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Visionary   Moderator Member Since: Sat Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 2,131 |
Subject: New Japanese "Avengers" trailer with a fair amount of new footage: Posted Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 03:11:58 pm EDT (Viewed 470 times) |
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We get a good look at the Helicarrier, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Hawkeye gets a line and more things blow up. Looks entertaining to me! | |
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Subject: Best trailer yet...if only Cap outfit looked more realistic...Prefer it in the comics [Re: Visionary] Posted Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 05:47:35 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times) |
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Visionary Moderator Member Since: Sat Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 2,131 |
Subject: My general rule on these things... [Re: Yo b] Posted Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 07:09:39 pm EDT (Viewed 463 times) |
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If you're making changes to the costume because you're afraid something more accurate to the comics would look silly in live action, make sure that what you change it to doesn't look silly anyway. If they had taken the wings off of his helmet and it ended up looking cool, I'd be all for it. But the helmet looks goofy as it is, and I don't think wings would have made it any goofier. It's interesting to note that in most of the concept and production art of this film, Cap has his ears exposed... I have to assume that was the original design, but they couldn't pull it off in reality. Maybe the actor's ears are too close to his head, or stuck out funny or something when they tried it. What I'm most surprised at is that in all of these films about masked heroes, they always seem to want to make a real mask/helmet/cowl for them. I don't understand why they don't use prosthetics more. When they can make an actor into an old version of himself, or allow one actor to play multiple roles, or have them all burnt and disfigured or turn them into a demon or whatever, there's literally no reason I can think of that they couldn't sculpt the exact look for a masked hero straight out of a comic book that they want. Give the actor a bit more of a lantern jaw... perfect the shape of his head, whatever. Admittedly, it would be rougher on the actor by requiring a long time in make-up, but then in these films they only wear masks for something like 30% of their time on screen, so they can tough it out. | |
Anime Jason  Owner Location: Here Member Since: Sun Sep 12, 2004 Posts: 2,834 |
Subject: Is it me or... [Re: Visionary] Posted Fri Mar 16, 2012 at 12:11:57 pm EDT (Viewed 355 times) |
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anime.mangacool.net (10.0.255.1) using Apple Safari 5.1.3 on MacOS X (0 points) ...does the helicarrier look like it's ripped off from James Cameron's stable of military flying machines? On that thought, right now we think of something like that as fictional. But when Howard Hughes built the "spruce goose" people thought he was running a scam, too. And then it flew, the largest airplane in the world. Decades later, the Russians build a plane so big, it can carry an entire army and all of its equipment. So why not a helicarrier? | |
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Subject: Looks good. Still not enough to tempt me to the cinema, but I might consider the DVD when it comes out. Plus, the less costumed version of Hawkeye looks good... [Re: Visionary] Posted Fri Mar 16, 2012 at 03:36:48 pm EDT |
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Subject: Interestingly... [Re: Visionary] Posted Fri Mar 16, 2012 at 03:41:36 pm EDT (Viewed 2 times) |
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Quote: What I'm most surprised at is that in all of these films about masked heroes, they always seem to want to make a real mask/helmet/cowl for them. This is what I like about the Hawkeye costume. There was a brief period in Avengers when he didn't wear the all-over suit with mask(tm), and I liked that design much better. I felt it suited the character more. | |
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Visionary Moderator Member Since: Sat Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 2,131 |
Subject: Re: Interestingly... [Re: Manga Shoggoth] Posted Fri Mar 16, 2012 at 08:56:28 pm EDT (Viewed 467 times) |
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I honestly would have been fine had they left Cap without his helmet as well. There's not a lot of justification for it when he's standing next to other non-powered characters who don't conceal their identity or wear a helmet for protection. He looks like his mom was over-protective when she sent him out to play with Hawkeye and the Widow. If they were determined to have it, I wish they would have worked harder to make it look good, or at least more accurate if they were content with it looking somewhat silly. Here, it's both silly and inaccurate. Not enough to turn me off the film, but still. | |
WGMY 104.1 Member Since: Thu Nov 18, 2010 Posts: 281 |
Subject: Yowza. Lots of interesting things to freeze-frame there. [Re: Visionary] Posted Sat Mar 17, 2012 at 09:32:20 am EDT (Viewed 387 times) |
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Subject: I can't wait! [Re: Visionary] Posted Sun Mar 18, 2012 at 09:59:32 am EDT |
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Yo b |
Subject: Talking about avengers (not movie related) [Re: Visionary] Posted Mon Mar 26, 2012 at 04:15:33 pm EDT (Viewed 2 times) |
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Visionary Moderator Member Since: Sat Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 2,131 |
Subject: Well, the bad news is he's being written by Bendis... [Re: Yo b] Posted Wed Mar 28, 2012 at 03:01:56 pm EDT (Viewed 422 times) |
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Subject: Re: Well, the bad news is he's being written by Bendis... [Re: Visionary] Posted Wed Mar 28, 2012 at 04:38:23 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times) |
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