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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Ozymandias on 28 Jul 2008, 18:08
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Well, next year is Avengers-free for Marvel and here's why (http://blog.seanbonner.com/2008/07/27/x-men-origins-wolverine-leaked-trailer/).
Of note: Deadpool! The Blob! Emma Frost! Uh...Gambit! I guess!
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Deadpool will probably be awesome. I'm real curious about Blob. How they'll make him look, how they'll make his powers work. That could be fun.
But, you forgot to mention Beak!
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Gambit! Yes!
My life will then be complete!
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(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1861/peopleinwolverineev6.jpg)
I found pictures of the people in costume last night, sorry I did not think to save them. Also, Emma Frost is in it.
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I was leery about this movie at first but now it looks like it could be kinda cool.
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I hate that guy who's playing the Blob!
...and by that I mean I hate the characters he has played in movies/TV. Which probably means he's a pretty good actor.
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I dont see any ref to Emma Frost anywhere on IMDB, only a split second image of a blonde girl hitting a glass wall. Care to elaborate?
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I saw an image of her, or at least her actress, holding her arms up, then turning to diamond. Unfortunately it was one of the images that I saw the other night and did not save.
Found one
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8786/ambitdj5.jpg)
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I was wondering when they'd get around to Gambit.
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I love Ryan Reynolds to pieces. He will own Deadpool and steal the movie away from Hugh Jackman.
I also love Hugh Jackman, but Reynolds will make him look like Hugh 'Nancypants' Fagman.
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Gambit! Yes!
My life will then be complete!
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Perhaps my biggest childhood crush.
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Would your avatar indicate that Gambit was the reason you went to your prom alone?
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What?
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Your avatar is a stag.
"Going stag" is slang for going to an event alone when it is expected that you'll go with a date.
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Ah, I see.
Sorry, English isn't my first language.
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No, you don't have to apologize. That was a bit of a stretch even for native speakers.
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Don't worry, english is my first language and I had no idea either.
Also, I'm looking forward to this movie! I'll probably like it even if it's terribly cheesy, but based on the previous movies, I doubt it will be.
Edit: Oops, Imagist42 beat me to it.
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:-)
Heh, thank you, I feel less stupid.
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Oh shit yes.
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I used to be an X-Men fan when I was younger. Whilst I'm not really that fussed anymore I would of course still be interested in this movie.
One character I could never really feel any love for though was Gambit. I never quite got why he was such a popular character. Personally I always thought he was simply a walking stereotype. And what's with throwing playing cards (which all happen to be the Ace of Spades of course)?
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Holy crap! Keamy is The Blob? That's...that's messed up! I didn't even recognize him.
And, yeah, the blonde woman who turns to diamond is Emma Frost. Because...uh...that's Emma Frost. Jackman's already said she's in the movie in interviews.
At any rate, this movie looks way, way better than it probably should. I had no hope for any of the X-Men prequel projects, but daaaang.
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Ugh.. Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool? Casting him in any role is a horrible idea.
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Have you seen Blade Trinity? I am sad to say I have, but he was pretty much playing Deadpool the whole time. I can not wait to see Dominic Monaghan as Beak.
Oh, and all the screen shots I was talking about? In the video Ozy posted at the beginning. My bad.
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Gambit! Yes!
My life will then be complete!
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Perhaps my biggest childhood crush.
You know, I didn't really hold a whole lot of love for Gambit until my senior year of high school (three years ago, I guess), when I started to really get into the comic books. And now I'm planning to put the guy on my leg...crazy.
Dominic as Beak is gonna be sooo awesome. Beak is part of the reason I wanted to read the New X-Men --well, him and Wither. (Oh man, Wither makes me weak kneed, I just can't explain it).
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I will fight anyone who mouths off at the casting choice of Reynolds for Deadpool.
It is so perfect why can't you see it with your bitter twisted heart.
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"You made a vampire... pomeranian?" Perfect delivery.
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I try to forget about the existence of Blade Trinity, but I think Reynolds would make a pretty good Deadpool.
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And what's with throwing playing cards (which all happen to be the Ace of Spades of course)?
Gambit is actually a massive Motorhead fan.
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You know, I just remembered a part from X-Men: Evolution where Rogue asks him "What's up with the stupid playing cards" and he says something along the lines of, "Well, chere, it's like having fifty-two explosives in your pocket".
Quite handy, considering his power. He also charges small throwing knives, I think...and of course, can charge anything he touches to explode.
Gosh, I love Gambit.
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I have the whole five seasons of the Animated series on DVD and in one of the Genosha episodes there is an awesome scene where Gambit is running around with a bucket of nuts and bolts, throwing handfuls of tiny explosives at the Sentinels. That is why I love Gambit.
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Oh man.
I just got the entire series from a torrent not too long ago. I haven't seen that episode. I'll have to watch it.
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have you ever tried to throw a playing card?
It doesn't work.
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That.
It's not even something that was a real big thing with Gambit. When Claremont created him, he threw those little icepick looking things. The cards came later on, I think it was an invention of Jim Lee. Honestly, I'm not sure he actually used playing cards at all until around the launch of the second X-Men series.
Then again, when Claremont created Gambit, he was apparently originally intended to be a villain working for Mr. Sinister who would betray the X-Men.
Then again, when Claremont created Sinister, he was actually supposed to be the figment of an extremely powerful mutant's imagination. Said mutant was supposed to have been a child at the same orphanage as Cyclops.
Then again, Marvel took just about every good idea Claremont had in the late eighties and shat all over it.
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I guess the only thing is that I really hate Ryan Reynolds.
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have you ever tried to throw a playing card?
It doesn't work.
I like that irony. We're talking about a universe in which people can psychically control the weather, magnetic fields, and other people's minds, where people shoot destructive laser beams out of their eyes and can turn their skin into highly tensile metal at will (and that's just the core characters), where doppelgangers routinely step in and out of alternate dimensions and people routinely die and are resurrected, and we get to say "A guy throwing a playing card? Now that's implausible!" It's good to be a geek sometimes.
Besides, you need to watch more Mythbusters. You can totally throw a playing card, saying you can't is like saying it's impossible to hit a home run.
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i've actually stuck a playing card into drywall from about ten feet away on more than one occasion.
it's not as hard as it seems.
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He did this while spinning through the air, having just leaped from a moving train into the house of ten terrorists. The card that got stuck in the dry-wall was the eleventh card. I think we all know where the other ten went.
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That I dont believe, quite simply, playing cards are made of a softer material than drywall.
*edit*
Unless in true Diamond Cutter fashion, you found a *fault* in a heavy paper covered material made out of stuck together compressed bits of sediment (read: Contain no faults)
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Seriously, does no one watch Mythbusters?
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apparently not.
oh well, at least we know the truth.
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I always thought the X-Men series would suit a TV show more than a movie franchise.
So did the creators of Heroes, apparently.
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Link says the vids were removed. crap.
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have you ever tried to throw a playing card?
It doesn't work.
Yep. And it's hard, but I've managed to get a playing card to fly straight for about thirty feet in the past. I'm well out of practice now, though. I've seen someone cut a banana in half. From a distance of three feet. Still and all, though.
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I saw someone dial a phone with a playing card from 9 fathoms deep.
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9 fathoms? Is that all? My agèd grandmother, rest her soul, could sink a whole fresh rack on an old felt at nine fathoms!
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Honestly guys, you can throw cards a fair distance. This was an essential survival skill at my primary school, where you played for footy cards in a game called "flicks". You could either challenge over distance, or sitting a card as close to vertical as you could get against a wall.
Also, Gambit would've been really unpopular at my school. Making a foil copy of Laurie Daley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Daley) explode would get you lynched.
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You can throw THESE MOTHERFUCKERS
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/YOUCANTHROWTHESEMOTHERFUCKERS.jpg)
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But would you want to blow those up? I mean, they look expensive, and you could like, prepare dinner with them or something way more constructive.
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A part of the mythbusters episode in question:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/458503/ricky_jay_on_mythbusters/ (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/458503/ricky_jay_on_mythbusters/)
and to the guy who questioned drywall.... seriously? Have you ever worked with the stuff? Its essentially plaster and glue, and pretty easy to puncture (both intentionally and inadvertently). Maybe you are thinking of the concrete stuff used in bathrooms and showers?
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Drywall is really soft. That's why stud finders exist for hanging stuff up.
Edit: This makes little sense as the top post. So uh, how about them X-men?
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I was able to throw a playing card at a friend who was standing 10 feet away, and embed the said card in his arm. The card went a quarter of an inch to an inch into his biceps.
How about them cast members?
I'm looking forward to Ryan Renolds and Liev Schreiber. I think they are both really good actors. The guy playing Gambit, I didn't like him in Friday Night Lights, so I am wary.
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I still stand by Josh Holloway as Gambit. Would have been awesome.
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I know my way around drywall. And a playing card is not sharp enough to slice its way in, nor is it stiff enough to force its way in. Not to mention the force and inertia you would need to pierce it. I dont believe that with a standard playing card, that it is possible to pierce the heavy heavy paper that makes Gyprock's outer shell. The force needed to pierce the foam they were throwing into is far less, thats the same stuff you find at craft stores that you pretty much leave finger prints in by picking up.
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since mythbusters and multiple people claiming they have succeeded hasnt swayed you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZTwunYl9E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZTwunYl9E)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMggSredtJk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMggSredtJk)
Anyway... back on subject:
Ryan better not fuck up Deadpool... Probably my favorite comic book character ever made... Although I do agree with the sentiment that he kinda was Deadpool in Blade 3.
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Im going to relent for the sake of the X-men. Frankly half the reason I go see these movies is for the fan fair, so Im pretty stoked on the number of chars being featured.
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1) To skeptics about playing cards: Have you never gotten a paper cut? A paper cut is the result of pulling a narrow, not-at-all-stiff object along a pliant-incredibly-the-opposite-of-stiff surface, the result being that the slightly more resilient former slices through the latter. A playing card has speed and a very narrow profile in its favor. It also has a remarkable resiliency and strength. Yes, you can bend a playing card. Yes you can tear it. Have you ever tried grabbing it at either end and pulling it apart? It's made of woven fibers and you'll find it quite strong. It's a single unit and, with both forward speed and rotation in its favor, it can tear shit apart. The difficult part of slicing something with a playing card isn't the slicing, it's making it move a long distance at speed, and that's been captured on film. I speak as someone who has never bought and will never buy an x-man comic book.
2) Ryan Reynolds: I honestly believe that he's a remarkably capable actor. I saw only about five minutes of Amityville horror and he scared the crap out of me with the axe and all. Hell, most of what he's done is comedy; think how hard it is to say what he's said with a straight face. And then couple that with his role in Blade: Trinity*, the fact is that he can walk into a role and own it, no matter how good or absurd it may be, and then give it his own personal spin. The dude makes it look easy. Plus, he's gorgeous. That's not unimportant. Hell, I think it's the only reason for the success of Tom Cruise.
* Personally, I think the Blade movies are utter shit and Wesley Snipes is an execrable actor, but that doesn't change my impression of the various actors involved in the project.
Kris Kristofferson: old guy, should stick to country music.
Ron Pearlman: should stick to fallout intros.
The Guy from Boondock Saints: Should stick to Boondock Saints.
The Guy who played "the dracula": should stick to underwear modelling or whatever.
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Ron Pearlman: should stick to fallout intros.
Blasphemy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZTwunYl9E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZTwunYl9E)
Too much card throwing, not enough Oksana Baiul!
How, I wonder, will they show Deadpool's whole meta stuff. You know, how he talks to the readers in the comics, and interacts with his own narration and stuff? Like this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RobbieOC/250px-DeadpoolYellowBoxes.jpg)
Because that has become one of Deadpool's big things recently. And, it's funny, which is kind of the point of Deadpool.
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I think Deadpool will just be a wise-ass and not a major, major character. If Marvel deems it necessary to give him his own movie, I think we'll see it more in line with his actual comics.
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Ron Pearlman: should stick to fallout intros.
Blasphemy
Agreed...you didn't even spell his name right.
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I think Deadpool will just be a wise-ass and not a major, major character. If Marvel deems it necessary to give him his own movie, I think we'll see it more in line with his actual comics.
I remember reading this somewhere... no clue as to where, but apparently Avi Arad's (a producer who pretty much has nothing but comic book movie / shows under his belt, including Spider-man, all of the X-Men, Iron Man, and the upcoming Avengers, Wolverine, etc) son is a huge Deadpool fan, and has tried to get his dad to produce a Deadpool movie.
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Wikipedia. I should know, I have been to Deadpool's page a million times
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I kind of forgot how much I cared about the Wolverine character until I watched that trailer. Man. I'm really hope this is as bitchin' as possible.
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Also just quickly, some playing cards are laminated, and some are just straight up plastic.
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Not to mention, the thing most of you seem to have forgotten.
Gambit doesn't just make cards go boom. He charges them with kinetic energy, as well. I'm pretty sure that a standard playing card imbued with the oomph of, say, your average baseball lobbed by a Major League pitcher, could more than pierce drywall.
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I was the only one disagreeing about the drywall piercing of cards and I gave up, so like, who cares anymore.
Anyway, Ive been reading a fucktonne of comics and well, getting super in the mood for new comic based movies!
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I think we've established that some kind of villain with mutant drywall abilities would be totally screwed if he went up against gambit.
Also, he'd probably be a successful small business owner.
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Allow me to clarify this for you all.
The Wolverine movie is pure Hugh Jackman arm porn.
Most of the profit will be from teenage and early twenties women (and their mothers) going to this movie to stare at Hugh Jackman in a wife-beater for two and a half hours. <3
Which means: I am unreasonably excited about this film.
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That and the girls who had little crushes on Wolverine from the comic. And because Hugh Jackman is hot.
>.>
That and X-Men is my 2nd favorite comic series. Batman and X-Men were always my favorites growing up, so the movies are fun!
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I have a legitimate love for comic books and Wolverine. The fact that he is portrayed by a very, devilishly handsome Hugh Jackman is just an added bonus for my viewing pleasure.
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I've a friend who went to see The Full Monty on Broadway at least half a dozen times because Hugh Jackman got naked at the end.