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Vic Sage wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Good. We could use a Kevin McReynolds on this team. no, not again. I believe Edgy is referring to the Kevin McReynolds we had for the first four years of his Met tenure, not the puffy malcontent who came after...

Vic Sage wrote: But I liked SUPERMAN RETURNS, too, so what do I know. Yeah, me too. I finally saw this, and I have to say that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. the only problems I had with the movie were the muted colors, and the fact that they basically nuked Metropolis without out a thought to the consequences and collateral damage. Speaking of the muted colors - this is Superman, not Batman - I would like to see this movie with a restored color palette: Du-eYiD9OfM

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I wanna go, hard. The wife don'wanna, just as hard. I gotta sneak this sometime soon. If Fman wrote this, it would have an entirely different meaning...

Vic Sage wrote: I'm seeing it again on Sunday, so maybe i'll have some other thoughts after that. I plan on seeing it again, in the hopes that there was just stuff I missed the first time around.

Saw this last night, and I must admit to being underwhelmed. With all of the Easter Eggs (Hugin and Mugin, et al), the care with how he morphed from scene to scene, the first Avengers movie was basically a love letter from Joss Whedon to the Marvel Universe. This latest installment was just typical dumbed down action fare. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it. There were plenty of laughs and action, but I left the theater thinking, "That was it?" A forced romance a la "Beauty and The Beast" and action sequences that relied on subpar CGI (The CGI in the first 3 years ago was so much better) are just two of the things that stand out tat make this movie suffer in comparison its predecessor.

From last year in New Britain:

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I saw this on Twitter and it sums things up perfectly. That also perfectly sums up my Mets fandom at the moment.

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, I guess that is Arnie. This is Benny. Arnie went on to play 3rd for the Indians.

Edgy MD wrote: One of those yahoos grew up to be a law clerk at McKenzie - Brackman.

This may be a case of going to the well too often, but Rocky Balboa was surprisingly good.

Edgy MD wrote: Not all 12. More than a few of those monkeys were acting under their own volition. As Edgy channels his inner Charles Grodin...

Just a great movie, but I still think Eddie Redmayne takes the Oscar.

There's also rumors of Spidey showing up in Captain America: Civil War

This announcement means a couple things: [list:3qtame7r][*:3qtame7r]Spider-Man will probably show up in the Infinity War with an Avengers tie-in in his movie [/*:m:3qtame7r] [*:3qtame7r]The Thor 3, Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Inhumans movies are all moving back a slot to make room for Spider-Man: [/*:m:3qtame7r][/list:u:3qtame7r] 2015: May 1: Avengers: Age of Ultron July 17: Ant-Man 2016: May 6: Captain America: Civil War November 4: Doctor Strange 2017: May 5: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 July 28: Marvel Studios co-produced Spider-Man film (Sony, new addition) November 3: Thor: Ragnarok (new date) 2018: May 4: Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1 July 6: Black Panther (new date) November 2: Captain Marvel (new date) 2019: May 3: Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2 July 12, 2019: Inhumans (new date)

Vic Sage wrote: well, i saw it. Feh. * why use the Mandarin, the original and quintessential IM villain, and then turn him into ... that? * AIM is really undeveloped as a concept, considering it's the real villain of the piece. * a plucky kid sidekick? really? REALLY? * what does it take to put down one of these Extremis soldiers? blowing out the heart? cutting off the head? total disintigration? They're pretty inconsistent about that. * The beautiful double-crossing scientist has been helping the homicidal nutball for a decade, but after one guilt-tripping speech from Stark, she's prepared to kill herself to stop everything she's worked on? Wow, that Stark sure has a magic tongue... and he's persuasive too; * Pepper is the only one more annoying than Tony; * If Stark had all those suits readly to launch, why does he wait so long to summon them while he's suitless and in the clutches of the bad guy? * And after showing how useful the multitude of suits were, and Pepper now grateful for their existence, he gets rid of them all? Why? Just to make a nice Xmas fireworks display? * If the iron in his heart was operable, why didn't he ever do it before? was there some medical breakthru that went unremarked upon? Or has he just cured himself of a deathwish? * Once he removes the power core from his chest, he's no longer Iron Man... he's a rich, drunken genius with daddy issues and a bunch of cool metal suits. I did like Ben Kingsley, and the post-credit bit with Bruce. But not much else. It did elevate my opinion of IM 2, however. so there's that. yeah, this. Steaming. Pile. Of. Crap. They had Ben Kingsley, who could have carried this film as a quintessential villain, and they did this to him. It made me angrier than what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek...

I didn't see 10 films in the movies this year, but of what I saw, The Theory Of Everything was easily the best, and Eddie Redmayne should win every single best actor award this award season. Guardians of the Galaxy - Easily the best Marvel movie since Avengers. LEGO Movie - Everything is Awesome! just a fun ride Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier - Holy migraines! A really good script was destroyed by too much shaky cam that had me diving for the Dramamine....

MFS62 wrote: Sound track - Better than the Flash Gordon one by Queen? (which was written specifically for that movie) I think so. It's a great CD.

This was shown as an introduction to the Marvel panel at SDCC - pretty freaking cool... [youtube:ixjg2epy]cInu82fWFfQ[/youtube:ixjg2epy]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Oh, they're definitely going to be in the same universe. I imagine it will all be tied together by the third Avengers movie, if not sooner. Definitely. There are characters in Guardians of The Galaxy that will be in Avengers 3

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'll probably see it in the theaters and fairly soon, but I feel the way Namor does; it's the first Marvel movie (from Marvel Studios, anyway) that I have little enthusiasm for. I waited for cable to see the rebooted Amazing Spider-Man, and will probably do the same for its sequel. I saw it last night, and it was the best Marvel movie since Avengers. As my daughter put it, it's the intergalactic comedy you didn't know you needed.

Nymr83 wrote: The tie-in with Marvels Agents of Shield was pretty good too, they really turned the show upside down and im curious to see where it goes. The show was just spinning its wheels until this turn. The tie-in has made the show much better.

Cap returns, this time in present day, fighting against the Winter soldier, and some within SHIELD. I give it a 5 out of ten. Good story, but lousy cinematography

I saw this Thursday night - it was a fun ride, with some obvious plot holes that are easily overlooked. It was easily better than the first Thor movie. 4 out of 5

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Good gravy. Is it overly speculative to guess that the people who lovedlovedLOVED Titanic were the same sort of people (14-year-olds and emotional 14-year-olds?) who tended toward the... um... mallrat-Manichean with their cultural opinions? Nope - It seems like those who loved Titanic also loved Twilight. Going by my admittedly small sample size, both of my daughters hated Titanic, and also hated Twilight. Then again, they prefer shows like Supernatural, and Vikings...

A great short shown at NYCC: [youtube:thgryxj7]ebXB0lBoaQ0[/youtube:thgryxj7]