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Robert Downey, Jr. Talks About THE AVENGERS Movie & Offers What May Be The Funniest Movie-Related Quote This Year...
Merrick here...
I'm on the way out the door at the moment, but wanted to share the following with you real quick like...
In brief: Robert Downey, Jr. shared his thoughts on the upcoming AVENGERS movie with MTV. Choice quote:
“If we don’t get it right it’s really, really going to suck,” said Downey. “It has to be the crowning blow of Marvel’s best and brightest because it’s the hardest thing to get right. It’s tough to spin all the plates for one of these characters.”
...says Downey in the MTV piece, which can be accessed HERE!
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...or not.
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It's just accurate.
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Do not see the funny.
Agree with the sentiment though. -
lame
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I'm waiting for that moron
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
to finally say something clever
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why am i wasting my time in this non star trek talkback?
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Just AIN'T IT FUCKIN' OBVIOUS news! Of COURSE it could suck if they don't make it very, very carefully... and get the right writer(s)... and director... and cast... etc etc etc...
But how fuckin' AWESOME will this be if they get it RIGHT?!?!?
Get Brina Michael Bendis on the phone STAT. His New Avengers stuff is the poo - take a biiiiiiig whiff! -
DGDB will be here soon enough, and when he arrives and sees what you have said...well...whooo...(I'm gonna need to sit down)But the point is, well, this article sucks and I have no clue why Merrick would post it! Way to go Slaberknacker!
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Did you forget to cut and paste the funny part?
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Thor's chestplates. Spinn 'em right or it's really gonna suck!
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If they fail to cast the right man to play Cap
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Is spinning plates the funny part? I think we need Vern's take on this. Are spinning plates funny? And even if they are, is Downey Jr.'s quote even remotely funny?
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Cause we are all at a loss.
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Robert Downey, Jr. says things about stuff.
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...by RD Jr but I'm missing the humour element too.
Maybe the reporter asked for a double entendre. So he gave her one. -
Merrick appears to be diving into the his "special" batch of pumpkin pie a little early.
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Is the "blow" what's meant to be funny?
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The reporters would have thrown tomatoes at Robert Downey Jr.
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CUT. IT. OUT!
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Ouch.
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The guy is comitted. He's a big part of something huge that's just starting to happen and he knows it and loves it. And that's great news to me. I hope Ed Norton solves his differences with Marvel and joins the game
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Seriously, do we need a 2 hour origin story that'll tank at the box office just to introduce the character for the upcoming Avengers flick? Just pass out Thor comics with every Avengers ticket and save the film for more kick-ass Iron Man type movies.
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...in comparison to the usual p.r. statements we usually get from people connected with these projects. It's amusing to hear somebody lay it on the table like that.
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1. when someone's pants fall down
2. someone gets hit in the face with a pie.
3. George Carlin
4. curse words (also, see George Carlin)
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You...you don't know what from funny.
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Fuck him in his stupid face. I'm so sick of seeing his name. Alden is right and Dickhead is not clever.
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He's talking with MTV not SIXTY MINUTES. You kinda expect a little irreverence. But, that is not even close to funny.
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Remember Yo Mamma!?
Neither do I!!! -
How about Aaron Eckhart? Would he make sense? He seems very American.
And for the record, I think Danny Glovers Dickblood is hilarious. -
Don't worry about Marvel, or money. How compelling a script can be written, and by whom? Superheros these days need believable Super-Villains; Heath Ledger changed the playing field with the Joker. Bond didn't have a scary enough villain, and I'm concerned that will happen here. The Avengers can't trust each other too much, either. They have to bond because the Super-Villain is so smart, and so twisted that nothing else will overcome him.
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It's good that there's a conscientious actor involved who really knows the situation. I mean, you wouldn't hear a line like that from the cast of Fantastic Four.
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Here's funny:
Q: What's brown and sticky?
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..it's not that hard to see what Merrick was getting at. Does he really deserve this feeding frenzy? Is it healthy for everybody to be driving this into the ground? Shouldn't everybody be using this energy to, I don't know, plant a tree or help underprivileged children with their homework or something?
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Well, I am anyway.
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don't be mean to Thor! It will work.
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Go the Transformers route, and mix it up with A.A. Attanasio's quantum-physics-meets-Norse-mythology approach. Thor is a trans-dimensional being--a god in our terms--who is now trapped on Earth. He assumes the traditional shape of a Viking warrior for the same reason that Optimus Prime is a Peterbilt; it just fits.
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http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/terminatorsalvation/poster.html
Oh, this in Avengers TB? My bad. -
Maybe Chaplin did some act where he spun plates on a stick in each hand? And Downey played Chaplin?
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They have his origin movie, gods and goblins, viking fun. Then Avengers, same actor as Thor, but shaved, more modern clothes, a bit like Ultimate Thor, no magic secret identity transformation, less hippie. People in the movie world will think he's just a superpowered guy with a mental problem believing he's the god of thunder. People in the real world wont be sure if he's supposed to be the same guy or just nuts, much like the people in the movie. Connection!
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Trying to get all artsy ala the later Dark Knight posters, but failing.
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aha-haa-hah-hah.... o wait thats my dick
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My question is if Marvel can't get a Hulk movie made with its built in Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde foundational plot line that will resonate with mainstream, non-comic-book-geek audiences (thanks Ang) how in the name of hell is a story about a Norse Thunder God fighting evil in modern America going to do anything but suck?
Even if they go with the Ultimates version, 3rd tier characters haven't fared particularly well at the box office especially with the saturation of comic book movies in the last few years. It may not be "Ghost Rider" bad but if it isn't any better than "Daredevil" or "Fantastic Four" it may do more damage than good to the future Avengers movie. -
Q: What's brown and sticky?
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The Thor movie wont be about a Norse Thunder God Fighting in modern America. It will be a fantasy movie. Those CAN work...
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It's only tough if you don't know what you're doing. It's merely tricky if you do.
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Henry V was the best sequel ever
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is that he doesn't think an Avengers flick can work.And that Terminator poster is fucking terrible.
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...because that wasn't remotely funny...and clearly wasn't even meant to be. What the heck?
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Nov 25, 2008 7:40:46 PM CST
Duplicity trailer out on apple.com
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Tony Gilroy, Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti. Tom Wilkinson and... Julia Fucking Roberts. Way to kill a potentially good flick Gilroy. Check out the trailer. Theres a moment where Roberts looks like she's going to swallow Owens entire head. I shit you not, her mouth is that big. Why couldn't she just stay fucking retired?
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Nov 25, 2008 7:52:21 PM CST
I'm most excited about Thor actuallly...........................
by crackerfarmboy
Although he certainly makes the least sense as far as the "reality" element that the other 3 (IM, Cap, and Hulk) posses, he feels like a nice WTF touch IMHO. There's nothing wrong with something different.
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... HOTEL FOR DOGS! Best title ever! You know exactly what the movie's about!
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Nov 25, 2008 8:07:00 PM CST
So what downey said was "they need to make a movie good"
by damien chowder
Hmmm most intriguing. He may be onto something there.
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He is completely correct; there is so many ways to blow this, and it is quite easy to imagine Hollywood and Marvel mucking this up. They have to play everything just right, not just in the Avengers movies but also in the individual members’ movies.
As for Thor, I can see that working really well or being pretty lame (yeah, nice of me to go out on a limb there). But they could pull it off and make him work in an Avengers movie by making Thor everything that Superman isn’t nor can be - finally pull out that angry god angle they have been talking about for Supes. Thor IS an angry god. Just imagine a being with unearthly powers sent by his father in the sky to leave his land and come and protect outs, only to see that the lowly mortals he is protecting our been ungrateful and perhaps unworthy of his gifts. In fact you could probably twist all the Superman clichés in either an Avengers movie or in a Thor sequel.
Finally what is the word on an Ant-Man movie? As much as I admit it sounds stupid and he is one of the weakest characters in the Marvel Universe, I can actually seeing it work (especially if they use the Hank Pym version). I can also imagine him being in the Avengers movie alongside Wasp as a kind of comedy relief – kind of Nick and Nora Charles figures amongst all these serious superheroes.
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It's an "oh, der!" kind of comment - like saying "if I crash into that tree I reckon I'm going to damage my car". No shit, sherlock (ho! pun intended)
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is a Thor movie co-starring Beta Ray Bill.
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I'm ready now. Lay it on me.
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It's the "really suck" comment that's meant to be funny. Not the funniest of the year (unless it's January 1st), but still kinda funny. The fact some of you need it explained to you is sad, I thought it was mainly Americans on this board - not French people.
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Sounds dumb at first but we had two great XMen movies and one okay one. If it's as good or better than the XMen than it should be fine!
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If he said it "would really, really blow dead whales" instead of "really, really suck"?
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....I don't want his comeback tainted by this piece of shit Marvel fuckfest. Marvel Comics < Fox when it comes to handling their properties. Honestly what the fuck is next? Ant Man?....oh wait.
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We havent seen a script, no director attached. We've seen 2 of the main characters portraid better than expected in their own movies. Plus Sam Jackson. There won't be too much origin to deal with, since that will be taken care of in other movies which all lead up to this one. We will get all kinds of different superhero powers, the effects and suits already developed and established for their own movies. Sounds good to me.
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It has to be...
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It has to be...
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Is seriously the most idiotic thing I've read all week. Bravo.
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People who hate The Incredible Hulk have terrible taste.
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you never, never go full retard, man
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It's that simple.
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Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, responding to an assertion that Groundhog Day is cute because people like it:
"You are new, aren't you? You know, people like blood sausage. too. People are morons." -
I'M FALLING ON MY LOLLERSKATES! *can't breathe, laughing too hard*
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What Downey should've done was get back into his black man getup from Tropic Thunder, and go, "We can't afford to fuck Avengers up!!! Do you get where I'm coming from YOU JIVE MOTHERFUKAAAAAA???!!!"
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Nov 26, 2008 1:15:17 AM CST
Didn't Merrick also say that he liked Mummy 3 better than Indy 4
by tallboy66
I'm pretty sure he's the one who said it. Don't trust this guy on anything ever in the history of everything. Period.
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I've never seen Mummy 3, but I like it way better than Indy 4...that is not a demerit for Merrick in my book, more like a plus.I liked the hot burning taco diarrhea I had a couple days ago better than Indy 4...
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when Downey called Pepper Potts "The madonna to my whores."
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must be code for the gay porn pic they're doing with all the talk about being hard, blowing and sucking.
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team they've chosen to create the Captain America flick.Oh, and while it'll have to be Pym as Ant-Man to respect the history, the Eric O'Grady version would be a hoot, but I don't think they have the balls to go that route.
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...the universe Favreau created is oddly grounded in realism. You feel like he could build the suit and the technology is real. When you get into Norse Gods and CGI green behemoth's who can't speak or legitimately fight crime, the whole thing gets fucked up. Their best best is to not include Thor or Hulk in the Avengers and go more with Iron Man, Captain America, Shield, maybe a Hawkeye type, etc. Once you put Hulk and Thor into the mix the street cred built by Iron Man goes out the fucking window. I'd buy Vision more than Hulk and Thor in this newly created film universe.
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While I think the character of Ant-Man would have to go through a drastic change for a movie adaptation, I would prefer a variation on the Pym or Lang versions. I have never been a fan of the Eric O'Grady version.
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Merrick, your ideas of comedy make George Carlin look like fuckin that one guy who wasn't funny at all.. you know who i mean..
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I kinda always liked the odd fit of the Pyms in the original Avengers. It lends to that bizarre 60's jet-age non-capes superscience colliding with the occult ambience of early Marvel.
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Thor will NOT translate to modern times. I, for one, do NOT want to see Thor in any film, anywhere, ever. I can deal with hulk, since he's really an incarnation of what lies inside Banner, brought out through radiation.
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wife-beating moment of Hank Pym which has forever tainted the character.
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If they are going to attempt a unified live-action Marvel world, they shouldn't have painted themselves into a corner with the sorta-realism milieu in IM and Hulk. I never get why people say they are fans of these characters or of their particular print universe if they want them to be radically different or nearly unrecognizable on the big screen?
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have you fuckers got nothing better to do, than call for one poster to appear? Weird.
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But all of you will pay to see it.
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Nov 26, 2008 3:44:11 AM CST
Who cares when AVATAR is fucking our eyeballs in 2009?
by motoko kusanagi
nobody
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Really Really Funny. "get it right" Get it? Bwahaahaaa. So funny.
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thor's gay
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Then I can't see and I like to see. The whole idea of eyeball fucking just sounds so damned unhygenic.
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Nov 26, 2008 4:44:19 AM CST
Probably quoted in response to the shitty Nick Fury casting...
by monkey_king
and the Nth hour replacing/booting/dicking over of Terrence Howard as Rhodey.
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There's something inherently badass about the weirdness a 40's Super solider frozen in ice, a guy in a mech, a monster, and a norse god all teaming up together. Lets stop watering down the comics and go all out. I want Galactus to be a giant guy in armor, and squids in Watchmen. Comics are crazy, over the top surrealist fun, we should be encouraging the movies to follow suit. At least it's something diffrent.
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Or, as we've ALL suspected for so long, you don't have a sense of humour? What a stupid headline!
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Exactly! There are loads of "realistic" movies like Iron Man (realistic, really?). Why not go all the way and make a true comicbook movie?
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The Avengers film will really work and kick all of our asses, is if in the next Iron Man flick, Tony Stark (Or S.H.I.E.L.D.) create Vision, because no one's mentioned him yet. Hulk round two kinda sucked, it was just a confusing mess, not knowing which way it's supposed to go. (so it's a remake, reboot, sequel, with more action than the first but just as emotional????). S.H.I.E.L.D. also needs a bigger presence in the next films leading up to Avengers (Should have been Fury who approached Thunderbolt Ross, not Tony Stark). More Cameos, introduce other characters in the next set of films. Finally Danny Glover's Dick Blood is the absolute funniest fucking name on the planet. Good job!
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Geeze! He means 'funny' as in 'odd/strange/weird' numbskulls.
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"I'm having a tuna on whole wheat and iced tea for lunch," Downey went on to say.
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After the statement, someone came up and kicked Robert Downey Jr in the balls. (Aint that HI-larious?)
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Alden: you should be more worried about your counting skills than another poster.I am the Terminator: you probably shouldn't announce who you are. You'll never get Sarah Conner that way. THAT is not clever.
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of the importance to "getting it right" than some studio PTB. Just hope he & Favreau can manage to keep at least the IM franchise strong, and input on Avengers; then again, w/ Norton playing the Hulk - he seems to have a grasp of stuff too. We'll see what gets done on Thor, and then I'll start praying or crying about Capt A & Avengers.
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It's not "funny" in that sense either.
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Simple- Hulk is the bad guy. Stark, Cap, Ant-man and Wasp all show up individually and get thier ass handed to them and they need to bring Thor in to help beat Hulk. At the beginning of the fime the Avengers just loosely associated with eacth other and by the end of the flic are a real team minus Hulk. Then in part 2 they bring Hulk in after he has started to control himself (that happens in IH2)
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I cant see Norton doing The Avengers movie unless he has full control over the whole thing, and the quote is funny if you gush over Downey Jn and you wanna suck his willy OMG a Celeb said "sucked" teheheheh
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Nov 26, 2008 8:41:25 AM CST
When are they going to do the Radioactive Man movie?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
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...and stoned kinda things.
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that he's the biggest waste of space amongst all the AICN staff (at least since "The Real MiraJeff" who apparently has vanished). Merrick is a mediocre, rather dull-witted fellow who believes devoutly in the supernatural and has a murderous hatred for cats (two traits which are, of course, not mutually exclusive). That's just about it.Can anyone explain to me why this guy is in AICN's employ (let alone why he is given sweet assignments like WATCHMEN and the like)? I'm not asking this question as a troll or an AICN "hater" either. Moriarty and Mr. Beaks are exceptional writers and critics. Hell, even Harry can be fantastic. But Merrick? What the fuck? As a long time AICNer myself (since the beginning actually) I've wondered for quite some time now who Merrick is related to and/or whose dick he had to suck. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but Merrick certainly wasn't hired based on his writing merits methinks.
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WHOSE THERE?
MY PRETENTIOUS AVENGERS QUOTE
MY PRETENTIOUS AVENGERS QUOTE WHO?
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I think everyone here for the most part is part of Harry's Entourage. He and Mori are like, old middle-school chums, I think.
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Maybe, but Merrick only popped up a couple of years ago. Perplexing.
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My acknowledgment of your existence means that much to you, eh? Interesting. Well here ya' go.....I read your post. And here I am......being clever. Yeeeehah.
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I know you guys have all said it already. But seriously....what the fuck? Did you accidentally post the wrong quote? Whats wrong with you?
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Made him look like a domino dressed up as a viking.
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Life is dull without drugs. If he were still hopped up, it would have been hysterical.
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I wants me some formic adventure.
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this can't work.
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It intentionally used much of the same color scheme as Superman's, and to me he looked like as much of a Kryptonian God of Thunder as a Norse one.
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get your priorities straight man
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hulk and/or thor in a movie alongside shellhead? not based enough in reality? i'm hard pressed to think of *any* member of the avengers (or mainstream comic hero in general, for that matter) that you could fathom seeing in normal, everyday life. a different property, sure, but how lame would batman look coming out of arby's with a two-for-one roast beef combo in hand? it's a movie based off of a comic book, not a freaking pbs documentary. provided the cg is up to par, thor and hulk will be fine.
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On Iron Man being more realistic. I mean, has he looked down at the fusion reactor he keeps in his chest? Or the fact he built that in a cave with while being held by the Taliban?
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Nov 26, 2008 2:06:10 PM CST
BadMrWonka - Mummy 3 is better than Indy 4 if you're stupid
by tallboy66
And if you like Mummy 3 better, than you're stupid and probably have trouble eating properly because you're such a fucking retard and can't quite master putting the spoon in your open, drooling mouth yet. Due to being an idiot. Very simple. Even if Crystal Skull isn't as good as the other Indy movies - THE MUMMY MOVIES ARE FUCKING BOILS ON THE ASS OF HUMANITY AND IS POSSIBLY SLOWING THE EVOLUTION OF MANKIND DUE TO THEIR MINDLESS UNFUNNY WHIZ-BANG TRITE BULLSHIT THAT CONTINUES TO INFLICT BRENDAN FRASER AND HIS CGI MOVIES AND BULLSHIT MUGGING ON EVERYONE. IT. IS. TORTURE! What was Mummy 3, like the 7th fucking "Brendan Fraser runs from CGI monsters" movies in 3 years?! Jesus fucking Christ, how on God's Green Earth could ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND ACTUALLY THINK THAT IT QUALIFIES AS ENTERTAINMENT! IT KILLS THE SOULS OF HUMANITY AND BURNS US ALIVE DUE TO ITS LEVEL OF SUCKING! THE MUMMY MOVIES SUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!! This is fact. If Merrick likes Mummy 3 better than Indy, he is very dumb. If you like Mummy 3 better than Indy, you are also dumb. End.
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the black death, then you're stupid.
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...seems like DGDB has quite a fan club. That's just sad.Anyway, I would've gone with just "pretty funny" or "snide remark." But what do I know?
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Honestly, he is. He pretty much is self-deprecating, he knows what fans expect, he knows when movies or roles or directors fuck up big time, and admits when he has as well.
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...it was so by the numbers and just fucking uninspired and oh just plain boring. Ang Lee's Hulk at least felt different, and it kept my interest for the most part. This one was just trying to cater to the retards here. And it succeeded (oh wait it didn't, it failed miserably bwahahaha!).
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Iron-Man is a funny man! Ho, Ho, Ho! Give him a new oil can!
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They cut out some great character development. There was a lengthy bit with Doc Sampson that was pretty good, and an AWESOME General Ross scene.
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Sorry, couldnt help myself...
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what's the deal?
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YOU SUCK ASS.
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With such a large cast, don't fuck it up!
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Nth Man movie? Now that's one seriously overlooked property. "Hmph! Talk. I always said that's a euphemism for a soft-nosed bullet in the back of the head!"
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Why is everyone harping on the idea of a Thor movie? What's made recent comic to film efforts so successful is an effort to seat these ideas within the realms of the "possible." Thor is fine as a standalone... but not essential to what an Avengers movie could be. I'm more amped about Joe "Rocketeer" Johnston doing the Capt. America flick... period-pertinent. Ie: WWII. Bring that shit on. Maybe they'll give a slick cameo to Reb Brown in the theatrical. Word.
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