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[Sir Deimos]

You hadn't heard? Coulson being on the TV show is actually relatively old news. I expect great things, but depending on how they handle him being there...

[JRPomazon]

The T.V. show is kinda interesting but I don't think it'll live up to the success of the Phase One movies.

EDIT: Also, I heard that Scarlet Johanson and Chris Hemsworth might not be coming back on for the second Avenger's movie?

Edited by Game Master JRPomazon, 13 May 2013 - 09:48 PM.

[DarkJuno]

I knew Clark Gregg was coming back, I'm still just not entirely sure how.

And all the actors are basically playing hardball for Avengers 2. For the first one, Downey basically got paid 100x more than everyone else, and even taking his star power into account they didn't find that right for a sequel. Including RDJ himself, who's apparently putting his weight behind getting the younger guys more payment. Hemsworth for one actually got paid tons more for Snow White then he did for either Thor or Avengers, and Marvel Films is having trouble negotiating because Disney is staying true to its hands off approach they said they would undertake. As it stands, Hemsworth, Evans, and Scarlett Johannsen all had a tough time negotiationg for their wages in the Thor and Cap sequels, and even then had to settle for backend deals rather than upfront.

So.....it's a little testy right now. Disney could very well step in and just "take care of it," but that basically gives them the opening to tell Marvel that, hey, we thought you said you could handle this, and yet here you are unable to, and that's not a good thing.

[DarkJuno]

Double post because, hey look, longer version.

I'm more into this now that there's more of a semblance of a plot, but it's also the type of show that can fall apart very quickly if the wirters aren't careful. Though....is hoodie guy supposed to be Luke Cage?

[Moriatti]

From my understanding, the main characters are all new except Coulson.

Though, if they wanna give us Luke, I won't complain.

Edited by Moriatti, 18 May 2013 - 01:41 AM.

[Crimson Lego]

So RDJ will be coming back for at least Avengers 2 and 3: http://marvel.com/ne...arvels_iron_man

 

 

Nice.

[JRPomazon]

So RDJ will be coming back for at least Avengers 2 and 3: http://marvel.com/ne...arvels_iron_man

 

 

Nice.

 

Well that's one down. I wonder how many Iron Man movies we get with that deal as well?

[Sir Deimos]

After 3 I'm not sure I want anymore. I mean... it wasn't a bad movie, but I feel it shouldn't have been as comedy heavy as it was.

[Crimson Lego]

As unveiled at SDCC tonight:

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Also, some GotG art:

 

 

Edited by Leo Crimson, 23 July 2013 - 05:55 PM.

[DarkJuno]

Ultron? Good choice for a villain the whole team would have to deal with, but what happend to the Thanos tease? Was it just for Guardians of the Galaxy? Interesting this'll be before the Antman movie, so Hank Pym and possibly Janet could be introduced in this movie.

 

Also, going to assume it's just a name use because that particular storyline wasn't that great.

Edited by DarkJuno, 20 July 2013 - 09:57 PM.

[Sir Deimos]

Whedon has said that he doesn't want to do Thanos until Avengers 3. Having heard that, Ultron isn't as big a surprise. What IS surprising will be to see if they still insist on Ant-Man kicking off Phase 3. I bet it's getting bumped up to Phase 2. It'd have to. It makes much more sense introducing Ultron in the Ant-Man film.

Edit: I'll be very interested to see if GotG doesn't have a bigger Thanos tease. That would be the movie where it would make the most sense. Thor too I suppose.

Edited by Sir Deimos, 21 July 2013 - 06:34 AM.

[JRPomazon]

Whedon has said that he doesn't want to do Thanos until Avengers 3. Having heard that, Ultron isn't as big a surprise. What IS surprising will be to see if they still insist on Ant-Man kicking off Phase 3. I bet it's getting bumped up to Phase 2. It'd have to. It makes much more sense introducing Ultron in the Ant-Man film.

Edit: I'll be very interested to see if GotG doesn't have a bigger Thanos tease. That would be the movie where it would make the most sense. Thor too I suppose.

 

Does that mean Phase 3 will be the Infinity Gaunlet storyline or will that only be the focus in Avengers 3?

[Sir Deimos]

I don't know. Honestly I'd be surprised if they attempted to do anything with the Infinity Gauntlet in the movies.

[DarkJuno]

No Hank Pym.

 

Erm, okay. Good to hear it is just a name use and has nothing to do with the story arc earlier this year.

[Veteran]

I still amazed they want to do an Ant-Man film.

 

I am completely uninitiated when it comes to comics, everything I know about DC and Marvel has come from TV and movies. As a layman I think 'Age of Ultron' is a weird choice for subtitle - mainly because I don't know who Ultron is. I get it - that's the point of the movie, I just worry that the superhero popularity bubble will burst when the non-nerdy general public finally realise they've been watching science fiction this whole time.

[Sir Deimos]

http://www.comicbook...n/news/?a=83817

So just like I expected, GotG will have more Thanos. Cool.

[DarkJuno]

Wonder if Drax will do a thumbs up/thumbs down pose before powerbombing a guy in a fight....

 

I'm still somewhat cautiously optimisstic about Guardians. I'm not a huge fan of cosmic Marvel but I really like what I've read of it, and it'd be really easy to do it wrong.

[Sir Deimos]

James Gunn makes entertaining films. I'm less worried about camp overload since Iron Man 3. A molten Guy Pierce is as camp as a talking CGI raccoon.

[DarkJuno]

Second Thor Trailer:

 

 

Looks good. Nice to see more of the Asgardian/Other Realms stuff going on, and the character interactions look good. Looks like Frigga will have more of an action scene this time which is good, and unlike certain other superhero movies about superpowered guys from space this has some levity and humor in it.

[Masamune]

Looking good. I like that Jane slaps Loki for what he did to New York.

 

Personally, I'd enjoy seeing Hulk slam him into the floor a few dozen times again, but eh. Take what you can get.

[Crimson Lego]

Aaannddd....James Spader is Ultron.

 

 

http://www.usatoday....1/?sf16627649=1

[Sir Turtlelot]

So prepare for a large side of witty remarks with our order of destruction?

 

 

Sounds good to me. 

[DarkJuno]

So....Agents of SHIELD was pretty good. It's very obviously a television show so it's a bit weird to reconcile that with the look of the movies, but it's decently done, though at this point it can still go either way on whether it stays good or falls apart.

 

Spoiler

Coulsen's surivival is pretty much the simplest answer out there - he did die but the medical team who got to him did revive him after all, and Fury just lied about him dying. I do, however, like how Agent Hill and the Doctor (Hey Shepard Book!) had their conversationa bout how "he doesn't know " and "He can never know." That crazy LMD theory might be true after all, at the very least there's a mystery to it.

 

Also liked the use of Extremis in the plot, tying it nciely to the way the MCU is currently on-going.

 

I think it's worth watching for now. Just enough little references to the films and winks to the comic audience to be charming, but without being overbearing. It's not as mind blowingly awesome as they want you to think it is, and the characters themselves can very easily be written poorly if theyr're not careful, but it's a good enough start.

Edited by DarkJuno, 25 September 2013 - 07:24 PM.

[Sir Deimos]

I thought it was very overbearing. They tried too hard to be like "HEY THOSE MOVIES ARE HAPPENING WHILE THIS IS GOING ON." Its not completely in the foreground but the background was completely saturated. My biggest gripe is it seems like standard TV show. Many many tropes played straight. I hope that goes off the rails.

Other than that, Coulson translates perfectly and that's the biggest draw. All in all my opinion is best summed up as "mediocre but promising."

[Veteran]

I don't think it helped that I watched this immediately after BBC's Atlantis (which was awful) - I also thought it was very mediocre and largely a disappointment.

 

And I'm sorry, I can't express how much I hated the flying car. So much that I really can't see myself watching another minute of this series.

 

[DarkJuno]

Second episode.....now I'm a little worried. Still some good stuff, and Coulson of course is still great, but if the show doesn't stop being just okay in the next few episodes I'm going to be disappointed. Some decent stuff in explaining the characters (though all stuff most of us have already guessed) but the last bit with Skye and her text message crosses the line into being a little too hokey. Nice cameo at the end, but it's way too early in the series for something like that, especially since it was all for comedy. I'll still keep watching, but...hmmm. I was kinda into the idea of the show being just a cop show except with SHIELD, but I don't know if I want that anymore. At the same time, I'd rather the Marvel universe exploitation actually be something good and worthwhile like actually having other organizations like SWORD or Hydra or Roxxon actually be used and show up instead of just being names clumsily stuffed into the story.

[Veteran]

Yeah, if the only arc is Skye then it isn't enough. They really need a goal to achieve. Even the crappiest of crime dramas don't only rely on a 'case of the week'.

[Sir Deimos]

The overall arc may be about what Coulson doesn't know about Tahiti. It needs to do something soon, though, that's for sure.

[DarkJuno]

I don't want them to go so far as to have superheroes show up all the time, but surely there's a good chunk of the Marvel Unvierse that will never see a movie made about them that they can (sparingly) use on the show. Like, I seriously doubt we'll ever get a New Warriors movie ever made, so why not adapt them into the show as a group that SHIELD keeps an eye on? I mean, that certainly has its own pitfalls the writers would have to avoid, but have some reoccuring minor heroes, even in just their civilian identities, pop up here and there as contacts or as "meta humans under watch" like in the Ultimate-verse. Or hey, someone like Jessica Jones could work really well in this sort of show, though she's too close to Luke Cage, who they toss out there as a hero they eventually want to make a movie or show out of. We're probably never going to get any of the movie guys to cameo beyond the ones we already have (Maria Hill was an easy get, and Fury was simple too since Sam Jackson will do basically almost anything if he wants to) so it'd be a nice way to keep building the MCU without constantly talking about Stark Industries or Dr. Banner's experiments or whatever.

 

Anyway, I wasn't paying attention to the Iron Man 3 Blu Ray release and assumed the Agent Carter short was about Sharon Carter, but I was pleasently surprised to see it was about Peggy post-Captain America. For what it is it's not bad, better then the Consultant and the Avengers one but not as good as A Funny Thing Happend on the Way to Thor's Hammer, maybe even. Also some nice little cameos at the very end, and a nice confirmation of how SRT became SHIELD.

[Sir Deimos]

I've heard they want to give Peggy her own show too. This is getting ridiculous.