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Hey, a commentary. Who the hell does commentaries these days?

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Hey, I might even watch that. You know the fun part about commentaries is that it gives us, who live outside U.S, a chance to actually know something about the subject. Comic Con is just U.S thing and not all movies open everywhere at the same time.

Well, now I just have to watch the movie.

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What the hell is a commentary?

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It's the more frequently seen species of Tary. I personally find the Raretary more interesting... or, at the very least, more tasty.

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Comic conventions are not solely a U.S. thing.  There are several that take place in Japan and there are some in France.  In fact, I believe the largest takes place in France in which they shut down an entire town for 4 days.

Source on that last bit: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/01/29/ … onvention/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême_ … s_Festival

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Haven't had a chance to listen to the full commentary yet. But did anyone else really find the sound that the destroyer made to be really annoying? When I watched it in the theatre I had to cover my ears everytime that thing shot out its death laser thing.

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Thor is SUCH a bad film, and the Dutch angles are 90% of why.

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So this was a good commentary, but... Not really digging the Avengers spoilers. It's only been ten days, come on... And yes, I have not seen it yet.

The reason being... I just wasn't interested in it, and in fact hadn't seen any of the set-up movies except the two Iron Mans. But I decided I was going to see Avengers after the entire internet seems to have loved it, and figured before I do I should see Hulk, Thor, and Captain America first (in that order). So my week in Netflix rentals was all Marvel all the time, just finished Cap yesterday. What a bunch of mediocre movies. I thought Thor was the best of that trio, and better than Iron Man 2, not as good as Iron Man. But Thor had one moment that totally ruined this shared universe of the Avengers for me.

Agent Coulson and his boys breeze down to the desert plain to greet the Godbot. One of the SHIELD agents says, "One of Stark's?" and Coulson is all, "Haha, Tony never tells me anything, ell oh ell." And it's just a cute little line that's there to remind the audience that Iron Man and Thor are currently sharing the same planet. Except it's NOT, and it TOTALLY pulled me out of the movie.

They spent half the climax ruining Iron Man 2 by having Agent Coulson being all mysteriously interested in this mysterious thing that has landed in the desert and then driving to go check in and see if it's as mysterious as they thought. How exciting! And then the post-credits sequence is him coming up on Thor's hammer or whatever, I haven't seen Iron Man 2 since the theaters and will never watch it again. But regardless, I know that wherever Thor's hammer is, it is within a relatively reasonable driving distance to whatever fucking city Tony Stark lives in.

Are you seeing my problem yet? If not, let me remind you that there's a whole montage in Iron Man where Tony flies to the Middle East in the suit without having to stop for a piss or anything, and just blows the shit out of some terrorists. So Iron Man travels for work, I've just been reminded that he exists, and there's a fucking Godbot marching around tearing up this damned town. In what universe does Tony Stark not quickly find out that this is happening and Iron Man the fuck out there to fight it? This thing is bigger and more destructive than Jeff Bridges or Whip Guy. Showboat Tony would be all over this.

So that was my big, world-shattering problem with the movie, and I think a big pitfall for any potential Thor sequels. Unless the whole movie, or at least most of the threat, takes place in Asgard. Because on Earth, if it's a big enough problem to require Thor, it's probably big enough to draw the attention of the other Avengers, and we know they're all pals now.

Or I assume they're pals. Still haven't seen the movie, but I can only assume that they'll stop butting heads and learn to work together by the end.

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C-Spin wrote:

So this was a good commentary, but... Not really digging the Avengers spoilers. It's only been ten days, come on... And yes, I have not seen it yet.

The reason being... I just wasn't interested in it, and in fact hadn't seen any of the set-up movies except the two Iron Mans. But I decided I was going to see Avengers after the entire internet seems to have loved it, and figured before I do I should see Hulk, Thor, and Captain America first (in that order). So my week in Netflix rentals was all Marvel all the time, just finished Cap yesterday. What a bunch of mediocre movies. I thought Thor was the best of that trio, and better than Iron Man 2, not as good as Iron Man. But Thor had one moment that totally ruined this shared universe of the Avengers for me.

Agent Coulson and his boys breeze down to the desert plain to greet the Godbot. One of the SHIELD agents says, "One of Stark's?" and Coulson is all, "Haha, Tony never tells me anything, ell oh ell." And it's just a cute little line that's there to remind the audience that Iron Man and Thor are currently sharing the same planet. Except it's NOT, and it TOTALLY pulled me out of the movie.

They spent half the climax ruining Iron Man 2 by having Agent Coulson being all mysteriously interested in this mysterious thing that has landed in the desert and then driving to go check in and see if it's as mysterious as they thought. How exciting! And then the post-credits sequence is him coming up on Thor's hammer or whatever, I haven't seen Iron Man 2 since the theaters and will never watch it again. But regardless, I know that wherever Thor's hammer is, it is within a relatively reasonable driving distance to whatever fucking city Tony Stark lives in.

Are you seeing my problem yet? If not, let me remind you that there's a whole montage in Iron Man where Tony flies to the Middle East in the suit without having to stop for a piss or anything, and just blows the shit out of some terrorists. So Iron Man travels for work, I've just been reminded that he exists, and there's a fucking Godbot marching around tearing up this damned town. In what universe does Tony Stark not quickly find out that this is happening and Iron Man the fuck out there to fight it? This thing is bigger and more destructive than Jeff Bridges or Whip Guy. Showboat Tony would be all over this.

So that was my big, world-shattering problem with the movie, and I think a big pitfall for any potential Thor sequels. Unless the whole movie, or at least most of the threat, takes place in Asgard. Because on Earth, if it's a big enough problem to require Thor, it's probably big enough to draw the attention of the other Avengers, and we know they're all pals now.

Or I assume they're pals. Still haven't seen the movie, but I can only assume that they'll stop butting heads and learn to work together by the end.

This one is easy to justify (it wasn't being covered on the news, it took place over an hour or two, etc) but it's indicative of the problem that these movies are going to face in the future. The stand-alone movies are going to have to jump through some serious hoops to explain why the other Avengers can't help out.

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Or they could do something bold and scrap the whole "individual movies" thing and go for a series of mini-avengers movies that feature multiple characters.

They actually kinda teased a bit that Hulk may show up in the next Ironman movie, having Tony offered him a job and then having them both drive off together. I can't remember if Cap dorve off with anyone, but Hawkeye and Black Widow have some obvious history that could make for an interesting film.

This is an issue in the comics as well.

As far as Thor...  I'd never seen it before the live show. The movie felt really ass-pull-y. It didn't even pull that much stuff out of it's ass, it just felt that way. The robot fight at the end was set up, but it still felt like it came outta nowhere. The random book grabbing stuff...

Also, there's a great bit in the comics I hope they use in one of these movies. Thor's fighting Loki, Loki gets the upper hand, but Thor grabs the back of his head and basically says "Knock it off or I call my hammer through your fucking skull". I'm paraphrasing, tho. That line would only happen in Tarantino's Thor.

Now I wonder what would happen if you gave Tarantino a superhero movie...

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Give me as many movies as possible of Ruffalo and Downey hanging out in a research lab punching the clock. No superpowers, no action. Just them being smart and researching and uh, contentious respects.

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Squiggly_P wrote:

Now I wonder what would happen if you gave Tarantino a superhero movie...

My brain just melted a bit trying to comprehend this.

Paulou wrote:

Give me as many movies as possible of Ruffalo and Downey hanging out in a research lab punching the clock. No superpowers, no action. Just them being smart and researching and uh, contentious respects.

This. Just this all over the place. I want it on the walls, on the ceiling. EVERYWHERE.

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Squiggly_P wrote:

Now I wonder what would happen if you gave Tarantino a superhero movie...

But we already know, since he made one.   Kill Bill is absolutely a superhero movie.

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Trey wrote:
Squiggly_P wrote:

Now I wonder what would happen if you gave Tarantino a superhero movie...

But we already know, since he made one.   Kill Bill is absolutely a superhero movie.

Inglorious bastards also fits in it's own weird way. And we all know how much everyone loved that.

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MrDudeMan wrote:

Haven't had a chance to listen to the full commentary yet. But did anyone else really find the sound that the destroyer made to be really annoying? When I watched it in the theatre I had to cover my ears everytime that thing shot out its death laser thing.

Yeah, I hated the Destroyer in all its forms. I would have prefered Loki unleashing the Ice Giants on Earth.
I liked Thor, but the Ice Giants needed more time, in my opinion. They were introduce as being huge beings with a huge grudge against Asgard. Um, why not play that out more? I would have taken the whole movie being in Asgard, honestly. I thought the parts not on Earth were much better. I get the whole learning humility thing and like Thor's character arc but the other characters on Earth just seemed along for the ride.

And I had not seen Iron Man 2  I did not realize that the small town was supposed to be within Stark's line of sight. I thought the whole idea was it is a small town kind of off the grid.

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I skipped watching this movie and went straight to the commentary. I do that more often than not, perhaps that tells you something about me...fuckit, I don't have to justify myself...

I also missed the live chat, so if anyone's already submitted this for Dorkman's porn collection I regret the duplication:

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Ain't nobody need to tell me about He-Man, son.

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I really want to see the Toy Masters documentary.

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Thanks DiF, for getting back on the horse

not long to go now...

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Listened to the commentary. It was interesting smile

One thing (there are a lot to comment on but I'll stick to this one)

Bifrost is not pronounced Bi-Frost but Bif-rost - The norse (Icelandic) word is Bifröst. Bif means moving or shimmering and röst is a wake or line (like the wake behind ships).

If you have any questions about the words or the old religion, just ask. But then again, if you have no questions just tell me to shut up smile

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Where did Jesus promise the end of all wicked people? Is there a specific quote from a Bible verse?

not long to go now...

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rtambree wrote:

Where did Jesus promise the end of all wicked people? Is there a specific quote from a Bible verse?

II Thessalonians 2:8.

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Thanks for that, Zarban. Was that Paul or Jesus doing the promising? The same Jesus that said He'll return quickly? Technically, the big JC hasn't broken the promise... He just hasn't gotten around to it yet, as in "I'll pay you back"

not long to go now...

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rtambree wrote:

He just hasn't gotten around to it yet

Meanwhile, the ice giants are nowhere to be found.

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Zarban wrote:
rtambree wrote:

Where did Jesus promise the end of all wicked people? Is there a specific quote from a Bible verse?

II Thessalonians 2:8.

Technically, Zarban, as we are now in the splitting hairs thread, that passage refers to the Antichrist and the end times.

And, also technically, isn't that picture of Thor not Odin?

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