indyclone25
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just got back from the seeing the Avengers, wow, great film! i don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen , but call me a comic book nerd , but i teared up a bit in one scene. great movie , Bring on Thanos!!!!!
the 3-d wasn't to bad , better than some of the last films i have seen , nothing real pops out at you , but the character in front looks closer and the character in the background looks farther , so it works .featofstrength said:looking at going to see it tomorrow...but im looking at the showtimes...
3x as many showtimes for 3D?!
F*ck 3D
yeah, wouldn't it be nice if sony gets brought into the marvel universe and nick fury comes to visit spidey at the end of the "amazing spiderman?"featofstrength said:saw the Avengers yesterday...it was pretty fun, at least in the action and getting caught up in seeing childhood faves duke it out.
it was a bit long, a few wiggle spots in the helicarrier scenes early on. Sorry, ScarJo/Hawkeye(didnt know Daniel Craig had an equally haggard looking brother?) scenes meant nothing to me...anytime the big heroes were offscreen i got a lil bored.
Loki tricked by ScarJo's "acting?" uh huh...
not sure i buy Coulson being the push that gets the team in the action... i mean, i get that the audience has come connection to him because he was in the other movies, but the heroes statedly didnt know him very well. they might as well have killed off and got sappy over Galaga guy.
Harry Dean Stanton...cool! Hey, and a Growing Pains kid! Powers Booth! Soundgarden!
like stated by many before, not sure i buy Hulk's control from one scene to the next...yaknow, from beating on the heroes to becoming team player. but thats a minor gripe because this was the best movie Hulk so far!
Captain America was far more interesting in this movie than he was in his own film...though im not sure why he's the only one who got a very brief flashback summary of his emotional baggage, especially since they didnt deal with it in either movie.
Thor was a bit aloof...shouldnt he have enjoyed fighting a bit more?
I look forward to the big baddie reveal in the sequel...though we've got a loooong way to go, since the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer need to be rebooted first and need to be involved. Hope Spidey isnt too busy whining over his parent mystery to join in the fun!
PS- saw it in 2D with a full audience at 3pm on a tues afternoon. I refuse to pay for crappy 3D. Even when the theatres have 3x as many showtimes in 3D and limit the 2D showings...I will go out of my way to avoid it.
Joe Brody said:Four things I like about the Avengers:
1. This weekend's box office.
2. Marvel threading the overall storyline through the prior movies. Usually the returns on sequels get smaller and smaller -- but here Marvel intentionally released smaller relatated films to build to the big one. Those smaller films will likely now have a nice pick up in sales because a lot of the people who passed on buying Captain America, Thor and Hulk DVD's will now have an urge to go back and buy them. Plus I bet there's going to be a really nice box set in all this.
3. (like everyone) The bonus scenes.
4. The first scene with Black Widow. A lot of (unwilling) women got dragged to this film and Wheldon won them over early by giving Scarlett early quality screen time and a clever play on the haggard-career-woman-getting-harangued-from-home. From that point, the women in the audience could relax because someone feels their pain.
Overall, a sloppy film but it had some smarts and good laughs.
Deadlock said:I enjoyed it, despite my prejudices.
Deadlock said:(And you're dead on about the Black Widow bit. That was easily the best -highest quality - scene in the movie.)
Deadlock said:I'll liken the film to Iron Man's suit. Mechanically, I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually work, but when it's doing it's thing... who cares?
Joe Brody said:I'm glad -- now brace yourself for the (at least) four other Disney/Marvel films that have been green-lit and are in production. The Superhero box office dominance has gotta end some time, and my hope is that the first crack we'll see is Amazing Spiderman disappointing this July (and part of me wants to see Batman disappoint as well).
Deadlock said:I don't know what it'll take to end the dominance of the comic book movie. Marvel's been spraying the market on full auto for years. If Daredevil and Elektra movies can't kill this trend... what hope is there???
Deadlock said:... what hope is there???
Joe Brody said:And speaking of crazy & crazier, there's still some limitations in film. Notably the X-Men rebooted instead of first going out into space and fighting aliens.
Deadlock said:Dude, because the grand master Marvel plan called for that to be left to the Avengers.
Deadlock said:...(Death of Superman, Batman Knightfall, Death of Captain America, etc., etc.)
Deadlock said:As we discussed earlier, comic books themselves have very little in the way of meaningful progress or continuity. Whether it's for commercial purposes or somehow is innate to the medium, the nature of the comic book is to get crazy, crazy, crazy then push "reset".