The Big Picture: Future Assembly

[sumanoskae]

Interesting, I'd definitely be interested in this idea. Play your cards right and you could create entire worlds over the course of several movies.

P.S: I thought that Ark idea was pretty clever.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Can't wait to see batman and this movie

 

[Evil Smurf]

30+ seconds unskippable add is starting to get on my nerves... don't say join the publishers club and dont say me telling you to don't say it makes you say it.

OT: Interesting idea about continuity in movies but then we'll get to se the same old actors more frequently because you know they are going to get the roles not newcomers.

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[OZITOMAI]

its funny cause i can go and watch the movie today lol, australia is a good place

 

[Hyperactiveman]

And of course living in rural Australia I have to wait even longer to see it...

... Fuck.

 

[NaramSuen]

I do find the concept of inter-film continuity intriguing, however, I have zero interest in watching a 10 commandments movie Indian Jones ark or no.

 

[Panayjon]

I guess it isn't common knowledge enough, but Tarantino has had a shared continuity in every film he's written. There's the obvious example of the Vega brothers, but also more obscure ones like the fact that Eli Roth's character in Basterds (Donowitz) is supposed to be the ancestor to the film producer in True Romance. Also in Out of Sight, Michael Keaton played the same character that he played in Jackie Brown, but that was since they were from same series of books.

Weird how I didn't realize that considering I saw Deathproof the other day and they mentioned "Big Kahuna Burger." Don't forget Kevin Smith and "Moobie."

Yeah, I was surprised Bob didn't mention Kevin Smith, although I guess his continuous Jersey-verse stems from comic book inspiration anyways.

 

[w00tage]

Bob, adjust your speaker volume please? Apparently you didn't hear half the Internet (including me) shouting H3LL YEAH when you made the Ark continuity suggestion.

But I think there's an IP problem with crossovers. Oh wait, it's not IP that's the problem, it's the IP LAWYERS that are the problem. Sorry for the mixup.

 

[Metalrocks]

lol, i live in hong kong and the avengers will be in cinemas tomorrow. and from the looks of it, there are many shows on that day. http://www.mclcinema.com/visMovieSelect.aspx?visSearchBy=cin&visCinID=002&visLang=2

to the indiana jones part, yeah, why not. sounds alright. lol.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

Bob, that was a really, really stupid idea, and it feels like I should be criticizing you for talking about idiotic and dumb a premise would be to tie Indiana Jones to the actual Bible.

... So why is it that I still keeping thinking that such an idea would be absolutely brilliant?

In all honesty, movie continuity opens up a path for possibly better movie plots as movies are tied to one another and a 'universe' is built with some kind of domestic terrorist force that many protagonists from different parts of the American (because apparently foreign action heroes don't sell well in summer blockbusters) world fighting against and maybe come together in some sort of big, 'Avenger-esque' crossover, forcing the writers to actually pay some damn attention to what they're writing. At the same time, though, shameless plugging ahoy. We can only see whether or not the Avengers will cause this, though.

 

[Rocketboy13]

Actually, when you consider spin-offs in television the idea of a shared universe is not that far fetched. There is a Cracked article that talks about it more, like how "The Wire" and "The X-Files" take place in the same universe along with "Homicide Life on the Street" and the "Law and Order Franchise".

There was also that time "Boston Public" and "The Practice" crossed over, even though they were on separate networks at the time. Or how TGIF would have cross overs of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", "Boy Meets World", and the dozen or so shitty gimmick shows that revolved through their line up over the years.

Dwayne MacDuffie, god rest his soul, is also frequently credited with the "St. Elsewhere" idea of shared continuity, in that all television shows take place in the mind of one autistic child looking at a snow globe.

Here is the Cracked thing: http://www.cracked.com/article_19323_6-movie-tv-universes-that-overlap-in-mind-blowing-ways.html

 

[irequirefood]

Soooo, I've already seen The Avengers because it came out in Australia last night...

As long as the film industry doesn't abuse having a decent shared continuity for films like Bob said, I think this would be pretty neat.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I think the arc thing would be an amazing easter egg at best.

But, I do hope the Avengers works. It could bring some new things to movies.

Bob, you could have used more examples when talking about superhero movie history. I don't normally have this problem and I feel like you're normally good with examples, but I kind of got lost around the middle.

 

[DalekJaas]

Sucks for you BoB, I am seeing the Avengers in exactly 50 mins from now (Australia FTW)

 

[Medimorpho]

The part where Bob is all like having that Spielberg movie end with the same Ark as from Indiana Jones, that would be FUCKING AWESOME! Just Saiyan.

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Live in Australia, saw the movie last night at the midnight session. ;P And oh god yes.

 

[pretzil]

When did bob make that video, is it possible that Yahtzee (Aus) would get to see it before him?

If so... LOL

 

[Monsterfurby]

I hate to be le European snob, but I think MovieBob is overrating the significance of comic books.

 

[vxicepickxv]

I'm about to date myself here, but what about Friends, and then Joey?

Yeah, it's not a movie, but the same concept is there, except in reverse.

 

[Pegghead]

As someone who literally just got in the door from seeing The Avengers (it was released in Australia early, but this post will be spoiler-free) I can say that Marvel really do deserve a pat on the back for pulling all this off so beautifully, and it's something I'd love to see in other films.