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[Superhero Movies] RIP Michael Ansara

CenoCeno pizza timeRegistered User regular
edited August 2013 in Social Entropy++
The next one on the docket is The Wolverine, which hits July 26th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th1NTVIhUQU

Thor: The Dark World is out this holiday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bFZJ-3zNFg&feature=player_embedded

Captain America: Winter Soldier is currently filming. Marvel has signed RDJ to reprise Iron Man in Avengers 2 & 3. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this fall on ABC.

DC is on track to continue ruining the hopes and souls of children by making Man of Steel 2: Also Batman. Then a Flash movie where he gains his speed by devouring live kittens, probably. Who knows?

Discuss.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Superheroes are for nerds

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    Still cautiously optimistic about Wolverine.

    I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!
  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    geth, kick @wyborn from the thread

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative The Geebs That Is A Pony. @Wyborn banned from this thread.

  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    Wow I didn't realize reviews for Wolverine were already trickling in. So far it's at 69% on RT so that's not bad so far. Also it's run time is 2 hours and 15 minutes which seems a bit long to be honest.

    I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!
  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited July 2013
    So, last night I watched a Behind the Scenes feature on HBO about The Wolverine.

    One of the things Hugh Jackman talked about was how while filming the first X-Men movie none of the cast were allowed to read comic books while on set. In fact comic books in general weren't allowed on set as the higher-ups thought they'd influence the actors into giving two-dimensional portrayals. So Hugh Jackman had crew members smuggle comics to his trailer where he'd read them in secret.

    And the first comic that he read was Chris Claremont's story of Wolverine in Japan. And his reaction to it was, "This would make a great film. I want to see this as a film."

    Thirteen years later...

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    geth, forgive @wyborn

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative The Geebs That Is A Pony. @Wyborn is allowed back into this thread.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Jesus christ

    "Hey we're adapting this source material but you aren't allowed to read it because we think it sucks"

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Revenge of the Nerds is a movie where the hero wins by raping a girl

    I liked the movie when I was a kid because it was super silly but there came a point where I watched it after about a five year gap and went "Whoa what the fuck is going on here, somebody MADE this?"

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    "Don't want to get any two-dimensional performances in our X-Men movies, you guys

    I'm goin' for the oscar"

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Jesus christ

    "Hey we're adapting this source material but you aren't allowed to read it because we think it sucks"

    and they still made a pretty solid movie, it's weird!

  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    RIPD was pretty fun, you guys. I adore Jeff Bridges.

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I love the first X-Men

    It is still my favorite X-Movie

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Jesus christ

    "Hey we're adapting this source material but you aren't allowed to read it because we think it sucks"

    "Hey, welcome cast and crew to the official start of production on the Harry Potter films.

    Now, I'd like to remind you that we don't want to see any of you reading Harry Potter books around here at any time."

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I watched X-Men recently

    doesn't hold up that well

    Wolverine and Magneto are still great

    it has bits like the "you're a dick" line that are wonderful

    but on the whole it has not aged well at all

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    I still think the first half or so is absolutely fantastic

    then it just kind of falls apart

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I respectfully disagree

    I think the thing I'm most excited for in The Wolverine is Wei Shen playing Silver Samurai

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    I remember liking the dynamic that Rogue and Wolverine had in the first X-Men movie

    Is that part still good?

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I still think Nightcrawler's attack on the White House might be the best superhero action scene in any movie

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I was never really a fan of Anna Paquin as Rogue

    I mean it doesn't help that I don't like Rogue to begin with but her accent was super annoying

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I still think Nightcrawler's attack on the White House might be the best superhero action scene in any movie
    It is just behind the team super-cut in Avengers with me

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    I remember liking the dynamic that Rogue and Wolverine had in the first X-Men movie

    Is that part still good?

    Yes!

    It's one of the very few cases of a female in a superhero film that isn't a romantic or sexual interest for the main character, it's pretty nice

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    The action scenes in X2 are why it's still easily my favorite X-Men movie. I like First Class but I don't think it's that close.

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Sensei Wolverine is pretty much the character at his best and I love all stories where he fulfills that role

    I don't know why he's mentoring for girls like 90% of the time but hey, that's cool too

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  • KilroyKilroy timaeusTestified Registered User regular
    I'm pretty stoked for The Wolverine

    I love samurai movies so much

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    they team him up with young girls because the character juxtaposition is fucking weird and kind of great

  • KilroyKilroy timaeusTestified Registered User regular
    also I love that hugh jackman keeps looking more and more like wolverine as he gets older and more grizzled

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Yeah I guess that's true. Him and Rogue, him and Armor, him and pretty much all the kids in WatXM, it's all great

    Real talk about X-2

    My favorite shot in that movie is the four seconds that we see Colossus get shot to no effect and the soldiers are just like "Are you fucking kidding me"

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    Wolverine and Kitty Pryde forever

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Kilroy wrote: »
    also I love that hugh jackman

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Cobie Smulders

    Yeah

    Yeah

    Jonah Hill seems like a bit of an odd choice?

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    my biggest problem with x3 is that my two favorite x-men finally got to be big parts of the movie and then the movie was dogshit

    especially since they did such a good job casting kitty pryde and then put her in a scene where the juggernaut repeats an internet meme

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Cobie Smulders

    Yeah

    Yeah

    Jonah Hill seems like a bit of an odd choice?
    Eh, it's just his voice


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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    pretty sure they have will arnett as batman in the lego movie as well

    also the dudes directing that directed clone high sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I appreciate the sentiment of putting Juggernaut bitch in there, as it's a guilty pleasure of mine

    But everything about the delivery and context of it was the worst

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    pretty sure they have will arnett as batman in the lego movie as well

    also the dudes directing that directed clone high sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

    and 21 Jump Street

    Phil Lord and Chris Miller are consistently fantastic

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    also the dudes directing that directed clone high sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Are you for real

    Don't lie about this Geebs that would be most bogus

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