downey basically the biggest star in the avengers crew?
Er, he's basically the biggest star in Hollywood.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
which is why everyone saw the judge oh wait
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
so you guys actually think that trailer shows what the movie is gonna focus on
huh
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Were those Thor/Hulk partisans on their way to an NCAA basketball game?
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Very chill Hulk there.
I'm not sure who everyone would have gone to see in the Judge.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
New trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAUoeqvedMo
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
oooh
― DJP, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
watching Manhattan get decimated yet again makes me wish for a cinematic adaptation of Damage Control
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
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