Ultimately Off-Topic VI: Another Star Trek Reference

[wyokid]

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Sadness: Coulson died!?!?! WTF? You could tell that EVERYONE in the theater mourned him. The entire audience gasped when he was stabbed and no one made a single sound when he passed (yes I know it's a movie theater and everyone is supposed to be quiet, but everyone was laughing and being merry the entire time except then). Rest In Peace, Agent Phillip Coulson, you will be missed,

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I don't think he's really dead.

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Confusion: Did I miss the part where they explained how Thor got back to Earth? I mean, I know in the THOR movie there were constant references to "back doors" and whatnot and that there were multiple ways in and out of Asgard, but I don't think this movie explained further exactly how he got back. If they were going to do that they should have just explained at the end of THOR that he has a way back. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I'm just wondering if I had missed something.

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Loki says something along the lines of "how much energy did the all-father use to bring you back to your precious Earth" after Thor takes him out of the Quinjet.

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Anticipation: So the Chitauri are also working with Thanos. Wow. If this is supposed to be the plot-setup for Avengers 2 I already know it will be fantastic. I don't know much about Thanos but I assume he's more or less the Marvel Comics version of Darkseid: Large unbeatable alien dude. We also know that in the next few years we will be getting Iron Man 3, Nick Fury and Thor 2 at the very least, More may have been confirmed but I don't think that Captain America 2 or Avengers 2 have been confirmed yet. I wouldn't mind delving deeper into Hawkeye and Black Widow, but I doubt they'll get their own movies.

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Cap 2 has been confirmed. ScarJo said there are talks of a Black Widow film. I don't think Thanos is for TA2 I think it's for Thor 2 Thanos is sorta like Darksied.

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My buddy Paris (she's in the incredibly well made Storm costume) at The Avengers screening.

[Drz]

Actually, I haven't seen it yet. tbh

Spider-Man trailer here. :) Lizardman looks good, nice POV shots and Spider-Man being Spider-Man.

Batman here:

[Robbie_Jee]

You should probably be more scared of Chris Hansen that guy pops out of nowhere when you least expect it.

Sorry mate, I don't know who that is.

Obama supports The Venus Project?! Wow. That's awesome! Do you support TVP, Robbie?

With all my heart, Sinx. With all my heart.
I am actually very dedicated to changing the ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY of humanity, getting rid of the Central Banks, managing and efficiently sustaining our world's resources, ending war, bloodshed, famine, poverty and bringing absolute equality to the creatures and people of this world. This could all be sorted out tomorrow if we all pulled our fingers out.

I trying preaching this kind of stuff as much as I can so that people may change their ignorant wasteful selves. But sadly most folk just don't want to know and they ridiculously assume I'm talking about politics. I don't give a flying shit about some political agenda. It's not hard to realise what's wrong with this world.

[MarvelMaster616]

Spider-Man trailer here. :) Lizardman looks good, nice POV shots and Spider-Man being Spider-Man.

Batman here:

I really haven't been able to get too excited about Amazing Spider-Man. Don't get me wrong. I'll probably see it, but I probably won't take a day off work or go to a midnight showing like I will for the Dark Knight Rises. I'm just not too interested in seeing another Spider-Man origins movie with the main villain being the Lizard. For a movie that's supposed to reboot the franchise, I think it would be better off utilizing a much more potent villain on the same level as Norman Osborn. I guess that may be asking for too much, but given how many big comic movies are coming out this summer I don't think Spider-Man did itself any favors. Avengers set the bar pretty high and I doubt Amazing Spider-Man will top it.

[Drz]

I think they did a wise decision of having a newer villain, not to mention who cares what "A/B/C" list the character is in comics, after all we're having TDKR with Bane, and Begins had Ras' al Ghul. People outside comics aren't that familiar with them, a tiny bit more perhaps on Bane now because of JL: DOOM, but thats just stretching the thin line.

Atleast Spider-Man has 2-3 strong weeks before Batman, much better than what Hellboy 2 had to deal with.

[Robbie_Jee]

Wow that Spiderman trailer just blew me away. I too wasn't that happy about a reboot, nor was I happy about the Lizard being the main villain. But now I have been totally and utterly convinced. This film is going to be awesome.

It's been ten years since the start of the last Spiderman Trilogy, and I've gotta say, this trilogy looks and feels exactly like a whole decade's worth of film making and special effects have gone by and have also advanced considerably. When Peter is poised in mid-air and then activates his webshooter to fire a web, it literally pulls him forward in a very realistic way. He looks poised and ready when being flung through the city, and yet it still feels like he's got to concentrate and think about where to shoot. I love it. That alone is reason enough to see it.

And then there's the Lizard. For the past 9 months or year or whatever it's been since this film was announced, I've found it difficult to get hyped about the Lizard. I've never really rated him as one of Spidey's greatest rogues. But now after seeing that trailer, I can totally see why they chose him as the antagonist. Who is the director of this film? Because to me this film already seems like it's going to be a visionary masterpiece. The Lizard looks fuckin epic.

[Jer]

Spider-Man trailer here. :) Lizardman looks good, nice POV shots and Spider-Man being Spider-Man.

Batman here:

I'll have to look at it later. But I really do want to see it. God bless you Drz.

[Sinx]

With all my heart, Sinx. With all my heart.
I am actually very dedicated to changing the ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY of humanity, getting rid of the Central Banks, managing and efficiently sustaining our world's resources, ending war, bloodshed, famine, poverty and bringing absolute equality to the creatures and people of this world. This could all be sorted out tomorrow if we all pulled our fingers out.

I trying preaching this kind of stuff as much as I can so that people may change their ignorant wasteful selves. But sadly most folk just don't want to know and they ridiculously assume I'm talking about politics. I don't give a flying shit about some political agenda. It's not hard to realise what's wrong with this world.

Yes! Me too man. I found out about The Venus Project through a band called Enter Shikari and it's really opened my eyes to all of that stuff.

[Balfro]

That trailer was Amazing. Spider-Man is going to be sooo good! (see what I did there?)

But his costume is still horrible... ;)

[Drz]

I'll have to look at it later. But I really do want to see it. God bless you Drz.

Jesus Drz died for your sins. <3

That trailer was Amazing. Spider-Man is going to be sooo good! (see what I did there?)

But his costume is still horrible... ;)

I really like this shirt they made out of the costume. However i really want the Miles Morales one, but Midtown comics International shipping is too much for my nitpicky tastes.

Raid the Redemption - Thoughts & Rambles

The Raid: Redemption is an Indonesian martial arts action film directed by Gareth Evans. If you’re a fan of action, get ready to grin the entire time for this brutal story about policemen raiding the biggest drug lord mobster’s 30 floor apartment, with each floor filled with rapists, murderers and other criminal scumbags. Its 30 floors of pure mindless chaos, with the 20 elite cops having to fight their way in to assinate/capture Tama Riyadi (Ray Sahetapy).

While the movie has 20 elite cops, the movie centers down to 4 leading characters, the main protagonist being an elite SWAT member Rama (Iko Uwais), Lieutenant Wahyu (Pierre Gruno), Sergeant Jaka (Joe Taslim) and the hot-headed rookie Bowo (Tegar Satrya ), these are the main characters againts the merciless waves of criminals from the Machete gang to snipers to brutal martial artists.

Tama’s right hand Mad Dog is pretty much the best villain in years when it comes to action movies, this man loves carnage and martial arts and you will see two very beautifully choreographed action sequences featuring Mad Dog, but that isn’t to say the movie only has 2 memorable scenes, no, this movie in it’s entirety is focused on stunning action visuals. With it’s 1 hour 46 minute mark, only about 15-25 minutes in total is served for the more quiet scenes as the shit hits the fan.

The soundtrack is pure pleasure for this movie, it’s very up-beat, energetic techno boom beating with other instrumental usages such as soft piano play, no vocals whatsoever or rap in the background. It’s all magic by Mike Shinado & Joseph Trapanese. It’s very dubstep.

I will note, that this movie being very Eastern, us more western cultured may find some of the plot points as clichés, but if anything it’s to remind us that this is made for the Eastern market and with a movie title having “redemption” word, you can find yourself besides stunning action to be viewing an emotional story regarding family, honor, corruption and personal redemptions.

In short, this is a very stunning action movie that really makes you want to crave for more, and I can see Mad Dog becoming a cinematic film monster classic that people will remember for a long time. Go see this movie.

[wyokid]

Am I seriously the only one still not interested in TASM?

[sage6paths]

Am I seriously the only one still not interested in TASM?

Lol your not alone. I am not interested either. I feel like Peter's story has been told so many times it gets kind of boring. Nevertheless Ima go watch it for old times sake.

[sage6paths]

Avengers Behind the scenes

[wyokid]

Lol your not alone. I am not interested either. I feel like Peter's story has been told so many times it gets kind of boring. Nevertheless Ima go watch it for old times sake.

Current speculation (based off of the new trailer) is that the "dark secret" his parents have is that, much like Ang Lee's Hulk, Peter's father implanted stuff into Peter and that the spider bite brought it out.

Received this in the mail. What can it mean?

[thecrimson]

I'm just as excited to see Amazing Spider-Man as I am to see Avengers.