CorgiShinobi Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 I want my Guardians on Earth so bad. It'll be interesting what Thor says to convince them to risk their lives for Earth. Sure it's Quill's home planet, but he hasn't been back since. And I'm always up for more Strange too. Love the character, just he had an alright solo film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 I know it's just the first trailer but after that leaked Comic Con footage I was kind of hoping to see Thanos do something a little scarier than just punching Iron Man. Although, to be fair, that looked like a hell of a punch. Looks pretty good otherwise, though. Anyway, can't believe we're already almost there. It felt so far off at the time but the original Avengers doesn't feel like it was THAT long ago. Also, I don't think I ever did the ranking thing so here goes. God tier: The Avengers Captain America: The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Doctor Strange Thor: Ragnarok Great tier: Iron Man 3 Ant-Man Captain America: Civil War Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Spider-Man: Homecoming Good-to-okay tier Iron Man The Incredible Hulk Thor Captain America: The First Avenger Avengers: Age of Ultron Shit tier: Iron Man 2 Thor: The Dark World Most of these I've only ever seen once, though, so this is subject to change if I ever decide to do a full MCU rewatch. Not the shit tier, though. I'm never rewatching those pieces of garbage. I'm noticing that, personally, I find the quality is actually improving over time. I wasn't that crazy about any of the Phase 1 movies back in the day but the hype leading up to The Avengers was more than enough to carry them. But now I find myself enjoying random stuff like Ant-Man and Doctor Strange way more than I ever did anything before the first Avengers. It has me pretty hyped about Black Panther, even though it should be completely overshadowed by the insanity that is Infinity War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 56 minutes ago, Atomsk88 said: I want my Guardians on Earth so bad. It'll be interesting what Thor says to convince them to risk their lives for Earth. Sure it's Quill's home planet, but he hasn't been back since. And I'm always up for more Strange too. Love the character, just he had an alright solo film. I'm to understand from the first shooting shot released with Spidey (in what we now know is the crappy looking newer suit), Iron man n Star Lord that was off-earth. Though it's entirely possible (given it was rubble on a green screen) it was Wakanda post-fucking up. As for Strange, apart from maybe doing something to continue the Baron Mordo stuff I don't think they're planning a solo film with him going forward but he'll be like a repeat side character similar to what he was in Ragnarok. As for Guardians on Earth, it'd be cool if (assuming he's not the one to die, if only for external financial reasons) Iron Man joins the Guardians like in the comics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 Why do they keep changing the design of Thanos? I wasn't even completely positive it was him until it showed the Infinity Gauntlet, because of how much different he looked than he has in the stingers we've seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 First stinger was a stand-in actor. The rest as Josh Brolin is pretty consistent in GotG n stingers with main change here being he's not in his full golden armour. Earth is not worthy of that garb it seems. (Though BTS it's probably that big golden armour looks great when in a chair in space, but when you're fighting it's probably a total PITA to articulate and/or render) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Maybe it is just the lack of helmet that makes him look so different then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 I'd say this makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 How long is Infinity War? Don't say "forever," or "infinity," or "neverending," or "infinitely," or any such nonsense, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 You mean like running time or...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 I'd guess it'll be just over 2 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 Dang this is less than three weeks away Also to get that "two miles" in my last post I actually worked out what the footage would be for the actual film with a rough guess at being ~2hrs long (though it will probably be longer). Of course in most places it'll be digital so that's pretty moot. Also assumes 35mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Well this is a delightful surprise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 So the superb owl trailer showed that Tony now has the Bleeding Edge armour. In the comics this comes from his use of a modified version of Extremis (the macguffin of Iron Man 3), and I wonder what they'll explain it with here. I've read suggestion that this case it's more like a super-compact version of his suitcase armour built around the chest arc reactor, rather than coming out of the pores of his skin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 9, 2018 Report Share Posted February 9, 2018 I do find the spacing to be really weird. Everyone so far from each other. Even weirder is the video clearly shows that there was planning in where everyone would stand/sit so it's not like the actors plonked themselves wherever. There was no "let's put all the GotG guys together, and the Thor people, n Ant-Man" n so on. Also that's a fair ton of people and still missing loads (notable being Hiddleston, though if this was taken recently he has been doing Early Man). So yes, it's cool to see, shame it's missing loads, and shame it's only seemingly been uploaded as quite a crappy image given it was (assumedly) taken with likely a nice high-end camera with dozens of the megapixels. I guess multi-billion dollar franchises don't buy you good photographs? edit: It can get you high res photos, just not if you post them on Twitterhttps://i.imgur.com/65KEHAL.jpg (It's a huge image so not embedding) p.s Who is the kid behind Anthony Mackie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 9, 2018 Report Share Posted February 9, 2018 The kid from IM3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 9, 2018 Report Share Posted February 9, 2018 Yeah, saw a mention of the actors name, quick google n yeah turns out he's much older now (even though Iron Man 3 was 5 years ago). Anywho, new JJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 25, 2018 Report Share Posted February 25, 2018 Spoiler He was shooting some stuff for a disney ride on the same lot so crashed the shoot. In other news Black Panther is doing very well. Record breakingly well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted March 16, 2018 Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 I wanted to marathon all the Marvel films before Infinity War but then it dawned on me Black Panther won't be on blu-ray/VOD before Infinity War. Cool your roll, Marvel!! Updated, moved around some of the mid-tier Marvel films that I was once hot on and now am less hot: 10/10 tier: Guardians of the Galaxy Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War The Avengers 9/10 tier: Spider-Man: Homecoming Thor: Ragnarok Black Panther 8/10 tier: The Avengers: Age of Ultron Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Iron Man Doctor Strange Ant-Man 7/10 tier: Thor Captain America: The First Avenger 6/10 tier: The Incredible Hulk Thor: The Dark World Iron Man 3 Bad tier: Iron Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 16, 2018 Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 It's a 31hr marathon. I've seen some news that some cinemas are doing it leading up to Infinity War, and that surely has to be the worst way to see that film. Sleep deprived, in a room of people that'll absolutely stink, yourself included. I'd say you can probably skip most of Phase 1 given Thanos intro is with Avengers Assemble. Can probably skip any film that doesn't have an explicit Infinity Stone in it (most Iron Mans, Captain America 2/3, Spider-Man, Thor 1, Ant-Man...quite a few actually). I'm just probably gonna watch a "refresher" video beforehand, surely many YT channels will be cranking out dat content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 16, 2018 Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 -S Tier- Avengers Captain America: Winter Soldier Spider-Man: Homecoming Thor: Ragnarok -A Tier- Black Panther Captain America Captain America: Civil War Guardians of the Galaxy Thor: Dark World -B Tier- Avengers: Age of Ultron Doctor Strange Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Iron Man -C Tier- Ant-Man Iron Man 2 Iron Man 3 Thor -D Tier- Incredible Hulk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted March 16, 2018 Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, deanb said: It's a 31hr marathon. I've seen some news that some cinemas are doing it leading up to Infinity War, and that surely has to be the worst way to see that film. Sleep deprived, in a room of people that'll absolutely stink, yourself included. I'd say you can probably skip most of Phase 1 given Thanos intro is with Avengers Assemble. Can probably skip any film that doesn't have an explicit Infinity Stone in it (most Iron Mans, Captain America 2/3, Spider-Man, Thor 1, Ant-Man...quite a few actually). I'm just probably gonna watch a "refresher" video beforehand, surely many YT channels will be cranking out dat content. Sorry, I meant more binge than marathon. Watch all films over the course of two weeks or something like that. But without Black Panther, what's the point?? EDIT: oh look Edited March 16, 2018 by Ultra TCP 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 So Agent Coulson and Ronan the Accuser (and Korath the Pursuer...."who?") will be in the Captain Marvel film. Neat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 If we're getting '90s Coulson this seems like the best opportunity to bring in Melinda May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted April 3, 2018 Report Share Posted April 3, 2018 So in preparation for Infinity War I have been doing a MCU rewatch. I just finished (most of) phase one, it's been a few years and it was interesting to see the origins of everything. Iron Man - This film holds up. Though it's strange the things you forget. Like Rhodey is played by Terence Howard who kind of sucks. Or things like, after Tony, Pepper, Obidiah, and Rhodey, one of the secondary characters with the most amount of screen time is a reporter from Variety Fair. Watching it now, I don't think it's as compelling as a Black Panther or Spider-Man Homecoming but is still an impressive first entry right out the gates. The Incredible Hulk - Gotta be honest, I couldn't bring myself to watch this one. Doesn't really connect with the other films due to Ed Norton getting recast and Marvel kind of sweeping this one under the rug. IIRC Tony Stark shows up in the post-credits scene but it looks like he's recruiting Thunderbolt Ross which still doesn't make sense. Iron Man 2 - This film does not hold up. The bad stuff is somehow worse than I remember. Tony competing in Nascar (or whatever it was) felt too showy. Rhodey and Tony fighting to "It Takes Two" is just pure cringe. Justin Hammer is annoying. Mickey Rourke is really bad. It feels like a film where they took the wrong lessons from IM1 and cranked the parts up that didn't need to be cranked, instead of relying on cool robot suits and RDJ's natural charisma. This was a weird era for Marvel. Lately they've been on such a kick with hiring the perfect writers/directors for their projects, Taika Waititi, Ryan Coogler, Russo Bros, you forget that while this movie was directed by Jon Favreau who obviously did good with IM1, it was written by the fucking dad-cop from The Leftovers. What? Literally his only writing credit previously was Tropic Thunder. No proper screenwriters wanted a crack at an Iron Man movie? It's too bad it's such a wreck of a film since it's the only movie of phase one that feels like it's part of a shared universe (besides obviously The Avengers). Black Widow is great. Nick Fury is great. Coulson ties into Thor really well. You even have young Peter Parker, allegedly. Thor - There's definitely times where you can feel the elements Taika Watiti lifted for Ragnarok, and then there's other times where the film just takes itself too fucking serious. Never let Gilderoy Lockheart direct a movie... Seriously, why are 90% of the shots in this film dutch tilts? There's no reason for it!!! It's hard to watch and distracts from great performances from Hemsworth and Hiddleston. Captain America: The First Avenger - Wouldn't Thor technically be the first Avenger since he was born in the 900s? Anyways, this film is the weakest of the Captain America films but it's fun. It does drag on a lot with Cap going on tour before getting to Europe. I can't help but feel like if Cap got to WW2 a little faster we could have more time with Bucky which would make his death more impactful. And probably make the Winter Soldier stuff in the later movies more impactful. For the most part the technique they used to make Chris Evans look smaller in the opening act still looks great. Over all this film holds up as much as it can. The Avengers - This film holds up. While the movie itself isn't necessarily the GOAT it does have spectacularly great moments. None you won't remember, like "I'm always angry *Hulk transformation*" and stuff like that, but they're still great now. It's a movie with a lot of heart and charisma that I'm now very curious if Age of Ultron has as well. One thing I didn't notice at the time that now sticks out like a sore thumb is how much the second act slows. First act moves at a great pace, Loki steals the cube, all the Avengers are recruited, Loki turns up in Germany, Cap and Iron Man team up to arrest him, Thor shows up and they duke it out a bit. But as soon as they all get on the Hellicarrier the film grinds to a halt. It's basically 45 minutes of people talking to each other until Hawkeye shows up. That's not necessarily bad but I can't help but feel they could have mixed it up a bit. Onwards to ...ugh.. Iron Man 3 and Thor 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 3, 2018 Report Share Posted April 3, 2018 5 hours ago, Ultra TCP said: It's too bad it's such a wreck of a film since it's the only movie of phase one that feels like it's part of a shared universe (besides obviously The Avengers). I guess in cinema world it was a lifetime ago but I distinctly remember that it being the first and major part of the MCU to actually be "MCU" was attributed to why it hadn't done too well, and had rubbed Favreau the wrong way. In hindsight a Cinematic Universe is seen as the bees knees, but back then it was somewhat of an experimental unknown quantity and people were not super happy on all this stuff of referencing Thors hammer and bringing in Black Widow n such. And early Marvel didn't handle it as well as they could and general audiences weren't as receptive as they would be now (DCU for all it's fucking up has a lot to give Marvel credit in buttering up people to the idea of a Cinematic Universe). Incidentally on the experimental front: while Brannagh was a bit of an odd choice given he'd mainly done Shakespearean films* previously it was quite fitting with the MCU mold that'd continue (up to including Waititi). They had their big tent pole film directed by that guy known for his TV shows. Heck the guys behind Arrested Development n Community are doing Infinity War (and did most the Captain Americas). In fact Joe Johnston (of First Avenger) is probably the most established Director in the entire MCU given back catalogue of films (and he's got a pretty fucking solid list tbh). *though given the nature of Thor it's not that odd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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