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New Iron Man 2 poster! Mickey Rourke whips it! Whips it good!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Apple has debuted the next Iron Man 2 poster. When I first saw the link come in from Paramount's publicity team I hastily assumed it was the trailer debuting early. No such luck, but I guess Mickey Rourke looking crazy scary with some electric whips is a good consolation prize, though.
Here's the latest Iron Man poster! You can click on it to visit Apple's site and view the higher-res version! Enjoy
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looks ok
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... looks crazy as FUCK!!! Awesome poster!
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...wearing a kilt?
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Days till this comes out Final costume after all, huh?
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So I just got back from a movie. It was pretty great...if by pretty great I mean OMFGHOLYFUCKINGSHITOMGOMGOMG. Because that's what it was ... Oh, and if I hear one more "Dances with Wolves" joke I'm gonna throw up in my mouth. Has no one seen DUNE? Because this was DUNE. In a good way ...You have officially been to your last Con in which blue people, spoken Navi and the word "hometree" were absent.
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...a new poster guy.
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All they need to do is throw in some body glitter when he's in the sun and he would burst into FLAMER-MAN! (guh-HEY)
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quit dicking around >:(
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Really? Couldn't Iron Man just fly a distance away and lock-in on his head or some unarmored part of his body, not necessarily lethal force but some sort of stun ray much less a bullet or rocket, and take him out? Looks kind of cool, but not the most practical suit.-Cheers
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... can no-one make him at least cut that stringy fuckin crap hair - is it in his contract that 'you shall not cut my hair'? Looks shite...
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optical illusion?
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I remember when the first pics of Heath as the Joker hit...and there was hate all over the place. Then we see the movie and everyone loves it. It always happens. I guess its just cool to hate. The pics look awesome, and this movie will rule your ass. Everyone will change their tune....like clock work.
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better be careful with those things. One wrong move is all that it takes.
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He has armor later in the film i hear.
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I haven't seen the first one. So I think I'll be skipping this one as well. It's going to make great huge buckets of money anyway. Nobodies gonna miss my $10.
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This is not the complete costume that Whiplash will be wearing. This is just a prototype he is wearing at one point during the movie, when he fights Stark at a car race. Stark is not in Iron Man armor at the time. Kind of like how Stark was wearing the Mark 1 armor in the first movie. Dont judge a book by its cover.
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So far all of the leaked action shots I've seen have Whip Lash attacking Tony and co. when Tony isn't wearing armor. I think that we'll be seeing something else go head to head with Tin Head.
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Looks like the unabomber built that thing. I can't wait to see it, Favreau hasn't fucked me over too bad yet and I hardly think he'll drop the ball now.
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I have to go do some meth, and snort some crank, and then drink a fifth, but after that I'm gonna kick your ass iron man.
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is is just me and my perverted mind or are those dildos?
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I think that the only reason that they chose Whiplash is because of the tentacle-like whips. Tres Doc Ock.
Seeing as how Crimson Dynamo could've turned into a rehash of IM1, I would've preferred to have seen The Ghost instead.
The movie could have worked on 2 fronts. Justin Hammer could have been Tony's public nemesis and Ghost could have been Iron Man's. A whole industrial espionage angle.
If not for the bad history of too many villains per sequel, I would've even liked to have seen a version of the Armor Wars. Continue the thread started in IM1 where Obidiah Stane was reverse engineering Tony's tech and take it from there.
Rourke looks appropriately sinister, but I'd imagine that one repulsor shot or metal finger tap to the head would end the movie. -
I think that there has to be something more to this movie or enemy that we just don't get. Rourke doesn't look too dangerous, at least not bad enough that Tony can't take him out by himself. So, WHY is War Machine, a walking fucking arsenal, even needed?
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Lets not make iron man boring......iron man feels new and fresh..........Old guys in suits sre not new and fresh. Whiplash is A boring bad guy.
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Didn't blow me away. This one looks the same.
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His character is introduced in this one, and is likely to be the villian in the 3rd film. I would much rather have seen Rockwell as the main villian too, but I really dislike Rourke as a human being. He's just a dirtbag.
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The first one was a great fun movie. Before that movie came out, not a lot of the non comic book reading public even knew who Iron Man was. He was even considered a second tier super hero in the comic book communities eyes. Iron Man the movie changed all that.
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Dec 10, 2009 3:51:55 PM CST
...I think he looks cool. It's just not a very inspired poster.
by flickapoo
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So boring........whips for arms.........a drunken bad guy for a sober stark.
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That is what you're doing, right?
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Dec 10, 2009 3:55:54 PM CST
i dont see how hes a threat to a flying suit with missiles
by haterofcrap
my suspension of disbelief is not kicking in for these iron man movies... as charming as the stars are...
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Cover your orifices Iron Man!
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Old and dead actors in iron suits are no good.........lets get good actors.....
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Love it
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and the fact that the first film was decent. The rest of the cast sounds very uninteresting overall.
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From his twitter, it sounded like it fucked his eyeballs with TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION.
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.....And the second has b-grade stars in......goodbye Iron man all jets ablaze....
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what?
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Batman Begins, but this looks like it's entering into Daredevil/Elektra/Ghostrider territory.
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Marvel's value is drop, drop, droppin' Disney, you made a fucking mistake.
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..my whip is bigger...
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Boobalicious indeed.
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"Derp er derrrr!"
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and has fucked the eyeballs of many people. Fuck the skeptics.
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The whips form an outline of Dora's head and shoulders! She's the secret villain.
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there's an embargo for official reviews until early next week.
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http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/10/first-avatar-reactions/
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premiere.come on AICN,bring them.
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Needs more sweat...
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where the fuck are you now? AHAHAHAHA
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This site sells out to the studio!
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people who watched teh London premiere.
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this movie is gay. or it will be gay. as gay as the first one was. which was so gay. gay gay gay gay all over that gay faced bitch.and by gay i mean super awesome.
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Looks like a poster for UNDERWORLD or one of her similar flicks. Unfortunately, she looks like an unwashed Mickey Rourke in this one.
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I predict that it will lose money, and that will end up as a very weak Cameron film, maybe a 7.0 on imdb. Cameron really needs to take a fucking risk as opposed to resting on his laurels.
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His hair?
Really though?
I mean, that's the ONLY feature they've kept from any of the books!
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Dec 10, 2009 4:45:04 PM CST
I'm less impressed with the costume, and more impressed with...
by cylon_conspiracy
All those spooky, stalker-ish newspaper pages featuring Tony Stark pinned on the wall.
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it's because they all had their eyeballs fucked and are over at their optometrists.
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How is making Avatar not taking a risk? Have you seen how this film was made? In fact he has never taken the easy way when making a film. Making Terminator was not easy, Making Aliens was not easy, Making the Abyss was not easy, Making Titanic was not easy. The whole film depends on this technology, if this tech does not work the whole film is ruined, and he knew that going in. That is a hell of a risk.
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Whole thing for download. Probably old news. New Iron Man2 poster reminds me of Death Wish for some reason. I agree though. This series needs Mandarin and quick...hopefully they'll introduce some more hinting with him to prepare for the third.
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http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/10/avatar-reviews-james-cameron/
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The T-1000 wasn't a game changer.....neither will avatar.
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...is that for some reason Marvel, D.C. and the lot INSIST on making the hero's fight the primary villains of that character's mythology. Yeah, they set up IM1 for an eventual Mandarin reveal, but Iron Man as a hero was all over the map and fought loads of villains in the Marvel universe. Mix it up! Justin Hammer is just an old man in a suit and the Crimson Dynamo is just some Ruskie with whips - let's get some villains/antagonists with some gravitas in there like Magneto, Hulk, The Prince Namor, some Skrull's for fuck sake. I get that this franchise is more character driven then that superficial drivel that is the X-Men that we've suffered through. I'm willing to see it in the theater but I'm concerned with the over-abundance of characters which essentially doomed Spiderman 3. Black Widow, War Machine, Crimson Dynamo, Justin Hammer, Iron Man... you bought a lot of good will with IM 1, don't waste it by fucking up IM 2 with a plethora of characters you'll never flesh out the right way.
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Dec 10, 2009 4:59:36 PM CST
yeah, the abyss water creature and the T-1000 weren't game chang
by dizzyd75
that is why they stopped using CGI after that.
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Dec 10, 2009 5:02:36 PM CST
They used cgi....but it wasn't game changing....it was game copy
by paint163
The blue people are just updated Jar Jar binks..characters.
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All I know is that I'm going to be watching the first properly filmed action movie next Friday in a decade. Honestly, aren't you fuckers sick of the shaky-cam and fast edits of all these directors? And I'm including Nolan in this list too, because the action in The Dark Knight and Batman Begins was nothing to write home about overall. I'm fairly sure I'll be thoroughly entertained by this event-film. And for the record, people are already using Cameron's tech. Spielberg, Jackson and company are on the list.
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more like an updated Gollum. Keep trolling, I knew all you cry-babies would hit the fan when the screenings would start dropping.
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...Connect with a cgi character their eyes will always know its cgi....always.
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to be honest I forgot/didn't care that he was CGI within the first few minutes he was introduced.
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Downey jnr, Rourke, Rockwell, Paltrow, Johansson (cough) - some serious acting chops - this better be good brothers...Will it have a scene where Tony has had too many red bull vodkas the previous night, and sparks are flying out of his chest?
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First track and I already hear a well-known trumpet solo directly hoisted out of Horner's WILLOW soundtrack. And it's the only memorable part of the first song. Comeon, Horner, TRY HARDER! Still, better than the crap Zimmer's "composer farm" or whatever is churning out anyway.
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all he needs is to be holding the joker card.
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.A shit actor so wooden and devoid of personality......fucking crap
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this is just the prototype that he uses for the majority of the film. You really think theyre going to reveal the final design of his suit this early in the game?
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Well, the moment Jake enters his Avatar world, my eardrums are getting fucked. It's a jungle scene obviously and Horner composed some jungle-like rhythms without coming off as cartoonish like I've heard on many other soundtracks (Ewok themes).
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overall though I don't think he's anything special. I think Sam Rockwell's going to carry this film by himself. Maybe with a little help from Downey Jr. The rest will be bland as fuck.
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The old actors are the best fucking ones you clod...they've got presence, experience and talent. That fucker Worthington? Almost a non-entity on screen. Rourke? Everyone pays attention to that guy.
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When we all want to know what the movie is like....
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No, really.
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That's the newspaper my dad reads home...how bizarre !!! It had THE best weekend cartoon section while I was growing up... Now I feel all sad....
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The background is what got me first but I do love the light whips and his look.... very goth (but in a good way)...
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The guy that did the good Clone Wars cartoon and Samurai Jack is in charge of the action sequences.
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I didn't know that. He's a genius.
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Wow - that is great news! That guy knows action better than most. His timing and execution is perfect, hell he even knows how to integrate humor in clever ways. Can't wait to see what he does with live action.
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Hey, Jonathan Davis!
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An unknown sci-fi property with a budget at almost 300 million dollars, no big name stars, and the main characters are blue aliens. How is that not a risk? Cameron himself said if they couldn't get out of the uncanny valley they were "dead". And yes, the technology is revolutionary... everything from the E/motion capture, the virtual camera, and the new 3D camera system. All of that technology (or at least 2 outta 3) was created by Jim and co. Beyond that they had to constantly invent techniques to film scenes for the movie...you can bet you ass Jim put 110% into this thing.
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I can't believe somebody would say otherwise. The design choice itself was risky as hell. To the point where Fox literally asked to remove the tails and Cameron refused.
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"... the terrible film that some had been anticipating had not materialised. It was good ... There is, though, a certain amount of suspension of disbelief needed when watching Avatar. Cynics might sneer at the plot" The Guardian
"Everything feels real. It's as if Cameron has happened upon this alien world and got his camera out ... It is overwhelming, and that is because you are emotionally tied up in the characters and the story ... James Cameron has described his new filming process as "emotion capture". And it's a boast he lives up to." The Sun
"Was not as thrilled by Avatar as my colleagues; eye-popping visuals, but story is Dances w/Wolves + District 9; I preferred District 9." unnamed critic
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I meant to say Avatar is* a huge risk. We won't know if it pays off or not for a while, but if early reactions are any indication things are looking good. It appears that tons of people are absolutely loving the film...surprise, surprise.
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The still images of Rourke as Whiplash are still a really hard sell for me. It's going to have to be done really well in action and even then, I think it's sorta lame.
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Those quotes seem a little mixed. The twitters on the other hand are uber positive. Still, everyone knows twitters are written by cunts so hard to trust them.
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I was a fan of the character in the comics with all the purpley plummage.
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It looks like my main man, JC, pulled it off! At least according to Kirk Honeycutt at the HR. To be honest, I had my doubts. But ALIENS is my favorite movie and Cameron is like a god to me, so I'll have to see for myself. -
lol highly respected my ass. District 9 really isn't anything special. It's dialogue was cheesy as hell too (too bad the fanboys overlooked this) and the action scenes were Aliens knock-off. It had a good start but progressively got worse.
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http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/10/avatar-reviews-james-cameron/
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one of the most over-rated films of the decade to be honest. Alongside The Dark Knight (which I loved, but when it's got such a ridiculous ranking on IMDB there's a problem)
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the funny thing is i am arguing about the movie plot holes and inconsistencies,and the best excuse i have read until now,is that the director was trying to save time from the movie in order to develop the characters and the messages he wanted to pass to the viewer.well,if thats the logic,sacrifice the setting of the movie,the establishment of the universe,in order to tell your social commentaries,then why shouldnt Bay get the same treatment? Bay is justified for not caring about a solid script,because he wanted to save time from the movie in order to show us his expensive spectacle.why not?
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"Verdict It’s been twelve years since Titanic, but the King of the World has returned with a flawed but fantastic tour de force that, taken on its merits as a film, especially in two dimensions, warrants four stars. However, if you can wrap a pair of 3D glasses round your peepers, this becomes a transcendent, full-on five-star experience that's the closest we'll ever come to setting foot on a strange new world. Just don’t leave it so long next time, eh, Jim?" Reviewer: Chris Hewitt Empire Magazine.
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Dec 10, 2009 6:40:20 PM CST
Is EVERY Iron Man hero/villain gonna have that chest thingy?
by curious jorge
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The king is back!!!
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"At times – and this is perhaps Avatar’s biggest flaw, even beyond that bloody awful Leona Lewis song which mars the end credits – this manifests itself in New Age-y, hippy-dippy language and images that suggest that Cameron is one mung bean away from dropping out, man, and going all Swampy on our asses.
In truth, the big idea here, that Pandora is a giant mass of connected energy and emotional synapses, isn’t really all that far away from Lucas’ The Force, and works just fine in the context of a sci-fi fantasy, which Avatar undoubtedly is, but there’s a fair amount of unintentional laughter to be had from watching hundreds of Na’vi, swaying like extras from the Zion rave scene in The Matrix Reloaded, surrounding something called The Tree Of Souls and banging on about becoming one with Mother Eywo. If there’s one element of Avatar that the made-their-mind-up brigade will use to mercilessly beat the film with, even more so than the somewhat prosaic plot, it’s this.
But it’s hard to imagine even the most jaded and cynical having any issues with the last forty minutes, in which Cameron uncorks the action and shows all the young pretenders – the Bays and the Emmerichs and the Von Triers – how it’s done. The human attack on Pandora and the subsequent fightback, led by Avatar-Jake, is a largely sustained setpiece of quite staggering scale, imagination and emotion that manages to compress both the truly epic – a human attack on a Na’vi landmark that recalls 9/11 in its devastating imagery – and the thrillingly intimate, as Jake finally faces off against Stephen Lang’s Quaritch, a scenery-chewing bad guy so badass that he can breathe the Pandoran air without a mask.
Empire Review
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So four stars in 2D , five stars in 3d? Hmmm, that's less than ATTACK OF THE CLONES - which got an unreserved five stars in Empire.
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And get rid of that smell! It's awful!
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where are you hiding?
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they are fucking terrible reviewers.
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I would expect reviews to start pouring in.
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No, EVERY Iron Man hero/villain is not gonna have a "chest thingy." Black Widow's gonna have TWO!Get it? Two! 'Cause of the boobies! Ha ha ha ha ha!
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AVATAR's short term prospects: Harry and the AICN boys shoot spunk all over it! Meesa wanna be navi! Meesa wuv 3d glasses!
AVATAR's long term prospects:
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you know it's coming...
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Just wanted to point that out so no one else confuses him with Tarkovsky.
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is going to watch Avatar in 2d?
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gotilk, in a couple of months time it'll have finished its theatrical run and the only way to watch it will be at home on TV... in 2D.
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I don't see how he could be a threat or challenge for Iron Man.
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I woulda been like "daaaaaaamn favreau my randy the ram gear looks better than that pos. You gotta pay me more than scale even if I didn't get some oscar buzz." They should do a cameo scene where deadpool and blaq widow look at each other and she smirks *ever so slightly* at him.
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Word is coming out of London that the movie is amazing.
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AICN- please post reviews now.
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...lifting the review embargo after the response seemed so positive at the premier. Can someone post the Hollywood Reporter review? I think the site is crashing or something...I can't get it to open...
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Very moody and perfect. Think I may have to track this poster down.
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District 9. Ban me Harry or I will murder Massawyrm.
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I get the feeling he won't put up any reviews till he finishes his.
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have these when you were old enough...his lightwhips and his s&m collection. Gee..thanks Obi-Wan!
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Iron Man has guns that fire bullets. Mickey Rourke is bare-chested. What's the difficulty here? Fly twenty feet overhead and kill the guy.
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Bottom Line: A titanic entertainment -- movie magic is back!
A dozen years later, James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world.
As commander-in-chief of an army of visual-effects technicians, creature designers, motion-capture mavens, stunt performers, dancers, actors and music and sound magicians, he brings science-fiction movies into the 21st century with the jaw-dropping wonder that is "Avatar." And he did it almost from scratch.
There is no underlining novel or myth to generate his story. He certainly draws deeply on Westerns, going back to "The Vanishing American" and, in particular, "Dances With Wolves." And the American tragedy in Vietnam informs much of his story. But then all great stories build on the past ( "Avatar" premiered Thursday in London).
After writing this story many years ago, he discovered that the technology he needed to make it happen did not exist. So, he went out and created it in collaboration with the best effects minds in the business. This is motion capture brought to a new high where every detail of the actors' performances gets preserved in the final CG character as they appear on the screen. Yes, those eyes are no longer dead holes but big and expressive, almost dominating the wide and long alien faces.
The movie is 161 minutes and flies by in a rush. Repeat business? You bet. "Titanic"-level business?That level may never be reached again, but Fox will see more than enough grosses worldwide to cover its bet on Cameron.
But let's cut to the chase: A fully believable, flesh-and-blood (albeit not human flesh and blood) romance is the beating heart of "Avatar." Cameron has never made a movie just to show off visual pyrotechnics: Every bit of technology in "Avatar" serves the greater purpose of a deeply felt love story (watch the trailerhere).
The story takes place in 2154, three decades after a multinational corporation has established a mining colony on Pandora, a planet light years from Earth. A toxic environment and hostile natives -- one corporate apparatchik calls the locals "blue monkeys" -- forces the conglom to engage with Pandora by proxy. Humans dwell in oxygen-drenched cocoons but move out into mines or to confront the planet's hostile creatures in hugely fortified armor and robotics or -- as avatars.
The protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a crippled former Marine who takes his late twin brother's place in the avatar program, a sort of bone thrown to the scientific community by the corporation in hopes that the study of Pandora and its population might create a more peaceful planet.
Without any training, Jake suddenly must learn how to link his consciousness to an avatar, a remotely controlled biological body that mixes human DNA with that of the native population, the Na'vi. Since he is incautious and overly curious, he immediately rushes into the fresh air -- to a native -- to throw open Pandora's many boxes.
What a glory Cameron has created for Jake to romp in, all in a crisp 3D realism. It's every fairy tale about flying dragons, magic plants, weirdly hypnotic creepy-crawlies and feral dogs rolled up into a rain forest with a highly advanced spiritual design. It seems -- although the scientists led by Sigourney Weaver's top doc have barely scratched the surface -- a flow of energy ripples through the roots of trees and the spores of the plants, which the Na'vi know how to tap into.
The center of life is a holy tree where tribal memories and the wisdom of their ancestors is theirs for the asking. This is what the humans want to strip mine.
Jake manages to get taken in by one tribe where a powerful, Amazonian named Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) takes him under her wing to teach him how to live in the forest, speak the language and honor the traditions of nature. Yes, they fall in love but Cameron has never been a sentimentalist: He makes it tough on his love birds.
They must overcome obstacles and learn each other's heart. The Na'vi have a saying, "I see you," which goes beyond the visual. It means I see into you and know your heart.
In his months with the Na'vi, Jake experiences their life as the "true world" and that inside his crippled body locked in a coffin-like transponding device, where he can control his avatar, is as the "dream." The switch to the other side is gradual for his body remains with the human colony while his consciousness is sometimes elsewhere.
He provides solid intelligence about the Na'vi defensive capabilities to Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the ramrod head of security for the mining consortium and the movie's villain. But as Jake comes to see things through Neytiri's eyes, he hopes to establish enough trust between the humans and the natives to negotiate a peace. But the corporation wants the land the Na'vi occupy for its valuable raw material so the Colonel sees no purpose in this.
The battle for Pandora occupies much of the final third of the film. The planet's animal life -- the creatures of the ground and air -- give battle along with the Na'vi, but they come up against projectiles, bombs and armor that seemingly will be their ruin.
As with everything in "Avatar," Cameron has coolly thought things through. With every visual tool he can muster, he takes viewers through the battle like a master tactician, demonstrating how every turn in the fight, every valiant death or cowardly act, changes its course. The screen is alive with more action and the soundtrack pops with more robust music than any dozen sci-fi shoot-'em-ups you care to mention (watch the "Avatar" video game trailer here).
In years of development and four years of production no detail in the pic is unimportant. Cameron's collaborators excel beginning with the actors. Whether in human shape or as natives, they all bring terrific vitality to their roles.
Mauro Fiore's cinematography is dazzling as it melts all the visual elements into a science-fiction whole. You believe in Pandora. Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg's design brings Cameron's screenplay to life with disarming ease.
James Horner's score never intrudes but subtlety eggs the action on while the editing attributed to Cameron, Stephen Rivkin and John Refoua maintains a breathless pace that exhilarates rather than fatigues. Not a minute is wasted; there is no down time.
The only question is: How will Cameron ever top this?
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Thanks!
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I had it up and heard people where having trouble getting to it.
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They should've gone with him, bypassed Whiplash entirely, held off War Machine until the third film, bring in Black Widow and mix her story with Bethany Cabe's story (a composite character). Then adapt Demon in a Bottle plus the Living Laser two-part story from Iron Man #152-153. Bonus: Stealth Armor! Now THAT would make an excellent Iron Man sequel.
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Biggest story of the year with Avatar embargo lifted and this site is headlining some stupid Iron Man 2 poster- bookmark deleted...
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http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=133552
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Your right there, mate. Any movie site worth its salt would have been waiting for the reviews to come in and pouncing on them. Although Quint on twatter did say something. Looks like AICN is truly NOT the place to come to for a scoop anymore.
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"The King of the World sets his sights on creating another world entirely in 'Avatar', and it's very much a place worth visiting." http://tinyurl.com/ygwu9td
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or M.I.2.T.C.H.S
All I give a shit about is War Machine, Black Widow and a boozed up Tony Stark. Whiplash is filler as far as I'm concerned.
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it was brutal slogging through that one...and why does every reviewer need to compare destruction to 9/11 or iraq? enough already with that shit. i mean; the fucking script was written before all that shit.
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"shows all the young pretenders - the Bays, the Emmerichs and the VON TRIERS..."!!!!???? First time I've seen Big Jim and Naughty Lars yoked together. Does this guy really think the Danish Pixie aspires to big-budget, sci-fi mayhem? Gave me a good laugh, anyway. Inside every maverick Euro/Scando helmer is a McTiernan gene raging and howling for outlet. But I'm glad to see Cameron has apparently made a very good movie. Isn't that what most of us wanted?
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The first reviews are in. And the critics love it!
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fucking laptop. Von Trier, as in Lars "Antichirst" Von Trier? Yeah, right. What fucking crack was that limey cocksucker smoking when he watched "Avatar"?
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Happy now, teabaggers ?!?Your time to shine.
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"'an astonishing sensory experience unlike anything I've seen on film. Holy fuck wow. - I wonder what that could be about... ahem'"
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shows even more proof to how fucking stupid Empire can be.
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AVATAR?!?!??!?! I MEAN COME ON, AVATAR'S OUT AND PEOPLE ARE FUCKING REVIEWING IT AND THIS SITE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FUCKING TWO LINE REACTION FROM EVEN MASSAWYRM WHO SAW IT SOMEHOW??!!!
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it's taking them way too long though.
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Except pick a pop song. The man seems to have the pop music tastes of an old lady heading the PTA. Hit or NOT. I'm 100 percent looking forward to seeing Avatar, but that song.. holy crap.
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Without gushing hysterically about AICN losing touch etc - what are the twitter details for herc and harry so we can live up to the minute (in our dark basements while other people go about their business in the real world)
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Come on, can I please hear some more Avatar hate. I want to have a good laff.
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better costume than that tinker toy contraption. So it's the final design? the water world one? And they covered it up by making this poster really dark? lolz. the 2 posters so far suck ass.
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pretty much looks gayer than Hannah Montana: The Movie
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lmao. Fine. I hope it's good. Maybe I can get some contacts that will change the blue smurfs into purple smurfs and it will be even better.
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Now I feel like I'm in an AICN talkback now.
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Yep, I just went there.
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Sounds awesome, despite the naysayers, of which there seems to be fewer, and fewer...
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Nobody gives a stringy yellow SHIT about Mickey the gimp Rourke and Iron Man 2!!!!!
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I'm sure that douche will give it a fair shot.
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Movie events don’t get bigger than this. James Cameron’s long-awaited follow-up to Titanic, the most successful film to date, is immense in every way: from the ambition and scope of its vision, to the ground-breaking technological wizardry, to the staggering size of its budget.
Estimates of the production costs vary widely, but recent theories place Avatar alongside Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End as one of the most expensive films made.
The success or failure of this high-stakes gamble of a movie will send seismic ripples throughout the film industry. If it tanks, Avatar could pose more of an immediate threat to the Hollywood infrastructure than the San Andreas Fault.
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Film fans as well as business insiders have cause to root for Avatar’s success: the failure of such a high profile original concept would mean that the industry will become even more risk-averse and reliant on the proven lure of sequels and remakes.
But on the strength of the film’s well-received world premiere in the Odeon Leicester Square, in Central London, last night the movie industry players of Los Angeles should not be too worried about losing their houses just yet.
Avatar is an overwhelming, immersive spectacle. The state-of-the-art 3D technology draws us in, but it is the vivid weirdness of Cameron’s luridly imagined tropical otherworld that keeps us fascinated.
It’s a world that takes a little getting used to. Cameron’s vision owes something to Hayao Miyazaki’s meticulous fantasies and something to the 1992 Australian animation FernGully: The Last Rainforest. At times it verges on the tacky, like a futuristic air freshener advertisement with the colour contrast turned up to the max. The ethically accented orchestral score certainly doesn’t help matters. But mostly, it’s a place of wonder full of exotically freakish animal composites — iridescent lizard birds, hammer-headed rhinos — and sentient vegetation.
Assuming correctly that the special effects would turn out to be the stars of this film, Cameron avoided the big name casting route, opting instead for the relatively unknown Australian actor Sam Worthington in the central role of paraplegic former marine, Jake Sully.
The wheelchair-bound war hero is selected to take part in a top-secret programme. He will travel to a lush extraterrestrial moon called Pandora which is inhabited by a cobalt-skinned race of ten foot tall humanoid aliens known as the Na’vi.
Aware that the core audience for the film is likely to be teenaged boys, Cameron has equipped the female Na’vi with supermodel looks and curves in all the right places, as well as tails and pointy ears.
Sully finds himself a pawn, caught between two camps: the empathetic scientists led by Sigourney Weaver and the corporate guns for hire who want to aggressively plunder the mineral resources of Pandora.
Thanks to his blossoming relationship with Na’vi warrior princess Neytiri (a CGI motion- captured performance from Zoe Saldana), Sully begins to question the legitimacy of the mission.
With the use of such charged phrases as “shock and awe” and Sully’s curt summation of the situation (“When people are sitting on stuff you want, you make them your enemy”) Cameron adds a thought-provoking political dimension to the story.
Will the film match Titanic’s gigantic box office haul of $1.8 billion. Possibly not. The soppy, soggy doomed love story of Jack and Rose hit a particular chord with audiences. But I would be very surprised if James Cameron didn’t have another sizable hit on his hands.
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No doubt. Right now, the review I'm most interested in reading is Devin Faraci's. Because if the published reviews and Twitter traffic are any genuine indication, I can't wait to see how he's going to spin all this.
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is Up in the Air's best picture Oscar hopes withering away by the moment. Avatar's gonna get it done, just like Cameron did with Titanic, which crossed all ages and creeds in getting to $601 million.
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Prepare to be skull fucked. Both your eyes and ears will be sore from the double penetration.
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Hero movies it´s always complicated... The so called "good actors" don't take it seriously... They don't accept or else, do it for the money... Stop complain about Rourke, no other actor wants to be the guy with a whip and a ponytail... Let´s talk straight, Iron's enemies, they're all lame... The good ones it's not his "own"... Ironman enemies equals Ironman's suit but bad manufactured... And another thing, Scarlett is cute, not HOT... Black Widow it´s the most damn HOT woman in Marvel... You could've put any actress people sugested for Mary Jane on another post, and would've been just fine... "But what about the acting..", come on, Natasha is a fucking cold spy, who cares... Even if Meryl Streep was Black Widow nobody would care, it´s a comic book movie...
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7/7 very positive...
Avatar is good to go!!!!!! Can't wait until December 20th!!!! All the cynical dipshit haters can now sit down and be quiet. -
...is getting the shit scooped out of it by other critics by the biggest entertainment story since the Wizard of Fucking Oz...
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Thanks erichaislar & Darth Evil Dead. I have faith in Favreau (not in a religious way, but in a he-makes-good-movies sort of way) and liked Iron Man. If that was the final costume/suit I'd have some reservations just based on the science of it. But I'm not being a hater.
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No reviews from the premiere? Come on, I want to hear a geek review AVATAR.
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Dec 10, 2009 10:52:28 PM CST
Sir, I think you need to take your lightsabers to the death star
by rene_belloq_12inch_figure
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having already given him the unprecedented historical sweep for Titanic they won't do that again. It'll win a lot of technical awards. Up In the Air will win best movie because it's one of those films - a film about How We Are Now and how to get in touch With Our Feelings. But if there's any fucking justice in the world Kathryn Bigelow will win best director. Knowing Hollywood Boal will win best screenplay for the bone they're gonna throw the Hurt Locker.
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Avatar has no chance other than a nomination. Like the poster above said, it will get the technical ones. If it goes to Up in the Air that will be immensely disappointing, yet predictable.
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Dec 10, 2009 10:59:00 PM CST
I'm thinking the only bone for Hurt Locker is a Best Picture Nom
by natecore
(500) Days of Summer is a lock for best screenplay.
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What the fuck is with all this Avatar shit?! With all this push of "fucking eyeballs", fuckers talking about it at EVERY fucking talkback and shitty trailers, I'm having doubts it will deliver. I was curious about it but now, I hope that shit bombs! Yeah, I said it and most of you know it be true. Sure your feels.
Now back to IRON MAN. Rourke looks fucking crazy. They did mention that the final version will be in the movie, but no one can play crazy scary as Rourke. So far IRON MAN 2 is still looks decent. -
Dec 10, 2009 11:19:35 PM CST
HERE'S DEVIN FARACI'S REVIEW OF AVATAR IN PICTURE FORM......
by tehcreepythinman
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/299/faraciowned.jpg
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Not a lot you can do with a poster. Far back as I can remember character shots have been the standard. That or a Struzan montage. Either way, the poster isn't what's gonna mkae or break this film. Also, I'm sure there's going to be a 3-D standee too, so there's that.
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Oh, Behave!
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10 best picture nominees? Fucking stupid. Of course Avatar will get one. They've now wattered-down the significance of being a nominated film.
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... IS GUSHING ABOUT THE "AVATAR"...
BTW... WHAT IS ALL THIS TALK ABOUT SAM WORTHINGTON BEING OFFERED CAPTAIN AMERICA? HAS ANYONE ELSE HEARD THIS? JUST CURIOUS... -
... IS GUSHING ABOUT "AVATAR"... BTW... WHAT IS ALL THIS TALK ABOUT SAM WORTHINGTON BEING OFFERED CAPTAIN AMERICA? HAS ANYONE ELSE HEARD THIS? JUST CURIOUS...
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LOL for real, dude. Love it.
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THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO GET HITS ON THEIR SITE.
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good the reviews are for Avatar. Shit, even at twitch.com which is one of the most cynical and jaded film sites there is the dude gives it a glowing review. Now we just have to sit back and see how Devin fuckhead Farci and his mongoloid disciples will try to spin all this.....Should be fucking hilarious. I wonder if nerdrage is slitting his wrists right at this moment?
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... I should have clarified... Nick is gushing about it on his Facebook page... his quote is "love faraway lands, love blue people, etc..." I just figured he either saw it or is about tho blow his wad over the impending release... who knows.
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Dec 10, 2009 11:56:59 PM CST
You know who's the most pissed about Avatar getting praise today
by gil brooks
Robert Zemeckis. A lot of reviews are highlighting how natural the mocap is, and how it's easy to get wrapped up in the CG characters- which is pretty much the opposite of what is said of Zemeckis's mocap films. Hee hee.
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this way sheep. My 12 year old nephew said it looks like homo shit. Straight from the demographic.
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when Iron Man shoots a laser guided heat seeker, this guy does what?
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the number of nominations is so broad that I would be surprised if Avatar was NOT nominated for Best Picture. Sadly this also opens the door for shit like Star Trek which, believe it or not, is getting fucking Oscar Buzz.
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tell him Sherlock Holmes should be out soon. Right up his alley. I heard there's some fart jokes in there too.
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Dec 11, 2009 12:33:53 AM CST
MacReady452, YOUR 12 YEAR OLD NEPHEW IS MORE THE LIKELY.....
by tehcreepythinman
Some wigger dipshit. Really, you think the opinion of some fetus born in 1997, funny enough the year Titanic came out, really has any bearing on Avatar? Tell him to crawl back into the filthy sewer of a cunt he came from and get back to us when his balls drop.
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Dec 11, 2009 12:46:07 AM CST
MacReady452, like anyone gives a shit what a 12 year old thinks
by mattmanreturns
Many 12 year olds would probably be bored in Dark Knight but love the shit out of Batman and Robin. And your 12 year old nephew sounds like a little homophobe.
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Hyperactive child, y'know? Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?... Geez.. I want to watch it too, but i'm not jizzed in my pants...
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I LOVE Dark Knight. It's easily in my top 5 of ALL TIME. I'm an old school comic nerd, and to see the vision brought to the screen like that is awesome. That said, I think Iron Man still manages to be the best "super hero movie", it's simple, has a clear good vs evil theme, it's serious, yet fun. The subject matter was treated respectfully, Stark was written perfectly, yet it's accessible to anyone without feeling weighted down, bloated or too self-conscious. I can't WAIT for IM2.
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Dec 11, 2009 1:02:23 AM CST
Iron Man WOULD be perfect... if not for the final battle
by mattmanreturns
The climax isn't bad, it just isn't great. It's a little uninspired. I don't mind though, because it felt like they were saving the truly badass stuff for the sequel.
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Dec 11, 2009 1:12:14 AM CST
IRON MAN WAS SOLID LIKE THE FIRST X-MEN AND SPIDER-MAN.....
by tehcreepythinman
I'm hoping that IM2 delivers a great sequel like X2 and SM2. Hopefully they can avoid making a horrible 3rd movie which is what we unfortunately got from X-men and Spider-man.
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District 9 finale kinda aped it, but did it much better, and with less money. Favreau was better with the comedy/character stuff. The action stuff, not so much. Rather routine, actually.
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Why did they even bother making this schmuck a villain in the movie?
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because they cut an alternate end that Rhodey beats the Iron Monger with a car crash(!!!)... And about X-Men I have my reservations, I thought it was a bit awkward Jean Grey/Janssen been taller/older than Cyclops/Madsen... and Magneto in comics appears taller and strong than his couterpart...Wolverine and Sabretooth doesn't know each other? Of course, at that time for me it was the best comic book film available...
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Is going to look like and not a Drawing.
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nothing else matters
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Is going to look like and not a Drawing.
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Some dude with energy whips? I dont think i can suspend my beleif. Like when spidy punched Dock Ock and he shrugged it off.
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about this project at all. don't know why.
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if you scroll the picture up to his knees it looks like he's weilding lightsabers. someone should crop the pick up to his knees and photoshop the whips red.
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...and the Legend of Pixie Dust Hollow.
I'm sure I'll watch it though. And I agree with the meager ending of Iron Man 1 but I still love that flick. And since someone up there mentioned TDK, I really liked that a lot, but I recently saw Batman:Dead End for the first time in a few years. THAT'S what Batman should look like. And move like. And sound like. Let give Clark Batram a chance in the next one, Nolan! And put the Batcave back in. Extreme Manor Makeover's GOTTA be done by now. -
I think the poster looks good
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Dec 11, 2009 2:12:55 PM CST
slightly looking downward but staring at the viewer pose
by takingscorpioscalls
seems to be the norm nowadays.
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Dec 11, 2009 2:18:03 PM CST
Villain should've been Crimson Dynamo or Mandarin
by takingscorpioscalls
you know actual classic IM villains for a change. The equivalent to this would be like having Spiderman 2's villain be Human Fly.
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Really? As if Iron Monger wasn't a bad enough Iron Man villain... now we have to deal with another 2.5 hour long tragedy? How about taking a shot at some real Iron Man villains, i.e. Crimson Dynamo? Ultron? Fuck, I'd even settle for the damned Mandarin... This movie is going to be terrible, as was the last one. I can't wait for an actual good Marvel movie to come out...
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The whole stance is exactly the same as Prince of Persia Warrior within cover art..
See here: http://abgames.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/wallpaper_prince_of_persia_warrior_within_10_1600.jpg -
Just a thought, but I'm hoping Marvel isn't covering their booties for the Avengers movie by keeping War Machine front and slightly off center in this whole shabang. RDJ mentions from time to time that he is no sure thing to be in Avengers, so could they be setting up Rhodey for inclusion just in case Downey bails? Hope not, as the Avengers movie (with Stark) has me fascinated. It's kind of why I always like them going with unknowns as super heroes. The "ACTORZ" want too much input into a popular myth that has been around for decades before they got a sniff of it. Anyway, looking forward to IM 2, enjoyed the heck out of the 1st one.
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Poor casting. Stupid costume. Disappointing choice of villain. Not a lot to look forward to with this movie.
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Because you're annoying
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nzGdaDdg0
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"This movie is going to be terrible, as was the last one."
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1) Stane
2) Mandarin
3) Fin Fang Foom, which would be marketed under the name Cloverfield 2 and be the battle between Stark and Foom from street level.
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"Arc-Welder"
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Dec 14, 2009 4:38:48 PM CST
I'd pay $15 to watch Shellhead battle Fin Fang Foom in 3D
by royston lodge
Oh yes, I most certainly would.
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