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Joss Whedon is directing The Avengers

post #1 of 43
7/13/10 at 11:42am
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This may be old news to some, but it's news to me. I'm not a comic fan and don't really follow this stuff closely, but I do enjoy some of these movies. So when I found this out just now, here's how my thoughts formed:

Thought Number One: God, NOO!!

Thought Number Two: Well, I'll save myself some bucks by not going to it. I'll probably just catch half of it on TV some day.

Thought Number Three: Wait a minute, why the fuck is Joss Whedon at all interested in directing The Avengers? There's no tiny, smarmy, unrealistically-powerful young girl in it. What gives here???

Thoughts, anybody?
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post #2 of 43
7/13/10 at 11:45am
This movie is going to suck.
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post #3 of 43
7/13/10 at 11:48am
Joss Whedon did an awesome job with The Astonishing X-Men, possibly some of the best post-Claremont X-Men stories of all time. As a person who does read comics, this could be good news.
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post #4 of 43
7/13/10 at 12:00pm
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Originally Posted by AntiHero84 View Post
Joss Whedon did an awesome job with The Astonishing X-Men, possibly some of the best post-Claremont X-Men stories of all time. As a person who does read comics, this could be good news.


Good for people who read comic books, movies are generally supposed to be made for a wider audience.
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post #5 of 43
7/13/10 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by AntiHero84 View Post
Joss Whedon did an awesome job with The Astonishing X-Men, possibly some of the best post-Claremont X-Men stories of all time. As a person who does read comics, this could be good news.

Re-read Claremont and you'll find that it's all pretty terrible, even (especially) the Dark Phoenix Saga
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post #6 of 43
7/13/10 at 1:45pm
They've been wanting either him or Jon Favreau to direct the Avengers movie for awhile. BTW, Ed Norton will not be returning to reprise his Bruce Banner role.
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post #7 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:11pm
^new campaign for Donald Glover fans!
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post #8 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:15pm
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^new campaign for Donald Glover fans!

You didn't get enough of Donald Glover in the Leathal Weapon series?
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post #9 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:18pm
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You didn't get enough of Donald Glover in the Leathal Weapon series?
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that's Danny Glover.
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post #10 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by willy cheesesteak View Post
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that's Danny Glover.

You're thinking of Steve James from American Ninja.
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post #11 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:25pm
Even if Whedon is directing, Marvel is still doing this movie and so far Marvel has done a good job on all the movies they have been in charge of. So no worries at the moment. That is why I wish Marvel would take the rights back of the SpiderMan franchise from Sony. Sucks that Norton can reprise his role though, I hate it when they keep changing actors. This will the 3rd Bruce Banner in a decade?
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post #12 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:27pm
I wish they'd take back X-Men and the entire X universe from Fox.
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post #13 of 43
7/13/10 at 3:41pm
That too, although the X-Men First Class movie is looking good as far as casting goes. Actually, the first 2 X-Men movies weren't as bad as say DareDevil or Elektra. They were entertaining for the most part, even the 3rd one wasn't too horrible.
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post #14 of 43
7/14/10 at 1:38am
DC have done a much better job with its franchises of late
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post #15 of 43
7/14/10 at 2:24am
Directed by Joss Whedon. With Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson Dammit, I thought it was the 60s TV Series.
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