Avengers 2 OT

[AWESOM-O]

I just watched it. Shit is meh. Final battle is weaker than one of Drinky Crow's erections. There are some cool scenes interspersed, and it's a lot better than Iron Man 3 or whatever sets the low bar for Marvel movies.

There's some really good shit with Iron Man. He does more cool stuff in this one than in all of his solo films.

Discuss when you get around to seeing it.

[benjipwns]

Is this the one with the guy who shrinks?

[Madrun Badrun]

Total bate thread.  It will be awesome and you will be humiliated by the judgement of other people. 


Also, due to me misspelling I think I discovered a new word 'himuliated'

[Tasty]

Ant-Man is July. (Then Captain America: Civil War next May, then Doctor Strange the following November.)

Anyways yeah, reactions on GAF are mixed and the RT/user votes have been going up and down for the last few days. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like Whedon hit it out of the park, but I'm confident I'll enjoy it more than the first which really doesn't hold up well on rewatch (still better than TDKR though. )

I head the mid-credits scene is either super hype or super meh. Thoughts?

[benjipwns]

RT/user votes have been going up and down for the last few days

But that's probably just people giving it the highest or lowest score without seeing it.

I head the mid-credits scene is either super hype or super meh. Thoughts?

super-meh:

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Thanos coming for the Infinity Gems personally.

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[Tasty]

I just wanted a yes/no answer to that beji. 

[benjipwns]

super-meh

[cool breeze]

I saw that they already announced an extended cut for blu-ray.  something about squeezing eighty characters into two and a half hours hurting it.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm cool with that.  All real movies should be 3-4 hours long

[Tasty]

super-meh

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Was hoping for Spider-Man.

Maybe for Ant-Man...

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[benjipwns]

I'm cool with that.  All real movies should be 3-4 hours long

Quite frankly if it's not Erich von Stroheim's original cut of Greed, it's not worth watching.

[Human Snorenado]

"It's no Avatar"

[Tasty]

I saw that they already announced an extended cut for blu-ray.  something about squeezing eighty characters into two and a half hours hurting it.

Singer seems to do just fine 

Wait... I don't know which of my fave directors to stan more

[cool breeze]

the trend is to split movies into parts.  closure is overrated.

 

[Tasty]

the trend is to split movies into parts.  closure is overrated.

Movies are getting longer/more serialized, and TV shows are getting higher budgets. Eventually, the two will be indistinguishable....

[cool breeze]

movies evolved to being hours of buildings falling over.  TV has a lot of catching up to do.

[Tasty]

What kinda pisses me off is Whedon recently said the movies are "sort of" their own universe compared to the TV-verse and that as far as the movies are concerned Coulson is dead and I'm just like    YOU WROTE THE FIRST EPISODE OF SHIELD YOU DOPE

TELL CAP THAT COULSON IS ALIVE

THAT'S ALL I WANT

NEEEEERRRRRDDDDDRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGGE 

[cool breeze]

I never really expected any of the TV stuff to make its way into the movies.  the tv audience is probably insignificant compared to the movie audience.   but I'd still like to see Daredevil show up and tell everyone off in one of the future movies.  or in one of the Spider-Man movies.

[Tasty]

Yeah. I definitely want at least a cameo in the Spider-Man movie.

And hopefully a team-up episode in s3 of Daredevil to boot.

[Madrun Badrun]

The master thread bater?  I hardly ever make threads, due to my love of mega threads. 

[Joe Molotov]

Um, I already called the Avengers 2 OT in the OT Forum. mods help

[benjipwns]

Um, I already called the Avengers 2 OT in the OT Forum. mods help

Make one with the real title "Avengers: Age of Ultron" that'll show him and indicate the thread is for real discussion and intellectual analysis.

[Kara]

movies evolved to being hours of buildings falling over.  TV has a lot of catching up to do.

Movies are bad theatre and television is bad film, as I always say.

[Tasty]

movies evolved to being hours of buildings falling over.  TV has a lot of catching up to do.

Movies are bad theatre and television is bad film, as I always say.

And theatre is just shallow literature expounded by poor actors on a small stage.

[Phoenix Dark]

Cap finding out who his parents are

Loved the part where Iron Man created that portable nuke 

"I call shotgun" love the Wheden witticisms

Hulk using Thor's hammer

Quicksilver's Flash jab. Meta as fuck

[Kara]

movies evolved to being hours of buildings falling over.  TV has a lot of catching up to do.

Movies are bad theatre and television is bad film, as I always say.

And theatre is just shallow literature expounded by poor actors on a small stage.

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[Kara]

Damn, that might be my most efficient pun ever.

[cool breeze]

I can't tell if PD is spoiling the movie or making things up

[bork]

What kinda pisses me off is Whedon recently said the movies are "sort of" their own universe compared to the TV-verse and that as far as the movies are concerned Coulson is dead and I'm just like    YOU WROTE THE FIRST EPISODE OF SHIELD YOU DOPE

That makes no sense.  Isn't Whedon on the way out anyway?  Maybe he doesn't care anymore.

[Tasty]

What kinda pisses me off is Whedon recently said the movies are "sort of" their own universe compared to the TV-verse and that as far as the movies are concerned Coulson is dead and I'm just like    YOU WROTE THE FIRST EPISODE OF SHIELD YOU DOPE

That makes no sense.  Isn't Whedon on the way out anyway?  Maybe he doesn't care anymore.

Yeah, he was probably just giving an explanation for why there's no mention of Coulson in AoU, but even that still chafes me.

Though, I was totally expecting it in Winter Soldier instead, so I guess it's the Russo Bros that dropped the ball there.

[chronovore]

Low bar for Marvel movies is the first Thor. That snoozer took me three tries to get through, including a failed attempt during an international flight. Do you know how hard it is to not-watch something on a 12 hour flight? Pretty hard.

[ToxicAdam]

WGAF on this movie. It's all about Mad Max this summer.

[king of the internet]

They all die in the end.  :'(

[Bebpo]

Man, I had very little interest in this film since the first one was just kind of ok, but now this thread killed even that mild "I guess I'll go see it" interest  


Way more excited for Batman v Superman than any of these cookie cutter Marvel movies.

[Phoenix Dark]

The Daniel Day-Lewis cameo was pretty hilarious.

[nudemacusers]

Low bar for Marvel movies is the first Thor. That snoozer took me three tries to get through, including a failed attempt during an international flight. Do you know how hard it is to not-watch something on a 12 hour flight? Pretty hard.

dude

I dare you to finish thor 2.

[Tasty]

Thor 2 keeps going and has no downtime. And Loki is cool.

[Kara]

Low bar for Marvel movies is the first Thor. That snoozer took me three tries to get through, including a failed attempt during an international flight. Do you know how hard it is to not-watch something on a 12 hour flight? Pretty hard.

dude

I dare you to finish thor 2.

would u say it's a...... low key affair?

[Phoenix Dark]

Low bar for Marvel movies is the first Thor. That snoozer took me three tries to get through, including a failed attempt during an international flight. Do you know how hard it is to not-watch something on a 12 hour flight? Pretty hard.

dude

I dare you to finish thor 2.

would u say it's a...... low key affair?

[PlayDat]

I can't tell if PD is spoiling the movie or making things up

Word.  Legit went on IMDB to check the release date.

[Bebpo]

Thor 2's surprisingly one of my favorites because it's actually pretty funny.  The other ones generally have pretty low-hanging fruit comedy, but Thor 2 was like a more mainstream Wes Anderson film at a times.  The part where Thor comes into the sister's apartment and hangs his hammer up on the coat rack, I mean c'mon, that's hilarious.  It was just a fun comedy action romp that didn't take itself too seriously.  Was a fun popcorn film.  Iron Man 1's still my favorite Marvel movie though and Cap 2 is a good action movie.

[studyguy]

This came out already? Or is it for the dudes who put down on early tickets or something?

[jakefromstatefarm]

von Stroheim the gawwwwd

nothing in this thread is going to top that shoutout

[benjipwns]

This came out already? Or is it for the dudes who put down on early tickets or something?

It's out in like 30 countries already.

[benjipwns]

von Stroheim the gawwwwd

nothing in this thread is going to top that shoutout

"Mr. von Stroheim is there anything else to cut?"
"Oh, plenty!"

*new cut comes back with 75 seconds less spread out across the entire course of the film*

[Kara]

von Stroheim the gawwwwd

nothing in this thread is going to top that shoutout

The ghosts of Stroheim and Tarkovsky watch as Joss Whedon dances in celebration with the Ewoks after Age of Tin Woodsman makes like a zillion RMB. The galaxy is in good hands at last.

[cool breeze]

I liked kingpin, red skull, and jeff bridges as villians in these marvel movies/tv shows.

[Rahxephon91]

I saw that they already announced an extended cut for blu-ray.  something about squeezing eighty characters into two and a half hours hurting it.

Singer seems to do just fine 

Wait... I don't know which of my fave directors to stan more

Yep, because "character balance" is something someone would say is positive in the X-men movies.

They would say it about Days of Future Past especially. A movie where they killed off a huge chunk of the previous cast off screen, introduced characters like Toad for no reason and did nothing with them, had returning characters like Havoc and had them only spout unneeded exposition, had the future X-men do nothing but show up and die, and had to cut one of the more important characters(rogue) to the point of being a cameo appearance.

Yeah they would also sure say the first two movies where an ensemble cast and not the Wolverine show.

Yeah, Bryan Singer know's how to use big casts.