Hype going into overdrive Stateside and World Premiere received critical acclaim last night. Having not read many Marvel comic series' as a kid had not got my excitement levels up until recently when I saw Thor and Captain America. Now can't wait for the IMAX 3D experience in just 2 weeks time.
Anyone else's excitement levels peaking for this movie?
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That said I did enjoy Thor, and Iron Man was great. I have ticket for this one tomorrow but don't think I can go. If it was Prometheus, I'd be there without fail!!
The only investment regret I have is not going with what I knew to be true -- that Marvel has an incredible inventory of creative content (second only to that claimed by the enterprise's current owner, Disney) and would recover.
Now, rather than license films to other studios and trying to make money off of derivative licensing agreements on toys and other tie ins (whilst having awful films made of staple characters like the Punisher and Daredevil), Marvel has its own studio and mints money off the films.
Make no bones about it, Marvel makes films to make bank. Before Marvel launched its own studio, Sam Raimi's trilogy of Spiderman movies grossed over US$1 billion worldwide.
All that aside, very excited about the release of the film. Have greatly enjoyed going back to comic books I loved as a kid with my children. The Spiderman movies, the Iron Man movies, Captain America, and Thor were terrific.
Loved Iron man, Thor and Captain America. The hulk films were crap and now we are seeing a third hulk.
Unsure how Samuel L Jackson will portray nick fury as we have only seen snippets so far.
As for Scarlett johansson... She is a Very Yummy Mummy
I'd say no it wasn't as good as the graphic novels but in its own right was enjoyable.
I was employed to alter the artwork shipped over from the USA on 'artboards'. I used to spend all day's 'inking in' with rapidographic pens, and making up adverts for specials, and certain words. Interesting job, I got bored of course, and left on a Thursday, and they bounced my final pay cheque , which I have 'somewhere' from the Bank of Boston. total weekly pay £50. They were based in Holborn, and the company was called Transatlantic publications.
Ken - that job sounded awesome. There's plenty of people who'd do it for 50 quid a week even today!
What superpowers would people like? I'd like to be able to fire lasers out of my bum. I'd call myself the Moon and wear a skintight white suit with a laser flap which would be intimidating in itself. Wouldn't want to end up in jail in that clobber though.
As to slapdash films, you'd have to have suffered through what Marvel used to allow to be made. If the most recent Captain America wasn't your cup of tea, try J.D. Salinger's son as Cap (don't do it, the film is not watchable and can't even be enjoyed ironically). Not into the Iron Man sequel? How about Dolph Lundgren as the Punisher. Or Ben Affleck as Daredevil.
And the definition of slapdash is the Fantastic Four film made by Roger Corman that allowed Constantin Film Production to maintain its option and eventually make the terrible Fantastic Four films featuring Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, and Captain America.
Marvel's licensing of film rights used to lead to debacles that mortally wounded franchises -- now the movies substantially augment the value of the property.
That said, I'm resigned to The Avengers being bad, but look forward to seeing it anyway... because it cannot be Roger Corman/Dolph Lundgren/Nic Cage/Jennifer Garner bad.