It has only been within the past few weeks that I’ve actually been excited about the Avengers movie. I don’t know, the first trailers just left me feeling kind of underwhelmed. However, after seeing the new trailer, where the Avengers actually assemble, I’m pretty stoked for the movie and my buddy Coolhand/Mike L. and I are making our way through the Marvel films again as we speak (we watched Thor again last Sunday and will probably revisit The Incredible Hulk and/or Captain America this weekend.) We used to go more nuts for this kind of thing, where we’d have marathon film fests. I think the longest one was back-to-back Star Trek films leading up to the release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. We generally buy a ton of super/king/macho-sized fast food and gorge ourselves while watching movies all day. Lately, we’ve been kind of maxing out at two or three movies in a sitting, like we did while the Harry Potter movies were still being released. Guess that means we’re getting soft in our old age.
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Aagh! Late strip! Craziness at the day job has been interfering with the strip this week, but I’ll try and get back on track for Friday. *fingers crossed*
LOL! The only Marvel films I actually care about are the two Fantastic Four movies. Because I like FF more than any other Marvel comic, mostly.
agreed: the Fantastic Four comics are pretty awesome, Insectoid. i really hope some visionary comes along and makes a totally kickass F4 movie! the premise has so much potential that hasn’t been realized on the big screen yet.
and congrats on your Firsting yet again! i’m amazed that you’ve been able to grab the Shades of Firsting as often as you have. as always, wear them well: these have all the Marvel movies (the F4 movies included) loaded into the lenses for play at any time:
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The trouble was that the movies got too gimmicky with their elemental powers, trying to force situations to demonstrate them instead of working them naturally into their daily lives and, eventually, their battles with Dr. Doom, Silver Surfer, and Galactus. It was like two movies with the “extra” mutants from X-Men 3 as the lead characters.
In my own writing, some of the people have elemental powers, but they’re more naturally integrated into their characters. I don’t do stuff like having the hydromancer just happen to come across a stranger dying of dehydration just so he can save his life and get some plot device out of it. But, when one of his friends is taking pills, he’ll nonchalantly squirt water into his mouth from his fingertip.
Nice, now what do you have your pyromancer do? Also, what do you write?
When a microwave isn’t available, he keeps refrigerated pre-cooked bacon warm in his hand while he eats it. And, I write novels. My username holds a link to my first one, and the FB page for it has a few teasers from the next-to-final draft.
and it could’ve been a disaster of epic proportions, but i really wanted to see Galactus as a giant purple guy with the cool helmet as he appears in the comics, rather than a big cloud, but that’s just me.
much luck with your upcoming book, E. A.!
I like how they pulled off the cloud monster, made it more believable as something that consumes worlds, but making him look like in the comics would’ve been fun.
And thanks, bot… except it’s not upcoming. I published it a few weeks ago.
I’m more so excited for other people’s excitement. I knew the Avengers was something everyone wanted really badly.
However, I am DISAPPOINTED they don’t have spider man. Buuut, at least they have Tony Stark.
Great set-up, but I think I’m with Cornfather on this one. I’ll skip rewatching all those movies XD
I forgot, my Firefox was restarted.
That comment was I, JoLee, still immensely enjoying your comics, Jefbot! ^^
i’m hoping someday that Marvel/Disney can get the rights back to all their characters so we can see some even greater and more epic crossovers, JoLee! maybe Sony will at least let Spidey make a cameo in Avengers 2? one can dream. 🙂
I’m really looking forward to the Avengers, anything with the Hulk and Iron man in it is cool in my book.
How come ghost rider wasn’t on the list, huh?
I don’t think Ghost Rider was ever one of The Avengers.
But yeh, I’m looking forward to seeing what more they’ll do with Loki. I was impressed with how well they wrote his character as a trickster and arbiter of chaos. I won’t even hesitate to say he was written and played better than Joker in The Dark Knight. I also hope Hawkeye gets some good screen time. He’s my favorite out of the group.
i’d agree that pairing up the Hulk and Iron Man (actually, pairing up the Hulk with almost anyone is pretty cool) makes this worth looking forward to, 52pickup! and i didn’t mention Ghost Rider since (as E. A. Setser mentioned) i can’t remember him ever being on an Avengers team. am i mistaken? or do i detect a Ghost Rider fan?
Yeah, I’m a Ghost Rider fan. Flaming bike, demonic chain, penance stare. Whats not to love?
I would think bot would want to watch them in chronological order. I THINK it was Captain America, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor. (I mean the order in which the stories took place, not the order they came out in.)
well, at this point, bot’s seen them so many times, it doesn’t really matter which order he sees them in. in Real Life, my buddy Mike/Coolhand and i are saving Cap for last, just cuz that’s the one we’ve seen the least. it’d actually be kinda cool to edit all the Avengers tie-in clips in sequential order from all the movies and watch those back-to-back. i’m sure someone’s done it, somewhere.
I still don’t like ‘X-Men First Class’. It threw everything else WAY OFF! The inconsistencies for Emma and Moira ALONE make me mad enough to spit. Not to mention the whole bit between Charles and Raven. That also doesn’t take into account that she and Azazel slept together and had Nightcrawler, never mind her relationship with Destiny. Then there’s the fact that Alex is YOUNGER than Scott and Darwin and Angel Salvadore came a LOT later (in the 2000s). Okay, I think that’s enough ranting from me. Please don’t hurt me?
Now, now. You make some valid points. Granted the series itself has never been the most accuratewhen portraying the comics.
i hear ya, KB. while it appears i enjoyed it more than you did, i was still kind of shocked at how loved and acclaimed that movie became. i thought it was just “good” but nothing amazing. and i found pretty much all the scenes with Banshee flying around annoying. my fave X-Men film is still the 2nd one at this point. i thought everything just came together really well in that.
I wanna do that! Except, it’s not upcoming anymore here. Premiered last night. Really wanted to go, especially because my dad usually gets invited to advanced movie screenings sometimes.
nice! if you see it, let us know what you think (spoiler-free, of course), ShadowShuffler. so far, i’ve been hearing a lot of positive reviews coming out of the screenings.
my roomie could have gone to the prerelease showing tonight but some punk kids cut in front of her and her friend Erin
arrgh! stupid punk kids! *shakes fist*
I’m planning to do the same thing. Back when the new Terminator movie came out, my friends and I gathered to watch all the old Terminator movies, since I hadn’t seen any of them and really wanted to understand what the hell was going on in the theater. I’ll probably pitch the idea to my fellow geek friends at our next gathering on Sunday. I suspect one of my old roommates, who works at Blockbuster, can hook us up relatively cheaply for the ones we don’t own. 😀
Just make sure to get up and move around a bit! Like long international flights…fun isn’t fun if you get deep vein clots or weird tingles in lower extremities.
Maybe YOUR kind of fun doesn’t involve weird tingles in the lower extremities, but where I come from, that’s when the party’s just getting started!
But yeh, I’m gonna see if my wife and our roommates are up for going through the movies in chronological order this weekend.
heheh. 🙂
not sure how many of them you’ve seen, T, but they hold up surprisingly well. i’ve probably seen the original Iron Man too many times at this point, but RDJ really carries that film (and the 2nd, which isn’t as good.) i wasn’t a huge fan of Thor after seeing it in the theater, but upon rewatching it at home, i’ve come around to liking it quite a bit. and Captain America’s well made and fun. i think The Incredible Hulk is the one i’ve seen the least, so i’m looking forward to checking that one out again.
hope you have a good time at your fest! and, yes: do what you can to avoid those vein clots! good advice, that. 🙂
Let’s see…I’ve seen both Iron Man movies and Captain America. I loved those three, honestly, but I’m not a big comics fan. I just thought the stories were well done, even though Iron Man 2 was disappointing after the first one. I’m looking forward to Thor and Hulk; I’ve heard good things about both.
After the first Iron Man movie, I was hoping the villain in the second one wouldn’t be another case of someone taking Stark’s technology and doing it bigger and deadlier. But that seems to be a standard in a fair number of comics, so it’s not entirely surprising.
Your out? Jeez cornfather has been just a drag lately, that sounds like fun
sadly, the Cornfather has never joined a movie fest – in the comic or in Real Life – MrSnow! he’s just never been into it.
HAH I did this myself last week.
woo! i’m almost prepped, Liam. just gotta watch a couple more.
Nice… Wish I was there…
i should have some sort of BOTwatching fest someday, Maryz, where we all connect via Skype, and watch the same movies simultaneously while chatting.
Do that! I’d chime in from here!
… now that is a terrible, terrible idea. I would never leave my room if I got my social interaction fix from the net.
Still we just have to try it someday.
There were a few instances where I saw the remake of a movie before I saw the original and this prompted me to watch the original. The movies that come to mind are “Bedazzled”, “The Longest Yard” and “The Bad News Bears”. I was much more impressed with the original “Bedazzled” than the remake. I can’t compare the two “The Longest Yard” movies because they were completely different from each other. They felt like two different movies. I did however enjoy the original more than the remake. With “The Bad News Bears”, I’d be hard pressed to decide which one I liked more than the other. I feel I’d need to watch both again to decide.
There were also instances where I saw the original movie first then wanted to see the remake. These movies include ( among others I can’t think of right now ) “Friday the Thirteenth” and “Carrie”. In both cases I enjoyed the remake more than the original. I especially felt this way with “Carrie”. It was a great idea to combine telekinetic powers with epilepsy ( though I’d hate to see how it would ACTUALLY work ).
i do that all the time, too, Rainey – where i’ll watch the original before a remake comes out. generally, i find that the original is better, but there are occasions where i’ve been pleasantly surprised. most recently, i revisited Arthur again when the remake came out. enjoyed it so much that i decided not to watch the new one, as the reviews were horrid. i’m sure i’ll catch it on cable or Netflix one of these days to find out for myself.
Yeah, the girls and I or the hubs and I would decided to do this, get it all planned out, and then by the time we get settled down with snacks and whatever, someone’s passing out on the couch… NEVER me, of course… >.> LOVE the strip! 🙂
ha! i’ve been planning on covering this very thing in the strip, Ky! we’ll see if it comes to pass or not. 🙂
Oh man, I still need to see The Hulk sometime this week! Thanks for the reminder! Have fun with your marathon too.
glad to help, GB! i’ll be catching that one sometime this week, too. 🙂
I sadly have really only seen the first Spider-Man movie. I should probably watch all of them at some point.
the first one was good but i liked the second one with Doc Ock even better, Destructur25! definitely worth checking out. hoping the Spidey “reboot” this summer rocks.
I’ve already put in a vacation day to go see The Avengers. They had me before “We have a Hulk.”
My only concern is that the rumors that Hawkeye will get his own movie are a ploy to cover his death in this one.
And my only problem with the trailers is the 360-shot of our heroes back-to-back:
You have the Hulk in his green rage, Iron Man lowering himself into place, Thor raising the hammer, the Captain adjusting his shield, Hawkeye pulling back his bow with explosive arrows . . . and Black Widow, slapping a mag in a flippin’ handgun. Please. I know she’s a covert assassin whose specialty is close work, but you can’t tell me the woman can’t handle a bazooka or some specialty grenades.
I did consider that this might be a way of showing how much of a BAMF she really is . . . but it looks like she brought a popgun to a giant magic metal dragon fight . . .
my boss and i were laughing over that as well, Sarah W! it’s like, “which of these heroes does not belong?” heheh. even Hawkeye seems a bit out of his league in that circle. ah, well. Joss has promised that Black Widow will more than pull her weight with the team, so let’s hope he speaks the truth!
I know what you mean. Back in High School I could stay up all night and watch 4 movies with nothing but beef jerky and soda to keep me going. Now I still through one movie and I’m done.
i’m happy you share my pain, Saeed! heheh. *sob*
Don’t forget we still have to watch all three Blade movies, all three Punisher movies, and all the TV episodes of Spider-Man (all animated versions and the live version) and The Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby. If we start now, don’t leave the house, we may be done by the time Avengers comes out. Throw in a few King-Sized SuperStar meals from Carl’s Jr, and now you’re talking some serious bliss! Woo hoo! Assemble!
I’m always so tired by the time it gets time to the movie-watching part!!! Argh!