The Glade 4.0

Ha!

Production art for the assembled Avengers (spoiler'd for size):

That's bad ***. I really want to temper my enthusiasm on this one. I also want to see more Black Widow.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Soon as I saw it, it became my wall paper at work.

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Raell Kromwell

Full Avengers trailer now live!

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/avengers/

Possibly stupid question but who are they fighting?

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Loki. And rumored...others.

Beautiful. I love the witty banter so far. Knowing who is writing and directing and the material he has to work with, I expect a lot more of it.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Ditto. The banter in this film should set the standard for all superhero team films to come.

Oh man, great trailer.

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist" bwahahaha. RDJ/Tony Stark ftw. The enormous green rage monster line had me laughing too. Can't wait.

I am now officially pumped about this film. I hope Stark doesn't run away it with it the way the trailer alludes. Not that Stark isn't cool, he's just had two movies of his own.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

You get a masterful editor, you can make a trailer look however you want. My hunch: Since Iron Man is the far more popular movie icon right now, they are making sure this sells to the right crowd by having him predominantly in the trailer.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Clever. Cynical, but clever.

this possibility occurred to me after I wrote my post.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

My only question is why did they make Hawkeye kinda ugly? *pouts*

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Whoa:

And the winner of the Super Bowl is...

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Raell Kromwell

I am so hard right now.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I was kind of underwhelmed by that trailer/commercial. The effects shots were pretty enough, once I had watched it a second time to try to catch better glimpses amidst the ADD action editing, but the dialogue and narrative were really kind of bland and unfocused. It didn't have nearly the witty one-liner density to make me smile as the last one(s) did, and it wasn't really a compelling trailer from a building tension point of view, either. Bonus points for giving me more Iron Man in action footage so I know the "Iron Man yes, Tony Stark no" line at the end of Iron Man 2 is a red herring, and I still want to see the movie based on what it IS and who's in/on it, but the trailer itself is maybe a 6/10 for me.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I have no objections to it at all. They were trying to sell an action movie with Super Heroes in it to a wide audience. Job done.

I trust Joss.

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Raell Kromwell

"We have the Hulk."

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Again my only complaint is that Stark appears to be stealing the trailer

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Don't get me wrong. This trailer hasn't made me worried, or reduced my enthusiasm for the movie. However, it didn't *increase* my hype level, and I'm dubious as to whether it would make me excited if I didn't know what The Avengers were beforehand. The previous trailer did a better job of that, I think.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I don't think it's possible for something to increase my hype level for this movie...not since they announced Whedon would be at the helm. I think this commercial is more targeted at the non-geeks who were watching the superbowl and haven't yet been exposed to the hype.

That said, I loved watching it...

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Was Black Widow a big player in the Avengers comics? I dont recall much of her at all. My wife asked me who Scarlett Johanson was supposed to be and I had to look it up.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe