Monday Night Poll: Your Most Anticipated Marvel Movie?
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Movies based on characters from comics published by DC and Marvel took a summer sabbatical this year -- I'm trying really hard to pretend X-Men Origins: Wolverine was only a bad dream -- but the next couple of summers promise a healthy dash of costumed superheroes to liven up movie theaters. As noted in a post earlier today, next summer will see the return of Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2. Two summers hence will feature the big-screen debut of Kenneth Branagh's vision of Thor, with Chris Hemsworth playing the hammer-wielding Norse god and Tom Hiddleston as his adopted brother / arch-nemesis Loki, followed by Joe Johnston's adventure The First Avenger: Captain America, set primarily during World War II. And 2012 will finally bring superhero team-up The Avengers, plus another unspecified movie. Could it be Edgar Wright's Ant-Man? Or something else?
Without being an expert on any of these characters -- for that I bow gratefully to our own Elisabeth Rappe -- from strictly a movie fan's perspective, I'm most anticipating The First Avenger: Captain America. That's because director Joe Johnston hasn't let me down yet, and the film's World War II setting and sense of wholesome, patriotic adventure play to his strengths. But the more I think about these projects, the more I like the variety of settings and styles. Sure, they're all superheroes, but there's plenty of room for the films to establish their own identities.
What do you think? What's your most anticipated Marvel movie? Feel free to suggest other characters that should have their own movie in the comments.










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6-09-2009 @ 2:09AM
Joseph Finn said...
With the caveat that we don't know who's playing Cap yet (though Ryan McPartlin seems to be the obvious choice), I'm going to have to surprise myself and go with Thor. The parts just seem to be coming together on that a bit better.
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6-09-2009 @ 1:01AM
Jeff said...
This survey is a sort of failure since it doesn't give you the option of "None. I am so sick and tired of superhero flicks. Ant-man? Seriously?".
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6-09-2009 @ 1:08AM
Chupacabra said...
I'm not sure why Spiderman 4 wasn't included in the poll, especially because we're just starting to get some news on it.
I'm still more excited about Iron Man 2, but I'd put Spiderman next.
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6-09-2009 @ 3:44AM
yani said...
I WAS looking forward to Thor until they announced Hemsworth as the lead... it might work for the US where all you have to go on is five minutes at the start of Star Trek, but for those of us from his native Australia who have had to suffer through his ham fisted attempts at acting on tween-soap "Home and Away" (and I only ever see the commercials for the show), it's a bad omen...
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6-09-2009 @ 3:46AM
Pete said...
Thor, hands down. I love Branagh and what I've seen from Miller & Stentz on Terminator and Andromeda so I can't wait to see what they come up with.
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6-09-2009 @ 11:43AM
Terry said...
Do you have to keep kicking to Wolverine? It wasn´t as bad as you "reviewers" try to pretend. Do you honestly think that Iron Man would work without RDJ? I doubt it. I liked Wolverine very much and I know I am not the only one. Go bashing Angels and demons, the real crappy movie.
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6-09-2009 @ 9:45AM
Nate said...
If Bryan Singer returns to X-men, like he was hinting the other day, then I'm all up for that.
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6-09-2009 @ 9:58AM
Batzarro said...
Capt. America for some reason. I just expect it to be all "kinetic" but also gritty and maybe a little bloody.
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6-09-2009 @ 2:12PM
gotde said...
Runaways!!! Anyone? No, just me?
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6-09-2009 @ 3:08PM
Chet said...
Runaways seems like movie gold just waiting to be discovered.
6-09-2009 @ 3:51PM
andrew chan said...
i agree with gotde...runaways!!! and to add to that suggestion, marvel and pixar should work together on a runaways film.
for the poll, i'm torn between thor and cap since they're two of my fave characters.
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6-11-2009 @ 5:20AM
Jana said...
I'm looking forward for Thor. It looks like this.
http://vimeo.com/5074553?pg=transcoded_embed&sec=5074553
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6-10-2009 @ 3:01PM
Tom L said...
I would much rather see another hulk movie. Ed Norton got it right in the last one. A continuation with him would be good.
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6-13-2009 @ 12:09AM
shamon said...
The Avengers i want to see everyone together and the hulk again .
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7-18-2009 @ 11:56PM
dennis said...
Henry Pym aka Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath is one of the great original Marvel super-heroes. Anybody who started reading Marvel during the golden-age, knows there is only one real "hight-pockets", and it's Pym, the smartest guy in the Marvel Universe (much as I love Iron Man, Hank can run circles around Tony Stark, and he's several orders of cool ahead of Reed Richards. Bruce Banner? Hello! He's big and green because of a mistake.) He's smart, he looks great (I'm gay), and he's one of the most complicated characters Marvel ever introduced. The Wasp is also great, but please, please, please no Eva Longheria, who may just possibly be the only actress out there who could, by comparison, make Jessica Alba look talented. I don't want "Ant-Man" , or "Giant-Man"
(I'd prefer the latter, or, better yet, a mixture of both) to end up looking and sounding like one of those God-awful "Fantastic Four" movies (you could use them as a blue-print for what to avoid.) Alba owes her entire career to two attributes, both of which must remained covered in a PG film. Longheria is an thespian still employing a style that was thought to have gone out of fashion when film actors began the vulgar practice of speaking. Ideally, her performances should be accompanied by title cards and an organ solo.
Marvel and Wright need to find an actor with some real chops to pull-off the part of Henry Pym, and someone in Gwynyth Paltrow's league for Janet. Look at the success of the Spider-Man movies and of "Iron Man". Great casting. The Fantastic Four films look so cheesy, I can't get through a viewing without a good Cabernet and some crackers. Of course, I'm aware of a certain amount of hypocrisy on my part, since I watch them primarily for the socially-redeeming
spectacle of Chris Evans running around naked from the waist up. Wisely, the producers have arranged for various screen business requiring Evans to take his shirt off following a time-table closely resembling that of an exotic dancer in aTombstone clip-joint in July. Big, blond, buff, and brilliant, Henry Pym and Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath deserve(s) the kind of screen treatment the other major Marvel super-heroes get. Somebody tell Wright to pinch it off, and get his ass in gear. Why Wright, anyway? Does he imagine he's slumming?, His ciriculum vitae is somewhat less than imposing. Edgar, if you don't want to do it, get out of the way, and let some hungry young American director take a whack at it. You ain't Spielberg. Now, there's a thought.
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9-01-2009 @ 5:33PM
bruno2000 said...
Branagh ruined the tale of Frankenstein's monster, and he had Robert Deniro in the role! So with a nobody playing Thor, Branagh at the helm, and the likelihood of everyone speaking in Norse-style language throughout the film, I am not too optimistic about that one.
How about Black Panther?
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