Marvel's The Avengers |OT| (Dir. Joss Whedon) [Spoilers unmarked]
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Rice-Eater
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But we need some Capcom movies to build up the anticipation and tie things up. Street Fighter reboot, new DMC movie, new Mega Man movie, Darkstalkers movie, and one other one and I think we're good to go.
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Bwahaha, can you even fucking imagine? :lol
All I can picture is Nick Fury single handedly shooting each and every one of them down.
now that ive seen this movie i totally can
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Any opinions of the movie from people who thought Captain America, Thor, X-Men First Class & Iron Man 2 were all dumb badly done garbage comic book movies?
near
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Just Iron Man 2 of those.
Good Job Bob
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Don't lump First Class in with those other bland shitfests.
Pachterballs
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Btw hemworth got a bit fat (like worthington in warmth) and the whole time thor was on screen I could help notice his chin face. All the more so when they shot him from low. Quite amusing I thought.
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Messypandas
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I thought most of those were bad movies (first class was merely ok) and Avengers was incredible. Good campy fun.
Yep, I thought it was great.
I really can't recall much if iron man 2, although I do remember not enjoying it all that much.
But I liked Thor and captain America. Sure, they are not cinematic masterpieces and are kind of 'dumb', but I wouldn't say badly done. On the contrary, I just watched cap again, and I love it. we missed some cap action to montage, but it was better that it set him up as a 'legend' more. The movies are always fun and entertaining.
I don't ask my super hero movies to be ultra serious. In fact, I'm starting to resent movies such as dark knight for being needlessly complex and serious. I still enjoy it and probably like that we have both kinds. Yes they can exist in one movie but I do like having the range.
TrumanBurbank
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You don't like First Class? What!
roosters93
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I watched Thor again last night and enjoyed it a lot more than I did the first time I saw it.
I think I disliked it so much the first time I saw it because it was in 3D and during a movie marathon.
I tried watching Captain America again the other day and got about 1hour20mins in before I couldn't be bothered finishing it and went to bed. If it was a better paced film I would have probably stuck with it.
I don't know what to think about Chris Evans. He's not captivating or anything but he does a decent job. Are there many other people who have portrayed 2 different superheroes? (3 even for Evans if you count his Scott Pilgrim guy I guess)
Hugo Weaving is a great actor but I couldn't help thinking of Schwarzenegger when he speaks in Capt. America. Probably just me.
On Skarsgard:
But I like your thinking better heh.
On Iron Man:
Having seen it in 3D after 2D it's so distracting and gets in the way. It's very well post-converted but still.
I completely missed that line. :l
That explains a bit. I thought the
came out of nowhere and was some random Whedonism.
haha how do people come up with this shit.
Warning there is kind of spoilers in this I guess.
I think I disliked it so much the first time I saw it because it was in 3D and during a movie marathon.
I tried watching Captain America again the other day and got about 1hour20mins in before I couldn't be bothered finishing it and went to bed. If it was a better paced film I would have probably stuck with it.
I don't know what to think about Chris Evans. He's not captivating or anything but he does a decent job. Are there many other people who have portrayed 2 different superheroes? (3 even for Evans if you count his Scott Pilgrim guy I guess)
Hugo Weaving is a great actor but I couldn't help thinking of Schwarzenegger when he speaks in Capt. America. Probably just me.
On Skarsgard:
iirc he's very strongly "I" about it. "lol I seem to have actually known what I was doing" like he thought of it (for good) not something Loki told him to put in.
On Iron Man:
Ah that's true, somehow that didn't even cross my mind. Thanks for that!
Having seen it in 3D after 2D it's so distracting and gets in the way. It's very well post-converted but still.
"That man over there is playing Galaga. He didn't think anyone would notice but I did"
I completely missed that line. :l
That explains a bit. I thought the
shot of him playing Galaga
I thought that was what was going on too! I imagined he had created an invisible Iron Man suit. that would be awesome. but yeah I think it was just on the chestpiece or as some others have theorized ITT it won't work because the thingy is blocking his heart from Loki.
haha how do people come up with this shit.
Warning there is kind of spoilers in this I guess.
He could have had Thor charge him up with the lightning like he did by accident when they were fighting in the forest.
roosters93
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That's true! Seams like a plot hole. Anyone care to explain it away? (besides 'he was busy' heh)
Like surely at least one of the two (or it could be said that
Thor still wasnt' aware it powered Iron Man
I'd say
it would have crossed the writer's mind but they decided to create a plothole by going with the current series of events as it is more exciting.
XiaNaphryz
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I thought they made it obvious by having Thor saying
He's not stopping (from his fall), implying he wasn't aware that Ironman is losing power. The whole thing also happened so quickly and since Ironman didn't bother asking for backup, Thor had no idea.
MisterHero
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Samuel L. Jackson can play Akuma in the standalone X-Men: Children of the Atom movie
I don't see how it's a plot hole at all.
Funky Papa
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I just came back. Whoever described the movie as "Fangasm" nailed it. I don't remember the last time I had so much fun at the cinema.
roosters93
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That's true.
For some reason I didn't think of Thor's statement as not being aware beforehand of the suit being dead as a result of Starks' actions as just plainly confused (like the statement you make before you come to the realization of why) but they're one and the same really hey.
Yeah I'll gladly admit that I'm just talking shit from the idea smiggy put forward.
I mean
Stark had a lot on his mind but shouldn't a super intelligent guy have thought back to (probably the only time?) his suit has gotten a power boost from another source and in the chummy spirit they were all in got Thor to help him out? Obviously it was extremely time sensitive (but still not impossible to have Thor strike him on the way) and his mind would have been extremely weary too but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility and it's a much more straightforward series of events where Iron Man isn't at the brink of being stuck on the other side of the portal. With so much shit going on it's probably hard to say it could have happened hey? It's such an insignificant thing it's not something worth going on about probably either.
Just something I was spitballing on. I don't have any ill feeling towards the way it went and am probably on my own in my way of thinking about it all.
The episodes were so fucking good as is, I don't know if that can even be topped.
I wish the game had more time so they could have completed their story mode. Cap being fucking bad ass especially.
XiaNaphryz
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What the what?
Was watching a UMvC3 and got hype for some Iron Man technology in the wrong thread D:
Rice-Eater
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LOL, UMVC3 hype spilling over to the Avengers thread.
petethepanda
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Only vaguely related: I never realized until rewatching Thor tonight that he calls Coulson "Son of Coul." Too awesome.
Yeah in my rewatch of all the movies I've been doing this past week, I came across this too and it made the movie for me haha
williamsan
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Had wondered what he was saying there, thanks.
Ghost_Protocol
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What the hell is going on? I'm hearing people comparing this to TDK in terms of quality. Is such a thing even possible?
XiaNaphryz
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Looks like the Tomatometer's at 97% now: 58/2, 8.1 avg.
PhoncipleBone
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A different quality. No one has accused it of being Oscar worthy except for effects. It is being acclaimed for just being a big, fun, entertaining spectacle.
And I cannot wait.
Good Job Bob
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I've soured a little on Dark Knight.
Mood, Joker, complex, deep storyline, but some chaotic plot devices, and sometimes just plain too serious.
I mean, sure, amazing film, but is it 'fun'?
Avengers and Dark Knight are too very, very different approaches to the genre.
In my current state of mind, I prefer 'fun' over 'complex'.
Yes. Just like how TDK was a great adaptation of the dark Batman comic book, The Avengers is a great adaptation of the fun, ridiculous, action packed style of comic.
Nice attempt at starting a fire.
planar1280
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Dark Knight was more a crime movie than a superhero movie, that would ONLY work in the batman universe.
PhoncipleBone
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Best way to put it really.
Well, it would work in the Daredevil universe as well if they had a better director attached.
But is it fun? You can only be a superhero movie if it's fun.
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XiaNaphryz
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Both Sculli and jett have called Avengers a lot of fun - that's probably more than enough for some people around here.
I'm talking about the people who say TDK isn't a superhero/comic book movie because it's not "fun".
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