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The Avengers…the video game?
Turns out some company called THQ Brisbane was working on an Avengers video game before they got shut down. The website Kotaku got their hands on some actual gameplay footage, showing a first-person shooter style of game, only you get to play as Avengers characters. The videos are pretty wild, with the Hulk and Iron Man and Thor so far shown. You fly and smash and throw the hammer, and it looks kind of cool. I can’t imagine it being very good, since comic book video games aren’t very good. But wow, imagine what we could have had.
Both the Thor and Captain America movies had video game adaptations. Alyssa said the Cap game was alright, but nothing special. I don’t imagine Thor was anything special either. Movie tie-in games just aren’t anything special anymore. Not since Spider-Man 2.
Still, check out these videos!
And then a second one.
What do you think? Does it look like a fun game? Would it have been cool to play as superheroes in the first person?
Hypocritical Pictures
I know I said a few posts ago that I didn’t like the behind-the-scenes photos that fans take of films while they’re being filmed. That it ruined some of the magic of the movie. I stand by that decision. However, some new pics of Avengers filming arrived on the Interwebs a few days ago and they are so crystal clear and so mouth-wateringly awesome that I just have to share them and gush over them!
I’m a hypocrite, I know. In this case, I don’t mind!
First we have some of the Avengers running.
Perhaps they have somewhere really important to go
And then several full costume shots of Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye. I am still very much loving these costumes. Though Cap’s looks a little flustered without all the movie magic. Still, I can’t wait to see it on the big screen. I’d say it’s not as awesome as the original war-based costume from the movie. But it’s still pretty cool as an updated, modern version.
Captain America's looking a little tuckered out
I like the visible zippers. Such a thing was a joke when you could see the zippers on the old monster costumes, but for this purpose, it’s perfect. Nobody wants to see the sort of costume that Captain America wore during the musical number in his movie. People want to see realistic-style costumes, not stretched spandex. The zipper adds to the authenticity. At the same time, nobody wants Captain America to just wear black leather, like they did for the X-Men movies. It worked for that team, not for the Avengers.
That being said, both Black Widow and Hawkeye stick to the black leather look. Which works, because that’s what they wore in the comics.
Scarlett Johannson looking awesome
Here’s the thing about movie Hawkeye: he’s not dressed like traditional Avengers Hawkeye. And that’s a very, very good thing. Movie Hawkeye is dressed like Ultimate Hawkeye, and I’ll explain to you the difference. In the world of Marvel Comics, there are many alternate universes. There’s the main universe, which we’ve been reading about since the 60s. And then there are other universes featuring alternate versions of characters. Those are just side stories, for fun.
The most popular alternate universe is the Ultimate Universe. Published in 2000 onward, the Ultimate Universe is a more realistic take on superheroes. Costumes, characters, conflicts and stories are all written with an eye towards being real. Granted, in the past 11 years, that idea has kind of gone off the rails. But when the Ultimate Universe first started, things were more focused. The only way to truly understand what I mean is to read the books. And someday I’ll post a bit more.
But for now, take a look at these two different versions of Hawkeye. The one on the left is the classic Avengers Hawkeye, the one on the right is Ultimate Hawkeye. Notice the realism over the fantasy elements.
Old, classic Hawkeye on the left. New, modern Hawkeye on the right
If you’re going to make a modern day superhero movie that you want people to take seriously, which version are you going to choose? That’s right, you’d choose the modern, Ultimate option. And it looks amazing!
Though honestly, Jeremy Renner looks kind of...ordinary
The Consultant – More Proof that Marvel Moviemakers are Brilliant
NEW UPDATE: I found the clip again on Twitvid at the following link.
Remember back when The Incredible Hulk came out at the dawn of the Avengers movie age, and Tony Stark appeared at the end in a fun little cameo? He was keeping the ball rolling from when Nick Fury showed up in the post-credits scene of Iron Man, all done to tease the future Avengers movie. Well the people behind all of these movies have decided to have a little more fun with this project since The Avengers is less than a year away.
This short clip has been produced for the Thor Blu-Ray release. It’s a set of book-ends to the Tony Stark scene in The Incredible Hulk, featuring everyone’s favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson! Why did Tony visit General Ross in that bar? What was he really after? How did the meeting go?
Here’s a little description: The two S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents are actually talking about the Abomination, the villain from The Incredible Hulk. Some overseeing agency wants the Abomination in the Avengers, but these guys don’t want that. So they send Tony Stark to talk to General Ross so that Stark will piss Ross off so much that the Abominatino idea is shit-canned. And it works.
So we’ll have to wait for The Avengers to see how the Hulk joins the team.
I Approve of All Things Awesome…Such as This
Busy day for me today, so not gonna have a big new post until this weekend. So to tide everybody over, here’s a new official promo picture for the Avengers! It looks pretty badass.
Definitely badass
Amateur ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Shots are Sullying Comic Movies
Next year’s two biggest comic book movies, The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, are both filming on location in Cleveland and Chicago respectively this Summer. And in this day and age of camera phones and video cameras and spy satellites, the people who live nearby have been filming the movie-making and posting it online. Not that they’re allowed on the actual sets, but they can stand nearby and close enough to get some pretty clear photos and videos.
I am not a fan of this practice.
I am definitely looking forward to both movies, and both are probably going to be awesome. But call me old-fashioned, I have no problem waiting for an official trailer or film photos that the studios actually want to release. Trailers are one of the funnest parts of a movie, and real publicity photos can capture the mood and style that the filmmaker wants. It spoils the mood and the atmosphere to see a picture of Bane in full costume from the next Batman flick just standing around drinking coffee in a gaggle of extras. And it spoils the surprise to know that, right now, Captain America and Thor are being filmed fighting aliens on a city street.
Though I will admit this is an awesome picture
Marvel Studios haven’t told us yet who the bad guys will be in The Avengers movie. I have my guesses, but I would rather it not be spoiled by some idiot fan and his iPhone. Obviously I don’t have to look at these things if I don’t want to, but they’re everywhere. One of my favorite geeky sites is all about comic book movies, and they post this stuff multiple times a day. There’s even been national news coverage of some of this filming. I know that the front page of Yahoo.com at one point showed the pictures of Bane in costume. These are going to be very popular movies, and everybody’s ready and eager to give fans a peak because that drives up viewership.
Well not me.
Go somewhere else for your spoilerific film shots. I’m more than happy to wait for the movies to actually come out before I see them.
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