The Avengers The Avengers: News and Speculation - Part 27A sub-se - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 49

[mkilban2]

edit: this post made me feel like a *****e so it's gone

 

[mkilban2]

And here's looking forward to the continued growth of this project with entirely new hordes of fans that have come to love these charcters as much as we do.

Sorry i'm posting like crazy but i just wanted to touch on this point that I overlooked before.,

I would personally love to see this Marvel universe expand vastly. I've played both Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games (with my little brother lol) and I came to know a lot of characters, and I know many of them can't be used in movies (Xmen, Spidey, etc..) but i'd love to see Black Panther(where i think they're going next after Hank and Janet), or even someone like Namor or Luke Cage would be cool to see as well.

Okay, I'm going to bed now lol

 

[Vartha]

Altered the movie poster a bit for wallpapers. one with Loki's eye's in the sky the other with the leviathon crashing around the corner.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/5821a5179083816
http://www.imagebam.com/image/ca8f64179083945

 

[Rock Sexton]

Although I really believe that the aliens are the Alpha Centaurians (see my last post), I just wondered if the Pheragots were ever mentioned here.

Pheragots are blue/grey, they are big and they have three toes!

Hmmmm .... astute observation.

Now leaning towards either Dark Elves or the Pheragots.

 

[captainrogers]

Hmmmm .... astute observation.

Now leaning towards either Dark Elves or the Pheragots.

Musta missed this myself. Good theory.

 

[Incredible Hans]

Musta missed this myself. Good theory.

I missed this myself for a very long time. And everyone else too... funny.

BTW, there is a Skrull/Pheragot connection in the comics:

"Among the other races contained within the Skrull Empire are the Druff, Guna, Kallusina, Morani, Pheragot, Queega, Tekton, and Yirbek races. "

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrull

 

[Quasimod0]

Honestly if its not the kree or skrull, I dont care who it is. lol. A huge majority of the races we've mentioned just arent really importantnt. I just wanna see the avengers fight something.

 

[lixdexia]

Honestly if its not the kree or skrull, I dont care who it is. lol. A huge majority of the races we've mentioned just arent really importantnt. I just wanna see the avengers fight something.

pretty much.

 

[Quasimod0]

I mean, I just cant get pumped for something like the Pheragot. Ya know?

 

[Incredible Hans]

Just a few words about the Pheragots...

They are among the strongest of the universe's humanoid races. Each of them can lift 50-75 tons. If they appear in the movie, I expect them to be somewhat de-powered.

In an alternate timeline, they are gentle and pacifist. Take a look at the first picture I posted: Hercules is beating up a Pheragot who doesn't want to fight him at all.

In the mainstream reality, however, the Pheragots are a powerful warrior race.

 

[Mysteryman]

CBM is reporting that advance tickets are about to go on sale in New Zealand for the April 25th Midnight Screening.
Running time is listed as 145.

 

[Mattallica]

from Marvels database on ultimate Captain Marvel -

Relatives​

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[craigdbfan]

from Marvels database on ultimate Captain Marvel -

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Whoa!

 

[DyeLorean]

I liked Whedon's interview about Iron Man's triangle/circle in the movie.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

from Marvels database on ultimate Captain Marvel

Relatives
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hmmm

 

[Mysteryman]

Btw, The CBM story has a link to Event Cinemas confirming the New Zealand Midnight Screening/Running Time Info .
I dont know if the running time includes credits or not.

 

[Sebastos]

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Relatives​

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Nice catch.

 

[craigdbfan]

Know this, son of Coul Kohl. You and I, we fight for the same cause: the protection of this world. From this day forward, you can count me in as your ally.

Comical foreshadowing?

 

[eddy]

http://leakynews.com/sxsw-drop-in-joss-whedons-panel-liveblogged/

That web site is doing a live blog of Joss Whedon's panel at SXSW. Heres what he's said about The Avengers so far.

JW on reaction when approached by Marvel:
“It unfolded slowly for me but I think that might use be because I’m slow. … I’ve been circling around with Marvel for a long time. … It felt to me like it was a favor which I sometimes do; I read the script, give my opinion. I said well, this doesn’t work, but if I was going to do an Avenger’s movie, here’s what I’d do. Then gradually we started meeting again and I was like, is this a job interview? What’s happening here? Because I suddenly started thinking the more I was thinking about it the more I wanted to do it, and this was a courtship process the entire time and I was just a little thick.”

“Sheer panic, maybe three times total.” Says it’s better so he doesn’t realize the enormity of what he’s trying to accomplish.

ABV: “What was it like on the Avengers, to have the keys to Scrooge McDucks’ money pit?”
JW: “That is in fact who financed the film. They don’t talk about that much.”

“Limitations are something I latch onto. A novelist…has a blank page. A genre writer never has a blank page. … That’ useful to me. By the same token the restriction of budget or set or location, anything like that, can be really useful. When you can have everything, everybody wants to give you everything and then it’s very hard to make things feel real, to make things feel lived in.”

“We had these amazing sets, really beautifully designed, and epic, and great, but I found that once we got off the sets and started shooting on location…my camera work got a lot more interesting. Because I had to work around these things.”

“Trying sometimes to pull the big budget out of the movie has been part of the creative process.”

“As a producer, it convinced me to just, too much Scrooge is not a good thing.”

“I got a guy in a cape, I got a guy with an A on his head, I got a green guy – it’s a delicate balance. And anything your and to make it feel real, like real filmmaking, even when there are CGI shots and they say, that looks like a bit of a mismatch, I was like keep it. Say it’s from different takes.”

“If everything matches perfectly there’s going to be a disconnect, it’s going to feel too clean. It’s not going to feel like what I’m used to in film, which is a slight dirtiness.”

“I’m a fanboy. I want to see what’s up with Thor and Captain America and what he can do with that shield. All of those things have been in my DNA since I was a tiny child. I love all of that. In terms of how I make it mine, I think that obviously I look at the Avengers and go, this team doesn’t make any sense at all, but I can work with that, because it doesn’t make sense to them either. They’re extraordinarily dysfunctional people. And they’re in their own way very isolated. So just being able to tell that very basic story, isolated people who come together and become more than their parts, is a meaningful story to me.”

“I”m not ready to be post-modern about superheroes yet.”

“The first thing I said to the people at Marvel was, I want to make a war movie.”

“A lot of these movies do a beautiful setup and the hero fights a slightly larger version of himself, and it’s clean. I just wanted to dirty it up, I wanted to really put them through their paces. The feeling you get from a good movie like – oh my god it’s still coming, we’re not going to get out of this alive – that’s the feeling I wanted to make.”

ABV: “Who are the bad guys?”
JW: “It’s the Vulcans. I don’t know a lot about the Marvel universe, and I thought there were Vulcans.”

Re: the villains not being the Skrull or the Kree:
“What’s probably happening is I just said something that Marvel didn’t want me to. It’s weird to be fired so late!”

Joss Whedon hates spoilers so I don't believe him when he says its not the skrulls or the kree.

 

[Silvermoon]

I'd like to try and stay active on these boards unless too many spoilers come out. (the last few haven't averted me yet), but i'd really like to go into this movie with a basic plot and that's about it. I'm honestly a HUGE Marvel movie fan, but i don't know anything about the character's comic history, I really only know what's been shows to me through the movies themselves, and a bit of internet searching about other things as well. I can usually pick up any Easter Eggs that GA's would end up missing but I would by no means ever consider myself on your guys level of comic movie knowledge lol.

I think this movie is going to satisfy everyone: super comic book knowledge guys; superhero movie lovers like me and many others w/ no comic book knowledge; and the average general audience are all going to come away with a, "wow that was a fantastic movie" feeling. Same goes for The Dark Knight Rises (even if that's frowned upon here).. maybe even Amazing Spiderman will be great, I sure hope so.

Sounds like you and I are kind of in the same boat, mkilban. I'm not a comic reader myself either. Most I have is a couple of X-Men comics (sorry - don't know what series because they seem to have vanished momentarily in the mess of my room they were somewhat 'newer' ones though, my sister had gotten them for free with some magazine subscription or something so she gave them to me).

I do, however, absolutely love comic book films - I mean, going back to when I was a kid, I don't think I can even begin to count the number of times I watched Tim Burton's Batman - even though I've never read the comics. So yeah... so far, the MCU films I think have done an excellent job at creating the interconnected universe but doing it in a way that also appeals to us non-comic book readers. I've been able to follow everything pretty well. Like you, I also learn some stuff through internet searching as well.

For the hard core fans, just want to say - the things you say make me intrigued, like when you were talking about the King Thor look - that's why I mentioned I'd be interested in seeing that (because as a non-comic reader, I have no other experience with it).

In terms of spoilers for this film? I don't think I'm going to try to avoid them. Some films I might, but with this one so far - the more I see and the more I hear - the more amped up I'm getting for it. I don't see any spoilers or anything decreasing that excitement because seeing things on my computer screen is going to be no comparison whatsoever to seeing it on the big screen with the theater surround sound. That, plus the fact that I have UK friends on twitter that I know will be seeing it before I can, and I don't think I can bring myself to avoid twitter *lol*

So yeah... just another thought from a non-comic reader but definitely a comic film fan t: (sorry if I rambled a bit there)

 

[eddy]

And heres some more.

“The first cut of the Avengers may have been a little long. It may have been endless. Just going off and doing something completely for myself that was a good time with my friends but a work of art that was very compressed and had so much heart in it – I went back to the Avengers and said OK, now I can deal with this with just enough distance… and start really editing it through the eyes of the people who are going to watch it.”

“If I couldn’t put my heart and soul into the Avengers I have no business making it. I could never just take a job.”

 

[Mysteryman]

Know this, son of Coul Kohl. You and I, we fight for the same cause: the protection of this world. From this day forward, you can count me in as your ally.

Comical foreshadowing?

That would be my guess .

 

[craigdbfan]

I'm still hoping it's at least 2 hours and 30 minutes. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[eddy]

I hope we get a extra long 3 hour director's cut. And theres alot of good stuff in there about his writing process if anyone's interested in that kinda stuff.

 

[metaphysician]

The midnight screening tickets that went on sale in New Zealand say "145 minutes." Seems like pretty strong evidence.

http://www.**************.com/fansites/GulfCoastAvengers/news/?a=56099