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Anyone else feel like the season 2 premiere of Avengers Assemble was a decent step in the right direction? The pacing was much improved, the animation was more consistent, the dialog was more banter like and less stiff, and they even kind of had a minor subplot addressing the whole "Tony literally calls the shots" thing. There was no end of the day moral lesson about trust or teamwork, and the story opened a new plot thread without completely resolving everything at the end!
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I watched the first episode of AA and completely ignored the rest of the season. If it's gotten better, that's cool. I can see that they're bringing in Thanos this season so I am honor-bound to at least check it out.
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Sep 29, 2014 08:22
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Was watching Spectacular Spider-Man the other night and during the episode where Mysterio attacks the bridge, these two guys try to make a stand against Mysterio's dragon. I'm positive they're the "you mess with one of us you mess with all of us" guys from the first movie.  Edit: poo poo, sorry. Posting from the AwfulApp which I guess automatically resizes pics to the the width of my phone. Lobok fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 23:19
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Um... maybe resize for those of us with monitors smaller than your TV?
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Oct 9, 2014 23:20
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Lobok posted:Was watching Spectacular Spider-Man the other night and during the episode where Mysterio attacks the bridge, these two guys try to make a stand against Mysterio's dragon. I'm positive they're the "you mess with one of us you mess with all of us" guys from the first movie. Hahahaha they totally are
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Oct 9, 2014 23:33
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Avengers delivered another fairly decent episode... It's almost disturbing.
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Oct 9, 2014 23:37
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If everyone is noticing the quality of the Marvel cartoons are getting better, it's because of Stephen Wacker. He was a long time comic book editor working on Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hawkeye, and even Grant Morrison's JLA. He became VP of Marvel Animation just in time to work on Avengers season 2 and Spidey season 3. I think he mentioned season 2 of Hulk was already in production when he came in, so don't expect much from that.
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Oct 10, 2014 17:11
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ToastyPotato posted:Avengers delivered another fairly decent episode... It's almost disturbing. Wacker is in charge of animation now and said he wants to improve Avengers and is bringing in more elements like continuing storylines that Loeb pushed against
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Oct 10, 2014 17:12
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USM Season 3, while not amazing (haha...pun), isn't really the worst, I must admit. It's much more watchable and less craptastic. You don't even see any of "the team" for the Spider-Verse episodes which is pretty nice. There seemed to be less cutaway gags too.
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Oct 10, 2014 17:20
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Dacap posted:Wacker is in charge of animation now and said he wants to improve Avengers and is bringing in more elements like continuing storylines that Loeb pushed against Is there anything in season one needed to be seen to keep up with season 2?
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Oct 10, 2014 18:05
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Kingtheninja posted:Is there anything in season one needed to be seen to keep up with season 2?
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Oct 10, 2014 18:20
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Lego Batman from the Lego Movie gets a spinoff movie
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Oct 10, 2014 19:46
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Dacap posted:Wacker is in charge of animation now and said he wants to improve Avengers and is bringing in more elements like continuing storylines that Loeb pushed against Furthering down on it, they just announced a GotG cartoon and Wacker says “not to underestimate the audience. You can’t be afraid to go deeper, to explore stories and characters with some depth. This audience may be young, but it can spot a stinker a mile away.” http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56184
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Oct 10, 2014 20:50
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DARKNESS BROODING GOOD IDEA I'M EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE
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Oct 10, 2014 21:07
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Kingtheninja posted:Is there anything in season one needed to be seen to keep up with season 2? Nope. This is all you need to know: Red Skull put together a team of villains called the Cabal. It was Skull, Atuma, Dracula, and MODOK. Maybe someone else, I honestly can't be bothered to remember. That robot thing that was also MODOK I guess? They constantly quarreled with each other and tried to fight the Avengers. None of what they did or tried to do matters in the current story line. Falcon is the newest recruit, is a tech genius type, and is fairly young compared to the rest of the team. None of the tiny bit of character development he had in season 1 matters. The overall theme of the entire first season was The Avengers learning to be a real team by basically making the same mistakes (not trusting each other, not listening to each other) over and over, while juxtaposing them with the Cabal. The current season of USM is not really any different than the previous stuff they did. At least that is how I feel after 8 episodes. I haven't seen any episodes with any other actual Spider-people yet though. ArmyOfMidgets posted:Furthering down on it, they just announced a GotG cartoon and Wacker says This is promising. I guess USM is just way too far gone at this point to be walked back. This just got posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLAU6jF0qwY Finally ditching the generic style of USM/Avengers/Smash. But I guess the multiple appearances of GotG in those shows are being forgotten? Wasn't Quill super serious in them? ToastyPotato fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 21:11
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That art style reminds me of Archer. Neat.
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Oct 10, 2014 22:15
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hiddenriverninja posted:That art style reminds me of Archer. Neat. Movie-verse StarLord is basically Sterling Archer anyway.
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Oct 10, 2014 22:38
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hiddenriverninja posted:That art style reminds me of Archer. Neat. Haha, glad I'm not the only one who thought of that.
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Oct 11, 2014 00:02
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"Gamora. Gamora. Gamora. GAMORRRRA!"
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Oct 11, 2014 00:06
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Gaz-L posted:"Gamora. Gamora. Gamora. GAMORRRRA!" "WHAT?" "I'm hooked on a feeling, Gamora"
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Oct 11, 2014 03:51
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...Disney REALLY has a crossover between Ultimate Spiderman and the live action Disney show Jessie? ...I.. wha?
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PicklePants posted:...Disney REALLY has a crossover between Ultimate Spiderman and the live action Disney show Jessie? It's nothing new. http://marvel.com/news/comics/682/guiding_light_comes_to_comics
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Oct 11, 2014 06:34
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I just saw Son of Batman for the first time... Wow. Like every scene without Alfred and/or Dick was godawful. Who listened to Jason O'Mara's audition and though "Yeah, this guy, this is our Batman."
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Oct 13, 2014 09:40
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Chaltab posted:I just saw Son of Batman for the first time... Wow. Like every scene without Alfred and/or Dick was godawful. Who listened to Jason O'Mara's audition and though "Yeah, this guy, this is our Batman." The list of things they did right in Son of Batman is pretty drat short.
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Oct 13, 2014 10:59
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I was more appalled at the visual quality. The writing was awful too though.
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Oct 13, 2014 19:45
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ToastyPotato posted:I was more appalled at the visual quality.
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Oct 13, 2014 20:09
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Thank you. I was trying to tell someone about this a couple weeks ago and could not find the name of the soap opera.
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Oct 13, 2014 20:42
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Fine, as long as it's done in the same style. I don't like most Lego movies where the characters have flexible limbs. I love the rigid approach The Lego Movie took.
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Oct 13, 2014 21:09
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The list of things they did right in Son of Batman is pretty drat short. Chaltab posted:I just saw Son of Batman for the first time... Wow. Like every scene without Alfred and/or Dick was godawful. Who listened to Jason O'Mara's audition and though "Yeah, this guy, this is our Batman." But remember people "DC does animated movies better than Marvel." Seriously it's been like two years since they put out anything 100% worthwhile and even then that's only if you like straight adaptations of their more famous Batman stories, which I don't.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:44
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And it's still better than Marvel.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:57
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True, but the reputation of DC Animated has gone down so far that now "better than awful" is the only good thing you can really say about it.
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hiddenriverninja posted:That art style reminds me of Archer. Neat. Dead on. I'm really pumped for this. That cityscape looked gorgeous. I was hoping that would be Pratt as Star-Lord, though. Heck, just get Archer's own Adam Reed to voice him so can watch Awesome-X on a screen again.
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mind the walrus posted:True, but the reputation of DC Animated has gone down so far that now "better than awful" is the only good thing you can really say about it. Not really, Assault on Arkham had a very positive reception and initial impressions about Throne of Atlantis are also good.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Not really, Assault on Arkham had a very positive reception and initial impressions about Throne of Atlantis are also good. Assault on Arkham was awful though. Over the top stupidity and violence don't make a good movie.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:48
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Sure they do.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Not really, Assault on Arkham had a very positive reception and initial impressions about Throne of Atlantis are also good. See this happens every time. You get a weird echo chamber of people going "nuh-uh it was good" even though a few months after release the song among actual fans is always "underwhelming, disappointing, should have easily been better." This has been going on since JLU ended at least. How long does it have to happen before some of y'all finally admit that DC Animated just isn't what it used to be?
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mind the walrus posted:See this happens every time. You get a weird echo chamber of people going "nuh-uh it was good" even though a few months after release the song among actual fans is always "underwhelming, disappointing, should have easily been better." This has been going on since JLU ended at least. How long does it have to happen before some of y'all finally admit that DC Animated just isn't what it used to be? Actual fans are pretty terrible and nobody should listen to anything they say. If nothing else because they describe themselves as "actual fans".
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Oct 14, 2014 16:05
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Under the Red Hood was a good adaptation of the Jason Todd Returns story with good writing, character designs, and voice acting. That's all I can ask for. Too bad it's one of only a few good movies in that canon. Assault on Arkham was loving AWFUL, but still better than All Star Superman, and Public Enemies, goddamn. Fake edit: New Frontier was really good too.
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Oct 14, 2014 19:15
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I liked Justice League: Doom or whichever one it was with all their weaknesses being exploited. That being said, the Hal Jordan part was dumb since it felt like they couldn't figure out a good part for him. I also liked the Batman/Superman one with Supergirl and Darkseid.
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In the original story, he's made to blind himself with his ring.
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