The Avengers 2 -- Age of Ultron

Apparently there must be a certain subset of nerd who is looking forward to the Hulkbuster suit more than anything else in this movie

Probably the same folks who used to write to the letter columns as a kid, asking whether Hulk or Thor can lift more.

there is such a great Jan Strnad/Gilbert Hernandez strip about that ("Who's Stronger, Thor or the Hulk?")

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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.

tbf isn't Downey basically the biggest star in the avengers crew?

Er, he's basically the biggest star in Hollywood.

which is why everyone saw the judge oh wait

so you guys actually think that trailer shows what the movie is gonna focus on

huh

Were those Thor/Hulk partisans on their way to an NCAA basketball game?

Very chill Hulk there.

I'm not sure who everyone would have gone to see in the Judge.

New trailer:

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

oooh

watching Manhattan get decimated yet again makes me wish for a cinematic adaptation of Damage Control

looks boring

that's a mirror, dude

Would mirror universe Tony Stark be clean shaven?

No, but he would be Samarium Man.

meh

smash smash self-referential joke smash smash

Looking forward to a whole lot more insightful opinions from uninterested parties.

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.

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.

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

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.

loool

that's a mirror, dude

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Needs more heroes. And villains, too.

One X-Men: The Last Stand is one too many.

xxxp - dude did you see Iron Man 2? it goes on for a million years.

i don't remember iron man 2 being long? i also don't remember manakamana being long.

looks cool, stoked for madness, etc. except renner seems like he's in another movie and should really be in that other movie.

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

this is, in a very real sense, teal vs orange: the movie

looking forward to watching this at Cinerama, finding it tolerable

the hulk cannot be entirely orange

a profound philosophical truth

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

rough press tour for The Avengers crew

I do find Innaritu complaining about movies that "purport to be profound" fairly rich though

yes, no denying that

superhero grist obviously has a strong fascist stripe tho

say what you will, they keep the superhero movies running on time (over two hours)

that's on time?

it's a mandatory requirement of superhero movies, iirc

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu otm. Let's not pretend like these movies have anything real to say.

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.

100% true, but coming from iñárritu we're definitely in 'bald men fighting over a comb' territory here xp

The people making these movies are likely not among the the people making arguments that these movies are profound.

I can assure you that they are not

James Gunn has a background writing stuff for Troma! I would say he's refreshingly non-profound.

the hulk cannot be entirely orange

http://marvel.wikia.com/Orange_Hulk_%28Earth-295%29

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.

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