The Avengers: The Motion Picture Discussion Thread- Open SPOILERS -enter at own risk!

[The Josh]

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Invincible Iron Man, Mighty Thor, and Cap have all been pretty good over the last year since I started reading full time again.

 

[jye4ever]

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Eh, Quesada already screwed up Marvel IMO. The only comic series I've picked up from the company in about 10 years was Planet Hulk. I was turned off to the direction of pretty much every other major series. Winter Soldier, Civil War, Spidey turning to Satan, etc. I dismiss it all.

No matter what Disney does from here on out I can die content with the Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, X:FC and first two Raimi Spidey flicks we've already gotten. Way more than I ever dared to dream we'd see in my lifetime.

PH and WWH plus original run of Ultimates Avengers I enjoyed a-lot.

For movies, I still need to see and eventually own the Avengers movie before I can die content on 12/21/2012

Man, how could forget the Avengers movie

 

[Khev]

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Man, how could forget the Avengers movie

I didn't forget, I just never got that in to them in the comics. They were cool, but I always preferred the main members (Cap, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk) in their individual titles. Avengers-only characters like Giant Man, Scarlett Witch, Vision, etc., were always kind of "meh" to me.

So if the movie is awesome, great. If not, no big.

 

[jye4ever]

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I didn't forget, I just never got that in to them in the comics. They were cool, but I always preferred the main members (Cap, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk) in their individual titles. Avengers-only characters like Giant Man, Scarlett Witch, Vision, etc., were always kind of "meh" to me.

So if the movie is awesome, great. If not, no big.

 

[draekus]

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Invincible Iron Man, Mighty Thor, and Cap have all been pretty good over the last year since I started reading full time again.

Agreed. Many keep complaining that comics (Marvel/DC) are now garbage, but there are lot of modern mainstream titles that feature memorable stories by great writers. Sure, they may not compare in depth to indie comics, but they're still great for characters that have been around for years.

And of course you do have your modern stinkers..cough: DC's BLACKEST NIGHT::cough::cough: )

 

[The Josh]

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Right there are some bad ones out there but for me those three marvel titles have been awesome, and I'm waiting for my first issue of Cap & Bucky which I think will be pretty solid as well.

 

[karamazov80]

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Winter Soldier

I'll tell you, I was as off-put by the decision to revive Bucky as the next guy. Felt like it epitomized the type of cheap gimmickry that has largely turned me away from funny books in recent years.

But damn if those weren't some fun, well written comics.

 

[Darth Caedus]

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Anything related to Cap written by Brubaker is gold in my book

 

[The Josh]

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Anything related to Cap written by Brubaker is gold in my book

Thats why the last year has been so good. You should check them out Nick.

 

[jye4ever]

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Anything related to Cap written by Brubaker is gold in my book

LoL at the bottom gif

 

[Darth Caedus]

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Thats why the last year has been so good. You should check them out Nick.

I just finished Brubakers #1-50 and REBIRTH and they was awesome !!!!!

 

[The Josh]

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The new solo cap series he's doing just started. #1 and #2 are out now. You could get in on the ground floor of this one.

 

[draekus]

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The new solo cap series he's doing just started. #1 and #2 are out now. You could get in on the ground floor of this one.

Great art by Steve Mcniven on the new series. Highly recommended.

 

[The Josh]

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Agreed

 

[Darth Snoopy]

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Great art by Steve Mcniven on the new series. Highly recommended.

I really like the new series!

 

[Darth Snoopy]

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New Videos From The Avengers Cleveland Set​

WEWS5 reports that filming for Marvel's The Avengers continued in Cleveland last night with scenes that involved Tom Hiddleston's Loki. Filming will continue through Wednesday at the location.
Spoilers and videos (including four from fans) ahead...

Spoiler

"Public Square was transformed into Stuttgart Germany, complete with street signs, banners, and even a marquee over entrance to the site of the former Higbee's Department Building--all written in German.
According to one of the movie's extra, Terminal Tower was being used as a museum, and the extra told NewsChannel5 that the character Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, killed someone in front of hundreds of museum visitors and was making his getaway when the police arrived. Hundreds of extras were seen running in fear multiple times from the set.
The most exciting part of the night came at around 2:30 a.m. when the crew used a pneumatic ram mounted in the rear of a German police car to flip it onto its roof. The setup for the stunt took a few hours and had to be done twice because the first time the car did not flip completely onto its roof."

 

[IrishJedi]

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BOOM! goes the dynamite. And so it continues...

https://www.deadline.com/2011/08/disney-fires-marvels-marketing-department/

Disney Fires Marvel’s Marketing Department

By NIKKI FINKE | Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 2:26pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Everybody is trying to keep this secret. But I’ve learned that yesterday Disney canned_Dana Precious,_EVP of Worldwide Marketing for Marvel’s LA Studios (she had replaced Doug Finberg at the end of last summer); Jeffrey Stewart, VP of Worldwide Marketing (he’d been brought in by Dana); and_Jodi Miller, Manager of Worldwide Marketing. That’s essentially Marvel’s entire marketing department. Marvel redundant jobs_were on the line ever since Disney bought the publisher/studio in 2009. And the marketing department even more so_this summer after Paramount released Thor and Captain America domestically and internationally, thus effectively ending that studio’s marketing and distribution of Marvel pictures. I’m told that on June 24th, Rob Steffens, who is Marvel Studios’ EVP Operations, met with all of the department at the Manhattan Beach offices in what was described as a “Disney Rules of the Road” meeting. He told staff that there would be no house-cleaning by the mouse, period, so they_were not to fear for their jobs and flee en masse._So much for that promise.

The official line on why Marvel’s marketing team was let go is that Disney will be taking over that function and handling the releases of The_Avengers and future Marvel movies themselves._In fact I’ve learned that Marvel will bring in someone in a “project management role”. But Kevin Feige’s continued_supervision of all things Marvel_should_resolve any doubts by fanboys that Disney will screw around or screw up_the comic book films._Insiders tell me that_Precious and her team_were not well-loved by Marvel bigwig Feige and other top execs at Marvel or by_Disney and Paramount. (Some of the comments I heard today_included: “Not up to or have the skill set to release this brand properly”… “Their job was to keep track of the people doing the real work”… “Paper pushers”…_”Would it have killed them to return an email?”… “Disney doesn’t need someone to cut its trailers”…)

Now Marvel staffers_wonder whether the firings were_really to avoid duplicating efforts with Disney or_just petty vindictiveness._If it’s the latter, then_jobs are safe._But if it’s the former,_then any jobs_redundant_in terms of Disney’s infrastructure aren’t. Trying to reassure the Marvel folks, one insider tells me today, “If you do your job and are smart and understand the business, you shouldn’t worry.”

 

[Darth Snoopy]

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Why o why can't Disney fire Joephisto?!?

 

[Darth Caedus]

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Hope it's not the beginning of the end for Marvel now that disney bought them. Disney already screwed us out of Avengers footage at SDCC to put it with the craptastic D23....hope this doesn't continue

 

[Darth Snoopy]

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I don't care where or when the announcement is made on future Marvel movie releases as long as I get to see them.

SDCC never had all the movie hoopla when I was attending in the early 90's. It was all about the comics...it wasn't until the late 90's that things started to blow up with all the movie studios and it became the "in" thing to attend SDCC for Hollywood.