ok fine
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Stuff, it blows up.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
and they have a Hulk. It's like having a cow, only more.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
wellit sort makes me feel better about having spent time watching Thor and Captain America
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
no Skrulls though it would seem...
― Number None, Monday, 6 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe that's what those bad-guy ships are full of. Yeah, I'll go see this.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want no Skrulls/a Skrull is a guy who can't get no love from me
http://backlashmag.com/backlashblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/tlc-noscrubs-1.jpg
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely looked better than Battleship or that G.I. Joe sequel, but low bars both.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
This lays out the baddies probable identity pretty convincingly. SPOILERS obvhttp://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/05/lokis-army-revealed-avengers-superbowl-trailer-know-who-they-ish/
― Number None, Monday, 6 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
how old is Gandalf in this one?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 February 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's the skrulls guys. cosmic cube is also involved somehow
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
this whole thing is really just a "how-long-can-we-milk-this" franchise experiment, so of course they went with something that would have a multi-movie story arc
So Loki and friends teaming up with the Skrulls then? Seems a bit much
― Number None, Monday, 6 February 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
slocki and friends teaming up with the skrulls then?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 6 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
You know what I never got about comics? I get that folks like Thor ain't human, or that Spider-Man, say, is a mutation, or that Iron Man is wearing armor and Hulk is Hulk and stuff, and that's why they don't get hurt, or heal fast. Even Batman has a masochistic streak; he seems to get off on injury. But Hawkeye and Black Widow are humans who wear no armor. How do they throw down without getting broken in two?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
kinda laughed at the epic reveal of these goobers in their halloween costumes
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 6 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
michael fassbender is. in. everything.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
not that the trailer is ever any good predictor of a superhero flick, but this looks like it might be rather swell.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
wait IS that michael fassbender?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
no
― Number None, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
which dude do you think is fassbender. wtf mate
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
Fassbender IS...Black Widow.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, February 6, 2012 7:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the bad guy talking to tony stark. c'mon, it looks a lot like michael fassbender.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
or, what ned said.
*blink*
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Fassbender is so much better looking than the dude who plays Loki that it is not even funny.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh, tom hiddleston. yeah i can kinda see that actually.
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Have those Simonson pages been recoloured or something? That's not how I remember them looking like...
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 08:06 (twelve years ago) link
But Hawkeye and Black Widow are humans who wear no armor. How do they throw down without getting broken in two?
Geek explanation: Hawkeye uses ranged weapons and rarely does hand-to-hand combat (at least not with superpowered beings). Black Widow has been given some kind of chemical treatment that makes her heal faster and age slower (in the comics, she was born in the 1930s).
Non-geek explanation: readers/viewers like to have a badass normal character or two among the superpowered ones, it's easier to root for them.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 08:12 (twelve years ago) link
We endorse Iron Man's use of technology to enhance the capabilities of the human body. However, his capitalist individualism is inexcusable. A collectivist army of Iron Men would be of greater use.
― Banaka™ (banaka), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Tuomas, there was a recent omnibus of Simonson's Thor work that was recoloured.
― Number None, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
I was kinda wondering, is this the first time any movie has done the shared universe thing so common in comics, i.e. have characters from different franchises appear in the same movie? Because the only other examples I can think of that are even close are parodies like "Abbott & Costello Meet Dracula", in which the parody character is clearly not the same as the original character.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 February 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, now that I think of it, I guess Aliens vs Predator and Freddy vs Jason are shared universe movies. I haven't seen the former, but in the latter it's certainly implied these are the same Freddy and Jason as in their respective franchises. And Kevin Smith has featured his own shared universe in most of his movies, with Jay and Silent Bob tying them together.
Any other examples like this?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 February 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
According to TVTropes Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are supposed to be in the same universe, with characters named Vega apparently being brothers. That sounds like a pretty weak link though, and it doesn't explain why this universe has pairs of charactes (Mr. Blonde/Pumpkin, Mr. White/Winston, Mr. Brown/Jimmie) who look exactly like each other.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 February 2012 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of John Hughes films set in the fictional Shermer, Illinois. I'm sure he's not the only director to do this?
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
Well yeah, many directors include small winks like this in their movies, but what I was thinking was a bit stronger shared universe, i.e. one where actual characters are shared.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
Whit Stillman did this a bit
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
Do you want to elaborate on that? I'm not familiar with his movies.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'll just quote from wiki
The Last Days of Disco was loosely based on Stillman's experiences in various Manhattan nightclubs, including Studio 54. The film concerns Ivy League and Hampshire graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of Manhattan in the "very early 1980s". It concludes a trilogy loosely based on his own life and contains many references to the previous two films: a character considers a move to Spain to work for American ad agencies there after meeting with the Barcelona character of Ted Boynton, and Metropolitan's heroine Audrey Rouget reappears briefly as a successful publisher, as do a few other characters from that film, as clubgoers. In 2000 Stillman published a novelization of the film, The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards.
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of want Whit Stillman to direct a Marvel movie now.
― Nicole, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, lots of writer/directors do this but as a studio/producer driven thing this is kind of unique -- none of these characters have shared a director among their solo movies.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027458/
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
the big difference/unique thing about the Avengers is that the franchise has been engineered in reverse - in every other case I can think of, subsequent characters/films have been spun off or refer back to the initial movie. this is the first instance where each individual character was deliberately introduced solo - in their own vehicle - and then brought together later for an ensemble film. this has never happened before afaict.
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Freddy v Jason and Alien v Predator are different imho, they were created separately, they were not initially developed as existing in the same universe.
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
then why is there an alien ship in predator?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
you mean alien skull in predator 2?
kevin smith did this with his gay 'askewniverce' or w/e
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
ya that
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think you meant the predator ship in Alien
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
not really, Jay & Silent Bob tie everything together and they are central characters in the first film, Clerks. this is different from how the Avengers franchise is structured.
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
lamehttp://static.entertainmentwise.com/photos/Image/290212_avengersassemble580s.jpg
― Number None, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link