The Avengers

[Khaldun]

Protip hint: you can see Uma in a leather jumpsuit in still pictures without enduring the film.

The sad thing is, casting-wise, it should have been good. Script + direction fucked something potentially lovely into oblivion. This is a hate crime and in a just world would be punished.

[Ironwood]

Wasn't that the one with Sean Connery and the HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Sporran ?

[HaemishM]

Yep. Sean Connery playing Weather Wizard. The script was just so terribad, it didn't even come close to approaching the weird fun that the series had.

[Ingmar]

I'm pretty sure the editing also made it even worse.

[luckton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNmPh_MGOA  

 

The trailer is slightly more awesome because it's one of Don LaFontaine's   

[MuffinMan]

The trailer is slightly more awesome because it's one of Don LaFontaine's   

[taolurker]

Avengers clip shows Scarlett Johansson tied up

[Trippy]

"They're bouncing"
"What are you looking at?"
"I wish I could bounce"

[Khaldun]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if a million fetishes cried out in fulfillment and were suddenly posting on Tumblr.

[Wasted]

Just came from seeing this with my son, movie is awesome. 

Skip the 3d though I think, it was a bit blurry sometimes in some fights and didn't really add much to the movie.

[luckton]

Skip the 3d

Sage advice for any movie these days 

[Merusk]

For the most part, yeah.   Still, there some movies that were better with 3d than without.  Alice and Avatar being the two I can think of straight away.  It worked OK in Tron: Legacy as well but it doesn't help the movie beyond "oooh, cool."

 Thanks for the info, Wasted. I'd been wondering if the 3d would be worth the extra $20 and now I know.

[sickrubik]

Alice was fucking TERRIBLE for 3D. I don't know how you could rank it up there with Avatar. Alice was all post process and had the damn terrible cardboard cutout effect that comes with that.

[murdoc]

The only 3D that I've thought was good outside of an animated film was Transformers 3. The colours were still pretty bright and it didn't seem to suffer from the dimness usually found.

[sickrubik]

That depends on the theater. Most of those movies are made knowing that the glasses make it dimmer, but then the theater goes "fuck, this is bright, time to turn it down".

My favorite two are still Avatar and Up. Well, and Hugo. Hugo must have worked well because I don't remember seeing it in 3D, but my fiancee insists we did.

[K9]

Fun movie, but the 3D was a real nuisance, it added nothing and was frequently distracting. Go see this in 2D if you can.

[Megrim]

haha you saw it in 3d.

The movie is great, definitely something to watch on the big screen. Quite to my surprise, they managed to fit a decent amount of character development into the alotted time, though at the expense of plot. It is still there, and it is passable (usual McGuffin hijinx, etc...) but it felt a bit thin compared to the interaction between the Avengers themselves.

Also, as unusual as it was, it was nice to see RDJ actually upstaged by another actor.

[Ubvman]

Midnight showing starting at 12:30 am - left the cinema at 3:00 am.

Not giving away much but just in case. 


Apart from a crowded plot that felt too compressed (even for 2.5 hours) and I couldn't understand what the heck was Loki trying to do; I still give this movie a 9/10. The happy 10 year old fan-boi in me went into crazy fan bliss at the sight of the Hulk fighting alongside Thor.

[K9]

[SurfD]

Damn all you people who get to watch it early.   I still have to wait for another 4 days or so untill the harddrives come in for our Marvel Madness Marathon before I get a chance to check it out.

[Mrbloodworth]

How could you guys like this? It does not redefine drama, cinematography or writing.

[Evildrider]

How could you guys like this? It does not redefine drama, cinematography or writing.

And it's Joss Whedon!

[Tannhauser]

Never cared for Buffy.  Loved Firefly.  Hated Dollhouse.  ? Avengers.  Quick, someone tell me if I'm a Whedon fanboy or not.

Going to see Avengers this weekend.  Looking far more forward to this than Batman vs. Mumbles.

[Ubvman]

How could you guys like this? It does not redefine drama, cinematography or writing.

Summer tentpole movies are an odd place to look for those things.    

I enjoyed it a lot and I'm a comicbook fan. My non-comicbook reading layman type friends were blown away. We, the sheeple are easily amused I guess.

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[Margalis]

And it's Joss Whedon!

Joss Whedon does suck, but I hear the movie is good. I'm torn! He's working in a pretty small box with well established chars, so maybe that reduces the Whedon-factor and prevents him from producing some Connor-from-Angel dreck.

[CmdrSlack]

At least the pre-release Legos are awesome. I now have a Deadpool minifig. Deadpool, FUCK YEAH!

[Arthur_Parker]

I can see what it was trying to do but the first two thirds of the film just didn't hold together, way too dense.  The opening scene blew any chance of sucking the Mrs in gradually and some kid sat right next to me just as the trailers started that I suspect had at least mild tourettes, I'll maybe like it more after watching it a few times when it comes out on Bluray.

[Mattemeo]

Avengers Assemble is what happens when you send a comic book writer to direct a comic book movie.

My only complaint was that it simply wasn't long enough.

On a more serious thought: it hasn't changed the perception of what a comic book movie could be, like The Dark Knight; but it more thoroughly distills what a comic book movie should feel and look like.
It's expertly composed, the raw spectacle doesn't feel like soulless flash, the human element is played upon, the element of genuine threat is maintained and when the majors of the Marvel Universe truly open up, you soar with them.

I saw it in 3D, by the way. I won't say it's the zenith of the art but it was passable bar a couple of flight sequences where the cuts were too fast for post-production 3D to actually work properly. Otherwise, it added some nice depth which is basically all I ever want from 3D, and the gimmicks were left out.

[Evildrider]

Best implementation of the Hulk ever.

[Tannhauser]

Anyone know what they are doing in the Avengers comic currently?  Worth checking out?

[Johny Cee]

If the Avengers Were 10 Times Manlier

Edit:

"Hulk not fuck around"

[UnSub]

When Seanbaby nails it, he really nails it.

Hulk Punch Dick indeed.

[Johny Cee]

When Seanbaby nails it, he really nails it.

Hulk Punch Dick indeed.

VERILY!

[Khaldun]

Anyone know what they are doing in the Avengers comic currently?  Worth checking out?

No, probably not. There's three teams of Avengers ("Mighty Avengers", "New Avengers" and "Secret Avengers") plus a team of villains who were pretending for a while to be Avengers ("Dark Avengers") plus a new Avengers book that might as well be called "Movie Avengers" (it has the exact line-up of the film, but it's also in continuity with the rest of the Avengers' books).

The big event comic for the spring/summer is AvX (Avengers v. X-Men) which is primarily about the X-Men getting all pissy and attacking the Avengers to get back at the Avengers for becoming cooler than the X-Men and selling way more books and films. Well, really, it's about Phoenix coming back again and the X-Men wanting to protect the alternate-future daughter of alternate Cyclops and Jean Grey who is going to be possessed by the Phoenix and the Avengers wanting to take the girl off-planet and playing keep-away with the Phoenix.

Hence, a massive punch-up with almost zero plot. Because: comic books!

[CmdrSlack]

Yep, AvX even has a set of books that is nothing but fights -- no plot. Granted, the book tells you on the first page, "Hey, if you want plot, go get one of the other books!"

And don't forget Avenging Spiderman, which is Spidey doing Avengers stuff in addition to his appearances in pretty much every other book these days.