Amph "You think you're the only superhero in the world?" - The Marvel Cinematic Universe

What other explanation is there? It would be like suggesting Marvel just randomly plugs in "characters" that aren't really well-developed into hackneyed, overly-formulaic plots that bear over-much similarity to one another in the relentless demographic box-checking.


Oh, wait.

 

You liked I, Robot.

 

I feel kinda bad that Wocky has to watch these weird alternate versions of the MCU where everything he says is actually true.

 

I really, really hope that's one of those deceptive "Oh, pop culture, that'll be easy" traps where they just drop heavy critical theory on you as they hit the ground running. It'd be beautiful.

 

So HYDRA and James Spadertron are both going to be baddies in Avengers 2?

 

I need some help with this. I've tried to figure it out, but I keep getting more and more confused.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...ds=captain america the first avenger bklu ray

Under "Product Details" it gives the region as "A/1", which means it will play on North America Blu Ray players. However, directly under the price it says, "Region 21720 encoding. (This DVD will not play on most DVD players sold in the US or Canada [Region 1]. This item requires a region specific or multi-region DVD player and compatible TV." This seems to indicate that the DVD won't play on Region 1 DVD players.

Will the DVD in the package play or not on a regular DVD player?

*******

I had sworn for years that I would never get a Blu Ray player, but my grandfather recently gave Dad an HD TV that he used to own and Dad bought me a Blu Ray player for my birthday today. Unfortunately, the Blu Ray is fully digital and the HD TV still uses analog signals. Rather than buying a converter cable, Dad simply bought a DVD player for $30 to hook to the TV, so I'll be using it for the time being. The Blu Ray is in their bedroom, but Dad said that when he eventually replaces their flatscreen TV, I'll get the Blu Ray and the flatscreen both in my room.

I'm buying a couple of the films on Blu Ray for the bonus one shots, but I don't want to be stuck having to watch the Blu Rays only in the 'rent's bedroom until I get the player back, because it would limit how often I could watch the films.

 

Cursory Googling seems to indicate that Region 21720 is not actually something that exists, so it's probably just an error.

Real talk: with the US Amazon site, unless you're buying from a non-default listing, it's borderline impossible to accidentally get a wrong region DVD/Blu-Ray.

 

Ramza, not entirely true.

There was a huge fight with Disney and Amazon and Amazon refused to put up the Cap 2 pre-orders for a while while they were trying to make the sweet, sweet Amazon Instant Video money, so there were a lot of Asian version / potentially fake listings of blu-rays up. So just beware and as long as you're buying the official Marvel version from US Amazon, it should be fine.

 

That'd be why I used the exact phrase "unless you're buying from a non-default listing." Amazon tends to make it fairly obvious which one you ought to be using unless you're on some kind of hardcore hunt. Those asian bootleggers usually aren't going through Prime, for example.

 

Right, though it was the default for a while -- I almost had that problem (though, as you rightly note, the lack of Prime was a big help).

 

I mean, I'm cognizant of the fact that there can be issues (I like martial arts movies, 'nuff said), but if nothing else that is definitely not the case with that first listing here. Nor indeed with most cases - Cap 2 stands out precisely because that's such a strange deviation from the norm.

 

Dr Strange Joaquin Phoenix out, Ethan Hawke in?

http://www.hitfix.com/news/report-is-ethan-hawke-now-the-top-choice-to-play-marvels-doctor-strange

I dig both actors but I've always thought Hawke was underrated by the mainstream and has put in a ton of fantastic performances (most recently in Before Midnight) and he kinda looks the part a bit more. Also you'd figure Hawke would seemingly be a bit more, erm, "energetic" to watch on the inevitable Marvel press tour grind. Although he does get a bit of "boooo, grrrr!" reactions online but I think that's holdovers of some people being ticked he was on the cover of Tiger Beat teen mags in the early 90s or something.

To be fair, this rumour comes not from the trades but a "scoops" website so take it for what it's worth.

 

That would be a hell of a lot of regions!

 

Scratch that above post, kinda. No Hawke. But also no Phoenix. He's out, officially. Wasn't technically never on anyway. Start those Cumberbatch rumours again!

http://deadline.com/2014/10/joaquin-phoenix-doctor-strange-talks-end-marvel-844910/

 

Is Benedict even capable of facial hair?

 

I want Ralph Fiennes.

 

They should go with Depp.

He's already Strange.

 

No, he played too many weird roles already.