“did chris evans actually jump that high to grab onto that helicopter in civil war?”
friendly reminder that chris vaulted with ease over chris pratt after just telling him less than a minute before that he would be able to clear him if he only put his head down.
I want a Celebrity Obstacle Course show where all the pretty people can show off their hard stunt work for us and also occasionally eat it, because they need to be humbled sometimes. The judges would be career stunt people, to give them visibility, because they work even harder. Shirts optional.
You wouldn’t even finish the phrase “Celebrity Ninja Warrior” before Chris would start jumping up and doing yelling “Me! Me! Pick me!”
Anyone know how to contact Netflix about this?
friendly reminder Chris did most of his stunts bc the stunt guys couldn’t move like him.
“One thing we found, too, is Chris can run very fast. He also has a very unique run. It’s almost a dancer’s run. And when we tried to double him for running, there was nobody who could run like him. They just didn’t have the same dynamics or the way he moves. He had to end up doing most of his running.”
“What we also found, is that we had gymnasts come in to do things, and Chris could do the same stuff that they could do, but it would look like Chris Evans. When the body doubles or the gymnasts or the runners did it, it just didn’t look like him. He has such a unique way of moving, and he could pretty much do all of his own physical stuff that wasn’t dangerous. Like this shot right here, we had a gymnast do this, and Chris actually ended up doing it better. That’s Chris here. He hops up on a tank and over a 12-foot wall. It looks effortless but it’s not that easy!”
“Chris worked his butt off for four months doing gymnastics and stunt training so in a scene like this he could go toe-to-toe with Georges St-Pierre and make it look really credible. Once the helmet comes off, 95% of that is Chris, except obviously for that massive aerial kick that he does.I think he did a fantastic job.”
The really cool thing about Chris Evans is that he’s a super talented, athletic guy. He retains things amazingly well. I mean, I’m blown away. I can show him a 15-punch fight two times, and he’s got it. – Thomas Harper, Stunt Coordinator, CATWS
Misunderstood villain Loki won the Marvel Cinematic Universe bracket challenge as the most popular MCU character, beating out Winter Solider with 73.76 percent of the vote,
The bracket pitted 32 of Marvel’s best and most important characters against each other in a franchise match-up similar to what we’ll see in Infinity War. We ranked them based on relevance to the MCU, general popularity and overall dopeness. While there were plenty of upsets (none of our No. 1 seeds made it to the final) none was more surprising than Dr. Strange beating out Black Panther. That will never make sense. One thing that was clear early on in the voting was that Loki consistently demolished all his opponents. He defeated Scarlet Witch, Thor, Captain America, Rocket and finally Winter Solider to capture the crown. Aside from Rocket, that’s not an easy draw.
Designed by Greg Hester
Through the 10 years of MCU films, Loki has evolved from a temperamental trickster to someone working towards redemption, which has endeared him to fans. He was the principal antagonist for Thor in the first two films of that franchise, but the first Avengers movie turned him into a proper villain, which a large swath of fandom rebelled against. The latest Thor: Ragnarok not only successfully rebooted that franchise, but it retconned a lot of Loki’s character as well, making him more a misunderstood antagonist than a narcissistic psychopath. It remains to seen where Infinity War takes the character, but Loki offering up the tesseract doesn’t look good.
Thanks to everyone who voted in this poll, and let’s hope Infinity War doesn’t kill him off.
No, “Ragnarok” made him into more of a capricious but incompetent narcissist than a complex, misunderstood character. But the result is correct.
Avengers: Infinity War is going to bring together Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Guardians of the Galaxy to do battle with Thanos and that alone is reason enough to be excited about Marvel Studios’ next movie. During a recent chat with Empire Magazine, Chris Pratt was asked about working alongside Robert Downey Jr. and shared some very interesting insight into how the actor conducts himself.
While you might think Downey keeps himself to himself and stays in his massive trailer between takes, it turns out that he’s willing to do anything and everything to help his fellow actors and went Pratt was in need, the Iron Man star was quick to give him a helping hand on the set of Avengers: Infinity War.
“Man, he set a really amazing tone. He’s a bit like Tony Stark himself. I think a lot of what makes Tony Stark are the same qualities that make Downey great. I think Downey is about as rich as Tony Stark now. [Laughs] He really takes care of the actors around him in a way I’ve never seen before. I was a little under the weather and pushing really hard on the days I was working. He came up to me and said, ‘You doing alright?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’ve got a little sore throat.’ Within ten minutes there was a person here giving me all these herbs and taking care of me. He offered me the use of his trailer where I could sit down and use some of his hi-tech healing gadgets. It was amazing. I’m living my best life.”
Pratt went on to reveal that he actually heard from Downey when he was first cast as Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy and it’s something which has had a significant impact on him moving forward.
“When I first arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Downey was the first to call and tell me, ‘Hey man, welcome. If there’s anything you need, I will help. There are so few people on the planet who are going through what you’re going through right now. I have, so I’m here. I’ll always answer the phone.’ I feel completely empowered to pay it forward with Tom or Chadwick. I’m not saying that I’m senior to them, other than I got that experience of opening a movie with Marvel and being along for the ride. Now I just really feel compelled to offer them, even if it’s a fraction of what Downey was able to offer me, and just say, ‘Anything you need, you let me know.’"
Imagine saying a character “know[ing] they’re right and doesn’t want to hear it when you tell them they’re wrong” was a good thing. That this wasn’t one of Steve Rogers, Captain America’s greatest flaws.
Imagine believing that this is a character trait that CAROL DANVERS would be proud to have. Imagine never having picked up a comic book in your life, and saying that Carol Danvers isn’t one of these “flawed, fucked up people”.
Imagine if Marcus & McFeely actually gave a f*ck about Carol and didn’t get her character so wrong.
No. Thank fuck they’re not writing Captain Marvel.
Wait, so… they didn’t think that was a flaw in Steve Rogers? They wrote Civil War thinking that Steve was the sympathetic one and Tony “contorted ego” [???] Stark was the villain? Because boy, did that go wrong. I came out of that movie thinking that Steve was a complete asshole and Tony was the one being (relatively) reasonable.
…kind of like what happened when Waititi, Pearson, and Hemsworth tried to make Thor the “best” character in his own movie, eh, @fuckyeahrichardiii?
But when it comes to the ultimate Marvel villain, come
on, it’s Loki. Not a single MCU villain to date comes close to touching
the pathos of Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, who basically stole Thor even before he was revealed to be an antagonistic force. We care
about Loki, even when he’s doing awful things, and his story is
ultimately one of tragedy. That’s what makes him compelling, and that’s
what no other Marvel movie has been able to replicate. Granted, Loki got
to build his pathos as a friendly face first before being outed as a
baddie, but even in The Avengers there’s a
dynamism to the performance and the role that makes it utterly
watchable. Here’s hoping Loki sticks around for a very, very long time.
I largely agree with the ordering and analysis – especially #1 and 2 – but I would have put Thanos higher on the grounds of his background presence in The Avengers and the utter creepiness of his role as Gamora and Nebula’s “father” in the GOTG movies. I also would have put Red Skull lower, because I found him kind of a boring, predictable cartoon “I vant to take over ze vorld” villain in much the same way as Malekith and Hela. (Yeah, I know, the Nazis really were like that… except that Red Skull isn’t really a Nazi, and doesn’t care about the race stuff, so his motivation is just sort of confusing. Just like Hydra’s motivations in general, as the discussion of Alexander Pierce notes.)
I definitely would have put Ultron higher than Red Skull, precisely for the reasons the writer describes:
Writer/director Joss Whedon is asking big, difficult, and dark questions with this film concerning parentage and basic humanism, and James Spader’s evil robot Ultron is something of a mouthpiece for these ideas and concerns. Ultron is essentially Tony’s legacy in humanoid form, and this is a story of a son denying his father and carving out a legacy of his own. While the visual design of the character is a bit underwhelming, his motivations and Shakespearean-like dialogue are delectable, and Spader makes a meal of it. That final scene between Ultron and Vision, discussing the value of humanity itself, is something that could only come from the mind of Whedon in the context of a massive blockbuster sequel, and Ultron makes for one of the MCU’s very best baddies.
This writer – free of Tumblr’s self-righteous, aesthetically indiscriminate animus against Joss Whedon (and probably a white dude, which of course automatically discredits him, except in certain circles when he ranks Loki #1…) – recognizes what still makes Whedon an interesting writer: the philosophical issues he’s willing to take on even in an action movie. Maybe it wasn’t very effective if audiences didn’t really get what was going on: the question whether humanity, considering all its horrors, deserves to exist; whether logically infallible computerized intelligence would do better morally; whether it’s immoral to destroy a form of life whose existence is, on balance, a bad thing; whether and how AI, as a human creation, counts as a successor to or even a descendant of humanity… Black Panther makes its moral/philosophical issues pretty obvious and accessible; and perhaps people on Tumblr will say that the issues Age of Ultron raises, abstract as they are, are ones that only white men could care about (in the way that so-called Effective Altruists in Silicon Valley have decided, absurdly, that the most urgent moral problem is preventing the AI revolution because, even though it’s having no effects now, if/when it does come the consequences will be so cataclysmic). Admittedly, I am white (in most contexts), and as a reasonably successful analytic philosopher I might count as an honorary man, so perhaps it’s no counterargument that I find it interesting and still like Joss Whedon’s writing.
Tony Stark meeting Shuri for the first time goes a little like this in my mind??
Shuri not terrified, Shuri is brave and stubborn and knows she’s smarter than Tony. But she also knows that up until now Tony’s been under the impression that he’s the smartest and he’s the best. So she’s worried, not of him turning out to be smarter, but of him being insulted by her genius.
And they meet and Shuri show’s him her work and he stay’s ridiculously quiet through most of the ordeal, only asking questions here and there. Watching her work with the sand tables as she explains each item in her lab and Tony watches closely.
And then, she stops, cause she’s shown him everything and told him what everything is and she just looks at him and waits for the ‘this is child’s play’ comment and to have to defend herself against a man who doesn’t know shit.
And slowly Tony lifts up his sunglasses and his eyes are fucking shining and his grin is huge and he looks at her like she’s the best thing to touch planet earth and he just mutters, “I’ve never had to say this, but explain that again, and slower.”
Shuri shouting out the floor is lava and recording the confusion among the avengers wondering why tchalla king of Wakanda hopped up on a counter cause goddammit his little sister pulls this shit all the time and peter is stuck on the wall because he’s also a child of the internet and understands the meme life and now his fate is sealed there will never not be a time Shuri isn’t camera ready and yelling out the floor is lava to see the wackiest places she could get peter to stick on
T’Challa ignored her once so she developed synthetic deployable lava and the next time she yelled the floor is lava it actually was. T’Challa lives in fear now because he knows if he doesn’t pretend the floor is dangerous, it will be.
Once she got peter to stick onto T’Challa.
Her everything background is a picture of T’Challa desperately clinging to a Peter who’s stuck to the ceiling
Loki is the Philosopher King 