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The Avengers - Trailer #2
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TheKaeptain
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He probably only wears them indoors.
And at night.
Escape Goat
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headgear just looks dumb in movies. unless you're batman.
SCULLIBUNDO
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If he doesn't put them on in answer to somebody's suggestion that they get a mission underway, I'll be very disappointed.
Who is going to make the inevitable haters gonna hate purple glasses Renner gifs?
Thor felt like a big budget version of Beastmaster 2 or the He-Man movie. I enjoyed the breezy feel of it but his overnight change from spoiled brat to self-sacrificing hero was almost meaningless.
BattleMonkey
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Looked fine in Captain America. The new mask is shit.
Ignis Fatuus
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It'd actually be a deal with it gif.
If I recall correctly, you once said that The Avengers will bomb so hard that it will taint all the characters involved and that Marvel would be glad that X-Men and Spiderman were out of their hands and could remain viable franchises, right? I just want to get that clear because that's going to be an empirically disprovable assertion.
Right, here we are:
For the record I think you're more hyperbolic and delusional than the people who thought Avatar would be a bomb, but there's no need to argue about it. We'll be able to prove it for sure soon enough.
TheKaeptain
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I think the whole costume looks like shit. The only character designs in this movie I like is Hulk's and IM's.
Zoramon089
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Thor's costume is awesome...unless you're complaining about the lack of helmet
Ya I felt the change was a bit too quick. Maybe if they did a time jump and had him live on Earth for a year or something, but it was like 2 days.
Apparently budgets in the hundreds of millions cannot accommodate a helmet design that looks good or makes sense.
rollingstart
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I don't get why captain america needs a helmet when the ordinary SHIELD guys are unprotected. Maybe if he had an identity to keep or become a symbol in time of war like how it was established in his movie. Although he's helmetless in some pictures, so maybe it saves his life at one point. Suit is still goofy but looks a lot better without the helmet.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Reading comprehension, how does it work?
Where did I say that The Avengers would bomb? Neither of those quotes suggest that. I was (and still am) suggesting that The Avengers will cheapen the franchise of those characters involved. Much like AvP cheapened the Alien and Predator.
Ignis Fatuus
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I like how you edited your post to be more inflammatory. Amusing backpedaling aside, I'll have a laugh at your expense when The Avengers goes on to do gangbusters and the Marvel film franchises continue to succeed while you stamp your feet in childish frustration.
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
i understand what ur saying and i do forget about the costumes once the movie is in motion.
But i was never in that mental hole with Ironman, it always looked "natural" and right to me.
SCULLIBUNDO
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What backpedaling? Show me where I ever said The Avengers would bomb. What the fuck are you talking about?
Ignis Fatuus
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I see you're no longer contesting the long term viability of the franchises in question. And you ask me where the backpedaling is in the same breath.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Again, your reading comprehension needs some work.
I think that were The Avengers film to never happen, Marvel would have been more profitable developing each of the franchises as an individual property.
Ignis Fatuus
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I think I'm reading it just fine, unless you've managed to invent some novel definitions of those words in your attempt to spin your way out of an objective stance.
And that's without even involving your claims that DC has managed their franchises better and that Fox and Sony will do better financially with their own projects.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Can somebody else please look at what is going on here? It's hard to convince somebody they've gone mad with cabin fever when you're the only other person in the cabin.
TheKaeptain
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Man I hate to do this. I really do but Sculli never said it would bomb.
Ignis Fatuus
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You know, I said the exact same thing when I first read this:
When at first you can't explain why you say stupid shit, pretend the stupid shit you said doesn't exist.
SCULLIBUNDO
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And where in those quoted opinions of mine (that I have no problem saying that I still completely, 100% agree with now) did I say that The Avengers would bomb?
Ignis Fatuus
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I haven't claimed you had since my edit to the original post. I brought up your precise words and pointed out that your actual stance there about the viability of the franchises is just as ridiculous and something you've been doing gymnastics to avoid addressing. You've been spending this considerable time trying to act like my unedited post is still the only thing that exists.
Bottom line is The Avengers is going to do well at the box office, the individual series are going to do well at the box office, and cumulatively they will definitely do better than what DC throws out over the next several years, and I doubt very much that the new Spiderman will perform much better despite being what you call the most important franchise. You will be proven wrong and you know it, which is why you're squirming so hard to act like you never said what you said.
Maybe he's talking about Hawkeye and Black Widow.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Unedited? This is me quoting you right now:
Lulz.
Again, I haven't avoided anything. You have just failed to read or comprehend anything I have said for god knows what reason. The very last post I said I completely held the views you quoted me on. I still think Marvel has hindered those properties from being what they could have been. That includes something much more commercially viable than cheap setups to an Avengers film.
Everything you originally quoted me on is how I still feel. 100%. I am not denying it. Should I get somebody else to post this again, so maybe you can understand it? Nowhere did I ever say that The Avengers would bomb, though. I was and am saying that Marvel has fucked the potential of the franchises involved in the Avengers on a quality and thus profitability level. They have cheapened the brand potential of each. Just like if WB were to put Superman and Batman in the same film with a shitty Justice League movie as opposed to giving them standalone films - I would similarly call them fuckheads for cheapening the brand of each.
Do you want me to get working on some diagrams, or are you finally understanding me?
Lulz.
Again, I haven't avoided anything. You have just failed to read or comprehend anything I have said for god knows what reason. The very last post I said I completely held the views you quoted me on. I still think Marvel has hindered those properties from being what they could have been. That includes something much more commercially viable than cheap setups to an Avengers film.
Everything you originally quoted me on is how I still feel. 100%. I am not denying it. Should I get somebody else to post this again, so maybe you can understand it? Nowhere did I ever say that The Avengers would bomb, though. I was and am saying that Marvel has fucked the potential of the franchises involved in the Avengers on a quality and thus profitability level. They have cheapened the brand potential of each. Just like if WB were to put Superman and Batman in the same film with a shitty Justice League movie as opposed to giving them standalone films - I would similarly call them fuckheads for cheapening the brand of each.
Do you want me to get working on some diagrams, or are you finally understanding me?
This gif is always useful:
Ignis Fatuus
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That was the original and unedited part of my post! Thank you for bolding it.
This gif is always useful:
You're right. I'm out.
SCULLIBUNDO
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So you finally realize what I've been saying then? Or do you still think I'm betting on The Avengers bombing? You had empirical proof of the latter, last I read.
SCULLIBUNDO
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LOL! I can't wait for the majority of Ender's Game fans to realize that they turned Anderson into a black woman for the movie.
They should have waited. The Avengers ends with Black Fury recruiting White Fury.
Ignis Fatuus
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And you're the one complaining about reading comprehension?
They dealt with a black Norse God, they'll suck it up.
TheKaeptain
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SCULLIBUNDO
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Yes. Also, please don't tell me that English is your second language, because then I'd feel shitty and have to apologize.
Yep. Viola Davis is playing Anderson.
Ignis Fatuus
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Then by all means please show me where I said I had empirical proof of anything yet.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Ignis Fatuus
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Are you unfamiliar with the future tense? I don't have box office numbers now, they don't exist. They will, though.
Please don't tell me that English is your second language, etc.
TheKaeptain
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She isn't even a good actress. I really don't care about her race though.
SCULLIBUNDO
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You were saying that once it was made clear that I held the belief that Marvel was tainting their franchises, that it was going to be an empirically disprovable assertion, yes? Only of course it couldn't be an empirical proof to my asserting the bombing of The Avengers because it in no way implies that. Which was why I was pointing it out.
At what point were you trying to suggest it would become an empirical assertion? Do you know what you are writing?
Ignis Fatuus
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No, I was saying that once the numbers were out it would be an empirically disprovable assertion that Marvel has destroyed the viability of their franchises. You're welcome for the lesson in reading comprehension. Class dismissed.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Now I know how Dawkins feels during his FOX news interviews.
H.Cornerstone
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To all you people ripping on Thor for the small town location:
The latest run of Thor comics takes place in a small town in Oklahoma in which Thor rises Asgard on Earth.
Plus, would you really want to build a bridge to Earth in the middle of a big city??
The latest run of Thor comics takes place in a small town in Oklahoma in which Thor rises Asgard on Earth.
Plus, would you really want to build a bridge to Earth in the middle of a big city??
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