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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Can we nip this in the bud before we go on another three pages?
edited 20th Aug '15 8:04:25 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau Project- sigh* I shouldn't have included the twist in the list...but other than the skydiving scene (which count as action scene), I couldn't come up with any other moment in the movie which was truly memorable. Well, at least not in a good way...(in my headcanon Tony lied when he told Bruce that the arc reactor is gone).
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Agreed. Let's discuss how they can work in Phil Urich. I picture this sort of scene:
???: Not gonna lie to ya, son. Your writing's got spunk. And I don't say that kind of thing very often. What was your name again?
Phil Urich: Phil Urich.
(Beat)
???: "Urich"? You're not, by any chance, related to—
Phil: Ben Urich? Yeah, I'm his nephew.
???: Well, no wonder I'm loving this. What your uncle had, you've got yourself. Not many people were like him. If he wasn't dead as a doornail, I would've hired him at the first second I heard he was available.
Phil: So does that mean...
???: You're hired, Urich.
Phil: Well, thank you very much, Mr....?
???: Jameson. J. Jonah Jameson. Welcome to the Daily Bugle, son.
So the question now is, who should play Phil Urich?
(Dodges another petrol bomb.)
...Geez.
edited 20th Aug '15 8:32:39 AM by TargetmasterJoe
sigh* I shouldn't have included the twist in the list...but other than the skydiving scene (which count as action scene), I couldn't come up with any other moment in the movie which was truly memorable. Well, at least not in a good way...(in my headcanon Tony lied when he told Bruce that the arc reactor is gone).
See, I think even if you don't like the twist, that scene of Ben Kingsley coming out of the bathroom after dropping a stink bomb is just hilarious. Because, well, Ben Kingsley is talking about dropping a stink bomb. Kingsley is just hilarious on the role.
Memorable scenes from IM3:
- Yeah, the skydiving scene was awesome.
- The scene where Tony told the kid, "Where's my sandwich?"
- The scene where the kid tries to guilt trip Tony and he's like, "Bye!"
- The ending, where Bruce Banner admits to falling asleep in the beginning.
- Pepper Potts apologizing for killing the main villain by saying, "I was just so...violent."
edited 20th Aug '15 8:37:21 AM by alliterator
Arnim Zola in Winter Soldier is a great moment.
Damn, that scene creeped me out a little.
edited 20th Aug '15 8:56:03 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectArnim Zola is like Rocket and Groot. It's a ridiculous concept on paper. You really need to put a lot of work into it to sell it without breaking plausibility. The character's visual presentation, the atmosphere of how they're introduced, the voice, the personality, the emotional impact of their first scene and how it interacts with the general tone the film is trying to produce, etc. It's not so much the WHY that matters but the HOW.
But when it works, it is glorious. It is glorious because it's a ridiculous concept. It is glorious because you know f*cking damn well that it's impossible but you believe every moment of it anyway.
edited 20th Aug '15 9:00:59 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I know. It's comic-book silly but it also is genuinely unnerving. His face on the monitors in particular.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectMatt's suit slightly updates
http://comicbook.com/2015/08/20/netflix-delivers-a-new-look-at-daredevils-costume/
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That and to a lesser extent GOTG proves that even the seemingly "zanier" concepts from 616 can be preserved but made effective in the adaptation process (I'm looking at you, 20th Century Fox).
That reminds me of another wonderful moment that no one mentioned yet. It may have been a short expository flashback, but seeing a fucking CELESTIAL in action was just beautiful to the point of tears.
edited 20th Aug '15 10:22:03 AM by nervmeister
So Marvel's big push on Inhumans for All New Marvel sounds like a response to the MCU though the source material has been pushing them up for a while, but never to this amount.
The MCU's fish pills are the Terrigen Cloud's replacement. So... both mediums use a similar concept. I wonder how much Inhumans are going to effect these overall verses in the long run
edited 20th Aug '15 10:20:43 AM by xbimpy
"See, I think even if you don't like the twist, that scene of Ben Kingsley coming out of the bathroom after dropping a stink bomb is just hilarious. Because, well, Ben Kingsley is talking about dropping a stink bomb. Kingsley is just hilarious on the role."
I didn't laugh at that scene. Maybe because I was puzzled and wondering what was going on, but I didn't find it particularly funny.
Anyway, on an unrelated note, what can we expect from the Jessica Jones series? I have never read the comic.
We can expect the Purple Man to be the scum of the earth, but other than that, I don't know.
Oh God! Natural light!AOS is on a slightly lower continuity, though - it's subservient to the films in terms of continuity, but the films aren't obligated to abide by the shows' continuity as much as we might wish that they should (I really want to see AOS characters in the Inhumans movie, or Matt or Power Man and Iron Fist in another film).
The Netflix shows deal with this in a very smart way by taking place in a niche that nothing else in the MCU is directly dealing with, so there's little overlap.
But that why, say, while AOS had it that all of HYDRA's hierarchy was eradicated in one day except for Strucker and eventually Ward's ragtag group, Ant-Man then came along and casually had a random HYDRA bigwig be a minor antagonist.
AOS now has to write around that (probably by having the guy be a part of Ward's group, though I hope not), as apposed to the films having to write around AOS.
edited 20th Aug '15 10:47:43 AM by KnownUnknown
@Theokal3
Y'know, the more I think about it, the more I think that the twist in Iron Man 3 really should've been saved for an MCU interpretation of The Sentry. It makes sense if you read about how Stan Lee conceived him.
edited 20th Aug '15 10:49:44 AM by nervmeister
Anyway, on an unrelated note, what can we expect from the Jessica Jones series? I have never read the comic.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to say I'm not sure either.
I mean, did they say they would up the darker side of stuff than Daredevil did?
I'm really not keen about the possibility that they'll drop F-Bombs...
I mean, I get the Alias comics had F-words, but still...
edited 20th Aug '15 10:48:08 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I stand by point that while the twist was in itself clever, it's a shame they had to ruin an occasion to modernize the Mandarin for it (please do not answer this I do not wish to start this argument again), and regardless of what you think of the Mandarin OR the twist, Killian was a really crappy villain.