Might as well get this rolling. Footage was shown at D23 -- nothing official released yet but here's a very spoiler-heavy discussion of said footage:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-footage-from-avengers-infinity-war-blows-awa-1796948476
Etc. etc.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 July 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
Plus, Black Order characters now known
https://io9.gizmodo.com/thanos-black-order-and-infinity-gauntlet-have-been-reve-1796952158
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 July 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
Ahhhh, cool. I'd kinda been wondering if they'd incorporate some of Hickman's material into the next Avengers movies, as his run is readymade for big screen epic insanity.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
Whole lotta Avengin'
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/k4umfbkielbit0zqgpyf.png
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 July 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
I'm becoming gravely concerned that Thanos is going to be horribly boring in these.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
I miss the dissolve btw
https://thedissolve.com/news/2895-op-ed-thanos-hasnt-starred-in-a-movie-yet-and-im-a/
Assume the marvel brain trust will use infinity stone related cgi hijinx do the heavy lifting. Replacing thanos doing insane shit with character development
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
maybe if they bring back Blanchett's Hela to be his sweetheart like in the Ultimates or whatever, he can be a little bit more interesting than the "I deserve to be the ultimate galactic tyrant why because I said so" they've given him and almost every other MCU villain as a motivation
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
so you’re talking about this basically?
https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Marvel-May-Make-Major-Change-Thanos-Story-Infinity-War-107577.html
I welcome more Cate and less shitty cgi death person as love interest
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 4 November 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
Yes, that. Also, if we can get a Thanos-Hela DENIED meme out of it, that could also be culturally important
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Trailer!...
...tomorrow.
But you can enjoy this now. It reveals nothing.
Thank you to the best fans in the universe! Marvel Studios' "Avengers: #InfinityWar" Trailer TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/2F1E0A81Bt— The Avengers (@Avengers) November 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
my ILM friend that's editing this trailer as we speak is um not fond of it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
took me way longer than it should have to realise you weren’t talking about an I love music poster there
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
I've a feeling A:IW will be a bit of a turd. Serious, blowing up loads of shit Marvel has peaked, it's their quirkier films that are more artistically successful now.
― chap, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
I also feel that this movie I know nothing about will be bad like a piece of poop.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
hey me too
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Bet Marvel are quaking now!
― chap, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Man, if the trailer editing guy isn't on board, this culmination of a nine-year, $5 billion franchise is doomed.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
she is not a guy
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
and unsurprisingly she works on a lot of garbage she doesn't like, as you might expect
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
All people are guys, see US v The Electric Company (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfuNTqbHE8
Okay, I guess?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
Whole lotta' Avengin'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
I'm exhausted just from the trailer.that said, the latest Marvel I saw - I think it was Ultron or was it Civil War... or both ! - was already too much of fights/destruction/everything for me.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
Definitely released a few sneaky endorphins TBH. I reaaly hate Spidey's shiny outfit though.
― chap, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
Is this still gonna be two parts?
Apparently the second one is currently untitled and no longer Infinity War Part 2. Make of that what you will.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
that said, the latest Marvel I saw - I think it was Ultron or was it Civil War... or both ! - was already too much of fights/destruction/everything for me.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:15 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Keep going, dude. All three movies released this year had a ton of laughs and fun to offset the crazy action setpieces.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
starlord has a moustache wtf
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
the other annoying thing for me is that IronMan, arguably my favourite avenger as a kid, spends most of his time in (ugly) clothes instead of his armor (with helmet on !) nowadays...
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
I do like Parker's Spidey-sense.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
Although I know that, in the self-mocking way of these movies, it will probably be referred to exactly that way on screen by Downey: "What, you have some sort of 'spidey sense' or something?"
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
Thanos looks idiotic, although that's no change from the comics
Otherwise trailer seemed like a boring slugfest
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
Also: No Paul Rudd, and a whole two (2) women
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
I see Spider-Man, but... no Ned, no deal!
― mh, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
I counted 5 women (Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Okoye, Gamora, Mantis; no Wasp or Nebula)
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
I missed Gamora and Mantis but counted a whole 9 seconds featuring women in the trailer
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
as someone who loves to complain about the proliferation of superhero movies, this is an absurd complaint
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
also kind of silly to expect anything near equal representation considering every single one of their current toplining characters is male
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
that's an excuse, not a justification
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
Quite right. Oh wait.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
Ned is in the movie according to Wikipedia, as is Shuri. (Also lol that this trailer is basically a series of low-level spoilers for the Black Panter movie)
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
Like, I'm pretty sure everyone is expecting Black Panther to make it out of his own movie alive but it wasn't guaranteed that Okeye would until this trailer came out, plus Shuri is listed in the Wikipedia cast.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
it's neither - just a reminder of their shitty state of affairs on this score
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
Speaking of which, where is Monica Rambeau?
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
so we agree, then - great!
i really enjoy the MCU movies, just this trailer seems to double down on everything i find least enjoyable about them (i.e. fight scenes, brooding, thanos cgi)
hopefully movie won't reflect trailer etc
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
I appreciate the one-two
.@JohnBoyega is all of us watching the #Avengers #InfinityWar trailer... 😂 pic.twitter.com/RguGFWM92s— IGN (@IGN) November 29, 2017
Yall know I was watching star wars right? 👀👀👀👀😂😂😂 https://t.co/PojthPjDXA— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) November 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
A short new thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxOVlm_lE8
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 February 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
One less week to wait before we all get to go infinitying.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
Apparently two and a half hours long. (How else are they going to show everyone.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
eheh, yes, of course I know that like many other things, you just have to accept this is how it goes in this universe...and I think I haven't read a comic book since... the 80s !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 13 May 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
I think at the beginning of the main battle, there's a moment with Star-Lord (?) when they just talk for a little while and there's NOBODY around them...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 13 May 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Comic superheroes frequently engage in a sprightly half hour monologue while engaging in a bout of fisticuffs that couldn't possibly last more than a few minutes. It's like a secondary superpower.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
i really enjoyed Paul Rudd's bewildered take on everything. refreshingly human in the midst of all this steely confidence.
can't agree that the CGI faces looked good. they looked bad.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
It looked tight, shame about the CGI kids
https://cdn3.movieweb.com/i/article/JUUQa4WjfKMZ7RD9sobATvTZRR22z3/738:50/Avengers-Endgame-Professor-Hulk-Out-Clip.jpg
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 May 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
https://wkkrqsriursybsor-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screenshot-2018-01-08-at-10.25.01-AM.png
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Finally got around to seeing this last night. This was pretty good, about as good as an ensemble superhero movie could probably get.
― silverfish, Friday, 24 May 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
It held up on a rewatch pretty well too. Still think going quiet for the first hour was the key move.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 May 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
yeah, I think having the avengers immediately going out and easily killing Thanos and then not knowing what to do next was pretty effective for setting the right mood
― silverfish, Friday, 24 May 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
Getting very close to Avatar now in All Time Worldwide.
Is there a reason for the discrepancy between this and Force Awakens in terms of the split between US/Overseas takings?
― groovypanda, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
xp oh shit thanos was bin laden
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
the snap was an inside job
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 May 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
blues did 1/2
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Endgame seems to be doing much better in China: almost 1/3 of its non-US profits are from there, whereas with Force Awakens the same number was 1/10... And for Last Jedi the ratio is even less than one tenth. Apparently Star Wars just isn't that big in China, mostly because the original trilogy never made it to the cinemas there, so SW never became a big cultural phenomenon.
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-movies-chinese-box-office-bomb-explained
― Tuomas, Monday, 27 May 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
https://media.knzk.me/media_attachments/files/005/372/335/original/06650af9b74dbe9e.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 27 May 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/EylDlSz.jpg
― John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 June 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
When does this open?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
so many people who need lives
Wrote @ringer about the Marvel fans who were so invested in Avengers: Endgame breaking the all-time box office record that they saw it 20 or more times, and why they wanted to #BeatAvatar.https://t.co/BWwxEqhmm6— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) July 26, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
They could have been seeing Ready Player One instead!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Florida man Agustin Alanis saw Endgame 200 times—more than 25 days’ worth of watching—in its first 89 days in theaters.
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
I am fairly certain there is no film I've ever seen more than, let's say, 15 times in my entire life
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Even RDJ's embedded tweet in that article seems to be rolling its eyes ...
Get a new re-release on life and make #ENDGAME #1....c’mon, there’s “new stuff” and everything... pic.twitter.com/92Vx74OnVh— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) June 26, 2019
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
Also, calculating average ticket prices in 2019, that incel who saw it 200 times spent $1,802 of his parents' dinero to achieve this epic, historic goal.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
Look I'm as big a Marvel Zombie as you'll find around these parts but these folks is sick
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
let's tell these dorks about the era-adjusted GWTW record and they can stay in the theater til they expire
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
They could've just written Disney a check.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Author kept his shade in check for most of the piece but ...
So Endgame may or may not have actually made more money than Avatar, even if we pretend that the two competed on even footing. Oh, and Avatar stands a good chance of reclaiming the record if, as expected, it’s re-released again in advance of 2021’s Avatar 2. All of that argues against making too much of this, but “it’s an important part of the industry, just from a marketing perspective,” Nash says. “The studios benefit from being able to say that they’re breaking records.”
That doesn’t mean we consumers have to swallow that line, but it’s fun to feel like a winner, if only by being associated with one; Martin mentions that it’s “cool as a fan to be able to be a part of something big, such as helping a movie that is one for the ages.” If Avatar ever reclaims the top spot, he says, he’ll still take consolation in knowing that Endgame “was no. 1 at one point in time.”
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
so glad these pathetic losers are finding consolation
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 July 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
My reaction is roughly comparable to instances of mid-level employees hip-hip-hooraying about their company achieving some financial goal which will (by design) not affect the hooray-ers in any material way. And that reaction is: sad.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
So glad those quadzillionaires can buy another fleet of yachts, you so deserve it guys.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
“If you bought a ticket to see Endgame in theaters, congratulations, hero,” Douglass says before signing off. Not all heroes wear capes. Some go see blockbusters 200 times.
LOL, I was reading the whole piece thinking "forget Avatar: Endgame, give Jack Douglass the Oscar."
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
I saw it a second time and had a blast. I could see probably watching it once more sometime down the road.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
"but it’s fun to feel like a winner, if only by being associated with one" is the entire rationale behind following soccer teams (as wells as other sports probably, idk)
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
So I finally watched this. It's...ok! It was kinda fun having only seen a handful of the movies leading up to it (the Guardians ones, the last Thor, Infinity War, maybe one of the other Avengers movies, an Iron Man or two), in the same way that reading a random comic and having to infer or imagine what all the references mean is fun.
For most of the movie my partner thought that "Bucky" was a weird nickname that Captain America had for the woman he left behind in the past.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
I mean... given some of the slash fic that exists, this isn't too far off tbh.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
fucky morelike amirite 😂😂😂
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
i loved this movie but it really was Left Behind for superheroes, eh?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 13 December 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
Never read the books, but based on the plot description, doesn't "Left Behind for superheroes" apply better to Endgame? Since that one deals with the actual repercussions of Thanos's fingersnap?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 09:20 (three years ago) link
this thread covers both halves of this two-part movie
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
Ah.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
My daughter watched "Endgame" again last night. Still think it's super weird that the kid from "Iron Man 3" gets a cameo appearance at the funeral. I had totally forgotten who that was all over again and had to look it up. Doesn't help, of course, that he is no longer a little kid, but even having seen "Iron Man 3" again more recently than "Endgame," I didn't even know the character's name
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
i think it's "Pepper Potts"
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
Salt Shaka.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
Idk, that's the kind of narrative continuity that I appreciate and makes it feel a little more like the comics. I mean, even by IM3 Tony was still mostly a stand-offish asshole, but that kid broke through to him and it just showed that he stuck with the kid as a mentor after gifting him that whole new lab.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
No prob with the kid being there, but he's only in the one movie, has never been mentioned or referenced since, and is one of the only people in that pile of funeral guests who is not a superhero or movie star. Plus there is absolutely no one that saw this and recognized him as that kid at that time, anyway, because he is five years older and literally looks totally different. I guess that makes him a really conspicuous human easter egg?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
i do find it amusing that any lessons Tony learns about not being a jackass pretty much fade by the next movie's start.
well...not anymore i guess
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
xpost - I mean, it's the MCU, so I wouldn't write him out just yet. According to wikipedia, the actor has a three film deal for the MCU and has appeared in two so far... so, who knows. Now maybe that's just the standard contract they sign with minor characters to leave their options open, but who knows.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Be funny if that contract was iron clad, and the MCU is struggling to justify another two second cameo in one of the upcoming movies.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
There were some rumors swirling that he'd put on the armor as Iron Lad in a Young Avengers spin-off.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
Avenger: "If only we knew where Tony hid that last transponder tech doodad."Random young guy at funeral: "I think I know a garage in Tennessee where we can find one ... "
Oof, insult to injury, I think the entire 6 paragraph wiki description of the Iron Man 3 plot doesn't even mention the kid once!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link