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Marvel's The Avengers |OT| (Dir. Joss Whedon) [Spoilers unmarked]

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Banana Kid said:
I don't know what D-Box you're seeing, but I saw my first Avengers showing in D-Box and it was awesome. Such a dumb novelty, but so much fun.
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It's pretty stupid, it's even more annoying when you're not using it and you're being distracted by idiots jerking around in their dumb D-Box seats.
 
It has no chance of getting close to number 1, 35 extra minutes or not (35 extra minutes of what? Agent Coulson? lol).
 
Dead said:
It has no chance of getting close to number 1, 35 extra minutes or not (35 extra minutes of what? Agent Coulson? lol).
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We already know what some of it is. There are two additional scenes with Cap before he agrees to join up, and an extension of the scene with Banner and Harry Dean Stanton that is supposedly excellent.
 
There was a section cut from the film when
Hulk swings Loki around and starts to walk away, but he then turns back around and starts smashing Loki even further into the ground.
I don't know if it was fully rendered but I would love to see that added to the DC.
 
Dead said:
It has no chance of getting close to number 1, 35 extra minutes or not (35 extra minutes of what? Agent Coulson? lol).
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Tobor said:
We already know what some of it is. There are two additional scenes with Cap before he agrees to join up, and an extension of the scene with Banner and Harry Dean Stanton that is supposedly excellent.
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Pretty much. I was already assuming that the extra minutes comes in the form of the additional scenes that are for the DVD/BD release in September - just re-inserted into the film to make it basically the 'original cut'.
 
Dead said:
It has no chance of getting close to number 1, 35 extra minutes or not (35 extra minutes of what? Agent Coulson? lol).
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Domestic it would probably squeeze past Titanic, but Avatar is out of reach. And all they would have to do is rerelease Avatar to just widen the gap again.

Worldwide isn't even close.
 
Anth0ny said:
I highly doubt a director's cut is going to push it above Titanic, let alone Avatar.

But I'd watch again.
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I agree that it won't go past Titanic (if you include the 3D numbers) or Avatar.

Does anyone know how much Avatar made when they released the extended edition theatrically?
 
I'm also thinking by being airborne they have a better strategic advantage by being able to move to wherever they needed to be quicker. They didn't really get to use this advantage though since Iron Man et. al. chose to leave Fury in the dark.
 
Talladega Knight said:
what if they featured a super secret pre spiderman peter parker cameo?
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Legally, they could probably skirt it pretty close (have Toby come in and do a scene where it's taking a picture of the action). But they'd probably still get sued by Sony over it, so they probably won't even attempt wink wink nudge nudge references to characters.

Marvel's game right now is to play ball and be nice with Sony and just wait for them to sell. It'll happen eventually.
 
Blader5489 said:
It's mostly Cap material, him adjusting to the present, etc.
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So I've been on a bit of a classic comic book kick lately. Found an issue of West Coast Avengers, annual #6 from 1991

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This has a pretty hilarious (in hindsight) short story about Janet (The Wasp) trying to sell the Avenger movie rights to a very haughty and arrogant studio executive. The ideas for casting thrown out by the exec (Schwarzenegger for Thor, Lou Ferrigno for Hulk, Stallone for Iron Man, Winona Ryder or Paula Abdul for Wasp) just seem startlingly possible for the time period, not to mention him saying "We'll get Spielberg to direct or someone like him!" and "Universal's got the rights to Hulk, we'll have to change him.". I dunno, I chuckled. It's a really fun read.
 
CraveOnline: Zak Penn on The Avengers

CraveOnline: Now that it’s out and everyone’s seen it, did Joss Whedon’s Avengers turn out anything like the one you started six years ago?

Zak Penn: I think it turned out better. I think he did a fantastic job. I mean, look, I think that it’s very similar in terms of what we imagined in our head, what the movie would be like and what characters would be in it. Kevin Feige was working on it all the way through so he’s the person to ask the most. He’d tell you this is what we hoped the movie would be, but most of the time you hope the movie’s going to be this good and it turns out very crappy, so it’s really a relief when you hope the movie’s going to turn out well and it’s a great movie.


Down to things like, was it always the Chitauri?

Actually, there was a lot of debate back and forth because there were rights issues, and whether or not it could be the Skrulls or whether it could be the Chitauri, and even in the beginning whether it would be Loki or not. It all got kicked around. Joss, it’s really his screenplay. He rewrote it.


And you can tell it’s his voice, but the fans have been following since you started work on it six years ago.

Yeah, so he would be the one to ask about the specific final decisions on that stuff. As you can imagine, Ultimates was a huge influence on it. When we read that, we were like, “Wow, this is a great Avengers movie right here.”


He said the one thing he was mandated was the death of Coulson. Did that go back to when you were working on it?

No. Actually that surprises me. Maybe the one thing from when he started working on it but that was not a foregone conclusion. When we started working on it, there was no Agent Coulson yet.


That was even before Iron Man 1?

Yeah. Put it this way. I definitely don’t remember there being an edict: Agent Coulson must die. I think as the movies came out and he became a character that was in all of them in some manner or another, it because probably a more likely scenario but I don’t even think I had him. If he died in my script, probably a lot of people died.


Are you still in Marvel world?

Not really. I think Avengers was the thing it was all working up towards but there’s not a lot left that I really want to do. So I’ve moved on to other things. I probably will eventually come back and write something for them but I don’t see it happening any time in the immediate future.
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On the last episode of GeeksOn, Lisa Lassek, who edits a shitload of Joss' stuff,revealed that Chris Evans had his hand in front of his face for the Shwarma scene because of the goatee that he was rocking.
 
Will get to $600 million domestically this week, should end up with a little bit more than that. Good timing cause its about to lose most of its theaters with all the upcoming releases next week and then Spiderman.
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
On the last episode of GeeksOn, Lisa Lassek, who edits a shitload of Joss' stuff,revealed that Chris Evans had his hand in front of his face for the Shwarma scene because of the goatee that he was rocking.
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Yeah, I read an interview that was posted right when the movie hit US theaters where the interviewer had access to the cast right after the schwarma scene was filmed. (I want to say it was EW, but I can't remember for sure.) it had Downey ribbing Evans for having "the wrong face" - they tried using a prosthetic to cover up his goatee, which obviously didn't work out at all. It also mentioned Hemsworth was getting sick of eating pita after pita during filming. Funny stuff.
 
I finally got around to watching this last weekend. I watched Hulk, Captain America, then Thor during the week to prepare myself and my wife as we felt we needed the backstory.

I was so mad about Coulson I was literally bonking my head off the theater seat in disappointment.

This move was such great fun!
 
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