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Nah, block of Ice floating in the artic., and then in Ultimate continuity I believe he was in the himalayas or somesuch.

 

In Ultimate continuity he fought in a battle in...Iceland, I think...then got dropped by an exploding nuclear missile into the Arctic ocean. That doesn't explain why his block of ice is just layin' on top of everything there after 60 years, but at least he's geographically in kinda sorta the right place.

 

It isn't much clearer in the film than it is in the screenshots. It goes by real quick and it's out-of-focus, but there's enough there that you can tell it was an intentional easter egg (albeit a really freakin' subtle one) and not just fanboy speculation making something out of nothing.

Because an external and unknown threat would work way better. Dr. Manhattan had been described as the Lynch-pin to American Strategic advantage over the Soviets, even as a threat too all sides, he leaves the US in a weak position because of his past allegiance. Also it is more conceivable that The Comedian accidentally found out about Ozy breeding a super-monster than it would be for a man-of-action character to discover something as subtle as a sneaky smear campaign... even if it was a bomb factory, what would sound better for a superhero movie, "Monster Farm" or "Bomb Factory"

 

 

 

Peter Jackson and Martin Scorscesee are the only directors that can get away with a movie being longer than 2 hours these days, doesn't surprise me it was cut back.

 

Tell that to Gore Verbinski. Or Chris Nolan. In fact summer blockbusters seem to be getting longer and longer every year. I don't mind, at least we get more movie for our 11 bucks.

 

I think the dvd version has the extended opening (in the arctic with the Captain America "cameo") added back in but I don't know if there are any other additions.

no squid? i'm scared

 

 

 

Downey is signed to a four film contract (three Iron Mans and an Avengers) but there are ways to get out of it if necessary. These contracts are pricey so Marvel might have only been able to afford to sign the star. Or they could have tried to get Howard to sign onto one but he negotiated out of it. Or he did sign one and still negotiated out of it. Either way, those contracts aren't always as set in stone as you'd think. I'd rather they had been able to get Howard back but if the guy's holding out for even more money, screw it.

 

It was "Next time" by the way. Not next time for him.

Yeah that's pretty cool. Can't wait to check it out myself next week.

 

And speaking of the Incredible Hulk. Word is that he just may end up being the villain in the first Avenger movies (which, let's face it, is basically just an Ultimates movie now).

 

From Splashpage MTV:

 

‘Iron Man’ Writers Want Hulk To Be ‘The Avengers’ Villain

Published by Shawn Adler on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 5:51 pm.

Everything in the Marvel Film Universe is leading to the eventual superhero tag team-up, “The Avengers,” with Iron Man, Ant-Man, Thor, and Captain America all fighting side-by-side. What possible villain could compete with that?

 

“The Incredible Hulk” director Louis Leterrier told MTV News this past June that he didn’t think any villain could, and suggested that they use a hero instead: his.

 

“Iron Man” writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who themselves may be writing another Marvel movie in the near future, couldn’t agree more, they told MTV News, insisting that everything is building towards making The Hulk the villain in the eagerly anticipated 2011 movie.

 

“I hope ‘The Avengers’ embraces that,” Fergus said of having the Hulk as misunderstood baddie. “You don’t want like 10 super-badass good guys fighting together. Where’s the fun in that? Let’s break it off a little. Friends or colleagues who become enemies is always an interesting thing because you know it’s based on love and friendship and that’s always the worst thing to have turn bad — is someone you actually care about and someone you actually believe in.”

 

Hulk, of course, has fought nearly every Marvel hero at some point in the comics, and because he already had his own movie, wouldn’t need to be set-up in the new one. In fact, all the hard work is already done.

 

“I left the door open for whoever’s going to direct ‘The Avengers’ with our last shot. Edward [Norton] and I, we consciously decided to make the last shot of the movie when he opens his eyes and he smirks at the camera,” Leterrier told us. “Is he enjoying it? Is he malicious? That’s what’s great about Edward. You don’t know if he’s a good guy or bad guy. He’s always on this edge and we’ve been sort of surfing that edge, that very thin edge during the entire movie.”

 

Recall, also that Downey Jr. as Tony Stark appears to General Ross at the very end of “Hulk,” a scene Leterrier called the first scene of “The Avengers.”

 

Sign Stark and them up for more, Fergus said.

 

“I personally like when good-guy characters have to fight each other,” he said. “Good guys going against good guys who both believe in an issue is way more interesting than a villain clearly into evil and I like when former friends become committed enemies.”

 

I'd love to see the Hulk as the Avengers villain. Especially if they manage to maintain continuity with the film casts.

 

Unfortunately, continuity is already slipping in the Marvel universe. Talks with Terrence Howard about returning to Iron Man 2 have fallen through due to "financial disagreements" (which basically means he wanted more money, I'm sure). Luckily they've already found a replacement and he's a good choice if you can ignore the fact that Rhodey looks like two different people in two different movies. The replacement? Don Cheadle.

Yeah, everyone but Weaver and Moranis are planning to come back. Even Annie Potts is planning to come back, last I heard. And yeah, Murray has said it'd be cool to get a female Ghostbuster but that was just him hypothesizing, the script is out of his hands.

 

Since his recent divorce, Murray looks like he's determined to get back to working a lot again like he used to. Of the big four, he seems the most excited about another Ghostbusters right now.

Finally read the most recent trade for this. I dunno what's been going on with it since that but...holy fuck, I don't know why I keep reading this book, it's too painful.

Gonna have to agree to disagree on that one.

 

In its original attempt to keep Two Face a secret in Dark Knight, WB never really released any publicity photos of the character. This cool one just got released. I knew there was a lot of cgi work done on him but I didn't realize just how much of it was completely digital.

 

I don't know, I'm still just viewing this as Frank Miller's take in much the same way his Batman and Daredevil series were his take. I know it won't live up to the memory of Will Eisner's Spirit but let's face it, the ingrates that serve as "the public" wouldn't realize the genius of Will Eisner's work anyway.

 

The difference is, Batman and Daredevil will go on. There's never been a Spirit movie (not counting the crappy TV movie back in the 80s) and if this one sucks it may be a very very long time before there ever is again. Most people don't even know what The Spirit is and after December they're going to think it's...that.

 

Eisner deserved better.

New Spirit Trailer - It's a better trailer than the last two, but it still confirms what we already knew. Gabriel Macht = good. Everything else = bad. And the dialogue = atrociously bad. ("Is every damn woman in this damn hellhole out of their damn mind?" I almost expected Randy Quaid to pop up and say "Yeah, where can I get some damn bait.")

I'm gonna put in my early prediction that Red Hulk is General "Thunderbolt" Ross.

 

I'd buy that for a dollar. And I'm not even reading the book.

HAHA, that is awesome, man.

 

Jess got me one of those for Christmas a few years back. I still like to imagine to look on the poor old woman's face at Things Remembered when she got that message request.

Or in anything, for that matter.

Blood Simple was their first film and it's still hands-down one of their best. My favorite is Miller's Crossing because I just can't get enough of that old-fashioned film noir/gangster stuff. Plus, any movie that makes Albert Finney a badass is gold in my book.

What can I say, it's a gift.

I'll be honest... yeah. I'd totally go there.

 

At least it would take a little bit of the sting off a Republican win in November. I've never had executive branch fantasies before.

 

Now this thread absolutely needs more Mary Louise Parker.

 

Mmm...legs...

 

And did someone want more Sandra Bullock? Because Sandra is always welcome around these parts.

 

 

Now how about some Mariska Hargitay?

 

 

Or Melora Hardin?

 

 

Or, of course, Marisa Tomei. Go rent Before The Devil Knows Your Dead. Seriously. Do it right now. I'll wait.

 

The number isn't on it, but trust me, this was issue 50.

 

Wait...

 

The Coen Brothers are some of the finest writer/directors to ever grace the field of cinema. They're also some of the most underrated.

 

Underrated? The Coen Brothers? Seriously? If anything they're overrated. Don't get me wrong, I think they're great filmmakers too, but usually every time I hear someone talking about the Coen Brothers, they're one step away from putting them on donkeys and parading them around Jerusalem.

C'mon, man, we'd all like to see Preacher on the screen, but let's look at it realistically. Preacher would basically be the most controversial film/television series of all time. It contains material that is highly offensive to just about any group of people, not to mention being filled to the brim with horrifying graphic violence and ridiculously taboo sex acts. The controversy and protests that sank the box office dreams of The Last Temptation of Christ, Dogma, The Golden Compass, etc would be nothing compared to the outcry that would assault Preacher once word of its subject matter got out. The audience for this series may be big in the comics community but in the film and television community it's pretty small. A studio would have to be out of their mind to think this project would be bankable.

 

It was a fun possibility while it lasted but did we really think we'd be seeing Arseface onscreen? Or the Last Scion throwing around his own shit? Or the Devil whipping the flesh from the Saint's back? Did we really think meat woman would actually be filmed, ever? It was never gonna happen.

I don't think so. I really see him as just a mob boss who wears a tuxedo. He would only be called Penguin behind his back. If there was a scene where he pulled a knife hidden in an umbrella handle as a nod to the comics, I guess it'd be ok, but that's as far as I'd take it.

Why thankya.

I'm tellin' ya, it would work.

I'm sticking with it my choice until a few years from now when Nolan releases real casting.

 

Yeah I'd read that too. But then I also read this on IMDb:

 

Philip Seymour Hoffman is thrilled he's among the names in contention for Batman villain The Penguin, because he has always wanted to play the comic book bad guy.

 

Despite The Dark Knight star Michael Caine's confirmation that the Capote star has already landed the role, Hoffman insists he's yet to be officially offered the part - but he can't wait for the phone call.

 

He tells TheStoneReport.com, "I grew up a comic book fan, so I love that stuff. I love going to that stuff. I think what they're doing with that whole Batman story is really true to what that whole Batman thing has always been.

 

"It's one of the darkest origins of a superhero, to get all nerdy and geeky on you. That character sees his parents gunned down as a young child. I remember when I was a kid reading that story, so seeing it now come to life as the dark tale that it really is intense, really dark, very visceral."

 

If he lands the role, he'll follow Danny DeVito, who played The Penguin on the big screen in 1992's Batman Returns.

 

On the other hand, I don't think "TheStoneReport.com" exists so yours is more likely correct. The studios haven't asked anyone about it yet. Chris Nolan still has final say on the script, the story, and the casting. Hoffman is just on the studio's wishlist.