But would be freaking awesome to do. I believe there's 20 minute breaks between movies.

I love a good superhero movie but I don't think an IV of Adderall could get me through, what? 15 odd hours of movies?

Yeah it is daunting. I think I would skip out on the Hulk movie and go do lunch or something like that.

And I know of at least two bona fide superheroes on this site. :-)

Oh, and another one with superpowers, but I'm not sure if he's on the side of good and right and truth --nothing really evil though.

I've been thinking about it.

Really? I actually preferred the Hulk to Iron Man, I think I'm in the minority with that but I just really like the Hulk and got bored of watching glorified wardrobe changes. Well, I actually really liked Iron Man but just not as much.

I think it starts with Iron man so the timing is better. I liked Iron Man 2 more then Hulk and the rest much more then either of those 2.

I liked Incredible Hulk quite a bit.

Hm, Thor is probably my favorite so far, although I haven't actually seen Captain America.

Out of all the Avengers Thor is probably my favorite. I enjoy Thor speak and the Hawk Eye cameo in it. I adored Captain America, but because they did a really good job making it seem like something from the 1940's. I cannot wait to see the Avenger's.

I'm pretty thrilled too.

I wanted to see Cap, but it just never quite worked out.

I've seen them all but Hulk. I think this marathon would be a bit much for me, and I'm a big Marvel fan. Now a Season One marathon of large-screen Game of Thrones to celebrate the Season Two premiere on Sunday, I'd do that in a heartbeat.

I figure if we can do the Marvel Marathon then we could do the extended edition LotRs marathon this summer.

THM How did you feel about the X-Men first class movie? I was disappointed in how far off it was from the comic book, but I do tend to be a purest.

I liked it for what it was. I found it entertaining, and don't necessarily have a problem with a movie deviating from the comic book True Story (although I do seem to have that purist problem with movies made from novels, hmm). Maybe it is because comic books, and in particular Marvel, have conditioned me to think of alternate universes where they can tweak details and rewrite reality here and there. Just pretend the Scarlet Witch hexed "reality" into this version.

That said, it seems like with the success of First Class Marvel will want to make more movies and they are going to have to go even further afield to introduce new characters with relationships that didn't exist in the comic books.

I assume Marvel felt they could not do a true-to-book version of 1960s original X-Men because it would not play well. The power level of superheroes has amped up considerably since the first run, and the original five have pretty wimpy powers compared to what's available in movies today. Similarly, the original plot line clashes with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants where nobody gets hurt probably would not play well to today's cynical audiences. Even back then, I always wondered why a zealous Magneto didn't just make the metal in Cyclops' visor spike into his brain.

Even if they couldn't use the original characters (I believe it was because they were used in the previous X-Men movies) X-Men had the New Mutants to use. With even better character powers imho.

You're probably right about the whole Brotherhood of Mutants problem. Seeing the Sentinels would of been interesting though, but then again I grew up on the X-Men cartoon and have a soft spot for that storyline.

I know the new Spider-Man movie comes out in July. It looks to be pretty accurate to the comic book. My fear is that people will compare it to the recent movies and be disappointed in the differences. Then it will bomb and no more Spidey movies. He's by far one of my favorite Marvel characters.

I'm a huge X-Men in particular fan, and I loved First Class. When you consider that there's well over 1,000 issues of X-Men comics to draw from, and then the previous movies, TV shows, et cetera et cetera, you're not going to make a movie that will please what everyone's idea of canon is. So the best idea is to toss together one that works for you.

I think it captured a lot of the spirit of the 1960's X-Men, of which I have about a dozen or so original issues. Maybe it didn't have the characters, but Havok and Banshee did both debut during that run, so there's at least that. And to me, the spirit is the important part.

I'm envious over the original issues. I make do with reading the Marvel digital comics collection. If it helps my husband loved it too and he's a huge marvel fan. I'm just a stickler. Same reasons I liked the LotR movies but didn't love them.

http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b261/Havok3595/?action=view&current=OMGGlare.jpg

*drools* So epically awesome. That's just taunting me now.

It's a bit of a trick photo. That first appearance of Juggernaut is heavily damaged, so it's intentionally being held so it angles behind 94.

But the 94 and 101 are in really good shape. The glare isn't part of the trickiness of the photo.

Ah. Have you read any of the more recent issues. Like the X-Men versus Avengers or Civil War?

I'm excited about the new Spider-Man movie too. Maybe even more so than Avengers, although it's hard to compete with all the hype that has building up from each of the individual origin movies.

As I understand it, Marvel can use the prior characters notwithstanding the earlier movies. After all, First class featured Prof X, Magneto, Mystique, Beast, etc. I think it was a conscious creative choice to mix it up so they didn't look to be rehashing the same ground, much like the Spidey reboot has the Lizard and Gwen Stacey instead of Green Goblin and MJ.

Sentinels would be awesome.

I started reading X-Men sometime in the early 80s. I still have original comics for something like issues 100-300 solid, and about a third of the 1-100 issues, plus all related annuals, special issues, mini-series. I used to buy every cross-over appearance and every X-title, but then it just got out of control sometime in the 1990s so I stopped. Hopefully they're still in decent condition in those mylar bags in long box storage.

IIRC, Banshee debuted in the issues leading up to #100, when they introduced a stereotypic ethnic character from various European countries who always went around saying things like "Mein Gott!" (Nightcrawler) or "Lenin's ghost!" (Colossus) so you didn't forget which country they came from. The original X-Men had been captured by the mutant island (K-something) so Prof X recruited a new group to go save them, leading to too many X-Men and the departure of most of the original X-Men (who went on to join the Defenders). Except Thunderbird, the token Native American who died almost immediately like Ensign Ricky.

I don't remember when Havok debuted. I never liked the Starjammers.

I tend to read the more recent stuff when it comes out as a compilation. I like House of M, Marvel 1602.

I do like House of M, it's what got me back into Marvel in the last few years. I was thinking of more of these new mutants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mutants.

I'd love to see Banshee's daughter in a new movie. I don't mind that they used different characters but some of them made no sense. Really Angel Savatore? They were looking for ethnic diversity more then anything else.

Havok debuted in Uncanny X-men #54. I like him better then Cyclops. I actually really dislike Cyclops and Jean Grey. They're a little to perfect in character.

If you like alternate universe stuff try the 5 Ronin some neat stuff or the japanese fairy tales series.

Nope, Havok and Banshee both debuted in the original 60's run, THM. Banshee as part of Factor Three, Havok as being the "other part" of the Living Monolith/Living Pharoah in Neal Adams' awesome run.

I liked Civil War, but that's about the last comics I read.

The return of Captain America was really good if you get a chance. I'm not a huge Cap fan but after the Civil War I gave him another chance and the story was written beautifully.

Yeah, I've heard good stuff about that, just haven't had a lot of money to throw around on comics.

Wolverine. Nuff said!

And I mean the character, not the movie which was fun, but not up to X-Men standards.