[Cougar]

Cocoreturns, on May 19 2009, 07:06 PM, said:

Cougar, on May 19 2009, 07:02 PM, said:

Aptorian, on May 18 2009, 10:53 PM, said:

What... was Thor doing on Mt Olympus? Was he on Vacation?

Well you see the bit at the top that says: "Never mind the mythology..."

Quarter-wit.

yeah Apt, how is Cougar supposed to remember the words Valhalla and Odin?

be reasonable.......

version of that joke that I heard involved Thor having sex with her for five days straight without stopping,
and being sent back to apologise as mortal women aren't used to immortal stamina.

Ah, I see;your point suggests you are labouring under the impression I made this joke up for this thread, of course it was cut and pasted from a page of jokes. Hence the quotes.

Honestly. Engage brain before posting.

This post has been edited by Cougar: 19 May 2009 - 08:48 PM

[Aptorian]

Cocoreturns, on May 19 2009, 07:57 PM, said:

logically i'd think the best way to do it would be to have Loki as the bad guy,
and finish the movie with Thor's powers being limited somehow,
otherwise, as mentioned,
he'd just overpower everyone.

More like they should show a Thor just fallen to earth dazed and powered down, using the lenght of the movie to regain his memory/strength, perhaps one of the more serious one-shot stories where Loki takes Valhalla. Or ala the one where Heracles is cast out of Olympus by Hades and has amnesia and the Avengers had to help him remember. At the end Thor comes full strength and lays waste to an army of giants and demons and has an awesome showdown with his trickster brother/sister.

Cocoreturns, on May 19 2009, 07:57 PM, said:

He's like Marvel's superman.
well, him and the Sentry.

Thor is not really Marvels Superman, and has never been billed as such. He is more in the line of those Celestial like beings from DC Mythology that Darksied is a part off.

Sentry is a good bid for a 2000s era Marvel Superman.

If we were talking old Marvel, alien superman like characters that I remember, I'd say Captain Marvel (all though he is more like that Sha-Zham! guy from DC, "Gladiator" who is basically an Alien Superman powered by his own confidence generating some sort of psionic invincibility. Or perhaps ... I can't remember his name... some guy from the Warlock comics who is destined to for ever hunt and fight Thanos.

[Illuyankas]

DRAX THE DESTROYER

HE DESTROYS THINGS

LIKE THANOSES

[Aptorian]

Yeah, Drax, I loved that guy. I remember I had this big old black and white one-shot about the Cosmic Cube and Thanos versus the Avengers. I believe it starts out with Thanos and Drax having a punching match, destroying a moon in the process and Thanos coming out on top.

[Abyss]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on May 18 2009, 09:00 PM, said:

THis movie is a bad idea anyway. Thor is too overpowered to make a decent movie about. ...

It's a movie about a Marvel comics character. Leave your puny logic and reasoning at the door.

I always liked the Warren Ellis approach to Thor: he's the god of a people who burned and raped and pillaged and drank til they puked and hit people in the faces with big bloody axes. A lot. So THAT'S what Thor should do. A lot.

- Abyss, notes that sadly and curiously, Marvel never went with this approach....

[Anomander]

A weird choice for Thor to be sure, but considering they didn't screw up the latest Hulk or Ironman then I'll hold out faith that the movie will be decent.

[stone monkey]

I suspect I may be alone in preferring the first Hulk movie to the second; which was a bit too lightweight for my taste. It was better acted, better scripted and some of the setpieces were fantastic. The villain was poor, though.

Although I do think a combination of the two would have been nigh on perfect. All the oedipal angst of the first one (as well as the cast, especially the decidedly luscious Jennifer Connelly playing Betty Ross) and the "Hulk Smash" and villain of the second.

As far as Thor goes, I think I'll be reserving judgement. It will have to be epic, though. The Mighty Thor is such a powerhouse that any villian he faces would have to be world class. And as for The Avengers movie, they couldn't go far wrong by making it an adaptation of the Skrull arc from the first series of The Ultimates imo.

[edit - D'oh! Double post fixed...]

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 19 May 2009 - 11:45 PM

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Meh, he's lookds too pansy-like to be Thor. Sort of like a "dont hit me, Im pretty" face. I hate those hollywood people.

The films obviously going to be about him regaining his memories and coming to terms with his powers, it smacks of Spiderman levels of lameness. Only, thankfully, with lots more beatings, as opposed to fuckface McGuire being generally wussy. "No I wont fight you, I'll cover you up with webs and then cry for 10 minutes about how an ugly ginger girl doesnt like me." Never liked spiderman.

I hope at some point they do the Age of Apocalypse storyline. En Sabah Nur ftw.

[Aptorian]

stone monkey, on May 20 2009, 01:15 AM, said:

I suspect I may be alone in preferring the first Hulk movie to the second; which was a bit too lightweight for my taste. It was better acted, better scripted and some of the setpieces were fantastic. The villain was poor, though.

I loved the first Hulk film. It completely butchered the Hulk story, but it was good.

[dktorode]

Gem Windcaster, on May 19 2009, 10:06 PM, said:

dktorode, on May 19 2009, 08:00 AM, said:

Have faith in marvel guys...this isnt FOX we are talking about here.
Favreau is also going to be a producer on all the tie in avenger movies to keep the tone right and what not.

Hey, after Spidey 3 I am not having faith in them in a million years.

Marvel never made spiderman 3....DOH

[dktorode]

Director Kenneth Branagh has found his loki!
Its the relatively unknown Tom Hiddleston...seems they have gone for acting ability over fame on this one as this guy is apparently a top notch actor.





Oh and i heard that Chris Hemsworth's screen tests excellent, and thats what got him the role over Alexander Skarsgard.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I have no faith In Kenneth Brannagh, Im fairly sure I've never seen him do anything of interest outside of a few turgidly par for the course Shakespeares. Im not all too convinced he's the man for the job, he's probably gonna make the film focus on emotional issues and crap like that.

[dktorode]

I enjoyed frankenstein

[Tapper]

well, at the least they didn't cast a brawny fuckwit for the role of the Trickster God.

[Morgoth]

I'm probably going to cry through most of this movie as I watch the fuckwits at marvel butcher the norse mythology

[Gem Windcaster]

I have to agree with Morgy.

[Morgoth]

Gem Windcaster, on May 20 2009, 09:33 PM, said:

I have to agree with Morgy.

Are you allright, gemsywhemsy? Not feeling cold or anything?

[Abyss]

Thelomen Toblerone, on May 19 2009, 07:24 PM, said:

...I hope at some point they do the Age of Apocalypse storyline. En Sabah Nur ftw.

Three mediocre cartoon versions wasn't enough for you?

- Abyss, ...notes they could never make 'Poccy's lips work IRL makeup...

[Aptorian]

Thelomen Toblerone, on May 20 2009, 01:24 AM, said:

I hope at some point they do the Age of Apocalypse storyline. En Sabah Nur ftw.

I would love an Apocalypse story. But really, it couldn't be done justice in anything less than a trilogy and an already well established marvel universe on the big screen.

How ever, I am also one of those fans who've grown sad and disillusioned with every story about Apocalypse ending with him being beaten in some pathetic way. The mutant is godlike in his strength and intellect. I would prefer it if the writers would just stop using Apocalypse as a main bad guy and instead reserving him as a god like entity moving behind the scenes using lesser mortals and mutants as his agents from beyond the grave.

Strictly speaking Apocalypse is too strong for it to ever make sense having him being beaten by the X-men.

[Gem Windcaster]

Morgoth, on May 20 2009, 10:17 PM, said:

Gem Windcaster, on May 20 2009, 09:33 PM, said:

I have to agree with Morgy.

Are you allright, gemsywhemsy? Not feeling cold or anything?

Why Morgyporgy, I have agreed with you before...really, I'm sure I have...hummm?