Just booked tickets to the 7.30pm showing of Iron Man 2 at the IMAX tomorrow. Woooooooooooooooooo!

Iron Man 2's post credits scene will please some of you. No turning back now for Marvel's movie-verse.

what is it?

It's cool.

rep me with the spoiler

I'm a moron, went on youtube to see the post-credit scene. HOLY FUCKING SHIT! It was so sudden and kinda made me jump when I saw it lol. Wow can't wait. I pray I don't die within the next 4/5 years. Avengers is gonna be sweet! :drool:

can u link the video... i looked for it and essentially got rick rolled time and time again

IRON MAN 2 SPOILERS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cVci4OTeKA

its been taken down :'(

Good. The temptation is gone. Now if I can just avoid anybody being a douche and going around putting spoilers in thread titles on every board.

Post-Credit Scene

kano come on. i'm trying hard not to find reasons to berate you but really, are you dense or malicious? why post a spoiler like that when 2 people have seen the film?

It's not actually the ending, I made it up in a constructed post that would suggest I have revealed it and spoiled the surprise. The mystery remains.

oh. then you are neither dense nor malicious, merely a scallywag trickster intent on fooling the public. carry on.

I'm so tempted to click it, because I'm curious and I have a feeling I will get spoiled on someone else's terms before next friday

I'm going to see it on Monday. So fucking pumped! It's been getting some pretty awesome reviews and that shot at the end has me drooling. :drool:

i spoiled the last scene for myself because i dont like sitting through the credits

Yeah, I find these extra scenes don't really hurt the movie experience so I look them up online. I haven't read plot write-ups for Iron Man 2 as I plan on seeing it.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...0x_thor_01.jpg

Spot on.

Not really, what is the deal with the shitty scaley sleeves?

http://www.thinkhero.com/wp-content/...-thor-rage.jpg

Going for this look, me thinks.

Supposedly this is The Destroyer, one of the villains for the film...

http://splashpage.mtv.com/wp-content.../destroyer.jpg

I would love to see how the 'skin/armor' folds. I'm seriously interested in what they did with Thor's sleeve and that guy's armor.

Are those sandbags on The Destroyer's feet?

Nice.

Is that pic of Thor actuall from the movie or is it someone's photoshop jobby?

If that's from the film... :drool:

Seriously... all this stuff with the Iron Man films, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, the Avengers etc... I'm been waiting 17 years for this shit! I am excited beyond words. :D:D:D:D:D

That pic/background etc looks straight out of a 90's episode of VR Troopers or Power Rangers.

The site I got it from was linked on the shit with the Thor pic. It is not officially recognised like the Thor one, so don't take it as gospel.

That's Thor himself, official.

The Destroyer there is legit, but it is a production pic - most of these superhero movies look mad silly behind the scenes without filters and such.

Fair play.

I guess Thor looks good, and as small detail as it is, and it will make me sound gayers, but think he be better with no sleeves.

I think Thor is one of the most brilliant "creations" of Stan Lee.

Like he was sitting around one day and was like "*sigh* I don't want to create absolutely everything...... HEY! I know! I'll take a mythological Norse God and make him into a superhero! It already comes with a mass of supporting characters and villains! I'll just... I dunno... saddle Thor with a cripple human doctor alter ego in order to make him humble! The rest writes itself!"

PUT ON THE GOD DAMN HELMATE!

Production Weekly is reporting that Marvel Studios has already opened an office at Shepperton Studios in the U.K. in preparation for the commencement of principal photography on The First Avenger: Captain America, which is scheduled to begin on June 28th for a July 22nd, 2011 release.



Production Weekly is also reporting that Sony has opened an office for Men in Black 3 at New York’s Kaufman Astoria Studios and hopes to begin production sometime in August.

Thor is my favorite character ever. Movie costume looks good but holy shit that Destroyer armor is fucking perfect. Pretty much means the final battle is Thor vs Destroyer with Loki's spirit inside, I would think.

I really hope they keep the Asgardian speech. It'll be great to see Thor talking that way to the other Avengers.

I would be pretty pissed if they didn't.

It's a pretty faithful reproduction of his current costume in the comics, but the "classic" one didn't have sleeves, so they could have gone either way with it.

The Destroyer looks good. And no, I'm not biased.:shifty:

The Thor and the Destroyer look great.
I don't know if anyone caught the brief return of the Destroyer recently with Thor.
The pic of Thor looks bad ass too..judging from the picture tho..he looks a bit skinny for Thor? I guess not skinny..just not massive arms that can crush the skulls of giants.

Here we go with the 'actor isn't bulky' train. lol

Superman is usually never that buff and he could go toe to toe with cosmic beings, new gods and The Hulk. Thor could be just as strong without having a "Triple H" body.

While I support actors 'buffing up' before taking on superhero roles, I'm tired of the idea that if you're not emulating the uniform bulk of the comic depiction that character will not be that character. Things like this avoid the fact that many of these characters have had decades of personality building and they are far greater than how many muscles an artist draws on him.

And before someone gets all smart-ass, I fully recognize and understand certain character's physique are inherent with their 'character'. Hulk, Juggy, and Doomsday come to mind as characters you can't really get away with short-changing their traditional size. But Superman, Batman, Thor, Wolverine, even Spawn don't have to be especially large when their actual character lies in other factors.

I've given myself a headache explaining this to someone who couldn't stand Eddie Brock not looking like a football player in Spidey 3. It really isn't contingent on his concept at all.

Kaylx, I have been reading Thor comics for about..12-13 years at this point. At this point, I like to think I know the character fairly well. I don't think it breaks the character or the portrayal so far..I haven't seen the movie but from the picture..it still looks killer. Just an observation of size is all.
I mean..to me..part of the awesomeness of Thor is the fact that he is a god and he is big and powerful.
http://screencrave.frsucrave.netdna-...ers_iii_1a.jpg

I think that is an average portrayal of Thor. I mean..his arms are as thick as Iron Man..not counting the fact that Stark has armor on.

Well Stark is 6 foot without his armor, Thor is 6'6 right?

good luck finding someone who can act that`s jacked like that

Yeah kalyx, Thor's size isn't quite as important as the hulk or juggernau, but I believe it's more imortant incomparison to some of the other characters people have bitched about. I mean he's an Asgardian thunder god. Being large and imposing is a pqrt of his character. But destor said is also true so I can deal if guy can act.

I've made no presumptions to know any character better than any fan, but I stand by my statement even still.

Poor, poor unimpressive Hank Pym.

Kenneth Branagh is directing. Count on Asgardian speech.

well thor is also supposed to be basically a viking.... when have you seen a non-jacked viking? just saying.... i dont really care. buuuut i agree with what kalyx said about some of the characters not needing to be big but one thing that stuck out to me was eddie brock.... while eddie himself didnt need to be big i think venom DID need to be that way, but he also wasnt that important of a character in the movie so whatever

http://www.movieviral.com/2010/05/02...ng-in-america/

Iron Man 2 already made 100 million world wide before opening in America.

Just spoke to a friend of mine on Skype. He is from Brazil and just saw it. he said it was great..specially the last 10 minutes. I was tempted to ask why but I resisted.

Gonna see Iron Man 2 tonight! Can't wait!!!

Also, I hate the long wait, but if we're getting Thor in May next year, and then Captain America in July, that'll be fucking sweet.

I'm excited and all for a new X-Men film, but I wish it wasn't a prequel. I read rumours somewhere that Fantastic Four are possibly getting a reboot. There is an entry on IMDB that says 2013 but nothing else.

Fuck every comic film is pretty much get a reboot these days. They'll probably reboot Iron Man next year. :mad:

Not with Avengers rolling around.

Yeah I agree..I am not really into the whole reboot crap..specially with the X-Men films. I was not a fan of the Last Stand but I don't think the whole franchise has gone to waste yet. As far as the Fantastic Four goes..they should reboot that for sure..I HATED what they did with Doom. The movie just didn't feel right.

Yeah, I'm pissed that they went the reboot route for x-men, because you gotta figure apocalypse would have been the next villain.

I'm pissed that they went and made a movie as destructive to the franchise as X3. They should have waited for Bryan Singer, or at least made a movie that didn't destroy everything in it's path for future installments

Really, I'd love to see X-Men revisited and be as good as it was with X2, but I'm not sure how that can happen.
Killing Professor X, Cyclops and Jean Grey is almost laughable for how destructive it is to the "X-Men" franchise. That's the founders of the X-Men right there, all dead, except for Storm.
I understand Prof X "isn't dead" and they can be brought back, but how convaluted is that shit? Come on.

The franchise should still be going, but they made moves that makes it dead as a doornail. They should leave it the fuck alone for 10 years and then take another look at things.

"The First Class" sounds like a horrid concept, and Wolverine was so bad that any sequels to that don't interest me in any way.

The X-Men movies were mediocre, the best one was the second one and I'll call it good not great. The first one just felt like a TV movie for some reason. It wasn't horrible, but not great by a long sho The third was alright, it had some nice special effects but the whole killing off a 3rd of the characters idea just sucked. And even I think that the idea of a reboot is terrible, but with the shit they stepped in, they probably have no logical choice. If this comes out, hopefully it's in 3 or 4 years from now. And Marvel has the rights.

I've always felt like X2 was and is one of the best comic book movies made.

While I think it's good, it is one of the better Marvel films along with Iron Man (which is great) and Spider-Man 2 (which also is good- but not as great as it should/could be) [some parts are too dragged out yet some of it has really awesome scenes like the train scene]

I'm in agreement with you about the marvel films higherarchy then. Those 3 are by far the best.

If I had to rank superhero movies, I'd probably say:

1. The Dark Knight
2. Spiderman 2
3. Watchmen
4. Batman Begins
5. Iron Man
6. X2
7. Batman
8. Superman
9. Spiderman
10. not sure

A movie like Sin City would be pretty high on my list, but I didn't include it because it's not really a "superhero" movie, just based on a graphic novel. If I go that route I'd have to include A History of Violence and Road To Perdition, among others.

Would be perfectly comfortable switching the 5 and 6 spot though

I don't agree that Spiderman 2 could have been greater in any way. I think it's far superior to the original, and until The Dark Knight came along was easily the greatest superhero movie of alltime (in my opinon of course).

It was really well loved by film critics and movie buffs. I'm not sure about the hardcore comic fans though. I love comic books, don't get me wrong, but that's not really what I'm looking for in things. I'm just looking for the best movie possible. I could care less about the content as long as it's somewhat faithful. Just the basic concept and staples really. Apart from that, I'm judging it the same I would judge any other movie

The First Class crap would just end up being "Twilight meets X-Men." X-Men watered down for teenage fan girls to fantasize about. The Last Stand was just so horrible..you are right on with killing so many important characters. Bringing them back would take up so much time in a movie. 20 minutes? even that is questionable. I am sure they will figure something out..or not.

I like Sin City and I liked Hellboy a lot as well. I guess not counting non-superhero books makes sense because stuff like Sin City and From Hell are great "movies" if you know what I mean. They feel a bit more cinematic than a lot of Marvel movies, in which DC superhero movies tend to capture a bit more.

This is not definite but I'd have something like-

Dark Knight
Batman Returns
Iron Man
Batman Begins
Hellboy
Watchmen
Batman
Superman 1 and 2
Spider-Man 2
X2

Not counting Sin City.

Fucking stupid how much hate the spider-man franchise gets. Yeah there may have been better choices for casting, but come on, how often is any character perfectly cast? And people act like they are terrible when they really aren't.

Sam Raimi captured the feel and atmosphere of the book perfectly. I do not anticipate the reboot.

Also, the clocktower/train fight is my favorite fight scene in a movie ever.

The first two Spider-Man movies are great. Two of my favorite "fun" movies.

What's weird on Spider-man's casting is how many TOTALLY AWESOME choices they made for all the mediocre ones. I mean, I'll be the first to bitch about Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane, or Tobey McGuire not being confident enough as Spider-man--but on the other side of the coin, HOLYSHIT that Aunt May. That J. Jonah Jameson. That Sandman, that Doc Ock. Some of the casting was meh, some of the casting was fucking PERFECT.

I don't know about X-Men, though. I mean, I know most of the kids come to see Wolverine anyway, but it felt like all three fucking movies were just Wolverine and His Amazing Friends. One movie focusing on Logan? Fine, I understand. He's a lovable character. One and a half movies? Sure, he's marketable. I think I had a little too much Wolverine by the end of the three, now FOUR different movies in which he was the official star.

I'm afraid I'm going to be like this by the end of the Avengers, too. I'm skeptical that the guy they have playing Cap is going to be able... you know, "keep up" with the onstage antics of one Robert Downey Jr., and what's going to happen is Iron Man and His Avengers. I hope I'm wrong, though.

Not that I didn't like X-Men, of course. Second one was my favorite, but still. Fuck. God damn. Wolverine = Important, handsome, leader, best fighter, loved by everyone but Cyclops who was a dick and then died. We get it.

The people in charge of Avengers have way too much respect for the characters to let cap take a back seat, I think. Frankly, I think a lot of the movie will be about IM and cap butting heads, given their contrasting personalities and lifestyles. Cap has held the title of leader of the avengers in the past, but it's really always been the two of them running the team together, and I'm betting they won't change that for the film.

Also, they should just keep the same actor for Jameson, in the spider-man reboot. Had to be the best casting of a comic character, in the history of film.

The people giving them the money to make such a big movie have way too much respect for money to let Robert Downey Jr. take a back seat, I think.
I will be shocked if Chris Evans is leading the pack as Captain America. At the very best he will sharing that role with Downey's Iron Man, but more than likely it's going to be Iron Man and everyone else.
I can't prove this until the movie comes out, obviously, but to me it seems like common sense. Money and the general public always come first, not the comics.

I suppose there's also the bait and switch they can pull on the average movie goer, where they make Captain America the leader in the film, but cut the trailers and tailor the marketing campaign to make it seem like Iron Man is.
This way they can "have their cake and eat it too", so to speak.

I just fully expect the new popularity of Iron Man and Downey Jr. to be the primary attraction of the movie. Especially if Iron Man 2 is as successful and well-recieved as everyone expects.

Jeritron pretty much hit the nail on the head, as far as my concerns go.

I hope Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg make Ant Man before Avengers, so they can work in a minor role or cameo for him.
Obviously he's not going to be a major player but he could be a cool sidekick or one-scene gag.

I have a feeling that movie will be good. Edgar Wright is great, and Simon Pegg is perfect for that type of role. The smaller the movie the better. It should be made in the same spirit and scale as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

I don't think Hawkeye or Vision should get their own movies, but they could work them into any potential Avengers sequel easily.

I think getting a movie like Avengers off the ground is a pretty ambitious thing, and unexplored territory. They should stick with Cap, Iron Man, Thor and Hulk (and maybe Ant Man) the first time around. It will be hard enough to make all of those elements come together, nevermind introducing new ones at the same time.
Lesser Avengers seems like a sequel thing. If Vision, Hawkeye or anyone else is shoved in there it's going to feel bloated as hell

Even after the success of Iron Man, I think the general public has much more respect and recognition of the Captain America character. I think it would be weird even to someone who doesn't read comics, to see captain america in a subordinate role.

A lot of the emphasis in this arguement is being placed on the actors. But it doesn't matter how charming Robert Downey Jr. is. Nobody knew who Iron Man was before the movie. Now, to most people, he is that superhero the Downey Jr. played. But Captain America is a cultural icon, whose death in the comics made headlines around the world. Joe Quesada was even on the Colbert Report to speak about it.

Furthermore, it's not as if Captain America is being introduced for this movie. He has his own big budget summer blockbuster on the way, and it will be fresher in people's minds than Iron Man, when Avengers comes out.

Also, I never said Downey Jr. will take a backseat. Just that he would share the lead with cap.

I hope they can make Captain America the focus of both the film and the movie goers, but my concerns stand.
They're not even really concerns. As long as the movie is good, I am okay with it. I guess it's more of a prediction really.
Also, while I'm a fan of the Chris Evans casting, I feel as though they would have gone out and got someone like Leonardo Dicaprio if they were looking for it to be a bigger hit than Iron Man. I know this has nothing to do with quality, but it sort of indicates their approach to the concept.
I don't care that much about star power. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the general public does. That's what I'm trying to get at with placing emphasis on that.

Captain America could also be a massive hit and fire on all cylinders, and capture the public's attention enough to make Chris Evans into an overnight superstar. Maybe this is what they are hoping for. That's what happened with Michael Keaton and Christian Bale in the Batman role.
Seems like a big bet though, since Avengers will probably be in production before Captain America hits theaters.

Fair enough. I think this is the best case scenario at this point.

I was kind of hoping for Daniel Craig to be cast as Thor (not because of his fame, but just his look/personality), but hopefully this guy they got is good. I honestly have no real opinion on the matter, since I've only seen him act in one scene from Star Trek. The verdict is out.

What are your thoughts on it Figgy? And what would you have thought of Craig? I know you're a huge Thor mark.

More grievous things have been done for movie marketability than turning Captain America into a second fiddle.

And stage presence, or "charm", has alot to do with alot. If Chris Evans can't cement his presence on-screen while Downey Jr is eating the scenery alive, it would be just as bad as writing it out that way. While I'm basically waiting to be surprised--Heath Ledger's Joker showed me that I can definitely be wrong about casting choices--I'm still pretty skeptical that our Cap is going to have the staying power to stand beside our Ironman and our Hulk and still be memorable when it's all said and done.

Is Edward Norton still on board, or are they just going to have him in CGI Hulk form the whole time and dance around it?
I haven't heard anything about that in a while, but last I had heard Norton was doubtful.

But like I said, I'm basically going into this expecting the guys in charge to know something I don't. I still remember taking one look at "Heath Ledger will be the Joker" and going WHAT? WTF? BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN S;AJKSFJ;J THE JOKER?

And then I saw the trailer and promptly shut the fuck up. I'm hoping--hoping, hoping, hoping--that Chris Evans has a spark in him I haven't seen yet, and that the Cap movie is going to blow my fucking brains out.

I hadn't really heard anything about Norton backing out, so I assumed he was still on board. That'd be mad gay if he dropped out, though.

The way to approach Captain America is to really hit on what makes the character work. It's a slice of Americana, so it should be a pretty fun, light-hearted type of movie. It should capture that WW2 adventure, serial type of feeling.
The best example of that I can really think of is Raiders of the Lost Ark. It should be a lot like that. Joe Johnston also directed The Rocketeer, which I think is also a movie that goes places a Captain America movie should go.
Lastly, the original Superman. That movie really drives home that character, and the all-american feeling that comes with it. It reminded people of why it was so popular in the first place, and it had that really hokey, warming Norman Rockwell thing going on.

So my view is that Captain America should be some brilliant mix of Raiders, Rocketeer, and Superman. I don't think it should be too trendy or modern, since it's set in WWII. If they approach it the same way they approach other comic book movies it will come off awfully. I hate when movies set in past time periods try to be modern.

They should also try to shy away from tons of CGI. I want to see real stunts, and real fight scenes/chases in a WWII Captain America movie.

The big question is how a movie like that will be recived. I honestly think social climate plays a big part in how much of a hit a movie is.
Spiderman and The Dark Knight couldn't be more different, but one came along right after 9/11 and lifted spirits, and the other came along in a more cynical time and capitalized off of being dark and relevant.
Society could eat a pro-America movie up, or spit it out.

Also, I totally forgot that Hugo Weaving is going to be the Red Skull. Me likey breadsticks.

Chris Evans seems like he can play a myriad of different roles, given his parts in FF, Push, and The Losers. Thought he pretty much nailed Johnny Storm. I think he's a good actor, but he just hasn't gotten to break out until the captain america movie.

Christopher Reeves was a total no name when he played Superman. If the character of Captain America can do that for Chris Evans, and vice versa, everyone is a winner.

I heard Norton wasn't happy or something back in 2008.

And yeah, Cap has a ton of potential to be really good. An American super solider fighting Nazis and Red Skull.... it should be a hit. It'll probably be the first War/Superhero/Sci-Fi film.

Yeah, never seen this guy before, so I can't really pass judgement. Can't really say much for Craig either. All I remember seeing him in was the bond movies, and it's hard for me to picture James Bond swinging a hammer around, screaming "I SAY THEE NAY!" at the top of his lungs.

Thor isn't really a tough cast tbh. You just need to find someone with a decent size frame, that can act really intensely in the fight scenes. He's not a particularly deep character. Very old school, black and white outlook on right and wrong type of superhero. I mean I enjoy the character, but it's more the book as a whole, and the whole mythology of his world that I love, when I say he's my favorite character.

At least they didn't cast Triple H as the rumours were suggesting...

I'm fairly excited about Wolverine 2.

I dont know why you guys are so worried about cap and ironman sharring the leadership/spotlight because hasnt that been the trend in the last decade maybe half a decade of the comics?

That's what I'm saying. People are saying that cap will be a subordinate to Iron Man though, not sharing leadership.

That would feel extremely awkward to me.

I doubt they will do that. Even though both share responsibility as team leaders..I have always seen Cap as having the ultimate word. It seems like way too many heroes look up to him and see him as more experienced since he was in "the shit." (or World War II)

Remember on the Spiderman Animated Series, where Spidey recruited various heroes and made them his bitch?
That was funny. Captain America, Iron Man, Reed Richards and Storm all getting him coffee

I remember that.
It has been years since I saw those episodes loosely based on the Secret Wars. If I am not mistaken, didn't he pick Cap for his leadership skills?