The Amazing 2012 Movie Discussion Rises: An Unexpected Journey

[George]

You guys are acting like I love the Lizard, I already said I thought it looked like shit. That is just one character that can't be done well in real life. All those you showed Barry look lame. The lizard is hard to do, that is why it wasn't done before.

[Barry the Nomad]

George, we know you love lizards. You like turtles, and lizards are like the same thing. 

No, but really, maybe they should have never done the lizard. He was never my favorite S-M baddie. He's basically just like a lot of the other Spider-Man baddies we've seen. A good guy transformed becoming twisted and evil (Goblin, Doc Ock, Venom). Kraven would be sweet.

[MadeManG74]

I've actually grown to like comic book movie reboots. Considering how many times characters get re-booted or re-imagined in comics, I think it's fitting it's like that in the movies too.

Having said that, it does annoy me when they continually reboot and fuck it up every time. Especially because it happens to my two favourite comic book characters. Why can't they get Punisher or Ghost Rider right? It shouldn't be that hard to make a good movie about a Vietnam vet killing mobsters or a flaming skeleton on a motorcycle.

[max_cady]

Well, Pixar's got something very interesting here...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpNLO2Hamtw[/youtube]

[MadeManG74]

Apart from a few amusing cameos, I thought it looked a bit garbage to be honest.

[George]

Warner Bros has announced that Man of Steel (2013) will be the last DC movie till 2015, cuz they are planning to pimp characters in other media (See Lego Batman 2 DC character cameos, new 52 reboots and DC Universe Online + the Arkham City prequel that will have ton of cameos) so they can pimp a Justice League movie in 2015.

[Chaosmaster8753]

Warner Bros has announced that Man of Steel (2013) will be the last DC movie till 2015, cuz they are planning to pimp characters in other media (See Lego Batman 2 DC character cameos, new 52 reboots and DC Universe Online + the Arkham City prequel that will have ton of cameos) so they can pimp a Justice League movie in 2015.

And Injustice: Gods Among Us.

[George]

And before the new JLA movie comes out Marvel will probably have a sequel to Thor, Captain America, Iron Man 3, New Hulk movie, Amazing Spider-man 2, New Wolverine, Possibly new Deadpool and by 2015, the same year have Avengers 2.

Good luck with that one.

[MadeManG74]

Don't forget Guardians of the Galaxy. I really hope that Dormammu gets into a Marvel movie soon.

[Chaosmaster8753]

And before the new JLA movie comes out Marvel will probably have a sequel to Thor, Captain America, Iron Man 3, New Hulk movie, Amazing Spider-man 2, New Wolverine, Possibly new Deadpool and by 2015, the same year have Avengers 2.

Good luck with that one.

Then again, have DC really made as many movies as Marvel has these past few years to begin with?

[George]

Sorta. Movies like RED, Johah Hex and stuff count. But no, not as much as Marvel. The shitty part is that Marvel does big movies better while DC seems to be getting video games, TV shows down perfectly... especially their animated stuff.

[Chaosmaster8753]

So, Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 is go:

http://marvel.com/news/story/19067/sdcc_2012_guardians_ant-man_films_on_the_way

http://www.slashfilm.com/antman-marvels-comedy-edgar-wright-screens-test-footage-comiccon-2012/

“Ant-Man will kick your ass, one inch at a time.” That’s what director Edgar Wright said after lying through his teeth all week that he was in London and then appearing on stage at the Marvel Hall H panel Saturday night at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. Wright, who co-wrote Ant-Man with Joe Cornish, shot a short test reel recently showing how Ant-Man would look in his super small state. Even though there were blue screens and super unfinished effects, we’re happy to report that it works. And is awesome. And he has a fairly new look.

What really stood out, though, was not that the effects worked. The footage played with a lot of humor. Read more about the footage after the break.

The footage begins in a long, Matrix style hallway with two Matrix style agents. The camera moves down the hall, through a grate, and we see a tiny man standing behind the grate: Ant-Man. He jumps through and starts running at them. Of course, they don’t see him. He then pops up into real size, they start shooting, he gets small again, jumps, runs down the shaft of the gun, jumps up and punches the guy in the face, shaking the face in slow motion. With that guy done, Ant-Man gets big again, flips the other agent over….okay, honestly by this point I was kind of freaking out and it gets fuzzy. I do know that Ant-Man takes care of business, is about to jump through another grate when the elevator pings, and he gets on it.
 
The way Wright shot this, with the silence of a small man running in a big hall, the slow motion, the elevator, it had a totally different vibe from the other Marvel films. It was much more like something you’d recognize from Hot Fuzz. Whether or not that’ll carryover remains to be seen though. Wright said the script, which he’s been working on since 2006 (“the Terrance Malick approach” he said) is a mix of the silver age and contemporary Ant-Man. It’s action packed and “a nod to the original tales.”

The suit Ant-Man wears was described by Wright as “practical” and sort of looked like a G.I. Joe military exoskeleton. His face is entirely covered with some sort of apparatus on his mouth. He looks really cool. Very real world. A truly good fit inside the current Marvel Universe.

While Marvel President Kevin Feige did announce the titles of all the upcoming films, as well as Guardians of the Galaxy, there’s no timeline on Ant-Man just yet. Wright is about to make The World’s End but it’s pretty safe to assume he’ll get to it soon after.

Ant-Man, directed by Edgar Wright, is coming soon from Marvel Studios. How awesome is that?

[George]

Ant-man? Well, if Marvel can do that, there is no excuse for not having a good Superman flick next year.

[Aki-at]

Ant-man? Eh eh, if this is a success than Marvel must have sold their souls to the devil, it's the only reasonable explanation for the amount of success they've experienced since 2007.

[MadeManG74]

I dunno, the name is dumb, but there's nothing inherintly wrong with the character I think. He can shrink and become giant, I imagine that has some uses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAskBKmc18