Topic: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Read 27381 times)

Ozymandias · « **on:** 28 Jul 2008, 18:08 »

Well, next year is Avengers-free for Marvel and here's why.

Of note: Deadpool! The Blob! Emma Frost! Uh...Gambit! I guess!

RobbieOC · « **Reply #1 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 18:16 »

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!

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #2 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 18:31 »

Gambit! Yes!
My life will then be complete!

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 18:49 »

I found pictures of the people in costume last night, sorry I did not think to save them. Also, Emma Frost is in it.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #4 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 19:09 »

I was leery about this movie at first but now it looks like it could be kinda cool.

RobbieOC · « **Reply #5 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 19:54 »

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.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #6 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 20:37 »

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?

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #7 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 21:08 »

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

KvP · « **Reply #8 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 21:09 »

I was wondering when they'd get around to Gambit.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #9 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 21:27 »

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.

Meg · « **Reply #10 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 21:34 »

Quote from: ThePQ4 on 28 Jul 2008, 18:31

Gambit! Yes!
My life will then be complete!

!

Perhaps my biggest childhood crush.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #11 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 21:36 »

Would your avatar indicate that Gambit was the reason you went to your prom alone?

Meg · « **Reply #12 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 21:41 »

What?

Surgoshan · « **Reply #13 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 22:15 »

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.

Meg · « **Reply #14 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 22:20 »

Ah, I see.

Sorry, English isn't my first language.

imagist42 · « **Reply #15 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 22:58 »

No, you don't have to apologize. That was a bit of a stretch even for native speakers.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #16 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 22:59 »

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.

Meg · « **Reply #17 on:** 28 Jul 2008, 23:10 »

Heh, thank you, I feel less stupid.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #18 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 03:05 »

Oh shit yes.

Leonidas · « **Reply #19 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 05:57 »

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)?

Ozymandias · « **Reply #20 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 06:50 »

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.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #21 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 07:11 »

Ugh.. Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool? Casting him in any role is a horrible idea.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #22 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 13:06 »

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.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #23 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 13:57 »

Quote from: Meg on 28 Jul 2008, 21:34

Quote from: ThePQ4 on 28 Jul 2008, 18:31
Gambit! Yes!
My life will then be complete!
!
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).

Hat · « **Reply #24 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 16:06 »

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.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #25 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 18:29 »

"You made a vampire... pomeranian?" Perfect delivery.

Thy Dungeonman · « **Reply #26 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 19:27 »

I try to forget about the existence of Blade Trinity, but I think Reynolds would make a pretty good Deadpool.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #27 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 21:03 »

Quote from: Leonidas on 29 Jul 2008, 05:57

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.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #28 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 21:15 »

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.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #29 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 21:20 »

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.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #30 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 21:26 »

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.

Leonidas · « **Reply #31 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 04:27 »

have you ever tried to throw a playing card?

It doesn't work.

0bsessions · « **Reply #32 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 06:59 »

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.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #33 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 07:15 »

I guess the only thing is that I really hate Ryan Reynolds.

KvP · « **Reply #34 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 11:30 »

Quote from: Leonidas on 30 Jul 2008, 04:27

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.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #35 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 12:33 »

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.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #36 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 12:38 »

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.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #37 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 12:41 »

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)

Ozymandias · « **Reply #38 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 12:42 »

Seriously, does no one watch Mythbusters?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #39 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 13:25 »

apparently not.

oh well, at least we know the truth.

october1983 · « **Reply #40 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 17:24 »

Quote from: tommydski on 30 Jul 2008, 17:11

I always thought the X-Men series would suit a TV show more than a movie franchise.

So did the creators of Heroes, apparently.

entropic93 · « **Reply #41 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 17:56 »

Link says the vids were removed. crap.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #42 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 18:34 »

Quote from: Leonidas on 30 Jul 2008, 04:27

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.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #43 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 19:07 »

I saw someone dial a phone with a playing card from 9 fathoms deep.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #44 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 19:27 »

9 fathoms? Is that all? My agèd grandmother, rest her soul, could sink a whole fresh rack on an old felt at nine fathoms!

ViolentDove · « **Reply #45 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 20:54 »

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 explode would get you lynched.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #46 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 01:17 »

You can throw THESE MOTHERFUCKERS

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #47 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 09:54 »

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.

Statik · « **Reply #48 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 10:10 »

A part of the mythbusters episode in question:

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?

Lines · « **Reply #49 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 10:13 »

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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