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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I think the focus testing probably says audience respond better to actual pictures of the actors (shopped as they may be), but movie studios always have extremely technically skilled artists working for them, so getting them to do posters or whatever that capture the likeness of the actors would be pretty simple and probably result in better posters the majority of the time.
I suspect that he'll be busy swearing and sweating because this is literally everything he feared and overreacted to.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSo is Tony just so smart he can see the future? Or was the Mind Stone trying to warn them about this from day one? They don't really have to explain that, sometimes a vision in a sci-fi/fantasy is just a vision (even if it's coming from the proto-Vision), but I do wonder if there might be some kind of payoff for that, just how much they've actually planned as buildup for Infinity War.
His ptsd and anxiety regarding space came from Avengers, where a giant invasion from space happened and where he nearly died because of it.
Everyone else was basically 'yay we won' while Tony has fixated on 'shit what if they come back?'
Which is a valid thing to worry about really.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOh, I don't disagree with that. But I'm just curious how much of what he's seen is just him being smart enough to put the pieces together and how much (if any) is the Mind Stone feeding him information of its own.
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Looks a bit better. Costumes and makeup are still pretty bad, but at least some of the sets look a little less parking lot (though Attilan still fairly parkade-ish) and maybe the script is okay. Lockjaw's a big cute dog but Medusa still looks terrible.But maybe post-production really will help this show.
This can't be helping them with people who don't already know something about the Inhumans, though. It's unnecessarily vague about stuff, like you have to infer that Attilan is on the moon or that the king is that big guy who doesn't talk, and that Maximus is afraid of him talking. They could afford to just say some of this stuff outright. Exposit a little.
edited 20th Jul '17 8:55:49 PM by Unsung
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I wondered myself if the Mind Stone weren't trying to push him in the right direction a bit. Someone did mention that while the visions Wanda showed Black Widow and Cap (and whatever she showed Hulk) were clearly just meant to traumatize or incapacitate them, Tony and Thor's visions seemed rather prophetic about what was gonna happen in future movies (aliens attacking Earth again and Ragnarok occurring, respectively).
edited 20th Jul '17 7:56:01 PM by comicwriter
Just saw they showed off the Hot Toys figures for Thor Ragnarok at SDCC, and Loki's comes with something interesting
◊. The Tesseract/Space Stone and the Casket of Ancient Winters from the first movie.
Hot Toys' stuff is aimed at adult collectors and pretty much never makes up random stuff that isn't in the movies, so I'm guessing these factor in to the plot somehow. Interesting.
Like Thor he appears to have more than one look in the movie. He's wearing a green costume
◊ in the trailer on what looks like Asgard, but a blue one on Sakaar
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edited 20th Jul '17 9:14:33 PM by comicwriter

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