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Oonga changa.

I am QUITE excited for this.

At first, I was bummed by Chris Pratt losing that weight... but damn he looks good.

I had the exact same thought. It was playing and all I could think was "WHY IS THIS WORKING SO WELL?"

I'm excited. I know some people bummed that Angela isn't in it, but I can't see Disney touching her with a six foot pole. They've been pretty firmly avoiding the multiverse thing, and there's no way they're going to release a movie where Heaven is an alien world.

I mean, Aeth is pissed about Asgard. I imagine American Christians would be frothing at the mouth in anger.

Could be it is because I don't know the comics but this trailer does not please me at all. It's hard for me to put my finger down on what in particular I don't like, though. Maybe it's that I really don't see any connection to the movies so far apart from this glimpse of the Collector. Or it is too cartoony for my taste. A racoon... I know he/it is in the comics, but still.

Will watch it anyway. I've had false expectations based on trailers before.

I actually disliked IM3 way more than IM2. And only because of the last few minutes of the movie. I already knew about the Mandarin twist (and wasn't too thrilled about it) but in the context of the movie it was okay-ish. Even though I still think they wasted a lot of potential with this character, especially with Kingsley playing him.

I thought the connection between GotG and Avengers would be Thanos. Even more so when they mentioned the Infinity Stones in Thor 2. I honestly can't remember if or how the GotG were involved with the Infinite War/Infinite Crisis stuff but at least from their name it seems the right kind of affair for them to be mixed up in.

Ultron and timetravel? Did they say something like this? Why not the 'normal' route via Pym, or if they don't want to introduce him through Tony Stark? Maybe I'm missing something here. The only Marvelverse related movies I watched lately have been IM3 and Thor 2.

By the crimson bands of Cyttorak, it'll probably be an issue in Phase 3 with the Dr. Strange movie.

And I figure they'll introduce Pym in Avengers 2 at least as a consultant or worker on the Ultron project, at which point leads into the Ant Man movie. I'd say that's how I'd do it, but if it were me in the first place he'd have been in the first movie. And yes, I do have a mad-on for the lack of Pym thus far.

I may be more excited about this than any other movie since The Avengers. It looks funny, action packed, & full of sci-fi shenanigans.

Possible Spoilers, as someone previously mentioned they were wondering how this would tie into the other Marvel flicks:

SpoilerThe song list for the Cap 2 movie was released recently, & the last track is called "Quill's S.O.S.".

Cap 2 spoiler=> Spoilerone of the other tracks is called, & I kid you not, "Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford) is the Red Skull"



Michael Douglas was cast as Hank Pym. Most likely Paul Rudd's Scott Lang is going to follow him/steal his suit.





Watch "All Hail the King" from the Thor 2 DVD. It may change your mind. It appears the "actual" Mandarin does actually exist in the Marvel Movie-verse & is the head of the 10 rings. You might be able to find it online. I hope Agents of SHIELD follows up with this, although I'm happy with Deathlok showing up & Sif's upcoming appearance - especially because the description of the episode has her being sent by Odin to stop Lorelei. And we know what happens to Odin at the end of Thor 2 and continuity wise, Thor 2 already happened on AoS.



Doubt it. Star Lord's Walk-Man in the trailer is pretty much proves he left Earth in the 80s/early 90s.



Well, Scarlet Witch is in Avenger's 2 so we'll see how they handle it. Rumor is she & Quicksilver will get their first movie appearance in a post credits scene in Cap 2.

That looks pretty good.

I can't stand Vin Diesel but maybe just voicing Groot will be ok. Groot looked an awful lot like Swampthing.

Or they introduce him as plain old Hank Pym in Avengers 2, and something happens which causes him to become Ant Man.



Could still use Pym for this (as above). Will they? No clue. Lots of ways to do Ultron, and I'm frankly not married to any particular method. I've never been a huge fan of Pym to begin with, so whatever.



It's was an interesting twist, but I honestly felt it was a bit of a let down. Kinda wanted to see the actual Mandarin, since that character (done right) is pretty bad-***. I'm also wondering if at some point there will be some kind of "omg! Magic is real!" reveal in the franchise though. They just seem to go out of their way to do the "none of this is magic, just science" bit over and over. It's become a bit of a mantra. Would be a great twist to have them turn that upside down by suddenly having magic based characters show up and basically say "um... wrong!"

Would be funny as hell to have the "real" Mandarin show up at some point and it turn out that he let them use his name so as to make people think he didn't really exist or something. Dunno. I just think they're really limiting the franchise by not allowing magic and mutant type powers to exist. I think they're going to find themselves having to really stretch to keep things interesting and fresh while maintaining that requirement.

I think Dr. Strange might just have something to say about it as well. :)



Eh... I thought both were flawed, but in different ways. IM2 basically had kind of a questionable villain and plot. It wasn't "bad", it just didn't raise the heartbeat a whole lot. IM3 was chock full of action, but I really found most of it silly. I really really really disliked that they went with the whole "modular suit" thing to an absurd degree. I mean, c'mon. His suit breaks into tiny pieces, flies around, and assembles itself on him. Really? It was "ok", when it was more or less one piece, but could form itself around him (as in Avengers). But having each piece basically moving around on its own was kinda dumb. It also quite obviously performed based on plot requirements and nothing else. When it needed to be solid and protect him, it was solid and protected him. But when they needed bits to fly off and the zoom around cause it made for a cool visual, it did that instead.

Iron Man's suit is not the freaking Venom costume. It should be solid when worn. Period. If you want it to have some modular aspects when being assembled and put on and/or taken off? Fine. But once on, it should be on. There was one scene where he literally was punched out of the suit. That was just silly. And then having multiple suits all flying around doing their own thing, with some also being modular like that, just made the whole final battle scene just so out there as to be laughable. I didn't at all get a "this is cool!" sense, but a "OMG! This is ridiculous". I was laughing at the end, and not in a good way.

If I had to say which was more re-watchable, it would honestly be a toss up. IM2 at least didn't have anything completely ridiculous in it.



/shrug

It's a film based on a comic book. It's totally in keeping with the genre to have a character who's a member of a team title suddenly do everything alone as though the rest of the team doesn't exist when the story takes place in his own title. That's just the way it goes in the comic book world. I just see this as something you have to accept and move on from.



Yeah. I was surprised. I liked Thor, but it wasn't knock your socks off amazing. It was a solid telling of the characters and whatnot, but that was about it (to be fair, they had a lot to establish). So I was concerned about what they'd do with the second film, and I'm really glad to see that they did come up with a great story and told it well. They managed to really pull off the feel of Asgard and the other dimensions, without it feeling strained, and threw in a "ancient enemy comes back" story that worked well.

For a title that could be somewhat one dimensional (haha! I kill me), they did a fantastic job with that film.

Edited, Feb 20th 2014 5:19pm by gbaji

The last series, or the one before, Tony had taken the suit into a liquid nanobot metal phase and it was stored in the pores of his bones, and it was pretty much the Venom symbiote with lasers. He's since gone back to actual suits ... and has a brother and last I read was adopted.

Comics.

 

I thought that was an alternate timeline version of him. Or maybe a future version? Or an alternate timeline future version of him? It was not the same Tony Stark character, right? It was during the period when Marvel kinda went nuts with "Let's fail to learn the lesson of what nearly destroyed DC and actually change our entire universe to be like DCs was before they realized how stupid it was and changed theirs to be more like ours".

At least I assume that was the thought process behind deciding to focus 80% of their franchise on alternate timeline versions of their characters.



Don't I freaking know it!

I've a few holes in my memory of it, but it was definitely canon for 616. Actually, I spent twenty minutes trying to remember the sequence of events that lead to it and I can't seem to recall. It was either at the start of that particular run, or during Extremis where the virus basically turned him into a super computer, or a little after Secret Invasion. Either way they wrote it out last year or year before last. He is (was?) rolling with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and has (had?) a remote controlled suit doing the Earth hero thing.