Is it time for us nerds to start anticipating THE AVENGERS, directed by Joss Whedon?

I finally saw this! It was terrific! I'll read whatever the fuck you people had to say about it now.

ha ha shakey thought it was the skrulls. fantastic four and silver surfer give a shit about skrulls and krees and shit. Avengers are like, planet what? you're a SPECIES? we up against pantheons muhh

Is Tuomas ever not the wrongest dude about this kind of stuff? yes, let's keep the face-codpieces on everybody all the time, also, purple bird flair has never been a bad idea!

It's actually a Ruffalo/Downey stealth sequel to Zodiac.

PREQUEL

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2012/05/Avengers-Hulk-Loki-1337008016.gif

what did Tuomas post?

I always hated how the Marvel movies have the heroes constantly removing their masks so that you can see the famous actor's face. Iron Man looks cool with the helmet, but not with Robert Downey's head sticking out the suit; Tobey Maguire's face + Spider-Man's suit looks just silly. I wonder if it's because, A) the actors demand their faces should be shown during action scenes too, or B) the movie makers think people can't emphasize with a hero unless he has a human face (completely ignoring the fact that people emphasize with characters like R2-D2 too)?

Can you imagine if they'd done the same thing in the Batman movies?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:40 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He also wanted Hawkeye to keep his original costume iirc
http://kabooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hawkeye.jpg

Hawkeye > Hawkman, I guess, but still a third-tier superhero costume.

saw the bourne legacy trailer last night and thought wow I can't believe they made a hawkeye movie already

did u not see the opening titles

no the trailer did not have opening titles

Tuomas also disappointed that Renner doesn't have a fabulous purple outfit in the Bourne movie

lol i didnt see the word trailer

I mean people get into R2-D2 as a character because he's more like a clever animal
I don't think that's why people give a shit about MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH EMMA PEEL

and basically nobody should rock saturated purple very hard except as an accessory or perhaps if they are a comical pimp stereotype

i don't know if i understand what is going on but welcome back to ilx, i guess

My mother-in-law, bless her heart, asked us who was playing Emma Peel in this version when we told he we were going to see this.

banner's "secret" was a terrific reveal and also sums up everything about why intergalactic big bads should think twice about fucking with earthian superheroes imho (also says a bit about why they are so careless with the collateral)

Disney chief Bob Iger has confirmed that Joss Whedon will not only write and direct "The Avengers" sequel but will also develop a live action Marvel-themed TV series for ABC says Variety.

In an official statement: "Joss Whedon has signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Studios for film and television through the end of June 2015. As part of that deal, Whedon will write and direct Marvel's The Avengers 2 as well as help develop a new live action series for Marvel Television at ABC. He will also contribute creatively to the next phase of Marvel's cinematic universe."

No other details were given on what Whedon's Marvel TV show would be. Whatever it is, it's separate from the "Incredible Hulk" series ABC is developing with Guillermo del Toro.

The first "The Avengers" film has earned nearly $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office. The sequel is rumoured to be targeting a May 2015 release.

The series, whatever it is, has potential to do a bit of expositional heavy lifting so A2 can be all tight and lean and shiny.

somehow i don't think this potential show will tie in that closely to any of the future films. It'll just be set in the same universe

The fact that Whedon is developing the show gives it that potential though.

Runaways, SHIELD, or something along the lines of Damage Control are the ideas people are putting out there. Any of those could work

Oh man I will watch Whedon Marvel tv--- plzplzplz astonishing x-men

i'd stop hoping for that to happen right now

different studios etc

Yeah, no X-Men, no Spider-Man.

SHIELD makes sense -- it could be done within tv-budget constraints.

JOSS WHEDON ALPHA FLIGHT, PEOPLE

I am already imagining the crappy accent Eliza Dushku will adopt as Aurora

hell, they're already Canadian, why not film it in Vancouver

lol i was thinking of how i would love to do a 1980s-set alpha flight movie

she-hulk legal drama

would be good if it was a boston legal type show with her as one of the lawyers, the rest who are just regular lawyers

howard the duck love interest. deadpool client

I think the world is ready for a Man-Thing tv show.

no deadpool

daredevil, duh

ooo, maybe

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/7086/342339-106834-echo_super.jpg

Newsroom drama w/Ben Urich covering superhero stufff

Haha Daer Mr Whedon, you are very nice and all, but could you be more like Brian Michael Bendis?

It's not quite "DO NOT WANT" but still not bad.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17vvjllrwfohtjpg/medium.jpg

http://io9.com/5934412/poorly-translated-subtitles-from-a-chinese-bootleg-of-the-avengers-are-amazing

Quite so.

And good night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0TZcBjZSNM

glad i caught it before it was pulled, but Cobie Smulders' "I WILL AVENGE YOU, COULTON" bit will definitely be on the net again.

As someone said over on io9, if that was also a GalaxyQuest riff then she kinda rules the universe.

Is Tuomas ever not the wrongest dude about this kind of stuff? yes, let's keep the face-codpieces on everybody all the time, also, purple bird flair has never been a bad idea!

― El Tomboto, 25. heinäkuuta 2012 7:49 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), 25. heinäkuuta 2012 14:14 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always hated how the Marvel movies have the heroes constantly removing their masks so that you can see the famous actor's face. Iron Man looks cool with the helmet, but not with Robert Downey's head sticking out the suit; Tobey Maguire's face + Spider-Man's suit looks just silly. I wonder if it's because, A) the actors demand their faces should be shown during action scenes too, or B) the movie makers think people can't emphasize with a hero unless he has a human face (completely ignoring the fact that people emphasize with characters like R2-D2 too)?

Can you imagine if they'd done the same thing in the Batman movies?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:40 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― how's life, 25. heinäkuuta 2012 14:17 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He also wanted Hawkeye to keep his original costume iirc
http://kabooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hawkeye.jpg

― Number None, 25. heinäkuuta 2012 14:19 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I said they could've done a modernized version of his costume, not that they should've used the original, with the tunic and all... Anyway, a lot of people in this thread seemed to think Hawkeye was the lamest hero in the movie, and obviously that's partly because he got the least character development, but I think giving him a more iconic costume would've helped at least a bit. Unique costumes are big part of superhero iconography, so making Hawkeye have pretty much the same S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform as Black Widow made him seem less like a unique character.

With Iron Man, OTOH, I think they handled the mask thing quite well: there was no scene where he pointlessly and stupidly takes of his helmet off mid-battle just to show Robert Downey's face, like he did in IM and IM 2. The only time we see him in armor without the helmet was in the end, and that was well justified. As for Cap, I was actually pleased that he lost the mask in the final battle, because (like I said upthread) the movie version of his mask was kind of a failure. They should've given him a cloth or leather hood like in the comics, the thick helmet made his head look comically big.

BTW, am I the only one who at first thought the mystery villain in the after-credits scene was some kind of a Skrull? I thought the purplish skin was just because of the lighting in that scene, and Skrulls and Thanos both have that jagged jaw. I only got who he was after the subtext in the "court with death" line had properly sank in. Anyway, it was pretty fucked up reading that Jim Starlin interview linked upthread, where he said he didn't know anything about Thanos being in the movie, and that he had to buy his own ticket to see it. Hopefully Marvel at least gets him a ticket to the sequel, if Thanos is the villain in it.

This is probably linked somewhere else on this thread but it was new to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMgkpQYOSQ

Was impressed by the way it kept all the main characters in play, giving them all enough to do, but this was kind of boring.

http://io9.com/5940888/weird-secrets-of-the-avengers-that-youd-never-have-guessed