Avengers Assemble!

[Martin]

Chronicle was great great stuff.

[FilmNerdJamie]

Let's face it. Chronicle did the "If Superman really existed" thing better than Man of Steel and I really liked Man of Steel and really despise Landis.

[B_Metal]

But Man of Steel wasn't really doing a "If Superman really existed..." So that's kind of a weird fucking comparison.

[Martin]

In your face!!!!!!!!

[Anderson]

  Spoiler: semi-sorta spoilers 

Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson) gave an interview to Larry King (still has a show?) suggesting that the Scarlet Witch is why he came back to life.

[B_Metal]

That Cap poster....... AWESOME

[FilmNerdJamie]

  Spoiler: semi-sorta spoilers 

Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson) gave an interview to Larry King (still has a show?) suggesting that the Scarlet Witch is why he came back to life.

  Spoiler: DOFP Xavier/Magneto Sex Scene Alert! 

To which Larry suddenly woke up and yelled, "WHAT THE FUCK IS A SCARLET WITCH?? Little Rock, Arkansas, you're on the air!"

[Abraham Smashington]

Or maybe Landis' script sucked?

could be, but I can also see the studio saying "just add a "2" and have more fights"

[Anderson]

Cap 2 tidbits.

  Spoiler: Every other day this week is Marvel shit and contests. 

Captain America 2 takes places 2 years after The Avengers, thus setting the stage for The Avengers 2 to take place in real time (i.e. 3 years after the first movie).

The High Council from The Avengers that wanted Manhattan nuked is the SHIELD oversight committee. They answer to Robert Redford in the flick.

For comic fans, they are these people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiss...man_Activities

Garry Shandling is reprising his Iron Man 2 Senator role. Antagonizing Captain America and SHIELD now over the Winter Soldier.

They're doing a lot of FX work with Toby Jones to reprise Arnim Zola.

Peggy Carter will appear alongside Howard Stark in flashback. Rumor suggests that there was a reshoot to have Carter in old age makeup for Cap to meet her in modern era.

The Falcon's role has been reduced a little.

Crossbones is a double agent. Batroc gets more fighting time than Crossbones.

Heavily borrows from Brubaker's run.

[Abraham Smashington]

that sounds awesome. Also, MORE GARRY IS ALWAYS AWESOME.

[Bobby Bear]

not sure how that fits in here (unless it's about Wallace being the new Torch), but I disagree. Chronicle was much better than it had any right to be in my opinion.

Yeah, I was just using the discussion about that fella to take another shot at the massively overrated Chronicle - a film which felt more like a show-reel for some fairly pedestrian special effects and set pieces than a solid, engaging narrative.

The "whoa, bro!" archetypes, none of whom were particularly interesting or memorable, spent too much time running around pulling superhero reality show stunts; the found footage conceit was typically yawn-inducing; I honestly found The Troubled One going Villain near the end pretty amusing (clearly not the intended outcome). I just get the feeling people often excuse a lot of its sloppy writing and superhero tropes because of the concept rather than the execution.

[Abraham Smashington]

The found footage stuff in my mind actually worked completely in this movie. Using their powers to manipulate the camera was borderline genius. using personal experience here, if my friends and I from high school found out we had "powers" we'd do the exact same shit. Just fucking with people and what not. That was the part I most liked to be honest. The Troubled One was a bit too "troubled" for my taste, but Dale sold it pretty well.

I dunno, I guess since I thought the movie was going to be the worst thing ever based on the trailers and it ended up being much better (thanks to the leads) leads to defend it.

But I can see where you're coming from...sorta.

[Bobby Bear]

But I can see where you're coming from...sorta.

I'll take it! Good man.

I expected very good things from it because of the presentation of the material and the onset of superhero movie fatigue. Chronicle represented a chance for something meatier than the average cape/spandex yarn, while still being as fun and visually spectacular as you'd expect from that sort of story. The everyday "angle," if you will, seemed a good one. But I just couldn't get past the thinly-veiled excuses for the (admittedly understandable) high school super-antics... at least, not enough to switch off irritants like The Annoying Angst Boy.

The camera larking is fun in small doses, yes, although it felt like that stuff was filling up space where those characters could have been better developed in more focused second and third acts.

[Abraham Smashington]

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[Abraham Smashington]

sooo good.