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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Chris Hemsworth is 6'3. Was it extraordinarily hard to cast Thor?
edited 28th Oct '15 12:07:43 AM by Mukora
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."Actually, I think it's because directors like to have all actors of the same height, so they can all fit into frame. So that's how you have behind-the-scenes pictures of tiny Gillian Anderson on X-Files standing on a box next to the gigantic David Duchovney so both of their faces are in the same frame.
edited 28th Oct '15 12:19:32 AM by alliterator
Again: they probably stood on boxes when they were all in the same shot (and you couldn't see their feet). Or they used camera tricks
◊ to put them in the same shot (hence why things get all twisty).
edited 28th Oct '15 12:51:27 AM by alliterator
Never believe the officially stated celebrity male heights. It's usually exaggerated by an inch or two. Especially actors that claim to be average height.
RDJ is an inch shorter than 5 foot 9.
holy crap i am 3/4ths of an inch taller than iron man
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.That's not what I said. First off, we already know for a fact that the next Spider-Man movie will star Peter, so the earliest a Miles Morales movie could come out would be, what, May 2020? Look, I'm not one of those naysayers who thinks the superhero genre's going to crash and burn anytime soon, but I do think its popularity will peak at some point once the novelty's completely worn off.
Five years (or longer) is a long time. Miles hasn't even been around for five years yet. How do you know we're not going to get a Spider-Gwen movie or a Silk movie or a Spider-Girl movie or a Spider-Man 2099 movie, etc, etc? Not every non-Peter Spider-Man is getting a movie (Well, unless they do Spider-Verse: The Movie...).
All I'm trying to say is you can't point to any random comic book character with no officially-announced movie in development and say, "They're definitely getting a movie."
Also, to be fair, there was about an 8-year gap between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins, whereas somehow I doubt we'll be getting a gap quite that long between Marvel movies anytime soon.
edited 28th Oct '15 5:43:37 AM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Me, too. Just so long as they cut back on all the alternate Spider-Man killings.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Yeah, the craze will peak at one point, but that doesn't mean that it will end from one day to another. The thing is that even a truly bad movie can't stop Marvel because, well, even if one movie bombs, there will be at least one in post-production, one during production and one in pre-production at the same time. So one bomb won't result in an immediate stop of releases, and if the ones which are scheduled are reasonable successful, well, crisis averted. There has to be a string of financial bombs for Marvel to stop, and considering that good-will the studio has with the audience, a string of bad movies beforehand.
I guess we will have just to wait and see.
Yeah, Marvel would have to make quite a long string of bad movies in a row to kill the superhero genre altogether. I'd be genuinely shocked if that ever happened.
The smartest thing Marvel's doing right now is making movies like Got G that are really different and incorporate other genres. Audiences can't get sick of Marvel movies if they're all really different from each other. That'd be like audiences getting sick of Pixar movies.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.I still think I'd be more interested in seeing younger characters on a TV show instead.
There's just more time for high school drama that way. There's more time for Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World, instead of having to compress that structure into only two hours, and that's something I think the genre is missing right now.
EDIT: Also, you get them as young characters for a much longer amount of time. With movies, where you can do one every two years at the fastest, you rapidly age a high school character out of high school.
edited 28th Oct '15 9:09:53 AM by BadWolf21
On a different note, Ant-man is expected to cross the 500,000,000 mark today...it is also by now the third highest grossing Franchise starter for Marvel after the unreachable Got G and close behind Iron Man.
I really don't get why so many people still claim that it was a box office disappointment.....

Not exactly MCU-related, but since Spider-Man and Emma Stone have been discussed at the moment...
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone broke up.
EDIT: Awkward and bitter page topper is awkward and bitter...
edited 27th Oct '15 9:11:29 PM by TargetmasterJoe