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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Funny-looking or not, considering how bad most people thought Steppenwolf looked in Justice League, Thanos looks very well-realized into the environment. Feels like someone's that's actually there.
And I think he looks good, honestly.
edited 30th Nov '17 7:16:48 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectCivil war is a great concept which lacked in execution. The Clone Saga is a giant clusterfuck which only existed to correct past mistakes.
Btw, is there any event or major story which involves Time travelling through past events in order to defeat a villain? Because if there is one, I would bet that this will be the title of Avengers 4.
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It helps that Infinity War was not the victim of Christmas Rushed reshoots, meaning they have time to make the CGI look good.
edited 30th Nov '17 8:02:04 AM by comicwriter
The merits of the design are debatable, certainly, but I assume that he looks the way he does partially because they want to put more of Josh Brolin into Thanos. The relative simplicity of the design allows more of his performance to be on display, and it works on a character level because it represents Thanos's supreme confidence in his new strength, an interpretation I think even the creators mentioned somewhere. Maybe not, but I've definitely heard it put forth.
edited 30th Nov '17 8:11:14 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectThe trailer shows Spider-man being squashed by Thanos, Iron-Man gets knocked out by Thanos in the same area, a shot of Tony Stark sans suit looking morose in the same area as he's possibly holding someone's limp hand and the leaked trailer has Spider-man in Tony's arms repeating over and over again "that he's sorry" in the same orange tinted area.
edited 30th Nov '17 8:34:03 AM by MadSkillz
We had the same thing happen with Civil War though, when everyone kept insisting War Machine was totally gonna die because the trailers showed him falling from the sky and then Tony cradling his body while Rhodey's eyes were closed.
Like others have said, it's a problem because any scene involving Peter's death immediately becomes Like You Would Really Do It since the audience knows he's going to be resurrected by the end, which immediately removes the stakes since we know no matter what, anyone who dies is probably gonna get revived by the Stones.
edited 30th Nov '17 8:36:36 AM by comicwriter
@comic True although he did get a permanent injury so it really was severe but not as severe as we thought.
My line of thinking is that they're going to be explicit that they're going to try resurrection at the end of Avengers 3 and the fight then becomes to grab the Time Stone and bring them all back to defeat Thanos.
edited 30th Nov '17 8:37:30 AM by MadSkillz
Oh, I think they might do alternate versions of Spider-man down the line....this part of the concept is actually pretty nifty. But I think it depends on how Sony will do with their strange "not really in the MCU" Spiderman movies...I mean, if they do a Spider-gwen verse at one point, and it is actually good, than it might be worth to do a dimension hopping story. But it is way, waaaay too early to do anything like this.
So...any theory what the four armed aliens are?
Thanos was so disappointed by the Chitauri's failure in the first movie that he fired them and got a new disposable alien army. And by fired I mean he set them all on fire
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They called it Civil War while not being anything like Civil War,it's a genius move really.
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