Marvels: The Avengers (Trailer)

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Grneyes wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
Whedon has also written story lines for various comics, such as The Astonishing X-Men. I have this in TPB and it’s written in a way that gives the characters a genuine, human quality, to them. He’s great at what he does.

My wife and I will be seeing this in Imax 3-D Wednesday. I think Greeny’s more excited than I am… if that’s possible.[/quote]

I’m sure you know that to ‘get’ Whedon is to ‘get’ his writing. There are some brilliant moments in it where a throwaway line speaks volumes. No need for a CGI set piece. It’s the Serenity of superhero movies.[/quote]

I’ve watched all of Buffy and all but the last season of Angel. I love his writing. He has so many little things that when added up you go “OMG! WTF?” in the best way possible. [/quote]

It’s definitely got the Whedon touch. There’s a scene where SHIELD’s chain of command evokes memories of Wolfram & Hart and the Watcher’s Council combined. Just a bunch of old people talking on monitors barking orders at Nick Fury (although they are played by Powers Boothe and Jenny Agutter, so even the casting pushes the idea that these aren’t just cameos) but it suggests an entire world beyond and that we’ve only seen SHIELD’s mailroom so far. Not a spoiler, as it’s only a fleeting moment, but it pays to be a fan.

I’d also rec. The Cabin in the Woods if you haven’t seen it yet. Not directed by Whedon, but the script is all him.[/quote]

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The bet Fury and Cap have when Cap is boxing and the paying of said bet on the helicarrier is pure Whedon.

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I took my nephew yesterday, had to get him out the house his sister had her first communion and he was feeling a little left out. We saw it in 3d and he’s turning into a little me we both owwwwed and ahhhed at the right scenes laughed at the comedic moments, and they where great moments to be had.

As others have said nothing like this has ever been done before each of the main characters had their own seperate movies and to have them all come together as seemlessly as they did is a testiment to Whedon’s genius. No one character was the star, each had their own shining moment similar to a 70’s comic, where the team splits up to do their portion of the job, each character had a great one liner or two(who didn’t laugh at Thor defending Loki and then backpedeling when Widow explains what he has done?) The end scene was awesome and a big holy shit moment because it took most of the Marvel U to take out this guy when he decided to wipe out half the universes population, will we see more cosmic type characters pop up to defend the earth? Any other comic nerd see the nod to another Marvel team the Defenders in the ending of the movie?

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Kevin,

I missed the nod to the Marvel team you mentioned in the end, who was it ?

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
(who didn’t laugh at Thor defending Loki and then backpedeling when Widow explains what he has done?) [/quote]

“He’s adopted…” LOL

The comedic moments made the movie IMO. The Hulk giving Thor a sucker punch after they brought down one of those giant serpent things had the whole theater rolling.

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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Kevin,

I missed the nod to the Marvel team you mentioned in the end, who was it ?[/quote]

The Defenders are a team formed in the 70’s and they are a “non team” team they would from up vanquish their foes and leave and that end scene just reminded me of how their adventures would end, with the Avengers the stories would begin and or end at Avengers Mansion

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
(who didn’t laugh at Thor defending Loki and then backpedeling when Widow explains what he has done?) [/quote]

“He’s adopted…” LOL

The comedic moments made the movie IMO. The Hulk giving Thor a sucker punch after they brought down one of those giant serpent things had the whole theater rolling.[/quote]

Same here. That and when Hulk slams around Loki that might have been the biggest outburst at the theater

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This movie sucked… Compared to all the films leading up to this one. It was let down HUGE!

Good Characters … the banter and interaction was priceless

The Plot – sucked balls … I think Transformers 3 wants the plot back. A portal on a building that lets aliens come to earth … been done
Loki’s Army – The whole kill a city with alien space ships that look/act strikingly like the ships from Transformers 3. Come on talk about repackage and sell something. What a let down.

Definately a rental (which means dl in this day and age) 2/5 stars

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See, I didn’t think it sucked. But, it didn’t give me the same feeling as some of its predecessors.
But, it was no where near as bad as Transformers 2 or 3.

Just not an awesome movie, was a good one though.

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[quote]dirtman wrote:
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This movie sucked… Compared to all the films leading up to this one. It was let down HUGE!

Good Characters … the banter and interaction was priceless

The Plot – sucked balls … I think Transformers 3 wants the plot back. A portal on a building that lets aliens come to earth … been done
Loki’s Army – The whole kill a city with alien space ships that look/act strikingly like the ships from Transformers 3. Come on talk about repackage and sell something. What a let down.

Definately a rental (which means dl in this day and age) 2/5 stars[/quote]

WOW, Thank god I didn’t waste my money or time seeing Transformers 3. After 2 I couldn’t justify the cost. Sound like it saved my enjoyment for this movie.

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Anyone think that Coulson isn’t dead? Stark made a joke about being an lmd in the begining of the movie and Marvel just introduced him into the 616 universe as well as the Sam Jackson Nick Fury Jr, it would be a shame to just kill him off, also he’s a star of The Ultimate Spiderman cartoon with Greg Clark’s voice and everything.

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@ Kevin - no, I think it was a ruse, too. I won’t dwell on it too much because it’s not fair on the people who haven’t seen it. Maybe talk about it again in a few weeks…

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]swhole milk wrote:
yeah well i think the concept of “best” movie is rather simple minded, so we all have our gripes.

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and how exactly was the alien army crappy? they destroyed manhattan and were bested only by superheroes and a demi-god… i think you just want to dislike something about the movie, lol. which is your prerogative i suppose.

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It just seemed that if Widow and Hawkeye could fight them then the cops could have done something. It also just seemed lame that the invasion was just in Manhattan.
[/quote]

??

Widow and Hawkeye are Super Heroes thats the point they can do stuff normal people can’t. Are you into the Marvel stuff at all?[/quote]
Probably more than you, I get that they’re superheros but it’s not like the aliens had super armor, hawkeye didn’t even use many trick arrows.[/quote]

Well thats my point. This stuff happens in the Marvel Universe all the time. Why would you expect it to be diferent in the movies? And for the most part. Stan Lee keeps his stuff kinda close to NY so why not Manhattan.

And did you want the police to save the day? Help me out here man. What would you have changed?

I thought the Alien idea was a great one for no other reason you could Kill them without all the “We can beat up on them but not kill them because they are humanoids” that happens in Hero Movies because they don’t want to taint the Image.

I even got a kick out of …SPOILER…

Captain “A” having to reach for a gun.[/quote]
This tells me you don’t read comics.[/quote]

Stop trolling, please. If you were as big a fan of comics as you say you are, you’d know the significance of the “crappy alien army” and why they were specifically chosen as enemies for the movie. [/quote]

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The “crappy” alien army were the Skrulls

Any Comic nerd would knows this

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[quote]detazathoth wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]swhole milk wrote:
yeah well i think the concept of “best” movie is rather simple minded, so we all have our gripes.

:::::::::SPOILER:::::::::

and how exactly was the alien army crappy? they destroyed manhattan and were bested only by superheroes and a demi-god… i think you just want to dislike something about the movie, lol. which is your prerogative i suppose.

:::::::::SPOILER:::::::::[/quote]
It just seemed that if Widow and Hawkeye could fight them then the cops could have done something. It also just seemed lame that the invasion was just in Manhattan.
[/quote]

??

Widow and Hawkeye are Super Heroes thats the point they can do stuff normal people can’t. Are you into the Marvel stuff at all?[/quote]
Probably more than you, I get that they’re superheros but it’s not like the aliens had super armor, hawkeye didn’t even use many trick arrows.[/quote]

Well thats my point. This stuff happens in the Marvel Universe all the time. Why would you expect it to be diferent in the movies? And for the most part. Stan Lee keeps his stuff kinda close to NY so why not Manhattan.

And did you want the police to save the day? Help me out here man. What would you have changed?

I thought the Alien idea was a great one for no other reason you could Kill them without all the “We can beat up on them but not kill them because they are humanoids” that happens in Hero Movies because they don’t want to taint the Image.

I even got a kick out of …SPOILER…

Captain “A” having to reach for a gun.[/quote]
This tells me you don’t read comics.[/quote]

Stop trolling, please. If you were as big a fan of comics as you say you are, you’d know the significance of the “crappy alien army” and why they were specifically chosen as enemies for the movie. [/quote]

x2

The “crappy” alien army were the Skrulls

Any Comic nerd would knows this
[/quote]

Paramount can’t use that name so they used the Ultimate version of the comics name the chitari

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[quote]dirtman wrote:
The Plot – sucked balls … I think Transformers 3 wants the plot back. A portal on a building that lets aliens come to earth … been done
Loki’s Army – The whole kill a city with alien space ships that look/act strikingly like the ships from Transformers 3. Come on talk about repackage and sell something. What a let down.

[/quote]

Portals were the only way they could blow the Marvel cinematic universe wide open, from Dr. Strange to Guardians of the Galaxy. The aliens are from the comics and their role will become clearer in future movies. This also serves as a platform for the next set of movies.

[spoilers]

The ‘invasion’ is really nothing more than a scouting party. The Other tells Thanos “Humans…they were not the cowering wretches we were promised”. Loki told them Earth was an easy mark and his overconfidence dictated the scale of the attack…

The radiation from the Cosmic Cube, whatever powers the Chitauri weaponry, Stark’s Arc Reactor (which left him immune to Loki’s influence, and the larger one that powered Stark tower which somehow countered the Tesseract), Thor’s lightning (which boosted Iron Man’s armor) are all linked in some way.

[/spoilers]

Giant water slides would have been a fun, but inferior alternative means for extra-dimensional creatures to get to Earth.

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:

[quote]detazathoth wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]sardines12 wrote:

[quote]swhole milk wrote:
yeah well i think the concept of “best” movie is rather simple minded, so we all have our gripes.

:::::::::SPOILER:::::::::

and how exactly was the alien army crappy? they destroyed manhattan and were bested only by superheroes and a demi-god… i think you just want to dislike something about the movie, lol. which is your prerogative i suppose.

:::::::::SPOILER:::::::::[/quote]
It just seemed that if Widow and Hawkeye could fight them then the cops could have done something. It also just seemed lame that the invasion was just in Manhattan.
[/quote]

??

Widow and Hawkeye are Super Heroes thats the point they can do stuff normal people can’t. Are you into the Marvel stuff at all?[/quote]
Probably more than you, I get that they’re superheros but it’s not like the aliens had super armor, hawkeye didn’t even use many trick arrows.[/quote]

Well thats my point. This stuff happens in the Marvel Universe all the time. Why would you expect it to be diferent in the movies? And for the most part. Stan Lee keeps his stuff kinda close to NY so why not Manhattan.

And did you want the police to save the day? Help me out here man. What would you have changed?

I thought the Alien idea was a great one for no other reason you could Kill them without all the “We can beat up on them but not kill them because they are humanoids” that happens in Hero Movies because they don’t want to taint the Image.

I even got a kick out of …SPOILER…

Captain “A” having to reach for a gun.[/quote]
This tells me you don’t read comics.[/quote]

Stop trolling, please. If you were as big a fan of comics as you say you are, you’d know the significance of the “crappy alien army” and why they were specifically chosen as enemies for the movie. [/quote]

x2

The “crappy” alien army were the Skrulls

Any Comic nerd would knows this
[/quote]

Paramount can’t use that name so they used the Ultimate version of the comics name the chitari[/quote]

I like you

Anyway, I’m hoping that the new incarnation of Spider-Man will be in an Avengers Sequel.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]dirtman wrote:
The Plot – sucked balls … I think Transformers 3 wants the plot back. A portal on a building that lets aliens come to earth … been done
Loki’s Army – The whole kill a city with alien space ships that look/act strikingly like the ships from Transformers 3. Come on talk about repackage and sell something. What a let down.

[/quote]

Portals were the only way they could blow the Marvel cinematic universe wide open, from Dr. Strange to Guardians of the Galaxy. The aliens are from the comics and their role will become clearer in future movies. This also serves as a platform for the next set of movies.

[spoilers]

The ‘invasion’ is really nothing more than a scouting party. The Other tells Thanos “Humans…they were not the cowering wretches we were promised”. Loki told them Earth was an easy mark and his overconfidence dictated the scale of the attack…

The radiation from the Cosmic Cube, whatever powers the Chitauri weaponry, Stark’s Arc Reactor (which left him immune to Loki’s influence, and the larger one that powered Stark tower which somehow countered the Tesseract), Thor’s lightning (which boosted Iron Man’s armor) are all linked in some way.

[/spoilers]

Giant water slides would have been a fun, but inferior alternative means for extra-dimensional creatures to get to Earth. [/quote]

/thread

Great post

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[quote]detazathoth wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]dirtman wrote:
The Plot – sucked balls … I think Transformers 3 wants the plot back. A portal on a building that lets aliens come to earth … been done
Loki’s Army – The whole kill a city with alien space ships that look/act strikingly like the ships from Transformers 3. Come on talk about repackage and sell something. What a let down.

[/quote]

Portals were the only way they could blow the Marvel cinematic universe wide open, from Dr. Strange to Guardians of the Galaxy. The aliens are from the comics and their role will become clearer in future movies. This also serves as a platform for the next set of movies.

[spoilers]

The ‘invasion’ is really nothing more than a scouting party. The Other tells Thanos “Humans…they were not the cowering wretches we were promised”. Loki told them Earth was an easy mark and his overconfidence dictated the scale of the attack…

The radiation from the Cosmic Cube, whatever powers the Chitauri weaponry, Stark’s Arc Reactor (which left him immune to Loki’s influence, and the larger one that powered Stark tower which somehow countered the Tesseract), Thor’s lightning (which boosted Iron Man’s armor) are all linked in some way.

[/spoilers]

Giant water slides would have been a fun, but inferior alternative means for extra-dimensional creatures to get to Earth. [/quote]

/thread

Great post
[/quote]

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Its crazy but this movie has me on the edge of my seat for Spiderman reboot. Fingers Crossed.

Just 5 months ago I was only looking ahead to the Batman Trilogy finale.

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[quote]four60 wrote:

Its crazy but this movie has me on the edge of my seat for Spiderman reboot. Fingers Crossed.

Just 5 months ago I was only looking ahead to the Batman Trilogy finale. [/quote]

Same here. Maybe not edge of my seat, but I’m interested. At least I understand why they’re doing it now.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

Its crazy but this movie has me on the edge of my seat for Spiderman reboot. Fingers Crossed.

Just 5 months ago I was only looking ahead to the Batman Trilogy finale. [/quote]

Same here. Maybe not edge of my seat, but I’m interested. At least I understand why they’re doing it now.[/quote]

I’m kinda shocked they are both THIS summer release movies. I would have thought they would have spread that out.

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The problem with the new Spiderman is, the guy looks like Justin fucking Beiber, no sign of muscle or masculinity at all.

From what I remember, he had SOME degree of muscle, but shit when I saw the trailer, I thought he was in need of a Kotex.

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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
The problem with the new Spiderman is, the guy looks like Justin fucking Beiber, no sign of muscle or masculinity at all.

From what I remember, he had SOME degree of muscle, but shit when I saw the trailer, I thought he was in need of a Kotex.[/quote]

When Thor and Cap are played by 190lb guys, you need Spidey to be pretty skinny.