Really ambitious little project that Marvel Studios are putting together by wrapping all these commodities into one super film. It's cinematic history in the making really...such a huge idea to merge all these franchises and it's looking like they're going to pull it off.
This video just got launched; a short film that ties in Iron Man 2 and the Incredible Hulk. It seems like they're going to drop a whole bunch of these in the next year or so to hype the release, which is a pretty awesome idea.
Hooray.
First trailer: prime placement for Downey Jr/Iron Man and his chillled sarcasm.
Who is Jeremy Renner playing and how effective will that bow and arrow be?
Renner is playing Hawkeye (see below), expert marksman, blah blah blah...usually pretty effective in the comics, but arrows extend to explosives, gas releasing ones, etc. He was only ever there for the quips and anarchistic tendencies...pretty the character that Downey is playing as Iron Man is a wisened-up Hawkeye, dunno how they'll fit Renner's Hawkeye in with the others.
And a pretty cool trailer aside from that ridiculous choice of music...
Poor Hawkeye - he doesn't even have his own film.
Nice Hulk cameo at the end.
Wonder what Joss Whedon's life is like at this very moment?
naah the music was a great nostalgia trip...pretty cool trailer.
Awesome!
Cap/Iron Man interaction is going to be a lot of fun.
Looking forward to this, I dug Thor and am glad Loki is the baddie.
Looked like there was some kind of spaceship shooting at shit with purple laser rays too, so I'd say that Loki is masterminding something rather than being the sole aggressor.
My money's on these guys staging an invasion under Loki's manipulation; Skrulls
Shape-shifting alien blockbuster with superheroes...
Pretty excited about the thing that appears at the end of this trailer. Also, is it unavoidable that these sorts of movies have a 9/11 vibe about them, or is this trailer/movie really pushing those buttons deliberately? Even the way the creature swipes off a side of the building. Anyway, this should be good.
Seen the retrofitted trailer?
Avengers Assemble (2012) - official trailer compiled {mostly} from 1960's Marvel animation footage
Sweeet.
Have a freebie to a preview screening at George St Cinema tonight at 6pm if anyone is keen - have to be there right on 6 though..
I'm free but my girlfriend will kill me if i go see it without her
have fun you lucky duck.
Haha, this is the main response I'm getting, with girlfriend interchangeable with work-mate/flat-mate/neighbour/etc
This reminds me, I haven't seen Thor or Captain America or either Hulk fillum yet. I'm not enough of a Marvel-nerd to get too jizzed up for Avengers, but I love Joss Whedon.
DILEMMA!
Forget about the first Hulk, it's pretty much unrelated. The Incredible Hulk w/ Ed Norton is worth seeing as a primer, Captain America will be pretty useful for contextualising things and Thor is just a fucking cool movie.
I'd maybe track down Cap, Thor and Hulk before I saw it, but I reckon they'd be smart enough to not make pre-viewing essential.
i haven't seen cap or thor, still pretty keen on seeing avengers.
I reckon the most important films to see prior to Avengers are going to be Cap and Hulk - most of the emotion the film will feed off will probably be Banner/Hulk's knife-edge temperament and the distrust he'll be treated with as a result, and Cap being the man out of time.
Tony Stark isn't THAT of a complicated character really, at least not in this point of his narrative...and Thor is a reckless kid trying to understand responsibility.
This. Or, that's what I'm counting on. Avengers seems pitched to eclipse the box office of any of the past decade's Marvel stuff (maybe even including Spiderman and Iron Man) so I think they'll be aiming for maximum approachability.
Saw it last night, you don't neeeeed to se the other films, but man, it adds so much more emotion and humour and feeling to it if you have. Try and track down thor and cap at the very least.
But, but, I don't wanna watch any more Kenneth Branagh films! Cap looks like it's OK. I guess the Hulk thing is so fragmented at this stage (and there's yet another new actor) that it doesn't matter so much? Anyway, you sound quite the fanboy - how do you rate Avengers?
According to a mate who saw a preview last week it's basically a Thor sequel
I thought it was great.
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It's a lot of fun although it really dragged in places (there's a lot of scenes of people endlessly talking). The final battle scene is breathtaking though.
I love how Whedon writes his warrior women. Scarlett nearly had as many awesome lines as Downey.
Mark Ruffalo was great as Hulk - suck it, Ed Norton.
Hulk and Black Widow were the real stars of the film I thought...would love to see them have a crack at another Hulk (although there are plans in place for a TV show, I'm assuming sans-Ruffalo. Black Widow spin-off is inevitable with how many teases they dropped to her back story as a child soldier.
I read somewhere that Whedon wants to do a Black Widow/Hawkeye follow up in the inevitably long break until Avengers 2.
I also admit I geeked out massively for post-credits-guy.
Agree on the Hulk thing too. That mopey depressive act that Bana and Norton both delivered got old so quickly.
Best superhero movie ever. Even has my 14yo's stamp of aproval.
Is it better in 3D?
Gonna watch it this week.
No. I didn't think so. 3D wasn't very impressive. The action sequences were too fast for it and they just looked kind of blurry. I've seen this kind of thing done a lot better. The actual film itself though was fun. I did enjoy that.
Damn... What a movie!
Pretty massive and awesome.
Now I want to go outside and smash things...
I want to see a Black Widow movie.
Did you see it in 3D?
2D. It is not a proper movie for 3D, yeah? The blurry thing. I found some motion blur with the pan shots...
Yep...I think I would have enjoyed it more in 2D...not that I didn't enjoy it. It was just...unnecessary.
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