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[Xeno]

We've seen it. It made those of us that where making fun of those people that said that Leviathan was in that explosion look like asses.

It's clearly there but apparently old Venom jokes are impossible to pass up.

 

[Chewy]

What people were claiming was the face of a dragon breathing fire is just one of its spikes in the middle of an explosion. So I say the Venom jokes stand

 

[Shadowlord X]

Common sense

What common sense? Please elaborate. What you said earlier made no sense whatsoever.

I think that expecting a rival company to manipulate statistics in their favor is common sense. But you obviously exist in a fantasy world where this doesn't happen.

Just out of curiosity what colour are the clouds in la-la-land?

 

[Chewy]

The RT conspiracy theory stuff is embarrassing

 

[Shadowlord X]

In an interview today JW said that he is close to finishing THE AVENGERS. Good luck to him with everything!

 

[Poni_Boy]

What common sense? Please elaborate. What you said earlier made no sense whatsoever.

I think that expecting a rival company to manipulate statistics in their favor is common sense. But you obviously exist in a fantasy world where this doesn't happen.

Just out of curiosity what colour are the clouds in la-la-land?

^ That's the closest emoticon I can find to a facepalm

The RT conspiracy theory stuff is embarrassing

This

 

[Poni_Boy]

In other news, I just got my screening invite for April 10th

I think LA journos are seeing it sooner though

 

[Xeno]

What people were claiming was the face of a dragon breathing fire is just one of its spikes in the middle of an explosion. So I say the Venom jokes stand

One of its spikes? The whole ridge of metal spines is visible on the side of the image nearest Thor. I count at least six (6), including two very near Thor's head and one behind his left hand.

 

[Chewy]

Only one was visible in the original pic

 

[Xeno]

^ That's the closest emoticon I can find to a facepalm




This

All I have to say is this: It was very interesting following RT's Twitter feed as they dissed CA:TFA for its score, based on few reviews and with some positive ones not being added for over a day. That struck me a bizarre at the time, when I had no idea who owned the site. Surely RT's editors are aware of how much impact behavior like that can have, as well as that slamming a film with few reviews tallied can give a biased picture of critical reaction.


There is also the fact that they use reviews from a wide range of very obscure sites that should not be given credence at all. If RT eliminated most of the "some jerk with a website" reviews, their ratings would be much more credible, IMO.

 

[Chewy]

All I have to say is this: It was very interesting following RT's Twitter feed as they dissed CA:TFA for its score, based on few reviews and with some positive ones not being added for over a day. That struck me a bizarre at the time, when I had no idea who owned the site. Surely RT's editors are aware of how much impact behavior like that can have, as well as that slamming a film with few reviews tallied can give a biased picture of critical reaction.


There is also the fact that they use reviews from a wide range of very obscure sites that should not be given credence at all. If RT eliminated most of the "some jerk with a website" reviews, their ratings would be much more credible, IMO.

They do that for every film. The rush to be :first: with news on how "good" a film is outweighs any need to be :accurate:. They simply tallied the first few reviews that were posted on their site.

It's not as though they didn't continue to tweet the results as more positive reviews poured in.

 

[gvalladare]

Seems like you saw the international version of the trailer. Scenes match up. Didn't know they were playing that in the US. Was it in IMAX?

I'm in latin america, sorry for not pointing that out. I just checked the "german" trailer, that's pretty much it.

 

[Poni_Boy]

There is also the fact that they use reviews from a wide range of very obscure sites that should not be given credence at all. If RT eliminated most of the "some jerk with a website" reviews, their ratings would be much more credible, IMO.

Yeah, that's my biggest issue with them. It's been a main in the ass to get my top reviewer accredited with them because of their supposedly stringent accreditation policy. When I mentioned all those joe-blow bs blogs that don't even get 1/10th of the visitors we do their answer was that they all were a part of RT before the "new" rules came into play and were grandfathered in.

 

[Poni_Boy]

They do that for every film. The rush to be :first: with news on how "good" a film is outweighs any need to be :accurate:. They simply tallied the first few reviews that were posted on their site.

It's not as though they didn't continue to tweet the results as more positive reviews poured in.

Their not the only ones with the "first" mentality. Nikki Finke was bashing the hell out of Cap for the week before release and citing "unanimous critical failure" which was amended once the film was released.

 

[alexlachiusa]

In other news, I just got my screening invite for April 10th

I think LA journos are seeing it sooner though

I'm jealous!

 

[SpideyFan866]

http://latino-review.com/2012/03/11/exclusive-iron-man-3-about/

 

[sabetoonth]

We've seen it. It made those of us that where making fun of those people that said that Leviathan was in that explosion look like asses.

I said I'd eat my words if I remember correctly, anyone got some tabasco?

God I ant way for May, I still need to see Cap too, see if my cousin has it for me to borrow

 

[Deejo]

http://latino-review.com/2012/03/11/exclusive-iron-man-3-about/

Sounds pretty cool.... I can see it happening. Tony is a full ego driven character, and it must be a blow to the ego being surrounded by people with actual powers...

 

[Rock Sexton]

http://latino-review.com/2012/03/11/exclusive-iron-man-3-about/

Sounds almost too much like the basics of the Cap story line ......

 

[Chewy]

“My first cut was three hours long and it’s now down to 2 hours and 15 minutes, and I’m extremely proud of that. I had always intended to go over two, under two and a half. There was no way a movie with this many great actors and this much epic scope was gonna clock in under two and not feel a little anemic, somebody wasn’t gonna get their moment if that happened. But at the same time, I get very angry that romantic comedies run over two hours long, it’s like ‘Guys, that’s not okay.’ More isn’t more. I don’t want anything in the movie that shouldn’t be.”

“There’s a lot of me that got cut out, but I think part of the process in a situation like this is you make the movie, you make your movie, then you remove yourself out of the equation. At some point you stop looking beyond The Avengers movie at your own stuff, you don’t look at that horizon you look at this movie and you go, ‘You know what, The Avengers are more important than I am so these things that I’m obsessed with aren’t necessarily moving the story forward, and therefore they are baggage.’ You can do that in a TV show, you can bring your baggage and sort of lay it out because you have a season to do it, but in a movie you actually have to remove yourself from the equation a bit and when I was finally able to do that, I saw a much clearer road to how to get the best experience for the audience.”

“No [there won’t be a director’s cut on the DVD]. I… believe very strongly in putting the director’s cut into the theaters. I believe that the director’s cut is the best movie for the studio and the best version of the movie for the audience. I’ve never really been in a situation where I had to pull the beating heart out of something that I did. I think people get to see a lot of extraordinary extras because I did shoot a bunch of stuff that I love, but the movie is the movie I want it to be.”

http://collider.com/joss-whedon-the-avengers-avengers-2-interview/151487/

There's more to the interview, just click the link

 

[AnneFan]

Really sounds like he knows what he's doing.

 

[jaqua99]

^yes he does.

 

[jaqua99]

but guys, one other thing regarding the aliens..someone else has already suggested these guys

Spoiler

Alpha Centaurians? Notice the ears, the color we have seen, and the webbed feet

 

[Smashlilman]

3 hour worth of footage cut down to 2:15. Looks like the Extra's on the Avengers blu-ray will be Epic.

but guys, one other thing regarding the aliens..

Spoiler

Alpha Centaurians? Notice the ears, the color we have seen, and the webbed feet

That might be it.

 

[Xeno]

http://latino-review.com/2012/03/11/exclusive-iron-man-3-about/

That's, ah, interesting. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume the person in the video is trying to avoid outing a source. However, it's hard to see where he came up with the conclusions he did, since he said he "guessed" Extremis would be in IM3 just from a person who saw a screening saying that Iron Man's next enemies would be "extremely dangerous." Extremely dangerous = Extremis?


Nevertheless, I hope he's right because that's a great story. It could also provide an out to having Robert Downey Jr. continue as Tony Stark indefinitely, since Extremis enhanced Stark's body and would explain why he could keep wearing the armor as the years go by.