The Avengers

[Khaldun]

Great, great movie. Great narrative flow, made every single cliche of superhero comics seem fresh, memorable lines and set-ups, really well-done throughout. Ruffalo surprised me at how great he was.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oh man.  This was the perfect movie for my first one seen in 3D.  Freaking fantastic and just perfect with the characters.  Some of the motion got a bit raggedy for me with the 3D and a few times I even jerked my head at something moving on the screen.  So worth it.  And our theatre was laughing like mad at those two scenes as well.

Plus, archery has never looked sexier.   

A few individual thoughts:
 
Overall, really fabulous movie and I'm debating going to see it again alone while the husband is out today.

[Ironwood]

You really need to see Thor.

[MuffinMan]

Stop clicking all the spoilers!

[Ironwood]

Ach, leave me to my addiction.   

In honesty, I think I'd enjoy this even if I'd written it.  Tomorrow I think.

[HaemishM]

Other than that one thing, I don't think there's really much to spoil about the movie that would ruin the enjoyment. It was just that well done. I mean, super-hero team fights alien invaders? Not a lot of places that's likely to go that are unpredictable, it's how they get you to the predictable ending that makes it a whole shedload of fun.

[Lakov_Sanite]

What I liked is that all the characters were spot-on, even Loki was an excellent performance.

[Hutch]

I just saw it. The dinky little theater down the street had it at 10am and I couldn't resist.

Great movie.

You really need to see Thor.

I second the motion. If you liked Hiddleston and/or Hemsworth, there's a lot more in the Thor movie.

[Merusk]

Jeez. Someone say it sucks or my expectations are going to be too high going in.

My expectations were high. It did not disappoint.

Great, great movie. Great narrative flow, made every single cliche of superhero comics seem fresh, memorable lines and set-ups, really well-done throughout. Ruffalo surprised me at how great he was.

So much win.  The audience cracked up at the right spots and actually cheered outright in others.  This movie & his own actually made me like Thor.  A guy I'd always taken to be a bit over the top and lame. Fantastic.   I hope it ages well.

And if you stayed all the way to the end of the credits

[RhyssaFireheart]

You really need to see Thor.

I second the motion. If you liked Hiddleston and/or Hemsworth, there's a lot more in the Thor movie.

Oh, I plan to see it.  Wanted to see it in the theatres when it came out but just never got there.  I'll buy it instead because the idea of a movie basically around Hiddleston and Hemsworth is fine with me.     Sadly it's not available on DirecTV in any way, shapre, or form, which is a huge miss on their part.  I was more than ready to buy it PPV if I had to, but alas, no such luck.

And if you stayed all the way to the end of the credits

My husband said the same thing when we watched that.  He even noticed it before I did.  Of course, he also noted that the only car brand you see getting blown up was Acura, which I missed.  Odd product placement.

[Ghambit]

You guys have heard me complain about this in the past, but another thing most modern action movies do these days is film/render it too 'clean' and too 'high-def.'  Avengers got around this most times; seemed to add some grit and dirt to certain scenes that made them more believable.  For instance during the Alien Invasion, a normal Bay-esque flick would make that whole battle fairly antiseptic in film quality whereas in this film at times it seemed like a better version of a good 80's adventure film (more Favreau's style).  The  all were textured rather lo-fi along with a lot of smoke and dirt, making them really believable to stare at.  Yet what an awesome job they did on them regardless.

There may be a difference in IMAX though, so when I see it again... and yes, I'm seeing this again, we'll see if there's a difference.

Also, aside from Avatar, has their been a movie in f13 where it became evident it's worth seeing (again) in 3D?

Oh, and this movie is going to destroy the box offices for the next month.  I have this yearning to buy my 4-yr old nephew a Captain America doll and take him to see it.  Haven't felt like that in a long time and it's definitely a movie he'll remember for life I think.

[SurfD]

If you are going to see it again, and want to see it in IMAX, I reccomend going soon.  If your theatres are anything like mine, it is only getting a 1 week run in IMAX, and then Dark Shadows will be takeing it's place.

[Tannhauser]

Wow.  Great movie!  Now THAT'S how you do a superhero movie. 

[Lakov_Sanite]

on the final battle.

[Malakili]

Nailed it.

No spoilers from me, just drop everything and go see this movie if you haven't already.

Edit: Ok, one spoiler/question

[Slyfeind]

My absolute favorite quote, because I had no idea how they were going to do that particular moment:


Fucking perfect.

GAH.

[Evildrider]

Nailed it.

No spoilers from me, just drop everything and go see this movie if you haven't already.

Edit: Ok, one spoiler/question

[Lakov_Sanite]

hulk.

[Khaldun]

On the aliens:

[Khaldun]

hulk.

On Hulk, I think if you watched the Norton Hulk film, they established that he's getting more control over Hulk, within limits. E.g., sending him in to fight the Abomination works because he's a *bit* more in control than Abomination is.

[Kitsune]

Hulk's a tricky beast.  There was an excellent run in the Hulk comic that Ed Norton was trying to play in the second Hulk movie, a Banner who was utterly devoted to an iron-clad regime of meditation and self-control and as a result had a great deal of leeway with his powers.  Which, if you're saddled with the Hulk's curse, is pretty much the only sensible thing for a person to decide to do if they don't want to be a walking natural disaster forever.

Then Marvel fired Ed Norton, booted the comic's author, and did a 180 with Planet Hulk, where Banner had zero control and the permanently-amok Hulk grew into a more thinking individual over time.  This was also an awesome comic run for different reasons; while I was sad to see Banner go totally sidelined, Hulk running around with a Conan-ish personality and speaking lines while kicking ass was really impressive.

Then Marvel got stupid and split Hulk into like three different Hulks and I don't know anyone who kept reading at that point.

[Khaldun]

Well, they sort of wrote themselves into a corner when Conan Hulk came back to Earth and tried to kill most of the other superheroes for sending him away into space in the first place. But yeah, the character is a mess right now in the comics: the "Red Hulk" is presently a member of the Avengers, but he's not even Bruce Banner, he's General Thunderbolt Ross (the guy who used to hunt the Hulk, and the father of Bruce Banner's long-time love interest).

[Mattemeo]

Ok, one spoiler/question

[Tannhauser]

Form of a nerd!

[HaemishM]

[Kitsune]

The shield's made of vibranium; I always assumed that the metal's deflection of kinetic energy is what made it 'bouncy' when thrown.

[Jimbo]

Tony Stark did have some awesome lines 
 

[Abagadro]

Tony Stark did have some awesome lines  
 

Awesome movie.

[Tannhauser]

Avengers broke 200 million domestic for the weekend.  Biggest.  Opening.  Ever.

Smoked that little kid that likes to play with his wand who opened at 170 million.

[Furiously]

I saw it with the wife this afternoon. I spent the big bucks for IMAX. It was totally worth it. What a fun film.

[Soulflame]

Re: Stark's lines.


Really great movie.

I enjoyed Thor and Captain America, I'd recommend both of them for viewing if you haven't seen them.  You can even catch a glimpse of Hawkeye in Thor!

[Merusk]

Stark's lines:

[Ghambit]

Avengers broke 200 million domestic for the weekend.  Biggest.  Opening.  Ever.

Smoked that little kid that likes to play with his wand who opened at 170 million.

Made over $400m overseas already.  This being a movie that wasn't marketed all that forcefully, and will likely have a helluva lot more word-of-mouth attendance. 1bn is a given.

One of my fav. moments:

I want more.  Hurry up.

[Quinton]

Just saw this on good 'ol fashioned (well, digital) 2D and it was a blast.  Just totally fun start to finish.

Love the interplay between Banner and Stark, and lots of fun character interaction all throughout.  

They really nailed the laugh moments (got somewhere between 5 and 10 the whole theatre laughs at the gag bits) which were nice for breaking up the action from time to time.

Possibly my favorite being
Somehow I missed the second Iron Man movie -- was it as much fun as the first?  RDJ as Tony Stark is immensely entertaining...

[Ironwood]

No, it wasn't.  It wasn't even remotely as good.

It's still something that should be watched though, if only for the continuity and the Silver Centurion Suit.