Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron.

It that supposed to be today, now?

Yep.
Nothing happened?
Shit.
Maybe it was the trailer?

If so, that was kind of an anti-climax.

Anyhoo, it looks from the trailer that Tony's PTSD from Avengers 1, and Iron Man 3, and his guilt over Ultron are ultimately what will make him pro-registration in Civil War.

Yep.

And my earlier supposition about Quicksilver seems supported because

Or, maybe....

In the comics, Ultron built the Vision and sent him after the Avengers. He eventually defected and became an Avenger, in a very tender moment.

And later on, the Vision would go crazy and build Ultron VI.

New TV spot hits today.

The No Strings on Me ad was the best and most effective, but that one is very fun. Can't believe its so close!

I alway wonder where the supervillains get the money and materiel to build all that stuff.

Porn popups.

I wonder the same thing about Peter Griffin.

What about Stewie?! Where does a 1-year-old get the cash and material to build a time machine in his room?!

Youtube revenue from his Bryan Adams videos.

Okay, so now that big announcement that didn't happen two damned months ago is supposed to be on Good Morning America tomorrow.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...fers-clue-for-tomorrows-avengers-announcement

My best case scenario? Natalie Dormer or Alexandra Dadarrio has been tapped (heh heh, "tapped") to be Captain Marvel. Pro'ly not.

Since it's RDJ playing this up, I think it has to involve him somehow. If it were just generic Avengers hype, the others would be involved.

Out-of-left-field guess? They're going to have a "second track" of Avengers movies, and Downey will be headlining the new group. We'll get a new Avengers movie every year going forward a la Star Wars.

Did they not have a series of comic books in the 80s/90s called East Coast Avengers and West Coast Avengers? That would enable them to double the number of films, without screwing too hard with the comics.

Yep.

Although if they did that, questions like "Why doesn't Iron Man help Captain America against Hydra in Winter Soldier? will become "Why didn't the other Avengers show up when this Avengers is trying to save the world?"

There are ways around that, which aren't too complicated. If they set the films concurrent with one another, then its not an issue.

There was a rumor way back that there would be this second track of lower budget films with secondary characters, but it fell by the wayside.
But, Black Panther and Inhumans got poo-poo'ed as rumors, and fell silent until they were announced, so....

It was just this.



Seems to be elaborate publicity for Ultron.

Jimmy Kimmel is sitting pretty.
With the Disney connection, he'll be getting all the Marvel and Star Wars goodies.

Oh. Big whoop.

Per Joss, no after credits scene this time. Feels like the end of something in that way - certainly Wheedon as the architect of the MCU.

Awww. Getting rid of the post-credit stinger is like getting rid of looking-down-a-gun-barrel-at-007 in the Bond movies.

It could be a trick.
I'm going to stay in the theater until the usher comes in with the trash can and broom anyway.

Good. Because if a movie is 2 hours, close to 30 minutes of that is the goddamned credits, and they seem to stick the bonus scenes at about the 28 minute mark of the credits. Fuck you. The theater said the movie started at 8 PM, I get there at 7:45 or so, in order to get a decent seat, then, at 8 PM, I get what seems like 20 minutes of commercials for Coke, a montage telling me how awesome the theater chain which just charged me $100 for a ticket, $500 for popcorn, and $1,000 for a Coke is, previews for some shitty movie, previews for another shitty movie, previews for a movie that I might be interested in, but I'll never be able to remember because I'm in the theater for four fucking hours, previews for a movie that I want to see, previews for some shitty movie, another Coke ad, an ad for some TV show I either don't care about or can't watch because I don't get that channel, previews for another shitty movie, but this one won't be released until next year, previews for a movie that I want to see, but also won't be released for another year, an ad from the MPAA telling me not to pirate their shit, another damned preview for some shitty movie, and then the movie actually fucking starts.

Slight corrections.

1. Ultron clocks in at two and A HALF hours.

2. The trailer in front of Ultron is going to be the longer trailer for "The Force Awakens".