Epic Fail: I saw a display copy for Captain America 2 at the store yesterday (It's out on monday) and Marvel have put a large photo of the Winter Soldier's face on the back cover. Good job that guy who designed the cover.
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I'm not surprised they don't just flat out say it in the write-up on the back.Ryan McAvoy said:
Epic Fail: I saw a display copy for Captain America 2 at the store yesterday (It's out on monday) and Marvel have put a large photo of the Winter Soldier's face on the back cover. Good job that guy who designed the cover.
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doubleofive said:
I'm not surprised they don't just flat out say it in the write-up on the back.Ryan McAvoy said:
Epic Fail: I saw a display copy for Captain America 2 at the store yesterday (It's out on monday) and Marvel have put a large photo of the Winter Soldier's face on the back cover. Good job that guy who designed the cover.
Video covers that give away major plot points are sadly nothing new.
Where were you in '77?
The showrunner for Daredevil recently came out of the woodwork:
Paste: With Spartacus—and also with Joss’s work—every time you have a battle scene or an action sequence, you have to balance it with emotional character development. From a writing perspective, how do you approach that?
DeKnight: The character stuff is the important part of it. The action part of it, I always feel like anybody can really write action. It’s not that hard you just need a blueprint to tell the stunt team where they’re going, and let them take it from there. The most important part of any action scene, was the question, What are the emotional stakes of the action scene? It’s got to propel the story, and illuminate the characters. That was especially true in Buffy and Angel with the action and the monster of week. It was a metaphor and something to shine a light on what our characters were going through.
Paste: I talked with George Mastras about Breaking Bad, and he said something that could also apply to working on Daredevil—Every time the character wins, he also has to lose a little bit. When you’re handling a superhero, how do you think about his arc?
DeKnight: With this version of Daredevil, we wanted it to be grounded, gritty, as realistic as we could portray. That naturally fits in with the Daredevil character. Matt Murdock, on a regular basis, would get the shit beat out of him. That’s one thing that makes him a great character. He’s not super strong. He’s not invulnerable. In every aspect, he’s a man that’s just pushed himself to the limits, he just has senses that are better than a normal humans. He is human. The other thing that really drew me to this character is that he’s one of the most morally grey of the heroes.
Paste: How so?
DeKnight: He’s a lawyer by day, and he’s taken this oath. But every night he breaks that oath, and goes out and does very violent things. The image that always stuck in my mind was the Frank Miller Elektra run where he’s holding Bullseye over the street, and he lets Bullseye go because he doesn’t want Bullseye to ever kill anyone again. When I read that originally, when I was young, I’d never seen anything like that in comics. Superman scoops up the villain and puts them in jail. This time the hero didn’t do that. It was a morally grey ground that I found absolutely fascinating. There are two sides to this character. He’s literally one bad day away from becoming the The Punisher! Frank Castle went just a little bit further than he did. Daredevil has no qualms about beating the hell out of somebody. He’s not going to tie them up with his webs! He’ll come close to killing somebody. And it’s that fine edge—Why doesn’t he go all the way? I really liked the flawed heroes, the human heroes.
Well I'm intrigued!
Tobar said:
Somehow I lost interest in this show around episode 5. Did it ever get any better?
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Yeah, around episode 12 or so it stops treading water, then from episode 14 on it finally becomes what it should have been from the beginning.FanFiltration said:
Somehow I lost interest in this show around episode 5. Did it ever get any better?
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Jeph Loeb recently did a radio interview for KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles where he touched on Daredevil:
"When I watched The Avengers, which is really one of my favorite movies, during the scene when the sky opens up, the Chitauri are coming and there's a giant battle over by Grand Central Station, even in the theater I was thinking, 'In the true Marvel Universe if you go about ten blocks over and an avenue down, there's a place called Hell's Kitchen and in that world are characters like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and those characters are not going to be involved in an inter-warfare-universe-colliding incident,'" Loeb said. "That's what the Avengers do and they do it really, really well and those movies are incredible. We wanted to have an opportunity to be able to tell stories about our street-level heroes and how that they could possibly interact in the world of Marvel without it feeling like it's completely detached and by the same token feeling like it's part of that world. And it's very much how it is in the comics, which is that Daredevil -- yes, one could argue that at some point he's been an Avenger but hey, you know, the reality is that so has everybody else [laughs]. The idea is that this is the world of people who are there to protect the neighborhood and if you believe in the neighborhood the way you believe in the planet then the emotional context is just strong."
"When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix."
Loved it. They definitely brought their 'A' game!
Yeah it was pretty good I just have one beef with Agents of Shield...
THEY GOT RID OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS!
Fitz is now mad and useless and Simmons left the show off screen?! Not Cool,AOS,not Cool!
Other then that it was a very good episode that set up the rest of the season.
First off, that was a fantastic season opener!
Second, they clearly didn't get rid of Simmons. The actress is still around, otherwise Fitz wouldn't be hallucinating her. She'll clearly be back as part of the team proper by midseason at the latest (my guess), and in the meantime she'll be around in Fitz's mind.
Third, they did get rid of my favorite new character - I mean come on, how are you gonna kill Lucy Lawless off after one episode?! (I'm fairly sure she'll eventually be resurrected by that 084 somehow, though.)
So has anyone else been following Season Two?
Why put her in the season 2 cast photo if she was not returning?
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Tobar said:
So has anyone else been following Season Two?
I'm watching it too. need to watch episode 3.
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I have to admit I am starting to lose interest in AOS and I was a fan from day one.
It's just these 24 style plots where everyone has a secret,everyone is at each other's throats,and no one know who to trust are wearing thin for me.
I know I am in the minority in feeling this way and i don't hold it against the show for doing what most people want to see and I am not even saying it is badly done I am just saying what works for me personally.
It just feels like every show on Tv these days in doing this type of story telling so to me Agents of Shield is just losing it's appeal.
I know I am the only one who feels this way and I don't expect them to change the show but for me I was more interested in watching when it felt like a lost show from the 80s in the first half of the first season. In this day and age it felt different and fun to have a team dealing with a new super powered crime each week and to have a team of characters who were learning to work together and like each other and didn't all have dark secrets.
As i said I know I am alone but I just liked the show better when it was light and fun and full of adventure.
It also doesn't help that The Flash had one of the best 45 minute pilots I have seen in a long time last night.
As i said the show isn't bad it's just that personally I am no longer waiting excitedly for each episode like I was from day one last season.
I think it's likely that The Flash will become the show I can't stand to miss each week if the rest of the episodes this season are as good as the pilot.
Well, I've been thoroughly enjoying season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., far more than I enjoyed the first few episodes of season 1 (and I liked season 1 from the beginning).
I really like what they're doing with Simmons (and how she's gotten progressively better at lying and secret-keeping since the show began), and holy crap did Iain De Caestecker knock it out of the park this week in his scene with Ward.
And did anyone else get the feeling that the first two episodes of season 2 were meant to air as a 2-hour premiere, then ABC changed their minds and split them up? Because it really felt that way to me.
Erik Pancakes said:
Well, I've been thoroughly enjoying season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., far more than I enjoyed the first few episodes of season 1 (and I liked season 1 from the beginning).
I really like what they're doing with Simmons (and how she's gotten progressively better at lying and secret-keeping since the show began), and holy crap did Iain De Caestecker knock it out of the park this week in his scene with Ward.
And did anyone else get the feeling that the first two episodes of season 2 were meant to air as a 2-hour premiere, then ABC changed their minds and split them up? Because it really felt that way to me.
Yeah me too. it didn't really feel like a natural cliffhanger to me,instead it felt like the way the Five Doctors was split into four episodes by adding cliffhangers where they could the second episode had the exact same guest cast.
Yes Fitz's scene with Ward was amazing.
As i said the show isn't doing anything wrong I am just finding myself more looking forward to The Flash and Supernatural this year,and that surprises me. I am still watching it I just don't personally enjoy this season as much as last season.
I think I am just burnt out on dark plot arcs right now. I just want something light and fun at the moment. Maybe I just need to get into the mood,I don't know. I have stopped getting excited for or watching several shows this year for the same reason,I don't know what is wrong with me right now I just can't get into the mood for dark and complex plot arcs at the moment.
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Well there goes my interest in the marvel movies. Civil War along with one more day is the number one reason I stopped reading comics despite the fact that I had been reading them since I was six. Come on Marvel you were winning,stop trying to be DC!
There's no confirmation that they're going the Civil War route. Just that RDJ is in Cap 3. Even in the Variety article, the Civil War stuff is all just speculation.
Having said that, I think Civil War could make an interesting arc for the movies, but it would have to be drastically changed.
I have to agree with Coulson: I really liked that dress.
Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do&feature=share
Speaking of Disneyfying: Listen carefully to the song in the background...
This is why I usually prefer teasers to the full trailer. They give you a feel for the film without spoiling anything. Fantastic teaser, this film really looks like it's shaping up.
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