Canadian accent doesn’t exist. He probably had a newfie accent.
It’s like an American accent. Which could be Bostonian, New Yorkian, Alabaman or Texan.
We all say EH though!
lol canadian accent does exist…all countries have an accent. even the fact i dont have an accent is an accent.
You probably sound like Matt Damon from The Departed.
lol nope. i dont hence my comment about not having an accent is an accent, but i have never met a black person in this state with a new england accent.
Then you sound like Coolio.
i dont even remember wtf he sounds like. are canada’s tv set to 1995?
I think that instead of CGI, he was expecting Mike Ruffalo to randomly transform into Lou Ferrigno wearing his 70’s Hulk gettup, then starting to leap around 100’s of feet in the air and destroying everything he sees with his bare hands.
Actually on second thoughts, that would’ve been FUCKING AWESOME!!!
hahah No. But he was the first black person I distinctly remember when I was young.
And we don’t have any black people in Canada, so I think you guys all sound like him.
I also think all latinos sound like George Lopez.
You are correct - Marvel didn’t drop the ball on those movies. But it doesn’t change the problems those movies faced. X3 suffered from ‘too much of a good thing’, it was Fox plugging as much as they could…and something like the IG? Thin kabout not only how intertwined into other series it was (to get the full impact), but think of how long it all was. Its not something that ANYONE could cram into the length of one movie without losing items in translation. If it was done like LOTR - then yeah, but as a stand alone movie…there is just too much there. From explaining the celestial beings, to the powers of the gauntlet, to the sudden inclusion of space, bringing Thanos into the picture, the numerous heroes who haven’t been in a movie, and then the BSish ending with subsequent clean-up. Its simply too much. I give the mcredit, they’ve built up all the Avengers…they still have to finish the assembly, but they’ve created a back story for all the characters with rhyme and reason, so so much as they don’t go overboard with including crap (my Thanos fears) -they have a solid base.
Hell the most recent Xmen was pretty solid, and that ws because IMO it stripped away ‘everything’…and left wolverine as a cameo. Though I want more Darwin after wiki-ing him.
I’m also glad to hear Marvel realized how much ripping and running and how hard they’ve been riding Wolverine. I know Supreman has like 4.5 comic books, but damn.
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I see your point. If they tried to cram it into one movie, they would have to strip it down a lot. On the other hand, they could do an entirely different take on the story if that is the case. They could introduce Thanos without diving immediately into the Infinitely Gauntlet. This is where creative liberties would either make or break the whole concept. Or they could play it safe and do as you mentioned, divide it up LOTR style into multiple films. Which would not be beyond reason if Avengers does really well.
100% agreed. And Darwin is the man, he was my biggest gripe in the film. I have a bunch of comics featuring him. Edit: Though I have no idea what happened to him after he stopped showing up in X-Factor. Must investigate.
That was one of the best cameo’s ever though.
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Magneto and Xavier: “…Umm…We’ll get back to you in 40 years.”
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No they can’t, as that would sink them right back inline with Fox…and leave a bad taste in fans mouth. Marvel would need to stay within 5% of the Source material or face a harsh backlash…especially covering something as ‘well known’ as the IG series. Its not like an ‘X-men’ series where there is so much there for so long, that it can be toyed with and a decent finished product can still come out of it…its an actual cross-over mini-series…a far reaching one.
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It’s not the ONLY Thanos story though either. Obviously the crossover isn’t going to happen. We’re not going to get 75% of the characters that were involved in the original story. That leaves them with a few options.
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Trim the fat, cut down on the characters involved. I’d prefer this over the X3 approach. Stick to the basic plot, but streamline the story into something more manageable. We don’t need the whole Marvel universe to make it a good film.
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Go with a different story. Keep the IG as an easter egg. Go with something along the lines of Thanos Imperative, which granted has a long ass build up with Annihilation and War of Kings also making it difficult to pull off. Point is, there are other sources to pull from. They can mess with the chronological order of things imo without screwing it up if they are careful about how they do it. Explain his origins and touch on Titan, but hold off on the actual IG. Hint at it being his goal for possible follow up films in the future where they might actually be able to get the IPs back necessary for the crossover.
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Don’t focus on him at all. Maybe Loki mentions him in conversation, but he isn’t actually introduced into the story until way down the line like I mentioned in #2. This is probably what we’ll see I think.
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My personal opinion is that I don’t want a complete retelling of something I’ve already read. Write a new story, but use the source material as a guideline and stay true to the character. I’d be satisfied. This worked surprisingly well for X-Men First Class (If you ignore the actual class and look at the Xavier/Mags story) and they really took this to the limit.
I hate it as much as anybody when film studios screw up characters I love (Deadpool or Blackheart are huge fuck ups that come to mind), and I’m as much a comic geek as anybody here. At the same time, I’ve come to understand the limitations on these studios and accepted that every one of these films is going to have great differences from the source. Marvel taking creative liberties on their own properties is not nearly in line with what Fox has done. Fox just really doesn’t give a flying fuck how fanboys feel about their films. They just want to keep their grip on the IPs and continue to squeeze every last cent out of the franchise they can. With X-Men they can make the shittiest movie possible and it will still turn some profit. Also Donner is a fucking retard. I have more faith in Marvel’s studio than that.
I forgot they did Blackheart…
And I still don’t get why they fucked up Deadpool the way they did…it doesn’t compute…no parts of it were even remotely ‘cool’…
It sounds like you just want Thanos in a movie… hahaha
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I’m still waiting for the Deadpool movie to come out…
should have tide a teenage mimic’s dad to a subsidiary of the weapon X-program and have deadpool escape the program in the middle of all the chaos when mimic runs loose.
…but then i would have still hated the movie anyway.
Yeah that’s why I can’t compare Marvel studios to the level of idiocy that Fox has shown.
Lol personally I’m indifferent. If they do a movie about him, sweet, I hope they don’t botch it. If they don’t do one, fine as well. I can understand why they wouldn’t, for the reasons you mentioned. I don’t entirely disagree with you on the subject. I just think it’s possible that they could pull it off. If Fox were doing it I’d be up in arms though.
I do want to see more of Cosmic Marvel definitely. Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova Corps, Skrulls, Kree, Beta Ray Bill… All of this would be wonderful imo. Do I think they should just jump right into any of this from what they have currently established, even after Avengers? Hell no. I’d tie it into the next Thor film if anything. Maybe establish the Celestials and other cosmic beings in that film.
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Doing Infinity Gauntlet 100% isn’t possible. Too many unknown characters, and too many weird characters. Hollywood exec’s are typically ignorant dicks, and can you see them greenlighting a movie with Ego, Chaos, Order, Eternity, Galactus, Death, Eros, and the Celestials??? And having to explain to non-fans wtf is going on? We got a fucking cloud Galactus, imagine what the other Marvel Gods would get reduced to. You also have the problem of all the IP’s being rented out to various companies. Doing it half assed is a bad idea, just look at what became of the Phoenix Saga. Hollywood has a problem with make believe. They’re ok with monsters, fairies, demons, etc, but once you start getting into multiple orders of Gods, they think that because they don’t understand it, we won’t understand it.
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Planet Hulk was fine. The only things that weakened it was the fact they had to make it somewhat kiddy (Hulk kills robots instead of creatures), and they had to put in Beta Ray Bill instead of Silver Surfer, but yet again that was because Fox owns the rights to Silver Surfer. It’s quite likely you won’t be seeing a GOOD amalgamated Marvel movie for DECADES from now, when their rights come back to them.
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Thanos. You can’t do him poorly, considering how important a character he is. Don’t go straight for later stories. But also don’t go straight for the IG, and fuck it up on the way. Logically, I would have Avengers end similar to when Thanos had the cube. He believes it to be used up, and throws it away, and somebody else just picks it up and unwishes everything. Do the same shit with Loki, only when he throws it away, Thanos picks it up and decides to use it. Then you have another movie with Cosmic Cube Thanos, which leads up to the IG. Thanos needs to die first, then be resurrected by Death, before IG. My only worry, is they will lame it up, and change what the IG is (for fucks sakes, Odin has it as of right now, explain that).
Agreed with the entirety of your post. This definitely sounds like the best approach if they go through with it. Odin having the gauntlet could lead to an epic battle between him and Thanos at some point in all of this as well. I approve.