Marvel Cinematic Universe

Ultron · February 18, 2014

The Gotg Trailer premieres on Jimmy Kimmel live at 11:35 pm ET if anyone is interested in watching it as it premieres. I know I will! I wish it wasn't so late though :sadnew: Why can't it be 11:35 am?!

Lord Rahl of Clannad · February 18, 2014

Consider me disappointed that it's premiering at that time, because this basically means I have to wait until tomorrow to watch it in the UK (seeing as the trailer premieres at 4:35am on the 19th of February in the UK). Hopefully this trailer will be worth waiting one more day for.

Edited February 18, 2014 by Star Wars NutJob 69

Lord Rahl of Clannad · February 18, 2014

GotG trailer sneak peek. This is looking to be completely amazing. I'm extremely excited for this one now.

larsyuipo · February 18, 2014

awesome

love the trailer

Edited February 18, 2014 by larsyuipo

Lord Rahl of Clannad · February 18, 2014

http://marvel.com/news/movies/2014/2/18/21967/marvel_studios_annouces_filming_of_marvels_avengers_age_of_ultron_in_south_korea

Some Age of Ultron filming is apparently also going to take place in South Korea.

Ultron · February 18, 2014

http://marvel.com/ne..._in_south_korea

Some Age of Ultron filming is apparently also going to take place in South Korea.

It looks like Ultron is going to be taking over the world. Maybe he'll infect the technology everyone and make it attack everyone or something. Who knows. It's gonna be awesome. Can't wait for the lego sets. Hope we get variants of the previous avengers though.

The Legonater · February 19, 2014

Well, that was both amazing and hilarious. This movie will be either amazing or horrible, but it looks to be hilarious either way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ2Tp9yXyM

Edited February 19, 2014 by The Legonater

Ultron · February 19, 2014

Looks awesome! Wish we could've gotten a shot of Ronan though! And it was a strange choice of music but it looks like it's going to be a really funny movie.

Edit ** You can actually see Ronan with this hammer at 1:59 but only from the side.

Edited February 19, 2014 by Luna Lovegood

Ceroknight · February 19, 2014

I have know past knowledge of the GotG but I just assumed the mood would be a serious one...I'm not sure if I like this humour overload.. :look:

Love it as a movie, but a Marvel movie?

Lord Rahl of Clannad · February 19, 2014

Well that was certainly not what I was expecting from this. It looks like it's going to be completely full oh humour, which is fine in places but I don't think it's necessary for the entire movie. At least it looks like we are going to get a lot of action from this film as well. I am disappointed that we didn't get a good shot of Ronan in the trailer. This should still be a good film even if there is humour overload.

*EDIT* I noticed that, when the Nova Corps were talking about Star-Lord in the prison and showing his details, it listed Yondu as his associate. Not overly interesting I know, but it's just a little something I happened to notice.

Edited February 19, 2014 by Star Wars NutJob 69

Mr Man · February 19, 2014

About the humour, remember that it's only a 2 and a half minute trailer, you could make the same out of Thor or Dark World to make them look like a sitcom, hell you could probably get 2.5 mins of humour out of The Incredible Hulk :grin: .

Also Nebula looks like 7 of 9.

Edited February 19, 2014 by Mr Man

Praiter Yed · February 19, 2014

I'd written off GOTG as soon as I learned anything about it, I mean how can you take a gun-toting racoon and an action tree serioulsy? Seeing the trailer makes me think it could be good. If this gets a PG rating I'll probably take my boy to watch it but if it ends up a 12, I'll wait for the DVD. As for the humour in the trailer, the fact that it doesn't seem to take itself too seriously is the reason I now feel I can take it seriously :grin: .)

Sam892 · February 19, 2014

I will have hooked on a feeling stuck in my head for the next few weeks. That trailer looks awesome, can't wait to see this film.

BrickG · February 19, 2014

It could be good. But I think just attaching "Marvel" to it won't ensure anything. Marvel movies have failed before. What I worry about is that this one is just obscure enough to not be a hit. Casuals and heck, a lot of comic readers simply don't really know who they are. Iron Man, Thor, etc all already had a following and were pretty well known.

Ultron · February 19, 2014

It could be good. But I think just attaching "Marvel" to it won't ensure anything. Marvel movies have failed before. What I worry about is that this one is just obscure enough to not be a hit. Casuals and heck, a lot of comic readers simply don't really know who they are. Iron Man, Thor, etc all already had a following and were pretty well known.

They weren't well known to the general public though. Sure these guys are more obscure but they get the boost of marvel and the avengers. If this was DC, 90% it would probably fail. A marvel movie really hasn't failed in a while so I don't think this will break that trend. Especially since captain america 2 is about to be possibly the best marvel movie yet and this will follow it. Space movies always appeal to little kids too.

Mr Man · February 19, 2014

It could be good. But I think just attaching "Marvel" to it won't ensure anything. Marvel movies have failed before. What I worry about is that this one is just obscure enough to not be a hit. Casuals and heck, a lot of comic readers simply don't really know who they are. Iron Man, Thor, etc all already had a following and were pretty well known.

It also looks enough like generic sci-fi and unrelated to the MCU, that might draw in sci-fi fans and people who don't want to have to see all the previous MCU films.

Also I wouldn't say Thor was well known, I hadn't herd of it before the film (well the myth obviously but not the comic).

Edited February 19, 2014 by Mr Man

Faefrost · February 20, 2014

It also looks enough like generic sci-fi and unrelated to the MCU, that might draw in sci-fi fans and people who don't want to have to see all the previous MCU films.

Also I wouldn't say Thor was well known, I hadn't herd of it before the film (well the myth obviously but not the comic).

But how could you have missed...

Oh and as regards whether or not GotG is well know ahead of time. That isn't always a down side. How many people knew about Blade? Or the Punisher? Most may have heard the term Judge Dredd but I guarantee few realize it was a comic. And honestly GotG could probably do well without the Marvel super Hero tie in. It is a Space Opera adventure type flick. Some funny quips, a talking raccoon, a lot of explosions. It's closer to Star Wars than Iron Man. And at it's core it is something that Hollywood does very well. It's a Dirty Dozen or Magnificent Seven type story. Something that would have been done by John Ford or Akira Kurosawa, just done as Space Opera. I think it will find its feet. It will either be a moderate Marvel moneymaker or it will go over the top and blow the doors off most of the previous movies. (I don't think it will beat Avengers. It may top everything else.) It just looks fun.

Edited February 20, 2014 by Faefrost

Sam892 · February 20, 2014

My god 60's TV was bad, at least they have us some catching theme tunes.

Faefrost · February 20, 2014

My god 60's TV was bad, at least they have us some catching theme tunes.

A lot of people will tend to give Stan Lee grief because Kirby and such were the artists. Lee's own gifts often get forgotten, including his amazing ability with words. he wrote all of those theme songs.

And of course this most classic of them all.

BrickG · February 20, 2014

A lot of people will tend to give Stan Lee grief because Kirby and such were the artists. Lee's own gifts often get forgotten, including his amazing ability with words. he wrote all of those theme songs.

So my assumption that's he's a d00d that just robbed all the credit from people with actual talent is further compounded. Well, he is talented at selling himself despite being nothing but a dirty old man and a hack. :P

Seriously, he contributed like nothing looking at the history besides extreme narcissism and taking credit for other people's stuff. And you look at the work he actually did and it's pretty universally terrible. And now I have to live with seeing him pollute Marvel movies all the time...

The d00d did help create many of the things. But only that really. He wrote a lot in the 60s and some in the 70s. If you look back the comics were just bad. They were wildly unsuccessful and almost always had questionable quality. X-Men died in his hands. It wasn't until later by DIFFERENT people was it revived. Then by the time it was really getting big by like the 90s Stan Lee hadn't touched a thing for 20 freakin' years. Other people took the mediocre stuff he made and really gave it life. Stan Lee might have created the original concepts but he wasn't the person to make those concepts really any good.

Seriously, lets not fool ourselves. Comics weren't generally the best written things in the world around the 60s and 70s. Especially Marvel. The quality has risen 100 fold since then.

Edited February 20, 2014 by BrickG

Faefrost · February 20, 2014

Love him or hate him. The dude was the penultimate promoter, marketer and ad man. Kirby was a wonderful artist. One of the best that ever lived. But it was Stan Lee's over the top promotion that put eyes onto Kirby's art and revolutionized the industry. Hate and damn the man for his many many faults and his over the top self promotion. But don't fail to give credit for what he brought to the equation. Kirby was a great artist. But he was also a timid bitter man who never had the ability to actually promote his own work. His business skills were appallingly bad. Even late in his career, when he was able to benefit from all the fame and promotion from Marvel and DC he was still unable to turn any of his art into a solid business unto himself. we tend to forget that at some level, all of these things that we love are businesses. The artist is literally a starving guy doodling in a room without someone having the ability to monetize it and turn a profit. (And honestly the artists that can do that themselves are few and far between. Gotta respect guys like Mike Mignolia, Todd McFarlane, Alex Ross and (/shudder) even Rob Liebfield, not just for their artistic abilities, but their abilities to self manage their business to their benefit.) Do I think Kirby and his peers deserved more for all that they gave us? Hell yes! But I also am pretty sure that none of us would still be enjoying these characters today if it wasn't for the efforts of writers and PT Barnum like businessmen like Stan Lee. Love em or hate them. Respect what all involved brought to the table.

Sam892 · February 20, 2014

To me a lot of the times it turns into Lennon/McCartney. Neither would be a success without the other, and a lot of times the one would fix a problem for the other. Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby don't see the respect they deserve put few people do. DC are just as bad, especially when looking at Batman and Superman. It just happens unfortunately. I don't think Stan Lees a bad person to be honest he did essentially turn Marvel into a huge business, regardless of how much he wrote. I think it's partly the medias fault that they give Stan all the credit , there are interveiws out there where he does say characters are co created. A lot of the time the media doesn't care about someone who is a recluse like Ditko and go for the showman like Lee.

Mr Man · February 20, 2014

But how could you have missed...

Because I was born in '92, were Spider-Man was the only Marvel show on TV :grin: .

Sam892 · February 20, 2014

Because I was born in '92, were Spider-Man was the only Marvel show on TV .

That's not true in the 90's there was Spider-man, X-men, Avengers, Hulk, Silver surfer, Fantastic Four and Ironman TV shows running at the same time. Admittedly only Spider-man and X-men lasted more than 2 seasons , but they were all set in the same world and cross over frequently.