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Best comics/movie news of all : Avengers greenlit. by critch	May 5th, 2008 07:48:24 AM
Marvel Entertainment released their first quarter report to its shareholders this morning to coincide with the announcement about the success this past weekend of Marvel Studios' first production Iron Man, which grossed an estimated $100.7 million domestically and over $200 million worldwide. The announcement included an update of Marvel Studios' feature film slate with the already-rumored Iron Man 2 announced for a release on April 30, 2010, followed by three more movies for the summers of '10 and '11. Matthew Vaughn's Thor is set for a release on June 4, 2010, and The First Avenger: Captain America (the working title) will kick off the summer of 2011 on May 6, followed by the highly-anticipated and foreshadowed The Avengers scheduled for July 2011. (Edgar Wright's Ant-Man is also listed as being in development with no release date set.) With that in mind, one can start expecting a lot more announcements in the coming months about creative teams and casting for those movies including who might direct the Captain America and Avengers movies. (Whomever plays Steve Rogers AKA Captain America presumably will be making two movies at once.) There will be a webcast for investors at 9AM Eastern at www.Marvel.com/webcasts where the same information should be relayed.
second by ingloriousjedi	May 5th, 2008 08:01:59 AM

Aaron Eckhart for Captain America by Laserhead	May 5th, 2008 08:30:28 AM
and the tournament still sucks. God Bless.
lady shiva vs karate kid. by doodah	May 5th, 2008 08:31:50 AM
i call bull. its a known fact, girls can beat boys in anything.
King pin vs the goon by kingben	May 5th, 2008 08:42:25 AM
the goon should kick his @ss for buying out!
Yeah i'm sure people will pay to see a Captain America movie by messi	May 5th, 2008 08:47:28 AM
cos people around the world love America. Cap is awesome but people will go on perception, worldwise the only way you're going to get people to watch a Captain America movie is if you introduce him in Avengers and show what a cool character he is. Only then will worldwide audiences go see Captain America. Fucking hell, just film at least the first half of Ultimates, it's there for you. And god don't hire Zak Penn.
Actually, Cap represents the America everybody loves by Laserhead	May 5th, 2008 08:51:57 AM
the liberators from WWII, the GIs who epitomized this cool new culture and stomped the axis powers. Anyway, I don't think anybody on these boards is qualified to ascertain who will go see what.
Laserhead by messi	May 5th, 2008 08:53:59 AM
but people don't know that. I know what Cap is, it doesn't matter if they make the awesome Cap from brubaker's run, people will see the title and the brits, the australians, the french. they aren't going to go to a theatre and say 'yeah i want to see captain america' because they hate 'yanks'. and american patriotism. i'm not sayin it wouldn't make any money, just that a smarter movie would be to introduce him in Avengers and then show what a cool non jingoitsic character he is.
captain by doodah	May 5th, 2008 09:11:53 AM
it would be better if they leave it in that wwii time period. more people see that version as opposed to updating it to an iraq-war captain. that would totaly bomb.
I think we need a great Captain AMerica movie by blindambition238	May 5th, 2008 09:12:21 AM
Can you imagine what a truly great Cap story could do for people in and out the US? But yea, its a tall order, and will probably be Marvel Studio's biggest challenge.
Thanks, Mr. Strieber by Shigeru	May 5th, 2008 10:33:25 AM
I read Communion when I was 10 and saw the movie soon afterwards and um they both FREAKED THE EVERLOVING SHIT OUT OF ME.
Whitley Strieber = Ultimate Con Man by fiester	May 5th, 2008 12:54:22 PM
Single handed revived a dying writing career of limp horror fiction with claims of alien abduction. Can't say the guy doesn't know how to seize an opportunity and milk it for all it's worth.
well he has conjured up fucked up images by messi	May 5th, 2008 01:42:07 PM
even if he lied he still would of come up with it, fucked up images, shit that used to scare me as a kid. alien in a corner etc.
How do you KNOW he's lying? You DON'T... by Psynapse	May 5th, 2008 03:45:23 PM
But hey, way to show how narrow minded you are.
Whitley Strieber is cool by The Amazing G	May 5th, 2008 03:52:30 PM
not sure if I believe in Aliens or not, but Whitley Strieber is still cool
To Psynapse by human2	May 5th, 2008 11:44:33 PM
How do I know he's lying? He makes impossible claims, that's how I know he's lying. No evidence whatsoever, coupled with economic advantages for the one perpetuating the lie. Same reason I dismiss the claims of theists, astrologers, and other mumbo jumbo.
Ah. by Shigeru	May 6th, 2008 07:42:42 AM
Well that's a shame. Have fun with your life.
Nice to see the Flat Earth Society is still kickin'.... by Psynapse	May 6th, 2008 08:40:13 AM
'Cuz, Y'know, assumptive declarations based on incomplete information is SO the rage these days.
Hey Shenjanno by Shigeru	May 6th, 2008 10:01:35 AM
go screw.
It's cool Shig... by Psynapse	May 6th, 2008 12:40:17 PM
It's a sign of success when you get your own "Internet Troll Stalker". Just wish mine wasn't so pathetic and predictable. 'Cuz hey, continuing to attack someone over a mistake they admitted makes you so fucking cool don't you know?
And yet, you refuse to simply leave me be by Psynapse	May 6th, 2008 01:19:18 PM
Or am I hallucinating all the posts with my nick in them? looks again Nope, didn't think so. It's okay though.....wait, this is WAY too many keystrokes devoted to someone clearly not even worth the time it takes to type them. Screw this noise, I'm out....
^^^ Evidence that Psy's right. by Shigeru	May 6th, 2008 01:33:24 PM
GO SCREW. YOURSELF. YOUR MOM. WHO CARES. Just go away.
So, you're narrow-minded if you don't believe in the impossible? by Laserhead	May 6th, 2008 02:23:00 PM
Christ. A completely open mind is a completely empty mind.
Are you narrow-minded if... by Laserhead	May 6th, 2008 02:28:12 PM
...you don't believe that Jerry Falwell actually communicated with God Almighty? Are you narrow-minded if you refuse to believe that Jesus talks to George W. Bush? You see where this is going. Stories of alien abductions that make their author a boatload of money? Could be true. Right-wing evangelist hears the voice of God? No way. The answer is that none of the above is true, because it's all a complete crock designed to lend credibility to the statements of the liars. That said, if Striber's books are actually good entertainment, good for him. But it's not exactly narrow-minded to think their claims at being true are a load of bullshit.
Call it bullshit if you want... by Shigeru	May 6th, 2008 02:47:38 PM
that's fine. But Shenjanno didn't call it bullshit, he called Strieber a LIAR. Which is a lot different. And as Strieber said, from Communion on, he has been MOCKED and RIDICULED for his statements about what he himself admits are unexplained phenomena. And yeah sorry but if one OUTRIGHT and completely dismisses all religion/phenomena/things that aren't easily/scientifically explained then they are close minded. And insulting oh about 85% of the Earth's population. (who wants to call all of them liars?)
My apologies by Shigeru	May 6th, 2008 02:49:18 PM
for inflaming situation, btw.
and yeah Shenjanno didn't say that by Shigeru	May 6th, 2008 02:50:25 PM
I'm confused a bit! boom tubes out
Insulting 85% of the Earth's population by Laserhead	May 6th, 2008 02:59:29 PM
--isn't wrong, if by 'insult' you mean, 'say you believe they are willingly devoted to a lie because it is in some way beneficial to them to be devoted to that lie.' If you don't believe in even one of the major world religions, you are de facto saying you believe a substantial percentage of humanity is devoted to a lie. At what point does it become an insult? When the percentage gets high enough? "People will tell you it's awful/ to see facts eat our dreams, our presumptions,/ but they're wrong. It is an honor/ to learn to replace one hope with another."
btw by Laserhead	May 6th, 2008 03:00:59 PM
I don't feel the situation's inflamed. It's just that among the vocal proclamations of ideas and opinions, I feel like adding mine. It's all cool till the name-calling starts.
Lasermind.... by Psynapse	May 6th, 2008 03:37:45 PM
It was once thought that it was 'impossible' for humans to fly or communicate over a distance indirectly and yet here we are. Much of our every day lives was once thought impossible. What is often thought of as 'impossible' is in fact merely an improbability of the time. A person not believing Strieber's claims doesn't make him a liar and nothing he states IS actually 'impossible'. The world we live in is far, far stranger than the average person believes (For example: Time behaves MUCH differently in certain circumstances than the average person's perception of it and much how it behaves would seem 'impossible' to these same people). Speaking for myself, NOTHING is impossible merely on a sliding scale of improbability. Declaring a person's stated experience as 'impossible' simply because you don't believe it is the epitome of narrow-mindedness.
Crap...I meant laserhead.... by Psynapse	May 6th, 2008 03:54:27 PM
That's what happens when you post while on the phone with a customer. Stay in school kids!
Declaring something impossible by Laserhead	May 6th, 2008 04:07:25 PM
because it contradicts known facts is. Humans still can't fly or communicate over distances. We have devices that do that for us, which we use to fly and communicate over distance. I am not claiming that anything is impossible because I don't believe it; I'm claiming I don't believe something because it's impossible. Adherence to reality is not narrow-minded. Quite the opposite. I also don't believe in unicorns or leprechauns.
Psynapse, just to follow your philosophy to its logical end-- by Laserhead	May 6th, 2008 04:23:41 PM
you do think it's possible that God spoke to Jerry Falwell, and you do think it's possible that we're all infected with thetans created when galactic Lord Xenu destroyed the universe-- since nothing is impossible, and you must be open to anything. To be open to anything being possible requires a severe lack of value judgments, so severe as to be the definition of an empty mind.
Speaking of known facts... by rock-me Amodeo	May 6th, 2008 11:23:19 PM
If myriad people believed in existence of unicorns and leprechauns, and through belief in that power, were able to change their lives, or beat an addiction, or get healed...then that would be something remarkable. It doesn't happen, so there's no use in thinking there's anything to those beliefs. But if myriad people believed in the existence of God, or Jesus, or galactic Lord Xenu...and through that belief, were able to change their lives, or beat an addition, or get healed...then that would lend itself to acknowledging the existence of something that, while unknown, clearly is not impossible: the existence of more things in heaven and earth, Laserhead, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Thank You Rock-Me.... by Psynapse	May 7th, 2008 09:08:22 AM
My point exactly (and hey, unlike my detractor I didn't have to resort to insulting him to make said point, see the difference kids?).
LOL @ irony by Shigeru	May 7th, 2008 10:55:17 AM

Why are aliens "impossible"?? by Shigeru	May 7th, 2008 10:57:02 AM
I thought the odds of intelligent life outside our own are very probable??? Also, "willingly devoted to a lie because it is in some way beneficial to them to be devoted to that lie.' " Uhm you do know that Christians (and lots of other beliefs) were and are killed for their faith.
The difference between 'Knowing' and 'Believing'.... by Psynapse	May 7th, 2008 11:47:17 AM
I know I have two things called hands attached to the ends of these things called arms. Now are those hands an atomic construct of matter based on smaller constructs of atoms and particles or are they merely complex holograms whose interpretation is nothing more than a subspace electrical signal? We know that reality exists because we ARE here but definitions of WHAT this reality actually is is very much still up for debate if you've done any comprehensive reading in particle physics of the last 40 years. The only thing I KNOW is that I do exist. Everything else, is a mere belief supported by whatever evidence I have at hand on the subject.

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