The dialogue sparkles as brightly as the special effects; these people may be wearing ridiculous costumes but they're well fleshed-out underneath. And so in every regard, this movie truly fulfills its hype.
Like a superior, state-of-the-art model built from reconstituted parts, Joss Whedon's buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order.
Whedon pulls off a stunning feat in bringing balance to this superhuman circus, engineered to charm the geek core and non-fans alike.
It took nearly a half-century to make it happen onscreen, but The Avengers was worth the wait, pairing together the perfect cast and perfect writer/director.
Whedon was involved? Can it get even more generic?
cant wait to get drunk and watch this boss-ass movie
aren't pre-release reviews generally more positive than those after wide release for films of this kind?
RT should be 60% once the film actually comes out.
This is your earthling 'humor' I assume, Chrono - how on earth can a story about godlike superbeings fighting an alien invasion be reasonably told without the prospect of death?
The only avenger it makes sense to kill - Wasp they left out.
Comic book fans care, though I'm pretty sure we arent the market being targetedThe only avenger it makes sense to kill - Wasp they left out.
No one cares, bro
I'm a comic book fan and i don't give a shit about leaving Janet out. Even less about leaving Hank out. Hank is by leaps and bounds one of the worst characters Marvel's ever pushed and they never give up on him. He sucks, he's lame, his powers are lame, nobody likes him, fuck.Henk made the avengers greatest enemy though, it's kinda silly to not have him in and start a plot for it. Everyone agrees Henk is shit, but he's important shit. Janet as well considering what happens with her later.
By far the bigger tragedy here is that half of Cap's Kooky Quartet is off-limits thanks to Fox and they seem to have opted not to use a third member. Janet and Hank can go climb a tree.
His name isn't Henk, it's Hank, goddamnit. And it would be pretty easy to graft that aspect of Ultron's origin over to Tony, I think.Nah it wouldnt. Iron Man can create the tech as the case was in the comics, but the AI and teaching Ultron to be a fuckbag is all Hank. I'm used to calling him Henk, sorry bout that,
Fuck yes. And afterwards I just might enjoy some taco bell. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!!!
I want to watch this movie, because I LIKED Iron Man 1 and 2, and hell, I LIKE THOR- you know why? Cause I realize these aren't artsy fartsy sundance cry about dead tom hanks 9/11 oscar begs. Its about special effects n shit- its the same reason i've watched GI Joe twice and liked it both times, and why i'll fuckin see the sequel. I want to be ENTERTAINED DAMNIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
It won't be complete without me, Beezy, or Himu there to talk loudly during the movie
It won't be complete without me, Beezy, or Himu there to talk loudly during the movie
I liked Iron Man 2 well enoughsame. wasn't as good as the first but still good.
Is Natalie Portman in the avengers or are they gonna leave the love thing she had with Thor unresolved? I'm asking on behalf of my wife :rofl
I ain't no hater :(
Is Natalie Portman in the avengers or are they gonna leave the love thing she had with Thor unresolved? I'm asking on behalf of my wife :rofl
Is Natalie Portman in the avengers or are they gonna leave the love thing she had with Thor unresolved? I'm asking on behalf of my wife :rofl
Is Natalie Portman in the avengers or are they gonna leave the love thing she had with Thor unresolved? I'm asking on behalf of my wife :rofl
Tell fistful he can ask himself, he doesn't have to get you.
Line of the movie: "puny god" :bow2
Got a huge nerd boner from the after credits scene :hyper
Line of the movie: "puny god" :bow2
Got a huge nerd boner from the after credits scene :hyper
Which one? Tell me you didn't leave after the first.
Maxy proving his terrible taste yet again.
spoiler (click to show/hide)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qqfM1l8uN8[close]
That's the mid-credits scene. Dumbasses leave after that's over.
Superhero movies are completely wasted on non-North Americanshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
no idea why you assholes get to see it first
call me american again and i'll rip your lungs outhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv3W6mjx3xI
Getting excited for this. New Dark Knight Rises and Amazing Spider-Man trailers are attached.
Getting excited for this. New Dark Knight Rises and Amazing Spider-Man trailers are attached.
Getting excited for this. New Dark Knight Rises and Amazing Spider-Man trailers are attached.
Really, WB shelled out to put a TDKR trailer on this movie? That's pretty cool.
Getting excited for this. New Dark Knight Rises and Amazing Spider-Man trailers are attached.
Um. How about easily? Its utterly unsuitable for a 6 year old.
My Dad took me to see Robocop and Natural Born Killers in the theater. He's awesome.
My Dad took me to see Robocop and Natural Born Killers in the theater. He's awesome.
I said wow.
First movie was Ghostbusters II. The cool generation :bow2
Um. How about easily? Its utterly unsuitable for a 6 year old.
Um. How about easily? Its utterly unsuitable for a 6 year old.
I saw Robocop when I was 5 and I went to see Robocop 2 and Total Recall in theatres.
Grow a penis
My Dad took me to see Robocop and Natural Born Killers in the theater. He's awesome.
I said wow.
I was a teenager when it came out, so it wasn't that bad. My mom was out of town that weekend and gave him shit about it for a while though.
I remember when I was older, we took my grandma to see Leaving Las Vegas. :lolFirst movie was Ghostbusters II. The cool generation :bow2
Ghostbusters II was the first time I went to the theater and realized that films can be absolute shit. Same with Alien 3.
Um. How about easily? Its utterly unsuitable for a 6 year old.
I saw Robocop when I was 5 and I went to see Robocop 2 and Total Recall in theatres.
Grow a penis
You have terrible parents.
Um. How about easily? Its utterly unsuitable for a 6 year old.
I saw Robocop when I was 5 and I went to see Robocop 2 and Total Recall in theatres.
Grow a penis
You have terrible parents.
Haha. My dad took me. I like Robocop 2 but maybe it's the nostalgia.
Or are you saying they're terrible parents because it's too violent?
I think mine was ET.
I'm shocked guys. What about Care Bears.
Also you don't develop the sense of disgust until you're 8 or 9, and it stays with you until dementia kicks in.
Ghostbusters II was the first time I went to the theater and realized that films can be absolute shit. Same with Alien 3.
I fucking miss drive-ins. I gotta find one in houston.
Porky's on the big screen as a kid must have been eye opening or confusing depending on your age.
What you say here. America sounds like a country heading for a HUGE mental breakdown. Dave Gibbons masterwork 'Give Me Liberty' is a view of what will sort of happen.I'm shocked guys. What about Care Bears.
Also you don't develop the sense of disgust until you're 8 or 9, and it stays with you until dementia kicks in.
well, in the late 80's/early 90's liking kiddy shit on top of adult shit was pretty fucking standard. We are a generation of boys brought up on cuddly Teddy Ruxbin stuff but not to mention violent GI Joe-esque Predator and Terminator stuff.
At school, we'd go from "playing" Bill and Ted to Ninja Turtles, to how rad Robocop was, how much we hated ACHY BREAKY HEART, then we'd play with Care Bears, break out the donated He-Man toys Toy Story 3 style, to "playing" Back to the Future and then Conan The Barbarian.
Complete list of R-rated movies my parents took me to see or rented to watch with me:
Yep.
I'm shocked guys. What about Care Bears.
Also you don't develop the sense of disgust until you're 8 or 9, and it stays with you until dementia kicks in.
well, in the late 80's/early 90's liking kiddy shit on top of adult shit was pretty fucking standard. We are a generation of boys brought up on cuddly Teddy Ruxbin stuff but not to mention violent GI Joe-esque Predator and Terminator stuff.
At school, we'd go from "playing" Bill and Ted to Ninja Turtles, to how rad Robocop was, how much we hated ACHY BREAKY HEART, then we'd play with Care Bears, break out the donated He-Man toys Toy Story 3 style, to "playing" Back to the Future and then Conan The Barbarian.
I got in trouble for tricking my grandparents into taking me to see TMNT2 when my stepmom and dad were all anti ninja turtles
I'm shocked guys. What about Care Bears.
Also you don't develop the sense of disgust until you're 8 or 9, and it stays with you until dementia kicks in.
well, in the late 80's/early 90's liking kiddy shit on top of adult shit was pretty fucking standard. We are a generation of boys brought up on cuddly Teddy Ruxbin stuff but not to mention violent GI Joe-esque Predator and Terminator stuff.
At school, we'd go from "playing" Bill and Ted to Ninja Turtles, to how rad Robocop was, how much we hated ACHY BREAKY HEART, then we'd play with Care Bears, break out the donated He-Man toys Toy Story 3 style, to "playing" Back to the Future and then Conan The Barbarian.
I had none of this. I guess when your family is too poor to afford those toys or go to see movies, you're pretty limited on options.
I'm shocked guys. What about Care Bears.
Also you don't develop the sense of disgust until you're 8 or 9, and it stays with you until dementia kicks in.
well, in the late 80's/early 90's liking kiddy shit on top of adult shit was pretty fucking standard. We are a generation of boys brought up on cuddly Teddy Ruxbin stuff but not to mention violent GI Joe-esque Predator and Terminator stuff.
At school, we'd go from "playing" Bill and Ted to Ninja Turtles, to how rad Robocop was, how much we hated ACHY BREAKY HEART, then we'd play with Care Bears, break out the donated He-Man toys Toy Story 3 style, to "playing" Back to the Future and then Conan The Barbarian.
I had none of this. I guess when your family is too poor to afford those toys or go to see movies, you're pretty limited on options.
Well I specifically said at school. By this point in my life, we took advantage of the Pharmor rental service which was like 1 buck a movie rental so I'd rent the entire Back to the Future trilogy for three bucks. In the early 90's my family was far from well off and we struggled a lot because my mom was going back to school for her masters and my dad was being underpaid. The toys I brought up were at the daycare, donated Toy Story 3 style. Most of the movies I watched were rented from Blockbuster or Pharmor but we'd go to the movies occasionally as rewards and I'd see Bill and Ted and Conan in theatres and we'd (as in the boys) would talk about what we saw in school and try to act out our favorite parts. Apparently my experience wasn't far off from the other boys', so I don't know what the fuck.
As for Achy Breaky Heart, the teachers were OBSESSED with that song.
My family was too poor to afford me an nes, so...
spoiler (click to show/hide)Wait, that was Thanos? I thought it was Darkseid. :teehee[close]
So there was ANOTHER bonus scene after all the credits finished that I mised...d'oh!
So there was ANOTHER bonus scene after all the credits finished that I mised...d'oh!
Previous Marvel Comics superhero movies such as Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and Thor were like roughly cut puzzle pieces that looked odd and unfinished by themselves—pretend movies derived from already established brands. Most of them, particularly Jon Favreau’s dung-colored Iron Man, were poorly directed.
Now, fitted together in Marvel’s The Avengers, the superhero tales still don’t quite cohere; instead, each superhero’s traits and powers have been simultaneously inflated and streamlined (Scarlett Johannson’s Black Widow, barely a cameo in last year’s Iron Man 2, is almost a character here) with the sole intent to overwhelm, not merely entertain. That’s why a corporate brand is part of the title.
A live-action version of the comic book series about “The Earth’s Mightiest Heroes,” Marvel’s The Avengers is promoted as the ultimate Comic-Con—the franchise of franchises, the movie contemporary audiences have been trained to anticipate and genuflect to.
This whopping sales campaign manipulates immature, undeveloped adolescent taste into the mistaken notion of cultural fulfillment. The Avengers is neither good nor important, yet the more it consummates Marvel Comics’ current strategy to secure the adolescent comic book/graphic novel/video game market, the more it illustrates Hollywood’s shameless insufficiencies.
To discuss The Avengers as a story—or even a thrill ride—is delusional. Best to tally some of the actors’ deceits—which parallel the media’s complicit self-deception—as they trivialize the emotional satisfaction that is supposed to come from modernizing myth and legend.
The Captain America role traps Chris Evans, who was a great tease as the Human Torch, in an uninteresting anachronism, now a truly faded idea of American Exceptionalism. The same holds for the Halloween freakazoids Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Bruce Banner/The Hulk (a CGIed Mark Ruffalo).
As villainous Loki, Tom Hiddleston, who was so moving in Spielberg’s War Horse and Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, comes closest to giving a performance. He suggests the intense young aspirant Peter O’Toole, though without the glorious voice and no story details to frame his petulance, just a pretext for the superheroes to fight his plan for world domination.
The film’s only probable hero is zillionaire gadgeteer Tony Stark, who Robert Downey has finally learned to make his own using hipster witticisms that lend this basically unhip movie erratic self-satire.
Only a capitalist icon with Stark’s endless resources makes sense to an audience of semi-illiterate consumers catered to by the leisure industries and discouraged from an interest in characterization, theme or ideas. That’s why Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury can simply watch action from the sidelines (occasionally firing off a gunshot or an epithet), pretending to be a leader in his ghetto eye patch. (Insert convenient Obama comment here.)
Director Joss Whedon brings TV squalor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) to this, his second big screen superhero outing. Whedon doesn’t have Zack Snyder’s personal style, the élan that at least made Watchmen and Sucker Punch thoroughly idiosyncratic and fitfully compelling. Whedon directs impersonally, which is to say he manages the proceedings as one runs a fast-food joint.
This analogy ought to appall the very fast-food patrons who flock to The Avengers, yet cannot accept that an artistic enterprise should be more than ground patties of optional substance. Like Whedon, they can’t tell the difference between art and conviction-less product.
This proves the brainwashing that has happened to pop audiences in the generations since comic books and TV stole their imaginations from cinema and literature. Much of this tragedy has to do with the impact of TV (Whedon’s background), which has destroyed popular understanding of narrative complexity.
Each superhero should represent overcoming some social difficulty; now they’re just gimmicks. Whedon simply makes the action go on and on. He has no sense of dramatic build or rising to a climax. He overloads the spectator with one climax after another (imitating Michael Bay angles, particularly the same skyscraper-devouring turbine f/x from the last Transformers flick).
Unlike the lyrical teen fantasy Chronicle or Neveldine/Taylor’s daring Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which addressed life, death and morality, Marvel’s The Avengers has little to say other than “Buy me!” Millions of mentally hijacked moviegoers will respond like Pavlov’s dog, barking “Wow!”
Thats actually really shit, without the context.
should I watch Thor and Iron Man 2 and Norton Hulk and Captain America (Christ, so many superhero movies) before watching this?
should I watch Thor and Iron Man 2 and Norton Hulk and Captain America (Christ, so many superhero movies) before watching this?
should I watch Thor and Iron Man 2 and Norton Hulk and Captain America (Christ, so many superhero movies) before watching this?
Norton's Hulk has no connection. The one connection was retconned out.
Norton's Hulk has no connection. The one connection was retconned out.
What was that?
I probably won't watch any of them (but if I do, I guess it'll be Thor), I was just curious.
very funny, PD
HOLY SHIT. Can this be the film that topples Avatar?
Norton's Hulk has no connection. The one connection was retconned out.
from what i recall not many others here liked it, but i thoroughly enjoyed captain america
from what i recall not many others here liked it, but i thoroughly enjoyed captain america
I liked Captain America, it was a simple movie but still pretty fun. Can't go wrong with the WWII setting and Nazi villains.
I don't recall Captain America and Thor creating a magic race car to save the day. Green Lantern was awful.Still better than some lame love drama
Green Lantern was at least better than the abomination that was Thor
I think this a movie that works better if you are a comic book fan getting off at the notion of seeing if Goku is stronger than Kenshiro. I haven't read any of these comics since I was a kid, and comic book geeking out stuff does nothing for me.
If only he was big in 2005 so that Angel wouldn't have gotten cancelled.
Angel season 5 rocked- series went out on a high note; the downfall of most good shows is a long run imo.
I don't understand those pictures one bit.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Also Wonders Why the Avengers Need an Archer
"There is always the risk that you will run out of arrows. There is never a risk that The Incredible Hulk will run out of Hulk."
lol
Oh, is that the joke? ...No, I still don't get it.
Oh, is that the joke? ...No, I still don't get it.
Oh, is that the joke? ...No, I still don't get it.
I saw The Avengers with my dad. THAT is how you do a comic book movie. My dad and I have been geeking out for the past HOUR talking about how awesome that movie was. Best comic movie I've ever seen and one of the most memorable film experiences I ever had. It was like the whole audience had the time of their lives. Dude after the movie said Batman was gonna top it, but we just laughed in his face. lmao:rofl
I have a feeling that Spider-man is going to suck and get totally overshadowed by this and Batman.
I don't follow comics =P
I read X-men and Batman growing up and that was about it.
I don't follow comics =PMe neither. Watched the cartoons.
Icon Mark Ruffalo
Leper Andrex
I don't follow comics =P
I read X-men and Batman growing up and that was about it.
The Lizard has always been a major rival aside from Doc Ock because he's a professor that Peter respected and admired. You didn't watch the cartoons even?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_(comics)
Wait, did Star Trek beat your expectations in a good way or bad way? I can't remember where everyone stood on that movie, because I chose to erase any memories involving Willco.
Cool pew pew Sci Fi action filmWait, did Star Trek beat your expectations in a good way or bad way? I can't remember where everyone stood on that movie, because I chose to erase any memories involving Willco.
Star Trek was a great summer blockbuster film. Everyone thought it'd suck, but it turned out pretty great.
Anyone recommend seeing this in 3D? IMAX?
Anyone recommend seeing this in 3D? IMAX?
Plus if you want to see it IMAX, it has to be 3D. Might be worth putting up with the effect for the quality.
Well, it's true for me. Everything was 3D IMAX.Me neither. Thanks, I'll stick to 2D or 2D IMAX.
I don't have a problem with 3D if it's the intention. I'm gonna see Prometheus and Amazing Spider-man in 3D. And The Dark Knight Rises in real imax, hopefully. Those tickets will be sold out fast.
Well, one thing I can give it is that the fidelity was not lost while watching the film. Usually in 3d films, it feels like I am losing quality because of the 3d effect. The Spider-man 3d trailer exemplifies this. All the action looks blurry and what the fuck. But in Avengers it all went smoothly and I was never taken out of my film experience.
The blurriness in the spider-man trailer wasn't the 3D.The showed the latest trailer in my region
Which Prometheus trailer did they show? i kinda looked away when they showed it at mine. I haven't seen the latest trailer and everyone is saying "I wish I hadn't seen the latest trailer."
and man, the Amazing Spider-man trailer looked cheap after Prometheus and Dark Knight Rises.
Well, one thing I can give it is that the fidelity was not lost while watching the film. Usually in 3d films, it feels like I am losing quality because of the 3d effect. The Spider-man 3d trailer exemplifies this. All the action looks blurry and what the fuck. But in Avengers it all went smoothly and I was never taken out of my film experience.
This is a good point. The Prometheus trailer, in comparison, looked fucking awesome.
I saw DKR trailer at mine
Was spider-man filmed with a consumer camera?
oh. Cause it looks like one of those handicam films.
:lolI saw DKR trailer at mine
Diddy Kong Racing lolz
Batman just look stale and boring after Avengers.
Batman just look stale and boring after Avengers.
>:(
TDKR is going to make Avengers look like Transformers.
I saw The Avengers with my dad. THAT is how you do a comic book movie. My dad and I have been geeking out for the past HOUR talking about how awesome that movie was. Best comic movie I've ever seen and one of the most memorable film experiences I ever had. It was like the whole audience had the time of their lives. Dude after the movie said Batman was gonna top it, but we just laughed in his face. lmao:rofl
That Guy is at every comic film showing, I swear
Spider-Man looks pretty good in 3D, but it and Batman just look stale and boring after Avengers.
spoiler (click to show/hide)Have Bane break Bale batman's back an replace Bale batman with Levitt batman. I swear there was a shot in the trailer of Levitt in the batman outfit talking and they only showed Levitt in like 500 cuts of the trailer. I guess the only real surprise in that case will be if they do wheelchair Bale rolls off the scene or if they actually kill Bale. I guess I'm also curious to see what Bane's motivations are for what seems like murdering a billion people going from the trailer. Been a while since I read the comic but I don't remember him being a mass murderer hell bent and killing everyone in gotham.[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)My theory is that Batman dies but nobody takes his place. Instead all of gotham stands up for what batman stood for and thus not needing a single super hero.[close]
I'm split on Batman. Bane looks fucking stupid as does Catwoman (though Anne Hathway is awesome).
The trailer was REALLY GOOD and it looks like the movie is going to be super fucked up and epic. The football stadium scene looks like it's going to be brutal.
otoh the trailer spoiled the entire goddamn movie and all its plot twists (especially if you've read the Bane comic arc), so I'm less excited knowing what they're probably going to do with it:
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE COMICS, SPOILERS GUESSES FOR NEW BATMANspoiler (click to show/hide)Have Bane break Bale batman's back an replace Bale batman with Levitt batman. I swear there was a shot in the trailer of Levitt in the batman outfit talking and they only showed Levitt in like 500 cuts of the trailer. I guess the only real surprise in that case will be if they do wheelchair Bale rolls off the scene or if they actually kill Bale. I guess I'm also curious to see what Bane's motivations are for what seems like murdering a billion people going from the trailer. Been a while since I read the comic but I don't remember him being a mass murderer hell bent and killing everyone in gotham.[close]
Thor vs. Hulk and Thor vs. Iron Man scenes were awesome. I really liked that there was some intra-squad drama in the film. It would have felt too clean and easy if the heroes never went at each other.
I'm split on Batman. Bane looks fucking stupid as does Catwoman (though Anne Hathway is awesome).
The trailer was REALLY GOOD and it looks like the movie is going to be super fucked up and epic. The football stadium scene looks like it's going to be brutal.
otoh the trailer spoiled the entire goddamn movie and all its plot twists (especially if you've read the Bane comic arc), so I'm less excited knowing what they're probably going to do with it:
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE COMICS, SPOILERS GUESSES FOR NEW BATMANspoiler (click to show/hide)Have Bane break Bale batman's back an replace Bale batman with Levitt batman. I swear there was a shot in the trailer of Levitt in the batman outfit talking and they only showed Levitt in like 500 cuts of the trailer. I guess the only real surprise in that case will be if they do wheelchair Bale rolls off the scene or if they actually kill Bale. I guess I'm also curious to see what Bane's motivations are for what seems like murdering a billion people going from the trailer. Been a while since I read the comic but I don't remember him being a mass murderer hell bent and killing everyone in gotham.[close]
I doubt it's going to follow the comic so stringently and you're definitely underestimating Nolan if you think the trailers have given everything away. I remember people saying the same about the last TDK trailer and TDK was basically nothing like it, kept twisting and turning and especially the ending no one could have predicted.
As for Bane I believe it was confirmedspoiler (click to show/hide)he's in charge of the new League of Shadows and wants to finish what Neeson started in BB.[close]
I'm split on Batman. Bane looks fucking stupid as does Catwoman (though Anne Hathway is awesome).
The trailer was REALLY GOOD and it looks like the movie is going to be super fucked up and epic. The football stadium scene looks like it's going to be brutal.
otoh the trailer spoiled the entire goddamn movie and all its plot twists (especially if you've read the Bane comic arc), so I'm less excited knowing what they're probably going to do with it:
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE COMICS, SPOILERS GUESSES FOR NEW BATMANspoiler (click to show/hide)Have Bane break Bale batman's back an replace Bale batman with Levitt batman. I swear there was a shot in the trailer of Levitt in the batman outfit talking and they only showed Levitt in like 500 cuts of the trailer. I guess the only real surprise in that case will be if they do wheelchair Bale rolls off the scene or if they actually kill Bale. I guess I'm also curious to see what Bane's motivations are for what seems like murdering a billion people going from the trailer. Been a while since I read the comic but I don't remember him being a mass murderer hell bent and killing everyone in gotham.[close]
I doubt it's going to follow the comic so stringently and you're definitely underestimating Nolan if you think the trailers have given everything away. I remember people saying the same about the last TDK trailer and TDK was basically nothing like it, kept twisting and turning and especially the ending no one could have predicted.
As for Bane I believe it was confirmedspoiler (click to show/hide)he's in charge of the new League of Shadows and wants to finish what Neeson started in BB.[close]spoiler (click to show/hide)that's distinguished mentally-challenged. they couldn't use talia?[close]
Oh god jesus wtf.
As for Bane I believe it was confirmedspoiler (click to show/hide)he's in charge of the new League of Shadows and wants to finish what Neeson started in BB.[close]
Thor vs. Hulk and Thor vs. Iron Man scenes were awesome. I really liked that there was some intra-squad drama in the film. It would have felt too clean and easy if the heroes never went at each other.
TIL AWESOM-O has never read one issue of any comic, ever
I'll admit I haven't read many comics, but how were you able to discern that from my comment?
I like how Thor fucked Iron Man up big time and told him to piss off recently.Thor vs. Hulk and Thor vs. Iron Man scenes were awesome. I really liked that there was some intra-squad drama in the film. It would have felt too clean and easy if the heroes never went at each other.
TIL AWESOM-O has never read one issue of any comic, ever
I'll admit I haven't read many comics, but how were you able to discern that from my comment?
because the avengers fight all the fucking time
Only Ironman and Hulk were known characters to me. Didn't knew the other obscure comic charactersIronman was significantly more obscure than Captain America and Thor before RDJ's movies interestingly enough.
But I liked the movie.
Only Ironman and Hulk were known characters to me. Didn't knew the other obscure comic characters
But I liked the movie.
Only Ironman and Hulk were known characters to me. Didn't knew the other obscure comic characters
But I liked the movie.
Wait, what the fuck?
I was made aware of Iron Man and Captain America through watching the 1966 cartoons that were broadcasted up until the early 90's in my region. :lol
Him and Spider-Man easily.
Only Ironman and Hulk were known characters to me. Didn't knew the other obscure comic charactersIronman was significantly more obscure than Captain America and Thor before RDJ's movies interestingly enough.
But I liked the movie.
I was made aware of Iron Man and Captain America through watching the 1966 cartoons that were broadcasted up until the early 90's in my region. :lolI totally saw those as a kid too. It lead to this awesome parody as well :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wn4iYoMcAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWIPUuTPB4
(It really brings back memories)
Thor is the only major Marvel character that I wasn't familiar with up until the mid-2000s. I can't remember when I was first introduced to Hawkeye, but I've known about him since the 90's (probably as a guest character in a cartoon or comic). Black Widow, on the other hand, was a name I never heard of before the RDJ's movies. Overall, I don't think the Avengers as a team were that prominent or popular in many parts of the world before, and that's part of what makes the popularity of the movie so astounding, especially when you look at international numbers. I guess Marvel Studios played their cards right with their build-up to the release.