Avengers movie discussion (news/etc.)
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ourchair
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I disagree. I think she looks more like a soccer mom who secretly thinks she's the hot mom.
Also, I know he's already done one big name comic book movie role, but Aaron Eckhart would make a wonderful Pym next to Longoria.
Zombipanda
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This just in. Sarah Palin will be portraying Wasp in the Avengers movie.
ourchair said:
Yes! Eckhart would be a perfect Pym, with or without Eva Longoria.
J. Agamemnon
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Eva Longoria is a horrible actress.
Dr.Strangefate
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I don't think she's that bad... Before the show went to hell, aka after the first season, I thought she was quite good in Desperate Housewives.
ourchair
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I know it's like damning her with faint praise, but she wasn't half bad in The Sentinel and she's not exactly intolerable in the later seasons of Housewives.
Like I've said so about many other actors, I reserve judgment until they've actually really had a chance to suck badly in a part that was designed for showcasing one's talents.
J. Agamemnon
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Eh, I'll give her Desperate Houswives since she plays one in real life. The Sentinel, however, wasn't all that great and she didn't help either. Those chipmunk teeth are annoying.
Ice
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CBR:
Director Jon Favreau is quoted at Sci Fi Wire talking Avengers and the Mandarin. "It's tough, because it first starts off as, 'Hey, wouldn't it be fun if we stuck a Captain America shield in the background? Wouldn't it be fun if we had Sam Jackson play Nick Fury, like in The Ultimate Avengers?' Now, between Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury and the after-the-credit scene that then in the 11th hour became the final scene of 'The [Incredible] Hulk,' that one was a big one for me. You're going to that guy, and you're forming a team. That's clearly not the day after 'Iron Man' ended. Where does that fit in the continuum? I don't want to just ignore it. I guess you could do what Marvel does and say it's an alternate universe [laughs]. They've gotten away with it for a couple of decades. But how do you make it all work within that world? Because I think it is fun, and I think 'Hulk' was successful in keeping in a tone that did not seem inconsistent with our film ... It's really all how you treat the person, and that's what informs what it is. And so the Mandarin, to have that kind of weight to him, it's really a matter of using all the narrative tricks to do it. But a dude running around in robes shooting these beams and rays that have powers, ... if you take them literally, [that] would throw off the balance of the whole universe ... How do you do it and keep the whole thing together and yet fulfill the expectations from the book? So we do have him, and I think it's something that, a little bit goes a long way. There are a lot of other characters and a lot of other countries that have become very interesting lately and fit very well into our universe."
Director Jon Favreau is quoted at Sci Fi Wire talking Avengers and the Mandarin. "It's tough, because it first starts off as, 'Hey, wouldn't it be fun if we stuck a Captain America shield in the background? Wouldn't it be fun if we had Sam Jackson play Nick Fury, like in The Ultimate Avengers?' Now, between Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury and the after-the-credit scene that then in the 11th hour became the final scene of 'The [Incredible] Hulk,' that one was a big one for me. You're going to that guy, and you're forming a team. That's clearly not the day after 'Iron Man' ended. Where does that fit in the continuum? I don't want to just ignore it. I guess you could do what Marvel does and say it's an alternate universe [laughs]. They've gotten away with it for a couple of decades. But how do you make it all work within that world? Because I think it is fun, and I think 'Hulk' was successful in keeping in a tone that did not seem inconsistent with our film ... It's really all how you treat the person, and that's what informs what it is. And so the Mandarin, to have that kind of weight to him, it's really a matter of using all the narrative tricks to do it. But a dude running around in robes shooting these beams and rays that have powers, ... if you take them literally, [that] would throw off the balance of the whole universe ... How do you do it and keep the whole thing together and yet fulfill the expectations from the book? So we do have him, and I think it's something that, a little bit goes a long way. There are a lot of other characters and a lot of other countries that have become very interesting lately and fit very well into our universe."
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I'm glad he's really thinking about the universe, continuity, and specially the style
mike3717
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I just can't get excited for the Mandarin. *yawn*
Langsta
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Just don't call him the Mandarin and don't make him look like a stereotypical oriental guy from Flash Gordon-era pop culture....there are a lot of cool different ways that Favreau could translate Mandy onto the silver screen.
mike3717
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Maybe. Iron Man has such lame rogues gallery anyway, it's not like there are tons of characters to choose from.
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Very true. Iron Man is the anti-Batman in that respect.
Zombipanda
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Which shouldn't be the case at all. Iron Man should have loads of awesome robot nemeses.
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Gemini
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Iron Man has gone up against almost every single character that wears some form of cybernetic armor
Zombipanda
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Yeah, see, I've never read Armor Wars, but the premise sounds awesome for the film franchise.
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After Iron Monger guys like Crimson Dynamo Will seem redundant (plus there is their dated Cold war past) and other guys like Blizzard and Whiplash can't carry a movie, they are henchmen, so that leaves Mandy.
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Zombipanda
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You sure do like making generalizations, don't you?
Ironlurker
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Justin Hammer. Please google him. He is a minor mastermind like Stane was. He was always pulling the strings of whiplash and the other armored henchmen. Think old British like Tarkin from the first Star Wars movie.
ourchair
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Right.
The thing of it is that Iron Man's rogues gallery is so full of generic corporate/armored foes and superpowered thugs of varying ethnic and cultural origins that they're ripe with potential for characterization.
If anything, they're a movie producer's dream, as it's all cool looking guys with no substance in them... leaving them free to depict the character in whatever makes the most filmic sense.
I mean Crimson Dynamo need only be Russian, Living Laser can be whatever the want him to be (and not actually call him living laser), Radioactive Man can be emblematic of the pitfalls of breakneck industrialization in China, etc. etc.
Zombipanda
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I think the Russia of today is a much more interesting backdrop for an international villain than the Soviet Union ever was.
And there's already a blueprint to introduce these characters through the black market manufacturing of Stark goods and the structure of the Seven Rings. Imagine a series of paramilitary cells, each with independent agendas united under the banner of a common weapons supplier.
ourchair
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I agree.
A failed union makes a more interesting ground for villains to emerge than a powerful one.
Zombipanda
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Crimson Dynamo as a Russian who's carved a weapons and slave trading Empire out of the old Soviet bloc countries. A Russian playboy, a counterpart to Tony Stark who embodies the wolfish, predatory capitalism mindset that seems so entrenched in Young Russia. A criminal who has celebrity in the way that the American mafia could only get decades ago. A gearhead with a love for custom modding.
You'd have to introduce Black Widow too, and give her the cool black armor from Ultimates.
Call it the Widower.As for Whiplash and Blizzard.... I don't know much about them, but I like the idea of a Stark-technology inspired private defense contractor. Rather than keeping a huge mass of soldiers on the payroll, they utilize a crack team of soldiers equipped with black market Stark technology and an army of technicians and engineers. Movieverse Force Works, maybe? All I'm saying is, picture Rose McGowan as Whiplash and Kevin Durand as Blizzard. Iron Marines.
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Ice
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The Avengers release date:
July 15, 2011
July 15, 2011
Goodwill
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I'm guessing Cap comes out before that?
Sacred&Profane
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Spider-man 4, Captain America, The Avengers, (perhaps?) Batman 3, all in one year?
My god.
Overload.
My god.
Overload.
DARKKNIGHT
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I just had a geekgasm.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
Since the first time they announced them, yes.
Comic movies. My God.
