ff not mcu fwiw
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I know, but thread has been spilling out into general superhero cinema.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 5 March 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
In the future Hollywood will eventually just pool all its money into one big $1 trillion movie. They will actually destroy a whole city making it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 March 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
oboy more origin stories
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 March 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
xp are tickets on sale for that yet?
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 March 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
cheap tickets get you into the theater, expensive ones get you into the city
― Soylent News Service (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 March 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
It will be cool in 10-15 years to see the Avengers holograms reboot everyone sitting in an amphitheater while costumed superheroes duke it out on the stage like flickering flames of mythology past.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 March 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/a-marathon-of-all-11-marvel-movies-to-be-screened-at-amc-and-regal-theaters/
On April 29th, the two chains will screen all 11 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in sequential order, beginning with Iron Man and finishing with Avengers: Age of Ultron. That’s 27 hours straight of live action comic book madness, though based on runtimes and the marathon’s schedule, audiences can at least expect a bathroom break between movies.Cinemark will also join AMC and Regal in holding an Avengers double feature for the less dedicated, with The Avengers running right into Avengers: Age of Ultron. Tickets for all the viewing events at select theaters can be found at the AMC, Regal, and Cinemark websites. Here’s the schedule for AMC’s Ultimate Marvel Marathon:6:00 p.m. - Iron Man8:25 p.m. – The Incredible Hulk10:35 p.m. – Iron Man 21:00 a.m. – Thor3:10 a.m. – Captain America: The First Avenger5:30 a.m. – The Avengers8:48 a.m. – Iron Man 311:15 a.m. – Thor: The Dark World1:45 p.m. – Captain America: The Winter Soldier4:20 p.m. – Guardians of the Galaxy7:00 p.m. – Avengers: Age of Ultron (RealD® 3D)
Cinemark will also join AMC and Regal in holding an Avengers double feature for the less dedicated, with The Avengers running right into Avengers: Age of Ultron. Tickets for all the viewing events at select theaters can be found at the AMC, Regal, and Cinemark websites. Here’s the schedule for AMC’s Ultimate Marvel Marathon:
6:00 p.m. - Iron Man8:25 p.m. – The Incredible Hulk10:35 p.m. – Iron Man 21:00 a.m. – Thor3:10 a.m. – Captain America: The First Avenger5:30 a.m. – The Avengers8:48 a.m. – Iron Man 311:15 a.m. – Thor: The Dark World1:45 p.m. – Captain America: The Winter Soldier4:20 p.m. – Guardians of the Galaxy7:00 p.m. – Avengers: Age of Ultron (RealD® 3D)
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
that looks like hell on earth
― DJP, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Oh, absolutely. That said, I'll be there with a pillow and a trucker's mate.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
I was kinda hoping that some theater chain or another would be doing this, but I was also kinda hoping they'd approach it in a reasonable way for people who have jobs and enjoy sleep.
― Stomach Hurts...And I Don't Care! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Well, the latter sort of takes care of itself.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
If that's the way people are going to see the new film, I wonder how many people will be in a good enough mood to properly enjoy the last film. Sounds like the perfect way to spoil your appetite.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I hear that the optimal way to watch the movie is through tears of delirium.
― Stomach Hurts...And I Don't Care! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Also reminds me of South Park in the World Of Warcraft episode. Bring your parents so you can shit into a big plate they hold out for you.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Delirium rumored villain for Avengers 3.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Fun fact: it took the James Bond series 44 years to churn out as many films as the MCU will have done in 11 (i.e. through 2019).
― Wet Pet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I saw Star Trek 5 at the end of a marathon screening of all five movies when I was a teenager but I don't think it was exhaustion that made that movie such a bummer
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 5 March 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
I want somebody somewhere to offer up a counter-program marathon of Lav Diaz' filmography on the same day.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 5 March 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
xp lol that is so sad to go through all that and end with V
― Nhex, Friday, 6 March 2015 04:20 (nine years ago) link
I once watched 7 movies in a row at the local movie festival, and I can tell you that shit is hella grueling, both physically and mentally. And the last movie just happened to be a Japanese flick that the festival catalogue promised to be a thrilling actioner, but it was more like tedious psychological torture porn, I almost wanted to cry at that point.
― Tuomas, Friday, 6 March 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
only time I've done this was for a 24-hr filmfest thing in college where the local rep house was doing it as a special event. I sat through Raiders of the Lost Ark, Singing in the Rain, and Casablanca and I think after that I fell asleep
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 March 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
As loud as movie theaters are now I'd have a splitting headache halfway through the second movie.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 March 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
FF teaser looks like car commercial + christopher nolan
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Saturday, 7 March 2015 07:38 (nine years ago) link
Why do people watch movie marathons? Can't think of any way that makes any of them any better, unless they are maybe all literally parts of the same movie (like the three Lord of the Rings movies, maybe). And even then. Take a fucking break. That's why there are three movies and not one 12 hour movie. Would anyone just sit right down and read an 800 page novel without stopping?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
People.... do things differently?
― mh, Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
In high school a friend and I planned to watch every Friday the 13th movie over a weekend and review them for the teen page of the local paper. We gave up on day 2 halfway into Jason takes manhattan, but we still talk about it as a fun memory.
So my guess is, the people doing this are younger than us.
― da croupier, Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
part of me loves the idea of that Marvel marathon...but the other part of me enjoys sleeping & there's no way I'd make it through all of them
but i did a mini marathon of the Cap movies & Avengers ...and I have watched all three lotr movies in one sitting
i just like to binge sometimes :D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
It's popular enough that London's biggest second run cineme is doing it a lot (also sing/quotealongs).
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Goddammit
in high school once some friends were doing uninterrupted-lotr, and i had a lot to do that day so could not consistently attend, but in between driving around doing whatever cool important-feeling stuff it was i had to do with another friend we stopped two or three separate times at the lotr house to check in for 20-30 minutes and say things like "holy shit how are they only at lothlorien". this isn't a story i realize but it's a halcyon memory cuz it was the perfect combination of feeling cool and watching lotr. on the other hand: later in college i would do this marathon myself, with a different set of friends, and, i think, somewhere in rohan, i think, a couple girls came over and did a bunch of coke by themselves.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
I love bingewatching at festivals. But it's not really 'marathoning' when I'm taking halfhour breaks inbetween, or something.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
meals tho, i mean i'd want that marathon fking catered bcz i aint eating 12 hrs worth of diarrhea hot dogs & popcorn
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 March 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Fantastic 4 looks kinda rad idk
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 7 March 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
later in college i would do this marathon myself, with a different set of friends, and, i think, somewhere in rohan, i think, a couple girls came over and did a bunch of coke by themselves.
lol
― drash, Saturday, 7 March 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Idly considering the similarities between westerns as a genre and the current superhero genre - feel like in 50 years we'll be looking back and thinking jesus christ why were so many of these made? (which is how I feel about westerns for the most part)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
both draw on pulp/YA fiction origins for material and ready-made mythos, uniquely American, etc.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
There aren't so many of these made, are there? At least compared to Westerns. So far there have been roughly 2 Marvel movies and 1 DC movie per year, right? Whereas in the heyday of Westerns there were like several of those coming out each month. Though of course there's a difference in that Westerns could be made fairly cheaply, but so far there hasn't exactly been a deluge of mid-budget or low-budget superhero movies. Also, it's pretty interesting that pretty much all the successful straight superhero movies have been based on Marvel and DC properties. Non-Marvel/DC superhero movies have mostly been parodies or deconstructions, like The Incredibles, Megamind, Kick-Ass, Toxic Avenger, The Mask, Chronicle, etc.
But I'm sure there are some interesting sociological theories to why these type of movies have become so popular in this era, especially considering that many of the comics they're based on are decades old... I guess you could argue that in times of recession, war on terror and other political and economic insecurities, people crave the sort of comfort straightforward hero stories can offer. Certainly some of the movies have addressed these issues directly; for example, there's that scene in the first Spider-Man movie where random New Yorkers start protecting Spidey from the Green Goblin, and The Winter Soldier of course is totally in the post-NSA, post-Wikileaks vibe, with Cap (literally) representing old-fashioned values like liberty in contrast to the shadier politics of SHIELD.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
roughly 2 Marvel movies and 1 DC movie per year, right?
Depends on how you count, especially when you factor in TV. Plus it's about to get a lot more hectic.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 07:09 (nine years ago) link
Honestly I think the current ubiquity of the superhero movie simply has a lot to do with special effects catching up with the kind of crazy shit a comic book artist can portray.
Kick-Ass is a Marvel property fwiw.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 07:50 (nine years ago) link
The Winter Soldier (as you point out a dozen words later) is not a decades old story, nor a straightforward hero one.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
nope, it's owned by Millar and JRjr - the sequel even premiered in Millar's own newstand magazine, not an Icon comic.
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 09:37 (nine years ago) link
the similarities between westerns as a genre and the current superhero genre
gotohell
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
Has there been ONE comic-book film that will stand decades later as a 'classic' adult work of art like the best westerns of Ford, Hawks, Boetticher, Mann, Leone etc?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
I daresay there's an argument to made for the Batman Returns-Dark Knight trilogy
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
Even if there hasn't been, that doesn't mean there are no similarities between the genres.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:29 (nine years ago) link
Sure: American Splendor, Persepolis, Ghost World, Corto Maltese, A History of Violence, Oldboy, etc.
But if you're talking about superhero movies alone, I'm not sure what point of comparing them to "classic adult" Westerns, because they're not aiming to be "adult" works in that sense. That doesn't mean the best superhero movies can't be as satisfying and successful at what they do, though. There's not just one measuring stick for good movies.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:29 (nine years ago) link
(x-post to Morbius)
yes Tuomas, we were talking about the Marvel-type films, which are closer to being $250 million iPhones.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:34 (nine years ago) link
have you actually seen any of the marvel movies, Morbs?
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:38 (nine years ago) link