Nine Fun ‘Avengers’ Facts from Whedon’s DVD Commentary

Nine Fun ‘Avengers’ Facts from Whedon’s DVD Commentary
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Even if you’ve already seen “The Avengers” a thousand times by now, here’s a reason to push that tally to 1,001: the Joss Whedon commentary track.

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Whedon has a thing for knocking Norse guys out of the frame. “It’s always fun to do that,” he confessed, regarding Thor and Loki’s propensity for getting spontaneously slammed out of scenes.

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The director is also extremely proud of how Hulk manhandles Loki at the film’s climax. “If I did nothing else for the last two years, if I literally sat on my bum doing nothing, and I made that little scene? I would feel that I had…

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‘The Avengers’ Opening Credits Buffy Style

‘The Avengers’ Opening Credits Buffy Style

This is simply awesome! Though I must admit that there’s something a little bit off about the pacing of the cuts, things don’t seem to have the snap and pizzaz that the Buffy credits did, this is still really fun to watch and think about how a TV show of The Avengers would work with Whedon at the helm.

Actually, now that I think about it… YES PLEASE!

 

‘Looper’ Photos

‘Looper’ Photos
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Today we have 18 new high resolution photos from director Rian Johnson‘s latest science-fiction thriller movie Looper, starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels.

In the film, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “Looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,”…

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Announcing the ‘Avengers’ GIVEAWAY Winner!

Announcing the ‘Avengers’ GIVEAWAY Winner!

Today is announcement day

We have run the course of the active contest, and the winner has been selected to get a Blu-ray edition of the newly released Avengers film!

The Winner is…

Our very own Random-bot chose a name out of the machine, and that lucky winner is:

Karen Che

Karen, you know what you are? You’re special! You are awesome because you like The Avengers nearly as much as TJ. Like you said in your comment on the contest entry:

I’d love to win The Avengers on Blu-Ray because this is my new favorite ensemble superhero flick! The cohesion between character stories is…

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How The Amazing Spiderman Should Have Ended

How The Amazing Spiderman Should Have Ended

A good friend at Carpe Seizure brought this hilarious video to my attention. It’s funny whether you’ve seen The Amazing Spiderman or not, and there aren’t any real spoilers in it (in my opinion) but it’s much funnier if you have seen the movie and enjoyed it. Watch:

If you haven’t already heard of HISHE, it is short for “How It Should Have Ended.” It’s a YouTube channel that represents some of the most amusing twists on Hollywood films.

Hey, speaking of Marel super heroes, if you write a comment on this entry about The Avengers, you’ll be entered to win a Blu-ray of the movie! If you…

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How Time Travel Works

How Time Travel Works

Did you ever wonder how Time Travel works? Surely with Looper being out in Theaters now you need a primer.

Well I’m not actually sure this video will really help explain things, but it is pretty a fun mashup. It uses clips from just about every popular film that includes time travel. Film clips in this video include “Primer,” “12 Monkeys,” “The Terminator,” “Timecrimes,” and more.

Time travel films are fraught with peril!

 

‘Fringe’ Season 5 Poster

‘Fringe’ Season 5 Poster
TV Line

Premiering Friday, Sept. 28 at 9/8c, the 13-episode farewell run is set almost exclusively in the year 2036 — as was Season 4′s Episode 19, “Letters of Transit”* — as Fringe team members past and future try to solve the hairy problem that is an Earth ruled by Observers.

Check out the poster here (spy the callouts to the series’ assorted “bumper” icons, like the handprint and apple?), then scroll down to read more about Season 5.

I’m really looking forward to this season even though it’s only going to be a thirteen episode final run. I am sad of course that there isn’t going to be…

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Joss Whedon was reluctant to Direct ‘Avengers 2’

Joss Whedon was reluctant to Direct ‘Avengers 2’
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He’s also back to work prepping for Avengers 2, despite admitting multiple times that the pace of the first Avengers movie almost killed him.

Why jump back into the fire understanding one can only cheat death so many times? Well, it goes back to storytelling.

“There’s a business aspect to it and I would be disingenuous not to say that, but the question for me is, Do I have another story to tell about these people? So we worked on the business side of it and I didn’t think it was going to happen—I was like ‘I’m never going to do this again.’ But once they worked on the business aspect…

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