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Jamesman posted:I find it amusing they cast a wrestler as Drax, since these threads usually devolve into arguments about fan-casting wrestlers in such roles and how dumb people are for even thinking such things. To be fair, casting Batista as Drax is significantly less stupid than casting Triple H as Thor.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I bet if they made a character named The Mandarin actually Chinese and had him be a supervillain, China would actually blacklist all of Marvel/Disney's movies for the year. That would involve the Herculean task of actually casting a Chinese actor.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:That would involve the Herculean task of actually casting a Chinese actor. They could just hire Jim Sturgess again. 
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GlassEye-Boy posted:That would involve the Herculean task of actually casting a Chinese actor. Or Nicholas Cage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZad00qYMbQ
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Electromax posted:Jackie Chan, with a climax fight involving him and non-suited RDJ engaging in crazy prop stunts and physical comedy. I get what you mean, but I'd totally watch this. The mental image of Jackie Chan and RDJ just playing off each other and being silly/themselves is making me smile.
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I finally got around to seeing The Avengers and enjoyed it a lot more than the films leading up to it that I saw. (The original Iron Man was the only I honestly enjoyed all the way through). I might have to try watching Iron Man 2 again, since the trailer for 3 looks pretty entertaining. While watching the movie, I couldn't help but day dream about the possibility of a Justice League movie. I feel like Warner Brothers would be much better off starting with Batman/Superman movie. It would keep the story tighter, and reduce the likelihood of seeming like an Avengers retread.
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DFu4ever posted:Momoa was a better Conan, just not a better Arnold Conan, which isn't like Conan at all really. Is the Solomon Kane movie a faithful adaptation of the books? If so, with having seen only the first quarter of the new Conan movie before I turned it off I'd be tempted to say faithful Robert E. Howard adaptations just don't make for good movies.
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Neither Conan film is really faithful to Howard's stories. Conan doesn't have some kind of special destiny or hero's journey, and Howard basically used him as a vehicle for writing whatever he felt like, since Conan stories always sold and his others sometimes didn't. The first Conan story was rewritten from a Kull story that didn't sell, and there's Conan stories with not-Indians and Elizabethan pirates with bows and arrows. The new one has more references to places from the stories thrown in but that's about it. Conan-as-written probably wouldn't translate well, but the Milius/Schwarzenegger version is a lot closer to Howard's ethos and general feel, even if it doesn't really represent Conan in the stories at all. It seems like it's really hard to make a sword-and-sandals epic that doesn't feel like an extended episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
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Grendels Dad posted:Is the Solomon Kane movie a faithful adaptation of the books? If so, with having seen only the first quarter of the new Conan movie before I turned it off I'd be tempted to say faithful Robert E. Howard adaptations just don't make for good movies. Solomon Kane isn't faithful either since in the original series the character, like Howards Conan, doesn't have a grand destiny or whatever and is a wanderer who's just extremely skilled at loving up dudes (and bird-men & vampires, etc.). The movie is cheesy and not the worst dark fantasy action movie out there but that's a pretty low bar to set in a world where Season of the Witch actually got filmed.
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The Ant-Man test footage leaked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuPihHkPt0
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Dacap posted:The Ant-Man test footage leaked That actually looks fantastic and, dare I say on a different level than the Marvel stuff we've seen so far.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That actually looks fantastic and, dare I say on a different level than the Marvel stuff we've seen so far. It looks like it'd fit right in with the Marvel stuff we've seen so far.
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It has the mandated mixture of humor and action requisite to these films but what I'm saying is that the way it's shot doesn't put me to sleep.
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Bob Quixote posted:Solomon Kane isn't faithful either since in the original series the character, like Howards Conan, doesn't have a grand destiny or whatever and is a wanderer who's just extremely skilled at loving up dudes (and bird-men & vampires, etc.). The movie is cheesy and not the worst dark fantasy action movie out there but that's a pretty low bar to set in a world where Season of the Witch actually got filmed.
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futureproof posted:New Kick-rear end 2 trailer. It's redband, so possibly Kickass looking jacked! Movie looks ... kickass!
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Dacap posted:The Ant-Man test footage leaked And gone.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It has the mandated mixture of humor and action requisite to these films but what I'm saying is that the way it's shot doesn't put me to sleep. Yeah I agree. It's kinetic and fun and the tiny dude shots are well done and I like the part where he punches the dude.
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achillesforever6 posted:Man its sad Season of the Witch was bad since you'd think a movie with Ron Perlman and Nic Cage as knights would be awesome. Yeah, I had a lot of hope for it - at the very least it could have been a great riff-fest like The Wicker Man but it was disappointingly dull.
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Skwirl posted:And gone.
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Yeah that looks pretty amazing. I wouldn't have ever thought that Ant-Man could make for unique action sequences, but the way they did it is actually perfect.
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scary ghost dog posted:Yeah I agree. It's kinetic and fun and the tiny dude shots are well done and I like the part where he punches the dude. The thing I like about it is that it seems to use what's basically trick photography to convey the rapidly changing scale. It could've easily been done with a long, boring tracking shot with effects at the forefront but the editing tells the story. It's a teaser that actually teased me, I want to see what Wright is willing to do with this movie. It's the first time I've seen something in one of these Marvel movies where I've thought, "oh that's pretty neat," which is kinda the point, right?
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The design of the Ant-Man costume and the general theme of beating up what are presumably SHIELD agents leads me to believe this movie may lift from the excellent The Irredeemable Ant Man series, the one really good thing Robert Kirkman ever wrote.
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It's the only good thing Kirkman ever wrote because they made him stop.
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That looks awesome, a shame that Avengers 2 will probably be out before this, so Ant-Man might miss the bus for that film.
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It's down, somebody find another source please!
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The thing I like about it is that it seems to use what's basically trick photography to convey the rapidly changing scale. It could've easily been done with a long, boring tracking shot with effects at the forefront but the editing tells the story. It's a teaser that actually teased me, I want to see what Wright is willing to do with this movie. It's the first time I've seen something in one of these Marvel movies where I've thought, "oh that's pretty neat," which is kinda the point, right? I groaned at the animecoolguy pose at the beginning, but the streamlined simplicity of the rest of it really impressed me.
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I think I've just accepted at this point that if you have a superhero movie, part of the thrill is just watching someone pose like a dumbass in his silly costume.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I think I've just accepted at this point that if you have a superhero movie, part of the thrill is just watching someone pose like a dumbass in his silly costume. Watchmen.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I think I've just accepted at this point that if you have a superhero movie, part of the thrill is just watching someone pose like a dumbass in his silly costume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOtPXDyKjA Every. loving. Time.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOtPXDyKjA I'm pretty sure Man of Steel won't have one of those. Pretty sure. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The thing I like about it is that it seems to use what's basically trick photography to convey the rapidly changing scale. It could've easily been done with a long, boring tracking shot with effects at the forefront but the editing tells the story. It's a teaser that actually teased me, I want to see what Wright is willing to do with this movie. It's the first time I've seen something in one of these Marvel movies where I've thought, "oh that's pretty neat," which is kinda the point, right? Also, totally agree with this. I was expecting a bunch of totally wicked rad slo-mo tracking shots where they follow him shrinking to dodge bullets and then rapidly growing to deliver sick uppercuts and stuff, but what actually happened was really impressive without going completely overboard. In fact, it was so seemingly practical that I wouldn't have been entirely surprised if it was a teaser for a television series instead of a movie. Like I said in the BSS thread, it made me wish someone was making an Atom TV show. (Though ironically, at the scales the Atom sometimes works at, he's the one who'd need a film budget to really work.) McSpanky fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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McSpanky posted:I'm pretty sure Man of Steel won't have one of those. The trailer already had a three point launching. Plus it's Synder; he's going to get at least one proper three point landing in. 
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Here's an embedded Tumblr source for the Ant-Man video, which is less likely to be taken down anytime soon. edit: Oh man the suit is totally reminding me of Kamen Rider, probably unintentionally, but it is still a good thing.
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teagone posted:The trailer already had a three point launching. Plus it's Synder; he's going to get at least one proper three point landing in. A) A three-point launching is loving awesome. B) It doesn't count as a three-point landing if the fist is coming down for a seismic ground-pound. edit) Look at that marvelous cape. Gaze upon it. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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McSpanky posted:A) A three-point launching is loving awesome. God the launch bit in the trailer is so good, I get goose bumpy just thinking about it.
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McSpanky posted:A) A three-point launching is loving awesome. Oh, I have nothing against 3 point landings or launches. Just pointing stuff out is all.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOtPXDyKjA  That's a bloody four point landing! Sloppy work.
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This would be a pretty major get for Marvel if this comes to be: http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/marvel-surprise-robert-redford-in-talks-to-star-in-captain-america-the-winter-soldier/ It would be like how they got Hopkins for Thor. Though Hopkins has done a lot of crappy stuff in the last few decades as well.
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