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The Avengers full trailer

Well yeah, many times over, that comes with the territory. But after it happens in real life, it just evokes different feelings when I see the same scenes in movies now. Not everyone here is still like me, but some are. *shrugs*
 
Wacky Reviews: Marvel Avengers Assemble

Saw it today. It actually was as great as everyone's been saying.

Joss really did and amazing job making it work. When you consider the amount of main characters, how it had to give them all something to do, how it had to be consistent with the tone of the five previous movies, but also meld them all together to create something new and unique...really it couldn't have been better. But not not only is it (easily) the best Marvel movie it's also a great action movie in its own right that really could appeal to someone who hasn't seen the previous five movies, while still being faithful to the comics and giving the fanboys everything they want, AND ALSO full of Whedon type humour, and with great performances from all, and many tasteful shots of Scarlett Johansson's bum.

I honestly can't remember a better final action scene in any blockbuster movie. There's one amazing continous shot showing all the team members in actions that's, like, art. Don't compare it to something like Transformers 3: you can actually tell what's happening during the action scenes here and the characters are all individual with developed personalities not based on racial stereotypes.

The only problem is that every Marvel movie now needs to be written and directed by Joss to have any chance of living up to this.

So yeah, I liked it!
 
whisky said:
Not that bad, I am pretty sure I can wait for the bluray to see
them all sat in a resteraunt eating donna kebabs, with no dialogue for a full minute.
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^That scene was even funnier than I expected to be. Either that or I was really tired after sitting thru like 10 hours of movies before seeing the Avengers.
 
I didn't stay until after the credits but I don't think it's been added to the UK showings. Saw the mid credits scene, of course!
 
I saw it today with my boy, and it was an extremely good. The movie had some real belly laughs in it as well as actiony action sequences. Eggs, the damage done to NY is collateral style, and not particularly Iconic in nature a la space invasion flicks. No broken statue of liberty or smashed Times Square, and the focal point is a fictional Stark Tower so you're probably fine.

Didn't stay for the extra sauce though, the boy had to pee so bad we couldn't wait lol. Good news is, that meant the movie really had zero slow spots in which to drain the lizard.

Very solid.
 
IF ANYTHING I'd say the biggest flaw of the film was that after having four films of origin stories for the separate characters having to have another origin story for them all working together as a group was a bit annoying but really it was unavoidable and handled in probably the best possible way to handle it.
 
Well it never felt slow or anything and it's not like they went into huge detail about all their backstories...and really the whole movie was about them learning TEAMWORK and the enemy was almost a test run (a really exciting test run!) for what's to come.

I LIKED THE THING THEY DID WITH THE SIGN ON STARK TOWERS CHANGING THAT WAS CLEVER.
 
I think that got the biggest laugh here. Though some woman nearly choked to death when SPOILER randomly punched SPOILER (you know what I mean.) "He's adopted" got a big laugh too.
 
Yeah, those bits could've been a bit shark jumpy, but as is typical with Whedon, he managed to somehow segway from tension and drama into comedy and back again completely seamlessly.

Did anyone notice Victor from Dollhouse as a NY cop? (When Cap'n A was giving orders)

Er, too many good things to mention really. It's kind of a good thing that they couldn't use the characters that are licensed to Sony and Fox, as there was just the right number of main characters to give everyone some focus and develop some through-line for them, without anyone being left behind or purely being seen fighting.

I think this just goes to show what a missed opportunity the Transformers have been, because in terms of plot (bad guy wants power, has CG army, good guys have 7 or 8 main fighters with different roles, invasion of a city, defending Earth, everyone fighting over a cube or other artifact, while civilians scramble) it was pretty similar, but the dialogue and characterisation was in a completely different league.
 
Plus you can tell the good guys from the bad guys.

Once they transform they all look the same.
 
They could've handled that by making the designs simpler and colour coding them, red vs blue. But yeah, human superheroes versus aliens is always going to be easier to distinguish.

That's part of why I'm glad they couldn't use Spidey in this. The long distance shots of Captain America and Spidey jumping around would've got quite confusing.
 
Although I do kind of wish they could do a big Avengers versus X-Men movie. With Spidey doing commentary. With Blade. And the Fantastic Four are there for some reason. And they make some hilarious "hey, Captain America looks like the Human Torch!" joke.

But yeah not even Joss could stop that becoming a clusterfuck...
 
Mmm, it'd probably be a letdown, like how X3 was supposed to be some amazing fight between all the X-Men and all of Magneto's lot, and there was really just that one (reasonably good!) scene which was interrupted by Jein picking everything up.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Although I do kind of wish they could do a big Avengers versus X-Men movie. With Spidey doing commentary. With Blade. And the Fantastic Four are there for some reason. And they make some hilarious "hey, Captain America looks like the Human Torch!" joke.

But yeah not even Joss could stop that becoming a clusterfuck...
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That's pretty much the plotline of the infinity gauntlet saga from the comics.

Which had Thanos as the main antagonist.

BTW, the infinity gauntlet was another one of the items along with the cosmic cube in Odin's safe room in the Thor movie.
 
They're doing an Avengers vs X-Men story in the comics right now, with the Phoenix Force returning.

Wonder if the huge success of the movie will help comic sales at all? Probably not!
 
Has to be a nice feeling to make a £200 million dollar film, then make back the entire budget in THREE FUCKING DAYS!
 
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