No, wait, not THOSE guys.
2 Asian Dudes are a Youtube team who’ve put together this amazing short, The Avengers In Real Life!, starring some pretty lo-fi versions of Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and Hulk, chasing down a Loki that looks like he murders children in his spare time. It’s a short clip that’s a special kind of awesome. Check it out below.
Unless you’ve spent the last year or so hiding in a cave, you must know that Marvel Studios’ much-anticipated Avengers movie is coming out this week, getting a bunch of comic book fans’ inner ten-year-olds, and a lot of real ten-year-olds, to shed tears of joy. It’s been a long, action-intensive (except, you know, for Iron Man 2) ride from that first Iron Man movie to this point. With that in mind, me and four buddies sat down to watch all five of the movies that helped build a superhero movie universe.
Ladies & Gentlemen, it’s #Avengerthon2012!
In case your knowledge leading up to this summer’s first big blockbuster is a little rusty, I’ve provided a handy guide down below of each movie, what you might need to remember heading into Avengers, and pointing out where each movie went right or wrong.
Marvel Studios’ Avengers movie is only a few weeks away (it has a local release date of April 26th, I believe) and all the news from the recent Hollywood premier makes it sound like director Joss Whedon absolutely killed it bringing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to the big screen. Boss! We already know Marvel has plans for Iron Man 3 to come out on May 3, 2013, for Thor 2 to make a November 15, 2013 release date, and that Captain America 2 just recently had its release shifted back to April 4, 2014. But what happens after those movies? CraveOnline managed to steal a moment with Marvel Studios’ President of Production, Kevin Feige, and find out what may be coming up.
Back when I worked at a comic book store, there was pretty much one kind of discussion that would always, always come up that I never liked to talk about.
“So, uh, dude, who would win if [insert characters' name here] fought [insert other ridiculous choice here]?”
Look, man. I’m not 12 and I haven’t been in at least more than 12 years. That’s not why I read comic books. I read them cos I love the characters and the neverending superhero action soap opera stories and because I love the idea that human beings can still make up stories about the best possible traits that human beings could have. Good guys who don’t mince words with bad guys, and who always succeed in the end. There’s no such thing as a realistic superhero fight because two heroes fighting always leads to a tie of some sort or a scale-balancing second round later on. All that said, Avengers vs X-Men, or simply AvX, is exactly that kind of story. Except bigger. Issue One came out this week and it kicks off pretty quickly.
And when I read it, I felt like high-fiving 12-year-old me a bit.