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  • edited April 2013
    If/When Coolsome comes back, here's another Wolverine trailer for him. It's the Japanese trailer, and it's essentially the same as the one that came before, but there's enough subtle differences to make me think that it flows a tad better.

    Also: hyped for that train scene. LOVE me a good train scene.

    Oh, and there was a Thor: The Dark World trailer as well. Natalie Portman looks... well, not as cute. Or is that just me?
  • edited April 2013
    Well I went to the midnight release for Iron Man 3 last night and it was my favourite of the trilogy due to the higher focus on Tony being forced to defend himself without the suit. The main villain had managed to
    capture both Pepper and War Machine (Now Iron Patriot), starts injecting Pepper with something that gives people powers and using these people he uses them to hunt Tony. He attempts to turn Pepper against Tony and I did like this due to Tony needing to spent his time trying to save Pepper and fix the Iron man suit mark 42. War Machine is tricked and captured and has his suit taken from him. Tony does actually storm the villains hideout at one point to save Pepper and stop the villain but there is a pretty funny twist.
    But I liked how the characters develope. Tony after the events of Avengers Assemble is having nightmares of when he
    almost died flying the nuke into the portal
    He goes into a panic every time someone mentions the events of Avengers and this leaves him unable to sleep causing him to keep building suits with the spare time. But the film is not without its flaws. First the ending sorta bugged me a little due to
    Tony destroying most if not all his Iron Man suits after the battle and then gets the armour thing he had from Iron man 1 that kept him alive removed. Then the movie after the credits says Tony Stark will return which I think everyone knows that since he needs to come back for Avengers 2. But there is a pretty funny after credits scene where it's revealed that Tony was telling this to Bruce Banner and it turns out Bruce just fell asleep right at the start of the movie.
    If I had to give it a rating I would say Iron Man 3 gets a 9/10
  • edited April 2013
    Marvel revoked their license for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, you have only some days to get it
  • edited April 2013
    Iron Man Three will definitely have a broken fan base. I loved
    Trevor much more The Mandarin
    but I do understand why people hate it. (seriously dont click if you haven't seen)
  • edited April 2013
    God damn. I've got to wait until Friday. Guess I should make my plans to see it now.
  • edited May 2013
    God damn. I've got to wait until Friday. Guess I should make my plans to see it now.

    Yeahhh...I'm waiting at LEAST a week...let the crowd die down...

    Only movie I'm seeing opening weekend this year is Star Trek Into Darkness.
  • edited May 2013
    Saw it today with a theatre of around a dozen people.

    Loved it. Solid 9/10 from me.
  • edited May 2013
    Luckily, I happen to know a theater where I can reserve seats.
  • edited May 2013
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    New Guardians concept art of Peter Quill aka Star Lord from Entertainment Weekly.
  • edited May 2013
    I downloaded the beta for the Marvel Heroes this evening.

    It's not that great.

    It's very Diablo-esque, in that you see a thug/Hydra soldier/Hand ninja/etc. and you click on him until he dies. The boss fights are a little more interesting in that you have to dodge and stuff but so far there hasn't been much my pal Colossus can't do by just punching... and punching... and punching...

    They also have founder packs you can buy to unlock all the characters and skins right away when the game launches. That's fine, a lot of free-to-play games are doing that, but the one to unlock everything is TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS.

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  • edited May 2013
    Scnew wrote: »
    I downloaded the beta for the Marvel Heroes this evening.

    It's not that great.

    It's very Diablo-esque
    Given it's made by David Brevik, the guy behind the first two Diablos, that's not surprising.
  • edited May 2013
    Sooo in Iron Man 3 was
    Aldrich Killian leader of the Ten Ring's terorists who kidnapped Stark in Iron Man 1?
  • edited May 2013
    As I understand it, the Ten Rings terrorists were originally intended to be closer to the comic's version of the Mandarin, but they decided to wait and see how the idea of magic and such panned out in Thor before doing it in Iron Man, and then they decided to go in a rather different direction with Iron Man Three.
  • edited May 2013
    Why does people keep saying Stark? Why not just call him Tony?
  • edited May 2013
    Because it's Stark Enterprises, not Tony Enterprises.
  • edited May 2013
    Why does people keep saying Stark? Why not just call him Tony?

    Same reason everyone says Quagmire isnted of Glenn or Malfoy not Draco.
  • edited May 2013
    I use them interchangeably. But it feels weird calling them by their first names. I usually go with Stark, Banner, Rogers, Coulson, Fury, etc... when I'm talking about them.

    I dunno. It feels more natural.
  • edited May 2013
    It just seems weird going by first names. I use the latest presidential elections on how the vice president debate would be between "Paul and Joe" if we just used first names.
  • edited May 2013
    I've done that before - written a mock debate involving people using only first names, and you have to guess who they are.
  • edited May 2013
    WarpSpeed wrote: »
    I've done that before - written a mock debate involving people using only first names, and you have to guess who they are.

    I bet "The" was used for a lot of villains in the debate.
  • edited May 2013
    To avoid the character's negative association with Chinese stereotypes, the Mandarin is called "Man Daren" in the Chinese version of the film.[2]

    Man..Daren get your shit together!
  • edited May 2013
    coolsome wrote: »
    Same reason everyone says Quagmire isnted of Glenn or Malfoy not Draco.

    I don't got a reason for Quagmire but i assumed people called Malfoy by his last name because he is a asshole.
  • edited May 2013
    i assumed people called Malfoy by his last name because he is a asshole.

    And so is Stark..
  • edited May 2013
    coolsome wrote: »
    And so is Stark..

    Yeah but at least Tony was funny when he acted like that...Malfoy is just an annoying asshole that in my opinion is a pain in the ass to listen too in the movies.
  • edited May 2013
    And so is Banner... in the comics. And really, if you wanted to call him by his "actual" first name, you'd be calling him Robert. Because Bruce is his middle name.

    I'm slightly ashamed that I know this.

    Actually, most of the Marvel superheroes are assholes. Thor definitely is. Captain America is.
  • edited May 2013
    Yeah, just looking at Cap in Avengers, he seems to be that know it all who thinks hes team leader throughout.
  • edited May 2013
    I like how Thor is an ass and acts on emotion but does apologies when he knows hes done wrong and does try to be a good guy but pretty much ruled by god testosterone. (also this is purely movie knowledge idk how he acts in comics.)
  • edited May 2013
    He acts like this:

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  • edited May 2013
    That building looks really, really small.
  • edited May 2013
    That building looks really, really small.

    It's Antman's house!
  • edited May 2013
    They should make animated Avengers films with the cast of the movie one.
  • edited May 2013
    It's a lot cheaper for animation to just use sound-alikes and different takes. Major film actors doing animated film voices only really happens for Disney movies when a major actor gets kids and starts going through that "OH GOD I NEED TO DO SOMETHING MY KIDS WILL SEE" phase.
  • edited May 2013
    Plus, if you play any of the video game tie-ins to the movies, you'll know that movie stars don't always make great voice actors.
  • edited May 2013
    Oh yh by cast I ment the movie team I know the actors (especialy Robert Downey Jr) wouldn,t be involved. It would just be a nice way to tide us over till Avengers 2.
  • edited May 2013
    So, a series set in between the events of the movies? Yeah, that'd be neat.

    A nightmare to keep in canon (anyone remember the CGI Spider-Man cartoon?), but still.
  • edited May 2013
    Major film actors doing animated film voices only really happens for Disney movies when a major actor gets kids and starts going through that "OH GOD I NEED TO DO SOMETHING MY KIDS WILL SEE" phase.

    So... what you're saying is that we need to arrange for all the actors in Avengers to have kids? Suddenly and inexplicably? A tiny baby boom?

    I think we can do that...
  • edited May 2013
    Just to clarify what I meant because I wasn't very clear you know how DC release animated movies every year with there charecters who are going to be in movies. IE Dark Knight Returns part 1 came out the same-ish time as Dark Knight Rises an the same with Man of Steel and the Braniac film.

    I think Marvel should make an animated feature of the Avengers team from the movies fighting some alien or whatever to appeal to comic fans and not alienating ones who never read the comics so wouldn't know who the shit loads of memebers are that are in the comics.
  • edited May 2013
    Isn't basically every Marvel superhero except, like, Deadpool in the Avengers at some point?

    I saw the lineup and I was amazed how many Avengers there are. I started feeling bad for the villains.
  • edited May 2013
    I don't think they're all in the Avengers at the same time (save for 'events'). But yeah, the list of everyone who is or has been in the group is pretty damn big. With as many characters as Marvel has, you'd expect nothing less.
  • edited May 2013
    Well, I dunno. I kinda prefer the Avengers to be a smaller, more exclusive group. I really liked the movie group. That seemed to be the best balance. I mean, you've got the power to deal with most threats, but if any one of the group goes rogue or gets taken out of the fight, you've got a big problem. Unless it's Hawkeye or Black Widow, but let's be honest, fighting wars really isn't their forte.

    When the team starts getting bigger than that, then there's hardly any suspense at all. Also, there's very few members of the extended Avengers who are... interesting. I mean, Pym and Dr. Strange I'd be okay with entering because they bring new things to the table, but past that, the rest of the heroes that join seem to fall into categories already covered by the other members.
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