Loki finally talks sense into Thor's head and join forces to expand asgardian territory over earth.
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So with May 4th swiftly approaching, fan speculation is at an all-time high. Will Whedon be able to pull this one off? Which of the film's many characters will get the least amount of screentime? Will the story be any good? Just who the hell are those flying villains anyway? There's tons of questions that spring to my mind about The Avengers, but the one I keep returning to is what would have to occur to make the movie an unwatchable mess?
Judging from what we've seen so far, this doesn't seem especially likely. But with Rob away and me handling contest duties this week, I thought I'd turn my curiosity into a way for you to win a Topless Robot T-shirt. So tell me, what do you think is the worst way The Avengers could go horribly wrong? An uncredited rewrite from George Lucas? A scene in which we see Thor visiting Supercuts? A surprise cameo from Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man? You tell me. Just keep it funny as I think we've all experienced enough cinematic heartbreak over the years to know what can go wrong with movies like this one.
So here's the deal, Try to keep your entries as short as humanly possible, as I will be reading each and every response before picking my winners. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. I'll be giving away two shirts. That's it. You have until 12:01 am on Monday, March 5th to enter. Good luck!
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when Iron Man did all the work while the other avengers just cheering and couching " go,go Iron Man you Can do it!" Then suddenly Nick Fury comes out and said to the other avengers " oh come on you guys can do better than that", "I did not recruite you for nothing" then Nick Fury hand a pom poms to the other Avengers and said " you ladies should do it right this time".
They need to get back Edward Norton to be Bruce Banner in the Avengers Reboot with another Thor played by someone else.
They need to rebooted the Avengers 2012 with only to replace chris Hemworths as Thor, and mark ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk. So they could have the right proper cast and storyline too,because ruffalo does nt like a better Bruce Banner character Bill Bixby and hemworths as Thor. There was a actor who played thor before hemworths was Eric Kramer in the Incredible Hulk returns Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in 1988.
I think the cast for the Avengers 2012 will suck because Ed Norton is not in the Film. And another is they need to Reboot Thor movie because Thor surpose to change into Donald Blake.
This is actually very simple - the big fail would be to ignore the excellent & humorous character interaction that the comics provided. If the movie focuses too much on 'wow factor' (super powers, flying robots, shiny objects) and too little on the great character development that Marvel was great at, then the movie will be a letdown.
I don't think this will happen, but that's the only way I can imagine the Avengers being a fail.
Not too sure on how it could be worse, but I know how it could be better. Nathan Fillion as Hank Pym.
The villains are defeated in the most deux ex Machina way possible, while everyone makes this face: http://www.google.com/imgres?u...
and then we have a dance party ending to rolling in the deep.
If Whedon doesn't use Hawkeye or Nick Fury to tie the whole thing together this movie will fall very short. If Hawkeye is just an extra body on the team then this movie may as well be Thor 2, Captain America 2 or Iron Man 3. Basically this movie needs to have a central character that goes through most of their character development in this film otherwise there's no real payoff out side of this being the first movie staring a team of big name characters.
The Film opens with Loki wandering through the universe in his exile. He disguises himself as surviving crewman to the mysterious aliens that will later appear in the film. Loki convinces the aliens to invade earth in retaliation and also in hope of attaining the cosmic cube. But there is a problem as the Avengers are already assembling and Nick Fury is showing his hand in this whole thing with the strategic placement of helicarriers.
Now, this is where the film will blow: The Avengers eventually discover the only way to defeat the aliens is with cellphones. Cellphones and the frequency they use interrupt the cognitive signals in the aliens body and forces them to bleed out. The last quarter of the film is nothing but a huge product placement for Verizon and Nokia as you see Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow using cellphones in the final battle. Texting or Calling each other as they make the aliens explode brain goo from their nose and ears.
"Avengers didn't save the day, Verizon's new 4G LTE did."
After spending countless hours and dollars getting the script perfect, the characters spot on in both motivation, personality and appearance, crafting a believable yet intimidating enemy that poses more than just a passing threat to put our heroes through their paces they manage to make the one mistake that pulls everyone out of the perfect state of suspension of disbelief:
The Quinjet only has 4 jets.And no matter how hard you try to ignore it you can't. And it's that one critical flaw that eats at your soul. Forever.
90s rom-com makeover montage as the Avengers take Captain America shopping to update his look, including scenes where he tries on different styles of clothing and the Avengers sit outside the dressing room giving him thumbs-up/thumbs-down opinions.
Captain America is Andy's favourite toy. Suddenly along comes Iron Man, a gadget-packed space age toy who wins the affection of all the other toys, except Captain America, who is jealous and feels outdated. But when Iron Man gets lost at Sid's house, Captain America must call upon his fellow toys Mr Potato Thor, Little Bo Widow, Hamm-eye and the big green dinosaur to mount a rescue operation.
What would make it AWESOME:
"Avengers: Assemble Once More With Feeling"
Featuring such musical classics as:
Hulk and Iron Man singing "Green and Red - Better than Dead"Hawkeye and Thor singing "An arrow through my heart, beating like a hammer"Nick Fury singing "I've got my eye on you (bitch don't take no motherf***ing flack)"Captain America singing "Fish out of water"Black Widow singing "Nobody knows I'm really a dude"...and showstopping number from Agent Coulson and 300 expendable chorus members in:"Get Behind my S.H.I.E.L.D."
The worst moment won't actually come from the actors, the director or anything really to do with the film. It will be on the release day, when you are sitting in the cinema, with your popcorn and drink, getting really excited. Then hearing this from everyone sitting next to you"Thats not how Cap looks like in the comics""Uh Thor is level 100 strength so that shouldn't have hurt him""How would Cap know how to do that since he is from the 1940's""This movie is just so wrong, I mean did they even read the comics?"
Yes, the worst way it could go wrong, is sitting through the film and having it ruined by the constant commentary by everyone in the cinema deciding it hasn't lived up to their super high expectations.
And this will effect you, because even though the film is great, each compliant, each comment makes you feel guilty for liking the film, makes you see flaws that are not there. In the end you hate the film, and then hate your self for hating it. Years later you will have kids who will watch the film and love it, and you will weep and tell them why their wrong.
Despite the fact that the UK TV series of the same name was YEARS ago, and the movie based on it absolutely tanked, and everyone is the UK can tell the difference between the original Avengers and the Marvel Avengers, a decision is taken to rename the movie to something like 'Avengers Assemble'. OH WAIT THAT'S ALREADY HAPPENED.
The film is amazing. until...At the end of the film it cuts to a scene of a lone figure in a long coat watching the epic final battle from afar. Avengers win, witty comments abound and something oddly patriotic from Captain America. The lone figure is revealed to be Ultron. Then it's revealed that all of this has been observed far out in space, not by The Watcher, but by The Beyonder. Complete with jheri curl, played by Jay Baruchel. A Stan Lee voiceover wraps up the film setting up the next film in the Marvel series, Marvel: Secret War. Which will come out in two years, and we have to wait four years for an Avengers sequel. Secret War is pushed back a further year as Chris Evans gets into a contract dispute with the studio because he's "pretty sure I can do both Cap and the Human Torch."To add insult to injury, in the Avengers film, the very last scene involves Toby Maguire Spider-Man and Andrew Garfield Spider-Man meeting face to face after trying to stop Rocket Racer's latest bank robbery. Last line of the film is from Stan Lee.
"Begun this clone saga has true believers! Excelsior! "
The movie turns out to be really great from the start until the final battle scene. But the movie makers are inspired by "The Crossing" arc as a source material, therefore in the very end of the movie they put a surprise twist by revealing a traitor Avenger as the true villainous manipulator of the whole movie and that person is…Tony Stark!!!
Then it ends in a cliffhanger leading to the second movie with Iron Man as the main villain.
The Hulk wakes up from a rage to find that he's really Iron Man, who then wakes up from an alcoholic binge to find that he's really Thor, who wakes up from Odin-sleep to find that he's really Captain America, who finds out that he just woke up after being encased in ice for the last fifty years, and then the movie ends on a shot of his shield spinning... and spinning... and spinning...
The Avengers shot first instead of Loki. Then in the special edition it's reedited to look like Loki shot first. Then after they release the blu ray edition, Whedon announces that it was always in the script that he intended for Loki to shoot first but due to the limited shots that was covered during production and the bad editing it seemed like the Avengers shot first.
Even though Whedon is previously on record as stating that he intentionally changed it to Loki shooting first back when the Special editions were first released, thus every word that is uttered by the film maker afterwards shall be seen as a bald faced lie.
Simple: No Scarlett Johansson nude scene. Also: No Sam Jackson say "Motherfucker". That is all.
Okay, I gotta ask. I haven't seen the ed Norton Hulk. The Eric Bana one and X-Men movies turned me off of superhero movies until Iron Man came around. Was he really that good or do people think Ruffalo is that bad?
The 5 minute conversation between Pepper Potts and Black Widow when they discuss what happens to Dr. Bruce's junk when he gets angry. "I bet I'd like him when he's angry" - one of them.
needing some filler joss has the first hour be about iron man and black widow and hawkeye being in a ended love triangle and hulk busy at a bar . plus reveals he had bret ratner do a script polish . the mystery bad guys turns out to be blade leading alien vampires. and has stan lee do a cameo as jarvis welcoming scarlet witch and vision to the team.
The mysterious alien army are the result of Loki travelling to the Mojoverse to team up with Mojo, who is played by Rush Limbaugh. Mojo then spends much of the movie ranting on his televised broadcasts about how Black Widow is "a slut who wants money for birth control". At the end the bloated supervillain delivers an utterly insincere apology only after the Spineless Ones withdraw sponsorship of his media ventures.
The Invading Army seen in the trailer are actually Gungans From Naboo Lead by the Sinister JAR JAR BINKS....Mesa Thinksa yousa gonna rule the daysa yousa crossed me Avengersa
That scene where one Avenger crashes through the window, and demolishs a comic book shop, with a human torch comic landing in Captain America's face. The propreitors of the shop (Seth Green, Nathan Fillon, and Eliza Dushku) Looking in Awe of the destruction. One of the Shop Owners asks 'Who's going to pay for this?' Captain America gets up and heads for the store front. He turns back to the Camera and quips, 'Bill it to Tony Stark Industries. Whedon Here?" And runs off....
Taking a cue from The Artist, Joss Whedon converts the entire film into a 1920s silent film, complete with comic sans serif frames of text for all of the dialog.
The one way this movie could go wrong: Be a multi-million dollar movie that is just a watered down version of a $15 graphic Novel... oh, and 3D.
All of the pictures used in the Marvel Studios logo at the start of the film are drawings by Jack Kirby. Drawings by Jack Kirby *of* Jack Kirby himself, to rub the Kirby estate's nose in it as much as possible.
The Black Widow is thought dead when Loki and his army blow up the Shield Helicarrier. It later transpired that she survives the explosion by taking refuge in a lead-lined refrigerator, leading Gail Simone to strike Joss Whedon off her Christmas Card list.
