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Cherubimon142

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A few years back at Awesome Con, I gifted Karl Urban a copy of Thor #362, featuring the Executioner's death as he faces down the armies of Hel on his own. Since Karl Urban hadn't read much of the comic yet in 2015, I figured this would be a great issue to help prepare him for the role of one of the most badass characters in Thor. I am now curious to see if he will embrace that story in the film.

I got a personal copy signed for me too, signed with "Come and get it demons!".
 
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Pachimari

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It's been revealed how many post-credits scenes Thor: Ragnarok will feature:
2 scenes
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The first one is slightly related to the plot, and the second one is a straight joke.
 
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richiek

steals Justin Bieber DVDs
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/17...he-spider-man-homecoming-timeline-controversy

Kevin Feige addresses the Spider-Man Homecoming timeline controversy:

All of that debate has made us go, 'Okay, at some point, I'm not sure exactly when, we're going to publish a timeline and see what it all is.' It wasn't meant to flummox anybody exactly, and I'm not sure I'd do it again the same way, but it does all connect to where we placed it. Other than very particular instances where there's a newspaper, or verbal reference to years, we never date the films. And I think there's a presumption, 'Well if the movie came out in November 2017, it must take place in November 2017' -- which is not the case.
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The specifics of the timeline, looking at... I've loved timelines, I love the Star Wars timeline, with the Battle of Yavin, everything is either After The Battle Of Yavin, Before The Battle of Yavin. We're doing that, and the origin point for us is Tony saying, 'I am Iron Man.' So everything will be years after that, years before that -- to the Big Bang, which is where it starts! It will look very cool and complex like Doc Brown on a chalkboard by the time it's published.
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Thugnificent

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http://www.slashfilm.com/thor-ragnarok-is-the-first-of-a-3-part-arc-for-hulk-movies/

Hulk isn't getting a solo movie anytime soon, but at least he's getting a 3 part arc!

So basically, Kevin [Feige] pulled me aside before this, and said, ‘If you were gonna do a... if we were going to do a standalone Hulk movie, what would it be?' And I said, ‘I think it should be this, this, this, and this and this, and ends up like this.' And he's like, ‘I love that. Why don't we do that in the next three movies, starting with Thor 3 and then we go into Avengers 3 and 4.' And I was like, ‘That sounds great!' And so we are at the beginning of this arc.
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Hulk speaking is the start to separating of these two individuals, these identities in this split-identity person, and where that's going to end up going. So it was really interesting to me. He's like a baby! He's like a five year old or six year old. So he has the same syntax, he has the same world view, and so it was fun. It's like Chris [Hemsworth] – we all got to reinvent our characters in this.
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richiek

steals Justin Bieber DVDs
As long as Universal still holds onto the Marvel theme park rights, we aint getting a Hulk standalone anytime soon.
 
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Alienous

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Pachimari said:
Funny clip from Thor: Ragnarok on Jimmy Kimmel.
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It's so bizarre that Marvel let this happen. It's an exciting new direction, which makes sense as Thor: The Dark World pretty much perfected the traditional superhero movie genre, but I'm not such a fan of how Thor is in this. I'd expect more stoic moments given the stakes, but he's got the demeanour I'd expect from Thor in an SNL parody in pretty much every snippet I've seen.

I'm expecting a really fun movie in any case, though.
 
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Mix Master

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Pai Pai Master said:
I didn't like it at first either but I really dig their reasoning for it. Once Thanos obtains two of the Infinity Stones he doesn't feel any need to wear armor into battle. I like the idea of Thanos just casually going in to murder all the Avengers in his comfy wear lol.
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I hate bald thanos, I mean he looked godtier in Guardians and he looks like bruce willis here. I hope he has his armor on throughout most of the movie.

Alienous said:
It's so bizarre that Marvel let this happen. It's an exciting new direction, which makes sense as Thor: The Dark World pretty much perfected the traditional superhero movie genre, but I'm not such a fan of how Thor is in this. I'd expect more stoic moments given the stakes, but he's got the demeanour I'd expect from Thor in an SNL parody in pretty much every snippet I've seen.

I'm expecting a really fun movie in any case, though.
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Its a lose lose situation IMO, Marvel doesn't give directors any slack, and you get a run of the mill movie, OR you let the directors do their thing and take certain risks.
 
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Frostinferno

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Mix Master said:
Hulk doesnt make good movies, TIH was boring as fuck and beyond forgettable. Even Iron Man 2 and TDW didn't sink that low.
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Eh, there are good stories for him. Planet Hulk could've been a solid two-part movie by itself.

Mix Master said:
I hate bald thanos, I mean he looked godtier in Guardians and he looks like bruce willis here. I hope he has his armor on throughout most of the movie.
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Don't worry, he'll have to put the armor back on once the Avengers start beating his ass in A4.
 
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peanutbutterlatte

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Alienous said:
It's so bizarre that Marvel let this happen. It's an exciting new direction, which makes sense as Thor: The Dark World pretty much perfected the traditional superhero movie genre, but I'm not such a fan of how Thor is in this. I'd expect more stoic moments given the stakes, but he's got the demeanour I'd expect from Thor in an SNL parody in pretty much every snippet I've seen.

I'm expecting a really fun movie in any case, though.
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I couldn’t give less of a shit about “Thou shall feel my might” (I know he doesn’t talk like that in MCU) stoic/dramatic Thor, so suits me fine.

Anybody who’s watched Hunt for the Wilderpeople knows that Watiti is perfectly capable of blending drama/humour anyway.
 
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Einchy

semen stains the mountaintops
Boy is great as well if you want to see Taika Waititi's dramatic side. Also, just watch Boy because it's fucking great.

And I'm loving the new take on Thor, he hasn't been all that exciting in the past Marvel movies, I mean, he wasn't bad but could have been better and now he is.
 
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SpaceWolf

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Assuming they're going to try and put some real effort into it, I feel sorry for those poor saps that Feige has put onto trying to make the recent Marvel timeline make sense.
 
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GAMEPROFF

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SpaceWolf said:
Assuming they're going to try and put some real effort into it, I feel sorry for those poor saps that Feige has put onto trying to make the recent Marvel timeline make sense.
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Come on, dont act like its hilariously contradicting itself. They messed up in Spider-Man, even that can be easily retconned, and its not like there are TV shows that would be counted for the timeline.
 
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okdakor

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And the general audience doesn't really check or care if the dates used in a 5 years old movie are the same from a line used in the latest spider-man...
 
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SpaceWolf

Banned
GAMEPROFF said:
Come on, dont act like its hilariously contradicting itself. They messed up in Spider-Man, even that can be easily retconned, and its not like there are TV shows that would be counted for the timeline.
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Don't see much point in an official MCU timeline that literally retcons elements of their most recent movie. My point was that taking all the movies into account would bring up timeline problems that are difficult to reconcile (such as Civil War stating Tony Stark announced himself as Iron Man "eight years ago", whilst Homecoming also repeatedly states that the Battle of NY happened "eight years ago", which completely muddles everything up)
 
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GAMEPROFF

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SpaceWolf said:
Don't see much point in an official MCU timeline that literally retcons elements of their most recent movie. My point was that taking all the movies into account would bring up timeline problems that are difficult to reconcile (such as Civil War stating Tony Stark announced himself as Iron Man "eight years ago", whilst Homecoming also repeatedly states that the Battle of NY happened "eight years ago", which completely muddles everything up)
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The Spider-Man/Battle of New York thing is the single issue with the timeline

It can be retconned with one sentence. Seriously, when I had to wait for weeks for the movie starting in my region and you all were ranting around how the MCU is now totally broken and nothing makes sense anymore, I imagined the worst and couldnt believe when it was just this.

Its totally blow out of proportion, most likely they will retcon in the next Spider-Man movie and never talk about again.
 
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SpaceWolf

Banned
GAMEPROFF said:
Seriously, when I had to wait for weeks for the movie starting in my region and you all were ranting around how the MCU is now totally broken and nothing makes sense anymore, I imagined the worst and couldnt believe when it was just this.
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I think this speaks more to your having read into things a bit too much in relation to that discussion at the time, though. Nobody here was really taking the timeline mistake particularly seriously, just poking fun at the oversight, in addition to fans who allow such mistakes to seriously undermine their enjoyment of these movies.
 
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jph139

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I mean, it actually does line up, it just messes with the fan timeline. Like, we have three real points on the timeline.

Iron Man happens.
Iron Man 2 happens 6 months later, Hulk and Thor during the same period.
Avengers happens; events of Thor were "last year" per Nick Fury.

The escalation from "I am Iron Man" to Avengers could easily have happened within a year/year-and-a-half.

The difference is that fans always used hard dates, and a lot more empty space, while the MCU seems to use a comic book "sliding timeline" of X years ago/X years later.
 
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okdakor

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SpaceWolf said:
Homecoming also repeatedly states that the Battle of NY happened "eight years ago", which completely muddles everything up
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Noooo
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Mix Master

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Love this Feige quote.

But, really, it is all good stories. And as the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation said, ‘All good things must come to an end.’ And part of what makes them special, there is a finite quality to the best of fictional stories through history. And we wanted to do that at the end of our first three phases and 22 movies. How we start anew and wherever we go beyond that is a story for another time.
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https://filmschoolrejects.com/kevin-feige-end-marvel-phase-3/
 
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richiek

steals Justin Bieber DVDs
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...ok-tracking-thunderous-90m-100m-debut-1048049

http://deadline.com/2017/10/thor-ragnarok-box-office-opening-projection-1202187006/

Thor Ragnarok is tracking for a 90-110 million opening week.

Thor Ragnarok, the third in the series, hit tracking this morning, and it's looking at a $100M-$110M start per industry figures with enormous strength among the four quadrants: Very strong with families, Hispanics and African Americans. Thor: Ragnarok in tracking has an enormous 85% in total awareness, 29% in unaided (those polled say it's a movie they want to see without being prompted on the title, that number is huge), 61% definite interest, and 24% first choice (when you're in the double digits at that level, that's excellent). A $100M start would be huge for the threequel, beating its previous chapter, Thor: The Dark World‘s, $85.7M November opening four years ago. Such projections this far out always come with a footnote because when a pic arrives this strong, it's hard to determine how high it will go. Even if the domestic marketplace turns wonky, a $90M opening for Thor: Ragnarok wouldn't be so bad.
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