Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

Everyone who bought the Avengers on DVD, will buy Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on DVD.

If they sell out in the first day, and then have to print another 4 million units to match demand, I do believe that Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. can get a zero from the Nielsons and continue being made fearlessly.

 

DVD/Blu-ray sales may be good enough to help the show, but they won't come anywhere close to those of The Avengers.

 

When I played Doom II, I loved to go around with all my gear and full ammo, too. All seven or eight of my weapons slung on my back in some sort of bag of holding. It was a blast. Whatever weapon I wanted was always just a keystroke away, and no penalty for carrying all that load either.

OK, I'll try it this way then. If it makes you happy to assume that Ward had a night-night pistol stashed on his body somewhere, so be it. He's a tough guy, used to carrying lots of gear, so he was carrying one of those, too. Thing is, a situation never came up when it was the right weapon to use, when he was sure he could get off a good shot with it without getting killed. Better?

 

Here's a nice handy infographic for reference:

http://comicsalliance.com/marvel-character-film-rights-infographic/

 

Looking at that, I remembered that Namor is also a mutant and a member of the X-Men.

 

Did those two security guards they murdered have families who loved them?

 

What's the picture on the right? Is that a version of Ronan the Accuser?

 

The licence system is this... As long as you're still using it, it's yours. If you go X amount of time without using it, it reverts to the original owners.

Companies will put out a shitty movie, direct to video, whatever, to keep the rights, because, one, they may have plans for down the road, or two, they might be able to resell the rights (or partial rights, or limited rights, or short term rights.) for a packet to someone who thinks they can do something with those rights.

 

True, but the length of time and the exact terms vary widely depending on the contract signed. Some of the film rights contracts Marvel signed when they were in dire economic condition were lousy from their point of view. Universal has had the rights to Namor for years and years without making any use of them, yet the rights haven't reverted. That contract must be very favorable to Universal.

 

Hell, Warren Beatty is still holding onto the rights to Dick Tracy because he says he might do a sequel someday . . ..

 

^^^
He won a lawsuit to keep the rights, too. From Deadline at the time:

 

One of the Austin Powers' movies had a deleted scene where friends of a guard who was killed (run over by a steam roller) learn that he won't be coming to his party.

 

Not a deleted scene, unless America got a less fantastic version than the real world.

 

The value of someone's life isn't a function of whether they have a family. Murder is a legal term, and it's an open question whether they were murdered.

 

I was pretty sure that's how Oliver felt in Arrow during season one when he would kill 30 henchmen to get close enough to put a good scare into the dirtbag villain who failed his city.

Killing billionaires is more immoral than killing henchmen.

 

In America the theatrical release didn't have those scenes but the DVD has the steamroller scene. I believe however that there is another such scene in deleted scenes and/or Euro version.

EDIT: Actually this details a lot of differences.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/alternateversions

EDIT: As does this:
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=531109
Interestingly, looks like the US is 1.85 ratio and international has 2.35 widescreen. Not sure if that's true of later/blu-ray releases or not.