The 2012 Blockbuster Season is basically shaping up to be DC Versus Marvel Goes To The Movies, what with "The Avengers" and "Dark Knight Rises" both hitting. That's especially fun when you realize that the two "competing" films aren't just split on the usual DC/Marvel lines, but also as representatives of two diametrically-opposed approaches to the art of comic-book adaptation - Christopher Nolan's stripped-down, self-contained, super-serious, gritty and 'realistic' Batman versus Joss Whedon's balls-out genre-mashup, drenched in the nerd-ephemera of shared-universe continuity and source-faithful literalism.
Who can say which one is adjudged the superior when they hit screens next summer, but right now you've gotta feel bad for Warner Bros... "Dark Knight Rises," in the realm of production-hype, is kinda-sorta looking like a plate of boiled asparagus next to "Avengers" big-ass bowl of Halloween candy. Case in point, right now TDKR's "buzz" is mostly occupied with fans DESPERATELY hoping that certain angles or arrangements of goggles will make Catwoman look kinda-sorta-maybe like Catwoman; while "Avengers" keeps popping out stuff like THIS...
Preeeeetttttyyyyyy...
Incidentally, you can tell this is "legit," (as opposed to a high-grade fan-mashup) because Iron Man is wearing his "Avengers Costume" - Note the silver elements included with the red and gold, and the Mark-I style circular chest-light. The triangle one was housing the "new element" we learn Howard Stark was "hiding" in that map in Part 2. Are we going to find out WHO he was hiding it from in "Avengers?" According to "Captain America," Stark had the Cosmic Cube before S.H.I.E.L.D. did, and according to "Thor" Loki knows what it is... was the "new element" something he was hiding from Loki or some other figure connected to The Cube? More importantly... how cool is it that these are legitimate, logical questions to be asked about an actual upcoming movie??
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