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Old 10-25-13, 02:18 PM
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Re: Ben Kingsley's Got a New "Secret Marvel Project"
Take RDJ out of the IM Films and you have 3 half ass Hero movies. RDJ carried the whole franchise based on his taking Stark and making him his own. His own personal character flaws made that part easy I'm guessing.

That said, I think IM is much more enjoyable as an ensemble Hero. Now that he's in The Avengers flicks I'm good with that.

Ben Kingsley is going to be interesting.
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Even if he really is The Mandarin...I can actually buy that. Kingsley is a brilliant actor who can pull that type of con off. Sure, Fanboys will be shitting their diapers because they'll feel betrayed and more sophisticated Film folks will say it was a cheap move that wasn't earned...I say to them... so what.
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Re: Ben Kingsley's Got a New "Secret Marvel Project"
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Take RDJ out of the IM Films and you have 3 half ass Hero movies. RDJ carried the whole franchise based on his taking Stark and making him his own. His own personal character flaws made that part easy I'm guessing.

That said, I think IM is much more enjoyable as an ensemble Hero. Now that he's in The Avengers flicks I'm good with that.
Totally agree, those Iron Man movies barely work if you remove RDJ from them. Iron Man is definitely more of an ensemble character, no matter how much his movies make at the box office.
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Marvel One Shot: All Hail The King - First look (4 pages): http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/0...hail-the-king/
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Marvel One Shot: All Hail The King - First look (4 pages): http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/0...hail-the-king/
Sounds good ... Looking forward to seeing this
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Old 01-09-14, 05:39 PM
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Marvel One Shot: All Hail The King - First look (4 pages): http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/0...hail-the-king/
Sounds great and it might actually get me to buy Thor: The Dark World.
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I'm excited to see this one. Trevor was awesome. Totally shit over the Mandarin but made something amazing out of it.
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Old 01-09-14, 05:51 PM
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Was the Sharon Carter One Shot any good?
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Old 01-09-14, 05:54 PM
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Was the Sharon Carter One Shot any good?
The Agent Carter short was great.
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I liked it a lot. Honestly the way they set it up I'd be interested in an early SHIELD TV show with those from the short. I loved that short.
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Old 01-09-14, 06:03 PM
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I liked it a lot. Honestly the way they set it up I'd be interested in an early SHIELD TV show with those from the short. I loved that short.
Hopefully you get your wish: http://screencrush.com/agent-carter-...fficial-rumor/
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Just keep the SHIELD guys away. That show sucks dick.
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IM3 = really good flick. Agents of SHIELD = oldschool airline food. Never the two should mix.
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Agents of SHIELD's last episode was good. That show has slowly gotten better over time. Most shows have a rocky first season.
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Wasn't the Coulson death revival stupid or something? I read what it was and it just seemed like it was just meh.
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Old 01-09-14, 07:21 PM
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I'd like a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie staring Haley Atwell as Peggy Carter and no cutesy ties to the shittacular Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. Just a movie done in the spirit of the Agent Carter short and with that cast.
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I'd like a movie starring Haley Atwell where I have sex with her repeatedly sorry what were we talking about?
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Wasn't the Coulson death revival stupid or something? I read what it was and it just seemed like it was just meh.
Personally I thought it was interesting. They haven't revealed much about it yet, so its really still too early to judge, but what was shown was interesting.

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The Centipede agency puts Coulson in some machine that helps him remember what happened. Coulson remembers a surgery where they had his head cut open and a robot was operating on his brain. All the while, Coulson is just begging them to let him die.

Coulson tracks down one of the doctors that he remembered, and the doctor tells him that the brain surgery was to implant a fake memory of a vacation in Tahiti to replace the memories of his death and resurrection. The doctor also says that Coulson wasn't dead for seconds like he was originally told, but rather he was dead for days.

Oh and Fury ordered the whole thing for some unknown reason.

That's all that has been revealed so far. We don't know exactly how Coulson came back. He was impaled through the heart after all, and none of that was explained, just the brain surgery thing.

Its possible in my opinion that Coulson could still be an android or LMD. He kept begging, "Let me die." Let me die = LMD. Also after his "revival" Coulson is never shown as having scars from having his head cut open like that, which could also indicate the Coulson on the surgery table is the real Coulson who died and his memories and everything were transferred to an android or LMD that wasn't shown.

We know a little bit, but still not everything.

Here's a video of the brain surgery.

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Re: Marvel One Shot: 'All Hail the King' - Mandarin/Ben Kingsley
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I'd like a movie starring Haley Atwell where I have sex with her repeatedly sorry what were we talking about?
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Agents of SHIELD's last episode was good. That show has slowly gotten better over time. Most shows have a rocky first season.
Most good shows of the last several years have not had rocky first seasons. People keep bringing up ST:TNG as an example, and that was 27 years ago.

The show needs a massive overhaul. Sooner rather than later. YMMV.
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I'd like a movie starring Haley Atwell where I have sex with her repeatedly sorry what were we talking about?
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Re: Marvel One Shot: 'All Hail the King' - Mandarin/Ben Kingsley
The Walking Dead had an absurdly uneven first season. Supernatural had a wholly forgettable first season. The Mindy Project had a nigh-unwatchable first season. All of them got better (and, in the case of The Walking Dead, worse, and better, and worse again).
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I felt TWD's first season was quite even and focused. Afterward, that's a different story...

American Horror Story, Mad Men, Arrow, Community, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, The Americans, Orphan Black, Alias, Game of Thrones, Being Human, just off the top of my head, hit the ground running hard. Agents of SHIELD? Limp and floundering...
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The Walking Dead had an absurdly uneven first season. Supernatural had a wholly forgettable first season. The Mindy Project had a nigh-unwatchable first season. All of them got better (and, in the case of The Walking Dead, worse, and better, and worse again).
In addition, Arrow didn't start getting good until halfway through the first season. The Spartacus series on Starz likewise didn't get good until halfway through the first season. Also, another Whedon creation that is universally loved by all, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, had a pretty lousy first season.
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Disagree about Arrow. I'm rewatching the first season on bluray. It was strong from the start, with a much more consistent focus on character and storytelling. IMO of course.
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American Horror Story, Mad Men, Arrow, Community, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, The Americans, Orphan Black, Alias, Game of Thrones, Being Human, just off the top of my head, hit the ground running hard. Agents of SHIELD? Limp and floundering...
Arrow? ARROW??

The first half of the first season was like a really bad daytime soap opera. Anytime Laurel was on screen I just wanted to punch a wall. Thankfully, they wised up and put less focus on the soap and started giving Laurel less screen time.
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