Marvel's The Avengers |OT| (Dir. Joss Whedon) [Spoilers unmarked]

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richiek said:
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Man, Iron Man sure looked stupid back then.
 
TrumanBurbank said:
So do you like Whedon or not? Or do you think Whedon is bad but not as bad as Cameron?
Your avatar confuses me.
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I do not enjoy most of Joss Whedon's work.

This avatar was bestowed upon me after losing a Box Office bet.

Woorloog said:
Hmph. Went to watch this as my friend suggested Battleship, and based on ratings, i suggested this and he accepted. I'm pretty sure i made the right call but i think this movie is overrated, at least for someone who visits movies rarely and who is not a fan of superheros in general (but neither do i hate them, just indifferent toward them).
I haven't seen but Iron Man before this, and i don't read comics, so the continuity and stuff didn't make much sense to me. Everybody being after a macguffin without knowing where did it come from and so on... well, let's just say that i stopped bothering with the plot after 5 minutes. Not that there was much of a plot in the first place.
Whedon's style is distinct. Liked the way the characters were introduced. Liked the periodic comedic moment a lot.
Pretty to look at, nice action, occasionally funny dialogue and okay characters... not sure how to express it but it feels like this were an empty shell, no substance, just a lot of stuff going on but no real thought behind it.
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That's because it is an empty shell with no substance.
 
Woorloog said:
Hmph. Went to watch this as my friend suggested Battleship, and based on ratings, i suggested this and he accepted. I'm pretty sure i made the right call but i think this movie is overrated, at least for someone who visits movies rarely and who is not a fan of superheros in general (but neither do i hate them, just indifferent toward them).
I haven't seen but Iron Man before this, and i don't read comics, so the continuity and stuff didn't make much sense to me. Everybody being after a macguffin without knowing where did it come from and so on... well, let's just say that i stopped bothering with the plot after 5 minutes. Not that there was much of a plot in the first place.
Whedon's style is distinct. Liked the way the characters were introduced. Liked the periodic comedic moment a lot.
Pretty to look at, nice action, occasionally funny dialogue and okay characters... not sure how to express it but it feels like this were an empty shell, no substance, just a lot of stuff going on but no real thought behind it.
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For someone who is indifferent to superheroes, doesn't read comics, and hadn't seen any of the prequel films (or did you just mean Iron Man? The tesseract is a key plot point in Captain America), this is a pretty positive reaction actually.
 
Hawkian said:
For someone who is indifferent to superheroes, doesn't read comics, and hadn't seen any of the prequel films (or did you just mean Iron Man? The tesseract is a key plot point in Captain America), this is a pretty positive reaction actually.
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I've seen just Iron Man, and now this, nothing else. (Iron Man's first half is good, the second half is meh).
 
agrajag said:
I don't read comic books, but I was reading through a comic wiki the other day, reading up on the Marvel universe (it was fascinating) and they did have some crossovers with the Fantastic Four and Spiderman. With X-Men too, I believe.
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Fantastic 4 vs Xmen was a fun mini series with Mephisto trying to get the soul of Franklin Richards.
Spidey was a member of the FF for a while also.

Christ everyone is a member of the Fantastic Four/Avengers/X-Men these days aren't they?
 
Good Job Bob said:
Well, you've already watched the two best ones. The rest are mediocre to awful, don't bother unless you want a deeper understanding of what happened in 'Avengers'.
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Got that impression from ratings... ah, well, i'll watch the rest if i happen to get them at some point or if they're shown on TV here.

Good Job Bob said:
Woorloog, if you ever get around to watching the rest of them you should post your opinions here.
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Will do that.
 
Watching Avengers without watching both Iron Mans, Thor, and Captain America is like watching Return of the Jedi without watching ANH and ESB, or Return of the King without FotR and TTT. You've basically missed all of the setup of the characters and world, and I have no idea how any of it could possibly make any sense.

Transformers is a lot of stuff going on with no real thought behind it. Avengers is a movie that could have easily been a complete mess, but manages to come together thanks to some very smart writing and directing.
 
StarCreator said:
See Spider-Man 3 for reasons why you don't have more than one major villain in a superhero movie.
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See Spiderman 3 for a movie with a shit ton more problems than what a mind bogglingly amount of people for no discernible reason willl call "having one too many villains" .
 
The thing I hated the most in Spider-Man 3 is how they changed how Uncle Ben died. It just made Spider-Man look like a dick by not saving that robber he thought killed his uncle, in the first movie.
 
KevinCow said:
Watching Avengers without watching both Iron Mans, Thor, and Captain America is like watching Return of the Jedi without watching ANH and ESB, or Return of the King without FotR and TTT. You've basically missed all of the setup of the characters and world, and I have no idea how any of it could possibly make any sense.

Transformers is a lot of stuff going on with no real thought behind it. Avengers is a movie that could have easily been a complete mess, but manages to come together thanks to some very smart writing and directing.
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That is so far from the truth
I only saw the original Iron man and followed The Avengers really well
 
Schattenjagger said:
That is so far from the truth
I only saw the original Iron man and followed The Avengers really well
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You weren't confused about who Thor and Cap and Loki were, what the tesseract was and why Loki wanted it, or there were suddenly gods walking around?

I have to assume you're familiar with the comics if this was the case, in which case I kinda feel like you don't really count for what I was saying.
 
I can't help but think that these pictures of alleged Blu-ray edition covers and now this briefcase pack are all just mock-ups. It has 2 instances of the word "Marvel" in the title! I had to check the movie poster again to make sure that it wasn't the case there, and it isn't! I don't even think that the title card in the beginning of the movie called it "Marvel's The Avengers". Help me out here, I'm not going nuts right?
 
ShinoguTakeruKoeru said:
I can't help but think that these pictures of alleged Blu-ray edition covers and now this briefcase pack are all just mock-ups. It has 2 instances of the word "Marvel" in the title! I had to check the movie poster again to make sure that it wasn't the case there, and it isn't! I don't even think that the title card in the beginning of the movie called it "Marvel's The Avengers". Help me out here, I'm not going nuts right?
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Didn't think it was real when I first looked at it. It's supposed to be on Amazon soon though.
 
Anth0ny said:
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good lord I need this now. Looks like the tesseract briefcase.
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I only own the 2 Iron Man movie on blu and have been wanting to pick the others up, so I want this bad.
But considering that it will probably cost at least $150 means I will be waiting a while to get it. Maybe Black Friday or sometime at the end of th year will be a good time for the thrifty (re: poor) Avengers fan to pick it up.
 
So I saw it yesterday. And I thought it was a pretty good movie. Though I guess I have to be a Avengers fan to think it was the greatest thing ever. I saw MIB 3 the day before and though that was fun too.

I formed this strange thing about Comicbooks, Games, etc. I can't help but be directed toward the type of shoes everyone was wearing and I notice that that lady that was with Fury was in these heeled wedges as were a lot of the women on the ship. They were particularly noticeable in one of those many upward shots.

Anyway weirdness aside does Loki not have any shape shifting powers? I'm not all that familiar with Marvels Thor.
 
I rewatched Thor recently. Has it been explained how at the end (bonus scene) Loki is there commanding/manipulating Selvig? I mean, how did he get to earth? Why did he leave? Just never made sense..

It's probably been answered somewhere in here before, but just wondering.
 
h3nriqu3 said:
Didn't think it was real when I first looked at it. It's supposed to be on Amazon soon though.
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083SBMGW/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Limited Edition collection includes:

• Marvel’s The Avengers (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Thor (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Iron Man 2 (Blu-ray)
• The Incredible Hulk (Blu-ray)
• Iron Man (Blu-ray)
• Bonus Disc - “The Phase One Archives” (Blu-ray)
• Collectible packaging with exclusive memorabilia from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/musicians-picket-marvel-over-the-avengers/

Musicians Picket Marvel Over ‘The Avengers’

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve just learned that the American Federation Of Musicians this morning picketed Marvel Studios in Manhattan Beach to protest studios going overseas to score their movies. It’s a commonplace practice, but that doesn’t make it right. Marvel went overseas to score The Avengers, and the AFM is rightfully pissed. Accordig to the ‘Film Musicians For Fairness’ pamphlets distributed by AFM at the protest, “The Avengers was filmed in New Mexico and Ohio, with $30 million in U.S. tax rebates. But the music was scored in Europe, hiring foreign musicians under the table and on the cheap, robbing U.S. musicians of their jobs. We don’t think that’s fair. We ask this of Disney CEO Bob Iger and Marvel head Kevin Feoge: How many billions must your companies earn before Marvel will score its film music here at home.”
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MuggerMD said:
I liked the part when Hulk smashed Loki back and forth like a rag doll!

jk I hated that part, this movie was cheesy.
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You have no soul. My inner five-year old went apeshit during that part because I didn't thing something like that would happen. Plus, Hulk had hella swag as he strut away.
 
One more record in the books:

May 2012 got off to a rollicking start when The Avengers opened to a record-breaking $207.4 million, though business quickly stalled from there. In fact, The Avengers wound up accounting for 52 percent of domestic earnings in May, which is easily a new record for highest monthly share ahead of 2002's Spider-Man (37.4 percent). Because the rest of the releases were middling at best, the $1.024 billion overall tally ranks second all-time in May behind last year's $1.038 billion.
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Just watched it in 3D, the 3D didn't wow me like it did in Avatar but the movie was totally awesome, I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.

In terms of the movies so far I'd rank them Iron Man > Avengers > Thor > Cap America > Iron Man 2
 
When a critic says this movie has "bloated cynicism" what do they mean? I mean this as more of a general question about movie criticism and not just for The Avengers, but I thought I would ask here. I'm not trying to get people to bash people who say that about this movie, I just want to understand.
 
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