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Well there was leaked footage from Comic-Con but I am waiting for official.

Also the poster out.

Should I just assume Ant-man is really, really tiny in this one?

Some serious ball juggling's going to happen in this one, then. So either it's an incoherent mess with every 'star' getting approx. 11 seconds of screen time, or a fifteen-hour 'epic'.

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 24 July, 2017, 11:06:38 AM
Some serious ball juggling's going to happen in this one, then. So either it's an incoherent mess with every 'star' getting approx. 11 seconds of screen time, or a fifteen-hour 'epic'.

It by same directors who did Captain America Civil War, so hardly everyone get 11 seconds of screen time :)

Thanos needs to put his hat on. Without it he looks like Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars.

this is all getting too much like hard work...

This will be the harvest of many planted seeds over the past decade, and I really hope they pull it off.

I've previously read that they intend to use a 'Game of Thrones' type structure with multiple plot-lines, which could work (over the running time of this film and it's sequel).

You'd need a heart of Adamantium not to admire the ambition.

Oh dear, not good?  :lol:

Quote from: Goaty on 26 July, 2017, 09:09:46 AM
Oh dear, not good?  :lol:

See also: my Dad.

Quote from: Link Prime on 24 July, 2017, 12:20:00 PMI've previously read that they intend to use a 'Game of Thrones' type structure with multiple plot-lines, which could work (over the running time of this film and it's sequel).

That works in GoT because they have many hours for the one story, rather than Marvel's shorter 'epic over five hours' thing. Also, for me The Avengers worked (despite the inevitable Smurfette thing going on) because it felt tight and focussed, but the follow-up was a drab, flabby mess. Too long. Boring. I'd hate for this to go the same way.

QuoteYou'd need a heart of Adamantium not to admire the ambition.

I can admire the ambition, although a lot of it feels like how comics themselves are done these days: pay to consume 10 things to figure out how the overall story works. And I see a lot of people I know who were previously into this stuff just becoming tired of it all. (Not least there's the problem that so many of these flicks feel broadly interchangeable, and show relatively little spark, originality or uniqueness. Doctor Strange in particular for me was a bafflingly dull, grey and unimaginative film, given the source material.)

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 26 July, 2017, 10:15:23 AM

Quote from: Link Prime on 24 July, 2017, 12:20:00 PMI've previously read that they intend to use a 'Game of Thrones' type structure with multiple plot-lines, which could work (over the running time of this film and it's sequel).

That works in GoT because they have many hours for the one story, rather than Marvel's shorter 'epic over five hours' thing.

The Marvel films have more or less been one story and there'll be little need for setting-up charactersiIW.

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 26 July, 2017, 10:15:23 AM

Quote from: Link Prime on 24 July, 2017, 12:20:00 PMI've previously read that they intend to use a 'Game of Thrones' type structure with multiple plot-lines, which could work (over the running time of this film and it's sequel).

That works in GoT because they have many hours for the one story, rather than Marvel's shorter 'epic over five hours' thing.

The Marvel films have more or less been one story: the setting-up of dozens of places, characters and their relationships, so there should be no time wasted in Infinity War getting to know the protagonists and their current state. We know the Avengers and extended crew are a bust after Civil War and Thanos has been a background player who's about to come front and centre. That's pretty much all the audience needs to know.

Whatever we think of how the MCU has been handled, Infinity War is mostly for the large captive audience who've been following the films like a TV series - after credit scenes and all.

Photos of big cast for Vanity Cover, trailer out soon...

When did Black Widow turn into Mockingbird?

When did Thor regrow his eye?

Why is no one taking Mark Ruffalo and his rotten, rotten hands to hospital?

When did Paul Rudd achieve immortality?

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 27 November, 2017, 08:17:28 PM
Why is no one taking Mark Ruffalo and his rotten, rotten hands to hospital?

Maybe he's been unblocking the drains!!! :o

The strap's a bit weird too, seemingly suggesting OJ Simpson's post-prison hell has been watching endless Marvel movies.

Since when has Scarlet Witch been played by Julianne Moore?

Trailer! With Bruce Willis as Thanos...?

https://youtu.be/6ZfuNTqbHE8 (https://youtu.be/6ZfuNTqbHE8)

That's got me all giddy!!! :)

There's no way all these plates can be kept spinning... is there?  Damnit though, I want to see them try!

It'll work. It'll work. It'll work. It'll work. It'll work. It'll work. It'll work. It'll work.

It won't work.

Fingers crossed, anyway!

did somebody forget to mask out the Wasp's wires?

Good lord - SO much going on!

Anyway I'm very out of touch with MArvel Moviverse was that lad in the bus Spidey and was his hair standing up how they do his spider-sense? If so that's kinda cool.

Can't deny the ambition is impressive.

Love it how Chris Evans want grew beard but have to shave it every time he appears in Marvel film, but this time they let him.

Quote from: JOE SOAP on 29 November, 2017, 07:41:34 PM
Can't deny the ambition is impressive.

Go as far as to say it's unprecedented.  Even if most Marvel movies were only so-so, to have successfully made 17 of them, with 3 more next year alone, kept audiences' interest over a whole decade, kept them bouncing off each other with amusing team-ups and links, and then aim to pull the innumerable characters (and actors) together in one film... it's gobsmacking.

Then reflect that almost all of them are good fun and some are really great examples of the genre (I'd rate all the Captain Americas but especially Winter Soldier, Iron Man 1 and 3, Spiderman: Homecoming, Thor 1 and Thor 3, GotG 1 and 2,  AntMan), it's an amazing achievement. 

Course this'll be the one that crashes and burns, but nothing ventured!

Yep. No matter how cynical you might be about the Marvel movies as a whole (and I'll put my hands up as a fan*) you surely have to admire the long game they've played here. At some point, someone will get a book out of this as the most ambitious, successful bit of franchise building out of the most unpromising foundations in movie history.

*Not as a Marvel fanboy, though. Apart from a youthful dalliance with the X-Men, my proper mainstream fandom started with Moore's Swamp Thing and largely stayed with DC for the next decade or so...

What I find really funny is that Justice League was supposed to be getting a big slice of this pie, but all it's done is lower the bar in terms of what level of quality and/or success this has to achieve, as well as most likely being the first point of unfavorable comparison in every review.

Can Spidey stick to stuff through his regular shoes?  Genuine question.

Is it me or do these publicity still things make everything and everyone look really awkward?  (Except Purple Bruce Willis of course, who always looks awkward).  Cucumberpatch in particular looks like he'd rather be doing Panto, and Tom Holland is trying to get his Billy Eliot gig back.

I should imagine that Spidey's bodily strength allows him to push his shod feet against a wall whilst sticking to it with his hands.

Headcanon.

Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 March, 2018, 10:28:42 AM
I should imagine that Spidey's bodily strength allows him to push his shod feet against a wall whilst sticking to it with his hands.

Headcanon.

Pfft, Nicholas Hammond barely even needed to TOUCH the wall!

Heh. Well, at least there's one old celebrity not associated with touching.

New biggest trailer!!

https://youtu.be/QwievZ1Tx-8 (https://youtu.be/QwievZ1Tx-8)

Sorry to be a jaded fool...but isn't this just going to be like all the others...a big threat...the team at their lowest ebb ending in a finale where they punch something a lot till they win?

Hoping for lots of undead/monster cannon fodder we can all be happy to see the heroes kill without blinking!

Quote from: auxlen on 16 March, 2018, 10:25:07 PM
Sorry to be a jaded fool...but isn't this just going to be like all the others...a big threat...the team at their lowest ebb ending in a finale where they punch something a lot till they win?

"Story will contain story elements! Will probably have a beginning, a middle, and an end! When, oh when, will we see the back of this tiresome formula?"

(Slightly less facetiously: yes, fair enough, if you're not invested in any of these characters after seventeen (?) movies, it's probably not for you.)

Quote from: auxlen on 16 March, 2018, 10:25:07 PM
Sorry to be a jaded fool...but isn't this just going to be like all the others...a big threat...the team at their lowest ebb ending in a finale where they punch something a lot till they win?

It's worked in the comics for over half a century.

Surprisingly I have bonded with Captain America...initially, i thought I would be all for iron man but he's an arrogant prick.
I'd happily watch them live their daily lives or deal with something unusual...the big, BIGGER, BIGGEST Bad formula bores me now.

Gues i'm just jaded as i said...no offence meant to anyone who loves these things...